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The Sequel Trilogy Revisited is a rewrite of The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker by Vox Aquila, into The Son of Darkness and The Heir of Skywalker respectively.

• Adaptational Job Change: Mara Jade was an Inquisitor ("Last Sister") rather than a Imperial Hand as was the case of Star Wars Legends.
• Adaptation Name Change:
  • The unification of the First Order with the Sith Eternal is called the Eternal Order, instead of the Final Order.
  • In Shadow of the Sith Lando's daughter's name is Kadara. Here, her name is Sonja.
• Adaptational Nationality: The revision changes Rey's birth planet from Hyperkarn to Bespin. (Hyperkarn becomes Mara's homeworld).
• Adaptation Origin Connection: Kylo Ren's fall to the Dark Side is now connected to Rey; he was the one to separated her from her family and left her for dead on Jakku.
• Adaptational Heroism: General Hux's acting as informant for the Resistance is motivated by a genuine crisis of conscience, rather than a need to spite Kylo Ren.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Luke is far, far warmer to Rey in The Son of Darkness due to their change in relationship.
• Adaptational Sexuality:
  • Rose Tico and Kaydel Connix are gay, sharing a Big Damn Kiss by at the Resistance's victory.
  • Lando implies that he and Luke were an item for a time, much to Rey's displeasure.
• Adaptational Superpower Change:
  • Leia has Force Projection here, allowing her to have conversations with her son while she's in a coma.
  • Luke has acquired and mastered his nephew's ability of Force Stasis.
  • There is only one who has the power of Force Healing: Anakin Skywalker himself, which he uses to close a mortal wound Kylo inflicts on Rey.
  • Kylo uses Sith lighting to blast Rey's A-Wing down to the surface of Exegol.
• Adaptational Villainy: No redemption for Kylo Ren here. He succeeds in striking down Rey (or so he thinks) takes total control of the Eternal Order and orders the Sith Fleet to destroy Kijimi, Cantonica, Takodana, and Mon Cala.
• Adaptational Weapon Swap:
  • Mara's lightsaber has a blue blade instead of her purple blade from Star Wars Legends.
  • Rey's personal lightsaber has a pink blade (as Daisy Ridley wanted) instead of a yellow one.
• Adapted Out:
  • Sheev Palpatine remains dead in The Heir of Skywalker, the Sith Eternal cult is now headed by Darth Plagueis.
  • Dathan and Mirramir no longer appear, as they're not Rey's parents in this story, as the Emperor made sure that all of his children (the ones he permitted to live at least) were sterilized.
• Adopted to the House: Poe implies that Han and Leia took him in after his mother Shara Bey died, and remembers his days in their household warmly. Lando tells him outright that Leia considered him her son.
• All of Them: Twice:
  • At the end of The Son of Darkness Kaydel reports that the distress calls Leia sent to her allies are responding. When Leia asks which ones, Kaydel responds so.
  • In The Heir of Skywalker during the Battle of Exegol, a technician reports to Pryde that the Sith Star Destroyers' energy cores are overheating. When he ask which of them, he receives this answer.
• An Arm and a Leg:
  • Like her father and grandfather before her, Rey looses an arm in The Son of Darkness - but this time, she takes it off herself when it's penned under debris.
  • During their final battle, Kylo lops off Luke's cybernetic arm out of spite.
• Ancestral Weapon: Anakin's lightsaber becomes this retroactively, being passed down from father to son, and then from father to daughter. For the final battle on Exegol, Rey gains her mother's lightsaber.
• And the Adventure Continues: After the defeat of the Eternal Order, Luke tells Rey he plans to stick around, just in case the Galaxy needs him again.
• Ascended Extra: Vicrul is now second in command of the Knights of Ren and has a final battle against Finn and Jannah, during which Finn's powers in the Force come to flourish.
• Back from the Dead: Luke is restored, body and soul, from the Netherworld after his sacrifice on Ach-To. When pressed by his daughter for details, he will only say he was "sent back."
• Back-to-Back Badasses: Luke and Rey against the Praetorian Guard, then Finn and Rey against Kylo Ren and Vicrul.
• Beyond Redemption: Leia comes to this conclusion about her own son, furthermore she isn't going to waste any more of her life trying to, and focuses her attention to her adopted children of Finn, Poe, and her niece Rey.
• Big Damn Kiss: Finn and Rey celebrate the Resistance victory with one of these and a familiar exchange:

  Rey: I love you.

  Finn: I know.

