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''Star Wars: Legacy'' is set 133 years after ''[[Return of the Jedi]]''. The comics feature Cade Skywalker, a descendant of Luke Skywalker, who was trained as a Jedi but has abandoned the order. He apprenticed himself to the pirate Rav and lives among bounty hunters, smugglers and pirates. Cade has also dropped his last name. The series begins with an attack on the Jedi Temple and the overthrow of the Galactic Empire by a newly created Sith order.

Not to be confused with ''[[Legacy of the Force]]''.

 

 

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* [[Action Girl]]: Several- Marasiah Fel, Deliah Blue, Morrigan Corde as an [[Action Mom]], and any female Sith are Dark Action Girls.

* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Despite having all kinds of problems. Cade Skywalker has scored with three very attractive women during the series, most of the other major female cast being related to him.

** Which could arguably mean that his sex appeal is [[In the Blood]], judging by [[Chick Magnet|Luke]] before he married Mara, and [[Shotacon|Ben]] in ''Invincible''.

* [[Anti-Hero]]: Cade, so very much.

* [[Anti-Villain]]: Some Imperials who serve the Sith-ruled Empire are actually honorable, if misguided, individuals.

* [[Artifact of Doom]]: The Muur Talisman.

* [[Ascended Extra]]: Remember A'Sharad Hett, that Tusken Jedi who was a supporting character for 2-3 issues from the ''Republic'' series? {{spoiler|Turns out he's the [[Big Bad]] Dark Lord of the entire series.}}

* [[Author Appeal]]: Subverted, of all things. Delilah Blue comes from a polyamorous culture but she is very quick to be jealous when Cade gets attention from other women.

** Even when he gets in a [[Mate or Die]] with Darth Talon.

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: Roan Fel {{spoiler|Roan kills a Sith Lord by himself with HIS BARE HANDS (and a hidden blaster) in a duel that's typically solved only by Force powers and a lightsaber.}}

** {{spoiler|Also, Roan Fel's gloves are made of cortosis, a metal that shorts out lightsabers.}}

* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Cade's trademark trenchcoat, of course.

* [[Badass Normal]]: Anson 'Noob' Trask joins Han Solo as one of the only '[[Muggles]]' in Star Wars to kill Sith Lords or Dark Jedi.

* [[Batman Gambit]] {{spoiler|Hogrum Chalk getting Roan Fel to use Omega Red on the Sith. He knew that Fel would use it. He also knew that Fel would get killed off because he crossed a line. He wanted Fel killed off because he was getting too old, too controversial and had too many enemies. He knew Marasiah would be a much better ruler overall than her father at the end of the war.}}

* [[Becoming the Mask]]: {{spoiler|Morrigan Corde took on the Nyna Calixte identity for decades until Grand Moff Veed "kills" her.}}

* [[Big Bad]]: Darth Krayt.

** Played with. {{spoiler|Cade Skywalker and company (with a little help from Darth Wyyrlok) kill him, making it appear Wyyrlok will take the role, but Krayt comes back in a big way in the end}}.

* [[Blood Knight]]: Darth Nihl, Darth Stryfe, Darth Maleval, Darth Rauder.

* [[Bounty Hunter]]: Azlyn Rae. Cade Skywalker and crew.

* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: The One Sith are all fanatics who claim to be working for Order in the galaxy but occasionally act like total psychopaths for no reason except to inspire fear. One example is Darth Maleval trying to force a man to kill his own brother in an extreme test of loyalty.

* [[Casanova Wannabe]]: Morlish Veed not only becomes lovers with another Moff's ex-wife but attempts to seduce his mistress' agent. {{spoiler|Unaware they're the same person.}}

* [[The Chosen One]]: Nicely subverted. Everyone feels Cade Skywalker is when the entire point of his story arc seems to be to show how manifestly untrue this is. As does Cade himself, whenever pestered about the matter.

* [[Dead Little Sister]]: Hogrum Chalk has one with Elliah Fel. It may be part of the reason or reasons he betrayed Roan Fel.

* [[Deal with the Devil]]: {{spoiler|Roan Fel has Darth Maladi create the bio-weapon Omega Red (which is like Alpha Red, only much worse)so he can use this on Coruscant. In return, he has to promise her the head of Cade Skywalker. It comes back to bite him. Fel decides to use it on Coruscant regardless of collateral damage, and Antares Draco has to kill him to prevent that from happening.}}

* [[Deconstruction]]: Good Imperials, a jerkass Skywalker who refuses to be the hero or the villain, and The Jedi are arguably better off without him.

** Better yet, despite [[Star Wars]] having always been about "Light side vs Dark side", Legacy has MANY shades of Grey.

* [[Drunk on the Dark Side]]: Darth Krayt during the Massacre of the Mon Calamari Council.

* [[During the War]]: The '''Sith-Imperial War''' is what started this entire thing. We only see it in flashbacks.

