Star Wars: The Old Republic: Difference between revisions

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The ''[[Star Wars]]'' MMORPG developed by [[BioWare]], set in roughly the same timeline as their ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'' [[RPG|RPGs]], approximately 3600 years before the films. Three hundred years after the events of ''KotOR 2'', the Sith Empire returned to the galaxy to attack the Republic and its Jedi guardians. After decades of fighting, a tenuous truce was established, but the events of the game look to be leading the two factions back to all out war.

The game boasts "immersive storytelling, dynamic combat, and groundbreaking companion characters". It was released on December 20, 2011 (Dec. 22 for some of Europe). During E3 2012, it was announced that players would be able play for free up to level 15.

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* [[Agony Beam]]: Sith Inquisitors can use their [[Shock and Awe|Force Lightning]] as this in their storyline, and use it to incapacitate foes with pain, while in combat.

* [[Affably Evil]]: Aside from the [[Player Characters]] being able to be like this, here's some of the more notable ones broken down by class.

** Jedi Knight:

*** Watcher One {{spoiler|on Taris}} and Lord Praven {{spoiler|on Tatooine}}. Watcher One is a [[My Country, Right or Wrong]] type who tries to stay out of the political machinations of the Sith if possible, and is so dedicated to the Empire that {{spoiler|he'll commit suicide rather than allow himself to be taken into custody. If granted mercy and dismissed, though, he'll defect and build a new life in the Republic..}}

*** Lord Praven, meanwhile, considers you a [[Worthy Opponent]], drawing you into a duel {{spoiler|in exchange for the deactivation code to a super-weapon.}} He is so unlike other Sith that {{spoiler|you're actually able to talk him into [[Heel Face Turn|defecting to the Jedi]], given the right conversation options.}} And according to his codex, after killing a famous Jedi duelist during the invasion of Coruscant, he [[Not Worth Killing|spared her Padawan]], telling her to challenge him after she'd honed her skills. She did - and the fact that Lord Praven is still around to challenge the Jedi Knight indicates how well the padawan fared in that duel.

** Sith Inquisitor:

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*** Darth Lachris: She's casually murderous, yet she genuinely enjoys your relationship (when a warrior) and you can even start a sexual relationship.

** Doctor Charnagus on Nar Shaddaa is an especially unsettling example. On the one hand, he's been {{spoiler|grafting parts of Republic soldiers onto Imperial agents so that the Empire can plant them as saboteurs}}, and he seems quite proud of the procedure he's using; nevertheless, he greets the Republic PC politely, reasoning that it's "only fair" that the PC want to rescue the abducted Republic Captain who's currently on his operating table. He helpfully wakes the Captain up to tell him that he's been rescued: "Isn't that wonderful?"

* [[Alien Arts Are Appreciated]]: One of the category of companion gifts are labeled 'cultural artifacts', which are generally works of art created by alien species around the galaxy.

* [[All There in the Manual]]: You ''can'' enjoy the game just fine without reading/watching anything else, and the in-game codex helps a lot too. However, between the online Holonet, the comics, [[Revan|the novel]], and all the [[Continuity Nod|ContinuityNods]] to the [[Knights of the Old Republic|previous two games]] and the whole [[Star Wars]] [[The Verse|universe]]... let's just say that there's ''a lot'' of stuff for fans to enjoy in there.

* [[Always Chaotic Evil]]: The [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Gormak Gormak].

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* [[Badass Boast]]: It seems that everything that comes out of the Bounty Hunter's mouth is either this, or him asking for pay.

* [[Badass Longcoat]]: A common look for Imperial Agents and Smugglers.

* [[Badass Normal]]: Anyone who isn't a Jedi or a Sith, as usual, but the Trooper in particular is looking like this.

** Jace Malcom, who leads a daring raid on invading Sith forces on Alderaan. He starts with massive destruction via his [[BFG]]. When that starts to get boring, he goes after the local Sith Lord. When Malgus deflects the rockets, he charges him, steam-rolling through two ''Sith Warriors'' in the process. When he's finally stopped by Force Lightning, he pulls out ''a freakin' knife'' before getting blasted away. {{spoiler|Cue an awesome Jedi, whooping up. And, what does this man do when the same Sith tries to impale the saving Jedi? He ''bum rushes'' the guy and, whilst they grapple, sets off ''a FREAKIN' GRENADE''. Oh, and ''survives''. Talk about BAD '' !@#$%^&*''!}}

*** If you watch during the battle, you can see other troopers taking on Sith ''with their bare hands.'' '''And winning!'''

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*** Nico Okarr, the spotlight stealing smuggler of ''Return'', is definitely one, complete with [[Guns Akimbo]] and an [[Unflinching Walk]]. And a [[Badass Longcoat]] to boot!

* [[Bait and Switch Boss]]: The second boss of the Mandalorian Raiders Flashpoint looks like it's going to be a group of elite Mandalorians. However, these Mandalorians immediately get killed by a boarding party from your opposing faction, who serve as the real boss.

* [[Bald of Evil]]: Darth Malgus, who features in the "Hope", "Deceived", and "Return" trailers.

** [http://www.swtor.com/info/holonet/biographies/kaliyo-djannis Kaliyo Djannis]

** All Rattataki appear to be bald, and are only available to Imperial players.

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* [[Bald Women]]: As stated above, Kaliyo.

* [[Barehanded Blade Block]]: In the 2010 trailer, {{spoiler|Satele Shan does it with a lightsaber!}}

* [[Battle Couple]]: Malgus and Eleena Daru.

** Since each of the eight player classes get's their own set of combat-effective companions, and every class has romance options...

* [[Being Evil Sucks]] / [[Being Good Sucks]]: There being a war going aside, being a force user on either side isn't good for your love life. The Jedi being attached to something can lead to the Dark Side, which is true but still sucks, while the Sith consider love to be a weakness and since they're always trying to off each other, it makes it a very dangerous thing to start a family if one their side. The Sith power struggles mean that despite [[Evil Is Cool]], [[Being Evil Sucks]] for the side as a whole since it can getting caught in their power struggles.

