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*CrapsaccharineWorld: The isolationist world Kegan is an alleged spiritual utopia, where following the visions of their leaders have made it possible for everyone to be open and honest, pursue their passion, and everyone gets a vote. In practice, it's led to a nigh-totalitarian state, where people's discussions are always monitored, students are forced to go into fields by necessity, not interest, and extremists - or people with illnesses their outdated medicine can't cure - are locked in quasi-gulags so that they don't disturb the image of Kegan as perfect.
*DangerRoomColdOpen: A number of books start with Obi-Wan in a training exercise at the Temple, frequently wearing a sight-obscuring hood so he'll rely on the Force.
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* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Longer than most examples in the trope, but most of the eighteen-book series takes place in the one year that Obi-Wan is thirteen.
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* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Longer than most examples in the trope, but most of nine books the eighteen-book series takes place in the one year that Obi-Wan is thirteen.
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** Whereas Darth Vader is a middle-aged, ugly, and quiet, Xanatos is youthful, handsome, and silver-tongued.
** Ultimately, Vader dies trying to do what's right and honoring his son's wishes, whereas Xanatos [[spoiler: deliberately refuses to change his ways and kill himself solely for the purpose of inflicting a final pain on his "father," Qui-Gon.]]
** Ultimately, Vader dies trying to do what's right and honoring his son's wishes, whereas Xanatos [[spoiler: deliberately refuses to change his ways and kill himself solely for the purpose of inflicting a final pain on his "father," Qui-Gon.]]
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** Whereas Darth Vader is a middle-aged, ugly, and quiet, Xanatos is youthful, handsome, and silver-tongued.
** Ultimately, Vader dies trying to do what's right and honoring his son's wishes, whereas Xanatos [[spoiler: deliberately refuses to change his ways and kill himself solely for the purpose of inflicting a final pain on his"father," "family," Qui-Gon.]]
** Ultimately, Vader dies trying to do what's right and honoring his son's wishes, whereas Xanatos [[spoiler: deliberately refuses to change his ways and kill himself solely for the purpose of inflicting a final pain on his
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* KidsVersusAdults:
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* KidsVersusAdults:KidHero: Obi-Wan is only a few weeks from his thirteenth birthday in the first book, and then turns fourteen a handful of books later. Most other kid characters are about the same age.
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* PlatonicLifePartners: Bant is Obi-Wan's best friend--she accepts him back immediately after Melida/Daan and he often thinks about how much he values her companionship, but there's no mention of any romantic feelings.
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**It's often justified, though, since the type of communities that need to send for Jedi are ones without effective infrastructure or bureaucracy.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Bant is Obi-Wan's best friend--she accepts him back immediately after Melida/Daan and he often thinks about how much he values her companionship, but there's no mention of any romantic feelings. It helps that she's a squid-faced Mon Calamari and so there's unlikely to be strong physical attraction.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Bant is Obi-Wan's best friend--she accepts him back immediately after Melida/Daan and he often thinks about how much he values her companionship, but there's no mention of any romantic feelings. It helps that she's a squid-faced Mon Calamari and so there's unlikely to be strong physical attraction.
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Bruck Chun oh so very much. Xanatos is also this, though in his case, he established the connections specifically so he could screw the rules.
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Bruck Chun Chun, oh so very much. Xanatos is also this, though in his case, he established the connections specifically so he could screw the rules.
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* ChronicHeroSyndrome: The Jedi are supposed to help others, of course, but Obi-Wan is more likely to get sidetracked from their mission of the day wanting to help someone else. This comes to a boiling point in #5, where he refuses to leave with Qui-Gon and [[spoiler: temporarily leaves the Jedi Order.]]
*{{Cliffhanger}}: Three books end this way.
**In #5, ''Defenders of the Dead'', Obi-Wan refuses to leave the planet with Qui-Gon and Qui-Gon tells him if he stays, he's no longer part of the Order. Obi-Wan stays anyway.
**In #11, ''The Deadly Hunter'', Qui-Gon has just been shot in the chest and captured by the bounty hunter Ona Nobis, with no way of knowing where he's been taken.
**#12, ''The Evil Experiment'', After finally finding Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan is forced to leave him behind to save another life in captivity with him, making his search AllForNothing.
