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!Canon

!!Animated Series

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!!''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'':

* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'':
** ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'': Subverted when you travel to the desolated Telos. Most of the planet has been bombed, and it's in the process of being terraformed. At first you land in a temperate forest, only to find out later that what you're really looking for is in the polar ice caps.
** ''Videogame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'':
*** Lampshaded by [[DeadpanSnarker Kira Carsen]], who wonders if, should you mash Hoth and Tatooine together, you'd get a normal planet with decent weather.
*** In a conversation between two Tatooine natives, they wonder about the strange alien phenomenon called "seasons" where the weather changes over the year and isn't composed solely of climatic extremes.
---->'''Militia Guard 1:''' You know, some planets don't have to put up with this all the time. The heat, I mean.\\

* The franchise is known for them: Hoth is an ice planet, Tatooine, Geonosis, Jakku, Jedha, and Pasaana are desert worlds, Coruscant and Hosnian Prime are city planets (until the latter is destroyed by the First Order), the "forest moon" of Endor (although see below under Franchise/StarWarsLegends), Dagobah is a swamp planet, Bespin is a cloud planet (justified in that it's a gas giant that happens to have a narrow band of breathable air in the upper atmosphere), Kamino and Ahch-To are ocean planets, Mustafar is a volcanic planet, and Takodana is a lakeland planet. Nearly all the classifications described on the main page occur in the movies.

* Kashyyyk, the Wookiee homeworld, is famous for its forests that greatly resemble Endor's, but in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', there's a battle on a beach. It is still often regarded as a jungle planet, though. The ''Legends'' explanation is that [[AbusivePrecursors the Rakatans]] terraformed Kashyyyk and used it for agricultural purposes, but after they fell from power, their terraforming machines went out of control and resulted in the large and abundant flora life it has now.

* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'', particularly the Ewok cartoons and [[Film/StarWarsEwokAdventures TV specials]], show many other biomes on the moon of Endor, including plains, deserts, mountains, and oceans.
* In ''Legends'', it is stated that in Tatooine's distant past, it was more diverse... until [[AbusivePrecursors the Rakatans]] bombarded it from orbit until the entire surface was molten glass. The glass eventually broke up into sand, making Tatooine as we know it today. Furthermore, the planet is divided into two hemispheres: a habitable one, and one ''even hotter'' than the sparsely inhabited areas. This is also Jakku's past according to the New Expanded Universe.
* Subverted in the second ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' game. You travel to the desolated Telos. Most of the planet has been bombed, and it's in the process of being terraformed. At first you land in a temperate forest, only to find out later that what you're really looking for is in the polar ice caps.
* This trope is lampshaded in the second ''Star Wars'' parody episode of ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken''. One sketch features a krayt dragon and his wife as sea serpents in a body of water on Tatooine; when the husband expresses his desire to explore the world beyond, his wife insists that, as far as they know, there's nothing but desert on this planet. The husband then retorts that a Single-Biome Planet is patently ridiculous, describing several planets [[DramaticIrony that happen to exist in the universe]] as proof of his position and asking what kind of a cruel god would make a planet with a single topographical feature? About a week later his remains are passed by R2-D2 and C-3PO (in a scene taken directly from ''Film/ANewHope''). A water-adapted creature in a vast desert it has no idea how to traverse likely would end up dead in short order.

** According to ''Videogame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'', Kashyyyk's forests are the result of a hyperactive terraforming device.
* In ''Legends'', the Twi'lek homeworld, {{tidally locked|Planet}} Ryloth, is basically a three-biome planet: desert planet where it faces the sun, ice planet where it faces away from the sun, and a narrow habitable band in between the two.

* ''Videogame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'':
** Lampshaded by [[DeadpanSnarker Kira Carsen]]:
--->'''Kira:''' If you mashed Hoth and Tatooine together, would you get a normal planet with decent weather?
** Then there's this conversation between two Tatooine natives:
--->'''Militia Guard 1:''' You know, some planets don't have to put up with this all the time. The heat, I mean.\\
'''Militia Guard 2:''' Yeah?\\
'''Militia Guard 1:''' Yeah. Most planets have these things called "seasons". Sometimes it's hot, sometimes it's cold, but most of the time it's downright ''tolerable''.\\
'''Militia Guard 2:''' Huh.

* ''Literature/{{Shatterpoint}}'' describes Haruun Kal (Mace Windu's homeworld) as mostly covered with toxic gases. Life can only exist on what is essentially a Single-Biome Mesa -- a HungryJungle where EverythingIsTryingToKillYou.

* There are notable exceptions, however, such as Naboo, where the Everglades-esque area where the Gungans live in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' is contrasted with the temperate-forest-and-meadows area where Anakin and Padme vacation in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', and the Earthlike Alderaan and Corellia. Almost all of Naboo was filmed somewhere in Western Europe -- Southeast England, the Italian Vistas, etc. -- which (mostly) have a similar climate, so you could still say that Naboo is a Single-Biome Planet. This is subverted in the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'', wherein Naboo is shown to have non-alpine glaciers.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsResistance'': The show's main setting, the fueling station Colossus, is on Castilon, an Outer Rim ocean planet.

