History StarWars / TropesSToZ

* SecretArt: TheForce, and how to build a lightsaber.

** TheForce itself has analogues in many works like "the Cosmic All" from the ''Lensman'' series and the Source from Creator/JackKirby's ''ComicBook/NewGods''. Creator/MarkHamill, who plays Luke, once asked Lucas where he got the idea and Lucas answered, "it's in about 450 old science fiction novels". The Force can also be traced to the post-hippy atmosphere of the TheSeventies, and ultimately to Eastern philosophy.

* TwinsAreSpecial: Luke and Leia have a connection despite having been SeparatedAtBirth, which conveniently doesn't appear until a crucial moment in the second film. Though this may have less to do with them being twins than it does them having a familial bond '''on top of''' being strong in TheForce, since Luke demonstrates a similar connection with his father.

* UnintentionalBackupPlan: Qui-Gon's and later the Jedi Council's original plan was for Anakin to bring balance to TheForce. However, he ends up falling to the Dark Side and it seems that he won't. In ''Return of the Jedi'', however, he does bring balance to the Force by ensuring that the last of the evil aspect of the Dark Side of the Force dies (and subsequently burns) with him; his son destroys the last vestiges of Vader by burning him on a funeral pyre according to Jedi customs (and it's implied that Anakin's body simply faded away under a minute after the pyre was lit).

** Virtually all spaceships have windows as their primary external view. As a rule, [[SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfDistance most objects more than a few miles away are progressively harder to see]]. Yet even warship commanders stand perched by the windows at the front of their ship's bridges. Note that this is what makes the ThatsNoMoon trope possible.

** [[SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfMass Something with the mass of the Death Star]] should never have been able to maintain such a low geostationary orbit over Endor, and even if it could, the gravitational effects on the moon should have been enormous.
** Likewise, [[SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfEnergy the amount of energy]] required to completely consume something as massive as the Death Star should have burned the atmosphere right off of Endor when it exploded. But instead it all just miraculously dissipated a short distance beyond the Death Star's radius.

** The Emperor looks so fragile, ill, and old compared to the imposing looks of his {{Dragon}}, Darth Vader. Moreover, Vader himself is the one to defeat him in TheClimax, even if just by virtue of exploiting the weakness of the Emperor's Force Lightning technique.