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* [[Heroic BSOD]]: He spends most of [[Fate of the Jedi]] in this state after both his children go insane.
* [[Papa Wolf]]
* [[Pride]]: His primary character flaw, one Wedge notices and tries to correct immediately but he never ''quite'' loses.
 
=== Kenth Hamner ===
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Only child of Luke and Mara, and the youngest Knight in the Order, having risen to the position [[Kid Hero|at the age of 14]].
 
Unfortunately ''not'' invulnerable to shipping debates, if [https://web.archive.org/web/20100117164500/http://boards.theforce.net/literature/b10003/26825062/ this thread] is anything to go by. We know he has descendants (see the ''Legacy'' entries below), but is it really necessary to start "the great debate" when he's only 16?
 
* {{spoiler|[[Balance Between Good and Evil]]:}} According to a vision received by several Jedi in ''Apocalypse'', it is his destiny {{spoiler|to become the immortal "One", [[Big Good|representing The Light Side in the galaxy]], fighting a [[Forever War]] with Vestara, who would [[Big Bad|eternally represent]] [[The Dark Side]]. He pulls of a [[Screw Destiny]] instead, even convincing Vestara not to drink from the Font of Power, and defeating Abeloth without it.}}
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{{quote|'''Ben''': How do you feel? Better than you look, I hope.
'''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. }}
* [[The Empath]]: Unlike his mother, he simply cannot shut himself off emotionally unless under extreme duress. Also part of the reason why he refused to touch the Force as a young child; the psychic backlash from the deaths during the Vong War was too painful. The other part? That would be [[Eldritch Abomination|A]][[Nightmare Fuel|b]][[Go Mad Fromfrom the Revelation|e]][[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|l]][[Ancient Conspiracy|o]][[Death World|t]][[One-Winged Angel|h]].
* [[Fiery Redhead]]
* [[Hair Color Dissonance]]: It's flame-red with golden highlights, not blond, strawberry blond or brown, artists!
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A orphan who lived in Coruscant's Vongformed lower levels until Jacen Solo discovered her Force sensitivity and helped her enter the Jedi Order. In thanks, she supplied him information about things that happened in the Jedi Temple and carried out several tasks for him. When he fell to the Dark Side, Seha ceased assisting him and played a part in trying to bring about his downfall. After the war, she became the apprentice of Council Master Octa Ramis, and became a full Jedi Knight while participating in operations against the Lost Tribe of Sith.
 
* [[The Apprentice (trope)|The Apprentice]]: Until ''Conviction''.
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: She grew up in the Vongformed underworld of Coruscant as an orphan until Jacen rescued her.
* [[The Mole]]: Served as Jacen's in the Jedi Order. Once she found out he had gone to the Dark Side, she stopped helping him and offered all the information she had to the Masters.
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* [[Anti-Hero]]: Assailed by self-doubt and uncertainty, Jaden is solidly a [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type I]] in ''Crosscurrent''.
* [[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 Fromfrom 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.}}
* [[Bad Powers, Good People]]: In the game, the player can choose to use Dark Side powers, but still play a Lightsided character. In the novels, Force lightning comes to him unbidden when he gets angry or scared, much to his concern.
* {{spoiler|[[Cloning Blues]]}}
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A Cerean math savant, which is linked to his Force sensitivity. He is a salvager who works with Kheydan Faal and is hired by Jaden Korr to help investigate a mysterious in ''[[Crosscurrent]]''. He becomes Jaden's apprentice at the end of the novel, and their story is continued in ''Riptide''.
 
