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{{quote|''"Only watch your step. This place can be a little rough."''|'''Obi-Wan Kenobi''', ''[[Star Wars (Franchise)|Star Wars]]'': ''[[A New Hope (Film)|A New Hope]]''}}
 
''Tales From The Mos Eisley Cantina'' is an anthology of short stories by various science fiction writers (and edited by [[Kevin J. Anderson]]) about everyone in Chalmun's Cantina when [[The Obi-Wan|Obi-Wan Kenobi]] and Luke Skywalker were there. Practically every member of the crowd who appeared in the cantina scene is either the focus of a story or featured prominently in one of them, and to a certain extent most of the stories connect together to create a larger narrative. If you want to know why the band was in the cantina, this book will tell you. If you're curious about who that demonic-looking guy or the wolfman who appeared for about ten seconds in ''[[A New Hope (Film)|A New Hope]]'' were, this is the book for you. If you want to know why they don't serve your kind in here... Well, you get the idea. Literally everybody has a story behind them, and this book aims to tell them all.
 
In this respect, the book is similar to ''[[Tales of the Bounty Hunters]]'' and ''[[Tales From JabbasJabba's Palace]]'', which do the same for the line-up of bounty hunters in ''[[The Empire Strikes Back (Film)|The Empire Strikes Back]]'' and the Hutt's court in ''[[Return of the Jedi (Film)|Return of the Jedi]]''.
 
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== Tropes ==
* [[Brainless Beauty]]: M'iiyoom Onith (beautiful by her ''own'' species standards that is - and Feltipern Trevagg's - by human standards she's hideous).
* [[The Butcher]]: Labria (real name Kardue Sai'Malloc) is a war criminal (and music enthusiast) known as "the Butcher of Montellian Serat" hiding out on Tatooine from bounty hunters. {{spoiler|He reappears in the final ''[[Tales of the Bounty Hunters]]'' story getting captured by Boba Fett, and is referred to only as "the Butcher"}}.
* [[Call a Rabbit Aa Smeerp]]: The music of the Modal Nodes (the Cantina band) was conceived as an alien interpretation of the music of Benny Goodman. Unfortunately, it gets the in-universe name "[[Have a Gay Old Time|jizz]]".
* [[Corrupt Bureaucrat]]: Feltipern Trevagg.
* [[Death Byby Sex]]: {{spoiler|The H'nemthe}}. Apparently as a result of massive difference in gender ration (20 males: 1 female), they have evolved the custom of females using their knife-sharp tongues to eviscerate their lovers after sex. The females are otherwise vegetarians and they sincerely believe this is actually the greatest expression of love between the sexes.
* [[Defector From Decadence]]: Imperial Stormtrooper Davin Felth sees what [[The Empire]] is really like and {{spoiler|vows to become the [[Reverse Mole]].}}
* [[Facing the Bullets One-Liner]]: Owen Lars' last words.
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* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Davin Felth.
* [[Humans Are Morons]]: A definite theme in The Devaronian's Tale.
{{quote| '''Labria:''' What do you call someone who speaks three languages?<br />
'''Wuher:''' Trilingual.<br />
'''Labria:''' Someone who speaks two languages?<br />
'''Wuher:''' Bilingual.<br />
'''Labria:''' Someone who speaks one language?<br />
'''Wuher:''' Monolingual?<br />
'''Labria:''' Human. }}
** Which is ironic, because [[Bilingual Dialogue]] is something all people in Star Wars seem to be capable at.
** It's a joke.
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: A {{spoiler|fatal}} version between M'iiyoom Onith and Feltipern Trevagg, and a bittersweet one between Dice Ibegon and Lak Sivrak.
* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]:
** Wuher brews the remains of Greedo into an especially strong drink which he hopes will gain him the favour of Jabba the Hutt.
** {{spoiler|The only meat that H'nemthe females eat is the flesh of their sexual partners.}}
** A human thief once broke into Labria's apartment. "Turns out humans don't taste very good."
* [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]]: Han Solo, Wuher.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Navik the Red
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: Think back to the cantina scene in [[A New Hope]]. ''They all have a story here.''
* [[Mad Scientist]]/[[Deadly Doctor]]: Evazan (the "he doesn't like you" guy at the bar turns out to be a cross between Dr Frankenstein and Josef Mengele).
* [[One-Letter Name]]: M'iiyoom [https://web.archive.org/web/20130128084304/http://omniglot.com/writing/aurekbesh.htm Onith] may be this or it may be coincidence.
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Het Nkik tried this. It... [[Downer Ending|didn't come off]].
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Greedo, for obvious reasons, {{spoiler|Trevagg}}, for trying to court a H'nemthe female and being unaware of a rather vital aspect of their mating rituals.
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* [[The Uriah Gambit]]: {{spoiler|Greedo's}} death
* '''[[Trope Namer|The]]''' [[Wretched Hive]] of scum and villainy.
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: From ''The Ithorian's Tale'':
{{quote| "You know what Lord Vader would do if he were here."}}
 
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