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* [[Bounty Hunter]]: One of the Sith aligned classes available to the player as the Empire has employed a large number of the mercs to bolster their ranks. Complete with a jetpack and a flamethrower!

* [[Came Back Wrong]]: {{spoiler|Revan}}, upon escaping from the Emperor, enacts a plan that will wipe out anyone with any trace of Sith blood. This translates to 97% of the Imperial population, according to {{spoiler|HK-47}}.

* [[Cargo Envy]]: Satele Shan and her double bladed lightsaber. Made more poignant by the fact the image is not only on the DVD case, but on the game's initial loading screen.

* [[Call Back]]: The game has these in spades.

** There's Satele Shan, descendant of Bastila Shan {{spoiler|and Revan}}.

** Various groups met in quests follow groups directly affected by KotOR's characters: The Revanites, Sith citizens who worship Revan; The Preservers, Mandalorians follow the ways of Mandalore the Preserver {{spoiler|aka Canderous Ordo}} and support the Republic.

** The Smuggler's starship design is suspiciously like the Ebon Hawk's.

*** It also looks extremely similar to the Millenium Falcon.

*** Specifically, it looks like what you'd get if the two ships had a kid.

** {{spoiler|Revan, The Exile and the original HK-47 are featured in quests.}}

** The Jedi Consular's storyline involves meetings with a number of Jedi Masters from the Knights of The Old Republic series, {{spoiler|including Bastilla Shan herself!}}

* [[Call Forward]]:

** [http://www.torhead.com/mission/dJRF2Ek#areas "The Killiks, an sentient insect-like race native to Alderaan,] [[Dark Nest Trilogy|have been infesting House Thul"]]

* [[The Chessmaster]]: The Sith Emperor.

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* [[The Chosen One]]: The Jedi Knight is the Jedi [[Revan|Lord Scourge saw killing the Emperor.]]

* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: This is the short, and the long description, of society within the [[The Empire|Sith Empire]].

* [[Co-Dragons]]: At the end of their storylines, the Sith Warrior and the Sith Inquisitor both elevate to such positions that the Emperor is the only real authority over them.

* [[Colony Drop]]: Hammer Station is a space station that shoots asteroids at planets.

* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: Players get a lot of opportunities for this in the [[State Sec|Imperial Agent]] and [[Agony Beam|Sith Inquisitor]] storylines.

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*** For instance, Risha the Smuggler's companion actually is a [[Childhood Friend]] of Vette. The latter actually being rescued by the former's father from slavery.

*** One talk with Qyzen Fess, companion to the Jedi Consular, reveals that he used to work with a bounty hunter named Braden. Braden being the Bounty Hunter's mentor.

*** Doc, companion of the Jedi Knight, had a one-time fling with {{spoiler|Kaliyo, the Imperial Agent's companion. Doc's big-name-doctor ambitions are thwarted when the Bounty Hunter kills Nem'ro the Hutt before Doc's treatment of his rare wasting disease can be independently verified.}}

*** General Rakton, the main enemy of the third act of the Republic Trooper actually is mentioned by Liteunant Pierce, the Sith Warrior companion, who is sent on a mission with his old squad to take on the Bastion.

*** All Darths actually are present on the Dark Council room. Darth Maar, from instance, that is the narrator of the Voidstar Warzone throw many lines in all classes that go inside the room.

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* [[Conservation of Ninjutsu]]: The enemy strength ranking system was made with this trope in mind, weak enemies come in packs of 3-5 and die quickly, making your character feel strong by comparison, while strong and up can go one-on-one with the player and give them a good fight.

* [[Cool Shades]]: Cyborg Imperial Agents have quite a few options that make their cybernetics look less like implants, and more like shades that they never take off.

* [[Cool Ship]]: You get your own, complete with crew. [http://www.swtor.com/info/holonet/starships/x-70b-phantom The X-70 Phantom], which is assigned to Imperial Agents, in particular.

** Smugglers, fittingly, ''start'' with one, which is promptly stolen.

* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]: The Separatist's [[Elaborate Underground Base]], on Ord Mantell.

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* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: The Emperor. {{spoiler|He has visions that the Jedi Knight will be the one to stop him and defeat him. So he possesses the Hero's friend and attacks them while they are weak. And if Kira hadn't snapped out he might have pulled it}}

* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Might be too early to tell for certain sure, but this Sith Empire are not your grandad's villains. Darth Malgus is a loving husband who cares about his men and the civilians of the Empire, the troopers follow their leaders out of respect and not fear<ref>Well, ''usually'', anyway, and gameplay vids showcase that you'll be able to ''influence'' how true this is.</ref>and the Empire itself is a meritocracy done right (usually)<ref>Related to [[The Starscream]], the Bounty-Hunter's quest on Balmorra consists of {{spoiler|an Imperial commander trying to undermine his superior and look better to the overseer of the base, and hiring the BH to do the dirty work for him. This [[Hoist by His Own Petard|comes back to bite him in the !@#$%^&*]]</ref>, as the overseer [[Genre Savvy|had been paying attention]] and orders the execution of the backstabber.}}.

** It is worth noting that Malgus is a reformist and deeply hated in some Sith circles for his radical views. The only reason he's not directly targeted is his lack of a political power base and the fact he has no desire to get involved in the backstabbing politics of the Empire. So whilst the Empire has members who aren't simply in it [[For the Evulz]], the darker aspects still very much remain.

** The devs have said that for this MMO, it's entirely possible to play as a Light-side Sith, meaning your own character could be an example of this trope.

** Later history trailers have even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] the idea that, logically, the Sith should have a [[0% Approval Rating]] among the citizenry but doesn't; the promotional material and developers suggest that the entire concept of "[[The Empire]]" is going to be deconstructed to a degree in the game.

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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Most classes can get some snarking in, but the Smuggler is the king. A Smuggler's companions are also pretty darn snarky.

** A case could be made for the Inquisitor as well. Definitely very strong in the snark side of the force.

* [[Death From Above]]:

** In the ''Deceived'' trailer we see the Sith fleet sacking Coruscant. [[Kill It with Fire|They burn stuff.]] A later trailer also revealed that the Bounty Hunter class has ''an ability'' named this that, well, allows them to get airborne and rain AOE fire down on the enemy.

