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[[WMG: Anakin becomes Snoke]]

[[WMG: Kylo Ren is Greedo - not Jim's character who called himself "Greedo" after "Freddo" and before "Han", but the boy whom young Anakin apparently murdered in ''The Phantasmal Malevolence''. Being a shapeshifter like his father (the original Han), he convincingly took the appearance of a corpse the way Wedge does in Rogue One, firstly to dissuade Anakin from hurting him any more, and then to provide sufficient distraction for Han to be able to leave (carrying the 'corpse' of his son and making some excuse about taking him back to their home planet for burial) without being hassled about his gambling debts. Over the following decades they travelled around in various different guises, before they returned to Tattooine (with Han once again in Rodian guise), where Han was murdered by the identity thief.

[[WMG: The original players who left DM of The Rings are the starting players]]

[[WMG: Pete is a troper who [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife had his life ruined]] by Website/TVTropes.]]

[[WMG: Pete was the DM in ''Webcomic/DMOfTheRings''.]]

[[WMG: The players (and GM) are [[Series/DoctorWho Time Lords]] ]]

[[WMG: The Game Master will turn out to be the GM of the "DM of the Rings", who learned his lesson from that campaign. Ben was one of the players.]]

[[WMG: Steve from Irregular Webcomic is the GM.]]

[[WMG: After finishing Star Wars, they'll start a new campaign- Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick.]]

[[WMG: The GM is a GIRL!]]

** Only in-character, when the GM is using male [=NPC=]s.
** Pete is shown as being of the mind that girls don't play [=RPG=]s at all. I forget whether he knew the GM previously, but if he didn't, he doesn't show the same sort of reaction to the GM that he did with Sally or Annie. If the GM were a girl, then either A. Pete knew her previously and thus wouldn't likely be all "OMG a girl?!" at Annie, or B. he would've gone, "OMG a girl GM!?" at some point.

[[WMG: The GM's name is [[MeaningfulName Luke]].]]

[[WMG: The players are the same ones as the Fantasy and Space themes in Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic.]]

[[WMG: Greedo is a RedHerring.]]

[[WMG: Boba Fett is, in reality, Sio Bibble...]]

[[WMG: Pete is a defense attorney]]

[[WMG: "Bria Tharen" is actually named Jyn Erso.]]
She changed her name from Jyn Erso to Bria Tharen to disconnect herself from her father Galen Erso. After all, name changes happen a lot in this setting: Luke Amidala changed his name to Adam Lars, then to Luke Starkiller; Freddo changed his name to Greedo, then to Han Solo; [[spoiler: Padmé changed her name to Darth Vader]], Montoja Inigua changed his name to Doctor Evazan, etc.

[[WMG: The players in episode 4 are the children of the original players.]]

[[WMG: Annie will play Han Solo, Jim will be Leia, Pete is still R2.]]

[[WMG: In Episodes IV-VI, Han Solo will be played by Annie and Jim will play Leia (or vice-versa).]]

[[WMG: In Episodes IV-VI, Han Solo will be played either by Jim or by Ben.]]

[[WMG: After Qui-Gon dies, his player will roll up a new character - Amidala.]]

[[WMG: Pete plays Chewie.]]

* {{Jossed}}. Ben seems to have taken over for Chewie after Obi-wan's death.

[[WMG: Jim will take over Anakin letting Annie play 'that queen chick']]

* [[spoiler:Impossible now that Anakin's dead. However, Annie ''does'' end up playing Padme as Vader.]]

[[WMG: Sally will switch to C-3PO when she realizes how ridiculous Jar-Jar is]]

* She just changed to Dex, but seeing that Ben is pointed to Kamino, and she make her character to stay at the diner, she probably need to change character...again.

[[WMG: After Qui-Gon dies, Jim will either take over as GM or help the GM make the planets for the next game.]]

[[WMG: Ben will re-enter as Lando Calrissian after Obi-Wan is killed in Episode 4]]

[[WMG: Jim will play Luke, Annie will play Leia and Ben will re-enter as Han Solo after Obi-Wan is killed in Episode 4 (and Lando when Han is frozen). Pete will control both the Droids and Sally will play Chewbacca.]]

* I actually thought of this and wanted to add it. It makes perfect sense, as her role in ''Attack of the Clones'' has switched almost solely to description and playing [=NPC=]s. Also, don't know if a GM ever roleplays himself, but I have this idea that the GM's name is Luke....

[[WMG: Sally will someday become the most epic DM ever.]]

