History Characters / KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLordsTheParty

* OutGambitted: In [=TSLRCM=], so long as [=HK-47=] [[spoiler:doesn't ignore the [=HK=] factory, [=G0-T0=] will be destroyed when he tries to stop Bao-Dur's remote from reactivating the Mass Shadow Generator -- whether because the [=HK-50=]s are [[ApeShallNeverKillApe unable to fire on him because of their sef-preservation protocols and can't stop [=HK-47=]]], or because the [=HK-51=]s that arrived were actually there to help ''[=HK-47=]''.]]

* TooPowerfulToLive: The Exile is seen as this UpToEleven by both the Jedi and the Sith. Their ability to easily create the kind of Force bonds that are usually built over lifetimes, influence many others through those bonds, cut themself off from the Force, and essentially feed off the life force for Force-sensitives and grow stronger terrified the Jedi of their time, to the point they tried to effectively destroy the Exile’s life force.

* AmbiguouslyBi: While he isn’t flirty with the male exile, he gets really jealous of Brianna spending time with him. [[spoilers:It's implied that he was attracted to Revan, him claiming he "hoped Revan was a woman".]]

* AmbiguoslyBi: While he isn’t flirty with the male exile, he gets really jealous of Brianna spending time with him.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Kreia openly expresses the Exile to be this towards herself. Where Kreia is dependent on the Force, is not good working with other people in even terms, and comes from a long struggle to get knowledge, the Exile is a natural leader and team player, is an InstantExpert towards all the Jedi fields, and achieved the feat of living without the Force.

* BadPowersGoodPeople: Master Vrook compares the Exile's Force bonding to a vampire feeding on the Force of others, not to mention that being capable to cut oneself from a supposedly omnibenevolent entity like the Force sounds rather nasty as well. However, the Exile is canonically Light-Sided and uses those powers for good.

* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: The Exile was immensely talented at Force bonding, to the point of making them unconsciously and en masse, yet ended up cut from the Force altogether in the Battle of Malachor V. From being connected to everything, to being connected to ''nothing''.

* BloodKnight: Even without entering Dark Side field, the Exile can on several occasions admit that their love for battle was the reason they joined the Mandalorian Wars.
* BrainyBrunette: Has canonically brown hair (most of the in-game models are dark-haired too) and was a brilliant general in the Mandalorian Wars, with a knack for droids and machines for good measure, as well as an insightful Jedi knight.

* BrokenAce: Aside from being an ardent Jedi with a lot of useful skills, including technology and lightsaber combat, the Exile was endowed with amazing, even unique Force powers, which included an enormous sensitivity, a talent for forming bonds, and the ability to survive while cut from the Force wholesale. However, [[spoiler:all of this only served to maximize their trauma during the Mandalorian Wars and afterwards, to the extent of becoming a possible threat for the Force itself due to their own actions in Malachor.]]

* BroughtDownToBadass: Lost their own ties to the Force, yet is capable to survive, fight and learn without it, even if the Exile is still an indirect Force user thanks to their bond to Kreia. This is the reason why Kreia admires them so much and why [[spoiler:she intends them to be the ultimate weapon of her ideology.]]
* ByronicHero: Powerful, introspective, magnetic to allies and love interests alike, disillusioned by the Jedi Order and further troubled by the war, and carrying a lot of emotional trauma caused by the latter.

* ChickMagnet: Despite generally being a ChasteHero, this is very much the case. A male Exile will have Visas, the Handmaiden, Mira (sort of, [[TheNotLoveInterest as she shoots him down rather firmly]]), and Atris display varying degrees of affection for him.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Has the impulse to help people even in their mildest affairs, to Kreia's chagrin.

* CursedWithAwesome: [[spoiler:A trauma strong enough turned their Force bond talent into a Force wound, which under the right conditions might be a threat to all the Force. However, the same wound contributes to increase the Exile's powers through fighting and killing, and it gives them an improbable victory against the otherwise invincible Darth Nihilus.]]

* DarkAndTroubledPast: As it turns out, the Exile is [[spoiler:a Jedi war criminal, responsible for activating the Mass Shadow Generator and destroying Malachor V, killing almost everyone on both sides of the battle]].

