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* MultipleEndingsMultipleEndings: The game has two endings depending on their alignment at the end of the game. [[NoCanonForTheWicked The light side ending is canon]].
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* BlackAndWhiteMagic: Kyle can use the light side (healing and support skills) or the dark side (only does damage and instant death).

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* BlackAndWhiteMagic: Kyle can use the light side (healing and support skills) or the dark side (only does damage and instant death). Choosing powers from either side pushes Kyle's alignment to light or dark and, after defeating Maw, Kyle loses all his light or dark powers depending on which side he's on and, by extension, which cutscene is triggered at the end of the boss battle.
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* BrickJoke: Mara Jade saying to herself she's having a feeling she's going to regret working with Ka' Pa. Later in the game where she encounters a Rancor in a dark room unarmed...
-->'''Mara''': ''I'' knew ''I was gonna regret this!''
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* [[spoiler:RedemptionEqualsDeath]]: [[spoiler:Yun has just enough time to complete his HeelFaceTurn before being cut down (intentionally or unintentionally, depending on the source) by his mentor]].

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* [[spoiler:RedemptionEqualsDeath]]: RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Yun has just enough time to complete his HeelFaceTurn before being cut down (intentionally or unintentionally, depending on the source) by his mentor]].
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Misuse. A Five Man Band has five members, and five members only.


* FiveBadBand: The Dark Jedi:
** The BigBad: Jerec.
** TheDragon: Boc.
** The EvilGenius: Sariss.
** TheBrute: Pic and Gorc.
** TheDarkChick: Yun.
** The SixthRanger: Maw.
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* TheObiWan: Rahn to Kyle.



* TheObiWan: Kyle to Mara.
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* AlwaysOverTheShoulder: The first entry in the series that introduces this as an option for anytime you draw your lightsaber.
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* AlwaysOverTheShoulder: The first entry in the series that introduces this as an option for anytime you draw your lightsaber.
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* YouALLLookFamiliar: There seems to be as many as three male and two female civilian models in both the original game and the expansion pack.
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* TakeUpMySword: Kyle is given Rahn's lightsabre.

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* TakeUpMySword: Kyle is given Rahn's lightsabre.lightsaber.



* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: One of the new powers is the ability to throw your lightsabre at enemies. It will perform a BoomerangComeback once its maximum range has been reached.

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* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: One of the new powers is the ability to throw your lightsabre lightsaber at enemies. It will perform a BoomerangComeback once its maximum range has been reached.

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* CutsceneIncompetence: At the end of Level 3 Kyle is surprised by two rail troopers, the kind of whom he must have defeated a few dozen times by now. That's enough to make him run off like a whimp.

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* CutsceneIncompetence: A few times throughout the game:
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At the end of Level 3 2 Kyle is surprised by two rail troopers, the kind of whom he must have defeated a few dozen times by now. That's enough to make him run off like a whimp.whimp.
** A bunch of Ka' Pa the Hutt's henchmen are no match for Mara Jade... as long as plot convenience doesn't require her to be forced into taking up Ka' Pa's job offer.



* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: At the end of Level 3 Kyle jumps into a seemingly bottomless pit, prompting one of the stormtroopers chasing after him to invoke this trope.

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* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: At the end of Level 3 2 Kyle jumps into a seemingly bottomless pit, prompting one of the stormtroopers chasing after him to invoke this trope.
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* CutsceneIncompetence: At the end of Level 3 Kyle is surprised by two rail troopers, the kind of whom he must have defeated a few dozen times by now. That's enough to make him run off like a whimp.


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* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: At the end of Level 3 Kyle jumps into a seemingly bottomless pit, prompting one of the stormtroopers chasing after him to invoke this trope.
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* GoddamnedBats: The mailocs that you encounter on Sulon take a lot of your health and are pretty [[NightmareFuel creepy]] in their own right although they do take their sweet time between placing themselves in front of you and attacking which means getting rid of them is fairly easy (your basic lightsaber hit will easily cut down even two of them at the same time, practically making them more of a nuisance rather than an actual threat).
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* GoddamnedBats: The mailocs that you encounter on Sulon take a lot of your health and are pretty [[NightmareFuel creepy]] in their own right although they do take their sweet time between placing themselves in front of you and attacking which means getting rid of them is fairly easy (your basic lightsaber hit will easily cut down even two of them at the same time, practically making them more of a nuisance rather than an actual threat).
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* SimpleYetAwesome: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] when compared to the sequels. Unlike in ''Outcast'' and ''Academy'', where the lightsaber basically renders the rest of your arsenal utterly useless, you're going to be hard pressed to beat this game without resorting to your standard weaponry fairly often. Especially on Hard mode, taking down enemies from distance, while mundane, most of the time still proves much safer than hacking them down with your lightsaber.

