History Trivia / TheForceUnleashed

** Darth Vader's apprentice was to use Starkiller only as a call sign, and was supposed to have an actual Darth title, but this was dropped when the official suggestions from George Lucas -- who didn't want the character to have a Darth title -- were Darth Icky or Darth Insanius.

* LetsPlay: Creator/SamWitwer and David W. Collins did a series of Twitch streams where they played through the game while talking to the developers about how ''The Force Unleashed'' was conceived and produced. As of writing, it has yet to be finished.

* TalkingToHimself: Sam Witwer voices both Galen and Emperor Palpatine, and does a shockingly good impression of the latter.

** Darth Vader's apprentice was to use Starkiller only as a call sign, and was supposed to have an actual Darth title, but this was dropped when the official suggestions from George Lucas -- who didn't want the character to have a "Darth" title -- were Darth Icky or Darth Insanius.

** Darth Vader's apprentice was to use Starkiller only as a call sign, and was supposed to have an actual Darth title, but this was dropped when the official suggestions were Darth Icky or Darth Insanius.

* CreatorKiller: The underperformance of ''The Force Unleashed II'' led to the shuttering of other projects that were dependent on its success, ended [=LucasArts=]'s status as an independent developer, opting to license all future titles. Even then, the studio never truly recovered despite the success of ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'', and the studio was put out of its misery in 2013, shortly after Disney acquired Creator/{{Lucasfilm}} and made an exclusivity deal with Creator/ElectronicArts to produce ''Star Wars'' titles for about a decade. It wasn't until 2021 that a successor, Lucasfilm Games, returned to being a proper division licensing ''Star Wars'' assets to other developers.

** Darth Vader's apprentice was to use Starkiller only as a call sign, and was supposed to have an actual Darth title, but this was dropped when the official suggestions were the aforementioned Darth Icky or Darth Insanius.

** The game was originally gone to focus on a Wookiee Freedom Fighter, but due to the fact the Protagonist doesn't talk, George rejected it and the creators decided to make the protagonist a Jedi.

* CastingGag: Creator/CatherineTaber, the voice actor for Padme Amidala in nearly every piece of ''Star Wars'' fiction at the time save for the actual movies themselves and the [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars 2003-5 Clone Wars miniseries]], voices Padme's daughter, Leia. She would later voice Leia in ''VideoGame/DisneyInfinity''.

** Starkiller's Sith name could have been Darth Icky or Darth Insanius.

* TalkingToHimself: Sam Witwer voices both Galen and Emperor Palpatine, and does a [[StealthPun shockingly]] good impression of the latter.

* ImageSource: The sequel's companion comics, for BoardingPod.

* LetsPlay: Creator/SamWitwer and David W. Collins did a series of Twitch streams where they played through the game while talking to the developers about how ''The Force Unleashed''. As of writing, it has yet to be finished.

** The game was originally gone to focus on a Wookiee Freedom Fighter, but due to the fact the Protagonist doesn't talk, George rejected and the creators decided to make the protagonist a Jedi.

** The game was originally gone to focus on a Wookiee Freedom Fighter, but George Lucas rejected the idea.