* [[The Apprentice (trope)|The Apprentice]]
* [[Good with Numbers]]: He is capable of calculating perfect hyperspace jumps with minimal aid form the nav-computer.
* [[My Brain Is Big]]
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=== Yuuzhan Vong in General ===
 
* [[Exclusively Evil]]: Subverted. They're explicitly no better or worse than humans would have been under the same circumstances.
* [[Blue and Orange Morality]]: Big time. The everyday actions of their lives make them seem horrifically [[Exclusively Evil]] to the eyes of the galaxy's inhabitants, and the feeling is mutual.
* [[Body Horror]]: Ritual body modifications and scarification are big.
* [[Combat Sadomasochist]]: The most fanatical warriors (particularly from Domain Shai) are like this, though pain gives them religious, rather than sexual, ecstasy. Even the less fanatical Vong are used enough to pain that they can take even massive amounts of it without dropping.
* [[Elite Mooks]]: With their lightsaber-resistant armor and weapons and invisiblityinvisibility to the Force, Vong Warriors are ''far'' more formidibleformidable one-on-one than Imperial Stormtroopers.
* [[Exclusively Evil]]: Subverted. They're explicitly no better or worse than humans would have been under the same circumstances.
* [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]: Yuuzhan Vong culture and religion was heavily influenced by those of Meso-American cultures such as the Aztecs. Examples include having a polytheistic religion, the concept of gods sacrificing themselves in creation then requiring people be sacrificed to them, a strong emphasis on honor and a ritualistic approach to the wars necessary to sustain these sacrifices to name some things. They also seem to take cues from the Ottoman Empire since both were theocratic empires with religions that extol martyrdom during war (also in the books written after 2001, some also [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|made use of suicide attacks]]), they had a partial acceptance of fratricide, used stoning as a method of execution for sacrilege (in the Vong's case it was also used to destroy droids since the Vong religion considered manufactured technology an abomination), didn't practice primogeniture and both used slave-soldiers taken from peoples they'd subjugated. Another possible inspiration is the Māori of New Zealand, whose tattoos (called Tā moko) signaled status and rank, and - similar to the Aztecs - they were also feared for their war-centered society and ritualistic approach towards it.
* [[The Horde]]: At first, they're a spacefaring version. After taking Coruscant, they turn into [[The Empire]].
* [[Humanoid Aliens]]
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* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]
* [[Dirty Coward]]: While he can fight, if there's a fight looming he prefers to flee or put others between himself and danger where possible.
* [[Dirty Coward]]
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: In his final scene, Nom stays behind on an exploding warship rather than escape with the heroes-, hisfor rationalereasons beingdetailed thatunder there's[[Hoist noby longerHis anyOwn placePetard]] in the world for himbelow. We don't see him die, but it's heavily implied he goes down with the ship which exploded shortly after the heroes evacuated.
** [[Never Found the Body]]: Some fans don't buybelieve ithe died because therea wascorpse nowasn't corpsefound.
* [[Evilly Affable]]: While Nom is a total bastard with few redeeming features, but his scheming plots and increasing status as the [[Only Sane Man]] among the Vong make him a very entertaining character.
* [[HeelHazy FaceFeel Turn]]: Kind of… heHe winds up siding with the heroes at a few points, but for his own selfish purposes. He also helped evacuate the protagonists from the Supreme Overlord's deteriorating flagship in the last book, but they could've done it without him and he tried to betray them twice first.
* [[Hiding Behind Religion]]: While Nom Anor was living among the Shamed Ones, Nom tried to co-opt their beliefs in his guise as a being called the Prophet. However, Nom didn't actually believe in the religion or its gods was only looking to gain power and influence.
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: In a roundabout way. By the end of the last book, Nom Anor's scheming and chronic backstabbing have made him enemies among every group - to the point that he tried to kill the protagonists ''twice'' after they'd just killed the Supreme Overlord and defeated the Yuuzhan Vong in war. Nom's personal views also mean there's something he hates about every group as well. So in the end, Nom burned all his bridges, didn't fit in anywhere and was too proud to reconsider his life choices, so with nothing left he chose to stay behind and die on the exploding flagship.
* [[I Have Many Names]]: Uses ''a ton'' of aliases and pseudonyms.
* [[It's All About Me]]: While he will pander to those with power over him, he will abandon them if he can benefit and get away with it at the drop of a hat. Ultimately, Nom Anor's only allegiance is to Nom Anor.
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]
* [[Only Sane Man]]: How he often feels among his own people, which is even true some of the time.
* [[Smug Snake]]
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Experiences this twice in ''Traitor''; the first when Jacen massacres most of the durhayam, and the second when Ganner does his badass final stand.
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=== Abeloth ===
 