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* BossBattle:
** BossOnlyLevel: All of the boss fights take place in their own levels.
** WarmUpBoss: Yun [[spoiler: Doubles as RecurringBoss if you took the Dark Side.]]
** DualBoss: [[DamageSpongeBoss Gorc]] and [[GoddamnedBoss Pic]].
** GetBackHereBoss: Maw
** WakeUpCallBoss: Sariss [[spoiler: But only if you took the Light Side.]]
** CowardlyBoss: Boc
** FinalBoss: Jerec. Doubles as a minor PuzzleBoss.



* DualBoss: Gorc and Pic, though this is less of a dual boss and more of a meatshield combined with a GoddamnedBoss.



* GetBackHereBoss: Maw flies to different parts of the arena that you fight him in the more he gets damaged.


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* LaughingMad: Boc to ridiculous levels.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: After 8t88 tracks down the map to the Valley of the Jedi, Jerec tells him his payment is waiting for him in a cargo ship at a fuel station. [[spoiler: But when 8t88 goes to collect it, he gets his head cut off by Jerec's minions, Pic and Gorc. Some thanks.]]
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* TakeUpMySword: Kyle is given Rahn's lightsabre.


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* DecoyProtagonist: Kyle is the PlayerCharacter for the first four levels. After that, the game follows Mara's adventures.
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* {{BFG}}: The concussion rifle returns from the original game, now with a secondary attack more suitable for close range combat. Additionally, the mortar gun has been replaced with a rail detonator, essentially a three shot revolving rocket launcher, although this isn't really implemented since the game has no reloading mechanic.


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* GunsAreWorthless: In the last couple of levels, Mara's guns all misfire, forcing the lightsabre to be used.


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* {{Nerf}}: The lightsabre's damage has been reduced from the base game. On the other hand, the sabre throw power gives it a ranged option.


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* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: One of the new powers is the ability to throw your lightsabre at enemies. It will perform a BoomerangComeback once its maximum range has been reached.
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'''Morgan Katarn:''' I want you to remember, son, when you're at the Academy... how very proud I am of you. What a fine young man you've become. [[MissingMom I only wish your mother were here to see it...]] but I know she watches over you, and is proud.

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--> '''Morgan Katarn:''' I want you to remember, son, when you're at the Academy... how very proud I am of you. What a fine young man you've become. [[MissingMom I only wish your mother were here to see it...]] but I know she watches over you, and is proud.

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* BookEnds: One of the first sights of the game shows Kyle Katarn viewing a recording from his [[DisappearedDad deceased father]]. [[spoiler: In the darkside ending, Kyle replays the recording one last time, before apparently growing disgusted with it and crushing the recorder beneath his boot.]]



* IronicEcho: In the darkside ending, [[spoiler: Kyle replays the recording from his father one last time, before apparently growing disgusted with it and crushing the recorder beneath his boot.]]

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* IronicEcho: In the darkside ending, [[spoiler: Kyle replays Kyle, now the new Emperor, sits on his throne and views the recording from his father one last time, before apparently growing disgusted with it father. When the recording reaches the point where Morgan comments on [[SoProudOfYou how very proud he is of Kyle]], a twinge of emotion seems to cross Kyle's face and crushing he subsequently crushes the recorder beneath his boot.]]
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* IronicEcho: In the darkside ending, [[spoiler: Kyle replays the recording from his father one last time, before apparently growing disgusted with it and crushing the recorder beneath his boot.]]


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* SoProudOfYou: The opening lines to the recording made by Kyle's father:
'''Morgan Katarn:''' I want you to remember, son, when you're at the Academy... how very proud I am of you. What a fine young man you've become. [[MissingMom I only wish your mother were here to see it...]] but I know she watches over you, and is proud.
** The recording shows up again in [[spoiler: the darkside ending, where its words become an IronicEcho.]]
* TragicKeepsake: Kyle keeps a recording of his [[DisappearedDad deceased father]] congratulating him on attending the Imperial Academy. [[spoiler: He destroys it in his darkside ending.]]
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* AlignmentBasedEndings: The ending is determined by a hidden KarmaMeter.

