History Literature / JediAcademyTrilogy

** Exar Kun, the 4000-year-old ghost of an ancient Sith Lord, attempts to corrupt Luke's students in hopes of founding a new a Sith Order.

* SealedEvilInACan: Exar Kun.

* CaughtInTheBadPartOfTown: There is one part where toddlers Jacen and Jaina Solo wind up in the dark underbelly of Coruscant, where they encounter malfunctioning worker droids, cannibalistic street wraiths and various other unsavory types. Luckily they're picked up by a slightly loopy but benign underhive gang leader who WouldNotHurtAChild and promptly returns them to their parents.

Kyp, looking for his brother, swings by the Imperial training academy, a world with twenty-five million inhabitants, and makes its star go supernova when they [[WhatAnIdiot tell him his brother is dead]]. Turns out his brother was still alive, ''was'' being the operative word, as the supernova weapon is irreversible and Kyp's brother got caught in the blast seconds before Kyp could save him. Oops.

* MythologicalThemeNaming: Following the trend set by the ''Chimera'', Thrawn's flagship in ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy'', the Star Destroyers under Daala's command are named ''Gorgon'', ''Hydra'', ''Basilisk'' and ''Manticore''.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Kyp, once confronted by Han.

* ConvectionSchmonvection: Luke walks through lava to get a prospective student to believe in his power. He's using the Force to direct the heat away from him, at least.

* AFatherToHisMen: Luke

* HurlItIntoTheSun: What the New Republic decides to do with the Sun Crusher, although they picked a gas giant instead of a sun. At the end of the trilogy, Kyp hurls it into a black hole, where it cannot be retrieved from. The fairly lame suggestion by the New Republic Council that a gas giant would be good enough seemed to be deliberately implying that at least some of them were ''hoping'' that someday they'd be able to retrieve the Sun Crusher and use it against the Empire once political opposition to using an Imperial superweapon died down.

* AssInAmbassador: Furgan. He poisoned Republic Chief-Of-State Mon Mothma, sabotaged Admiral Ackbar's shuttle so that it crashed into a centuries old crystal cathedral and killed dozens of Vors, and tried to kidnap the infant Anakin Solo. When caught by the good guys in the kidnapping attempt, he threatened to ''snap the baby's neck.''

* TwoPartTrilogy: The cast doesn't even arrive at eponymous "Jedi Academy" until ''Dark Apprentice'': ''Jedi Search'' is all about Luke recruiting students ahead of opening day and establishing the existence of the Maw Installation.

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The [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jedi_Academy_Trilogy Jedi Academy Trilogy]] is a set of books in the Franchise/StarWarsLegends. The three books, ''Jedi Search'', ''Dark Apprentice'' and ''Champions of the Force'', were written by Creator/KevinJAnderson starting in 1994; in 1998, Creator/MichaelStackpole of Literature/XWingSeries fame wrote ''I, Jedi'', but we'll get to that in a bit. It should also be noted that in 1995 Anderson wrote ''Darksaber'', a semi-sequel to the Jedi Academy Trilogy, which we talk about [[Literature/TheCallistaTrilogy over here]].

''[[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/I,_Jedi I, Jedi]]'', as a novel, had a lot of firsts. First novel to be entirely written in first-person perspective (and the only such story in the ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' continuity). First novel to have as its hero a character who was never featured or even mentioned in the films. First novel to directly retcon events in a previously written book. ''I, Jedi'' starts just before the beginning of the Academy Trilogy, encompasses the events of the Jedi Academy Trilogy, and extends a bit beyond.

Corran Horn, Rogue Nine, finds himself with a psychic wound when his wife vanishes while up against the Invids, an Imperial sect that includes Force-Sensitives and is supported by a gang of pirates. Luke coaxes him into being part of the new Jedi Academy, and Corran accepts after disguising himself, since as Corran he's mildly famous and doesn't want extra attention. At the Academy, he is dismayed by a number of things, including the very lax discipline, Luke's refusal to tell anyone if what they are doing is wrong, his commanding officer falling for the scientist who designed the Death Star, and his own inability to move things with his mind, though as it turns out he can make people ''think'' things had moved (and he's so good at it that he could probably persuade the thing itself it's moved). He is further dismayed by Kyp, and Luke's focus on his new most promising student. The destruction of Carida is made into something horrifying and traumatic, Exar Kun's actual demise is drawn out and given a bit of thought, and Corran leaves in disgust when Kyp is welcomed back.