** In the [[Player Versus Player]] [[Big Badass Battle Sequence|battle sequence]] on Ilum, players can call down air strikes, and there is at least one large artillery piece present.

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** To say nothing of the myriad kinds of actual weird ammunition the gun-oriented classes can fling around. For starters, the Bounty Hunter has a missile that ''[[Healing Shiv|heals people]]''.

* [[Deployable Cover]]: Usable by Smugglers and Imperial Agents. Besides [[Take Cover|the obvious]], this is notable for granting them access several of their abilities (like [[More Dakka|Barrage]]), since they can only be activated while in cover.

* [[Determinator]]: On the Republic side we have Jace Malcom at the "Battle Of Alderaan". Fighting his way through Force Lightning to try and stab a Sith Lord is something else.Never mind nearly killing yourself just to take him down. Then again, considering that he's voiced by [[Knights of the Old Republic|Jolee Bindo]], are you shocked? And for the Empire we have Lord Malgus. He shakes off a rocket and a grenade to the face before being blasted into a mountain with the force and he ''survives''.

** {{spoiler|Revan is still alive, after being tortured by the Emperor mentally for three hundred years.}}

* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Dark side sith players may choose to decide that [[All Crimes Are Equal]] and kill all offenders equally regardless of the actual crime commited - [[For the Evulz|if any at all.]]

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** In the final cinematic trailer, one of the Jedi manages to dual-wield with one single-bladed lightsaber plus a double-bladed one.

* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: Sel Makor

* [[Elaborate Underground Base]]: The separatists on Ord Mantell have a ''very'' large one, [[Convection, Schmonvection|complete with the usual heating system]]. It is so large in fact, that Smuggler and Trooper players find it much easier to jump off a bridge and get resuscitated, to save time on the way out.

* [[Elite Mooks]]: Both sides have soldiers that are a force to be reckoned with, able to defeat Jedi and Sith.

** Republic Trooper [[Player Characters]] start out as this (from the Imperial perspective). It [[Elites Are More Glamorous|helps that they're members]] of an Elite Special Forces team, [[The Squad|Havoc Squad]].

* [[Elites Are More Glamorous]]: Anyone who plays as a Republic Trooper will be a member, not only of The Republic's Special Forces, but the ''best'' of their special forces: [[The Squad|Havoc Squad]].

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** On the other side the Imperials call members of the Republic Pubs.

* [[Fantasy Axis of Evil]]:

** Savage: [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|The Mandalorian Clans]], working for the Empire

** Eldritch: Multiple instances of [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]

** Humanoid: The Imperial military, and other [[Punch Clock Villain|willing Imperial Citizens]]

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** Crafty: The [[Hidden Elf Village|Chiss Ascendancy]], allied with the Empire

* [[Fat Bastard]]: A number of Imperials using the fat male model, but Lord Paladius most likely takes the cake (and eats it too). {{spoiler|he uses his cult on Nar Shaddaa and doesn't really give a !@#$%^&* about the people he's suckered into it. Then he tricks the Sith Inquisitor into coming to see him, and then tries to drain the Inquisitor's life energy and cut them off from the Force itself. It's a shame doing none of that actually saves him, though.}} And of course, the player character themselves, should they decide to use that model and go evil.

** And need we forget everybody's favorite evil, cheesy, butterball, Darth Baras? Videos of him squirming mad over failing to break a Republic spy is literally a meme in the net.

* [[Fighting a Shadow]]: {{spoiler|A letter the Sith Warrior receives at the end of their class quest reveals that the final boss of the Jedi Knight Class Quest was the Emperor's Voice and not the Emperor himself. However, the death of the Voice seems to have put the Emperor out of commission for a while, so the Knight's struggles were not meaningless.}}

* [[Fighting For a Homeland]]: One of the reasons the Empire is warring with the Republic is to regain former Sith territory from before The Great Hyperspace War.

* [[Five-Man Band]] / [[Five-Bad Band]]: Most classes and their assorted crews fall into this pattern

** '''Smuggler'''

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*** [[The Sixth Ranger]]: Akaavi

** '''Sith Inquisitor'''

*** [[The Big Bad]]: The Inquisitor

*** [[The Dragon]]: Andronikos

*** [[The Evil Genius]]: Talos

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*** [[The Dark Chick]]: Vette

*** [[The Sixth Ranger]]: Broonmark

* [[Flat Earth Atheist]]: All the non-Force-sensitive classes have the option to express the view that they don't believe the Force to actually exist, and that the Jedi and Sith are nothing but wacky fringe cultists. But unlike [[A New Hope|Han Solo]], they live in a historical period with literally thousands of active Force-users running around the galaxy, visibly using their powers every day.

** The Imperial Agent deserves special mention since he/she can express this view... [[Too Dumb to Live|in front of Darth Jadus and the entire Dark Council!]]

* [[Foe Yay]]: In the Imperial Agent ending {{spoiler|it is revealed Hunter was a woman all along and had fallen in love with the male Agent. You can also return those feelings.}}

* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: "Historically" speaking, we ''know'' that the Republic is going to win, and that the Sith are going to collapse back into a wholly [[Complete Monster|complete monstrosity]] and become minor players again for several centuries, or else the trilogies as we know them would never have happened.

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* [[For the Evulz]]: Averted by this iteration of the Sith who are not solely interested in carrying an [[Idiot Ball]].

** That won't stop ''players'' from killing and stealing whenever they get the option to!

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekaXiQEpkCg&feature=related As this video demonstrates], a vicious Sith player can do evil things to innocent people for absolutely no reason what so ever other then sheer sadism.

* [[Fast Roping]]: Used to get NPC Republic Troopers onto a landing pad, during one Ord Mantell mission. Also, in many fights, enemies will do this from seemingly nowhere mid-battle, a mechanic that should [[Demonic Spiders|seem familiar]] to ''[[Dragon Age II]]'' players.