• Break the Cutie: Leia remembers her childhood friend Amilyn as a sweet, flirty, energetic goofball; a far cry from the cold and callous Admiral Haldo. She reflects that loosing your entire family in the destruction of Alderaan might do that to a person.
• Broken Tears:
  • Rey at the moment her father becomes one with the Force, with so much unresolved between them.
  • Kylo Ren sheds them in the moment before his death, as he thanks his parents for being his parents.
• Brother–Sister Team: Finn and Jannah Gerrera lead the 77th into battle against the Eternal Order.
• Bullet Dodges You: Luke's last stand in The Son of Darkness; using the Force to hold a superlaser blast in mid-air, allowing Rey and Chewie to escape Ach-To in the Falcon.
• Call-Back: Luke still has the two-seater A-Wing from The Legends of Luke Skywalker.
• Calling Parents by Their Name: Even after she learns who he is, Rey still calls her father Luke.
• Canon Character All Along : Snoke is a genetic avatar of Darth Plaguesis.
• Child Naming Request: Luke reveals that Han and Leia asked him to name their first child, and he choose to honor his first master.
• Constrained Writing: The Heir of Skywalker deliberately writes out Leia in respect of the Real Life passing of Carrie Fisher in 2016.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Even though it's a phantom and not the man himself, Rey is completely outmatched in a lightsaber battle against Darth Vader.
• Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: Subverted Trope as neither Rey nor Luke will acknowledge that fear of the Sith Eternal was a valid reason for Luke not being present for much of Rey's life, as sending her and Mara away only put them in more danger.
• Daddy's Girl: Rey grows to adore her father.
• Death by Adaptation: DJ gets run through by Phasma after he sells out the Resistance.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation:
  • Supreme Leader Kylo Ren dies when a Sith Star Destroyer crashes into Exegol, taking the planet with it.
  • Snoke dies by Force choke rather then bisection by lightsaber.
  • Leia dies (off-screen) in a Mutual Kill with the Queen of Ktath'atn.
  • General Pryde meets his end at one of Jannah's arrows.
  • Hux is left to the mercy of the Knights of Ren.
  • Ochi is stabbed with his own dagger, and then has his head chopped off by Kylo Ren.
  • Haldo is taken out by Stormtroopers, but not before setting off a barrage of thermal detonators in the mountains of Crait.
• Either/Or Prophecy: According to the Sith Eternal, one of Anakin Skywalker's grandchildren was going to fall to the Dark Side and rule the Sith, and one was going be the Heir of Skywalker and become the third member of the Force Triune. Kylo Ren decided that he couldn't be the latter, he was definitely going to be the former.
• Enemy Civil War: Hux breaks off from the First Order to form the True Order.
• Even Evil Can Be Loved: In his own way Snoke/Plaguesis does love Kylo Ren like a son, so much that he's willing to let himself be killed (twice!) so Kylo take his place as Supreme Leader of the Sith.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Kylo Ren took Luke having a child as a personal betrayal, as though his uncle didn't believe his nephew of was capable of bearing the mantle of the Chosen One. By the time Kylo realizes just how wrong he was (he grows to love Rey within minutes of meeting her on Hyperkarn), it's far too late.
• Fascist, but Inefficient: Despite conquering the Galaxy in The Son of Darkness, the combination of Kylo Ren's incompetent leadership and the defection of Hux and Snoke loyalists into the True Order cause the First Order to be on the verge of total collapse at the start of The Heir of Skywalker, making Plaguesis' offer of the Sith Fleet one that Kylo cannot refuse.
• Fake Memories: Before abandoning Rey on Jakku, Kylo uses the Jedi mind trick to implant a false memory of her parents being junk traders who sold her for drinking money.
• Fictional Accent: Rey's Received Pronunciation accent is identified as an Imperial accent, which she inherited from her mother, a former Imperial.
• Gender Flip: The previously male Vicrul is now female.
• Given Name Reveal: Rey's full name is Carré Skywalker.
• General Ripper: Haldo, who makes it clear any amount of Resistance causalities is worth victory.
• The Hero: Ultimately, this story is Finn's; by his act of resistance on Jakku and then on the Supremacy, the First Order falls when stormtroopers across the Galaxy follow his example. He is the ember that sparks the fire.
• Heroic Lineage: Rey is a Skywalker by birth, and has a stake in the power of the Chosen One.
• Hijacked Destiny: Kylo Ren's motivation as he believes, just by being born, Rey has stolen his right to their grandfather's legacy. In actuality, he gave it away himself when he turned to the Dark Side.
• Hypothetical Casting:
  • Matt Smith as Darth Plaguesis.
  • Jodie Comer as Vicrul.
  • Keri Russell as Mara Jade
  • Evangeline Lilly as Zorii Bliss.
  • Frank Welker as Ochi of Beston.
• I Have No Son!: After The Son of Darkness makes it clear Kylo Ren has no desire to be saved, Leia tells Poe that her son is dead to her.
• I Shall Return: Luke's last exchange with Rey is him promising to come back for her.
• Klingon Promotion: Twice; Kylo kills Snoke to gain control of the First Order, then Darth Plagueis for the Sith Eternal, bringing them both together as the Eternal Order.
• Kneel Before Frodo: In his final moments, Master Yoda bows to Luke, acknowledging him as the greatest of all Jedi.
• Lancer vs. Dragon: While Rey and Kylo duel in the Sith Citadel, Finn and Vicrul clash aboard the Steadfast.
• Let the Past Burn: Determined to kill the past, Kylo Ren throws Vader's helmet into a lava flow on Mustafar.
• Living Bodysuit: Snoke is revealed to be one for Plaguesis.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: The line is repeated word-for-word:

  Luke: I knew who you were the moment I saw you.

  Rey: My parents were junkers. They sold me for drinking money, I come from nothing, I am nothing...

