History VideoGame / TheForceUnleashed

A Creator/LucasArts ''StarWars''-based multimedia project, like ''ShadowsOfTheEmpire'' eleven years before it. Covers a wide range of mediums including ComicBooks, a novel (by Creator/SeanWilliams), action figures and a RolePlayingGame, but the VideoGame has received most of the attention. The new feature that has been paraded around is an advanced graphic and physics engine, allowing visuals and gameplay features that were impossible before. The environments are huge and you are capable of manipulating (and destroying) almost anything. You know some of the things Mace Windu and Yoda do in ''StarWarsCloneWars'' (flinging around star fighters, ripping apart armies with little trouble), it's kind of like that.

The basic story of ''TFU'' centers around [[TheDragon Darth Vader]]'s secret Sith apprentice, born Galen Marek but [[CodeName codenamed]] "Starkiller", and explores his role in the ''Star Wars'' universe. Set during the time period between ''RevengeOfTheSith'' and ''ANewHope'', he ends up interacting with various canon characters and fills in new details.

* TheGump: Galen. Full force and in all the debatable ways.
** Juno starts to get in on the action too during her story in the second novel.

* EvillyAffable: Proxy, due to his programming, becomes a hybrid of C-3P0 and HK-47. [[spoiler: Though given that he sacrifices himself for Starkiller in the end]] and there were signs of genuine fondness for Galen (later Juno) mentioned in the novel, PROXY wasn't EvillyAffable through and through. The only reason he does qualify is that he really does try to ''kill'' Starkiller every time they duel (though it's justified as it's meant to keep Starkiller's combat skills sharp).

A ''StarWars''-based multimedia project, like ''ShadowsOfTheEmpire'' eleven years before it. Covers a wide range of mediums including ComicBooks, a novel (by Creator/SeanWilliams), action figures and a RolePlayingGame, but the VideoGame has received most of the attention. The new feature that has been paraded around is an advanced graphic and physics engine, allowing visuals and gameplay features that were impossible before. The environments are huge and you are capable of manipulating (and destroying) almost anything. You know some of the things Mace Windu and Yoda do in ''StarWarsCloneWars'' (flinging around star fighters, ripping apart armies with little trouble), it's kind of like that.

* InkSuitActor: Starkiller, Juno Eclipse, Rahm Kota, and Maris Brood all look very much like their voice actors, as LucasArts used facial recognition technology to incorporate the likeness of the actors into the game. Bail Organa was also voiced by Jimmy Smitts, but he was in the live action movies anyway.

* MundaneUtility: Force Lighting, the black line between the light side and the dark side, makes a great lantern.
** Better than the lightsaber even.

* SupernaturalMartialArts: Most evident during the ActionCommand sequences. During the final sequence in the duel with Kazdan Paratus, it almost feels like an ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' action scene.

* DidNotDoTheResearch: In the sequel, Starkiller flees Kamino in Darth Vader's fighter, the TIE Advanced x1 prototype, which has deflector shields, a low-grade hyperdrive, and ''no life support system'' (it's Vader's ship, and [[{{Cyborg}} being Vader]] he always has one on). Although Starkiller does show up in the next level in an Imperial Pilot's uniform. Maybe Vader had a spare for his valet?

A ''StarWars''-based multimedia project, like ''ShadowsOfTheEmpire'' eleven years before it. Covers a wide range of mediums including ComicBooks, a novel (by SeanWilliams), action figures and a RolePlayingGame, but the VideoGame has received most of the attention. The new feature that has been paraded around is an advanced graphic and physics engine, allowing visuals and gameplay features that were impossible before. The environments are huge and you are capable of manipulating (and destroying) almost anything. You know some of the things Mace Windu and Yoda do in ''StarWarsCloneWars'' (flinging around star fighters, ripping apart armies with little trouble), it's kind of like that.

[[caption-width-right:306:[[GameplayAndStorySegregation Surprisingly, this is the worst moment in the game.]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Except in the Wii version. Then it's as awesome as it should be.]]]]

