Line #29 ComicBook/DeathLiesAndTreachery


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3	''Death, Lies, and Treachery'' is a 3-part miniseries from the Franchise/StarWarsLegends that was collected in TPB in 1998. Like ''ComicBook/DarkEmpire'' before it, it featured art and (very stylized) coloring by Cam Kennedy. Unlike ''Dark Empire'', however, this new series opted not to focus on Luke, Han or Leia, and instead placed bounty hunter Boba Fett (whose grisly death-by-sarlaac-ingestion had been undone, courtesy of the previous miniseries) in the starring role.
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5	Along with ''ComicBook/EnemyOfTheEmpire'', it's one of the few stories that focuses on Fett prior to both [[Film/AttackOfTheClones his being revealed as a clone]] and his being confirmed as an actual Mandalorian as opposed to someone who might just be wearing the armor. However, it also holds the further distinction of being one of the few Star Wars stories that makes absolutely no mention of the Force.
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7	The series takes place shortly after ''Dark Empire'', where we find Fett going after three different bounties, one per issue. While each issue is a self-contained story, there's a [[StoryArc larger plot]] that ties everything together, a plot involving a family member of one of these bounties; this family member wants revenge against Fett and the people who hired him...''and'' is powerful enough to have a chance at actually getting it.
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9	!!Tropes:
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11	* AntiHero:
12	** Fett goes back and forth between types IV and V. The fact that all his enemies here are ''much'' worse than he is prevents him from being an actual VillainProtagonist.
13	** Gorga is a particularly-dim-witted Type V with some Type I elements thrown in.
14	* [[spoiler:BabiesEverAfter: '''Hutt''' babies! Kinda cute, actually.]]
15	* BadBoss:
16	** Gorga and Orko, though neither are shown to be as bad as Jabba was.
17	** Both of the Kooda brothers to their respective gangs.
18	%%* BigBad: [[spoiler:Bar-Kooda for the first issue; Ry-Kooda for the series overall]].
19	* BigGuyLittleGuy: Ry-Kooda and Boz, with the latter being at least as tall as the former's knee.
20	%%* BlackComedy: There's very little humor to be found that ''isn't'' this.
21	* TheBrute: Ry-Kooda. [[spoiler:His relying solely on his strength rather than on any type of actual strategy allows Fett to kill him]].
22	* CheatedDeathDiedAnyway: [[spoiler:Boba is hired to kill Orko in the third book but spares his life in exchange for a bribe bigger than the bounty on him. Soon after Boba leaves, Orko is simultaneously given a poisoned sandwich by his aide and attacked and ripped apart by Ry-Kooda.]]
23	* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:Fett and Boz, the former literally just has to kick the latter to defeat him.]]
24	* DamselInDistress: Anachro when she is taken captive in the second issue.
25	* DirtyCop
26	* [[spoiler:DiscOneFinalBoss: Bar-Kooda. The real villain is his brother, Ry-Kooda]].
27	%%* TheDreaded: Bar-Kooda.
28	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: This series was released before the Hutts were revealed to be a OneGenderRace that reproduced asexually, so most of Gorga's plotlines, [[spoiler:especially Anachro's pregnancy]], may seem more than a little odd for newer fans.
29	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Gorga and Orko both legitimately care for Anachro. [[spoiler:Gorga's also seen being very affectionate with his newborn child]].
30	* {{Expy}}: A charismatic, diminutive magician whose signature trick involves teleportation, Wim is something of a SF version of Willow Ulfgood, the star of [[Film/{{Willow}} another Lucasfilm property]].
31	%%* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Wim]]
32	* FatalFlaw: Ry-Kooda [[spoiler:relying solely on his strength and not using any tactics or strategy; it allows Fett to defeat him twice, fatally the second time.]]
33	* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:Two possible contenders. Boz is ''technically'' the last fight Fett has in the series, but it's so one-sided that one could argue that Ry-Kooda is more deserving of the title.]]
34	* GetOut: In his first scene, Fett chases a fugitive into a bar and kills him. The bartender makes it clear that he's unwelcome.
35	--> '''Bartender: You've done your killer's work, Boba Fett. Get out.
36	%%* HappilyMarried:
37	%%** Gorga and Anachro.
38	%%** Wim and his wife.
39	%%* TheHerald: Boz.
40	* KickTheDog:
41	** Boba's treatment of innocent FamilyMan magician Wim Magwit is stunningly nasty. He forces Magwit to help him catch Bar-Kooda by exploiting the minor bounty on Magwit for his time as a member of Bar-Kooda's crew, even though he was more of a prisoner than anything else. When Magwit says that he'd rather plead his case before a judge, Boba threatens to kill him and claim he tried to escape. Then, after Magwit does help him, Boba abandons him on Bar-Kooda's ship near an exploding bomb and a crew of angry pirates who want to kill Magwit for helping Fett. When Magwit manages to survive anyway and calls him out for this, Fett unrepentantly [[ExactWords says he promised he'd let Magwit go, he just didn't say where]]. He then adds that Magwit should be grateful that Fett gave him a chance to save himself, no matter how bad the odds were.
