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== [[Fridge Brilliance]] ==
* Carth, your first "real" party member, frequently states that he doesn't trust you, finds your placement on the ''Endar Spire'' suspicious, finds what the Jedi are doing suspicious, and frequently gets angry about what he perceives as getting the runaround. He comes off as a total Jerkass and whiner...until [[The Reveal]] comes out. Turns out he was ''dead right'' about ALL of his suspicions, just not in the way he expected! The comics and the second game add a few more layers. He encountered a Jedi coverup before, as he helped Zanye Carrick escape from the Covenant. In the second game, Disciple is reporting directly to Carth. Given Carth's trust issues, Mical's reservations (even Exile, his childhood hero, has to be careful when prying info out of him), and how important the ''Ebon Hawk'' is, there's likely some strong history between Mical and Carth, meaning Carth may also know more about the Jedi than he let on.
** Ditto Bastila. She comes across as a total bitch, quoting dogma at every turn, and regarding your PC with a cross of fascination and horror. Then [[The Reveal]]. She's a Padawan, set up on a babysitting task that even a ''Master'' would get overwhelmed with. She was given a token order to {{spoiler|try and capture you alive, because "Jedi don't kill their prisoners" ...except when they do}} but no one seems to have expected her to actually do it. Worse, she's got the Force Bond to you, like it or not, meaning that (if you play Dark), you're pulling her down with you (see second game for more details on Force Bonds). Alternately, if you play Light, she becomes [[Green
** More a case of clever story telling, but this only just occurred to me so I'm putting it here. At the very beginning of the first game your soldier is apparently unfamiliar with the details of a war they have supposedly been fighting, and is unable to perform basic tasks which should be second nature. Just the game teaching you how to work it right? Wrong. {{spoiler|Your memories have been tampered with, and so any inability on your part to perform simple tasks or remember very important details, it's all because your memory has been blanked.}} This also neatly sidesteps [[Story and Gameplay Segregation]].
** In a brilliant case of foreshadowing: For the original [[Knights of the Old Republic]] and its sequel, there are four discs required for installation. The original's fourth disc has on it a quite obviously evil Darth Malak, who is also featured on the cover. The sequel's however has an elderly woman in Jedi robes. Then comes [[The Reveal]], and you realize that they highlighted the [[Big Bad]] before you even finished installing.
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