->'''Juno''': Am I ever going to see you again?
->'''Galen''': If I can free [[spoiler: the Rebels]], they're going to need extraction. Probably not, no.
->'''Juno''': Then I'll never need to live this down.
-->--'''The Force Unleashed'''

A ''StarWars''-based multimedia project, like ''ShadowsOfTheEmpire'' eleven years before it. Covers a wide range of mediums including ComicBooks, a novel (by SeanWilliams), action figures and a RolePlayingGame, but the VideoGame has received most of the attention. The new feature that has been paraded around is an advanced graphic and physics engine, allowing visuals and gameplay features that were impossible before. The environments are huge and you are capable of manipulating (and destroying) almost anything. You know some of the things Mace Windu and Yoda do in ''StarWarsCloneWars'' (flinging around star fighters, ripping apart armies with little trouble)... it's kind of like that.

* LargeHam: Emperor Palpatine, natch.

* HotAmazon: [[spoiler: Leia in the Endor DLC.]] Sign me up for the rebellion!
** Shaak Ti in Part 1.

** [[spoiler:The Dark Apprentice from the sequel's Dark Side ending. At no point is he even hinted at during the main storyline, his only appearance coming if the player chooses to kill Vader instead of arrest him. His origin is explained in a series of movies that the player can unlock by completing several challenges]].

* AlwaysABiggerFish[=/=]BaitAndSwitchBoss: In the boss fight on Cato Neimoidia in the sequel. It looks like the clone Starkiller is about to face off against a Rancor - and then an even LARGER arm reaches out, grabs the Rancor and pulls it into a darkened opening. Out of that opening comes the ''real'' boss, the Gorog.
* AintTooProudToBeg: In the second game, [[spoiler:Galen does a Type 2 to Vader when the latter threatens to kill Juno.]]

* ArtificialBrilliance: Suddenly comes out against the last boss. He adapts to your tactics, and punishes any weakness in your style. And if you try to be a cheapass and spam him... HE SPAMS BACK HARDER. Of course, since it's [[spoiler: Darth Vader]] if the game gave you any less, people would complain.

* BerserkButton: For Starkiller, it's Juno. Dear God, not even TheForce will help you if you harm her in Starkiller's presence, something [[spoiler:Darth Vader finds out when it appears he's killed Juno at the end of the second game]]. You DO NOT screw with {{Love Interest}}s/family members of StarWars characters. You end up getting squished like a bug, [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu God-like powers or not.]]

* BittersweetEnding: Starkiller manages to save his friends, but he [[spoiler: dies while buying them time to escape.]]

* BroadStrokes: While not exactly with a LiteraryAgentHypothesis to justify it, but the crazy uses of the force can easily be used in this way. And accounting for the fact that despite how powerful Galen is, Vader and Palpatine still seem to be more powerful.

* TheCameo: Jar Jar Binks, who shows up frozen in carbonite in the Kashyyyk level. In addition, [=R2-D2=] shows up in the background in a few cutscenes because... well, he's [=R2-D2=], and the last hologram PROXY uses during his fight with Galen? [[spoiler: '''''Darth Maul'''''.]]
** There are loads of film and video game characters available as costumes, from Kit Fisto to [[KnightsOfTheOldRepublic Darth Sion]] to Obi-Wan.

-->''(while staring down an enormous, VideoGame/GodOfWar-style boss)''

** And at the end of II the Rebels [[spoiler: take Vader to Dantooine. Is it any wonder he knows about it and they've evacuated it by A New Hope?]]
** ContinuitySnarl: How in the HELL does the Rebel Alliance not know about [[spoiler:the Death Star when is leaders were ABOARD it?]]

* CutscenePowerToTheMax: Finishing moves in boss fights. Come to think of it, this is actually the only way that he actually kills any bosses.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The creators claim this for the story of the sequel with it being [[ItsPersonal more personal]] for Starkiller. Turned out to be ironic [[spoiler: since the sequel has a far happier ending than the first game.]]

** The series however is quick darker in general compared to StarWars video games and even the trilogy itself. You are not some plucky Rebel resistance member who acquires the power of the force but rather an AntiVillain turned AntiHero (possibly, unless you are playing the DLC which then turns the DarkerAndEdgier UpToEleven as you completely destroy all hope) who works for the Empire (or rather Vader).
* DeadpanSnarker: Starkiller goes into this territory sometimes, more obvious in the second game when another character is running Mission Control.