* DisabilityImmunity: [[spoiler:As the Exile is a Force wound, Nihilus' drain doesn't affect them.]]

* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Luxa will hit on them regardless of their gender

* ExperiencedProtagonist: Is already an ex-Jedi Knight ''and'' a veteran war general before the start of the game.

* FatalFlaw: [[spoiler:The desire of connect with others and help them. This was the root of their Force bonding talent, which allowed the Exile share their comrades' pain and influence them with their own Light Side. The Battle of Malachor V, however, rapidly deconstructed this wish: forced to feel in an instanct the demise of so many people they had fought alongside and bonded with, the Exile was overpowered by all that death and had to cut instinctively their Force ties in order to survive, which didn't avoid the opening of a Force wound within the Exile where their bonds to their friends had been.]]

* FourStarBadass: Was one of Revan's top generals during the Mandalorian Wars and led the campaign on Dxun. Regains this by the end of Kotor II, as the various forces that the Exile assisted during the game will respond to Telos' [[GondorCallsForAid distress signal]]: From Dantooine, either the Khoonda Militia or Azkul's mercenaries, from Onderon, the forces of the side the Exile backed in the Civil War, and the united Mandalorian clans from Dxun.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler:From the Jedi Council's point of view, the Exile went to be from one of so many defectors of a prosaic war to something even worse than Darth Revan and the Sith Triumvirate.]]

* GeniusBruiser: A battlefield general and technological supervisor that pretty much won the Mandalorian Wars for Revan, as well as a Jedi knight who defeated the finest Sith of their generation (well, excluding those of the True Sith Empire) in singles duels.
* TheGift: While Force bonding is a relatively common ability among Jedi, the Exile has such an affinity with it that they create them easily, subconsciously and with many people at once, even if can be stronger in some of them. The Exile also has a natural gift to withdraw from the Force and survive without it, which seem to be incredibly rare judging by dialogue with the Jedi masters and Kreia. This second gift might be a subproduct of the first, as it is logical that someone with that ease to form bonds has a natural response to avoid receiving a lethal trauma through them, [[spoiler:which turned out to be decisive in Malachor V.]]
* GoodCounterpart: If played on the light side, the Exile is this to [[spoiler: Darth Nihilus. Both characters receive their power through the Force by feeding on the Force energy of others, except Nihilus is too dependent on The Force, and has his humanity sucked into his own wound in The Force. A light side Exile retains that humanity due to their not being dependent on The Force, and doesn't exert a negative influence on others.]]
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler:Has this after the Masters reveal them to be a Force wound, though it is talked out of it by either Visas (male Exile) or Mical (female), who express their belief that the Exile is not the galaxy's greatest enemy, but rather its last hope.]]
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:After the meeting with the Jedi Council in Dantooine.]]

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Played with in regards to [[spoiler:Kreia. Other characters like Atton find her creepy and untrustworthy, if not ObviouslyEvil, yet the Exile considers her just another of their comrades and is willing to do for her what they would do for the last of them. It is implied that, being a fellow Jedi and having been part of Revan's heretics, the Exile is simply accustomed to the kind of quirks Kreia shows and cannot honestly find anything wrong with another Jedi having become cynical and ruthless due to the recent wars. Furthermore, it is even possible that the Exile, who already became skeptical in their own towards the Jedi Order, is unconsciously attracted to Kreia's unorthodox philosophies even if they disagree with her pettiest points. Kreia's abilities to influence people cannot be discounted either.]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: You can be this if you want to appease to as many companions as possible. You have to say one thing to one companion and the opposite to another, from do-gooders like Disciple and Handmaiden, sociopaths like HK-47 and Hanhaar and pragmatists like Atton and Kreia. Which may have some in-game explanation; since the Exile is good at creating bonds, she knows exactly what to say to appease everyone.

* IntelligibleUnintelligible: Due to droids being the sole company the Exile kept during most of their time wandering, they are completely fluent in Droid-Speak. Atton, whose own understanding of the language is limited, finds this trait somewhat irritating as he can only understand half of the Exile's extended conversations with T3.

