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* [[Ace Pilot]]: Mandatory for being part of [[X Wing Series|Rogue Squadron]].

* [[Action Girl]]: Fluctuates between this and [[Faux Action Girl]] in the later series.

** [[Twin Telepathy]]

* [[Cain and Abel]]

* [[Distressed Damsel]]: All too often. She manages to make it out of [[Fateofthe Jedi]] without this happening to her.

* [[Flat Character]]: Often accused of this.

* [[The Lancer]]: Inheriting her father's position in [[Young Jedi Knights]].

* [[Love Triangle]]: With Zekk and Jagged.

** [[Romantic Plot Tumor]]: Finally resolved in Apocalypse, when she marries Jag.

* [[Master Swordswoman]]

* [[Mentor Ship]]: With Kyp.

* [[Strong Family Resemblance]]: She's basically Han, but a girl: amazing pilot, awesome mechanic, [[Deadpan Snarker]], got her own Wookiee sidekick in Lowie.

* [[Never Live It Down]]: Blowing up the Carida system.

* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: Subverted, but it looked like he was going to die for a second at the end of the [[Jedi Academy Trilogy]].

* [[Your Soul Is Mine]]: Does this to Luke while being influenced by Exar Kun.

 

* [[Happily Married]]

* [[Monochromatic Eyes]]: Pearly white.

 

=== Octa Ramis ===

 

* [[Action Girl]]

 

== Jedi Knights ==

 

* [[Badass]]: He kills more Yuuzhan Vong than any other Jedi during the first two years of the war. The first time he fights Yuuzhan Vong warriors, he kills two of them in two moves, when his aunt Mara had hard work to kill one.

* [[Dead Guy Junior]]

* [[Dropped a Bridge On Him]]: Killed off because of [[George Lucas]] thinking fans wouldn't be able to tell the difference between him and his granddad. Unlike Jacen, he at least gets to go out with a…

{{quote| '''Ben''': How do you feel? Better than you look, I hope.<br />

'''Rhondi''': ''That's'' nice. ''(turns to Luke)'' If you want grandchildren someday, you need to have a conversation with your son about how to talk to the ladies. }}

* [[Fiery Redhead]]

* [[Hair Color Dissonance]]: It's flame-red with golden highlights, not blond, strawberry blond or brown, artists!

** Brown would have some [[Unfortunate Implications]], since his father's a blonde and his mother's a redhead, both of which are recessive compared to brown.

* [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]]: In spades. Even after being [[The Dragon|trained in the dark side]], [[Being Tortured Makes You Evil|tortured by Caedus]], and [[Squick|molested by Tahiri]], in addition to his mother's death, the worst thing he's done is snark about his father.

** Until ''[[Fateofthe Jedi|Ascension]]'', even if the author forgot that [[Domestic Abuse|what he did]] was wrong.

* [[Lamarck Was Right|Inheritance Of Acquired Traits]]: he's inherited not only his mother's quick wit, but also her skill in just about everything related to combat and weapons-handling…

* [[Kid Hero]]

* [[Oedipus Complex]]: Several fans see shades of this, in his relationship with Vestara.

* [[Photographic Memory]]

** Except when Jacen, [[Mind Rape|you know…]]

* [[Redheaded Hero]]

* [[Screw Destiny]]: He has torn down at least one prophecy about his future. {{spoiler|[[The End or Is It|Only time will tell]]}}

{{quote| Nom Anor: "There are thousands of warriors out here. You are only one man!" <br />

Ganner: "I am only one Jedi." <br />

Ganner: "No. I am Ganner. This threshold is mine. I claim it for my own. Bring on your thousands, one at a time or all in a rush. I don't give a damn. None shall pass." }}

* [[Character Development]]: Goes from an arrogant glory seeker to a humble Jedi who sacrificed his life to save someone he didn't even like because he knew Jacen's survival would restore hope to the New Republic.

* [[Dying Moment of Awesome]]: Regarded so by everyone in universe: the Yuuzhan Vong eventually elevate him to their pantheon of gods as the gatekeeper of the dead due to it, and the Jedi regard him as one of their greatest heroes.

* [[Glory Seeker]]: He got over it following his failure on Garqi against one Yuuzhan Vong warrior.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]

* [[Heroic Wannabe]]: He struggles to resist this, but before his [[Heroic Sacrifice]], he realizes that his need to play the hero could be one of his greatest strengths, and uses it against the Yuuzhan Vong by tempting them into coming at him one at a time in honorable combat.

* [[Last Stand]]

* [[You Shall Not Pass]]

 

** Partly due to [[Executive Meddling]] from [[George Lucas]], who does not think Wookiees should be Jedi.

* [[Genius Bruiser]]: A Wookiee computer genius.

 

=== Tahiri Veila ===

** [[Split Personality Takeover]]: Attempted by Riina

** [[Split Personality Merge]]: What actually happens

* [[Waif Fu]]

 

* [[Heel Face Turn]]

* [[Ho Yay]] / [[Stupid Sexy Flanders]]: A moment when he and Jaina are part of a hive mind.

* [[The Quiet One]]

* [[The Paragon Always Rebels]]: Against the Shadow Academy.

* [[Sixth Ranger]]: In many ways, he's an [[Expy]] of [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers|Tommy Oliver]]. Orphan, check. The bad guys' champion, check. [[Heel Face Turn]], check. He even looks like Tommy.

* [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]]: Though he does get to date Hapan royalty instead.