-->'''PROXY''': 6% of lifts are in working order...3%

* DidNotDoTheResearch: In the sequel, Starkiller flees Kamino in Darth Vader's fighter, the TIE Advanced x1 prototype, which has deflector shields, a low-grade hyperdrive, and ''no life support system'' (it's Vader's ship, and [[{{Cyborg}} being Vader]] he always has one on). Apparently [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace Starkiller can breathe in space]].
** Although he does show up in the next level in a dressed down Imperial Pilot's uniform. Maybe Vader had a spare for his valet?

** Preordering the second game from Gamestop gave players [[{{Badass}} Maulkiller]] costume, as well as silver lightsaber crystals. An Endor mission is available for purchase for II as well.

*** Turns out, [[spoiler: Starkiller doesn't find out who he really is, though he will probably find out if there is a III, since Vader is captured by the Rebel Alliance. It seems likely that original Starkiller was OnlyMostlyDead, since apparently cloning Force-Sensitivity results in psychosis, insanity and suicidal tendencies-and who wants an enraged Starkiller running around screwing up all your stuff.]]

* TheDulcineaEffect: Oh so much in the sequel though it isn't one-sided (at least not in the book where there is a lot more of Juno). Both Starkiller ''and'' Juno are fucking out of their minds in what they do to try and save each other even though their little flirtations in the first game didn't seem that serious.
** Although it sort of makes sense. When you consider that Juno is the first woman Galen's had any real, meaningful interaction with/hasn't killed, and is the first person who has ever really cared about him, it makes a lot of sense that he would do anything to keep her safe. As for Juno, Kota outright told her that she was Galen's tether to the Light Side. I'm guessing that is not something she takes lightly.

** Pressing the Lightning button while playing as Vader in the first level performs the classic "YouHaveFailedMe" Force Choke. [[ArtisticLicense Except in the DS version.]]

* FakeDifficulty: Happens occasionally due to interface troubles. The Kazdan Paratus fight is the most notorious example of this. Between [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard the boss spamming Force Push indefinitely]] if the player [[StoneWall turtles]], to the CameraScrew limiting the player's motion, this fight is difficult for the wrong reasons.

** [[BigBad The Big Bad]]: Darth Vader

** Vader does this in the sequel. "Jump up to platform, send in Elite Mooks."

* FreeFallFight: The Gorog.

* GenreSavvy: The novelization of the second game makes a point that while Starkiller's purpose is still to AlwaysSaveTheGirl no matter what, he is careful to avoid falling onto TheDarkSide, as Juno most likely would not want to be with a monster he would become on it.

* GoodIsDumb: Zig zagged. At the end, when Kota tries the old IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim spiel, Starkiller ''points out'' to him that it's a trick and [[spoiler:Palpatine]] isn't beaten yet. [[GenreSavvy He's fully aware it's a feint.]] But the moment he then lets go of his anger and makes a HeelFaceTurn for good, he immediately forgets this and falls for the trick anyway. It's as if the act of becoming a good guy instantly halved his IQ.

* HailFirePeaks: An Imperial base inside a sarlacc? WTK?
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Starkiller and to a lesser extent Juno]]

* [[HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act]]: In the new alternate storyline, [[spoiler:it is revealed that if you kill the Rebel Alliance's founding leaders, the Alliance is formed anyway, presumably by the escaped Leia.]] Given that the other members were all known and had to go underground or were under careful watch by the empire this is probably not that far from what happened in the lightside ending either.

* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: General Kota insists that [[spoiler:Galen not kill the emperor because he thinks it will make him fall to TheDarkSide. The key was "not kill him in ''anger".'' Force sensitives are like potential alcoholics: one little sip of TheDarkSide and '''''Bam!''''' FaceHeelTurn. A viable solution would have been to let Kota do the deed (he had better emotional grounding and slightly less hate for the emperor), or even one of the captured senators (what? Regicide is fun!)]] But of course, stopping to debate these things around GenreSavvy Palpatine is one surefire way to get lightninged up.
** An alternate interpretation is that Kota himself is the one being GenreSavvy in this scene; he doesn't want Galen to attempt the killing blow because he's pretty sure the Emperor is playing possum and ''wants'' it for the chance to ''counterattack.'' Galen himself even says that Palpatine is stronger than anyone realizes and you can't trust his feeble appearance, even when he's flat on his back; the best option is to get away from him. [[spoiler: The fact that Palpatine is able to get right up and attack so strongly that Galen has to sacrifice himself just to ''distract'' him long enough for the others to run gives this some credence. That is EXACTLY what Darth Sidious did to Mace Windu in order to trick Anakin Skywalker into thinking him helpless.]]
** [[spoiler: Oh no it's not. Palpatine moved to use lightning against the Rebels, so Starkiller moved in to block. He would have probably won again, but noticed Vader showing up with reinforcements, so to buy time and distract ''Vader and the reinforcements'', ''not'' Palpatine, he gives himself to the Force and causes an explosion. Mace Windu ''did'' genuinely defeat Sidious. Mace ''invented a whole new lightsaber style'', named Vaapad, which was all but unbeatable, channelling both the user's and the opponent's hate into a loop of Light Side energy. Even Sidious couldn't beat that.]]
** There's also a practical political issue for the Rebels here, since their master plan [[spoiler: relies on the fact once the Emperor and Vader are eliminated, the Empire has no clear line of succession and will descend into warring factions and outright warloadism that will be easy picking for the unified Rebels. However, if Palpatine is killed by an insanely powerful former Sith apprentice, there is a clear successor to the throne with a strong and legitimate claim to it. Sure he's allied with the Rebels now, but since he's already well acquainted with the Dark Side and killing Palpatine has well and truly put him down the Dark path, it's only a matter of time before he makes a FaceHeelTurn and the Rebels are right back where they started.]]

* [[ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder I'm A Doctor, Not A Placeholder!]]: Starkiller uses a variation of this trope in the sequel.

-->'''Starkiller''': Do I look like an engineer, General?

* ImprovisedWeapon: Well, basically anything, really, thanks to the Force and physics engine, but in the Hoth level of the Ultimate Sith Edition, you can rip the blaster cannons off of X-wings - ''and '''shoot''' them by using lightning''.

** Made stranger when you learn that the Emperor is voiced by SamWitwer, aka Starkiller. He does an amazing impression of Ian [=McDiarmid=].Rax

* LonersAreFreaks: Kazdan Paratus. Being isolated on a junkyard planet led him to constructing a replica of the Jedi Temple out of scrap, complete with robotic versions of the last Jedi Council. He speaks to said replica Jedis as if they are alive, and freaks out when Starkiller/Galen trashes them.

* MoralityChain: Juno Eclipse was the one clear thought, the one bright spark Galen Marek held on to, even at the end...sort of ironic, given she is a highly decorated imperial officer who worked her way up through the ranks (given the empire's considerable gender bias and if other imperial females who worked up the ranks are anything to judge by this suggests she must have been fanatically loyal) and is fine with carting around an assassin through space to kill just about anyone even other imperials just because she was ordered to do so. Yes really that is the backstory of the person who gets you to turn away from the dark side. Does that seem right to anyone else?
** Not necessarily. Many a Rebel officer was once in Imperial colors (Han Solo, Crix Madine, Kyle Katarn), and many an Imperial officer was a PunchClockVillain at best. Yes, Juno must have done a few nasty things in the line of duty...but she wasn't much older than Galen, and the Empire was all she knew. Juno was just as much as prisoner as Galen...just had a longer leash due to her NOT being Force-lit.
** Apparently the reason she was flying for Starkiller in the first place was because she had misgivings about her orders and wasn't considered sadistic enough to go places. She wasn't particularly moral, but she was genuinely convinced to join the Rebellion when Starkiller was acting, and his love for her kept him focused on the Light.
* MultiPlatform: Released on just about anything that plays games. Anything means anything. Even the Mac. ''Even the '''''N-Gage'''''''.
* MultipleEndings: Like most other Star Wars games, there's Light and Dark Side endings. As with all StarWars games, the Light Side ending [[spoiler:detailed above in HeroicSacrifice]] is canon; the Dark Side ending [[spoiler:has Galen forced to become Palpatine's new cyborg [[strike: apprentice]] lackey, much like what happened to Vader...except Palps specifically tells him that he will soon cast him aside.]] Quite a DownerEnding if there ever was one.