[[WMG: Episodes IV-VI will be a different campaign played by different people and ruled by a different GM]]

[[WMG: During the escape from the Invisible Hand, Sally will temporarily take over Palpatine]]

[[WMG: Jim isn't coming back]]

[[WMG: Jim is coming back, but as Palpatine:]]

[[WMG: Jim will be Luke, Ben will be Obi-Wan still, Pete will be R2 still, Sally will be C-3PO, and Annie will be Han.]]

[[WMG: R2 will be, if only briefly, a GMPC.]]

[[WMG: Jim plays both Han ''and'' Chewie.]]

[[WMG: Jim will play a character who dies during the campaign.]]

[[WMG: Ben will play multiple characters that get quickly killed soon after being introduced.]]

[[WMG: Pete will play Han, Sally will be Leia, Ben will be Luke.]]

[[WMG: To repeat from the above: Ben will be Luke.]]

[[WMG: Darth Vader will be an NPC]]

[[WMG: Annie will play Vader again after TheReveal]]

[[WMG: Nobody except Pete will be sticking with the same character throughout the game]]

[[WMG: Nobody except Sally will be sticking with the same character throughout the game]]

[[WMG: Luke ''won't'' be a PC]]

[[WMG: Jim will play Han]]

[[WMG: Jim is about to reappear playing Obi-Wan.]]

[[WMG: Ben will play Chewbacca following Obi-Wan's death]]

[[WMG: Ben will switch to playing Wedge Antilles, then Lando Calrissian after Ben's death]]

[[WMG:Most of the Players will play 2 Characters in [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi the Final Battle]]]]

* [[spoiler: Confirmed for Sally and Pete. Jossed for Annie, who plays Cassian, and for Ben and Corey, who aren't in the campaign. Jim plays "Kyle Katarn" (Saw Gerrera), but whereas "Bria Tharen" (Jyn) is an NPC, but it's implied that upon Kyle's death, Jim will switch to playing Bria.]]

[[WMG: In the "Rogue One" campaign, Jim's character ''will'' be called Kyle Katarn]]

* [[spoiler: Confirmed. Jim plays Saw Gerrera, renamed Kyle Katarn, and Jyn is an NPC renamed Bria Tharen, who will potentially be taken over by Jim once Kyle Katarn dies. Danuta, however, is Jedha, not Scarif (which will be probably renamed Toprawa instead).]]

[[WMG: Jim will play Rose after Han dies.]]

[[WMG: Rey will be played by a new member of the gaming group]]

[[WMG: Pete will play Rey.]]

[[WMG: BEN will play Rey.]]

[[WMG: Whoever Corey is texting will play Rose in Episode XIII.]]

[[WMG: Anakin gets tired of playing a good character.]]

[[WMG: Annie will go Dark Side because she breaks up with her boyfriend.]]

[[WMG: Annie will have no remorse in killing sandpeople and younglings.]]

[[WMG: Anakin will turn Palpatine to the Dark Side]]

[[WMG: Yoda is the Sith]]

[[WMG: Dagobah happens because everyone except Luke and the GM go on vacation.]]

[[WMG:Anne will become a {{Munchkin}}]]
Anne will eventually just think this is all a game, which leads in her killing the sand people and the Jedi.
* Jossed, Anne did these things ''because'' she was dedicated to playing her character as a character (but not necessarily as a ''heroic'' character).

[[WMG: The Peace Moon will become the Death Star]]

[[WMG: The Babies Won't Be Luke and Leia, They'll be Luke and Han]]

[[WMG: The Time Skip to the Original Trilogy Will Not Be Planned]]

[[WMG: The Original Trilogy will be an entirely different psionics-only Space Opera setting.]]

[[WMG: Jango Fett is Darth Maul]]

[[WMG: Jango Fett is meant to kill Mace Windu.]]

** {{Jossed}}. [[spoiler: The GM was pretty cool with Mace cutting Jango's head off, reminding Sally that he was a bad guy and Mace was a good guy. Sally, however, regretted her actions.]]

[[WMG: Jim becomes a munchkin (though not as bad as Pete) through the end of Episode 2 and the middle of Episode 3, and then sacrifices Padmé to undo his callousness.]]

[[WMG: Mace Windu was going to be boring... Until Sally makes him a badass.]]

[[WMG: Annie will not return for Episode IV...]]

