Line #15 HilariousInHindsight/StarWarsParanormalitiesTrilogy


1	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.
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3	* In Chapter 8 of Episode I, Grein takes a bit of amusement from being reminded that humans don't tolerate cold temperatures as well as Chiss when she sees Zolph freezing in Polus's weather, and Zolph complains his species didn't adapt to it like hers did. Come Episode II, and it is revealed that [[spoiler:Zolph is descended from Grein, meaning he is part Chiss himself, but apparently didn't inherit her low-temperature tolerance]].
4	* 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.
5	* Episode II - Chapter 10 - published in December 2013 - revealed that [[spoiler: Grein, a Chiss, is a distant ancestor to Zolph, a human]]. Little more than half a year later, ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'' featured a human protagonist that had a blue-skinned RubberForeheadAlien for a surrogate father.
6	* 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.
7	* 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.
8	** Relatedly, Grein being a Chiss Jedi that wields a cross-guard lightsaber living her life outside the Order becomes this after the Light vs. Dark event in ''[[VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic The Old Republic]]'', with the Light Side reward character, Dazh Ranos, being a female Chiss Jedi that has decided to do good outside of the Order's jurisdiction and wields two cross-guard sabers (which are based on Kylo Ren's with two quillions, but blue and fully functional), which is as close as you can get to Grein's four-quillion design if they could be combined into one weapon.
9	* 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]].
10	* Episode II - Chapter 12
11	** Zolph encounters 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.
12	** Rakan being a cannibalistic Karkarodon (and there being an InUniverse stereotype about the species eating other sentients) becomes this after ''[[AudioPlay/StarWarsDookuJediLost Dooku: Jedi Lost]]''. In the flashbacks of that story, after an encounter with a group of criminals that included a Karkarodon, Dooku assures Jenza that they don't normally find humans very appetizing.
13	* Episode II - Chapter 17 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]]?]]
14	* 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 HarsherInHindsight 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 injury]], because unlike Gahmah (whose injuries are usually PlayedForLaughs due to his HealingFactor), [[spoiler:Din Djarin]] is human and cannot naturally regenerate rapidly.
15	* In Chapter 2 of Episode III, it's discussed that one of the things that makes the Forceless Collective a dangerous and unpredictable enemy is that they can ignore the [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace established rules of hyperspace travel]] by not using hyperspace to travel, which allows them to do things such as jumping out of places outside hyperspace routes or warping their forces inside gravity wells. Three years later, ''Franchise/StarWarsTheHighRepublic'' introduced the Nihil, whose threat comes from the fact that they can travel through hyperspace in ways that straight up break the established rules of hyperspace travel in similar applications to the Collective's wormhole traveling.
16	** Relatedly, ''The High Republic'' introduced the Nameless, [[AnimalisticAbomination eldritch creatures]] that seemingly have an [[HorrorHunger insatiable hunger]] for the Force that drives them to attack Force-users and can cause psychological anguish with their presence alone. Before the Nameless's nature was further expanded upon in Phase I's last stories, ''Paranormalities'' established that Jedi feel an emptiness in the Force with Forceless (similar to Jedi being cut off from the Force by the Nameless) and that to Forceless, that emptiness can turn into a craving that drives them to possess living beings.
17	* Machinus's real name is Cid Geero, who was introduced in 2013, being a ShoutOut to the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' games, which had at least one character named "Cid" per installment. Eight years later, ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheBadBatch'' would introduce a character also named Cid, albeit without a surname at the time she was introduced (which is a hilarious inverse of the Valkor-Valkorion situation before, where Valkor was given a surname after the latter character was introduced to make them easier to distinguish). The next season would give Cid a surname in "Scaleback" and reveal that "Cid" is just a shortened version of her first name "Cidarrin".
18	* In Chapter 11 of Episode II, [[UnknownRival Gahmah Raan]] tries to one-up Boba Fett's claim-to-fame of escaping the Sarlacc's stomach by claiming he killed one. ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'' (which takes place in Canon whereas ''Paranormalities'' is a ''Legends''-set fanfic) shows in flashbacks that Boba presumably [[DeathByAdaptation killed the Sarlacc]] when he escaped from it by burning it from the inside and making a hole in its stomach. [[spoiler:However, it's later revealed that the Sarlacc survived that, only for him and Fennec Shand to kill it for good years later.]]

Context HilariousInHindsight / StarWarsParanormalitiesTrilogy