Turn Out Like His Father: Difference between revisions

** It's underlined by both of them and their fascination with Jedi Master Jorus/Joruus C'baoth. True, the [[Outbound Flight|Jorus C'baoth]] Anakin knew was not yet insane, while [[The Thrawn Trilogy|his clone Joruus]] really was; and Anakin was fourteen while Luke was in his late twenties. But Anakin liked C'baoth's philosophy that the non-Jedi were sheep at best and should be handled without asking, while Luke, despite being on a quest to find surviving Jedi and thus presumably more interested, instantly felt uneasy about these teachings even though he thought they made sense.

** Leia's got a little of her father too, though this is usually ''much'' more understated, particularly by [[Depending on the Writer|writers]] who put her in the damsel-in-distress role. Mostly it manifests through her temper, her very strong will - Luke's determined, but Leia has more passion and staying power - and her sense of self-importance. She's not as arrogant as Anakin, but she's less quiet about her confidence and accomplishment than her brother is, and the impression she leaves on people has much more authority. Luke is an idealist, and a bit of a mystic. Leia takes charge. A politician who knows her heritage once insinuates that it means she'll betray them all. In [[The Thrawn Trilogy]], the Noghri call Luke "Firstson of the Lord Vader". They call ''Leia'' the Mal'ary'ush, the heir to Vader's authority and powers. It's pointed out in the [[Hand of Thrawn]] duology that she's worried about putting her need to keep her spouse safe over her duty to the rest of the galaxy and second-guesses some of her decisions as a result.

** Since much of the material about Luke and Leia outside the movies was created before the prequel trilogy, similarities of their personalities' to their father (other than the really evil version) are presumably coincidental. Not if the works being referred to were written later, of course.

*** True, though the C'baoth example is valid despite the book with Anakin and the original C'baoth being written second - both are Timothy Zahn novels, so it was a retroactive version of this.

== Music ==

* "Coward of the County" -- where the father he shouldn't emulate is the one who tells him so.

''Walk away from trouble if you can.'' }}

* Cat Stevens has this in "Father and Son".

* "Cat's in the Cradle" by Harry Chapin is about this.

* "Seein' My Father In Me" by Paul Overstreet. [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]].

* The Flemish/Dutch singer Stef Bos had the song "Papa" ("Dad") which is about a man remeniscing how much he looks and acts like his father.

* [[Drake]] has mentioned similarities between he and his father several times in his music. Although in his song "Look What You've Done" he mentioned that his mother, who divorced from his father when he was five, sometimes makes negative comparisons between Drake and his father when she's upset with him.

 

== Videogames ==