Then Corran goes to his homeworld, Corellia, talks things over with his grandfather, and [[TheInfiltration infiltrates]] some of the pirates who associate with the Invids, in the meantime picking up a [[Literature/HandOfThrawn Camaasi]] who is able to straighten out his morals. Eventually he chases all of the pirates off a planet with a campaign of intimidation, faces down the Sith-influenced Jedi sect called the Jensaari alongside Luke, and saves Mirax.

* AdaptationalBadass: Exar Kun was later shown to have an epic backstory, but his ghost in the original trilogy was a rather underwhelming villain. ''I, Jedi'' upgrades him considerably, both in intelligence and power, by expanding on his role.
* AlbinosAreFreaks: In ''I, Jedi'' the albino [[WolfMan Shistavenen]] female Caet Shrovl relates that she was poorly treated by her people on their home world for her condition. As she believed the Empire caused this through an experiment which they performed on her mother, she grew to loathe them for it and joined a pirate group which despised Imperials.

* TheAtoner: Kyp, after Exar Kun's control over him is broken.
-->'''Luke''': In dedicating his life to being a Jedi, you know Kyp is really under something of a life sentence.\\
'''Corran''': I know, and it'll be hard labor, too. Killing him wouldn't make the galaxy any better, so this is likely the best solution. Doesn't mean I like it and doesn't mean my inability to come up with a better solution isn't frustrating.
* TheBaroness: Admiral Tavira, riding crop and all.
* BeingEvilSucks: Exar Kun doesn't feel that way, but Corran makes a pretty convincing argument of it (at least as far as the Light Side vs. the Dark Side debate is concerned).
-->'''Corran Horn''': You don't get it, do you? You've already lost and you're continuing down that losing path. Haven't the last four thousand years taught you anything?\\
'''Exar Kun''': I know more than you could ever hope to learn in four thousand years or forty thousand years.\\
'''Corran Horn''': That may be. But I know the one thing you don't. You're never going to win. You destroy those who oppose you, and what does that leave you?\\
'''Exar Kun''': The faithful.\\
'''Corran Horn''': From among whom arises a rival. You have a schism.\\
'''Exar Kun''': And I destroy the heretics.\\
'''Corran Horn''': Yes, you do. And again and again that cycle repeats itself and you let it go on because you've forgotten the most fundamental truth of reality: Life creates the Force. When Kyp destroyed Carida, he diminished your power. When you destroyed Gantoris, you diminished your power. You're a predator over-grazing your prey, but you can't stop because the dark side fills you with this aching hunger that will never be satisfied.
* BigDamnHeroes: Mara Jade interrupts Exar Kun's MindRape of Corran with an ''awesome'' ShutUpHannibal moment.
* BodyguardCrush: Wedge Antilles was Qwi Xux's bodyguard. Yes, for some reason a general was the bodyguard of a high-ranking ex-Imperial scientist. In ''I, Jedi'' Corran was horrified to discover Wedge developing feelings for Qwi and Qwi returning them, since it was terribly unprofessional and he didn't think it would work out at ''all'' - actually, he shipped Wedge with his old partner Iella. Of course, when Kyp Durron decided to [[MindRape traumatically destroy Qwi's memories]], Wedge wasn't able to stop him. They break up at the start of Creator/AaronAllston's ''[[Literature/XWingSeries Starfighters of Adumar]]'', with Wedge later marrying Iella.
* BrickJoke: In ''I, Jedi'', Luke and Corran muse that Mirax and Mara are very similar to each other. Corran jokingly suggests that they should make sure the two women never meet. Fast forward a few years, Mirax finally meets Mara [[ComicBook/StarWarsUnion during the latter's wedding]]. The two become friends fast and Mara ends up becoming Mirax's temporary flying partner, which [[{{RetCon}} explains]] her conspicuous absence at Luke's side in the ''Literature/YoungJediKnights'' saga.
* CanonDiscontinuity:
** ''I, Jedi'' has two references to Tatooine being Obi-Wan Kenobi's homeworld. While this was a reasonable inference at the time (especially given that the novelization of the first Star Wars movie identified Owen Lars as Obi-Wan's brother[[note]]Later [[RetCon changed]] into Obi-Wan having a vision of him he mistakenly thought was his brother.[[/note]]), unfortunately for Stackpole ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' was released only one year later and contradicted it. One of the references was indirect (Kenobi wasn't actually mentioned by name, it was just clearly implied to be him) and the other could be written off as in-universe records having mistakenly said Kenobi was a Tatooine native (the original records showing him being born on Stewjon could have been lost in the destruction of the Jedi Temple).
** There's also the fact that the mission on which Corran's grandfather died is said to have been sent out by the Jedi shortly after the end of the Clone Wars. Of course, the prequel films released since then show that the Jedi were wiped out/driven into hiding just ''before'' the end of the Clone Wars.
** The romance between Mara and Lando in the Jedi Academy trilogy was retconned into being a cover story in ''Literature/HandOfThrawn'', and given the links between ''I, Jedi'' and that duology, it's unsurprising that there's a brief nod to this RetCon in ''I, Jedi''.
** And of course, with the ''Legends'' retcon in April of 2014, these books in their entirety are non-canon [[SchrodingersCanon unless referenced by a new source]], and even then, [[BroadStrokes only to the extent that they're referenced]].

* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Oddly, ''I, Jedi'' has the lightsaber colors backwards - the Dark Jedi use blue ones and the Light side Jedi seem to use any color ''but'' blue. Part of that might be an example of [[CharacterizationMarchesOn continuity marching on]]: until Episode I, the idea that all Dark Jedi and Sith used exclusively red lightsabers was WordOfDante, and many fans (apparently including Stackpole) found the idea silly and arbitrary given the rainbow of colors used by light-side Jedi (and ironic considering that the Sith are treacherous and individualist, while the Jedi are so effective because of their ability to work together harmoniously).
* CompressedAdaptation: The first act of ''I, Jedi'' is a POVSequel covering the high points of Luke Skywalker's storyline in ''Dark Apprentice'' and ''Champions of the Force''.

* ContinuitySnarl: Like many Bantam Star Wars novels, ''I, Jedi'' has a couple of these, mostly prequel-inflicted.
** Who is [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname "Desertwind"]], the third Jedi in Ylenic It'Kla's memory of Nejaa Halcyon's last moments in ''I, Jedi''? He's implied to be Obi-Wan Kenobi (and was confirmed as such in a short story by Abel G. Pena that wasn't released until after the changeover to Disney Canon), under the assumption that Tatooine was Kenobi's home planet (jossed by another story released a year later), but could also be Anakin Skywalker or [[TakeAThirdOption somebody else entirely]]. The scene was stated to have taken place between the Clone Wars and the rise of the Empire, but like the rest of the pre-prequel EU the novel ran under the assumption there had been a gap of about twenty years between them.
** The prequels also played havoc with the Halcyon-Horn family tree, which carries over from the ''Literature/XWingSeries''. In particular, Nejaa Halcyon and Valin Halcyon, alias Hal Horn, would both probably have had to have already been married with children when Order 66 came down--except there's that whole pesky thing about the prequel Jedi Order's [[OathOfCelibacy ban on marriage]]. ''Literature/JediTrial'' by David Sherman and Dan Cragg (which Stackpole wasn't consulted on) attempted a retcon whereby Nejaa found a CommonalityConnection with Anakin Skywalker over being secretly married, while other material established that Corellia had its own indigenous Jedi sect, the Green Jedi, who tended to play by their own rules.

* CowboyCop: Apparently, all Corellian Jedi and/or Security Force members are this to a certain extent, befitting Corellia's [[PlanetOfHats Hat]] as a planet of BrassBalls.