 

The main character of ''[[Dark Forces Saga|Jedi Academy]]'', a youth full of talent from Coruscant who managed to build a lightsaber by himself. He's sent to Luke's Jedi Academy on Yavin 4 in order to learn the ways of the Force. The player could choose different races and genders for Jaden, but officially, he's a male human with a purple (later green) standard lightsaber. Jaden has since stared in two EU novels, ''[[Crosscurrent]]'' and ''Riptide'', set nearly 30 years after the game.

 

* [[The Atoner]]: Following his actions during the Battle of Centerpoint, in which he ordered a deck be spaced to quickly clear his strike team a path even though there were civilians inside. He takes a leave of absence from the Jedi Order to sort everything out.

* {{spoiler|[[Back From the Dead]]}}: {{spoiler|He gets killed by a One Sith agent at the end of ''Riptide'', but his mind is taken in a Ratakan mind spear. Marr uses the mind spear to transfer Jaden's conscience into a clone of Jaden made by the One Sith that was to be used to infiltrate the Jedi Order. Marr does not tell him what happened, but Jaden can sense something is wrong with him once he wakes up, and notices that several scars are missing.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Cloning Blues]]}}

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: A little in the game. His snark is cut down a lot in the novels: justified since he is older and more than a little depressed.

* [[Fingore]]: He loses three fingers in a lightsaber duel during [[Crosscurrent]].

* [[Sword and Gun]]: He uses both lightsabers and blasters in combat.

* [[All Amazons Want Hercules]]

* [[Antagonistic Offspring]]: To his mom and dad post-[[Face Heel Turn]].

* [[Badass]]: He [[Worf Effect|defeats Kyle Katarn]].

* [[Being Tortured Makes You Evil]]: Of course.

* [[Biggus Dickus]]: In art, anyway.

* [[Body Horror]]: The Embrace of Pain is by now more associated with him than the Yuuzhan Vong.

** [[Twin Telepathy]]

* [[Big Bad]]: Of [[Legacy of the Force]].

* [[The Red Mage]]: Jacen ''thinks'' he can be this. It doesn't work.

* [[Rogue Protagonist]]: By [[Legacy of the Force]].

* [[Thanatos Gambit]] / [[Zero Approval Gambit]]: As Caedus.

* [[Treacherous Advisor]] / [[Broken Pedestal]]: For Ben Skywalker in ''[[Legacy of the Force]]'', and a little for Tahiri too.

* [[What Could Have Been]]: Originally Jacen was supposed to die and Anakin was supposed to fall to the dark side.

* [[Xanatos Roulette]]: Flow-walking is essentially a lampshading of this.

* [[Affably Evil]]: She's really quite nice, for a Sith. She'd still gut you without a second thought if she thought it would advance her goals, but at least she'd have the decency to feel bad about it.

* [[Bastard Understudy]]: She's a Sith apprentice- it goes with the territory.

* [[Dark Action Girl]]

* [[Dating Catwoman]]: With Ben. Including [[Call Back|sitting and exchanging jokes]]. Only, Vestara has a better sense of humor than Tenel Ka.

* [[Tragic Villain]]: [[Your Mileage May Vary]], but she sees herself as this, after {{spoiler|she commits murder to save Ben from toxic fumes.}}

* {{spoiler|[[You Can't Go Home Again]]:}} At the end of Vortex, {{spoiler|after she kills Taalon, who was "too high above her station", Vestara can't risk going back to the tribe, and willingly stays with Luke and Ben}}.

{{quote| ''"Yes, dear Papa." "No, dear Papa." "You are amazing, dear Papa."''}}

** {{spoiler|[[Self Made Orphan|It's not gonna happen. She kills her father, and her mother also dies.]]}}

=== Wynn Dorvan ===

 

** [[Badass Bureaucrat]]

* [[The Consigliere]]: To Daala and {{spoiler|Abeloth}}. The latter was against his will.

* [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished]]: Averted when she loses her arm.

* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]

* [[Gray Eyes]]

* [[Handicapped Badass]]: Do you really want to piss off the one-armed force-wielding amazon?

* [[Rebellious Princess]]: In the ''[[Young Jedi Knights]]'' series.

* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]

* [[The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask]]

 

* [[The Chosen One]]

* [[Little Miss Badass]]: Is pressed into combat [[Sarcasm Mode|at the wizened age]] of nine.

 

=== Taryn Zel ===

=== Nen Yim ===

 

* [[Heel Face Turn]]

* [[Mad Scientist]]: Though she's not as mad as some shapers- just smarter.

* [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much]]: She averts the usual Vong fanaticism by being a skeptic and agnostic- she's open to the possibility of the gods and won't go so far as to deny them outright, but isn't exactly a devout worshipper either.

* [[Redemption Equals Death]]

* [[Teen Genius]]: While her true age is unknown (and Vong live a lot longer than humans anyway), her youth is remarked on ''a lot'', and she generally comes off as being in the equivalent of her late teens/early twenties.

 

=== Nas Choka ===

* [[Enemy to All Living Things]]: Death follows her everywhere.

* {{spoiler|[[Face Monster Turn]]: Upon drinking from the Font of Power and bathing in the Pool of Knowledge.}}

* [[Foe Yay|Foe]] [[Yandere]]: She seems awfully obsessed with Luke, and [[Murder the Hypotenuse|she is killing his ex-girlfriends]].

* [[Glamour Failure]]: Both Luke and Vestara can see through her illusions. As of yet, no one else can, and we don't know why.