* [[Full Set Bonus]]: Used extensively.

* [[Fountain of Expies]]: Each class is specifically modeled off a popular [[Star Wars]] character. Want to be Luke Skywalker? Play a Jedi Knight. Want to be Han Solo? Play a smuggler. Want to be Boba Fett? Play a bounty hunter. Each class was specifically inspired by a character or set of characters in the films, and much of the artwork and designs are evocative of them. (the Bounty Hunter and Trooper design, for example). The Dark Side Jedi Knight on the other hand very nearly quotes some of Anakin's lines.

*** This is perhaps most evident in the Sith classes: the Juggernaut is based on [[Star Wars|Darth Vader]], the Marauder on [[Star Wars: Clone Wars|Asajj Ventress]], the Sorcerer on [[Return of the Jedi|Emperor Palpatine]], and the Assassin on [[The Phantom Menace|Darth Maul]].

** There are many subtle ones, too. For example: The Sith Inquisitor class is partially based on Darth Maul, and how do they regenerate in-between combat? By pacing back and forth menacingly, like [[The Phantom Menace|Darth Maul did while Qui-Gon was meditating]]!

*** And how does the Jedi Knight regenerate? [[The Phantom Menace|By meditating]].

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** This isn't just the classes; Companion characters are designed to channel Star Wars Tropes like the [[The Big Guy|Big Aliens]] and [[Robot Buddy|Protocol and Astromech Droids]],. Non-player characters also channel Star Wars characters; Satele Shan, for instance, acts as a cross between Mon Mothma, Leia, and Yoda. Grand Moff Kilran is clearly inspired by Tarkin, even channeling some of his lines. Darth Malgus also has elements of Darth Vader in him. Even the ships all channel starships from the movies! And then we get to the non-Star Wars examples...

** Anyone who sees the colicoid mutants of Balmorra is instantly reminded of [[Starcraft|the zerg.]]

** [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Crix_Madine Commander Madine on Balmorra is the leader of a Republic offensive determined to liberate Balmorra from Imperial occupation.]

* [[From Nobody to Nightmare]]: The origin story of the Sith Inquisitor is that they start out as a captured slave whom the Sith have discovered some Force Sensitivity.

* [[Funny Background Event]]: During the wrap-up of Act 1 for the smuggler, he gets the oportunity to make a joking comment that he was going to use the fortune they found to hire an army of Wookies. In the background, Corso can be seen walking by the hatchway and stumbles at those words, apparently having been listening in and thinking he's gonna be replaced by Bowdarr and his wookie army.

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* [[Grand Theft Me]]: {{spoiler|The Sith Inquisitor storyline features Lord Zash attempting this on the player character as she is hundreds of years old and in desperate need of a replacement body. The player turns out to have been chosen and groomed for this purpose alone but she gets [[Hoist By Their Own Petard|trapped by her own scheme]] when Khem Val interposes himself during the mind transfer ritual and [[Gone Horribly Right|she gets stuck in the monstrous humanoid's body instead.]] Of course, [[Thanatos Gambit|she had ''another'' vision seeing that you would kill her and bring new life to the Sith.]] She probably didn't see getting trapped in Khem Val coming, though.}}

* [[Gray and Gray Morality]]: Interestingly enough, morality isn't decided by faction so it is entirely possible to be a [[Light Is Not Good|dark-sided Jedi fighting for the Republic]] and a [[Dark Is Not Evil|light-sided Sith fighting for The Empire]].

** An even better example goes to the Ord Mantell Civil War. On one hand, you have a corrupt, oppressive government that remained loyal to the Republic. On the other hand, you have a guerrilla force of separatists that want to secede, backed by the Sith.

** The two factions themselves are morally grey as well, as both are itching to make the cold war hot, and are constructing planet-destroying superweapons to boot.

* [[Green-Skinned Space Babe]]: Both sides have Twi'lek as character race option, the Republic side has the Mirialans, as well as other races that can have green skin. Being an MMO, female character models tend to be babalicious. Babes also available in blue, pink, grey, and many other colors.

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* [[Helmets Are Hardly Heroic]]: Jace Malcom doesn't wear a helmet. As noted above, he's one of the most badass characters shown.

** Also, there is the option of making your headgear invisible.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]:

** Heavily implied to be the fate of Revan and the Exile when they returned to the Unknown Regions to try and confront the True Sith Empire 300 years prior.

** [[Determinator|Belth Allusis]] destroyed an invasion force of 40,000 Sith with a tenth of the number, at the cost of their lives, an act which would galvanize the Republic and act as a turning point in the Great Galactic War.

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** In a side quest on Dromund Kaas, some Sith are subjecting random Imperial citizens to this. {{spoiler|Light side players can turn the tables on them and trick them into hunting other Sith, geting them executed.}}

*** {{spoiler|Dark side players can shut up the man who originally tipped you off to this hunt so the bounty hunter can stop being harassed. It is done by tagging the man so ''he'' will be the next sith hunt target.}}

* [[I Call ~~Her~~ "Vera"]]: The Smuggler's first companion, Corso Riggs, is a local merc who names ''all'' of his weapons. His main motivation for joining up with you is to get revenge on the same guy who stole your ship - for stealing his favorite blaster. Which he calls Torchy.

* [[I Call It "Vera"]]: The Smuggler's first companion, Corso Riggs, is a local merc who names ''all'' of his weapons. His main motivation for joining up with you is to get revenge on the same guy who stole your ship - for stealing his favorite blaster. Which he calls Torchy.

** Andronikos Revel, one of the Sith Inquisitors companions, averts this, noting that ''It's not a good idea to get attached to a weapon'' when you ask him if he names his blasters.

* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]:

** Khem Val, companion to the Sith Inquisitor class, has devoured over 1000 Jedi in his life.

** Seh-run on Korriban. When you find the beast master who used to feed him, it's revealed he used to give him dark-side infused blood and bones from dead sith acolytes. Players have the dark side option to feed him more of it, giving him enough strength that he will be able to [[Horror Hunger|hunt more acolytes on his own.]]

