Star Wars: The Force Unleashed: Difference between revisions

* [[All Your Powers Combined]]: PROXY has the ability to use a hologram to transform into any Jedi he knows of, and is able to copy their lightsaber skills and even their Force powers.

* [[Always a Bigger Fish]]/[[Bait and Switch Boss]]: In the boss fight on Cato Neimoidia in the sequel. It looks like the clone Starkiller is about to face off against a Rancor - and then an even LARGER arm reaches out, grabs the Rancor and pulls it into a darkened opening. Out of that opening comes the ''real'' boss, the Gorog.

* [[And Your Reward Is Clothes]]: You get a bunch of different outfits to choose from right at the start with more being unlocked as you progress through the game.

** [[Unlimited Wardrobe]]: In the first game, Starkiller wears a different outfit every level.

* [[Bag of Spilling]]: Either [[Averted Trope|averted]] or [[Justified Trope|justified]] in the second game. It's averted if the player character is a clone, and therefore has yet to develop all of the original Starkiller's powers, and justified if the player is the original returned, and therefore still recovering from his death.

* [[Battle in The Rain]]: The [[Final Battle]] in the sequel.

* [[Beyond the Impossible]]: Carbonite is known for its ability to [[Power Nullifier|sever a Jedi's Force connection]]. However, Starkiller can still use the Force to break out of carbonite with ease.

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: Starkiller manages to save his friends, but he {{spoiler|dies while buying them time to escape.}}

* [[Coup De Grace Cutscene]]: The [[Quick Time Event|Quicktime Events]] at the end of boss battles.

* [[Cutscene Power to The Max]]: Finishing moves in boss fights. Come to think of it, this is actually the only way that he actually kills any bosses.

** Though {{spoiler|they only have one year in-story for Vader to escape custody, Leia to be chased down, and Starkiller, Juno, and Kota to mysteriously disappear}}, so III will more than make up for it - [http://gamerant.com/force-unleashed-3-canceled-lucasarts-silv-35107/ if there is a III].

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Starkiller goes into this territory sometimes, more obvious in the second game when another character is running Mission Control.

{{quote| '''Starkiller''': (after the lift stops) Do any elevators on this ship work?<br />

* [[Dramatic Space Drifting]]: Happens to Starkiller after being spaced at one point.

* [[Drowning My Sorrows]]: When Galen seeks out Kota for the Rebellion, he finds the Jedi in a bar on Cloud City, slightly tipsy.

* [[The Dulcinea Effect]]: Oh so much in the sequel though it isn't one-sided (at least not in the book where there is a lot more of Juno). Both Starkiller ''and'' Juno are fucking out of their minds in what they do to try and save each other even though their little flirtations in the first game didn't seem that serious.

** Although it sort of makes sense. When you consider that Juno is the first woman Galen's had any real, meaningful interaction with/hasn't killed, and is the first person who has ever really cared about him, it makes a lot of sense that he would do anything to keep her safe. As for Juno, Kota outright told her that she was Galen's tether to the Light Side. I'm guessing that is not something she takes lightly.

** There's also {{spoiler|Kota's warning to Starkiller that fighting the Empire is pointless and he'll eventually be killed or worse. He's exactly right, the two endings are a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] and a [[Fate Worse Than Death]]}}.

* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: The Dark Side ending in the first game has Starkiller {{spoiler|enslaved by the Emperor and being transformed into a cybernetic monstrosity very much like Vader.}}

** [[Big Bad|The Big Bad]]: Darth Vader

** [[The Dragon]]: Starkiller

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* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: Vader's plans for Starkiller end up this way. In the sequel, Starkiller can turn enemy attacks against them.

* [[Hot Amazon]]: {{spoiler|Leia in the Endor DLC.}} Sign me up for the rebellion!

* [[Our Giants Are Bigger]]: Force Unleashed II figures the only way to top a fight with a Rancor is to have Starkiller fight a beast big enough to ''crush a rancor in it's hand''. And he ''still'' beats it!

* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]: Galen, at least if the video game is any indication.

** Technically, Starkiller didn't ''pull'' one out of orbit but rather nudged it in another direction while it was already falling out of the sky (it was knocked loose when the cannon destroyed its platform). He was a powerful Force user at the peak of his prime, fueled by an adrenaline rush to stay alive since the ship was going to fall on him if he didn't do something. Yoda with Luke's ship, on the other hand, was very close to the end of his life, wasn't in a life threatening situation and probably hadn't used his Force powers like that in years.

** [[Word of God]] says that, canonically, Starkiller is THE most powerful Force user to have, thus far, entered the Star Wars universe. This is especially impressive when you read the Expanded Universe and see just how insane Luke gets.

* [[The Power of Love]]

{{quote| '''Juno''': They're fortifying all positions to try to keep you out.<br />

'''Starkiller''': Let them try... }}

* [[The Unfought]]: {{spoiler|Boba Fett from the second game.}}

** Perhaps justified since {{spoiler|Boba can already be fought in the first game during the Dark Side Tatooine DLC & the developers couldn't come up with a way to make the two fights different enough to warrant it.}}

* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: The amount of ways you can kill enemies in the game is ridiculous. ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' has a comic that [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/8/20/ provides a sample].

** [[Shout Out|Apparently the developers read that strip, because in the sequel, you get the "Poor Bob" achievement for Force Gripping a Stormtrooper, then stabbing, shocking and pushing him while in your grip.]]

{{quote| '''Starkiller''': You have lured the Emperor to us? When do we strike?<br />

'''Darth Vader''': {{spoiler|I did not summon him. [''ignites his lightsaber through Starkiller's back''] His spies followed you here.}} }}

** Not quite. {{spoiler|Notice that when he reveals himself, he has some kind of invisibility gadget or power? In the DS ending he shows himself because Vader is about to get killed. In the LS ending there's no reason for him to do so, but that doesn't mean he's not there. Invisible. Lurking.}}

* [[When All You Have Is a Hammer]]: Just use the Force & turn the hammer [[Up to Eleven]]. At least, that's Starkiller's reponse in the sequel when ''The Salvation'' has it's main cannon knocked offline.

* [[Womb Level]]: The Sarlacc pit.

* [[The Worf Effect]]: {{spoiler|Heroic, or at least protagonist, inversion - the second-to-last boss fight of the game is the ''original'' intergalactic [[Badass]], Darth Vader. The fight ends when Galen picks him up, bashes him all over the room with the Force, and throws him through a wall. This is the black-armored man that haunted kids' nightmares for ''decades'' we're talking about here, and Galen throws him around like a ragdoll!}}

* [[You Keep Using That Word]]: The word "destiny" seemed to be used by Darth Vader a whole hell of a lot but it was never consistent at all. Vader just seemed to use it when he wanted Starkiller to do something.

** This is [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] a couple times in the novelization for the second game, used to highlight just how insane Darth Vader really is.

** Inverted in the Ultimate Sith Edition where Starkiller tells Luke what happened to Vader.

 

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