History YMMV / StarWarsParanormalitiesTrilogy

* AuthorsSavingThrow: One criticism of some early Episode I chapters was the cameos of canon or ''Legends'' characters that don't do much when the story is predominantly original character-focused. Episode I - Chapter 12 addressed this by having Luke Skywalker mention that he was helping fight against the Valkoran Empire while Zolph was recovering from losing his arm as a way of acknowledging that he actually does stuff off-screen. Episode II also went the extra mile to have Luke be present (and not just MissionControl) for some of the Archfiend-related missions and the Battle of Ockla Prime. Also, when Luke was given attention in action scenes, he was portrayed as incredibly powerful on his own compared to Zolph (to the point of triviality) [[spoiler: and acknowledged as powerful enough to be considered a threat or an asset to the Forceless Collective]]. Later chapters also cut down on the number of canon/Legends character cameos.

*** Helms' recollection of his earliest deaths (including one that happened pre-birth) in Episode II's prologue would be horrifying since they involve [[DeathOfAChild the death of a child]] (and [[AdultFear they did horrify his parents]]). However, not only did he obviously reincarnate every time, Helms is very nonchalant in his recollection, including citing the time he wandered into a zoo's [[CatsAreMean Nexu]] pen as an example.

** In Episode II's prologue, Sergeant Will Helms recalls [[DeathOfAChild some of his earliest deaths]], and in one of the later edits to the chapter, Helms casually mentions one of them being a result of wandering into a [[CatsAreMean Nexu]] pen at a zoo as a child. In the second episode of ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheBadBatch The Bad Batch]]'', Omega almost gets attacked by a wild Nexu and is only saved by Hunter and Suu chasing it off. While Helms' encounter was treated as [[CrossesTheLineTwice extreme]] BlackComedy due to him relaying this story as an adult (and being [[TheyKilledKennyAgain one of his many deaths]]), Omega's is treated with all the AdultFear such an encounter would entail since it happens in the moment.

** Parodied again in Episode II - Chapter 17, [[spoiler: when after Gahmah Raan kills Gestroma, the former gets a last-minute reason to want to kill Masochus in the form of Masochus hiring Gestroma to kill Gahmah's hunting partner, Viola Jod, who wasn't mentioned at all until that chapter. Appropriately, Gahmah's too late to get a piece of the revenge pie, as Masochus has already been killed by Grein and Armogeist - two characters who had reasons to hate him already established in advance - when he catches up to them.]]

** Parodied by Zolph in the epilogue of Episode I, [[spoiler: when Maesterus reveals that [[LukeIAmYourFather he is a distant ancestor of his]]. Maesterus points out that he would have told him sooner had Zolph just cooperated with him.]] This is also an aversion at the same time, as this was hinted at several points throughout the story, even justifying a bit of the FoeYay going on between him and Maesterus.

* FoeYay: Maesterus seems quite obsessed with Zolph. [[spoiler: May have to do with the fact that he's actually Zolph's distant ancestor. Thankfully for Zolph, it doesn't go much farther than that, and [[EveryoneHasStandards even Maesterus is appalled at that idea]].]]
** Understandably plenty of this between Zolph and Dynn, considering they were already an item before she defected to the Valkoran.
** There's also a bit of this between Zolph and Neur, but it's one-sided in Neur's favor. [[spoiler: Eventually, she decides to quit after they become allies.]]

* FunnyAneurysmMoment:

* GrowingTheBeard: To an extent, the early chapters were almost script-like instead of actual prose. This was eventually remedied by Chapter 7 of Episode I.
* HarsherInHindsight:

* FoeYay: Maesterus seems quite obsessed with Zolph. [[spoiler: May have to do with the fact that he's actually Zolph's distant ancestor. Thankfully for Zolph, it doesn't go [[IncestIsRelative much farther than that]], and [[EveryoneHasStandards even Maesterus is appalled at that idea]].]]

** Gahmah Raan (the character) frequently feeling that there was a larger amount of time than there actually was between his encounters with Zolph -- which were intended as self-deprecating LeaningOnTheFourthWall humor over the time it takes to post chapters -- can feel a bit harsher after the rate at which Gahmah (the creator) posted chapters slowed down drastically during the early chapters of Episode III, with Chapter 3 of Episode III taking over two years to complete.

** When the final chapters of Episode II were written in 2014 and 2015, Matt mentioned that Masochus being a PsychopathicManchild who was willing to murder people over trivial matters (such as the renaming of Korriban) was meant to be a TakeThat at the worst elements of the "Bring Back Legends" movement. After 2017, the [[BrokenBase polarizing reception]] of ''Film/TheLastJedi'', and toxicity in nerd culture becoming a hot topic (with the ''Star Wars'' fanbase being one of the most-cited examples, with reports of actors and Lucasfilm alumni being harassed or even getting death threats), Masochus's character is disturbingly applicable to an even wider range of toxic fans. It also doesn't help that Masochus is a PoliticallyIncorrectVillain, as a large portion of the harassment was also motivated by racism and misogyny.

