The Black Fleet Crisis: Difference between revisions

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: For its release date it was pretty dark and edgier than any previous EU works- the language is rougher (Han gets to drop both a "son of a bitch" and a "bastard" on the Yevetha's leadership, and neither expression had been used in the EU before this), the violence is more graphic (the first EU decapitation that actually contained blood, as well as a [[Gorn|very descriptive]] evisceration), and Akanah asks someone whether they've ever had sex in hyperspace (the first use of the word "sex" in the EU that was referring to action rather than gender).

** Two words: ''Castration knife.''

* [[Deus Exit Machina]]: Luke.

* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: Anybody reading the trilogy today knows that Luke's search for his mother really is a [[Rule of Three|wild bantha chase]] from the moment her supposed name is revealed, but the books were written in 1996.

* [[Master Race]]: The Yevetha.

* [[Mauve Shirt]]: McDowell loves to do this with his soldiers, particularly Tuketu and Skids, the trilogy's equivalent of Wedge.

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: When he was first introduced in ''[[The Thrawn Trilogy]]'', Admiral Drayson was portrayed as a stuffy bureaucrat who, in a space battle, is merely "competent." Here, the stuffiness is revealed to be an act, and his expertise (or lack of thereof) is shown to be largely unimportant, since his real job is to head up the New Republic's intelligence division. And he's ''good'' at it, scarily so.

* [[Proud Warrior Race]]: Not like the Wookiees, this PWR is evil.

{{quote| "Your wars are decided by the death of a tenth of a population, a third of an army. Then the defeated surrender their honor and the victors surrender their advantage. This is called being civilized. The Yevetha are not civilized, General. It would be a mistake to deal with us as though we were."}}

* [[Recycled in Space]]: The main plot is very much that of a Tom Clancy-style political/military techno-thriller [[In Space]]. Arguably a lot of the continuity issues with the books stem from the fact that this didn't mesh well with the status quo of the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]].

* [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens]]: The SWEU tends to have three broad categories which enemies fall into: 1) Imperials, 2) Sith, and 3) evil alien hordes. Guess which one this is.

* [[Single Gender Race]]: A [[Added Alliterative Appeal|single-sex sect]], subverted because they allow men in.

* [[Spheroid Dropship]]: The Yevetha's thrustships are spherical, based on the surface area argument quoted on the trope page.

* [[Status Quo Is God]]: These books attempt to move on from the status quo by suggesting technological evolution, saying X-wings have become outdated and even Luke now flies an E-wing, and introducing a whole host of new ships. This is ignored by later books, though there are sometimes justifications used, like an upgraded model of X-wing being produced so it regains supremacy.

* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Chewbacca's son Lumpy accompanies the crew of the Millennium Falcon so he can prove himself to his father.

* [[X Days Since...]]: The Republic has a counter saying how many days the galaxy has been at peace. In a poignant scene, they are ordered to take it down when the fight with the Yevetha begins. This doesn't fit with the later timescale of the [[Expanded Universe]], but it's a nice idea.