* DidntSeeThatComing: An in-universe example becomes a plot-point in ''I, Jedi''. The New Republic is at a loss as to how Tavira and the Invids have managed to avoid every trap the Republic has set to catch them, not knowing Tavira has the Jensaari advising her by using the Force to see the future. But when Tavira leads her fleet in a raid on a shipyard, to their surprise they run into a New Republic task force (including Rogue Squadron) who just happened to be there on other unrelated business. This clues Corran into a weakness in the Jensaari's foresight; they can't predict a threat that isn't directed at them.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Corran's plan for confronting Exar Kun hinges on Kun's seeming inability to interact with the physical world, and need to act through other agents. Corran forgot that Kun had managed to short out the Holocron by himself, and Kun proceeds to do the same with the explosive device that Corran brings with him. [[OhCrap Only then does Corran realize his mistake.]]

* EnlightenmentSuperpowers: Variation in ''I, Jedi''. Trainee Jedi Corran Horn has been unable to use telekinesis, a power which comes easily to most Jedi. He thinks he might be able to break through a mental barrier if he tries to do it with a huge rock, closing his eyes and really focusing. He pictures the rock rising up into the air, opens his eyes... to find the rock has stayed where it was, but everyone else is staring up in the air. He learns that his family have always been poor at telekinesis, but gifted at ''making illusions''.
* EveryManHasHisPrice: Played with in ''I, Jedi'', ultimately subverted.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood:
** As a Sith Lord, Exar Kun wields enormous power even 4,000 years after his death, enough that he was even able to defeat Luke Skywalker. However, it never occurs to him that while he might be far stronger than an individual Jedi, a group of them in harmony with each other can cumulatively wield a power that far surpasses his, even if many of those Jedi are still little more than students. [[spoiler:This proves his undoing.]]
** Tavira's belief that Luke Skywalker ordered the destruction of Carida was because: 1, that's what she would have done to her foes had she a Sun Crusher; and 2, grace such as Durron was shown is completely outside her understanding.
* EvilIsHammy: Exar Kun, oh so very much. See WhoDares below for just one example.

* FirstPersonSmartass: ''I, Jedi'' is the first book in the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'' and ''only'' book in ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' to be written from FirstPersonPerspective, and Corran isn't above making wisecracks in his narration. See the opening scene, where he snarks that the basic TIE/LN starfighter is second only to hydrogen and stupidity as the most common thing in the galaxy.
* FixFic: ''I, Jedi'' is often assumed to be this, though in a [[http://www.michaelastackpole.com/?p=3429 blog post]] from 2014 Stackpole denied this, noting that he and Kevin J. Anderson were good friends and that the book wasn't intended as a "jab" against what Kevin had written.
* ForTheEvulz: The reason Remart was blasting travelers.

* GoodCopBadCop: Happens in ''I, Jedi'', and the bad cop is Luke Skywalker himself. He plays the "bad cop" completely silently, just standing there looking intimidating while Coran pretends to be getting telepathic commands from him. And it's HILARIOUS.
-->'''Corran:''' Just stay over there by the door, and look as malevolent as you can. Keep your face straight and you really don't need to say anything.\\
'''Luke:''' Malevolent?\\
'''Corran:''' Think Hutt, but with eyebrows.\\
'''Luke:''' Got it.
* GoodFeelsGood: There's a couple of moments in ''I, Jedi'' where characters describe the Light Side of TheForce as feeling like every positive feeling they've ever experienced.
-->It filled me up in an instant and I imagined it leaking from my eyes, nose and mouth. I wanted to shout and dance with joy because it was everything Streen had described. It was what I felt when Mirax first said she loved me. It was the scent of the perfume my mother wore, and the warm laugh my father used to have when he was proud of me. It was the hearty slap on the back from Wedge after a mission and even a touch of Whistler's triumphant serenades. It was everything that was good and right and positive and alive; and it was waiting for me to bend it to my will.
* GoodIsImpotent: {{Inverted}}. This series is the first time anytime in Franchise/StarWars that a reason for the Light Side being stronger than the Dark Side is given. Jedi are at their most powerful when they are at harmony with themselves and the universe; as such Jedi are at harmony with other Jedi, therefore a group of Jedi can work together and become far more powerful than any of them individually. [[BeingEvilSucks A Sith, who is focused on personal power and achievement, can't do this.]] Therefore Exar Kun is destroyed for good by Luke's students. Furthermore, besides the fact they typically have a serious case of ChronicBackstabbingDisorder, Dark-Siders tend to shoot themselves in the foot whenever they get too powerful: because the Force derives from life, killing off enemies actually ''weakens'' them. ''I, Jedi'' reinforces this latter point: when Corran refuses Exar Kun's offer, he explicitly ''explains'' to Exar Kun this flaw of the Dark Side. Kun, of course, does not listen.

