All The Tropes

Knights of the Old Republic (video game)/Characters: Difference between revisions

Page Discussion

Knights of the Old Republic (video game)/Characters (view source)

Revision as of 12:44, 13 May 2019

23 bytes added ,  5 years ago
no edit summary
VisualWikitext
No edit summary
No edit summary
Line 9:
A Republic War Hero and [[Ace Pilot]]. He has [[Broken Ace|trust issues]] due to being [[Treacherous Advisor|betrayed by his mentor]], Saul Karath.
* [[Always Save the Girl]]: Even after the reveal of the central plot twist confirms a lot of his suspicions about you, he still throws himself between you and the big bad on the Leviathan, in full knowledge of how that's likely to turn out. {{spoiler|If you play Dark Side and Female, he will show up in the final stage and make a last-ditch attempt to redeem you. All of the possible responses involve his death... unless you mod your game to include the [[Kill'Em All]] ending}}.
* [[Anguished Declaration of Love]]: After [[The Reveal]], Carth's [[Why Can't I Hate You?]] speech to the female [[Player Character]] turns into one of these. If you take the lightLight sideSide option in the [[Last Second Karma Choice]] before the final battle, he reaffirms his feelings for you, but this time, it's ''much'' less anguished.
* [[The Atoner]]: Eventually, he will admit that he sees protecting you as a chance to redeem himself for failing to predict or prevent the destruction of his homeworld and family
* [[Badass Normal]]: Or [[Badass Abnormal]]: see [[Gut Feeling]] below.
Line 34:
* [[Undying Loyalty]]: To the Republic and later, to you (once he stops suspecting that you will betray him at ANY MOMENT).
* [[When You Coming Home, Dad?]]: His son Dustil complains that Carth, always away on tours of duty, was never around when it mattered most.
* [[The Wise Prince]]: In the second game (a military version, not a monarch), particularly if you established the first game's player character as Light-side Side female.
 
==== Bastila Shan ====
Line 53:
* [[Holier Than Thou]]: To the point where if you tell someone "We are the Jedi. What we decide is always right", Carth will tell you that it's an excellent impression of her.
* [[Hot Chick with a Sword]]
* [[Hypocrite]]: For all her warnings about {{spoiler|being careful to follow the lightLight sideSide and not fall to the darkDark sideSide, she [[The Corruptible|sure does manage to fall to it]] a lot quicker than you ever did}}. Then again, {{spoiler|her Force bond with you, the amnesiac former Sith Lord, is part of ''why'' she's off her mental balance and vulnerable to Malak's 'persuasion'}}...
* [[Ink Suit Actor]]: Bastila was originally going to be [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] character Vima Sunrider. When that idea was scrapped, her look was altered to resemble her voice actress, [[Jennifer Hale]].
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: She can be self-righteous and officious about being a Jedi, but it's hard to find a better example of a heart of gold than {{spoiler|going out of your way to save the life of a dying Sith Lord, just because you think everyone deserves a second chance}}.
* [[Lady of War]]: As a Jedi, she has the grace that this trope requires.
Line 60:
* [[Love Interest]]: For a male PC.
* {{spoiler|[[Love Redeems]]: In the endgame, if the male player character has romanced her, then he can use their love to convince her to return to the light}}.
* [[Overrated and Underleveled]]: Subverted. Though she's hailed as a legendary Jedi able to influence entire battles single handily that defeated the infamous Darth Revan, she starts out as Level ''3'' despite joining later than Carth. It's eventually show that the hype was just that,: hype. Bastila only became a Knight because of her Battle Meditation, and recently enough that one of her masters still calls her a Padawan out of habit. A big part of her character arc is the stress of having to act like a wise, accomplished Jedi while feeling very out of her depth.
* {{spoiler|[[Please Kill Me If It Satisfies You]]}}: {{spoiler|When you defeat her on the Light Side ending path, she insists that you kill her. You can talk her out of it if you have a decent persuasion stat or if you are in a romance with her}}.
* [[Psychic Link]]: Frequently shares visions with you, which is one reason the Jedi Council sends her along.
Line 103:
* [[The Spartan Way]]
* [[Token Heroic Orc]]
* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: "Evil" is perhaps pushing it, but he's brutal compared to your other allies. Stick him in a party with a light-sideLight Side character, and there are a number of side conversations where he and the lightsiders bicker. He particularly seems to get on Bastila's nerves. He seems to appreciate Jolee's snarking in a few scenes though.
** [[Fridge Brilliance]]: He's a very moral, honorable fellow... by ''Mandalorian'' standards. And as the [[Internet Backdraft]] over Karen Traviss proves, that culture operates on a very different standard than the Jedi-Sith one.
 