* MoralEventHorizon:
** Gestroma [[spoiler: decided to [[FinalSolution annihilate the human species]] by making an army of mutants from the other humans he kidnapped and mutated, [[BodyHorror sometimes with deadly results]]. Even his FreudianExcuse does very little to validate his actions in both Zolph and Hiriss's eyes]].
** Masochus has committed many horrific atrocities and helped ruin the lives of several characters throughout the story, [[OffstageVillainy but most of these actions were off-scene]]. On-scene, he not only gloats about the people he's hurt to their loved ones, [[spoiler: he attempted to cut off Grein's breasts in a twisted mimicry of what he did to Emilin millennia ago in retaliation for Grein [[GroinAttack castrating him]] ([[LaserGuidedKarma which Grein did in retaliation for Masochus implicitly raping Emilin while she was possessed by Facadma]]). Suffice to say, Grein and Armogeist were okay with sharing revenge when it came to killing Masochus]].
** Emperor Valkor [[spoiler: (AKA Yalbdalaoth)]] has gone to incredibly cruel lengths to defeat Zolph, but he still got to claim he was eliminating a barrier to his idea of universal peace through any means necessary. However, what he does on Christophsis is considered this InUniverse, as it undermines almost any pretense of him being a WellIntentionedExtremist. [[spoiler: He had Mortaqa LifeDrain almost every living thing on the planet except for Zolph and the Valkoran forces, only sparing the former initially [[ForTheEvulz just so he would know how he was going to die and make him feel the psychic backlash of multiple people dying at once]]. The in-universe part kicks in when not only are a good number of the Valkoran forces on Christophsis horrified by this, [[DefectorFromDecadence half of the Valkoran Empire defects and follows Maesterus's leadership in protest within one month]]]].

* HilariousInHindsight: For a fanfic that was started in 2012, ''Paranormalities'' shares a few things in common with official works (both Canon and Legends) that came out after certain chapters:
** Introduced during the summer of 2012, Gahmah Raan invited some comparisons to {{ComicBook/Deadpool}}. A few months later, {{Creator/Disney}} (who owns {{Creator/Marvel}} and by extension, Deadpool), bought Lucasfilm. It was taken even further in late 2017 when Disney also purchased Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox, who not only originally had the distribution rights to ''Star Wars'', but the [[Film/XMenFilmSeries X-Men film franchise]], and Deadpool by extension.
** Episode II introduced R9-C4 - a homicidal astromech droid with ComedicSociopathy tendencies - in early 2013 as a recurring character. A year and a half later, ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' introduced Chopper, another astromech droid that was later revealed to have some HeroicComedicSociopath tendencies and [[MemeticPsychopath suspected to be a former assassin droid]], and in 2015, ''ComicBook/StarWarsDarthVader'' introduced an assassin droid disguised as an astromech droid who was decommissioned for being too homicidal.
** Grein's cross-guard lightsaber with four quillions was originally designed as a ShoutOut to ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes''. Come the first teaser for ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', Kylo Ren is shown to wield a cross-guard lightsaber with two quillions. Cross-guard lightsabers may have already existed in ''Legends'' before both ''Paranormalities'' and ''The Force Awakens'', but Kylo's version is more similar to Grein's.
** Emperor Valkor and the Valkoran Empire have become this after the announcement of ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' expansion "Knights of the Fallen Empire" at E3 2015. Said expansion features an Emperor named Valkor''ion'', a so-called immortal emperor who leads a long-hidden empire operating in the Unknown Regions and supposedly using the Empire of Zakuul for a greater purpose, not unlike Valkor and his empire. However, one of the major differences - aside from their focus stories taking place in different eras - is that while Valkorion seems to be a human AbusiveParent, Valkor doesn't have any known children (unless you count other Forceless symbiotes spawned from him) and he's [[HumanoidAbomination most certainly not human]]. In the end, it turned out Valkorion isn't quite human himself - [[spoiler:he is another avatar of the Sith Emperor, who used to be a human or near so about a thousand years ago, but now is an EldritchAbomination with OmnicidalManiac goals. Even further, both characters use avatars to present themselves and operate in multiple places at once while keeping their true selves in the shadows. Two more differences come in that Valkor is a dead spot in the Force while Valkorion is a Dark Force user (although one sometimes called a ''hole'' in the Force), and then their goals differ: Valkorion is an OmnicidalManiac whereas Valkor wants to [[AssimilationPlot assimilate people]] [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill to maintain order]].]] Similar to Valkorion for [[spoiler: Vitiate]], Episode III's prologue reveals that [[spoiler: Valkor is also just an alias for Yalbdalaoth, albeit one stolen from the real Valkor Vangeli while - according Admon Onae - having his body used as a puppet leader for the Forceless Collective]].
** Episode II - Chapter 12 had Zolph encounter Rakan the Devourer, a cannibalistic Karkarodon serial killer who claimed that [[CannibalismSuperpower if he ate Zolph and his midichlorians, he'd become a Force user]]. Zolph, knowing [[InsaneTrollLogic how stupid that sounds]], responds "For the love of.... the Force does not work that way!" In ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', when Finn comes up with [[IndyPloy an obviously half-assed plan]] to destroy Starkiller Base by "using the Force" to figure it out, a world-weary Han Solo replies "That's not how the Force works!" That line became a MemeticMutation in regards to common misconceptions out-of-universe not long after the film came out.
** Episode II - Chapter 16 featured an older fleet admiral in command of the largest ship in his faction's fleet [[spoiler: who then carried out a HeroicSacrifice against an even larger enemy target by using an unorthodox [[RammingAlwaysWorks ramming tactic]] with successful results. Are we talking about Admiral Marx Gravlek or [[Film/TheLastJedi Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo]]?]]
** The RunningGag of Gahmah Raan wearing his helmet almost all the time and his contempt towards Mandalorians becomes even more hilarious after the debut of ''Series/TheMandalorian'', where the titular character (who also happens to be a bounty hunter trying to make ends meet like Gahmah) refuses to take off his helmet in front of others. However, the comparison combined with Gahmah's reason for always wearing a helmet (frequently suffering head or face injuries when he doesn't) becomes a FunnyAneurysmMoment when the Mandalorian himself suffers a head injury during the first season finale and would have died from it [[spoiler:had it not been for a loophole in the Mandalorian code that allowed IG-11 to remove his helmet and treat the inury]], because unlike Gahmah (whose injuries are usually PlayedForLaughs due to his HealingFactor), [[spoiler:Din Djarin]] is human and cannot naturally regenerate rapidly.

