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* CargoConcealmentCaper: The heroes hide aboard smuggling crates in the Millennium Falcon to keep away from the stormtroopers searching the ship.
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** The Death Star, a battle station the size of a small moon, can be completely destroyed by a small fighter firing a couple of torpedoes down a thermal exhaust shaft that leads directly to the main reactor. Imperial designers apparently recognized the problem to the extent of ray shielding the shaft to protect it from blaster fire, but for some reason cannot stop projectiles. (Of course, the Empire can be forgiven for this, since you would have to be [[RightManInTheWrongPlace some kind of space wizard who is also a fighter pilot]] to actually hit a target that small.) The film ''Film/RogueOne'' addresses the weakness as being purposefully put in by the Death Star's unwilling designer in order to specifically give it a glaring weakness for the Rebels to use, although given that almost the entire Rebel attack force perish in the assault and the Death Star was ultimately only destroyed right at the last second, how "glaring" it ended up being is debatable.
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** The Death Star, a battle station the size of a small moon, can be completely destroyed by a small fighter firing a couple of torpedoes down a thermal exhaust shaft that leads directly to the main reactor. Imperial designers apparently recognized the problem to the extent of ray shielding the shaft to protect it from blaster fire, but for some reason cannot stop projectiles. (Of course, the Empire can be forgiven for this, since you would have to be [[RightManInTheWrongPlace some kind of space wizard who is also a fighter pilot]] to actually hit a target that small.) The film ''Film/RogueOne'' addresses the weakness as being purposefully put in by the Death Star's unwilling designer in order to specifically give it a glaring weakness for the Rebels to use, although given that almost the entire Rebel attack force perish in the assault and the Death Star was is ultimately only destroyed right at the last second, how "glaring" it ended up being is debatable.
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** The Death Star, a battle station the size of a small moon, can be completely destroyed by a small fighter firing a couple of torpedoes down a thermal exhaust shaft that leads directly to the main reactor. Imperial designers apparently recognized the problem to the extent of ray shielding the shaft to protect it from blaster fire, but for some reason cannot stop projectiles. (Of course, the Empire can be forgiven for this, since you would have to be [[RightManInTheWrongPlace some kind of space wizard who is also a fighter pilot]] to actually hit a target that small.) The film ''Film/RogueOne'' addresses the weakness as being purposefully put in by the Death Star's unwilling designer in order to specifically give it a glaring weakness for the Rebels to use.
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** The Death Star, a battle station the size of a small moon, can be completely destroyed by a small fighter firing a couple of torpedoes down a thermal exhaust shaft that leads directly to the main reactor. Imperial designers apparently recognized the problem to the extent of ray shielding the shaft to protect it from blaster fire, but for some reason cannot stop projectiles. (Of course, the Empire can be forgiven for this, since you would have to be [[RightManInTheWrongPlace some kind of space wizard who is also a fighter pilot]] to actually hit a target that small.) The film ''Film/RogueOne'' addresses the weakness as being purposefully put in by the Death Star's unwilling designer in order to specifically give it a glaring weakness for the Rebels to use.use, although given that almost the entire Rebel attack force perish in the assault and the Death Star was ultimately only destroyed right at the last second, how "glaring" it ended up being is debatable.
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* DataDriveMacGuffin: The Rebel Alliance has stolen data tapes containing the complete plans for the Empire's new superweapon, the Death Star. For the first two-thirds of the plot, the heroes' goal is to get those stolen plans to the Rebel headquarters, so the Alliance can analyze them and find the Death Star's weak point--and the Empire will do anything to get those plans back.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: In contrast to [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness later films in the series]], many of the claimed signs of the Force in this movie aren't clearly supernatural and are accepted on faith. Lampshaded by Han Solo after seeing Luke successfully fend off a test droid shooting at him while he's wearing a helmet over his eyes; he calls it luck and says he doesn't believe in the Force, calling it "a lot of simple tricks and nonsense"--which [[JerkassHasAPoint makes sense based on what he's seen up to that point]].
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* CommanderContrarian: General Tagge for the Empire ("Until this battle station is ''fully'' operational, we are vulnerable."). Unusually he's [[OnlySaneMan entirely right]] and the Empire would have been a lot better off listening to him.
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* CommanderContrarian: General Tagge for the Empire Empire. ("Until this battle station is ''fully'' operational, we are vulnerable."). ") Unusually he's [[OnlySaneMan entirely right]] and the Empire would have been a lot better off listening to him.
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* WhamShot: The opening shot of the long pan of the underside of the Star Destroyer chasing the Tantive IV is one ''for the entire genre of sci-fi film''. After this, no audience would ever accept a crappy papier-mache model of a spaceship against a black background with white dots ever again. All SF movies from this point on had to bring their A game or be dismissed.
