YMMV / Young Jedi Knights

• Alternate Character Interpretation: Some scenes with Tionne and Luke paint them in a relationship. Though anyone who knows the Legends continuity beyond these books will know of Mara Jade's existence. It also is very much unintentional, as the writers knew ahead of time that Luke and Mara would end up together when they were writing the novels.
• Complete Monster: Hovrak, from The Fall of the Diversity Alliance, is a Shistavanen Wolfman and the second-in-command of the Diversity Alliance. A vicious anti-human racist, Hovrak oversees many of leader Nolaa Tarkona's schemes, carrying out terrorist attacks against humans with intent to discover and unleash a plague to exterminate all humankind. Hovrak also relishes devouring his victims alive and in agony for any transgression—whether it be treachery against the Alliance, or cheating at a casino.
• Cult Classic: This series is obscure even by the standards of Star Wars Legends works that aren't video games, The Thrawn Trilogy, Dark Empire, or the Revenge of the Sith novelization, but the people that did read these books love them very much.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Go here.
• Heartwarming Moments: Jaina talking Zekk down in Jedi Under Siege.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Go here.
• Moment of Awesome:
  • Tenel Ka kneecapping Tamith Kai in Shadow Academy, to the point that references to her doing so ("How's the knee?") become a Running Gag for the rest of the series' first arc.
  • Lusa holding off a Diversity Alliance assassin in Jedi Bounty.
• The Woobie: Anja Gallandro. Not only was her father killed, she ended up a criminal and drug addict herself. And still tries to laugh it all off as nothing, even as she attempts increasingly pathetic schemes for revenge—which is all that she has left.

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