* HappilyMarried: Corran and Mirax.
* HiredToHuntYourself: During ''I, Jedi'', when a mysterious Jedi has begun wreaking havoc on the mercenary groups working for Tavira, she orders the leader of the Survivors' Bolt Squadron, Jenos Idanian (really a disguised Corran Horn), to find and deal with the Jedi. Unbeknownst to Tavira, Corran ''is'' the Jedi.

* JustForPun: In ''I, Jedi'', when the dual-phase modification on his lightsaber fails, Corran discovers the diamond he'd used for it was, in fact, a synthetic "Kubaz xurconia."

** Kyp. Called out by Corran in ''I, Jedi'', and virtually every EU novel afterward.
** Daala, to a lesser extent. Despite losing most of her troops and ships, at the end of the trilogy she remains at large. Later reappearances will show that she practically ''lives'' this trope.
* {{Lampshading}}: ''I, Jedi'' is an ode to Lampshading.

* LightbulbJoke:
** ''I, Jedi'' has Corran Horn do the ''StarWars'' version, [[HoldYourHippogriffs glowpanel jokes]].
-->'''Q.''' How many [[SelfDeprecation Corellians]] does it take to change a glowpanel?\\
'''A.''' None--if it's dark, you can't see them cheating at sabacc.
** Apparently "Bothan and gornt" jokes are also a common joke format in the Star Wars galaxy, all of which begin with "So there was this Bothan who walked into a tapcaf with a gornt under his arm..."

* MoreThanMindControl: Kyp isn't possessed or fully controlled by Exar Kun, but his mind is definitely warped and heavily influenced by him. When Kun is wiped out for good, Kyp is described as dropping like a puppet with its strings cut. Corran points out in ''I, Jedi'' that if Kyp had been under Kun's complete control, Luke would be ''dead''.

* NoBiochemicalBarriers: Possibly as a result of a SeriesContinuityError. Iella and Corran go out for lunch before he leaves for the Jedi Academy, and she orders a dish made from mynocks (those bat-things inside the space slug in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''). Other material establishes mynocks as SiliconBasedLife, which would almost certainly be inedible to humans.