** Maybe not so subverted, but just delayed: {{spoiler|While Darth Maladi takes some moves to possibly support Nihl against Wyyrlok, the true reckoning comes when Krayt himself returns. Even then, the two leaders, Krayt and Wyyrlok, soon face each other face to face with winner take all rather than tearing the Sith apart in a long struggle.}}

* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]: Marasiah Fel.

** Cade's complete disinterest in the usual Jedi versus Sith nonsense is best exemplified during this exchange, where a Force-user finally take the logical third route when confronted with this situation:

Cade: "Because YOU want me to!!" }}

* [[Evil Chancellor]]: Darth Wyyrlok, Nyna Calixte.

* [[Expy]]: Darth Azard is an unusual case of being an Expy of a character in the same series. He seems to be remake of the one-shot villain Darth Maleval who died after one issue.

* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: {{spoiler|Azlyn Rae becomes another Darth Vader}}.

* [[Fridge Logic]]: Cade Skywalker attempts to get the Sith off his back by trying to '''kill their emperor'''.

** He was hoping they'd be too busy infighting to care, too bad they don't call them the One Sith for nothing.

* [[Genre Savvy]]: Cade Skywalker points out that every time the Jedi help people, the galaxy just abandons them when they are needed in return.

** He also demonstrates this trope when he rejects Darth Krayt's typical offer of power - not taking the Dark Side temptation simply because "you want me to." At last, a Jedi who's realized that if any [[Big Bad]] wants anything of them down, you turn them down solely because they want you to do it, their intentions are always bad.

* [[Grand Finale]]: The six-issue miniseries ''Legacy: War''.

** Where [[Anyone Can Die]]. {{spoiler|Darth Wyyrlok, Sgt. Harkas, Moff Geist, presumably Anson Trask, Darth Rauder, Master T'ra Saa, Nat Skywalker, Andurgo, Sigel Dare, Morlish Veed, Darth Stryfe, Wolf Sazen, and in the final issue even Roan Fel and Krayt!}}

* [[Heel Realization]]: Cade Skywalker finally begins to reconsider his actions when {{spoiler|Luke Skywalker's ghost tells him that he is already nearly a Sith, and shows a vision of him, dressed in full Sith regalia, standing over the corpses of all his friends.}}

** Strengthened by the fact that Cade had MANY chances to turn back fully into the light up until his encounter with Luke's ghost on Tatooine. Realistically takes a lot to get through to a hardened Force-using death stick junkie.

* [[Hot Shounen Mom]]: Cade Skyalker seems to have one of these {{spoiler|In Morrigan Corde/Nyna Calixte}}.

** Jariah Syn gets to score with Cade's mother, {{spoiler|Morrigan Corde/Nyna Calixte}}. Hoo boy.

** Both fall apart when Veed takes on the position of Regent Emperor from Darth Wyyrlok out of greed and stops listening to Calixte as much, and Wyyrlok becomes boss himself and ends up more extreme than Krayt.

* [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him|If You Kill Me You Will Be Just Like The Sith]]: Moff Calixte uses this successfully on Roan Fel.

* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: Cade Skywalker's refrain. Nat {{spoiler|Skywalker}} actually succeeds in doing this and largely just blasts Cade for claiming he wants to be normal but using his Force powers whenever he feels like it.

* [[Informed Ability]]: Morlish Veed is a military genius. We never get to see this.

*** Agreed. Given how tight a leash Calixte tries to keep on him, and how Veed's promotions come over other people whose expertise we do see, this is probably the intent. Calixte even tells Veed to his face that if he ends up on the throne, she'll be running things from behind the scene, and he doesn't seem to grasp that he'd be a puppet.

* [[It Got Worse]]: 130 years after ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'' and all the hard-won accomplishments Luke, Leia, Han, Lando, the droids and all the other heroes of that era have come to nothing, as the galaxy is qualitatively just where it was at the beginning of ''[[A New Hope]]''.

* [[Karma Houdini]]: By the end of Legacy-War, {{spoiler|[[Dragon Ascendant|Darth Nihl]], [[Faking the Dead|Darth Talon]], [[You Killed My Father|Darth Havoc]], [[Heel Face Mole|Darth Maladi]], many other Sith, and [[The Mole|Hogrum Chalk]]}}.

* [[Kick the Dog]]: Darth Krayt seems to be a [[Designated Antagonist]] with his mainly menacing only Cade Skywalker and Imperials. Then he orders the wholesale genocide of all Mon Calamari.

* [[Large Ham]]: Darth Krayt announcing on '''interstellar television''' that he's going to exterminate an entire race after working them to death.

** And then cut down their Senator on the stage floor with the camera droids looking on. His subordinates slaughtered the rest of the room's members of the targeted race.