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* AlignmentBasedEndings: The ending is determined by a hidden KarmaMeter.KarmaMeter shown on the jedi Powers page.
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* HeelFaceTurn: Yun, over the course of the entire game, as detailed in the novellas that were based on it. Which leads to [[spoiler: his RedemptionEqualsDeath]].
* ICanRuleAlone: Kyle to Jerec in the bad ending for Dark Forces 2.

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* HeelFaceTurn: Yun, [[spoiler:Yun]], over the course of the entire game, as detailed in the novellas that were based on it. Which [[spoiler:Which leads to [[spoiler: his RedemptionEqualsDeath]].
* ICanRuleAlone: Kyle [[spoiler:Kyle to Jerec in the bad ending for Dark Forces 2.]]



* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Yun]]. He has just enough time to complete his HeelFaceTurn before being cut down (intentionally or unintentionally, depending on the source) by [[spoiler:his mentor]].

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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Yun]]. He [[spoiler:RedemptionEqualsDeath]]: [[spoiler:Yun has just enough time to complete his HeelFaceTurn before being cut down (intentionally or unintentionally, depending on the source) by [[spoiler:his his mentor]].



* BlackAndWhiteMagic: Kyle becomes TheRedMage (although he can use all the available powers) because the plot requires him to do a quick FaceHeelTurn, only to be redeemed by Mara.

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* BlackAndWhiteMagic: Kyle [[spoiler:Kyle]] becomes TheRedMage (although he can use all the available powers) because the plot requires him to do a quick FaceHeelTurn, only [[spoiler:only to be redeemed by Mara.]]
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** Max from ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxHitTheRoad'' makes an appearance as an EasterEgg. A demented, pint-sized lagomorph received official mention in one of the online RPG supplements.
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''Franchise/StarWars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II'' (1997) was the first game of the VideoGame/DarkForcesSaga to feature first-person lightsaber battles. This story takes place after the events of the original trilogy. Here, Kyle learns of his Force potential and receives his own lightsaber, once owned by a Jedi Master named Rahn, whose spirit occasionally guides him in dreams and visions. He follows a lead to the Dark Jedi Jerec, with the intent [[YouKilledMyFather to avenge his father's murder]]. Jerec seeks for a mysterious [[ForgottenSuperweapon Valley of the Jedi]] that legend tells has monumental power, providing additional incentive to stop him. Part of the feature is a light side/dark side progression, where your actions (kill innocents or protect them) and choices and uses of Force power dictate which side you will lean to. There are two endings, light side and dark side. WordOfGod (and future games) say that the light side ending is {{canon}}. Live action cut scenes moved the plot along, elevating the game to an almost movie-like experience ([[NarmCharm albeit with daytime-soap-opera-level acting]]).

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''Franchise/StarWars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II'' (1997) was the first game of the VideoGame/DarkForcesSaga to feature first-person lightsaber battles. This story takes place after the events of the original trilogy. Here, Kyle learns of his Force potential and receives his own lightsaber, once owned by a Jedi Master named Rahn, whose spirit occasionally guides him in dreams and visions. He follows a lead to the Dark Jedi Jerec, with the intent [[YouKilledMyFather to avenge his father's murder]]. Jerec seeks for a mysterious [[ForgottenSuperweapon Valley of the Jedi]] that legend tells has monumental power, providing additional incentive to stop him. Part of the feature is a light side/dark side progression, where your actions (kill innocents or protect them) and choices and uses of Force power dictate which side you will lean to. There are two endings, light side and dark side. WordOfGod (and future games) say that the light side ending is {{canon}}. Live action cut scenes moved the plot along, elevating the game to an almost movie-like experience ([[NarmCharm albeit with daytime-soap-opera-level acting]]).

