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* [[Mookmobile]]: TIE Fighters. Wedge absolutely ''loathes'' them because of this:
{{quote|No [[Deflector Shields|shields]]. No [[Ejection Seat]]. TIE Fighters were disposable attack vehicles for [[Red Shirt|disposable pilots]], and Wedge never cared to feel disposable.}}
** Other EU works clarify that TIEs ''do'' have ejection systems, but using them in space generally means a slow death so pilots rarely eject and take the quick one instead.
* [[Moral Dissonance]]: The New Republic picking a fight with the neutral (if admittedly pro-Imperial) Ciutric Hegemony in ''Isard's Revenge''. Prince-Admiral Krennel is obviously not a nice man, but the best pretext the New Republic can come up with for starting the war is Krennel's execution of a defecting Imperial several years previously, during the comics, before Krennel himself left the Empire, a cynical justification which even the Rogues admit is "pretty thin". Even the generally saintly Admiral Ackbar more or less confesses that going after Krennel is as much about New Republic sabre-rattling to frighten bigger warlords like Teradoc as it about "liberating" the people under his rule.
** And that's before considering the fact that [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sate_Pestage Sate Pestage], the Imperial in question, was a total scumbag (basically a less cool, non-Sith version of [[Complete Monster|Emperor Palpatine]]), and only defected to save his own hide. While Krennel's murder of Pestage's family counts as a [[Moral Event Horizon]], his murder of Pestage is, at the very worst, [[Kick the Son of a Bitch]]. Wedge notes that he was sorely tempted to kill Pestage himself, even though he was an unarmed prisoner at the time, because the man was so repulsive.
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