* OhCrap: Corran gloats to Kun's spirit that since he's already set explosives to destroy his temple, there's nothing Kun can do to stop him because as a ghost he can't affect anything physical (such as the bombs). Kun takes great pleasure in demonstrating that he ''can'' in fact influence the physical world (though with great difficulty), ''especially'' inside his temple which is what his spirit has been anchored to all along.
-->'''Exar Kun:''' Ah, then I cannot do this. ''(Kun melts all the bombs' detonators.)''\\
'''Corran:''' Ooops.
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten:
** Kyp Durron, a powerful young Jedi who once got either possessed or heavily influenced by an ancient and very evil ghost, and who then fished out an indestructible superweapon that had been [[HurlItIntoTheSun dropped into the heart of a gas giant]] and proceeded to use it to cause a supernova that destroyed a rather populated planet. He was then very quickly and easily brought back into the light and put the superweapon into a black hole, then got off [[KarmaHoudini basically scot-free]] in the trilogy where he originally featured. Basically every book to feature him since then has called him on it, particularly ''I, Jedi'', a sort of FixFic trying to get the trilogy to make sense, where the main character leaves in disgust after this mass-murderer is welcomed back into the Jedi Academy for training. Other books paint Kyp as the perpetual [[TheAtoner Atoner]], having it and his lack of punishment constantly brought up.
** Sometimes (including in ''I, Jedi'') the death toll of Kyp's attack is vastly exaggerated, because apparently killing a few million people isn't bad enough; it's necessary to falsely claim he killed billions so that it can be put on the same level as the destruction of Alderaan (bonus fail points: said destruction is attributed to Darth Vader instead of the man who actually did it, Grand Moff Tarkin). The fact that the majority of the population were Imperial soldiers also tends to be ignored. Of course, Kyp himself doesn't consider that much of a comfort, given that many of those soldiers (including his own brother) were conscripts. And to make it worse, from ''Literature/NewJediOrder'' onward, Kyp is a {{Jerkass}} who's no longer interested in atoning for his sins.
* OrbitalBombardment:
** In ''Dark Apprentice'' Daala uses her three remaining [=ISDs=] for a terror attack on Mon Calamari before a gambit by Admiral Ackbar costs her a second star destroyer and forces her to retreat.
** In ''I, Jedi'', Corran tells Tycho that if the Jedi apprentices are defeated, to convince Ackbar to order orbital bombardment of Exar Kun's temple, as that would the only way to destroy it while staying far enough way to be safe from mental influence by Kun's spirit.
* OrphanedSetup: Wedge's joke, "So a Bothan walks into a bar with a gornt under his arm," [[JustifiedTrope because Luke's using the joke as a distraction to put Corran in a meditative trance for a mind probe]]. Lampshaded later by Iella, who's apparently heard several variations on that joke in New Republic Intelligence (given their [[PlanetOfHats penchant for espionage]], NRI has more than its share of Bothans), but naturally doesn't tell us any of them.
* PragmaticVillainy: For obvious reasons, when Corran goes undercover with the Invids in ''I, Jedi'', he starts [[InvokedTrope encouraging the other pirates to practice this]] to promote cooperation in the future. While a few of the pirates are in it more ForTheEvulz, most of them recognize the potential of this racket [[spoiler:and end up accepting a legitimate security contract at the end of the novel.]]
** Later, when the pirate gang has to fight its way out of a confrontation with the New Republic Navy, Corran convinces the crew's leader that they should use ion cannons to disable the Republic fighters... because some forces will have to be diverted to rescue the pilots, distracting them from chasing after the Invids.
-->'''Corran:''' Yeah, a refueling station might blow up really pretty, and might even set half a city on fire, but that's not the objective here. Look, you can kill a woolly-nerf and make a coat out of its skin, or you can shear the beast's coat and come back year after year for more wool. We play this right, six months from now we show up in the system, send a list of demands and they'll freighter the loot out to us.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
** Corran Horn delivers one to Exar Kun in ''I, Jedi''. He gives another to Luke [[spoiler:over Kyp Durron, although he does apologize for some of it later]].
** And so, much more devastatingly, does Mara Jade against Kun.
--->Ysanne Isard would've had you analyzed, digitized and discarded without a second thought, and she wasn't even Force-sensitive. Darth Vader would've found you amusingly quaint, and the Emperor... well, the Emperor actually succeeded in destroying the Jedi, so he'd see you as the very definition of failure!

* {{Retcon}}:
** ''I, Jedi'' was the first novel in the modern EU to directly retcon events of an earlier novel, mainly by establishing that Corran Horn studied at Yavin IV under Luke over the course of ''Dark Apprentice'' and ''Champions of the Force'' (neither he nor his alias Kieran Halcyon was ever mentioned in the earlier trilogy [[DoylistVersusWatsonian because Stackpole hadn't even created the character yet]]). Later Legends material filled in all but two of Luke's Original Twelve (there are are at least four possible candidates for the remaining two).
** ''I, Jedi'' had to be retconned by Creator/DavidSherman and Creator/DanCragg's ''Literature/JediTrial'' after the prequels contradicted some of the timing in the Halcyon/Horn family tree, a common problem for pre-''[[Film/ThePhantomMenace Phantom Menace]]'' novels.
* ReverseGrip: The leader of the Jensaari grips her lightsaber in a two-handed variant, with one hand on the grip and the other grasping the pommel, allowing her to lever the blade around by its end using the grip hand as a fulcrum.

