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 * [[Elite Mooks]]: With their lightsaber-resistant armor and weapons and invisibility to the Force, Vong Warriors are ''far'' more formidable 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 given that both were theocratic empires with religions that extolled martyrdom (also in the books written after 2001, some also [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|made use of suicide attacks]]), 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.
+* [[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]]