Star Wars: The Old Republic: Difference between revisions

* [[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:

*** 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:

* [[Benevolent Boss]]: Darth Silthar. Unlike most Sith, he looks out for his subordinates and if they fail, he offers them encouragement instead of killing them.

* [[BFS]]: Chanya Medaal, a minor character in the Imperial Bonus Series, has a sword as tall and as wide as her entire torso.

* [[Big Bad]]: Most class quest storylines have their own [[Big Bad]], but the Sith Emperor is the one for the game as a whole.

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: The arrival of Satele Shan in the "Hope" trailer.

{{quote| '''[[Steve Blum|Male Bounty Hunter]]''': ''Personally, I'm just here to kill people and cause damage.'' }}

** The Sith Warrior is like this light or dark.

* [[Boarding Party]]: The Void Star [[Player Versus Player]] war-zone has the Republic or Empire players doing this, to get to the ship's computer core, while the other side [[Hold the Line|tries to repel them]]. Both factions take turns attacking and defending.

** The 'Esseles' and 'Black Talon' flashpoints end with the players doing one of these to an enemy capitol ship, while the rest of the flashpoints have players sneaking into enemy territory with shuttle craft.

* [[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.

* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Several over the course of events, but Gayen Lekende, the Republic's nemesis on Tatooine, [[Complete Monster|takes the cake]].

* [[Crapsack World]]: [http://www.swtor.com/info/holonet/planets/hutta Hutta], ''and HOW''.

** 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.

** Imperial players have both light and dark side options, although the light side options are more [[Noble Demon]] as opposed to [[For the Evulz]] rather than full-on good. The Devs claim that as the story progresses, Imperial players can gradually become full fledged heroes, while Republic heroes can fall to the dark side completely.

** In patch 1.2, you'll be able to use the legacy system to make a character of any race as any class. Yes, that means you can have a sith pureblood be a born and raised Jedi.

** 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

* [[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]].

*** Mandalorian Raiders, where the Empire fights a rogue Mandalorian clan.

*** The Eternity Vault operation, where the Empire faces off against a [[Sealed Evil in A Can]].

* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Most non-Jedi and non-companions in the Republic, if they aren't repeatedly [[Shoot the Dog|shooting the dog]], or just corrupt, have done this, or so it seems. Taken to extreme levels for the Republic Trooper storyline, {{spoiler|where [[It's Up to You|you, and your companions, are among the few Republic Special Forces to not defect with Tavus.]]}}

** Played with Ashara Zavros, one of the Sith Inquisitor's companions--while her recruitment involves her being manipulated into defecting from the Jedi order, at no point does her ideology actually change; she eventually admits that she's a Sith, but she's...[[Token Good Teammate|not]] [[Hero Antagonist|exactly]] [[The Pollyanna|villainous]].

** 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.}}

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

** '''Smuggler'''

* [[Multiple Choice Past]]: Revan's motivations are further complicated by the backstory for this game. It really doesn't help that most of what we know about him is given by [[Unreliable Narrator|Unreliable Narrators]]. The tie-in novel ''[[Revan (Literature)|Revan]]'' tells just what happened to him and the Jedi Exile after the events of ''[[Knights of the Old Republic (Video Game)|Knights of the Old Republic]]''.

** More conventionally, previews of the character creation screen have shown that each player chooses from a plethora of them... namely by picking which class they want to be.

** One NPC ingame mentions that there is a lot of confusion in the old texts as to Revan's gender, a nod to the Player's ability to choose his gender in both of ''[[Knights of the Old Republic (Video Game)|Knights of the Old Republic]]'' games.

** One of the lines the Jedi Knight uses during the space missions is "[[A New Hope|Who needs targeting computers?]]"

* [[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 Points for Neutrality]]: [[Averted]], a first for [[Bio Ware]] games that include a [[Karma Meter]]. There will be specific rewards and gear for players who mix their decisions.

* [[Noob Cave|Noob Planet]]: Four of them - Tython for Jedi Knights and Consulars, Ord Mantell for Troopers and Smugglers, Hutta for Imperial Agents and Bounty Hunters, and Korriban for Sith Warriors and Inquisitors. Dromund Kass and Coruscant tend to get this treatment as well, since classes only gain access to their ship after leaving their capital world.

* [[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.

* {{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.}}

* [[Poison and Cure Gambit]]: A Mandalorian commander on Tatooine challenges you to take on his people's rite of passage: to take a vicious sandpeople-made poison and run out to their camp for the cure. Should you accept the challenge, you have 15 minutes to obtain and take the antidote ''or die trying.''