* SeductionProofMarriage: At the transition between [[ThreeActStructure Acts II and III]] of ''I, Jedi'', Leonia Tavira tries to seduce Corran Horn, who's gone undercover in her SpacePirate gang to find his wife Mirax. He ''is'' massively tempted, briefly tries to rationalize it, then decides it's the Dark Side of the Force talking. But Tavira's made it clear she wants him as her boytoy and won't take "no" for an answer long-term (despite his cover story including a committed relationship), so Corran accelerates his plans to break up her pirate alliance.
* SelfDeprecatingHumor: Corran is badass enough to ''weaponize'' it. When a rival from another pirate squadron tries insulting Corran's wingman while he's undercover, Corran deflects it back at him. The rival states that it's typical of Corellians to speak before they think, and Corran launches into an ''epic'' recitation of a variety of Corellian-specific barbs the rival ''could'' have said instead, culminating in the "light-bulb joke" mentioned above. Corran then [[NoSell No Sells]] the guy's first punch, insults him again, and knocks him flat on his ass when the rival tries to attack a second time.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Back in ''[[Literature/XWingSeries X-Wing: The Bacta War]]'', smuggler chieftain Booster Terrik, Corran Horn's father-in-law, managed to capture an ''Imperial''-class star destroyer with a lot of subterfuge and a bit of luck, naming it the ''Errant Venture'' and turning it into a mobile trade port and casino (the New Republic agreed to let him keep it on condition that most of its armaments were removed). In ''I, Jedi'', Corran visits the ''Venture'' to get help returning to Corellia (where he has an active arrest warrant), and finds that the star destroyer has become something of [[TheAllegedCar The Alleged Starship]]: turns out Booster significantly underestimated how much it costs to keep a ship that size in proper repair.
* SwordAndFist: Corran challenges Luke to a lightsaber duel prior to leaving the academy. Thanks to his prior hand-to-hand experience, [[CombatPragmatist he is able to use other techniques against Luke to turn the fight to his advantage]]. Luke actually picks up on this and makes use of such techniques upon [[BigDamnHeroes later coming to Corran's aid]].

* ThreeActStructure: ''I, Jedi''. Act I consists of Corran's time at the Jedi Academy, ending with him quitting over frustration with Luke [[spoiler:letting Kyp Durron be a KarmaHoudini]]. Act II is Corran traveling to Corellia to learn about his family history and then joining Tavira's pirate alliance undercover. Act III? [[spoiler:Corran becomes a Force-powered VigilanteMan, smashes up the alliance from the inside, and then smokes out the Sith offshoot sect that is helping Tavira evade the New Republic Defense Force.]]
* TwoPartTrilogy: A nonstandard example: Stackpole wrote ''I, Jedi'' at the same time that Creator/TimothyZahn was writing ''The Literature/HandOfThrawn'', and collaborated to share characters and toss {{Call Forward}}s and {{Call Back}}s to each other, making ''Hand of Thrawn'' in effect a two-part DistantSequel to Stackpole's novel. In publication order, ''Specter of the Past'' came out first, then ''I, Jedi'', then ''Vision of the Future''.

* WeWillNotUseStageMakeupInTheFuture:
** Averted. Disguising his identity, Corran grows a beard and uses hair dye. Hair dye which he initially misuses, making all of his hair green and forcing him to call his old partner for help.
** It gets better. The hair dye is actually a gel which is slathered on all over the body to get all the hair, such as eyebrows and the stuff on your arms. But Corran didn't do it in stages, and left it too long, and he turns his skin as well as his hair green.