* [[Long Lost Sibling]]: Cade Skywalker and {{spoiler|Gunn Yage.}}

* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: {{spoiler|Nyna Calixte is the mother of both Cade Skywalker and Gunn Yage. Cade doesn't know the former}}

** Also, Vul Isen, who puts Maladi to shame in the mad department, though not so much the science department.

** And the Sith-aligned Yuuzhan Vong Shaper Xenoc Quad

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Darth Krayt is roughly the equivalent of "Darth Dragon" and is turning into a creature very much like it, {{spoiler|in addition to being the dominant predator on his home planet of Tatooine}}, and Darth Wyyrlok is an eldritch wizard.

** Darth Maladi spreads disease and maladies, Darth Talon strikes swiftly, Darth Kruhl is a brutal assassin.

** Which makes them the [[Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering]].

* [[The Political Officer]]: The Sith Lords fill a similar role in the Imperial Military, ensuring that Admirals and Generals do not defect and follow the will of Darth Krayt.

* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]: Hondo Karr, bordering on [[Warrior Poet]]

* [[Pet the Dog]]: Cade's [[Mercy Kill|Mercy Killing]] of Celeste; one of the very few times he's not a dick.

* [[Rasputinian Death]]: {{spoiler|Darth Krayt}} is fried by Force lightning, impaled on a lightsaber, tossed off a cliff, and finally fried by Force lightning ''again''.

** {{spoiler|And he ''still doesn't die!''}}

* [[Reassigned to Antarctica]]: Moff Nieve Gromia was reassigned to the Tatooine after a corruption scandal on Coruscant.

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: Roan Fel, leader of the Fel Empire and Gar Stazi, leader of the Galactic Alliance Remnant.

** Darth Reave

** Darth Yuln

* [[Religion of Evil]]: As mentioned elsewhere, the Sith are a bit better at teamwork now, but they're still one of the quintessential examples of this trope.

* [[The Remnant]]: The Galactic Alliance Remnant is a [[La Résistance|good version]] and slowly gaining ground again. Though forced to make morally ambiguous decisions for tactical reasons, they still embody the [[The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified]] trope.

** The Sith in the end.

* [[The Reveal]]: Darth Krayt is {{spoiler|Jedi Master A'Sharad Hett, a supporting character in the Clone Wars-era Expanded Universe and a friend of Anakin, Obi-Wan and other famous Jedi.}}

** {{spoiler|Not for much longer, if Wryylok has his way, it will soon be a [[Religion of Evil]] and [[Path of Inspiration]]}}

* [[Screw Destiny]]: Cade may as well be the embodiment of this trope, and he tries ''really'' hard to keep it that way, too.

* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: Cade Skywalker basically gets his one [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] when he says that he finds all of Darth Krayt's nerfshavit to be....well nerfshavit. Darth Wyyrlok also does this to an ancient Sith Lord.

** This troper would argue that Cade gets one more CMOA, by doing pretty much the exact same thing to the spirit of the ancient Sith Karness Muur before shattering his [[Artifact of Doom|talisman]].

* [[Smug Snake]]: Morlish Veed thinks he's a villainous mastermind. Unfortunately, he's pretty much clueless about everything.

* [[Stripperiffic]]: Darth Talon's costume is basically a leather bikini and opera gloves. Granted, not wearing much is apparently required when you're a female Twi'lek, though.

** During the late stages of the Second Imperial Civil War {{spoiler|Hogrum Chalk becomes this to Emperor Fel, apparently goading him into falling to the dark side so the Imperial Knights will be forced to kill him.}}

* [[Take a Third Option]]: Common like you wouldn't believe.

* [[Trojan Prisoner]]: Cade Skywalker in the Sith Temple.

** {{spoiler|Ganner Kreig and Shado Vao to aid Antares Draco's infiltration of the Korriban Sith Temple}}

* [[Undying Loyalty]]

* [[Unexplained Recovery]]: {{spoiler|Darth Krayt, with a little taste of [[My Death Is Just the Beginning]]}}

** Try Hogrum Chalk. He seems to work for Roan Fel, but he actually passes on secrets to Morlish Veed. He crafts the armour worn by the Imperial Knights. He revealed to Veed that Calixte works for Roan Fel. He constructed armour for Azlyn Rae that did not even need a helmet. He manipulated Roan Fel into having Omega Red made to be used to kill the Sith - {{spoiler|and this eventually resulted in Roan Fel's death}}. He delivered the eulogy at {{spoiler|Roan Fel's}} funeral. He announced the formation of {{spoiler|a Galactic Federation Triumvirate, led by Gar Stazi, Jedi Master K'Kruhk, and Empress Marasiah}}. He is close to his niece, Marasiah Fel. Why? Because she reminds him very much of his [[Dead Little Sister]], Elliah Fel. No one even knows that he betrayed Roan Fel, and his motivations for betraying Roan Fel have not been explained.

* [[Word of God]]: Legacy creators John Ostrander and Jan Duursema frequently communicate with the fans.

* [[You Keep Using That Word]]: The Triumvirate seems a touch large for its name. While it presumably refers to its three factions (Jedi, Alliance, and Imperial), the name itself implies only three leaders at a table that has many more.

* [[You Shall Not Pass]]: Kol Skywalker does this.

 

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