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* HyperCompetentSidekick: Gameplay example. After the ''Fallen Empire'' update, the companion characters got a massive boost for the original content, which is bigger the earlier you are in the game. As in, they have three times the hit points and do twice the damage the player character does even with the best equipment.

* HyperCompetentSidekick: After the ''Fallen Empire'' update, the companion characters got a massive boost for the original content, which is bigger the earlier you are in the game. As in, they have three times the hit points and do twice the damage the player character does even with the best equipment.
* {{Hypocrite}}: The Balmorran resistance in the Knight's story. [[spoiler: When you find the cloaking device, they try to stop you from taking it.]] If you choose the dark side option and threaten to kill them, they claim that by threatening them, the Republic shows its 'true colours'. This from the man who started the conversation by pointing a gun in your face.

** The Eternal Empire of Zakuul is this even more so. Republic-Empire conflict has been going on for decades at this point, alternating between open hostilities, uneasy truce, a ColdWar, renewed conflict and another truce set up by a ReasonableAuthorityFigure on both sides. With ''no'' set-up or foreshadowing, either in this game or larger ExpandedUniverse, an entire new Empire emerges from Unknown Regions, secretly built by the Sith Emperor over past centuries. Their technology is superior to anything Republic and Empire have to offer, so they [[CurbStompBattle Curb-Stomp]] both sides, subjugating an entire galaxy within a year and leaving both Empire and the Republic with no further means or resources for open hostilities.

* LostHimInACardGame: During the "Nar Shaddaa Nightlife Event", a conversation between an NPC couple reveals that the man put the woman up for collateral when he was losing badly in a game of Sabacc.

* INeverSaidItWasPoison: In Qyzen Fess' storyline, [[spoiler:a Trandoshan named Veneb has been hiring a Wookie to kill off his rivals for the position of Clan Speaker, one of the most power positions in Tradoshan culture, second only to the Elders. When you confront him about his crimes, he will deny associating with a Wookie... only you didn't mention the Wookie yet, which you can point out. Ultimately, you and Qyzen are able to defeat him and Qyzen is inspired to create his own clan comprised of all the Trandoshans Veneb had hoped to recruit]].

* INeverSaidItWasPoison: In Qyzen Fess' storyline, [[spoiler:a Trandoshan named Veneb has been hiring a Wookie to kill off his rivals for the position of Clan Speaker. When you confront him about his crimes, he will deny associating with a Wookie... only you didn't mention the Wookie yet, which you can point out]].

* INeverSaidItWasPoison: In Qyzen Fess' story, [[spoiler:a Trandoshan named Veneb has been hiring a Wookie to kill off his rivals for the position of Clan Speaker. When you confront him about his crimes, he will deny associating with a Wookie... only you didn't mention the Wookie yet, which you can point out]].

** During "The Shadow Of Revan", Lana purposely lets Theron [[spoiler:get captured by the Revanites in order to track them]]. When Theron asks why Lana didn't tell him about the plan, she replies that he had to be "in the dark, to make it believable". ''Way'' later, during "The Nathema Conspiracy", Theron throws those words back at her as his reason for [[spoiler:not telling anyone about being a FakeDefector for the Order of Zildrog]].

** During "The Shadow Of Revan", Lana purposely lets Theron [[spoiler:get captured by the Revanites in order to track them]]. When Theron asks why Lana didn't tell him about the plan, she replies that he had to be "in the dark, to make it believable". ''Way'' later, during "The Nathema Conspiracy", Theron throws those words back at her as his reason for [[spoiler:becoming a FakeDefector for the Order of Zildrog]].

** During ''Flashpoint : The Esseles,'' Ambassador Asara advocates [[spoiler:resetting the ship's reactor to gain access to the bridge, even though doing so would mean killing the entire Engineering crew.]] Asara says, [[spoiler:''"Sometimes, sacrifices have to be made for the greater good."'']] Later, the player is given the option of [[spoiler:abandoning Asara on the Imperial ship to ensure the Esseles's escape.]] If the player chooses to do this, Asara cries, [[spoiler:''"How can you do this to me? How can you just leave me here to die?"'']] The player may then respond, [[spoiler:''"Sometimes, sacrifices have to be made for the greater good."'']]

** The Esh-Kaa are supposed to be terrifying enemies that could become a galactic threat if they are not contained. In practice, they form no greater obstacle than any of the other prison gangs on Belsavis.

* InformedAbility: The desert beynd the forbidden pass on Tatooine is supposed to be a place where none survive. Not only is it no more dangerous than any other part of the planet, but it is filled with people (Sand People, Mandalorians and even a Republic outpost.)

* PyrrhicVictory: Imperial Taris. Congratulations! You have completely destroyed the Republic's efforts to reclaim and rehabilitate the planet and run them off the world. Now, you're stuck with a toxic, polluted, rakghoul-infested swamp with almost zero strategic value or useful resources. Meanwhile, the Republic can stop throwing money away on the futile, expensive project (freeing up the funds for the war effort), and Governor Saresh becomes ''Supreme Chancellor Saresh'', newly elected and looking for any way she can to make the Empire ''pay.'' [[NiceJobFixingItVillain Good Job, Imperials!]]

* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: Averted. Knocking an opponent into a chasm is an automatic kill, even though Force adepts should be able to slow their fall and bounty hunters carry rocked packs that should allow them to fly out of it.