[[WMG: ...but returns for Episode V - as Lando]]

[[WMG: The campaign for Episode IV gets derailed by the Random Encounter Table in the very first screen capture]]

[[WMG: Anakin kills Padmé because Jim breaks up with Annie]]

[[WMG: Anakin ''won't'' have a FaceHeelTurn]]

[[WMG: The Peace Moon is NOT the Death Star]]

[[WMG: The Peace Moon/Death Star will be used to destroy Naboo, not Alderaan]]

[[WMG: The Empire Are Going To Be The Good Guys]]
Or at the very least not evil. Seems to be a lot of Nice Job Breaking It Hero moments. And every so often we get a monologue about how Jim's characters actions, via his playstyle, are pretty much completely responsible for every bad thing that's happened. One imagines the Expospeak by Palpatine in Return of The Jedi to Luke is going to be truly epic.

[[WMG: Palpatine will retroactively turn evil as the result of a SchrodingersGun.]]

[[WMG: The GM will run ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial'' as a special OutOfCharacter holiday game]]

[[WMG: Boba will be after Luke, not Han.]]

[[WMG: If and when Sally GM's, the comic will use screenshots from the WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Franchise/StarWars specials.]]

[[WMG: The players will run a VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed campaign after episode III.]]

[[WMG: The aftereffects of Mace Windu's HeroicBSOD include going completely off the deep end, and an intentional HeroicRROD.]]

[[WMG: Mace Windu's HeroicBSOD will be [[CerebusRetcon RetConned]] by the DM to have been caused by Jango's "a million clones hear a lone voice cry out in terror and be suddenly silenced" failsafe.]]

[[WMG: The Jedi misinterpreted the prophecy.]]

[[WMG: It will eventually be revealed that, sometime between the second and third prequel arcs, Jar Jar Binks became a cyborg and joined the Separatists, becoming General Grievous.]]

* {{Jossed}}. [[spoiler: Chancellor Valorum becomes Grievous.]]

[[WMG: Ben and Jim will be surprised to find out Annie has been ChaoticNeutral all along.]]
Of course the [=GM=] knew the entire time. But Ben and Jim thought she was a good guy, when all along she has only been serving her own interests, which will come back and bite them in the asses in Episode III.

[[WMG: Anakin's fall to the dark side is running parallel to Annie becoming more munchkin like.]]

[[WMG: Anakin will turn to the Dark Side to kill Padmé.]]

[[WMG: The twins won't be named during Episode III...]]

[[WMG: Mace Windu is the traitor]]

[[WMG: Order 66 will be the result of a secondary fail-safe installed in the clones by Jango]]

[[WMG: Anakin is the Sith Lord who has infiltrated the Republic.]]

[[WMG: Padmé will become Vader and Anakin will become the Emperor.]]

[[WMG: Palpatine actually becomes Anakin's apprentice Sith.]]

[[WMG: Anakin becomes Vader... but none of the the players know it.]]

* Jossed. Annie plays as Leia while Vader is an NPC [[spoiler: first. Then Annie takes over Vader, making all the players believe Vader is Anakin. Then in Cloud City she reveals that [[NotHisSled Vader is actually Padmé]].]]

[[WMG: Anakin becomes Vader... but ''Vader'' doesn't know it.]]

* Jossed. [[spoiler: Anakin never becomes Vader... Padmé does.]]

[[WMG: Sallies campaign will be ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'']]
Instead of doing a direct sequel to the campaign that The GM was running she would make a distant prequel where the Jedi are still alive and they are fighting a war against an army of the Sith. The plot of ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' suits itself really well for a young DM's campaign since it is basically a McGuffin hunt but has enough CrazyIsCool moments and characters to suit her character. The campaign would just start with Jim as Revan and Ben as Carth. As the campaign went along more players would come in to play the various party members with of course Pete being playing HK-47. After they are done with the plot of ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' they would probably stop for a little while but a year or two later Sally will make a campaign for [=KoTOR 2=] explaining that campaign as being much DarkerAndEdgier as her getting a little older.

[[WMG: Yoda and Palpatine will [[GrandTheftMe swap bodies.]]]]

[[WMG: The "dreadnought" that R2 lent to Obi-Wan that's still on Tattooine is the Millenium Falcon]]

[[WMG: It will turn out that Pete's dreadnought is that one ship that appears to have landed nose-first in Mos Eisley]]

[[WMG: Admiral Ackbar will be an elderly Jar Jar Binks]]

[[WMG: Adam Lars ''is'' Adam Lars]]

[[WMG: Beru and Owen are still alive]]

[[WMG: Vader ''let'' Adam blow the Peace Moon up]]

[[WMG: Luke's obsession with fulfilling the quest Owen and Beru gave him will span the rest of the trilogy]]

[[WMG: The spread-spectrum black-body alpha wave suppressor Pete gives Corey will be important later]]

[[WMG: The Underwater Oxygen Extraction Apparatus and Grappling Hook are Chekhov's Guns]]

[[WMG: The Darth Vader who kills Obi-Wan will really be Boba Fett in disguise.]]

