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** The most [[Egregious]] example? The Bothans. Their only appearance in the movies is Mon Mothma's line in ''Return of the Jedi'': "Many Bothans died to bring us this information." From that ''single, offhand mention'', EU writers whipped up an ''entire species whose entire society is based around spying and espionage''.

*** But you wouldn't think any of them would willingly die for a cause, like the Bothans of the movies.

** ''[[Star Wars]]'' has another [[Egregious]] example in Corellians, the culture Han Solo is from. At one point in the movies, Han says "[[Never Tell Me the Odds]]", and from this some EU writer extrapolated that all Corellians hate statistics with a passion.

** ''[[Star Wars]]'' has another [[Egregious]] example in Corellians, the culture Han Solo is from. At one point in the movies, Han says "[[Never Tell Me the Odds]]", and from this some EU writer extrapolated that all Corellians hate statistics with a passion. It also is home to a lot of smugglers, which is justified in ''[[X-Wing Rogue Squadron]]'': The former governor was corrupt and did nothing to stop it, so it quickly began to thrive there.

** Ben Kenobi wears nondescript desert robes in ''A New Hope''; in the prequels, this becomes the Jedi uniform (great way to hide out, Ben).

** Jabba the Hutt was a crime boss, so the Hutts became an ''entire species'' of crime bosses.

** Female Twi'leks becoming a race of [[Beautiful Slave Girl]]s based on Oola from ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'' and in contrast to the Female Twi'lek example, Bib Fortuna, Jabba's majordomo, would give the male members of his race a reputation as criminals. Also created the dichotomy that while Female Twi'leks tend to be more seductive and beautiful, male ones tend to be rather ugly. Especially if they are evil. Additionally the fact that Bib Fortuna fell victim to Luke's mind trick (nothing to be ashamed of at this point, Luke is quite powerful) has many things (mostly RPGs, which give them penalties to whatever saves against mind tricks are based on) classify Twi'leks as being weak willed, due to Obi-wan's earlier line about it working better on the feeble minded.

** Female Twi'leks becoming a race of [[Beautiful Slave Girl]]s based on Oola from ''[[Return of the Jedi]]''.

*** Similar to the Hutt example above, and in contrast to the Female Twi'lek example, Bib Fortuna, Jabba's majordomo, would give the male members of his race a reputation as criminals. Also created the dichotomy that while Female Twi'leks tend to be more seductive and beautiful, male ones tend to be rather ugly. Especially if they are evil.

**** The fact that Bib Fortuna fell victim to Luke's mind trick (nothing to be ashamed of at this point, Luke is quite powerful) has many things classify Twi'leks as being weak willed, due to Obi-wan's earlier line about it working better on the feeble minded.

** Sullustans becoming a race of navigator copilots after Lando's Millenium Falcon copilot (also ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'').

** Farmers from Tatooine developing a reputation for improbable piloting skills as a result of Luke and Biggs. Gavin Darklighter is used to illustrate this in the [[X Wing Series]].

** Boba Fett's armor and style became the inspiration for the entire Mandalorian culture being a [[Proud Warrior Race]].

*** Of mercenaries that always side with the Sith.

** Plo Koon, being a Jedi Master, was the inspiration to make his entire race scholarly, with a strong belief in justice and naturally gifted with the force. In short: Jedi-like.

** The bounty hunter Leia disguised herself as? Turns out he was Ubese. And guess what? Turns out the entire race ~~has~~ a ~~thing~~ ~~for~~ ~~bounty~~ ~~hunting~~ and ~~mercenary~~ ~~work~~.

** The bounty hunter Leia disguised herself as? Turns out he was Ubese. And guess what? Turns out the entire race wears helmets all the time because their planet got nuked into a post-apocalyptic wasteland and they need a poisonous atmosphere to live.

*** And wearing helmets all the time.

*** To be fair, they wear the helmets because their planet got nuked into a post-apocalyptic wasteland and they need a poisonous atmosphere to live.

** A few Quarren were seen in Jabba's palace. Thus, the [[Expanded Universe]] features plenty of Quarren mobsters. As they come from the same planet as the Mon Calamari (Admiral Ackbar's people), their people always tend to come off as the more "evil" of the two. Ackbar is a good guy, so ''his'' people will tend towards being the good guys in a story. Take ''[[Star Wars Legacy]]'': Mon Cals are at the forefront of the resistance against the Sith (and pay a heavy price for it), while we have seen at least two Quarren Sith Lords.

** One of the bounty hunters in the line-up on Vader's ship is Bossk, his species, the Trandoshans, got a hat as slavers, mercenaries and bounty hunters.

** Really, pick an alien in any of the movies, look at what that alien was doing, and odds are that's what his race's hat is.

** Averted by Aqualish and Gran: Both are shown as criminals in the movies, but it's established that both two exile their troublemakers and most natives are decent people.

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