** The Sith Warrior may threaten to eat the corpses of a handful of thugs at one point. A follow up dialog choice is to tell them that you are not joking.

* [[Immortality Immorality]]: The Sith Emperor gained his Immortality by draining all life out of his home planet.

* [[Indian Burial Ground]]: The research facility that Czerka abandoned on Tatooine was built over a Sandpeople holy burial ground. Players will discover [[Sealed Evil in a Can|why it was abandoned.]]

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* [[Item Crafting]]: What's special about TOR's crafting, is that you can task multiple companions with collecting resources and/or producing items, at the same time, even while you are off-line. This is shown in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF1ThPQeUcY a trailer], with a player [[Crowning Moment of Funny|turning off the lights in the room where his companions are working]].

* [[It's Up to You]]: Abundantly [[Lampshaded]]; the one thing that all classes share is a reputation among NPC's for being the one who succeeds when everything else has failed.

* [[Jerkass]]: Many npc/questgiver on both sides but Harkun(the beginner overseer for Sith Inquisitor) takes this [[Up to Eleven]]...

** And the Player character too of course if you choose to.

* [[Jedi Mind Trick]]: It's a [[Star Wars]] game, this is being included, it's tradition.

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** Officer Sakoal tasks you to tracing a republic spy who has stolen vital data disks with the help of his traitor wife. {{spoiler|But upon finding them, it's rapidly evident that the man is just a [[Casanova Wannabe]] who steals anything he can grab after having sex with his conquests while Sakoal's wife was just suffering from loneliness because Sakoal worked at his lab so much. You can still murder both in cold blood, but even players who go [[For the Evulz]] will have a hard time pressing that dark side dialogue choice to kill the sobbing, pleading innocent woman. Oh, and you can also tattle on Sakoal himself when collecting your reward from your contact for the total heartless !@#$%^&* trifecta.}}

** On Hutta for Agents and Bounty Hunters, there is a quest where {{spoiler|a woman wants to send her son to Korriban to train as a Sith, but her husband has run off with the kid knowing what would happen to him. When you're sent to get the child for the woman, the Dark Side option is to ''shoot and kill the guy in front of his own son''. What the hell.}}

** In the Sith Warrior's storyline, during your hunt for Jaesa Willsaam, an Alderaanian general working for the House of Organa have information that you need. However, she refuse to tell you anything unless you help her turn the tide of a battle under her command. Instead of doing that, you have the option to threaten to kill her officers one at a time until she talks. She calmly replies that they are soldiers that knew the risk when they signed up and still refuse to talk. However, as soon as you start force choking an officer, the general (who according to her codex entry, is famous for being a [[The Stoic|cold, calculating military commander]]) immediately cracked, reveling that the officer you are chocking is her lover and give you the information that you want, [[Not So Stoic|all the while on her knees weeping and begging you to spare him]]. The two dark-sided options you have is kill either one of the two lovers, [[For the Evulz|even though she had already given you what you wanted and there is no benefit for you to do so]].

* [[Kill'Em All]]: {{spoiler|Revan's}} plan for the Empire.

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** Played straight in the tie-in comics with Jedi Master Dar'Nala, who {{spoiler|plots the assassination of some Senators supporting the Treaty of Coruscant. And also hates the Sith, which ironically, causes her to slip into the Dark Side}}.

** The Republic [http://www.swtor.com/info/holonet/biographies/general-garza General Garza] certainly qualifies.

* [[La Résistance]]: The separatist movement on Ord Mantell is seeking to overthrow the corrupt planetary government backed by the Republic. And there is an armed resistance on Balmorra fighting a guerrilla campaign against the Imperial occupation with Republic support.

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: The [[Twenty Bear Asses]] trope is lampshaded heavily in a quest on Dromund Kass - when you turn in the parts, the administrator in the office gets fairly upset over the stench.

* [[Large Ham]]: The Sith Inquisitor class.

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* [[Lost Forever]]: As can be read in the blurb for the game, it was [[What Could Have Been|originally possible]] to get into situations like having your companion betray you, then [[Killed Off for Real|needing to kill them]]. But this [[Averted Trope|was removed]].

{{quote|'''[[Word of God|Daniel Erickson]]''': ''...we're not killing off any of the companions because everybody did. And then everybody cried. We saw it again and again and again and again in testing. People test as they're playing the system and they go... '[[Tempting Fate|I wonder if they're going to let me do this.]] [[Oh Crap|Oh no! My healer is gone forever!]]' ''}}

* [[Lowered Recruiting Standards]]: The Sith Warrior's initial quest giver comments that this policy was instated within the Sith Academy. In an inversion, your character is one of the elite who is there legitimately, while The Rival is one whose presence owes itself to the Lowered Standards.

** This also results in the Sith Inquisitor, along with several other initiates, being pulled out of slave populations to be trained. In that case your Rival is one of the elite who was brought in to make sure one of the old bloodlines gets the position and is being given unfair advantages by the trainer in a mirror of the Warrior story.

* [[Machine Worship]]: At least one of the workers maintaining the Works that power and maintain the [[City Planet]] Coruscant holds this view. Considering how ''long'' the planet has been like that, with buildings built on top of earlier buildings, it's not too surprising that he considers people "mere mortals," in comparison.

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* [[Nice Hat]]: While most hats are...not that nice, Smugglers get quite a few that are.

* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]: Imperial characters save 98% of the Imperial population from being wiped out by {{spoiler|Revan.}}

* [[Noble Demon]]: Light-sided Imperial characters are in most cases a bunch of [[Punch Clock Villain|Punch Clock Villains]] that want to protect their country or to slowly reform the Empire from within.

* [[No Blood for Phlebotinum]]: The Republic and Empire fight over the [[Power Crystal|Power Crystals]] needed to construct their [[Laser Sword|Laser Swords]], on [[Slippy-Slidey Ice World|Illum]]. And by fight, we [http://www.swtor.com/media/trailers/signs-war mean] [[Big Badass Battle Sequence|with armies.]]