* TheLeader: Even in their youth, their fellow apprentices would follow their example, much to the discontent of Masters like Vrook, and later on they managed to command thousands of their fellow Jedi in their role as General. By the war's end, they were the third most powerful leader in the Republic forces behond Revan and Malak. [[spoiler:The Exile's Force abilities had something to do with this, at least partially.]]
* MachineEmpathy: One of the Exile's Force powers, and [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration important to plot and gameplay in several ways]]. Not the least of these being the ability to unlock extensive dialogue with droid characters, of which there are three (four including Bao-Dur's remote) in the player's party alone. Even if you never put a single point into Repair or Computer Use, dialogue with Atton notes the Exile's affinity for droids -- [[IntelligibleUnintelligible they're fluent in astromech beeps and whistles]], while Atton can barely understand T3 at all when they first meet. Perhaps most significant of all is the way in which [[spoiler:deploying the Mass Shadow Generator]] affected the Exile in a completely unique manner compared to any of Malachor's other survivors, even other Force-sensitive individuals.

* MsFanservice: It's optional, but the female Exile is one of three characters (the other being the Handmaiden and Mira) who can wear a rather skimpy dancer's "outfit" reminiscent of Leia's slave bikini. She also spends the games first hour in her underwear which, while not overly revealing, is still rather form-fitting.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: Giving the order to activate a planet-crushing superweapon on Malachor V]].

* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Throughout the course of the game, the Exile would get blamed by various characters for the destruction of Peragus, regardless of whether they are actually responsible.
* OneManArmy: Especially on Onderon, it's made fairly clear that their involvement is what tips the tide of the civil war. On the Light Side, Kavar already feels the tide turning with the Exile's arrival and them breaking through the rear flank of Vaklu's forces is nothing short of a miracle for the royalists. On the Dark Side, Kavar is filled with dread at the Exile's presence and Vaklu outright says that he had faith in them because despite the galaxy throwing everything it has at them, ''nothing could stop them''.

* PowerOfTheVoid: [[spoiler: Why Nihilus' attempt to feed on the Exile fails. The Exile is a "wound" in the Force, meaning Forcewise they are a literal negative-space, almost a black hole. They unknowingly draw energy from others around them, either symbiotically (if Light side) or parasitically (Dark). Nihilus tries to drain the Exile, but receives a big bite of un-Force and weakens instead.]]
* PowerCopying: The Exile is able to rapidly copy the force techniques of the Jedi Masters they encounter.
* PowerParasite: Albeit unintentionally. [[spoiler:The Exile eventually learns they ''never'' regained their connection to the Force, but instead have been unknowingly drawing their power from Force-Sensitive individuals around them. The true nature of the siphon depends on alignment however -- a Dark-Side Exile is parasitically feeding off of their companions, while a Light-Side Exile's bonds are more symbiotic in nature.]]

* ReformedButRejected: Subverted. The Exile returned to the Jedi Order before being reached by the Dark Side that was corrupting the Revanchists, but Atris refused to believe this point and staunchly considered them a dark Jedi. The Exile was effectively the only of Revan's knights that didn't need to be reform, yet the one who carried the rejection meant for the rest of them.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Was apparently the Revanchists' number three, if not even Revan's co-lancer along with Malak, and was in command of the superweapon that effectively ended the Mandalorian Wars. However, the previous game doesn't hint their existence at all, and from its perspective, it comes a bit to a surprise that Revan had such an important follower not to be mentioned.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: On the dark side route, their objective is to kill the Jedi Council masters for exiling them in the aftermath of the Mandalorian wars.
* TheScapegoat: In spades. The masters (some more than others) just refuse to cut them even an inch of slack for disobeying orders and going to war. This is because they literally can't blame anyone else; the Exile is the only one who actually came back to face trial. It gets truly ridiculous in the end game, [[spoiler:where the Masters seem content to punish them for a danger they ''may'' pose because there's no way to act on the much bigger threat. At that point it goes from being slightly reasonable fear to absolute pettiness.]]

* StupidEvil: A Dark Side Exile, most of the time, goes around just being evil for the sake of it and killing innocents, even when it's really not in their best interest to do so. In the endgame, Kreia will give a scathing TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to them for killing the last of the Jedi Masters responsible for their exile, ultimately condemning the entire galaxy in their quest for vengeance while having learned nothing. Conversely...

* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Canonically, they chose to defy the Jedi Council because of the compassion they felt for those being hit by the Mandalorians.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Of the Jedi who fought under Revan, the Exile was the ''only'' one who didn't fall to the Dark Side and who actually returned the Jedi Council to face trial.
* TooPowerfulToLive: The Exile is seen as this UpToEleven by both the Jedi and the Sith. Their ability to easily build Force Bonds that are usually built over lifetimes, influence many others through those bonds, cut themself off from the Force, and essentially feed off the life force for Force-Sensitives and grow stronger terrified the Jedi of their time, to the point they tried to effectively destroy the Exile’s life force.

* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: [[spoiler:While calling their Force wound "superpower" might be naive, it comes handy through the game to increase the Exile's power and defeating Nihilus, and it was gained through the trauma suffered in Malachor V.]]
* TwoRoadsBeforeYou: Can choose between the Light and the Dark Side in the game.
* TheUnchosenOne: A Jedi who lost their connection to the Force and was exiled to the far corners of the Galaxy, returning to a Republic that doesn't like Jedi much at all these days.

* VagueAge: Mira [[LampshadeHanging wonders about it]] in her thoughts. If the Exile asks her if she wants to develop their relationship (as a LoveInterest if male, as [[HeterosexualLifePartners friends]] if female), she will say that they are too old for her. If the Exile presses her, she admits that they might not be ''that'' old, but due to all they've been through, they might as well be a hundred years old.
* VillainProtagonist: If played as Dark-sided.

* WhatHaveIBecome: [[spoiler: Kreia states her belief that on a subconscious level, the Exile ''always'' knew what they had [[HumanoidAbomination become]] after Malachor V, and the real reason they [[ScrewDestiny severed themselves from the force]] was because they were ''afraid.'']]

-->''"Perhaps you have heard that the Jedi comes to Nar Shaddaa. While he/she walks upon the smuggler's moon, he/she is not to be harmed. You may watch him/her, observe his/her movements, but nothing more."''

* ContrastingSequelProtagonist: [[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic To Revan.]] Kreia describes Revan's presence as the heart of the Force, while the Exile's as the death of the Force. Revan starts the story as an amnesiac while the Exile has an established history that heavily weighs on them. Canonically, Revan was also male while the Exile is female.

* GoodCounterpart: If played on the light side, the Exile is this to [[spoiler: Darth Nihilus. Both characters receive their power through the Force by feeding on the Force energy of others, except Nihilus is too dependant on The Force, and has his humanity sucked into his own wound in The Force. A light side Exile retains that humanity due to their not being dependant on The Force, and doesn't exert a negative influence on others.]]

* InsistantTerminology: Inverted; The Exile can insist that they aren't a Jedi to most people who refer to them as one, though they offer no alternate term for themselves.

* AwesomeByAnalysis: If the Exile attacks their old masters then he/she learns the saber forms they would have taught them by watching their movements alone. While said master is trying to kill them!

* BirdsOfAFeather: Has a lot in common with all of their romantic options, male and female: is [[spoiler:TheAtoner for their actions under Revan]] like Atton, became disillusioned with the Jedi Order and was let down by the Masters like the Disciple, suffered [[spoiler:tormented the effects of their Force powers on their environment]] like the Handmaiden, was [[spoiler:forced to feel the death of an entire world]] like Visas, and became essentially a refugee after the Mandalorian Wars like Mira.

* BreakingOldTrends: She's the first and only customizable player character from a ''Star Wars'' video game to be canonically declared female.

* FatalFlaw: [[spoiler:The desire of connect with others and help them. This was the root of their Force bonding talent, which allowed the Exile share their comrades' pain and influence them with her own Light Side. The Battle of Malachor V, however, rapidly deconstructed this wish: forced to feel in an instanct the demise of so many people she had fought alongside and bonded with, the Exile was overpowered by all that death and had to cut instinctively their Force ties in order to survive, which didn't avoid the opening of a Force wound within the Exile where their bonds to their friends had been.]]