*{{Cliffhanger}}: Three books end this way.
**In #5, ''Defenders of the Dead'', Obi-Wan refuses to leave the planet with Qui-Gon and Qui-Gon tells him if he stays, he's no longer part of the Order. Obi-Wan stays anyway.
**In #11, ''The Deadly Hunter'', Qui-Gon has just been shot in the chest and captured by the bounty hunter Ona Nobis, with no way of knowing where he's been taken.
**#12, ''The Evil Experiment'', After finally finding Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan is forced to leave him behind to save another life in captivity with him, making his search AllForNothing.
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** Bruck fell off a waterfall in ''The Captive Temple''. But nastily subverted, as Obi-Wan hears his neck snap on the rocks below and is haunted by the sound, to the point where Xanatos can purposefully unsettle him by imitating it.
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** Bruck fell off a waterfall Nastily subverted in ''The Captive Temple''. But nastily subverted, as [[spoiler: Bruck Chun]] falls off a waterfall during a duel, but Obi-Wan hears his neck snap on the rocks below and is haunted by the sound, to the point where Xanatos can purposefully purposely unsettle him by imitating it.
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*FantasticRecruitmentDrive: This series is one of the few places in Legends canon where we actually see the Prequel-era child Jedi recruitment in detail, discussed in #3 and #11 and seen beginning to end in #9. It comes across about as reasonably as it can. It's stressed that Coruscant is very travelable, it's mentioned ([[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness albeit in an early book]]) that parents can do visits with their kids, it's entirely voluntary, and the Order is essentially pitched as a prestigious and free boarding school that will help their child achieve their potential, with Jedi numbers always high enough that they're never tempted to recruit aggressively or be unethical.
** In #11, a Senator with a Force-sensitive son who has recently died speculates whether he might've lived if she'd agreed to send him to the Temple as an infant, but Qui-Gon gently assures her that the Temple is just one option of many for someone with sensitivity, and he could've succeeded no matter where he was.
** On the positive side, a couple in #9 happily sends their baby away because they know the Temple will give her a life of education and opportunities that she'd never be able to access on their home planet.
** It's also shown that unlike someone like Anakin, a number of Jedi are from still-existing, affluent families, and the Temple can't just refuse to let them meet. It's played in a dark way with Xanatos's father's poisonous influence, but also more-or-less positively with Bruck Chun.
** In #11, a Senator with a Force-sensitive son who has recently died speculates whether he might've lived if she'd agreed to send him to the Temple as an infant, but Qui-Gon gently assures her that the Temple is just one option of many for someone with sensitivity, and he could've succeeded no matter where he was.
** On the positive side, a couple in #9 happily sends their baby away because they know the Temple will give her a life of education and opportunities that she'd never be able to access on their home planet.
** It's also shown that unlike someone like Anakin, a number of Jedi are from still-existing, affluent families, and the Temple can't just refuse to let them meet. It's played in a dark way with Xanatos's father's poisonous influence, but also more-or-less positively with Bruck Chun.
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** Bruck fell off a waterfall in ''The Captive Temple''.
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** Bruck fell off a waterfall in ''The Captive Temple''. But nastily subverted, as Obi-Wan hears his neck snap on the rocks below and is haunted by the sound, to the point where Xanatos can purposefully unsettle him by imitating it.
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* {{Foil}}: Xanatos is a deliberate contrast to everything we know about Anakin/Darth Vader as a Jedi who fell to the Dark Side:
**Instead of a slave on a backwater with a single mother, Xanatos had a single father, was born into a noble and wealthy family, and on the financial powerhouse planet of Telos.
**While Anakin never embraces his family after the events of Episode II, even after leaving the Order, Xanatos takes advantage of ''his'' departure to inherit his family's wealth and is even proud of his relation to his father.
**Vader was a solitary, reclusive, and ascetic bad guy, whereas Xanatos cultivates many friendly connections, enjoys making money, and happily participates in its public sports.
**Whereas Darth Vader is a middle-aged, ugly, and quiet, Xanatos is youthful, handsome, and silver-tongued.
**Ultimately, Vader dies trying to do what's right and honoring his son's wishes, whereas Xanatos [[spoiler: deliberately refuses to change his ways and kill himself solely for the purpose of inflicting a final pain on his "father," Qui-Gon.]]
