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* [[EvilCounterpart Evil Counterpart/Good Counterpart]]: All the classes have one. Even sub-classes can be grouped into light and dark counterparts, with skills that mirror each other.

** Jace Malcom, who leads a daring raid on invading Sith forces on Alderaan. He starts with massive destruction via his {{BFG}}. When that starts to get boring, he goes after the local Sith Lord. When Malgus deflects the rockets, he charges him, steam-rolling through two ''Sith Warriors'' in the process. When he's finally stopped by Force Lightning, he pulls out ''a freakin' knife'' before getting blasted away. [[spoiler: Cue an awesome Jedi, who happens to be the Grand Master of Order and a direct descendant of Bastila Shan, whooping up. And what does this man do when the same Sith tries to impale the saving Jedi? He ''bum rushes'' the guy and, whilst they grapple, sets off ''a FREAKIN' GRENADE''. Oh, and ''survives.'']]

** Belsalvis takes the cake; It's a ''Republic'' PenalColony, ostensibly saved for the "worst of the worst." The prisoners there are treated horribly (one remarks he's grateful his cooperation will get him ''weekly'' showers), experimented on with leftover Rakata technology, forced into deathmatches (the guards bet heavily on the results), and ''even their descendants who have done no crime whatsoever'' are treated like maximum security inmates. The Senator and Warden in charge blow it off by saying "they're descended from scum, they're scum too, and might as well gain some scientific benefit/credits/kill them off to save money." (To top it off, the "scientific research" is being done with cripplingly flawed methodology, meaning its findings are probably useless. Nice going, ''Mengele''.) There's a planet-wide PrisonRiot going on between the inmates who have had enough and their innocent descendants on one side, the prison guards on the other. The Imperials are supporting (and, admittedly, provoking) the ''inmates and their descendants.'' The Republic players have a lot of ButThouMust to look the other way on all the abuse, when they aren't given a chance to make things better, though it's implied that lots of careers are going to end over the debacle.

** If the Sith Warrior chooses to remove Vette's shock collar, it will still appear around her neck during actual gameplay (though not in cutscenes). This can be mitigated by changing her headgear.

** Warrior companion Vette starts out wearing a large slave collar. The player can choose to remove it quite early in the game, but outside of cutscenes she's still wearing it.

* ForgottenPhlebotinum: A lot of very powerful technologies show up in the plot once and then never again, even though they're explicitly still in production. The most blatant is the Silencer from the Inquisitor story, a fleet-killing weapon that is used exactly once and then forgotten even though they explicitly issued a lot of them from the first batch and put them into mass production. A more confusing one is Siantide fuel cells from the Warrior story, since the Empire acquires the technology and puts it into production but then the entire Imperial plot for the Rise of the Hutts expansion is how the Empire acquiring a near-identical resource would be a game changer.

* EvilOverlooker: Darth Malgus in the vanilla cover. Revan becomes this in the cover art for ''Shadow of Revan''.

** In the ''Deceived'' trailer we see the Sith fleet sacking Coruscant. [[KillItWithFire They burn stuff.]] A later trailer also revealed that the Bounty Hunter class has ''an ability'' named this that, well, allows them to get airborne and rain AOE fire down on the enemy.

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: This is the long and the short of it re: society within the [[TheEmpire Sith Empire]]. It gets {{deconstructed|Trope}} big time, though. [[spoiler: Their chronic backstabbing leads to Imperial Intelligence getting disbanded and about half the Dark Council dead or worse. Darth Malgus tried to form his own empire in the wake of the Knight taking out the Emperor, the Dread Masters the Empire freed from Belsalvis ''also'' try forming an empire of their own, backstabbing their "rescuers" (even though they are a pain in the Republic's side as well).]] With KlingonPromotion being standard operating procedure, experienced officers, Intelligence personnel, and Sith end up jockeying for position and mere survival, undermining and murdering each other and leading to fewer competent leaders when they already have a lower population and throw much of their population that isn't Sith or human (remember, this is a galaxy with ''thousands'' of sentient races) into slavery, shrinking their talent pool even further. By the time the Makeb storyline rolls around, Darth Marr is admitting the Empire's ''screwed'' and requires several major reforms just to survive.