* WhatHaveIBecome: Corran wonders this after Kerilt. He knows he's not a monster, at least, but he doesn't know who he really is, what side of his heritage to follow.
* WhatTheHellHero:
** Corran gives Luke a spectacular TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and quits the academy for forgiving Kyp Durron for... what prefix, exactly, do you use before "-cide" to describe blowing up an inhabited solar system? "Stellar"-cide?
** Corran does later apologize to Luke for some of the things he said, and he admits that having Kyp serve the galaxy as a Jedi is more constructive than executing him or sticking him in a prison. He still doesn't like it though.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark:
** During his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Luke, in response to a stock Jedi "beware the Dark Side", Corran basically says he faced the Dark Side all the time during his time as a cop.
*** Responding to a [[Series/AdamTwelve 415 family disturbance]], he found a {{domestic abuse}}r had battered his wife severely, and he was so furious that he was sorely tempted to employ PoliceBrutality, to let the abuser know what it felt like. But he held back.
*** A drug lord offered him a BriefcaseFullOfMoney in the middle of a raid in exchange for Corran saying the kingpin had run out the back before they got there. No one would know. "But ''I'd'' know, and I didn't do it."
*** He also tells Luke that when he caught Bossk, the BountyHunter who murdered his father, since Bossk was a CopKiller he literally could've frog-marched the Trandoshan into the lobby of One [=CorSec=] Plaza and shot him "resisting arrest", and nobody in the building would've batted an eyelash. Corran also didn't retaliate against Kirtan Loor for cutting Bossk loose.
** The above rant gets a CallBack later: If Corran sleeps with Tavira, his ego (and other things) get stroked, she, the leader of the group he's infiltrating, won't be suspicious of him, and he can get closer to finding his wife. [[HoneyTrap Ethically, it's just part of the deception]]; Mirax is the love of his life and he really would do anything to save her. Plus, Tavira really hates rejection and might well have him killed. But would he really be doing this out of a genuine desire to endure anything for Mirax, or would it be a matter of {{lust}} and {{pride}}? Corran comes so close to going for it that he realizes Luke actually had a point: he's not nearly as invulnerable to the Dark Side as he previously thought. He ultimately [[TookAThirdOption takes a third option]]: [[spoiler:embrace being a Jedi Knight and fight Tavira]].
* WhoDares:
** Exar Kun, the ''Franchise/StarWars'' equivalent of a Sith DastardlyWhiplash, says it word-for-word to a thoroughly unimpressed Mara Jade, who goes on to [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech describe how poorly he stacks up to the Sith Lords that she personally knew]] (not to mention Ysanne Isard, who wasn't even Force-sensitive).
-->'''Mara:''' More like who ''cares''.
** Mirax later has a similar reaction to Admiral Tavira saying much the same thing. After that, Luke decides that Corran's earlier comment about making sure that Mirax and Mara never meet is good advice. They do though, and hit it off massively, becoming fast friends.

* CowboyCop: Apparently, all Corellian Jedi and/or Security Force members are this to a certain extent, befitting Corellia's [[PlanetOfHat Hat]] as a planet of BrassBalls.

* CowboyCop: Apparently, all Corellian Jedi and/or Security Force members are this to a certain extent.

* CaughtInTheBadPartOfTown: There is one part where toddlers Jacen and Jaina Solo wind up in the dark underbelly of Coruscant, where they encounter malfunctioning worker droids, cannibalistic street wraiths and various other unsavory types.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Luke has about a dozen students. While the others will get characterization in future works, only about four or five actually have a personality right now. Some of them weren't even ''named'' in the trilogy. To this day, some of them ''still'' haven't been named. This was done intentionally by Anderson so future writers could easily put in their own characters if they so choosed. It's why Stackpole was easily able to add Corran in ''I, Jedi''.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
** Corran Horn delivers one to Exar Kun in ''I, Jedi''. He gives another to Luke [[spoiler:over Kyp Durron, although he does apologize for some of it later]].
** And so, much more devastatingly, does Mara Jade against Kun.
--->Ysanne Isard would've had you analyzed, digitized and discarded without a second thought, and she wasn't even Force-sensitive. Darth Vader would've found you amusingly quaint, and the Emperor... well, the Emperor actually succeeded in destroying the Jedi, so he'd see you as the very definition of failure!

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Luke has about a dozen students. While the others will get characterization in future works, only about four or five actually have a personality right now. Some of them weren't even ''named'' in the trilogy. To this day, some of them ''still'' haven't been named. It's what made it easy to add Corran in ''I, Jedi''.