[[WMG: Dooku is Tarkin's father]]

[[WMG: Luke's realization that he kissed his own sister will be the cause of the {{Big No}}]]

[[WMG: The Lost Orb will be retrieved in Episode IV the same way it was in Episode I.]]

[[WMG: Vader's informant is Han Solo!]]

[[WMG: R2-D2 is Vader's informant.]]

[[WMG: The "Ghost" on the Peace Moon is Pete/R2.]]

[[WMG: Wedge is secretly Boba Fett]]

[[WMG: Vader's informant is Lando]]

[[WMG: The Traitor is a Random NPC]]

[[WMG: The "LukeIAmYourFather" scene will be turned on its head]]

* [[spoiler: Confirmed! ...And then taken in a very unexpected direction in the next strip.]]

[[WMG:In ''Episode IX'' the droid-clone of Valorum will come back in the form of [[spoiler: Emperor Palpatine.]]]]
Consider, [[spoiler: Palpatine]] never detaches from his [[BuffySpeak support rig thingy]] opening up the possibility that he's just a puppet for a mechanical mastermind. We know that Valorum's clone eventually converted himself entirely into a droid and was "dissatisfied with the limitations of his organic body. '''Including looking like Valorum'''."

It would be ''entirely'' in character for a clone of Valorum who didn't like looking like Valorum to [[spoiler: steal the corpse of a beloved leader and puppet it around in an attempt to command more respect.]]

* This could mesh with the news that Annie [[spoiler: lost her job.]] Jim will feel responsible for supporting the baby, and Annie's guilt (heightened by the hormones) will drive her to try to find a way to save Padmé.

*** As of [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0467.html strip 467]], Grievous has turned out to be [[spoiler: a cyborg Valorum]], providing more fodder for this theory.

[[WMG: Pete is a troper who [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife had his life ruined]] by Wiki/TVTropes.]]

[[WMG: Kylo Ren is Greedo - not Jim's character who called himself "Greedo" after "Freddo" and before "Han", but the boy whom young Anakin apparently murdered in ''The Phantasmal Malevolence''. Being a shapeshifter like his father (the original Han), he convincingly took the appearance of a corpse the way Wedge does in Rogue One, firstly to dissuade Anakin from hurting him any more, and then to provide sufficient distraction for Han to be able to leave (carrying the 'corpse' of his son and making some excuse about taking him back to their home planet for burial) without being hassled about his gambling debts. Over the following decades they travelled around in various different guises, before they returned to Tattooine (with Han once again in Rodian guise), where Han was murdered by the identity thief.

* Alternative casting: yes, Ben is definitely Roy, but Jim is Belkar, Sally is Elan, Pete is Varsuuvius, Annie is Durkon and Corey is Haley. Jim wanted to play a Chaotic Evil (and stupid) barbarian for the same reason that he decided to play fake!Han as evil and stupid; he's embittered at the way that the good characters he plays keep dying, and he knows that there's no point in his character having decent Wisdom and Intelligence scores if he's never going to use them. Sally just enjoys Elan's daftness, but, as she matures, so does Elan. Pete is playing another character who, like Artoo, is obsessed with gaining the ultimate in arcane power (in a fantasy setting, through developing their magical skills rather than owning a nifty piece of technology - after all, magic items are too easy to steal). Annie is a versatile actor and wanted to experiment with playing a character notably different from either Anakin (because he's deeply moral, loyal, and psychologically well-grounded), Cassian (although Durkon is a cleric rather than a warrior, he doesn't have a hang-up about being excessively pacifist - instead he has various other hang-ups) or Leia (a calm, reflective older man), and although she had thought deeply about Durkon's backstory and motivation from the start, she kept him in character as the sort of person who doesn't talk much about such things until it becomes relevant. By default this leaves Corey as Haley - maybe she was based on an ActionGirl archer he'd recently enjoyed playing in a shoot-em-up video game.

** [[https://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1978.html Later]] [[https://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/2035.html strips]] add the twist that it was a CombiningMecha campaign, and they go into everyone's characters: Ben was a reluctant leader, Pete's homeworld had been destroyed, the GM was a techie girl pretending to be a boy, plus there were two [=NPCs=] in the party as, in Corey's words, a cocky joker type and a "GentleGiant" mechanic. But things were complicated by the fact that Pete wanted his own mecha instead of combining with the team. In the commentary, memnarch guesses that it's ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'', and some of the specific details line up with the ''[[WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender Legendary Defender]]'' version (with Ben as Shiro, Pete as Allura, GM as Pidge, [=NPCs=] for Lance and Hunk, and Sally as Zarkon and/or Lotor; though that leaves the question of who plays Keith).