* TheLeader: Even in her youth, her fellow apprentices would follow her example, much to the discontent of Masters like Vrook, and later on she managed to command thousands of her fellow Jedi in her role as General. By the war's end, she was the third most powerful leader in the Republic forces behond Revan and Malak. [[spoiler:The Exile's Force abilities had something to do with this, at least partially.]]
* MachineEmpathy: One of the Exile's force powers, and [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration important to plot and gameplay in several ways]]. Not the least of these being the ability to unlock extensive dialogue with droid characters, of which there are three (four including Bao-Dur's remote) in the player's party alone. Even if you never put a single point into Repair or Computer Use, dialogue with Atton notes the Exile's affinity for droids -- [[IntelligibleUnintelligible they're fluent in astromech beeps and whistles]], while Atton can barely understand T3 at all when they first meet. Perhaps most significant of all is the way in which [[spoiler:deploying the Mass Shadow Generator]] affected the Exile in a completely unique manner compared to any of Malachor's other survivors, even other Force-sensitive individuals.
* MagneticHero: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]], [[JustifiedTrope justified]], and [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]]; [[spoiler: it turns out to be one of The Exile's many force powers.]]

* PlayerCharacter: For the second game.
* PowerGlows: Various force-sensitive characters comment that a light-aligned Exile has a glow surrounding them.

* SchrodingersCanon: Characters in [[Franchise/StarWarsTheHighRepublic the High Republic era]] in canon have used the exclaimation "Surik's Blade!" When asked if this was a reference to Meetra Surik, Creator/CavanScott [[WordOfGod implied that it was]]. Similarly to Revan, to date there has been no other word on whether the rest of her story is canon, other than that she was an important figure to the Jedi.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Followed Revan and Malak to fight in the Mandalorian Wars against the Council's orders, realizing that people were suffering in the war and the Jedi Order was not doing everything in its power to help them. Ironically, the Exile was inspired to take this route by her unofficial mentor Kavar, who fought in the war's early skirmishes yet ultimately adhered to the Council's will.

* TooPowerfulToLive: The Exile is seen as this UpToEleven by both the Jedi and the Sith. Her ability to easily build Force Bonds that are usually built over lifetimes, influence many others through those bonds, cut herself off from the Force, and essentially feed off the life force for Force Sensitives and grow stronger terrified the Jedi of her time, to the point they tried to effectively destroy the Exile’s life force.

* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: [[spoiler:While calling her Force wound "superpower" might be naive, it comes handy through the game to increase the Exile's power and defeating Nihilus, and it was gained through the trauma suffered in Malachor V.]]

* VillainProtagonist: Well, up to you really.

* WalkingSpoiler: There's a fairly major secret that Goto holds onto until well after he "joins" the party, not until your influence with him is sufficiently high. See TheReveal for further details.

* BreakingOldTrends: She's the first and only customizable player character to be canonically declared female.

* BaldOfAwesome: Like most male Zabrak, he lacks any hair beyond his eyebrows.

--> '''Mira:''' You need ''me'' to do this? Can't we find another way?

See ''[[Characters/KnightsoftheOldRepublicI Knights of the Old Republic]]''

See ''[[Characters/KnightsoftheOldRepublicI Knights of the Old Republic]]''

See [[spoiler:Canderous Ordo]] under ''[[Characters/KnightsoftheOldRepublicI Knights of the Old Republic]]''

* BrokenBird: She saw her entire world die and was subsequently enslaved by the Sith Lord who killed it.

!!The Handmaiden ([[spoiler:Brianna]])

!!The Disciple ([[spoiler:Mical]])

!!Mandalore the Preserver ([[spoiler:Canderous Ordo]])

* HiddenDepths: Hanharr's a bloodthirsty brute who considers the Jedi weak for defending "the prey", but he agrees with the Jedi about all life being connected and post-mortem peace. [[spoiler:He himself wishes to die and join his tribe in afterlife as well as earn their forgiveness.]] Though he loathes life-debts as a form of slavery, he's not ready give up all his ties to his people, for then he'd never be able to join them. He has to be influenced to do so by the Exile. When asked about his interpretation of love, he begins by speaking about displaying strength to the potential mate, but he says at the end that love is about both parties giving up everything for each other.

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* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler: To Darth Nihilus.]]

* NotSoDifferent: To the Exile, who likewise had their connection to the Force damaged, and to the Handmaiden, effectively being her opposite in number among the Sith.

* NotSoDifferent: Like the Exile, Hanharr's exile was on some level self-imposed.