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[[redirect:VideoGame/DarkForcesSaga]]''Franchise/StarWars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II'' (1997) was the first game of the VideoGame/DarkForcesSaga to feature first-person lightsaber battles. This story takes place after the events of the original trilogy. Here, Kyle learns of his Force potential and receives his own lightsaber, once owned by a Jedi Master named Rahn, whose spirit occasionally guides him in dreams and visions. He follows a lead to the Dark Jedi Jerec, with the intent [[YouKilledMyFather to avenge his father's murder]]. Jerec seeks for a mysterious [[ForgottenSuperweapon Valley of the Jedi]] that legend tells has monumental power, providing additional incentive to stop him. Part of the feature is a light side/dark side progression, where your actions (kill innocents or protect them) and choices and uses of Force power dictate which side you will lean to. There are two endings, light side and dark side. WordOfGod (and future games) say that the light side ending is {{canon}}. Live action cut scenes moved the plot along, elevating the game to an almost movie-like experience ([[NarmCharm albeit with daytime-soap-opera-level acting]]).

The game received an ExpansionPack in 1998, ''Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith'', telling some of Kyle's story after he has become a full Jedi Knight. The player soon takes control of Kyle's "reciprocal apprentice" (as in, they're teaching each other), Mara Jade (who becomes Luke Skywalker's wife in canon some years later), as Kyle goes off to find what may be the remnants of a Sith temple. He disappears from all contact, however, and you have to track him down, only to discover him skirting dangerously close to the dark side. After the events of this game, Kyle swears off the life of a Jedi and returns to being a hired mercenary (for the New Republic, at least).
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!!The main game contains examples of following tropes:

* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: The sequential sluice gates in the third level will probably haunt your nightmares the longest time.
* AlignmentBasedEndings: The ending is determined by a hidden KarmaMeter.
* AlwaysOverTheShoulder: ''Dark Forces 2'', the first game in the series with a third-person camera, has a setting to automatically change to third-person when switching to the lightsaber.
* ArtifactTitle: "Dark Forces" refers to the Dark Trooper project, which would make its presence in ''Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight'', about a guy become a Jedi and fighting a group of Dark Side users along the way rather irrelevant... were it not for the implications of the term "Dark Force" in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' universe.
* BlackAndWhiteMagic: Kyle can use the light side (healing and support skills) or the dark side (only does damage and instant death).
* ChargeMeter: Certain Force powers have it.
* ContinuityNod: Kyle says to 8t88, "The dark side? I've been there. Do your worst." This is referring to dialogue in ''VideoGame/DarkForces'' where Kyle says "I'll see you on the dark side." just before launching to the ''Executor''. It may also be reference to his previous occupation as a stormtrooper prior to the series.
* DarkActionGirl: Sariss.
* DeadlyGaze: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Force Deadly Sight]].
* DecapitationPresentation: Maw mentions doing this to Kyle's father, but the actual decapitation and subsequent public display of the head on a spike occurs offscreen. Unless you have the book...
* DualBoss: Gorc and Pic, though this is less of a dual boss and more of a meatshield combined with a GoddamnedBoss.
* EmergencyWeapon: Your fists prior to receiving your lightsaber (though you still have the option of using your fists).
* EnemyCivilWar: Mostly averted, in relation to your Imperial foes, save for some hints that stormtroopers were fed to or accidentally happened upon some kell dragons. Mooks working in the underworld seem much more prone to this sort of behavior, however. One notable example is a BarBrawl between a number of Grans in Baron's Hed.
* EpicTrackingShot: A particularly good one appears in the introduction to Nar Shaddaa.
* EvilIsHammy: Christopher Neame is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EeFTEKZxgo clearly]] having a ''lot'' of fun as [[BigBad Jerec]].
* EyeBeams: The Dark Side power "[[DeathGlare Deadly Sight]]" could be considered this.
* FiveBadBand: The Dark Jedi:
** The BigBad: Jerec.
** TheDragon: Boc.
** The EvilGenius: Sariss.
** TheBrute: Pic and Gorc.
** TheDarkChick: Yun.
** The SixthRanger: Maw.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation:
** Force Destruction in the capable hands of Jerec is shown to be powerful enough to fatally cripple a docked capital ship, but in actual gameplay it doesn't do much more than hit ''really'' hard.
** Speaking of Jerec, he is shown to be without eyes (originally, he was intended to be a human whose dark side nature caused his eyes to rot away; eventually he was retconned into an eyeless humanoid species called the Miraluka), yet Force Blinding works on him perfectly fine in-game (although I guess you can argue that Force Blinding would cut off his ability to see through the Force as well).
* GetBackHereBoss: Maw flies to different parts of the arena that you fight him in the more he gets damaged.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNoWhere: There's a [[SeaMonster Drugon]] in Barons Hed's main pool for some reason. Two levels later, you can (optionally) stumble in a room of Jerec's Palace.... which, for some reasons hosts a [[DemonicSpider Kell Dragon.]]
* GoodPowersBadPeople: Several Dark Jedi use light side powers.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Maw is cut in half at the waist by Rahn during the opening cutscene. He spends the rest of the game without his legs, using telekinesis to get around. In the instruction booklet, he's described as "a levitating incarnation of rage".
* HeelFaceTurn: Yun, over the course of the entire game, as detailed in the novellas that were based on it. Which leads to [[spoiler: his RedemptionEqualsDeath]].
* ICanRuleAlone: Kyle to Jerec in the bad ending for Dark Forces 2.
* IdiosyncraticDifficultyLevels: Apprentice (easy), Jedi Knight (medium), Jedi Master (hard).
* KarmaMeter: A major element. You can fall to the Dark Side in two ways: allowing or causing the deaths of noncombatant individuals and droids, or investing too many ranks in Dark powers.
* KillHimAlready: After their respective defeats, Yun, Maw and Jerec each try this on Kyle. [[spoiler:Maw succeeds.]]
* MultipleEndings
* TheObiWan: Rahn to Kyle.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Yun]]. He has just enough time to complete his HeelFaceTurn before being cut down (intentionally or unintentionally, depending on the source) by [[spoiler:his mentor]].
* SecondHourSuperpower: The game initially starts out like a shooter, but a few levels in, and you're a Jedi.
* ShoutOut: Gorc and Pic have been clearly inspired by the similar duo of "Master Blaster" from ''[[Film/MadMax Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome]]''.
* SoftWater: Mostly played straight save for at least one occasion, such as when the player is required to navigate a metal grid suspended over a rather distant body of water on his way to an aqueduct. In this case, if Kyle falls, he exhibits an anomalous case of SuperDrowningSkills.
* UnholyNuke: Jerec can use the "Destruction" Force Power. It's a Dark Side attack that consist in a fiery ball of flames and negative energy that destroys everything on its path.
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!!The ''Mysteries of the Sith'' expansion contains examples of following tropes:

