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* [[Impossibly Cool Weapon]]: About half the weapons in the movies, but the lightsabers and the Death Stars deserve special note.

* [[Impractically Fancy Outfit]]: Amidala's regal outfits, which are so expensive Obi-Wan suggests bargaining with them to buy parts for her ship's hyperdrive.

* [[Incest Subtext]]: Luke and Leia flirting and kissing has traces of this when you find out they're really brother and sister, though to be fair, [[Incest Is Relative|they didn't know this at the time]].

* [[Inexplicable Cultural Ties]]: Many proper names are English or Latin lexical words.

* [[In the Future We Still Have Roombas]]: Several examples, including the little skittery Mouse Droid that Chewie growls at and the pit droids in ''The Phantom Menace''.

* [[Ironic Echo]]: The scene where Vader has to choose between saving luke or letting him die is a mirror of the scene with Mace in the Chancellors office, and the consequences both large and small scale are also identical.

** It's not just the Sith. The smuggler who at first wants the war to leave him alone is named "Solo," Leia is Assyrian for "ruler," and the kid who wants to leave his hick planet and travel the galaxy is named "Skywalker." And later, we get the gambler named Lando -- on Earth, a shortened form of Orlando, meaning "Land of Gold."

* [[Medieval Stasis]]: The franchise takes place over tens of thousands of years (e.g. ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'' is set four thousand years before ''Episode I'') and yet there is little to no technological or cultural development in that time. <ref>Aside from the Death Star, but we know how that turned out.</ref>

* [[Merchandise-Driven]]: The franchise may not have started that way, but it definitely ended up there. There are about six different versions of the medical droid that works on Luke at the end of ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]''.

* [[Merchant City]]: There's a reason Mos Eisley attracts [[Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy|scum and villainy]] of all types.

* [[Mid-Atlantic Accent]]: Carrie Fisher [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping|slips in and out of]] this accent in ''[[Star Wars]]'':

{{quote|''Daahth Vadah. Ohnly you could be soh bohld.''}}

* [[No Name Given]]: Palpatine (originally just "The Emperor," making this a mild subversion) has never been given a first name and might not even have one. Steve Sansweet, director of Lucasfilm's content management doubts "that there are many in the know for whom just plain "Palpatine" isn't enough."

** Yoda also only has one name, and so does Dooku.

* [[Not Now, Kiddo]]: C-3PO, especially in the EU.

* [[Not So Different]]: Luke and Vader, and by extension the Jedi and the Sith. Palpatine [[Hannibal Lecture|lectures]] Anakin about this.

* [[Not Wearing Tights]]: The Jedi Order.

* [[Palette-Swapped Alien Food]]: Blue milk.

* [[Papa Wolf]]: Ironically (since he is the villain, after all), Vader. All of his actions in retrospect turn out to be for the purpose of protecting his son from the Emperor, and that's what motivates his [[Heel Face Turn]].

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: [[Captain Obvious|Luke. It's a major plot element.]]

* [[Physical Religion]]: [[The Force]]

* [[Pint-Sized Powerhouse]]: Yoda.

* [[Planetville]]: Averted with the planet of Naboo: we see a swamp which also has an underwater city inside it, a regular city, and some villas in "Lake Country." Played pretty straight everywhere else.

* [[Politically-Incorrect Villain]]: Much of the Imperial brass. [[Manipulative Bastard|Palpatine]] himself is not necessarily, if only because he probably sees ''everyone'' but himself as pawns.

* [[Precision F-Strike]]: [[Star Wars]] has mostly clean language, which is why its few moments of swearing are so special.

* [[Precursors]]: Most prominently the Celestials who built Centerpoint(as well as the entire Corellian system) and the Maw, and the Rakata who created the first true galaxy-spanning civilization with Infinite Empire and are responsible for modern galactic civilization having the hyperdrive. Many other lesser examples such as the Killiks, who we now know were one of the slave races that the Celestials used to make <s> Centerpoint</s> Qolaraloq and the Maw.

* [[Prequel in the Lost Age]]: The prequels are set before and during the Clone Wars and the downfall of the Old Republic, and feature the Jedi Order as it was before the Purge.

* [[Prodigal Hero]]: [[The Obi-Wan|Obi Wan Kenobi]] exiles himself to watch over little Luke Skywalker from a distance, and then returns to the first line to be his mentor.

* [[Psychic Radar]]: The Jedi and the Sith both get to use their mental powers to look for people; usually each other. The most famous example is Darth Vader sensing the presence of Obi-Wan on the Death Star.

* [[Psychological Torment Zone]]: The Dark Side cave.