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* WhamShot: The opening shot of the long pan of the underside of the Star Destroyer chasing the Tantive IV ''Tantive IV'' is one ''for the entire genre of sci-fi film''. After this, no audience would ever accept a crappy papier-mache model of a spaceship against a black background with white dots ever again. All SF movies from this point on had to bring their A game or be dismissed.
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* WhamShot: The opening shot of the long pan of the underside of the Star Destroyer chasing the Tantive IV is one ''for the entire genre of sci-fi film''. After this, no audience would ever accept a crappy papier-mache model of a spaceship against a black background with white dots ever again. All SF movies from this point on had to bring their A game or be dismissed.
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* FrustratingLie: The Rebel Alliance has just stolen the complete plans for the Death Star, and Darth Vader tracks those stolen plans to the blockade runner ''Tantive IV''. Princess Leia entrusts the plans to the droid R2-D2 and tells him to flee the ship--then when she's captured by Darth Vader minutes later, she denies all knowledge of the Rebels and the plans, and tries to invoke diplomatic immunity. Vader gets so frustrated with this lie that he loses composure and cuts the interrogation short. The prequel ''Film/RogueOne'' retroactively [[{{Retcon}} gives more context to Vader's annoyance and makes Leia's lies even more blatant]]: at the Battle of Scarif, Darth Vader himself came within a hair's breadth of recapturing the stolen plans, and he saw the soldier with the plans board the ''Tantive IV'' just before it fled the battle.
-->'''Leia:''' Darth Vader. Only you could be so bold. The Imperial Senate will not sit still for this. When they hear you've attacked a diplomatic--\\
'''Darth Vader:''' Don't act so surprised, Your Highness, you weren't on any mercy mission this time. Several transmissions were beamed to this ship by Rebel spies. I want to know what happened to the plans they sent you.\\
'''Leia:''' I don't know what you're talking about. I'm a member of the Imperial Senate on a diplomatic mission to Alderaan.\\
'''Darth Vader:''' ''[audibly angry]'' You are part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor! ''[to the troopers holding Leia]'' Take her away!
-->'''Leia:''' Darth Vader. Only you could be so bold. The Imperial Senate will not sit still for this. When they hear you've attacked a diplomatic--\\
'''Darth Vader:''' Don't act so surprised, Your Highness, you weren't on any mercy mission this time. Several transmissions were beamed to this ship by Rebel spies. I want to know what happened to the plans they sent you.\\
'''Leia:''' I don't know what you're talking about. I'm a member of the Imperial Senate on a diplomatic mission to Alderaan.\\
'''Darth Vader:''' ''[audibly angry]'' You are part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor! ''[to the troopers holding Leia]'' Take her away!
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* RookieMaleExperiencedFemale:
** Luke is a naïve farmboy who happened to get the memo from the droids he stumbled across; Leia is a senator running covert missions for the Rebel Alliance.
** Downplayed with Han and Leia; Han has experience in the criminal world, but not the Rebel Alliance.
** Luke is a naïve farmboy who happened to get the memo from the droids he stumbled across; Leia is a senator running covert missions for the Rebel Alliance.
** Downplayed with Han and Leia; Han has experience in the criminal world, but not the Rebel Alliance.
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** Governor Tarkin, and by extension the Galactic Empire as a whole, has his evilness demonstrated when he orders the destruction of Alderaan, after he had promised to spare them if Leia told him the location of the rebel base. It shows how the Empire will lie and wipe out billions of people just to make a point.
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* BuildLikeAnEgyptian: The rebel base on Yavin IV]] is a pyramid. Many of the Yavin IV scenes were shot in the ruins of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikal Tikal]] in what is now Guatemala, making this more of a case of "Build Like a Mayan".
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* BuildLikeAnEgyptian: The rebel base on Yavin IV]] IV is a pyramid. Many of the Yavin IV scenes were shot in the ruins of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikal Tikal]] in what is now Guatemala, making this more of a case of "Build Like a Mayan".
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** Later, Obi-Wan has Luke being shot at by a little droid (which makes Luke flinch in pain every time he is hit) then intentionally puts a blinding face mask on him, even though Luke is only standing a couple feet away from Chewy while holding a plasma sword of death.
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** Later, Obi-Wan has Luke being shot at by a little droid (which makes Luke flinch in pain every time he is hit) then intentionally puts a blinding face mask on him, even though Luke is only standing a couple feet away from Chewy Chewie while holding a plasma sword of death.
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** Princess Leia's starship, the ''Tantine IV'', has mostly white and chrome interiors, befitting a diplomatic starship belonging to the Imperial senator from the very wealthy world of Alderaan,Alderaan.
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* MedalsForEveryone: The movie's ending shows Leia giving out medals to all the main heroes. Luke Skywalker, Han Solo... [[FantasticRacism but not Chewie]]. He later gets one, decades later, in the GrandFinale of the Skywalker Saga, ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker''.
