Star Wars: Legacy / YMMV

Base-Breaking Character:
- Fans are irreconcilable about whether Cade Skywalker is a good protagonist or not because of his jerkish tendencies.
- Darth Talon, who is liked for being a badass Ms. Fanservice, or is looked down on for being exactly that.
Complete Monster: See here.
Ensemble Dark Horse: See here
Evil Is Cool: Pretty much all of the Sith, but especially the Dual Wielding, armoured Darth Krayt, and Darth Wyyrlok.
Fanon:
- Ania is Allana Solo's granddaughter (or possibly her great-granddaughter). While never explicitly stated, this one is very likely, since Allana's father Jacen Solo was the only one of Han and Leia's sons who lived long enough to have children—and Ania couldn't be related to the Solos through Jaina, since she's established as the matriarch of the Fel Dynasty (Ania and Marasiah Fel are said to be distant cousins). This also serves as a convenient Hand Wave for why she still has the Solo name: Allana was Hapan on her mother's side, and the people of the Hapes Consortium (which is a matriarchal society) traditionally take their mother's surname. Though considering that Ania lives a modest life in a junkyard instead of a Hapan palace and Allana’s mother had a different last name, that opens another can of worms.
- It's jokingly posited that Nat and Kol Skywalker had an unseen sibling named Kin, just to complete the possible Shout-Out to Nat King Cole.
Harsher in Hindsight: Go here.
He's Just Hiding: Mauve Shirt Rogue Squadron pilots Andurgo and Ronto are both shot down in the final battle, but given the nature of aerial combat, it's possible one or both may have had time to bail out first.
Jerkass Woobie: Cade is a real piece of work and stops just short of actually spitting on his ancestors' grave but considering how his mother abandoned him, he lost his father at a young age, has spent most of his life working under pirates who help Sith and is constantly being harassed by both sides of the war for his bloodline when he just wants everyone to leave him alone, it's hard not to see why.
Magnificent Bastard:
- Darth Nihl was once a tracker, warrior and warlord of the Nagai people. Inducted into the One Sith, Nihl ascends to be the chief enforcer of Darth Krayt's will and one of his Hands. Leading the attack on Ossus, Nihl kills many Jedi, including the more powerful Grandmaster Kol Skywalker, whom he kills by striking from behind. Later capturing Kol's son Cade for Darth Krayt, Nihl allies with Darth Wyyrlok despite knowing he betrayed Krayt, intending to find Krayt's "body" and kill his hated rival Hand Darth Talon along with Krayt should he survive. Returning to Krayt's side after being overpowered and promised a different path to power, Nihl ensures he sets up a contingency for his master's death and upon Cade defeating Krayt, orders the elimination of Krayt's super soldiers when they go mad. Directing his forces to flee and hide before infiltrating governments across the galaxy to bring them down from within, Nihl ends the series as the Dark Lord of the Sith at last.
- Volume 1: Morrigan Corde, alias Nyna Calixte, is a brilliant imperial agent and the director of Imperial Intelligence under the Calixte alias. Helping to overthrow the galactic alliance with the Sith, Corde later goes behind their back to ensure the survival and freedom of Emperor Roan Fel, spending years in her position while manipulating her lover Morlish Veed and all around her to steadily work at the downfall of the Sith. Reactivating the Corde identity, she aids her son Cade Skywalker in his freedom from Krayt, switching identities to ensure she is never caught while ruthlessly protecting her allies and securing her own power base. Even after Veed supposedly kills "Nyna" after discovering her secret, she survives and returns to execute him as Corde, even ensuring Cade's survival with a last act of cleverness by the end of War.
- Volume 2 (2013): Darth Wredd is a Sith apprentice introduced killing his master from behind. Endeavoring to weaken public support of the Triumvirate, Wredd impersonates Imperial Knight Val so as to take control of the galactic array, intending to execute Val live to the galaxy. When this fails, he goes on a crusade to destroy the One Sith, killing their high-ranking infiltrators and exposing their intentions to the governments around the galaxy. After manipulating Ania Solo and her team into killing Darth Luth for him, Wredd then captures Jao Assam, revealing that he was formerly a heroic warrior until his former master destroyed his planet and forced him into his servitude; in response, Wredd schemed for years, vowing to destroy the Sith entirely. After manipulating the entire One Sith into open combat with the Triumvirate and helping the Triumvirate wipe them out, Wredd attacks the Empress in front of everyone to ensure his own death, eradicating the Sith presence from the galaxy once and for all.
