Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (+ Ultimate Sith Edition)
You'd be forgiven for thinking this was anyone but Starkiller.
- The way Vader murders Starkiller’s father in the prologue, lifting him in the air with his Force-Choke and crushing his throat by casually clenching his fist, complete with a Sickening "Crunch!". This all happens in full view of the very young Starkiller.
- Immediately afterward, a squadron of stormtroopers arrive and set their sights on the boy. In a surprising show of sympathy, Vader slaughters the troopers before effectively kidnapping the child. Like his father’s death, the Starkiller gets a front row seat to all of this.
- Wii/PlayStation 2 version: the Jedi Temple, or what's left of it, can be quite... unnerving. The whole place is a shattered wreck of crumbling debris, and more often than not you'll be wandering through dark and empty halls, when you start hearing voices whispering all around you. It's too quiet to make out, but you get the unshakable feeling they're talking about you, and they come from everywhere. It makes for a suitably creepy atmosphere, given you're intruding on what is essentially a massive tomb for the entire Jedi Order. And it's not just one level either. You have to trek through here multiple times throughout the game.
- Facing Starkiller's Evil Doppelgänger, who lets out quite a few animalistic screeches and yells throughout the whole fight, in the Jedi Temple. And the aftermath where Starkiller briefly hallucinates that he's become him.Dark Apprentice: You will never escape me.
- In the Dark Side Ending, Emperor Palpatine turning Starkiller into a cyborg, as Starkiller screams in terror and agony. This grants the player the Sith Stalker Armour, which is described as:Description: Sinister armor painfully grafted to the flesh and bone of its wearer, this suit is designed to turn Dark Side disciples into hideously deformed assassins feared by Jedi and Sith alike.
- On the second visit to Felucia, the whole planet has been corrupted by the Dark Side, which also resulted in the Felucians developing deformed, ghoulish-looking faces that make them look like alien zombies
. - The Sarlacc's stomach is inordinately creepy, starting with the masses of tentacles that reach out and fall just short of actually engulfing you. Early on, you can see a Stormtrooper get sucked into a smaller digestion chamber. It's a miracle you don't see anyone being subjected to the more horrific parts of its digestive process.
DLC Campaigns (Ultimate Sith Edition
- The current page image shows one of Starkiller's optional DLC costumes, which is called the 'Cybernetic Reconstruction'. A horrific costume that turns the player character into a cyborg akin to The Terminator or The Borg in which the only remnants of his flesh are his upper chest, part of his face and his teeth. Its description is eerily appropriate:Description: An even more extreme version of the Sith Stalker armor, this is the Apprentice almost completely transformed into a bio-mechanical nightmare.
- Taking place after the Dark Side ending, Starkiller becomes Darth Sidious's apprentice. As Lord Starkiller, the Apprentice proves to be a powerful Villain Protagonist who successfully manages to derail the events of the Original Trilogy by killing off Ben Kenobi and then eventually defeating Luke Skywalker and corrupting him to the dark side.
- Speaking of Luke, both fights with him are a brutal Curbstomp Battle in your favour, allowing you to play the role of a powerful Sith lord and worthy successor of Darth Vader. During the second fight, Luke quickly gives into the dark side and ends up becoming Fallen Luke. In this form, Luke's voice becomes deeper and it's clear that the Dark Side has utterly corrupted him. The battle ends with you successfully corrupting him into your apprentice.
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II
- The second game has more examples, being Darker and Edgier.
- Starkiller explores the Dark Side Cave of Dagobah, where he encounters many other clones that are entangled by vines and eerily calling out for help.
- The first time you're on the Salvation; it's dark, you're mostly alone, and your comlink occasionally broadcasts Rebel soldiers as they're being butchered by unseen forces. They don't call them 'Terror Troopers' for nothing. The fact that you're up against the most ruthless bounty hunter in the galaxy doesn't help even if you don't end up fighting him at all.
- The databank page for the Terror Trooper is incredibly creepy. A salvage crew discovers a derelict ship and thinks they've gotten a lucky break. But it's not. One crew member is sucked out of an airlock. Another is impaled by a burst length of pipe. A third is messily decapitated in a ventilation shaft. And even when the salvage crew retreats and abandons the derelict ship, their own ships seems to be developing its own mechanical problems that hint at someone on board who doesn't belong there.
- On Kamino, as Starkiller walks through a hallway, he's occasionally haunted by Juno and Kota's voices berating him. There's also a few surprise attacks from an illusionary Darth Vader and the cloning tanks you find along the way. The mist, creepy music, and haunting atmosphere make it all the more chilling.
- During the final phase of the last battle, after Darth Vader hurls Juno through a window to her apparent death, the sheer fury Starkiller unleashes is terrifying in its intensity - his whole body wreathed in and seething with the dark lightning of a permanent Force Fury mode, his raging oaths of vengeance coming out in near-feral roars, and ending with basically channeling the lightning of an entire thunderstorm right at Vader.
- In the Dark Side Ending, Vader's true apprentice just looks at Juno's dead body with absolute contempt before moving on, even though he's also a clone of Starkiller. He was hiding there the whole time and was able to take out both Starkiller and Kota almost effortlessly.