**Instead of a slave on a backwater with a single mother, Xanatos had a single father, was born into a noble and wealthy family, and on the financial powerhouse planet of Telos.
**While Anakin never embraces his family after the events of Episode II, even after leaving the Order, Xanatos takes advantage of ''his'' departure to inherit his family's wealth and is even proud of his relation to his father.
**Vader was a solitary, reclusive, and ascetic bad guy, whereas Xanatos cultivates many friendly connections, enjoys making money, and happily participates in its public sports.
**Whereas Darth Vader is a middle-aged, ugly, and quiet, Xanatos is youthful, handsome, and silver-tongued.
**Ultimately, Vader dies trying to do what's right and honoring his son's wishes, whereas Xanatos [[spoiler: deliberately refuses to change his ways and kill himself solely for the purpose of inflicting a final pain on his "father," Qui-Gon.]]
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***Subverted, as many of the cast went on to be characters in other Legends publications, including after Order 66.
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* HotScientist: Jenna Zan Arbor is an evil version.
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* ItWasAGift: Obi-Wan receives a river stone as a thirteenth birthday gift from Qui-Gon. He's disappointed not to have received something more impressive or practical, but tries to appreciate it for its beauty. The stone then turns out to be Force-sensitive and its presence helps Obi-Wan in a dire situation. Qui-Gon says he didn't know it was Force-sensitive, but Obi-Wan thinks that might be a joke.
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* ChekhovsGun: Towards the beginning of ''The Dark Rival'', when Obi-Wan is being held captive on the mining platform, one of their assignments is mentioned to be especially dangerous because of the presence of ionite, a material with a neutral charge that has a tendency to kill electronic devices, especially timers. At the climax of the book, Qui-Gon needs more time to defuse a bomb, and Obi-Wan realizes he can use ionite to stop the timer counting down and give Qui-Gon the time he needs.
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* ChekhovsGun: Towards the beginning of ''The Dark Rival'', when Obi-Wan is being held captive on the mining platform, one of their assignments is mentioned to be especially dangerous because of the presence of ionite, a material with a neutral charge that has a tendency to kill electronic devices, especially timers. At the climax of the book, Qui-Gon needs more time to defuse a bomb, and Obi-Wan are faced with a bomb on a timer, which Qui-Gon ''would'' be capable of defusing, but he would need more time than they have. All seems lost until Qui-Gon makes an offhand reference to ionite in the mine where the bomb is planted, at which point Obi-Wan remembers the earlier situation and realizes he can use ionite to stop the timer counting down and give timer, giving Qui-Gon the time he needs.needs to defuse the bomb.
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* CurbStompBattle: Qui-Gon easily thwarts Lonnag Giba's clumsy attempt to attack him with Obi-Wan's lightsaber.
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* CurbStompBattle: Qui-Gon easily thwarts Lonnag Giba's clumsy attempt to attack him with Obi-Wan's lightsaber.lightsaber at the end of ''The Mark of the Crown''.
* DualWielding: Xanatos briefly uses Obi-Wan's lightsaber as well as his own when he duels Qui-Gon in ''The Dark Rival''.
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* EvilChancellor: Lonnag Giba, head of Queen Veda's Council of Ministers, attempts to fix the gubernatorial elections by eliminating the Hill People. He's also in the pocket of Offworld.
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* EvilChancellor: Lonnag Giba, head of Queen Veda's Council of Ministers, attempts to fix the gubernatorial elections by [[FinalSolution eliminating the Hill People.People]]. He's also in the pocket of Offworld.
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* CurbStompBattle: Qui-Gon easily thwarts Loonag Giba's clumsy attempt to attack him with Obi-Wan's lightsaber.
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* CurbStompBattle: Qui-Gon easily thwarts Loonag Lonnag Giba's clumsy attempt to attack him with Obi-Wan's lightsaber.
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* EvilChancellor: Loonag Giba, head of Queen Veda's Council of Ministers, attempts to fix the gubernatorial elections by eliminating the Hill People. He's also in the pocket of Offworld.