* [[Poisoned Weapons]]: Involved in many of the Imperial Agent's attacks. The Sniper [[Prestige Class|Advanced Specialization]] ability tree [[Master Poisoner|is all about this]]. Combined with [[Critical Hit|Critical Hits]], [[For Massive Damage|of course.]]

* [[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.

* {{spoiler|[[Previous Player Character Cameo]]: Revan makes an appearance.}}

* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Proud Warrior Race]]: What the Sith Empire has become, the ones that aren't [[Stupid Evil]] anyway, ranging from [[Psycho for Hire|kill crazed war mongers]] to [[Noble Demon|Noble Demons]].

* [[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.

* [[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.]]

** The Imperial space mission "Skaross Fortification" has you defending a space station from bombers. After one run by the battle, you swing around to see that, right behind where you started, is an entire planet in the process of falling apart at the seams. All rendered in gorgeous detail, of course.

** [[Word of God|According to the Developers]], the ''entire'' landscape is completely handcrafted, down to the lighting. So, if it's not [[Scenery Gorn]], it's this.

* [[Schmuck Bait]]: What's this ''Interesting Skull'' surrounded by dead jawas in the Tatooine desert? Why don't you ''[[Don't Try This At Home|click it and find out.]]''<ref>Oh and say hi to that gigantic elite rancor who appears after you do that.</ref> For similar reasons, don't click the ''Mysteriously Slain Jedi'' surrounded by trooper corpses on Taris.

* [[Sealed Evil in A Can]]: The Infernal One, main antagonist for the [[The Alcatraz|Eternity Vault]] raid-we don't know that much about him other than that he's a [[Abusive Precursors|Rakata]] Sith and apparently a genius at droid-making (the ''opening boss'' of the raid nearly wiped the characters in the Developer Walkthrough). Oh yeah, and the Eternity Vault was made by the Rakatan Empire, which begs the question-what kind of person would scare the builders of the ''Star Forge'' enough to put him in there? And what's more, how did he get control of it? And why didn't the Rakatans use their traditional can for criminals?

* [[Sequel Escalation]]: The cinematic trailers revealed so far seem to indicate that [[Bio Ware]] are trying to top the films in terms of outlandish Jedi duels and never-before-seen situations. We've seen so far:

* [[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.

** 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!]]"

** The Kaon Under Siege Flashpoint added in the Rise of the Rakghouls update resembles a zombie apocalypse, complete with [[Left 4 Dead|hunters, smokers, boomers, witches and at least one tank.]]

** On Tatooine, Bounty Hunters encounter an Exchange sex trafficker called [[Planescape|the Lady of Pain.]]

*** As one example, to reach one Datacron you need to jump into an active incinerator, find a control panel, and input the correct code to open the door and get out before you're burned alive. The code? {{spoiler|326.3827}}. This is the unit number of the Trash Compactor Luke and Crew almost got crushed in in A New Hope.

*** One Flashpoint boss casts a buff on himself that causes him to do double damage. When he casts it, a message pops up saying that the boss "Has become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!"

* [[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.

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

*** The end of Chapter 1: {{spoiler|Darth Jadus faked his death and was manipulating the Eagle as part of a twisted plan to unite the Empire in a new epoch of fear.}}

** [[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 [[Bio Ware]] and it's an MMORPG, so quite a few of the quests fall under this heading.

* [[With This Herring]]: Justified for the Force users on both sides since their plots start so early in their careers they aren't even using real lightsabers yet, and the Bounty Hunter starts off as more or less a greenhorn with a blaster. On the other hand, no explanation is given for Republic Special Forces troopers start the game in a T-Shirt with a worse weapon than the starting enemies use instead of the armor all your squadmates have.

** Could be standard issued equipment for most of the rest of the Republican army, and since you were deployed right out of the Academy you hadn't been issued your specific squad's gear yet.

* [[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.

** 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.

*** Since he's old enough to have known them personally, it might be something basic and personal. He may owe them money, or they might just think he's "kind of a dick".

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

** Satele's Master in the game's opening sequence (also known as the ''Return'' Trailer).

** In the first Imperial flashpoint, you can execute the Captain for refusing to attack a (stronger) Republic vessel.

* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: The Dark Side option for dealing with Thana Vesh at the end of the Imperial Taris questline. Given her interactions with your character, it's hard to imagine anyone actually letting her live.

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