* ActionGirl: Mara Jade.
* BlackAndWhiteMagic: Kyle becomes TheRedMage (although he can use all the available powers) because the plot requires him to do a quick FaceHeelTurn, only to be redeemed by Mara.
* BonusStage: A downloadable extra level unrelated to the main story, [[spoiler:featuring Luke Skywalker arriving at Cloud City during ''The Empire Strikes Back'', for a final confrontation with a dark-side Kyle (standing in for Vader).]]
* ChargeMeter: The scout pistol.
* ContinuityNod: During Mara Jade's mission to locate the Holocron, you can stumble upon 8t88's head as well as the head for a phase II dark trooper.
-->'''Mara''': ''This looks familiar.''
* DarkActionGirl: Arguably Mara Jade, given her background.
* DressingAsTheEnemy: Mara steals a Tusken Raider outfit in order to infiltrate Ka'Pa's palace.
* EnemyCivilWar: The palace of Ka'Pa the Hutt also has a few sequences in which mooks attack one another.
* {{Futureshadowing}}: The planet [[VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic Dromund Kaas]] is first introduced in ''Mysteries of the Sith''.
* GravityIsAHarshMistress: Kyle actually utters this very sentence at least once.
* NoGearLevel: First, if you don't grab your lightsaber back at one point in Takara's stronghold, Mara must fight her way through Gamorrean guards and must evade (and later kill) a rancor. Then, when you reach the final levels on Dromund Kaas most of her weaponry is useless, and she's forced to focus on her lightsaber.
* TheObiWan: Kyle to Mara.
* PuzzleBoss: [[spoiler:Kyle himself. Study the hieroglyphics in the room where you fight him ''very'' carefully for a hint on how to win.]]
* [[TakenForGranite Taken For Carbonite]]: ''Mysteries'' introduces a special carbonite rifle that freezes enemies in, well, carbonite.
* UniqueEnemy: The Rancor.
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