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*** Kell actually does manage to show off his bomb making expertise in the preview for ''Mercy Kill'', where he manages to build a bomb that looks like a priceless gem, is powerful enough take out several city blocks, and is programmed to detonate when it reaches a certain depth below ground. He considers the bomb a work of art and gets ''highly'' offended when somebody suggests otherwise.
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Gavin and Asyr, Nawara and Rhysati, Face and Dia. In the comics, Ibitsam and Nrin, neither of them human (the romance wasn't outright stated, but the implication could hardly be more obvious). Corran tells a story about a brief relationship with a Selonian that dealt with some of the issues of such a romance; their personal chemistry was fine, but their ''bio''chemistry was incompatible and they parted amicably. One arc that's poorly regarded for different reasons has very strong hints of more temporary human/Bothan encounters.
* [[I Resemble That Remark]]: Booster Terrik is trying to negotiate with the New Republic to {{spoiler|keep a Star Destroyer he captured. The New Republic's agent tells him the New Republic can't let someone other than them or their allies keep a ship with enough firepower to slag a planet. Booster retorts he should just use it to conquer a random world and declare himself a New Republic ally}} before his daughter tells him that's ''exactly'' what the New Republic is afraid of.
* [[Ironic Echo]]: Sometimes done with entire paragraphs of narration. For example, ''Iron Fist'' begins with a description of a cyborg attacking the Wraiths in a bar, all part of a setup for Zsinj to have them taken out. The Wraiths (after thwarting this) borrow his idea, and a few chapters later, an almost identical opening describes Phanan pulling the same setup on an Imperial planet as part of a scheme to steal some TIE fighters.
** In another example from ''Solo Command'', Han and Warlord Zsinj each oversee work on a secret project, the ''Millennium Falsehood'' and the ''Second Death'' respectively, and both of them consider what they're looking at the "ugliest ship they'd ever seen". (This is [[Played for Laughs]] on Han's end, since the phrase is a [[Call Back]] regarding the actual ''Falcon'', but he thinks the fake looks nothing like the real one.) ''Wraith Squadron'' itself opens with what will become an [[Ironic Echo]], the "twelve snubfighters swooping down through the sky" appearing first as the newly-reinstated Rogue Squadron performing for Leia and the Provisional Council, then as Myn Donos's doomed Talon Squadron.
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