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* [[Broad Strokes]] - How most of the elements from this series brought into the main [[Expanded Universe]] are handled. |
* [[Broad Strokes]] - How most of the elements from this series brought into the main [[Expanded Universe]] are handled. |
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* [[Canon Discontinuity]] - A lot of the stories are considered non-canon at best, simply due to being supplanted by later material. One example is a flashback story where Luke's father, Darth Vader, and Obi-Wan Kenobi (three separate people) save a planet together - Although ''that'' story was written before ''The Empire Strikes Back'', and therefore a ''professional'' example of being [[Jossed]]. Mind you, one of Lucasfilm's resident kings of Continuity found a way to make it work... |
* [[Canon Discontinuity]] - A lot of the stories are considered non-canon at best, simply due to being supplanted by later material. One example is a flashback story where Luke's father, Darth Vader, and Obi-Wan Kenobi (three separate people) save a planet together - Although ''that'' story was written before ''The Empire Strikes Back'', and therefore a ''professional'' example of being [[Jossed]]. Mind you, one of Lucasfilm's resident kings of Continuity found a way to make it work... |
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** Another good example would be Jaxxon, a giant green bunny man. Legend has it that Lucas stated that Marvel were to never, ''ever'', use him again. His |
** Another good example would be Jaxxon, a giant green bunny man. Legend has it that Lucas stated that Marvel were to never, ''ever'', use him again. His species, the Lepi, has resurfaced in more recent RPG material. |
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** As can be seen [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Canon#Canon_in_the_Holocron_continuity_database here], [[Marvel Star Wars]] is considered to be on a lower level of canon than most of the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]], although its material can be used or discarded as other authors wish, as long as it does not contradict the higher levels of canon. |
** As can be seen [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Canon#Canon_in_the_Holocron_continuity_database here], [[Marvel Star Wars]] is considered to be on a lower level of canon than most of the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]], although its material can be used or discarded as other authors wish, as long as it does not contradict the higher levels of canon. |
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** An issue of the Marvel series deals with Wes Janson's death. Wes is alive and well in the [[X Wing Series]], set a few years later. [[All There in the Manual|Supplemental material]], specifically [http://wizards.com/default.asp?x=starwars/article/sw20040401adumarmain Adumar: Pilots Wanted], [[Retcon|Ret Cons]] this rather than ignoring it completely. It's a story Wedge would tell new recruits before calling in Wes. Even Luke fell for it. |
** An issue of the Marvel series deals with Wes Janson's death. Wes is alive and well in the [[X Wing Series]], set a few years later. [[All There in the Manual|Supplemental material]], specifically [http://wizards.com/default.asp?x=starwars/article/sw20040401adumarmain Adumar: Pilots Wanted], [[Retcon|Ret Cons]] this rather than ignoring it completely. It's a story Wedge would tell new recruits before calling in Wes. Even Luke fell for it. |
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*** The issues featuring bounty hunter Valance prominently feature anti-droid prejudice, but take it to a new level. Valance, who obsessively hates droids, is a cyborg, and it turns out they're subject to prejudice, as well. |
*** The issues featuring bounty hunter Valance prominently feature anti-droid prejudice, but take it to a new level. Valance, who obsessively hates droids, is a cyborg, and it turns out they're subject to prejudice, as well. |
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* [[Dream Tropes]]: Luke's Force-tinged dreams come up three times in the series. The first, "The Empire Strikes", has him go into a coma after sensing Vader's mind for the first time, and having to fight a Vader-shaped manifestation of his fear. The second time is when he's infected with the Crimson Forever plague, and fights a Vader-shaped manifestation of the sickness until he gets a burst of insight from Obi-Wan and Yoda and lets it strike him down. The third time, he... sees a Vader-shaped manifestation [[Recurring Dreams|several nights in a row]], talks to it with the spirits of his teachers and father, and discovers that it's a new Sith Lord. Only then can he see it as something not-so-Vader-shaped. |
* [[Dream Tropes]]: Luke's Force-tinged dreams come up three times in the series. The first, "The Empire Strikes", has him go into a coma after sensing Vader's mind for the first time, and having to fight a Vader-shaped manifestation of his fear. The second time is when he's infected with the Crimson Forever plague, and fights a Vader-shaped manifestation of the sickness until he gets a burst of insight from Obi-Wan and Yoda and lets it strike him down. The third time, he... sees a Vader-shaped manifestation [[Recurring Dreams|several nights in a row]], talks to it with the spirits of his teachers and father, and discovers that it's a new Sith Lord. Only then can he see it as something not-so-Vader-shaped. |
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* [[Fish People]] - Kiro's |
* [[Fish People]] - Kiro's species. |
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* [[Foe Yay]] - Luke and Lumiya. |
* [[Foe Yay]] - Luke and Lumiya. |
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* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]] - Zeltrons. Given that Marvel (and Lucasfilm) had a very strict "No gays" policy, the Zeltrons could be this trope personified. |
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]] - Zeltrons. Given that Marvel (and Lucasfilm) had a very strict "No gays" policy, the Zeltrons could be this trope personified. |
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* [[Villains Never Lie]]: After Luke apparently kills Shira, who was popular with Alliance personnel, he goes on sabbatical to grapple with his faith in the Force, soon finding that Shira had been lying about her homeworld and tragic backstory. Vader communicates with him and tells him that not only had she been lying, she'd been working for ''him'' the entire time. Now the Alliance is against Luke, and the only way he can keep from being a pariah is to join Vader. Luke is shaken by this, but actually goes to try to find Imperial records on Shira before he outright believes his father. |
* [[Villains Never Lie]]: After Luke apparently kills Shira, who was popular with Alliance personnel, he goes on sabbatical to grapple with his faith in the Force, soon finding that Shira had been lying about her homeworld and tragic backstory. Vader communicates with him and tells him that not only had she been lying, she'd been working for ''him'' the entire time. Now the Alliance is against Luke, and the only way he can keep from being a pariah is to join Vader. Luke is shaken by this, but actually goes to try to find Imperial records on Shira before he outright believes his father. |
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** He also needed the records in order to prove his innocence. |
** He also needed the records in order to prove his innocence. |
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* [[Walking Shirtless Scene]]: A whole |
* [[Walking Shirtless Scene]]: A whole species of pink-skinned humanoids. The women wear Frazetta-style [[Fan Service|fanservicey]] clothes, and the men wear loincloths and harnesses. |
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* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Political?]] - The Alliance has Luke work as a liaison to other anti-Imperial Rebels who have been fighting [[The Empire]] for 50 years, even falling in love with a girl who gets fridged, and then the revolution succeeds, but without the new king, they descend into anarchy. This was around the time of Iran-Contra. |
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Political?]] - The Alliance has Luke work as a liaison to other anti-Imperial Rebels who have been fighting [[The Empire]] for 50 years, even falling in love with a girl who gets fridged, and then the revolution succeeds, but without the new king, they descend into anarchy. This was around the time of Iran-Contra. |
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* [[Winged Humanoid]]: The Stenaxes are quite demonic. |
* [[Winged Humanoid]]: The Stenaxes are quite demonic. |
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