* [[No Fair Cheating]]: During play-testing, many matches of [[PvP|Huttball]] [http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=8648702#edit8648702 descended into] hogging and turtling around the ball. So, the ball is [[Explosive Stupidity|made of uranium]], [[Blood Sport|and if the Hutt spectators]] [[Comedic Sociopathy|get too bored]]...

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'''Smuggler [[Player Character]]''': ''I want to laugh at how ridiculous you look.'' }}

* [[Not So Different]]: Jedi and Sith.

** In broader terms, the Republic and the Empire are this. The space missions for each side are identical, both factions make heavy use of hired guns (smugglers and bounty hunters, respectively), and both are plagued with bureaucratic power struggles making it impossible to get anything done without the player character's help.

* [[Novelization]]: ''Fatal Alliance'', ''Deceived'', and ''Revan'' later in 2011.

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: During the Great Hunt when you and another Bounty Hunter are going after the same target, the other BH uses this to get close to the target. Revealing their identity could be a spoiler for anybody currently playing the game, so the BH in question is {{spoiler|Murghir, on Balmorra.}}

* [[Obvious Beta]]: The game's actually a lot less buggy then say, [[World of Warcraft]] was at launch. Still, it's pretty obvious Bioware thought of the endgame last--many zones are still incomplete.

** Some of the patches they released could've used some time on whetstone. Example: as of 1.1.3, using mouse button 5 on any icon caused the game to crash. Quickly fixed as of 1.1.3a, but you'd think they'd have caught something that nasty during testing...

* [[Oh Crap]]: Malgus gets one a split second before the soldier he's grappling with sets off a grenade at point blank range.

* [[Older Than He Looks]]: [http://www.swtor.com/info/holonet/biographies/t7-o1 T7-01] is several ''centuries'' old, and has never been memory wiped.

* [[Omnicidal Neutral]]: {{spoiler|The Star Cabal seeks to manipulate the Republic, the Empire, the Jedi and the Sith into destroying each other so that the Cabal's leaders can rule what remains of the galaxy and end all future wars.}}

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* [[Our Zombies Are Different]]: Rakghouls.

* [[Penal Colony]]: Belsavis.

* [[Pet the Dog]]: Light-sided Imperial characters will have lots of opportunity to do good things on behalf of the Empire.

* [[Planetville]]: Coruscant is the most obvious example.

** There are a number of planets that you can only visit in flashpoints, making them more like this then the main planets, because the main planets actually do have different locations.

* [[Pistol-Whipping]]: What Smugglers do, before they shoot someone execution style. Troopers also have the Stock Strike ability.

* {{spoiler|[[Previous Player Character Cameo]]: Both [[Knights of the Old Republic|Revan and the Exile]] appear.}}

* [[Putting on the Reich]]: Just like Palpatine's Galactic Empire from the [[Star Wars|original movies]], the Sith Empire shares a lot in common with the Nazis. Including their grey and black uniforms, the crimson flag, [[State Sec|a powerful secret police force]] {{spoiler|that got purged}}, widespread racism against all not pure blood Sith and humans, and that their aim for starting the war in the fist place was to regain historical Sith territory that they lost at the end of the The Great Hyperspace War ([[World War II|Lebensraum]]). {{spoiler|The Empire even run a mass extermination camp for Evociis on Nar Shaddaa to gain favor with the Hutts. In the camp you will find lots of bodies and bones piled on top of each other that was clearly suppose to be reminiscent of the Holocaust.}}

* [[Pointy-Haired Boss]]: Some Imperial Intelligence missions result from the nominally superior Sith screwing up. For example, right at the start, you are sent to curry favour with a hutt's lieutenant so he influences his master to ally with the Sith. You manage to do it, the guy thinks [[Becoming the Mask|(?)]] you're his best friend and asks you to meet his family. Cue Keeper calling you and telling you that oops, some pointy-haired Sith {{spoiler|just murdered the man's sons, so... change of plans, you are to kill the lieutenant, "avenge" his death and "find" evidence that shows how the rival hutt already allied with the Republic. Although it'd be a stretch to call the Imperial Agent a ''cutie'', it's still the first time in the campaign [[Break the Cutie|you're expected to kill a largely sympathetic guy.]]}}

** Light Sided Agents can turn this into a borderline CMoH though. {{spoiler|You get the option let the guy go, faking his death, telling him (truthfully) that one son did survive and giving a hint of where he is. Later, you get a letter from Keeper saying that somebody mysteriously rescued the surviving son, and hints that he knows full well who did it. His reaction is more [[Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids]] than true disapproval.}}

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* [[Politically-Correct History]]: In the Republic Taris is remembered as a prosperous city world that was destroyed by a Sith Lord. The fact that it was a xenophobic segregated shithole mostly dominated by organized crime is almost completely forgotten.

* [[Politically-Incorrect Villain]]: The Sith Empire is extremely racist and considers humans to be superior to all alien species, even those that can be considered more Near Human than alien. Those of partial Sith descent are treated like nobility, partially due to their inherent Force sensitivity.

* [[Pragmatic Villainy]]: Often taking the lightside path will lead to better results, or the darkside path is pointless and counterproductive to your goals. Players who wish to be fully darkside will have to grasp the [[Villain Ball]] tightly.

* [[Prestige Class]]: Every class chooses between two Advanced Specializations around level 10. Each one opens up two unique skill trees, and one that's shared between the pair.

* [["Previously On..."]]: The [[Loading Screen|Loading Screens]] are utilized [http://torwars.com/2011/09/19/torwars-interview-swtors-damion-schubert-reveals-new-game-details/ to] catch the player up on their personal storyline, in case they haven't played that character recently, or just got absorbed in the game's [[Rail Shooter|other]] [[Player Versus Player|time consuming]] [[Item Crafting|features]].

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* [[Relationship Values]]: All of the game's companions (at least [[Loads and Loads of Characters|five for each class]]) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWXODqFo3Z0 have] these. The relationship can be affected through dialogue, and with gifts.

