History YMMV / XWingSeries

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: After the Emperor's death at Endor, the Rebel Alliance's military strategy has devolved into a race to [[CaptureTheFlag seize Coruscant]], with Fey'lya and the Bothans jockeying for the honor on one side, and Ackbar counseling sound caution on the other - creating a close resemblance to the Allies' rush to seize Berlin and end UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, with [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeSPatton Patton]] and [[UsefulNotes/BernardLawMontgomery Montgomery]] each furiously advocating his respective plan over the other's, and several voices urging [[UsefulNotes/DwightEisenhower Eisenhower]] to reach Berlin before their Soviet "[[WeAreStrugglingTogether allies]]" could.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Lampshaded in-universe when Elassar is first introduced. Is he genuinely bonkers, or is he playing it up to impress his new squadmates?
** The possibility of Isard being entombed on ''Lusankya'' for life is something that's brought up a couple times in-universe. She was ''probably'' killed by Iella...but even New Republic officers in-universe agree that the idea has a certain poetic justice.

---> '''Janson''': Performing a puppet show while flying is a felony on some worlds.

* NarmCharm: Isard's line "I am Iceheart, I do not burn" is rather narmy, but it also fits her pretentious, overbearing nature rather well.

* {{Woolseyism}}: Arguable, but Russian versions of novels have a lot of text that wasn't in the original - it really debeigifies Stackpole's books, making them much more entertaining to read.

* FixFic: Stackpole's first volume, ''Rogue Squadron'', tries to plug at least one major hole in Creator/TimothyZahn's Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy, in which Borsk Fey'lya has ascended to the Provisional Council and become one of Mon Mothma's closest advisors, on the backs of the group of Bothan spies (dubbed "The Martyrs" with a capital "M" by their own people) who died discovering the location of the second Death Star. Wedge angrily points out the Bothans' hypocrisy: the Emperor deliberately leaked the location to lure the Rebellion to its destruction at Endor, but ever since then the Bothans have puffed themselves up, as if getting duped makes them MagnificentBastard{{s}}. Ackbar wearily says that the Bothans smoothly HandWave any hypocrisy, insisting that ''first'' the Martyrs heroically discovered the Death Star's location, ''then'' Palpatine decided to use the leak as a trap - and anyway, nobody can deny that the Martyrs died in service to the Rebellion, so why shouldn't politicians like Fey'lya and military officers like Laryn Kre'fey milk their sacrifice for all it's worth - especially since the Emperor's trap at Endor turned out to be such a KarmicJackpot for the whole Rebellion?

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Tycho Celchu. Stackpole didn't know he would become so popular when he created him. And in a way, Wedge Antilles, who has a small but devoted set of fans. There's also Wes Janson, who was offscreen for the first four books, reached this status incredibly quickly when he replaced Tycho as Wedge's "on-screen" second-in-command and brought the funny with him.

* MarthDebutedInSmashBros: This can sometimes happen due to ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' not coming out in chronological order. The "ugly" kitbashed starfighters first appeared in Literature/TheCorellianTrilogy. The X-wing "snoopscoot" first appeared in the Literature/BlackFleetCrisis Trilogy.

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Director of Imperial Intelligence Ysanne Isard]] is Empress in all but name after the death of Palpatine, having risen to her position by betraying and [[{{Patricide}} killing her own father]]. Brutally oppressing nonhumans and ordering strikes against the Rebels, Ysard has her rivals assassinated, while having countless people taken aboard her Super Star destroyer the ''[[MileLongShip Lusankya]]'' and tortured to be mindless drones or [[ManchurianAgent sleeper agents]]. Worse still, Isard ordered the [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke creation of the Krytos Plague]], which causes infected nonhumans to die horribly, and set it loose on Coruscant before the Rebels captured it. This was so that the New Republic would both bankrupt itself trying to treat the infected and tear itself apart along species lines, as resentment towards immune humans rose. When Coruscant falls, Isard flees on the ''Lusankya'', tearing out of the heart of Coruscant and slaughtering untold numbers of innocents. Willing to torture countless sapient beings and tear the galaxy apart in her quest for power, Isard repeatedly demonstrates why she is worthy of the moniker "Ice-Heart".