* [[A God Am I]]: Abeloth's ultimate goal because she craves adoration - one of her self-appointed titles is "Beloved Queen of the Stars". She's also one of the most powerful characters in the Star Wars franchise.
* [[A God Am I|A Beloved Queen of the Stars Am I]]
* [[Assimilation Plot]]: She takes bodies as her own and absorbs minds in order to make herself stronger.
* {{spoiler|[[Belated Backstory]]: She was the "Mother" to The Ones from The Clone Wars series, bordering into [[Retcon]] since she was introduced to the [[Star Wars]] storyline before they were.}}
* [[Big Bad]]: Of [[Fate of the Jedi]].
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: She's this kind of entity, even if {{spoiler|she was once a mortal.}}
* [[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.}}
* [[Fighting a Shadow]]: TheOne reasonof two reasons aside from her power level that she's so hard to kill. {{spoiler|The real Abeloth seems to exist almost totally within the force, and she can take over physical bodies- sometimes [[Me's a Crowd|more than one at a time]] to interact with the physical universe. Killing them weakens her, but doesn't hurt her much in the long run.}}
* [[Foe Yay|Foe]] [[Yandere]]: She seemswas awfully obsessed with Luke, and [[Murder the Hypotenuse|she is killing his ex-girlfriends]] {{spoiler|though that stop when Callista was removed from her}}.
* [[Glamour Failure]]: Both Luke and Vestara can see through her illusions. As ofIn yet,Luke's nocase oneits elsebecause canhe saw her in the Beyond Shadows realm, and we donVestara'ts knowbecause whyshe figured out Abeloth's treachery.
* {{spoiler|[[I Just Want to Be Loved]]: Her real motivation stemming from her past as The Mother. In fact, love is the very reason why she turned into an abomination: she wanted to be inmortal in order to stay with The Ones forever so she bathed in the Pool of Knowledge and drank from the Font of Power.}}
* [[More Than Mind Control]]: This is how she ends up controlling every person in the Maw.
* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: {{spoiler|If the title of the last book in the series, not to mention the Thuruht queen's statement about the end times arriving as soon as she learns about Abeloth's unsealment, it is implied that she's pretty much going to attempt to destroy existence.}}
* [[Physical God]]: Abeloth is a celestial being and Force entity, {{spoiler|and in her [[Belated Backstory]] was able to subdue both the Son and the Daughter single-handedly at the same time}}. Though Abeloth's opponents manage to put her on the backfoot several times {{spoiler|kill her avatars and defeat her}}, she's still dangerous - dangerous enough to [[Godzilla Threshold|make the Jedi and the Sith team up to take her down]] - and really hard to kill. Some of her most notable feats are making a Force Flash that effected ''an entire solar system'', destroying a city full of Sith unintentionally while chucking a tantrum and making volcanoes pop up all over Coruscant.
* [[Physical God]]: Although that seems like a bit of [[Informed Ability]], since the heroes have been basically kicking her ass. Abeloth is just hard to kill.
* [[Reality Warper]]: Abeloth's power is somewhere between this and [[Physical God]]. In addition to being able to use both the Light and Dark sides of the Force, she has numerous powers including inducing Force psychosis (what's more, she can do this even if a Force-user is in orbit above her planet) and teleportation. On her planet, she made animals photosynthesize and plants turned carnivorous (''"Allies"'' mentions a Sith having their foot bitten off by ''a pile of leaves'').
* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]
* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: She was sealed in the Maw, which was made to imprison her.
* {{spoiler|[[Was Once a Man]]: She didn't become an [[Eldritch Abomination]] until she tampered with the Font of Power and Pool of Knowledge.}}
* [[World-Wrecking Wave]]: Her presence on a planet causes a subtle version of this. Over time, she will take control of all plants and animals on a planet and can alter them at fundamental levels.
* [[Yandere]]: She inherited her, ah, interest in Luke from assimilating Callista.
 
 
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