Star Wars: Difference between revisions

* [[Spanner in the Works]]: The Imperial officer who orders his compatriot to hold his fire as the escape pod passes simply because he believed there was no way to verify if a living being was inside the pod and, thus, whether the pod was launched by accident or by design.

* [[The Spock]]: The Jedi ideal.

* [[Standard Establishing Spaceship Shot]]: The [[Trope Codifier]].

* [[Standard Evil Empire Hierarchy]]

* [[Standard Starship Scuffle]]: Especially in the space battles in ''Revenge of the Sith'' and ''Return of the Jedi'', but present to some extent in many of the films.

* [[Standard Time Units]]

* [[Starfish Robots]]: While many droids come in varieties more akin to the humanoid C3-PO, others look like the strange "trash bin on wheels" R2-D2, while still others have such surreal designs that it's difficult to compare them to any real life object.

* [[The Starscream]]: Vader only sides with Palpatine because he has no other options, and plots to overthrow him with Luke's help.

* [[Training From Hell]]: Luke's training with Yoda is noticeably more difficult than usual, due to the [[Instant Expert|limited time he has]].

* [[Tree-Top Town]]: The Ewok village on Endor and the Wookiees' dwellings on Kashyyyk.

* [[Triang Relations]]: Luke/Leia/Han are either type 4 or type 7. (Does Leia like Luke or not?) Lando also likes Leia, but it doesn't appear to be reciprocated.

** On the non-romantic front, [[Ho Yay|except in]] [[Fanon]], Obi-wan/Padmé/Anakin is type 7, with the Jedi code (as drilled into him by Obi-Wan) telling Anakin his feelings for Padmé are wrong. [[Fanon]] puts them in... all the situations where there is at least one mutual attraction.

* [[Troperiffic]]: It could be said that the whole purpose of the [[George Lucas Throwback]] is to celebrate tropes. The entire series is [[Trope Overdosed]].

* [[True Companions]]: The Heroes of Yavin: Luke, Han, Leia and friends.

* [[Two Roads Before You]]: Luke has to choose between staying on Dagobah and completing his training with Yoda, or going to rescue his friends on Cloud City.

* [[Tyrant Takes the Helm]]: Palpatine gradually does this throughout the prequels, culminating with him declaring himself Emperor in ''[[Revenge of the Sith]]''.

* [[Unfortunate Names]]

* [[Unintentional Backup Plan]]: Over the course of the movies. Qui-Gon's original plan was for Anakin to bring balance to [[The Force]]. However, he ends up falling to the Dark Side and it seems that he won't. In ''Return of the Jedi'', however, he does bring balance to the Force by ensuring that the last of the evil aspect of the Dark Side of the Force dies (and subsequently burns) with him; his son destroys the last vestiges of Vader by burning him on a funeral pyre according to Jedi customs (and it's implied that Anakin's body simply faded away under a minute after the pyre was lit).

* [[Unlimited Wardrobe]]: Padme has one. [[Lampshaded]] by Obi-Wan in Episode I, when he suggests they sell her extensive (and expensive) wardrobe to buy parts.

** Also lampshaded by Carrie Fisher in the commentary for [[Return of the Jedi]]:

* [[Voice of the Legion]]

* [[War Is Glorious]]

* [[Warrior Monk|Warrior Monks]]: The Jedi.

* [[We Are as Mayflies]]: "Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter..."

* [[We Can Rebuild Him]]: Numerous characters replace severed limbs with artificial ones, but Vader is the only one to end up with ''all'' of his limbs being replaced.

* [[With Friends Like These...]]: R2-D2 and C-3P0. Although the [[Bilingual Dialogue]] means we don't know just how much hostility R2 reciprocates, occasionally C-3P0 quotes him: "Don't call me a 'mindless philosopher'...", and tells him to watch his language.

* [[Woman in White]]: Leia, a lot of the time, to the point where Carrie Fisher speculated that Leia's favorite color is white. Padmé less frequently.

* [[Wuxia]] : One of the genres that inspired the franchise. The whole concept of the Jedi and The Force practically makes the franchise a Wuxia saga in space, ''especially'' the Prequel Trilogy.

** Luke also manages some gambits of his own. Mostly of the [[Trojan Prisoner]] variety.

** The Clone Wars. After all their effort and sacrifices, Palpatine's plan would have given him full power whether the Republic and Jedi had won or lost.

* [[You Could Have Used Your Powers for Good]]

* [[Youth Center]]: Luke hangs out in one in a deleted scene from ''[[A New Hope]]''.

* [[Zeerust]]: Ships capable of destroying planets are less impressive when you realize just how easy it is to do so. (All you need is enough energy to accelerate the entire planet to escape velocity.) Other stuff, such as antigravity, is what Michio Kaku calls a Class II impossibility, yet it is commonly seen. (Han's even carried out on an antigravity gurney after he's {{spoiler|frozen in carbonite}}.)

** On the "looks old" end of things, we have the motif of cybernetic hands now that we're entering the age of embryonic stem cells, and the vector graphics on the tactical display and targeting computer in ''[[A New Hope]]''.

** In-universe, this is PAINFULLY apparent in the prequel films. C-3P0 and R2-D2 look dated and completely out of place when juxtaposed with sleeker, agile looking droids. The technology gradually gets more dated-looking as the prequels progress too, naturally because it's supposed to tie itself in with the Original Trilogy. Streamlined ships in [[The Phantom Menace]] slowly evolve into clunky, ships by [[Revenge of the Sith]]. Sleek control panels seen at the beginning of [[Revenge of the Sith]] somehow become overshadowed by a plethora of clunky buttons and dials by the end. Imagine if iPhones suddenly had receivers and rotary dials in the future.

*** [[Justified Trope|Justified]]. [[Word of God]] states that ''Phantom'' was a time of artisans, and they valued style over everything. As time went on, and the Republic was launched into war, it became a question of utility over attractiveness.

 

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