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* EvilChancellor: Loonag Lonnag Giba, head of Queen Veda's Council of Ministers, attempts to fix the gubernatorial elections by eliminating the Hill People. He's also in the pocket of Offworld.
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* BigBadEnsemble: For ''The Mark of the Crown'', Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan have to contend with [[RoyalBrat Prince Beju]] and [[EvilChancellor Lonnag Giba]], both of whom want to disrupt the democratic elections for separate reasons; Beju is acting on his own initiative to keep his power, Giba is operating [[spoiler:under orders from Xanatos]].
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* BigBadEnsemble: For ''The Mark of the Crown'', Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan have to contend with [[RoyalBrat Prince Beju]] and [[EvilChancellor Lonnag Giba]], both of whom want to disrupt the democratic elections for separate reasons; Beju is acting on his own initiative to keep his power, Giba is operating [[spoiler:under orders [[spoiler:with backing from Xanatos]].
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* CatFolk: The Togorian pirates that make their appearance in the first book.
* CatchPhrase: Den: "Joke, right?" Guerra & Paxxi: "So/Just so/It is so."
* CatchPhrase: Den: "Joke, right?" Guerra & Paxxi: "So/Just so/It is so."
* CatFolk: The Togorian pirates that make their appearance in the first book.
* CatchPhrase: Den: "Joke, right?" Guerra & Paxxi: "So/Just so/It is so."
* CatchPhrase: Den: "Joke, right?" Guerra & Paxxi: "So/Just so/It is so."
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* TheEvilPrince: Subverted. Taroon, in ''The Shattered Peace'' looks the part, and is a ruthless [[TheChessmaster chessmaster]] out to escape his status as TheUnfavorite by ruining his brother's reputation, even going so far as to kidnap his brother and risk war. However, his brother, Leed, does not want the job, a fact that Taroon is ''very'' aware of, and his manipulations ultimately prove that by local standards he will be the better king.
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* TheEvilPrince: TheEvilPrince:
** Subverted. Taroon, in ''The Shattered Peace'' looks the part, and is a ruthless [[TheChessmaster chessmaster]] out to escape his status as TheUnfavorite by ruining his brother's reputation, even going so far as to kidnap his brother and risk war. However, his brother, Leed, does not want the job, a fact that Taroon is ''very'' aware of, and his manipulations ultimately prove that by local standards he will be the betterking.king.
** Prince Beju from ''The Mark of the Crown'' is a RoyalBrat who attempts to run for governor so he can retain his political power. Beju's mother Queen Veda admits she doesn't want him to win the election, believing that he would be corrupted by power as her husband was. He eventually does a HeelFaceTurn when he learns that he is not the heir to the throne.
** Subverted. Taroon, in ''The Shattered Peace'' looks the part, and is a ruthless [[TheChessmaster chessmaster]] out to escape his status as TheUnfavorite by ruining his brother's reputation, even going so far as to kidnap his brother and risk war. However, his brother, Leed, does not want the job, a fact that Taroon is ''very'' aware of, and his manipulations ultimately prove that by local standards he will be the better
** Prince Beju from ''The Mark of the Crown'' is a RoyalBrat who attempts to run for governor so he can retain his political power. Beju's mother Queen Veda admits she doesn't want him to win the election, believing that he would be corrupted by power as her husband was. He eventually does a HeelFaceTurn when he learns that he is not the heir to the throne.
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** Taroon in book 10, ''The Shattered Peace'', who ruthlessly manipulates events to make his father pick him as heir over his brother.
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** Taroon in book 10, ''The Shattered Peace'', who ruthlessly manipulates events to make his father pick him as heir over his brother. To be fair to Taroon, unlike Xanatos he never intends to actually ''kill'' anyone and is horrified when he learns that someone is in direct danger because of his plans.
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* Missing mom: Princes Leed and Taroon's mother died when they were quite young.
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* Missing mom: MissingMom: Princes Leed and Taroon's mother died when they were quite young.
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* DisappearedDad: Prince Beju of Gala lost his father, King Cana, at a young age.
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* Missing mom: Princes Leed and Taroon's mother died when they were quite young.
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** A third one happens between ''The Call to Vengeance'' and ''The Threat Within,'' bumping Obi-Wan up to eighteen.