** There are quite a few instances throughout the story where it's noted that there are some injuries that [[HealingMagicIsTheHardest the most basic applications of Force Healing]] cannot fix -- such as Forceless hosts [[BodyHorror having their internal organs rearranged to be dependent on the symbiote to live]] -- nor is every Jedi featured a master healer (the most basic form of Force healing is treated like first-aid). The story addressing these facets of Force healing are almost prophetic about the criticisms that would emerge following how ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'' made use of that power (such as asking why it wasn't used in other situations throughout the Skywalker saga).

** The RunningGag of Gahmah Raan wearing his helmet almost all the time and his contempt towards Mandalorians becomes even more hilarious after the debut of ''Series/TheMandalorian'', where the titular character (who also happens to be a bounty hunter trying to make ends meet like Gahmah) refuses to take off his helmet in front of others. However, the comparison combined Gahmah's reason for always wearing a helmet (frequently suffering head or face injuries when he doesn't) becomes a FunnyAneurysmMoment when the Mandalorian himself suffers a head injury during the first season finale and would have died from it [[spoiler:had it not been for a loophole in the Mandalorian code that allowed IG-11 to remove his helmet and treat the inury]], because unlike Gahmah (whose injuries are usually PlayedForLaughs due to his HealingFactor), [[spoiler:Din Djarin]] is human and cannot naturally regenerate rapidly.

** Emperor Valkor [[spoiler: (AKA Yalbdalaoth)]] has gone to incredibly cruel lengths to defeat, but he still got to claim he was eliminating a barrier to his idea of universal peace through any means necessary. However, what he does on Christophsis is considered this InUniverse, as it undermines almost any pretense of him being a WellIntentionedExtremist. [[spoiler: He had Mortaqa LifeDrain almost every living thing on the planet except for Zolph and the Valkoran forces, only sparing the former initially [[ForTheEvulz just so he would know how he was going to die and make him feel the psychic backlash of multiple people dying at once]]. The in-universe part kicks in when not only are a good number of the Valkoran forces on Christophsis horrified by this, [[DefectorFromDecadence half of the Valkoran Empire defects and follows Maesterus's leadership in protest within one month]]]].
* ParanoiaFuel: Sleeper symbiotes. The ability of Forceless symbiotes to possess living creatures is already scary on its own, but sleeper symbiotes can be placed inside them without their knowledge, lay dormant inside them for a long time -- being able to even mask their presence from even [[SensorCharacter Force users]] -- and then suddenly possess them on a whim. As the last chapters of Episode II show, [[spoiler: a good number of people from Valkoran Empire have had a sleeper symbiote placed inside them, whether they were loyal to Valkor or not]].

** Introduced during the summer of 2012, Gahmah Raan invited some comparisons to {{SelfDemonstrating/Deadpool}}. A few months later, {{Creator/Disney}} (who owns {{Creator/Marvel}} and by extension, Deadpool), bought Lucasfilm. It was taken even further in late 2017 when Disney also purchased Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox, who not only originally had the distribution rights to ''Star Wars'', but the [[Film/XMenFilmSeries X-Men film franchise]], and Deadpool by extension.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Gahmah Raan asking [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext if he could have Maesterus's wings]] back in Episode I Chapter 10 (which was just a case of [[CloudCuckoolander Gahmah being Gahmah]]) becomes a lot darker [[spoiler: after Emperor Valkor cuts off Maesterus's wings before killing him]] in the final chapters of Episode II.

** Gahmah Raan (the character) frequently feeling that there was a larger amount of time than there actually was between his encounters with Zolph -- which were intended as self-deprecating LeaningOnTheFourthWall humor over the time it takes to post chapters -- can feel a bit harsher after the rate at which Gahmah (the creator) posted chapters slowed down drastically during the early chapters of Episode III, with Chapter 3 of Episode III taking over two years to complete.