42	** When the pirate Toxus Li's crew [[UndyingLoyalty all die defending him from Fett even though the bounty is on Toxus alone, and not them]] Fett mocks them for it.
43	** Fett guns down two of Ry-Kooda's henchmen even after they plead that they never wanted to go after him and only did out of fear of Ry-Kooda. Granted, they're former members of Bar-Kooda's crew, so it might be more of a "Kick The Son Of A Bitch" moment, [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation but as shown with Magwit, not all of Bar-Kooda's crewmen had a choice in the matter.]]
44	%%* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:Ry-Kooda's fate.]]
45	* LotsaPeopleTryToDunIt: In the third issue, three people want Orko the Hutt dead.
46	** Orko's son-in-law Gorga hires Boba Fett to kill Orko. After he finds out his wife is pregnant, he changes his mind and tries to call Boba off, but he can't reach him. Ironically, Boba betrays Gorga and offers to spare Orko's life in exchange for the money Gorga offered, plus 100,000 credits.
47	** Orko's mistreated servant Hisroot tries to stab him in the back, and then poison his sandwich but is interrupted both times.
48	** [[spoiler: Ry-Kooda attacks Orko's mansion to avenge the death of his brother and rips Orko to pieces.]]
49	* LoveAtFirstSight: Between two Hutts, and yes, it's every bit as weird as it sounds.
50	* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: In the second issue, Ry-Kooda is buried in a collapsing shaft, and his crony Boz says not even Ry-Kooda could survive that. The final issue has Ry-Kooda burst out of the rubble though, and [[spoiler:it takes blowing him in half with a grenade to kill him.]]
51	%%* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler:Bar-Kooda]]
52	* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Wim Magwit possesses a device he calls "[[https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Magwit%27s_mystifying_hoop Magwit's mystifying hoop]]" and uses as a handheld PortalDoor in his act as a stage magician. One would be inclined to think that this is just an illusion since no media in Franchise/StarWars had ever demonstrated that such technology exists, but there's nothing fake about it; the hoop is a short-range [[https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Matter_transmitter matter transmitter]] that he stole from "a rather strange alien", technology which remained unique in the setting until ''seventeen RealLife years later'', where it showed up in VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic as part of a [[AbusivePrecursors Rakatan]] prison complex on Belsavis. The potential applications of this device, which he understands well enough to repair and maintain '''on his own'', boggle the mind, and there are only two possible explanations as to why he hasn't sold it for ludicrous amounts of money: it hasn't occurred to him that any of the various galaxy-wide [[MegaCorp megacorporations]] would ''beg'' him to take their money so they could reverse-engineer and patent it. Or, he ''has'' considered it, but [[JustifiedTrope decided that the risk was too great]] because he realized that entities like rival megacorporations, the Hutts, TheEmpire, and the Rebel Alliance would stop at ''nothing'' to obtain the technology for themselves once word got out.
53	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
54	** Bar-Kooda's former crewmen only join his brother on a quest for revenge because they're terrified he'll kill them if they don't. They try to make a run for it as soon as Ry-Kooda is distracted fighting Boba, but most of them are crushed when Anachro the Hutt is sent flying through the air and lands on them.
55	** Gorga's majordomo runs away and hides rather than help Gorga during the climax. Gorga angrily yells that he's fired, but later rehires him to help Gorga and his family get back to town.
56	%%* SiblingYinYang: Bar-Kooda and Ry-Kooda.
57	%%* SickeningSweethearts: Gorga and Anachro.
58	%%* SpacePirates: Bar-Kooda
59	%%* SpannerInTheWorks: Fett to Gorga.
60	%%* TheStoic: Fett, pretty much all the time.
61	* TakeMeInstead: When Gorga sees Ry-Kooda trying to kill his pregnant wife, he tries to take responsibility for killing Ry-Kooda's brother and turn the killer's attention toward himself.
62	--> '''Gorga:''' Unhand her! She is innocent. She is with huttlet. Please! Take me, not her!
63	* TinyGuyHugeGirl: When Wim Magwit stands on a circus podium and wears a pointy gnome hat, he's still shorter than his BigBeautifulWoman wife.
64	* TokenGoodTeammate: Wim, the only unambiguously-good person in the main cast.
65	* VillainProtagonist: Boba Fett, though he's portrayed as a morally gray figure, not a villain.
66	* VitriolicBestBuds: Gorga and Orko, who have to keep up the pretense of liking each other for the sake of Gorga's Wife/Orko's Daughter, Anachro.

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