Memetic Badass: K'Kruhk and his hat.
Memetic Mutation: "Your Jedi Master's dead, son. Accept it." with a picture of Cliegg Lars. Also, "Luke is a chair."
Moral Event Horizon: Go here.
They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Some had this reaction to Luke being dead. Never mind the fact that it's perfectly reasonable: the series is set well over a century after the OT. Whether he went out fighting or died of old age, it's fairly realistic to see him as a Force ghost here.
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character
- Despite having some Action Girl moments and openly wondering whether she should be fighting for the Sith and not Fel, stormtrooper Jes Gistang only appears in one issue and dies near the end of it.
- Sith Empire Captain Vaclen Tor spends his debut being a strategic Benevolent Boss who singlehandedly turns a Galactic Alliance/Fel Empire Curb-Stomp Battle into a near Pyrrhic Victory and leaves the battle with experiences that implicitly cause him to be more respectful toward Stazi and more contemptuous of Fel. Nonetheless, he (or rather, his voice over a command channel during a battle) only appears in a single subsequent issue.
- Conflicted traitor Konrad Rus not getting much focus or attention after Wrylock begins corrupting the tenets of his beloved Imperial Mission relief movement is barely touched upon despite it giving him the potential to get fed up with the Sith.
Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Roan Fel and by extension his Empire. When the story was first pitched by John Ostrander, the most unique aspect was the presence of a good-ish Empire, with its own Jedi-like order of Force users as the main oppositional force to a Sith-led Evil Empire. The issue with that is Star Wars is very much a Good Republic, Evil Empire work, and even though the portrayal of democracy is up and down, the fanbase was still very insistent that the "good faction" be a representative democracy, regarding "Imperial POV" works as being essentially a Villain Episode. So, the undercurrent of uncritical monarchism in this setup felt odd right from the start. Then the actual circumstances of his ascent to power were explained: he used charity to build up goodwill in the Galaxy, then opportunistically used the failure of a Yuuzhan Vong-led terraforming project to stoke racist paranoia against the (innocent) Vong Shapers in a Galaxy still recovering from the Yuuzhan Vong War, before collaborating with the Sith to topple the Galactic Alliance and the Jedi Order. When the Sith inevitably betrayed him, he was driven to Bastion in exile, unable to enjoy the fruits of his conquest and slowly rebuilding until such a time that he can defeat the Sith. This is the man portrayed as the Big Good at the story's start. Meanwhile the Jedi and the Galactic Alliance defended the framed Yuuzhan Vong and were exterminated for it. Inevitably, a notable number of fans were unimpressed with this faction as being A Lighter Shade of Black, which genuinely took Ostrander by surprise, who protested that while they were not a democracy, they were still "benevolent" — which, judging from their conduct, was met with skepticism. Relenting, later issues began featuring a Galactic Alliance Remnant and its leader Admiral Gar Stazi, who became an Iconic Sequel Character and was regarded as the true Big Good. As the story went on, the Fel Empire increasingly shared page time with the Alliance and then the Jedi until the finale, where Stazi and K'kruhk spearhead the liberation of Coruscant, while Roan Fel goes insane and tries to exterminate the civilian population for "betraying" him, and gets killed before he can by Antares Draco, the Imperial Knight he trained personally. The Fel Empire ends up sharing rule of the Galaxy with the Alliance and the Jedi, but nowhere in the first thirty or so issues was this ever telegraphed, where the conflict was still very much presented as one emperor fighting another and even had the main characters claiming that the Jedi needed to support the Fel Empire against the Sith, to the point that the conflic's official name was "Imperial Civil War".

YMMV / Star Wars: Legacy

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