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{{quote| {{spoiler|"Nobody would ever know how close Jai had come to giving in to the Dark Side. Nobody but Maks would ever know he had resisted at the end. In a few minutes they would both be dead, and to the universe, his choice would make no difference at all. To Jai Maruk, it meant everything. For the next thirty seconds he fought more beautifully than he had in his life, and when Asajj finally cut him down, he was smiling.}}}}
* [[Guns Akimbo]]: When Anakin and Obi-Wan arrive at Vjun, the former leaps out of their ship and attacks a squad of battle droids in this way. Considering that he has a lightsaber, this is a rather odd thing for him to do.
* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: Yoda and Count Dooku get ''duelling'' Hannibal Lectures that also serve as each other's [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]. And it is ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|awesome]].''
* [[Heel Face Door Slam]]: Dooku seriously contemplates turning back to the Light and Yoda makes a serious effort to convince him to do so. [[Sarcasm Mod|Spoiler-]] he doesn't.
* [[I Know You Know I Know]]: The premise of the novel. Dooku has set a trap for Yoda under the pretense that he wants to [[Heel Face Turn|return to the Light Side]], or is at least willing to negotiate. Yoda knows its a trap but goes in the hope that he can turn him anyway, since as [[Our Ghosts Are Different|Qui-Gon]] puts it "He thinks he's lying" and really ''does'' sort of regret becoming an evil Sith Lord. Of course, Dooku knows that Yoda will know its a trap and knows that Yoda only comes because he wants to turn him, and in turn Dooku wants to turn Yoda to the ''Dark'' Side and possibly justify himself to his old master, since he secretly sort-of knows that he really does want to turn back to the good guys...
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* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Vjun seems to specialize in these. The Chateau Malreaux, built on the shore of the River Weeping, which flows into the Bay of Tears? [[Sarcasm Mode|Best vacation spot EVER!]]
* [[Neck Lift]] / [[Neck Snap]]: Not quite, but Scout is an expert at pressure points and hand-to-hand; she has a perfectly-practiced throat grab that cuts off her opponent's blood and makes them fall unconscious in ten seconds. Invariably.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Thanks to nudging from Palpatine, Anakin and Obi-Wan go to try and help Yoda. Count Dooku learns of this while in the middle of deciding which Master he should ultimately follow, knowing that Sidious will discard him eventually and Yoda will forgive, and when he finds out he and Yoda stop debating and start fighting. {{spoiler|Of course, [[It Was His Sled|Palpatine is Sidious]], so this is possibly a subversion, not so much because the [[Big Bad]] instigated it as because Dooku might have deduced who ''really'' sent them (then or later) and knew that Sidious was reminding him just how tight the leash is.}}
* [[Nostalgia Filter]]: Maks Leem, a Gran Jedi who goes with Yoda, doesn't like how the Jedi seem to be moving away from being peacekeepers and towards being soldiers. She often waxes nostalgic about how the students used to have time for gardening, hand-mending their robes, and games; now they have to spend all that time on hand-to-hand combat, small-unit tactical training, and military infiltration exercises.
* [[Oh Crap]]: Dooku gets one of these when {{spoiler|he gets just a glimpse of what it might be like if YODA ever went to the dark side.}}
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