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* ThanatosGambit: During his duel against Darth Vader, Obi-Wan warns him that he won't see the last of him if he dies: "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine." After Vader kills him, Obi-Wan guides Luke as a Force Ghost to the success of his mission to destroy the Death Star.
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* RescueArc: The first half of the movie focuses on saving Princess Leia from the Empire, the second half involving the heroes escaping from the Death Star with Leia's help and then mobilizing to destroy it.
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* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The Empire is clearly patterned after the Nazis. Their foot soldiers are called "stormtroopers", originally a Nazi term for the SA. Tarkin makes a comment about the "regional governors" governing the Empire directly; the German word for "regional governor" is ''Gauleiter'', and this was in fact the Nazi system of government, with Germany divided into regions governed by Gauleiters appointed by Hitler. See also PuttingOnTheReich below.
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* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The Empire is clearly patterned after the Nazis. Their foot soldiers are called "stormtroopers", originally a Nazi term for the SA. Tarkin makes a comment about the "regional governors" governing the Empire directly; the German word for "regional governor" is ''Gauleiter'', and this was in fact the Nazi system of government, with Germany divided into regions governed by Gauleiters appointed by Hitler. See also PuttingOnTheReich below.
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-->'''Han Solo:''' "You're all clear, kid! Now let's blow this thing and go home!"
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* GunshipRescue: Han Solo saves Luke, who is being targeted while piloting straight to the tunnel leading to the core of the Death Star.
-->'''Han Solo:''' "You're all clear, kid! Now let's blow this thing and go home!"
-->'''Han Solo:''' "You're all clear, kid! Now let's blow this thing and go home!"
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* ClimaxBoss: Obi-Wan's fight against Darth Vader, to which the former sacrifices himself and allows the rest of the heroes to escape the Death Star. The FinalBattle is an aerial dogfight between Luke Skywalker and the Rebels against Vader and the Empire, culminating in the Death Star's destruction.
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* BigBadassBattleSequence: The battle of Yavin IV, where the Rebellion sends all of its starfighters against the Death Star as it moves to destroy the Rebel base.
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** Obi-Wan Kenobi hands a Luke a weapon without first explaining how it works. A weapon that will instantly kill or maim you and/or anything and everything else in the
** Later, Obi-Wan has Luke being shot at by a little droid (which makes Luke flinch in pain every time he is hit) then intentionally puts a blinding face mask on him, even though Luke is only standing a couple feet away from Chewy while holding a plasma sword of death.
* AsceticAesthetic:
** TheEmpire uses a clean, dark and minimalist aesthetic, which is why the stormtroopers are stark white in spite of the general aesthetic that DarkIsEvil.
** Princess Leia's starship, the ''Tantine IV'', has mostly white and chrome interiors, befitting a diplomatic starship belonging to the Imperial senator from the very wealthy world of Alderaan,
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* GrapplingHookPiston: Averted. When Luke and Leia are trapped by a chasm in the Death Star, Luke discovers one of the compartments of his Stormtrooper utility belt contains a grappling hook and line, but no launcher. He tosses the line so that the hook snags on some overhead piping, allowing he and Leia to swing to safety.
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* GrapplingHookPiston: GrapplingHookPistol: Averted. When Luke and Leia are trapped by a chasm in the Death Star, Luke discovers one of the compartments of his Stormtrooper utility belt contains a grappling hook and line, but no launcher. He tosses the line so that the hook snags on some overhead piping, allowing he and Leia to swing to safety.
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* ArmorIsUseless: At one point during the film, Han Solo and Luke Skywalker steal two sets of Stormtrooper armor to hide among Death Star personnel. As soon as they free Leia and escape the trash compactor, they immediately dispense with the armor. Once its use as camouflage is rendered irrelevant, so is its use as armor.
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* SitRep: A perfect example of one is delivered by Gold-5. After Gold Leader and Gold-2 got blasted, he immediately pulled out of the trench, and immediately started telling Red Squadron what was waiting, before being killed uttering his last words.
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* TortureFirstAskQuestionsLater: Nearly the first thing we see Darth Vader do is [[NeckLift lift a rebel officer by the neck]] and begin choking him. ''Then'' he starts asking him questions. And then he keeps squeezing until things break.
-->'''Darth Vader:''' Where are those transmissions you intercepted?
-->'''Darth Vader:''' Where are those transmissions you intercepted?
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* TestedOnHumans: Grand Moff Tarkin threatens to test the Death Star's planet-destroying superweapon on Princess Leia's homeworld of Alderaan, [[SadisticChoice unless she surrenders the location of the rebel headquarters to be blown up instead]]. However, Tarkin decides to obliterate Alderaan anyway, reasoning that the location Leia gave (Dantooine) is far too remote to serve as [[MakeAnExampleOfThem an effective demonstration for the rest of the galaxy]].