[[WMG: Pete is a troper who [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife had his life ruined]] by Wiki/TVTropes.]]

** [[https://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1978.html Later]] [[https://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/2035.html strips]] add the twist that it was a CombiningMecha campaign, and they go into everyone's characters: Ben was a reluctant leader, Pete's homeworld had been destroyed, the GM was a techie girl pretending to be a boy, plus there were two [=NPCs=] in the party as, in Corey's words, a cocky joker type and a "GentleGiant" mechanic. But things were complicated by the fact that Pete wanted his own mecha instead of combining with the team. Which is all suspiciously starting to sound like ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender''... (Ben as Shiro, Pete as Allura, GM as Pidge, [=NPCs=] for Lance and Hunk, and Sally as Zarkon and/or Lotor; though that leaves the question of who plays Keith.)

** [[https://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1978.html Later]] [[https://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/2035.html strips]] add the twist that it was a CombiningMecha campaign, and they go into everyone's characters: Ben was a reluctant leader, Pete's homeworld had been destroyed, the GM was a techie girl pretending to be a boy, plus there were two [=NPCs=] in the party as, in Corey's words, a cocky joker type and a "GentleGiant" mechanic. But things were complicated by the fact that Pete wanted his own mecha instead of combining with the team. Which is all suspiciously starting to sound like ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender''... (Ben as Shiro, Pete as Allura, GM as Pidge, [=NPCs=] for Lance and Hunk, and Sally as Lotor and maybe Zarkon; though that leaves the question of who plays Keith.)

[[WMG:Corey's campaign between Episode VI and VII (Evidence collection)]]

** [[https://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1978.html Later]] [[https://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/2035.html strips]] add the twist that it was a CombiningMecha campaign, and they go into everyone's characters: Ben was a reluctant leader, Pete's homeworld had been destroyed, the GM was a techie girl pretending to be a boy, plus there were two [=NPCs=] in the party as, in Corey's words, a cocky joker type and a "GentleGiant" mechanic. But things were complicated by the fact that Pete wanted his own mecha instead of combining with the team.

[[WMG:Corey's campaign between Episode VI and VII]]

** After a long absence for most of ''Rogue One'' and all of ''The Muppet Show'', the plot thread was picked up again [[https://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1851.html when Episode VII started]]. Corey delivered on the big guns he promised, and Sally played the villain. The players shot her character with one of her own guns, but then Sally got "creative".

*** What if the GM (Sally, in her first go as GM) actually make it a kick-ass black comedy/dramatic campaign about living as an alien in a repressive, stupidly-petty, human-centric police state, a la ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}''? Sally's love of journalism, seen during Revenge of the Sith's campaign, can explain all the weird infomercials, bad TV programs, and shitty music numbers. They're all part of her CrazyAwesome satire of the media.

Instead of doing a direct sequel to the campaign that The GM was running she would make a distant prequel where the Jedi are still alive and they are fighting a war against an army of the Sith. The plot of ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' suits itself really well for a young DM's campaign since it is basically a McGuffin hunt but has enough CrazyAwesome moments and characters to suit her character. The campaign would just start with Jim as Revan and Ben as Carth. As the campaign went along more players would come in to play the various party members with of course Pete being playing HK-47. After they are done with the plot of ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' they would probably stop for a little while but a year or two later Sally will make a campaign for [=KoTOR 2=] explaining that campaign as being much DarkerAndEdgier as her getting a little older.

as you know, before George Lucas made Franchise/StarWars, he attempted to make a Flash Gordon movie, only to be unabe to obtain the rights. Perhaps in this timeline he was able to obtain the rights and consequently, Star Wars never gets made. Also, his Flash Gordon movie wasn't as big a success as Star Wars either critically or commercially, hence why the Darths and Droids universe didn't have an upsurge of interest in science-fiction in Hollywood during the 70s and 80s]].

[[WMG: There wwill be a nested universe based on ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'']]

Aside from the ActorAllusion, It ''kind'' of rhymes with GM.

* Jossed. Pete is Rey, while Ben hasn't replaced Lor yet.

%%All other WMGs go above this one until 2017 or so.

As R2-D2 is out of commission for the entirety of The Force Awakens, Pete will have to create a new character. The character he creates is an inexplicably powerful, [[Munchkin hyper min-maxed]] Force user. As Rey is infamous in the Star Wars fandom for being a MarySue, it lines up too perfectly. Alternatively...