** And the sequel as well. In the Light Side, [[spoiler: you spare Vader's life and take him prisoner, but as the rebels jump to Hyperspace, Boba Fett's ''Slave 1'' takes off behind you]] setting up a SequelHook. In the Dark Side, [[spoiler: you are about to finish Vader when you're impaled by a lightsaber. [[AllThereInTheManual It turns out you weren't the first stable clone, and THIS one is loyal to Vader.]] He then takes off to hunt down the remaining Rebels.]] The downloadable Endor mission follows. Oh, and in the Light Side, [[spoiler:Juno lives]] and in the Dark Side [[spoiler:she dies.]]

** Maris Brood was even more so than Juno. Her very purpose in the game seems to be so you can fight a hot chick as a boss.

* {{Nerf}}: The lightsaber, to some degree. The focus on the game is not so much direct combat but environment manipulation and force powers. And many enemies you don't want to get close to.
** Indeed, attacking an enemy with a lightsaber seems tantamount to hitting them with a stick. [[PressXToNotDie Except in]] [[CutscenePowerToTheMax cutscenes]], of course.
** The saber thankfully improved in the sequel; at max power, it can take out an average mook in one to two hits.

** Her padawan, Maris Brood, is not exactly fully dressed either. At least from the waist up.

* OminousWalk: To emphasize that you're [[{{Badass}} Darth FUCKING Vader]] you are limited to this in the first level which also serves as a tutorial level.
* OurGiantsAreBigger: Force Unleashed II figures the only way to top a fight with a Rancor is to have Starkiller fight a beast big enough to ''crush a rancor in it's hand''. And he ''still'' beats it!

* PowerCreepPowerSeep: More of a meta example really, it is annoying that Starkiller is pulling Star Destroyers out of orbit while in the original trilogy Yoda, generally accepted as one of if the most powerful Jedi struggled to lift an X-Wing out of a bog. It makes the game fun, but it sort of cheapens other characters' accomplishments.
** Technically, Starkiller didn't ''pull'' one out of orbit but rather nudged it in another direction while it was already falling out of the sky (it was knocked loose when the cannon destroyed its platform). He was a powerful Force user at the peak of his prime, fueled by an adrenaline rush to stay alive since the ship was going to fall on him if he didn't do something. Yoda with Luke's ship, on the other hand, was very close to the end of his life, wasn't in a life threatening situation and probably hadn't used his Force powers like that in years.
** [[WordOfGod Word of God]] says that, canonically, Starkiller is THE most powerful Force user to have, thus far, entered the Star Wars universe. This is especially impressive when you read the Expanded Universe and see just how insane Luke gets.

* RaisedByOrcs

* RedemptionPromotion: Galen is certainly skilled as the secret apprentice, but he becomes insanely powerful as he grows closer to the good guys.
* RefugeInAudacity: The main selling point of the game is being capable of slicing an [=AT-ST=] in half vertically and launching Stormtroopers into the next time zone...and pulling a Star Destroyer down from orbit.
** That last example is actually so audacious that Galen himself doesn't think he can do it... only for General Kota [[spoiler:whom he'd earlier blinded]], to tell him this, as a [[ShoutOut nod to what Yoda told Luke in the second part of the original trilogy]]:
---> "You're a Jedi, boy! Size means nothing to you!"

* SendInTheClones: The sequel might as well have been called ''Star Wars: The Force Unleashed: The Clone Saga.''

** One of the Rebels in the Wii version shouts that the terror droids are "coming out of the walls!", in a very similar fashion to what some of the characters say about the Xenomorphs from Aliens.
** The Achievement for killing a certain number of stormtroopers? [[ChadVader Worst Day-Shift Manager Ever.]] Possibly an ActorAllusion, given the fact that Vader is voiced by Matt Sloan...

* TheSlowWalk: In the level where you control him, Darth Vader ''does not'' walk. He ''stomps forward.'' Not surprisingly, his battles against the defending Wookiees and the protagonist's father become a straightforward ''curbstomp'' or more correctly, a single-handed NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.

* {{Strapped to an Operating Table}}: Where Starkiller wakes up after being [[ThrownOutTheAirlock spaced]]. [[spoiler: And it happens to him again in the dark side ending]].
* SupernaturalMartialArts: Most evident during the ActionCommand sequences. During the final sequence fighting Kasdan Paratus it almost feels like an ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' action scene.

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

* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler: Is Starkiller a clone in the sequel? Your guess is as good as mine.]]

* TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler:Heroic, or at least protagonist, inversion - the second-to-last boss fight of the game is the ''original'' intergalactic {{badass}}, Darth Vader. The fight ends when Galen picks him up, bashes him all over the room with the Force, and throws him through a wall. This is the black-armored man that haunted kids' nightmares for ''decades'' we're talking about here, and Galen throws him around like a ragdoll!]]
** To be fair, the fight ''is'' fairly challenging up to that point. Also, if you choose the Dark Side ending by choosing to fight him again (instead of Palpatine), then the second time around he's ''[[TurnsRed a lot nastier]]''. Seriously. Whoever said that the Dark Side was the "quicker and easier path" deserves to be shot.
*** And then in the second game he is back to being ominous Badass throughout the entire final battle no matter which ending you choose. Hmmm.
** A Rancor, you know, like Jabba's [[FluffyTheTerrible pet]], gets tossed about like a squeaky toy by the Gorog.
* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: In the sequel, Starkiller pretty much gives one of these to Vader.

* XanatosGambit: Darth Vader puts in motion a gambit that helps regain much of his intergalactic badass quality he might have lost over the years. [[spoiler: Even if, somehow, the members of the new rebel alliance escape, he still knows who they are.]]

* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler: Starkiller shouts this during his final battle with Darth Vader. Disappointingly, Vader does not reply with "[[LukeIAmYourFather No, I AM your father!]]".]]
** Inverted in the Ultimate Sith Edition where Starkiller tells Luke what happened to Vader.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: STARKILLER!!!

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** It's somewhat shocking to see Sam Witwer on ''{{Smallville}}'' and not go "Hey, that's Starkiller!" It's even stranger for some who saw him on ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'' first; Witwer isn't a particularly large man, but he [[http://lh6.ggpht.com/condegerald/SNAVs2Y66vI/AAAAAAAAltE/ovNo_kxlrCY/s512/SamWitwer02.jpg filled out his Colonial uniform well enough for Crashdown to look like a tank,]] and Starkiller is significantly more scrawny-looking in comparison.

* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: Sam Witwer (the voice of Starkiller) and David W. Collins (the voice for PROXY) are friends in real life.

* LandfillBeyondTheStars: "Where droids go to die."

-->[[spoiler: "I let you live. You tell me I'm a clone but I ''chose'' to spare you. (*beat*) Maybe Kota's right. Maybe this is all a trick --a way to get me so confused... that I'd forget who I really am and become your slave again. But either way... ''[[ThisIsSparta I.]]'' [[ThisIsSparta Let. You. Live.]] I've finally broken your hold over me."]]

* TheGump: Galen. Full force and in all the [[strike:wrong]] [[YourMileageMayVary debatable]] ways.

* {{Strapped to an Operating Table}}: Where Starkiller wakes up after being [[ThrownOutTheAirlock spaced]]. [[spoiler: And it happens to him again in the [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel dark side ending]]. ]]

-->''(while staring down an enormous, GodOfWar-style boss)''

* HeroicSacrifice: In the canonical light-side ending, [[spoiler:Galen sacrifices himself to buy time for the senators to escape from the Emperor - and, as Vader and the Emperor note, in doing so, he's become a martyr for the Rebel Alliance that will ultimately be their undoing.]] Also, [[spoiler:PROXY, but the sequel reveals [[IGotBetter he got better]]]].
* HesBack: [[spoiler:When Galen and the Rebel founders arrive at Corellia to sign the Declaration of Rebellion, General Kota suddenly shows up, having shed his blindfold, and dressed in full Jedi General regalia. A bewildered Galen says, "I thought you were passed-out in the cargo hold," to which he responds, [[IGotBetter "I finally came to!"]]]]

* ShoutOut: Like many other Star Wars characters (Coleman Trebor, Dannl Faytoni), Kazdan Paratus' name is a shout-out to a crew member--namely, Lawrence Kasdan, who wrote ''Empire'' and ''Jedi'' (and ''[[IndianaJones Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'').

** The achievements for beating Boba Fett in the first game's Tattooine DLC is called "[[RobotChicken And The Quarterback is Toast]]" - a rare case of a Shout Out ''to'' a Shout Out, as the original quote comes from DieHard.

* BecomingTheMask: Galen's sent by Vader to [[spoiler: organize the rebellion.]] That turns out to be his downfall.