{{quote|'''[[Word of God|Daniel Erickson]]''': "So you can actually say, ''Oh yeah, sorry I two timed you with that other person. But look! Presents!''"}}

* [[Rooting for the Empire]]: Although the game presents the possibility of good and evil characters in both factions, there is still a group of people on the official forums that believe the Sith to be better than the Jedi because they believe the Jedi to be too [[Emotions vs. Stoicism|strict]] and [[Knight Templar|hypocritical]], even though the same could be said about the Sith. This has lead to debates about the Light Side and the Dark Side that are treated like [[Serious Business|serious philosophical arguments]].

** The novel "Fatal Alliance" revealed one truth about the Sith of this era. As some know, the Jedi policy of taking children from their families for training was controversial both in-universe and in fandom. Well, the Sith of this era do the same. Such Sith basically lose their claim of being the way of "free" Force-users and aren't better than the Jedi Order in restricting every born Force-sensitive. Except it's lethal.

** Of course, there are many people who root for the empire for completely unrelated reasons, [[Invoked Trope|like]] [[Evil Is Cool|evil being cool]], [[Spikes of Villainy|their]] [[Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains|various]] [[Power Crystal|fashions]], sexy [[Evil Brit]] accents, the [[Comedic Sociopathy|pleasure]] of getting to wield [[Agony Beam|Force Lightning]] both [[Shock and Awe|inside]] and [[Electric Torture|outside]] of combat, because all of their class story-lines [[Playing with a Trope|play with]] or [[Subverted Trope|Subvert]] [[The Hero]] archetype that RPG's always force players into, and just because they like the Imperial companions. [http://empowerednews.net/star-wars-the-old-republic-swtor-guilds-filling-up-fast/1814921/ More] Imperial than Republic guilds are registered for a reason...

*** There's also the fact that one can play a [[Dark Is Not Evil|light-side Imperial or Sith]], which many find more interesting than playing a good guy who belongs to the faction where you'd expect to find them.

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* [[Sadistic Choice]]: The ending of Act I for the Imperial Agent, where you have to choose between {{spoiler|stopping a terrorist attack and letting the terrorist go free, or arresting the one behind the attack after letting the terrorist kill thousands. This choice is made more complicated with the fact that you are told that stopping the terrorist attack would involve a "suicide run." Fortunately there is a third option. Unfortunately, said third option is becoming [[The Dragon]] to the terrorist.}}

** {{spoiler|There is even a [[Talking the Monster to Death|FOURTH option]]}}

** In Act Three of the Trooper storyline, you are forced to choose between saving {{spoiler|1=Sergeant Ava Jaxo, a recurring character that helped you throughout the story and a minor love interest for a male trooper, from death by [[Explosive Decompression]], or 300 Republic POWs on an Imperial space station.}}

* [[Samus Is a Girl]]: The Imperial Agent story {{spoiler|ends on a rather epic version of this. It turns out that [[Big Bad|Hunter]], who has been teasing the agent, even face-to-face, since Act II, is actually a woman who has been compelled to disguise herself as a man via holographic technology for most of her life and has either fallen in love with (if male) or is envious of the agent's freedom of identity (if female).}}

* [[Save Scumming]]: By hitting Escape, a player can quit and restart any [[Cutscene|conversation]] they are in. This allows you to switch Light/Dark Side choices, test companion affection changes, or just preview dialogue. Nevermind the fact that you're [[Save Scumming]] in an [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|online game]].

* [[Save the Villain]]: When you have an enemy concerned and defenseless, Usually the light-sided option is for you to either take them as a prisoner or let them go.

* [[Sawed-Off Shotgun]]: The preferred weapon of the Smuggler's Scoundrel [[Prestige Class|Advanced Specialization]] is the [[Star Wars]] version of this, a "scatter-gun".

* [[Scenery Gorn]]: At the end of Chapter 1 for the Jedi Knight (~level 32), you {{spoiler|see the effects of the [[Weapon of Mass Destruction|Desolator weapon]] on a farming world called Uphrades.}} It's pretty [[Apocalypse Wow|in the most horrible way imaginable.]]

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* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: The fate of the Promised Ones on Taris.

* [[Shoulders of Doom]]: Darth Malgus, the Sith Lord in all three trailers, has ''bitchin'' armor all around, but to no one's surprise his shoulders are big enough to land fighters on. Revealed art also seems to point to Sith Warriors in general rocking these on their armor.

* [[Shout-Out]]: In the [http://www.swtor.com/media/trailers/smuggler-character-progression character progression video] for the smuggler, the smuggler finds himself, in a desert area, facing off with a Sith, who ignites his lightsaber and goes through a complicated and impressive routine. The smuggler pulls out his gun and [[Raiders of the Lost Ark|just shoots]] [[Never Bring a Knife to A Gun Fight|the guy dead]]. Can easily double as a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]. Also, for Imperial players, the mission in which they retrieve Revan's mask contains a scene straight out of the beginning of The Lost Arc.

* [[Shout-Out]]: In the [http://www.swtor.com/media/trailers/smuggler-character-progression character progression video] for the smuggler, the smuggler finds himself, in a desert area, facing off with a Sith, who ignites his lightsaber and goes through a complicated and impressive routine. The smuggler pulls out his gun and [[Raiders of the Lost Ark|just shoots]] [[Never Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight|the guy dead]]. Can easily double as a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]. Also, for Imperial players, the mission in which they retrieve Revan's mask contains a scene straight out of the beginning of The Lost Arc.

** Several of the server names are from [[Knights of the Old Republic (Comic Book)|the KotOR prequel comic]]. Also, the central hub for Republic players is named Carrick Station, apparently [[The Call Knows Where You Live|due to events in]] continuation/sequel comic, ''[[War Arc|War]]''.

** One of the Sith Inquisitor's [[Badass Boast|Badass Boasts]] -- "[[Predator|If it bleeds, I can kill it!]]"

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* [[Unequal Pairing]]: Jedi Consulars, Jedi Knights, and Sith Warriors can all romance their attractive female apprentices.

** Hell, the Sith Inquisitor fits in here to with Ashara, and both the Trooper and Imperial Agent have at least one romance option with an explicit subordinate in rank. This may be due to the PC usually being the official leader of the little band, but it's hard not to think someone in Bioware has a certain fetish...