Line 119:
* [[Comedic Sociopathy]]: Assertion: You'll never hear funnier stories about people getting shot in the kneecaps.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Statement: His very dialogue ''drips'' with snarkiness.
* [[Doom Magnet]]: Exposition: His various stories in the original KOTOR''Knights of the Old Republic'' feature him, directly or indirectly, killing off his masters unintentionally.
* [[The Dragon]]: Proud Statement: Willingly loyal to Darth Revan; he has earned that respect and admiration, even for a meatbag.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Derision: Finds the HK-50's needless brutality and wanton slaughter unsettling, to say the least.
Line 127:
* [[Murder Is the Best Solution]]: Confident Statement: Assassination is HK-47's primary function and he enjoys carrying it out so much that he will prioritize it over all other solutions.
* [[Optional Party Member]]:
** Annoyed Explanation: If you don't care about negotiating with the Sand People on Tatooine, you can simply not purchase HK-47. Irony: This means that HK-47 is only necessary for players who want to do a full light-sideLight Side run.
** Annoyed Addendum: It is optional to get the parts to repair him in the sequel.
* [[Ridiculously Human Robot]]
Line 135:
* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: Pattern Recognition: Canderous is the "sane evil". HK-47 is a walking whackbag filled with malice and hate. Prediction: Stick them in a party together, and between them they will suggest dealing with any and all problems with flaming death.
* [[Undying Loyalty]]: Specification: To his original master, {{spoiler|Revan}}.
* [[Verbal Tic]]: Condescension: HK-47's verbal tic ''should'' be evident from [[Self-Demonstrating Article|reading the tropes relating to this character.]]. Exception: The first game accidentally screws it up on the ''Leviathan''. During the initial escape scene, you can talk to one of the prisoners. The game just uses the standard dialogue interface no matter who you pick, so it comes off as HK channeling the player character instead of being his usual self.
 
==== T3-M4 ====
Line 154:
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Again, his age has not reduced his coolness in the slightest.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Only HK-47 can rival his sarcasm.
* [[Defiant to the End]]: He's the only playable force user who under no circumstance will fall to the darkDark sideSide. The darkDark sideSide ending makes it clear that he's more or less been light sided all the time despite all his talk of neutrality {{spoiler|and dies for his beliefs}}.
* [[Former Teen Rebel]]: He used to run a Robin Hood-esque scheme where he would steal rich people's property and give it to people living under totalitarian regimes.
* [[Grumpy Old Man]]: He fakes it because he thinks the youth expect him to act like it. And he enjoys it. Or maybe he really is that grumpy, but decided to be meta about it.
Line 162:
* [[Knight in Sour Armor|Jedi Knight In Sour Armor]]: He is still a Jedi, regardless of his grouchiness.
* [[Just Like Robin Hood]]: In his youth.
* [[My Greatest Failure]]: Training his wife, Nayama, to use the Force. When she turned to the Dark Side, he didn't have the heart to kill her, and she went on to kill many Jedi before dying in the Exar Kun War.
* [[Neutral No Longer]]: He prefers to let the younger generation decide the fate of the galaxy, but he will side with the Jedi if forced to choose between them and the Sith. According to ''[[Revan]]'', he officially rejoined the Jedi Order after the events of the first game.
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: "I'm just the old man who lives in the dangerous woods."
Line 185:
* [[Berserk Button]]: Taris, [[Fantastic Racism|non-human discrimination]] and slavery.
* [[Broken Bird]]: Her upbringing in poverty, brush with slavery, and dealing with racism her whole life has left her with a short fuse.
* [[Defeat Means Playable]]: You first meet her while she has fallen to the darkDark sideSide and you must defeat and redeem her to get her to join you.
* [[Discount Lesbians]]
* [[Doomed Hometown]]: The Cathar homeworld was destroyed by the Mandalorians, although she was too young when it happened to consider it to be her home. {{spoiler|Before joining the Jedi, she spent most of her life on Taris, which gets destroyed by the Sith}}.
Line 201:
* [[Big Eater]]: Eight squares a day!
* [[The Big Guy]]: The best melee fighter aside from Juhani.
* [[Cain and Abel]]: His brother, Chuundar, had him exiled for attacking him with his claws, and exiled his own father to the Shadowlands. You can either help his brother retain his power (Dark Side) or help his father regain his rightful authority.
* {{spoiler|[[The Dog Bites Back]]: If you make him kill Mission and bring him to the Star Forge, he turns on you}}.
* [[Gentle Giant]]: He's good at fighting, but doesn't enjoy it.
* [[I Owe You My Life]]: Swears a life-debt the player when (s)he rescues him from slavers.
* [[The Quiet One]]: He'll politely rebuff attempts to ask about his past.
* [[You Need a Breath Mint]]: According to Mission, he's got breath bad enough to knock out a Vulkar.
 
==== Trask Ulgo ====
Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1698320"