  Luke: No - I am your father.

  Rey: That's not true, that's impossible...

  Luke: Search your feelings. You know it to be true.

• Mama Bear: Mara brings the twelve Knights of Ren down to seven while protecting Rey.
• MockGuffin: The Sith Dagger is worthless in finding the Wayfinder.
• Mundane Luxury: Having spent most of her life on Jakku, Rey is entranced by the sight of the tide on Ach-To. She's never had milk before either.
• My Greatest Failure: For Luke, it was sending his wife and daughter away to "protect" them from the Sith Eternal. It is the greatest charge of the Jedi to face fear, and when it mattered most, he caved in.
• My Name Is Inigo Montoya: The final exchange between Kylo and Rey:

  Kylo: You come from nothing, you are nothing.

  Rey: I am Rey Skywalker, and this - this is my story.

• Named by the Adaptation: Rey's dark side self has a proper name: Supreme Leader Solana Ren.
• Never Found the Body: Luke and Rey have every reason to believe that Mara is dead without confirmation; they are wrong.
• No Place for Me There: Plagueis spends decades creating a new Sith regime that he has no intention of ruling or even seeing for himself. He willingly lets himself to be struck down by Kylo to bequeath the Sith Throne to him.
• The Nose Knows: How did Chewie know that Rey was Luke's daughter before anyone else? She smells like him.
• Power Trio: The Force Triune - Anakin, Luke, and Rey.
• Promoted to Love Interest: Finn and Rey are the Offical Couple by the end, having only had some Ship Tease in the canon films.
• Non-Action Guy: Hux has his ass handed to him by Rose.
• Really Gets Around; In the backstory, the Emperor had hundreds of mistresses throughout his life, along with hundreds of children, the majority of which he had killed.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Hux rattles one off to Kylo Ren before his death. Hux's family reared him from birth to be the next Grand Moff Tarkin. Kylo's family loved him and only wanted him to be happy.
• Related in the Adaptation:
  • Rey is Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade's daughter, the niece of Han Solo and Leia Organa, the granddaughter of Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala, and the cousin of Ben Solo/Kylo Ren.
  • Finn and Jannah are siblings, and their grandfather was Saw Gerrera.
• Revenge: The First Order was to rebuild; the Eternal Order is revenge.
• Relative Button: In the past Kylo got the better of his uncle by threatening Mara and Rey, just as he intended. What he didn't intend was for Luke to retaliate with Force lightning.
• Running Gag: Luke telling Rey to sit up straight.
• The Siege: The Battle of Crait is reimagined as a lengthy siege.
• Spared by the Adaptation:
  • Paige Tico survives the initial bombing run on the First Order and is reunited with Rose at the end of The Son of Darkness.
  • Mara Jade ultimately survives this particular encounter with an evil nephew.
• The Soulless: The reason Sidious couldn't transfer his soul into a Sith strand-cast after the Battle of Endor - he had no soul to transfer.
• The Storyteller: 3PO's greatest regret at the prospect of being rebooted: he always thought he would be the one who told his friends' stories in the centuries to come.

  3PO: A long time from now, perhaps...perhaps in a galaxy far, far away...who will tell their stories? When the suns go down, who will tell their stories?

• Take That!: Canto Bight is razed in The Son of Darkness and then Cantonica itself is destroyed in The Heir of Skywalker.
• Techno Wizard: This version of Rose Tico.
  • In The Son of Darkness once she gets ahold of Hux's ID chit, she hacks into the Supremacy and overloads every single one of its engines.
  • In The Heir of Skywalker, once the Gerreras send the signal for the Sith Fleet out of Exegol to her. She has to decyrpt the signal and rebroadcast it to both the Resistance fleet but every single civilian starship roused by Lando, all the while recrypting it so the Eternal Order cannot use it themselves. It takes her less than thirty seconds.
• Tears of Awe: Rey sheds them when she relives her grandfather turning on the Emperor.
• This Is Unforgivable!: Leia tells Kylo that while she will always love him, she doesn't know if she can ever forgive him. He soon makes it clear he neither wants or needs her forgiveness.
• Time Skip: Two years pass between The Son of Darkness and The Heir of Skywalker.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Rey grows to love milk when Luke introduces her to it.
• Turn Out Like His Father:
  • Well, grandfather. Luke's stated reason for not seeking Rey out was due to having a vision of her falling to the Sith, finishing what Vader started in conquering the Galaxy.
  • Luke belatedly realizes that he has fulfilled his greatest fear and become like his father; the actions he took to protect his family where the exact ways he lost them.
  • Rey follows in her father's footsteps by loving and forgiving the father who wronged her, just like Luke did with Vader.
• Unrelated in the Adaptation: Palpatine is not Rey's grandfather, Darth Vader is.
• Was It Really Worth It?: In his last moments, contemplating his father's lucky dice, Kylo Ren concludes that no, it wasn't worth loosing his family to become Supreme Leader.
• Wham Shot: Rey begs the presence in the Mirror Cave to show her family, whoever they are. Her own shadow transforms into a familiar shape and thunderous breathing fills the cave...