* [[Unflinching Faith in the Brakes]]: Malgus doesn't even bother looking when {{spoiler|the starship crash lands inches behind him}}. Though as a Sith, it is reasonable to assume he'd sense if it was going to actually strike him anyways.

* [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]]: {{spoiler|Believe it or not, Darth Malgus, that cool Sith from the "Deceived" trailer is married to that blue Twi'lek that was with him! In all fairness, a lot of his current physical deformities are recent battle scars, and he isn't bad looking prior.}}

* [[Unexpected Gameplay Change]]: You'll find yourself playing ''[[Star Fox (series)|Star ~~Fox~~]]'' [http://www.gamestooge.com/2010/08/18/gamescom-10-the-old-republic-space-combat during space combat sequences]. They aren't mandatory, but they do give you [[Experience Points]].

* [[Unexpected Gameplay Change]]: You'll find yourself playing ''[[Star Fox (series)|Star FOX]]'' [http://www.gamestooge.com/2010/08/18/gamescom-10-the-old-republic-space-combat during space combat sequences]. They aren't mandatory, but they do give you [[Experience Points]].

* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: The History videos are explicitly pieced together from incomplete information, and some things are pure supposition on the narrator's part. This keeps things like Revan's true motives and ultimate fate nice and vague for in-game development.

* [[Vendor Trash]]: Very common. The item descriptions make no attempt to hide it either. Players can, however, send a companion on a one-minute mission to sell these to a vendor.

* [[Vibroweapon]]: Many of the non-player character carried Melee weapons are these, and the force-using classes use them until they finish the first planet. Just like in ''[[Knights of the Old Republic (video game)|Knights of the Old Republic]]'', they have a [[Depleted Phlebotinum Shells|cortosis alloy weave]], in order to stand up to [[Laser Sword|Lightsabers]].

* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: While Republic player' [[The Dark Side|Dark Side]] options are about the temptation of [[Utopia Justifies the Means|putting pragmatism]] [[Knight Templar|ahead of their ideals]], Imperial Dark Side options are usually straight up cruel. Bounty Hunters can often [[Off with His Head|cut people's heads off]], and Sith Inquisitors can often [[Agony Beam|shock people during conversations]]. [[Comedic Sociopathy|All in good fun]]. For more details and examples, look at the [[Kick the Dog]] entry above.

** Some of the NPCs you deal with are so irritating as to make the Dark Side options regarding them ''very'' appealing. For example, spend most of the Imperial questline on Taris getting insulted by Thana Vash, and then just ''try'' to resist the temptation to {{spoiler|let her rot in prison}} when you get a chance.

* [[Villainous Demotivator]]: What's the best location to display someone [[And I Must Scream|frozen in carbonite]]? Why, ''right next'' to where the player's companions make things for them, of course!

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* [[War Arc]]: The basic summary of the game's story. It's Republic and the Jedi versus the Sith, the Chiss and the Mandalorians; mercenaries and criminals profit from both sides.

* [[We Have Reserves]]: The standard Sith response to most problems is to throw people at it until it goes away. And by "people" we mean "Imperials and slaves", of course.

* [[Wetware CPU]]: A [[Mad Scientist]] on Dromund Kaas puts the brains of Imperial soldiers in droids.

* [[Wham! Episode]]:

** The Imperial Agent's story has a number of these:

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* [[What Measure Is a Mook?]]: Killing NPCs you converse with often gives you Dark Side points, but as for the [[Mooks]] defending those NPCs? Oh, go ahead and slaughter them all, the game won't punish you for it.

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: {{spoiler|If you give the Black Codex to the Dark Council, the Minister of Intelligence (formally Keeper) will call you out on giving the guys who just spent the whole story screwing you over the one object that could have helped improve Imperial life. }}

* [[When All You Have Is a Hammer]]: Most of a Sith Inquisitor's problems are solved by blasting the problem with lightning.

** [[Cutscene Power to the Max|Inside of cutscenes]], a Sith Warrior has a similar reliance on Force Choke, with the occasional telekinetic wall-slam for variety.

* [[Whole-Plot Reference]]: It's [[BioWare]] and it's an MMORPG, so quite a few of the quests fall under this heading.

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*** It's likely for Smugglers that before the game, they weren't actively involved in fighting the war, and had no need for much gear beyond clothing and a blaster. Besides {{spoiler|the smuggler's good gear might have been on the ship, which was stolen during the first mission.}}

* [[Wolverine Claws]]: The [[Bounty Hunter]] progression video [http://www.swtor.com/media/trailers/bounty-hunter-character-progression shows one of them] killing a Jedi with these, coming from his armor. [[Republic Commando|This isn't the first Star Wars game to give us this attack.]]

* [[Worst Aid]]: Bounty hunters can heal allies... by shooting [[Healing Shiv|rockets]] at them.

* [[Wretched Hive]]: [http://www.swtor.com/info/holonet/planets/ord-mantell Ord Mantell], Hutta and Nar Shaddaa.

* [[Writing Around Trademarks]]: Due to legal issues surrounding the name "Sunrider", Nomi Sunrider has become "Nomi-Da-Boda", which also doubles as a [[Continuity Nod]] / [[Shout-Out]] to her descendant, [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Vima-Da-Boda Vima-Da-Boda].

* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]: The Sith Emperor has manipulated virtually every faction and major event over the course of a millenia in order to prepare a way for [[Shout-Out|the Revenge of the Sith.]]

** Though he technically WASN'T Responsible for the Great Sith War. Dural actually comments on this and asks what it means for the Sith if the spirits backed Kun rather then the emperor.

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** Darth Vowrawn's codex entry seems to imply that he is a master of this.

* [[X Meets Y]]: The Imperial Agent is described as a mix of Grand Moff Tarkin and [[Splinter Cell|Sam Fisher]].

* [[You Shall Not Pass]]:

** From the Black Talon (Imperial Flashpoint), after the players launch [[Boarding Party|a boarding action]]:

{{quote|''I am Yadira Ban, Padawan of the Jedi Order. I was sent to protect the General, and you will not pass!''}}