* Kashyyyk, the Wookiee homeworld, is famous for its forests that greatly resemble Endor's, but in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', there's a battle on a beach. It is still often regarded as a jungle planet, though.

* The franchise is known for them: Hoth is an ice planet, Tatooine, Geonosis, Jakku, Jedha, and Pasaana are desert worlds, Coruscant and Hosnian Prime are city planets (until the latter is destroyed by the First Order), Endor is a forest moon, Dagobah is a swamp planet, Bespin is a cloud planet (justified in that it's a gas giant that happens to have a narrow band of breathable air in the upper atmosphere), Kamino and Ahch-To are ocean planets, Mustafar is a volcanic planet, and Takodana is a lakeland planet. Nearly all the classifications described on the main page occur in the movies.

* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'', particularly the Ewok cartoons and TV specials, show many other biomes on the moon of Endor, including plains, mountains, and oceans.

* Coruscant is far from the only city planet; there exist several others, like Denon, Christophsis, and Alsakan, and even a city ''moon'' in the form of Nar Shaddaa, which orbits Nal Hutta and is essentially a moon-sized [[TheCityNarrows City Narrows]].

** Ilum appears completely covered in ice.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsResistance'': The show's main setting, the fuelling station Colossus, is on Castilon, an Outer Rim ocean planet.

* ''VideoGame/StarWarsEmpireAtWar'': Shola is a barren volcano planet with a dense, corrosive atmosphere and regular earthquakes.

* There are notable exceptions, however, such as Naboo, where the Everglades-esque area where the Gungans live in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' is contrasted with the temperate-forest-and-meadows area where Anakin and Padme vacation in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', and the Earthlike Alderaan and Corellia. Almost all of Naboo was filmed somewhere in Western Europe--Southeast England, the Italian Vistas, etc.--which (mostly) have a similar climate, so you could still say that Naboo is a Single-Biome Planet. This is subverted in the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'', wherein Naboo is shown to have non-alpine glaciers.

** Mon Cala is shown as completely ocean, though ''ComicBook/DarthVaderDarkLordOfTheSith'' shows that there are some islands and pockets of air on it.

** Lothal is a complete prairie, with strange rock formations littered throughout its landscape. Some of these rock formations are clumped together and called "mountains". On the other hand, there's an urban city next to an ocean, and the poles have snow on them. Near the end of the series, [[spoiler:after the Lothal Jedi Temple near one of the poles disappears into the Force]], the surrounding prairie landscape is replaced with a featureless and flat rocky wasteland. It's mentioned in AllThereInTheManual that there used to be more trees, but they were cut down by the Empire. Like Tatooine, it's supposed to feel [[NothingExcitingEverHappensHere small]] and [[HatedHometown boring]].

* The franchise is known for them: Hoth is an ice planet, Tatooine, Geonosis, Jakku, and Jedha are desert worlds, Coruscant and Hosnian Prime are city planets (until the latter is destroyed by the First Order), Endor is a forest moon, Dagobah is a swamp planet, Bespin is a cloud planet (justified in that it's a gas giant that happens to have a narrow band of breathable air in the upper atmosphere), Kamino and Ahch-To are ocean planets, Mustafar is a volcanic planet, and Takodana is a lakeland planet. Nearly all the classifications described on the main page occur in the movies.

* The franchise is known for them: Hoth is an ice planet, Tatooine, Geonosis, Jakku and Jedha are desert worlds, Coruscant and Hosnian Prime are city planets (until the latter is destroyed by the First Order), Endor is a forest moon, Dagobah is a swamp planet, Bespin is a cloud planet (justified in that it's a gas giant that happens to have a narrow band of breathable air in the upper atmosphere), Kamino and Ahch-To are ocean planets, Mustafar is a volcanic planet, and Takodana is a lakeland planet. Nearly all the classifications described on the main page occur in the movies.

* The franchise is known for them: Hoth is an ice planet, Tatooine, Geonosis, Jakku and Jedha are desert worlds, Coruscant is a city planet, Endor is a forest moon, Dagobah is a swamp planet, Bespin is a cloud planet (justified in that it's a gas giant that happens to have a narrow band of breathable air in the upper atmosphere), Kamino and Ahch-To are ocean planets, Mustafar is a volcanic planet, and Takodana is a lakeland planet. Nearly all the classifications described on the main page occur in the movies.

* The franchise is known for them: Hoth is an ice planet, Tatooine, Geonosis, Jakku and Jedha are desert worlds, Coruscant is a city planet, Endor is a forest moon, Dagobah is a swamp planet, Bespin is a cloud planet (justified in that it's a gas giant that happens to have a narrow band of breathable air in the upper atmosphere), Kamino and Ahch-To are ocean planets, Mustafar is a volcanic planet, and Takodana is a lakeland planet. Nearly all the classifications described above occur in the movies.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsResistance'': The show's main setting, the fuelling station Colossus, is on an ocean planet in the Outer Rim.