Star Wars (Franchise) - TV Tropes. It is also a juggernaut of a franchise which made its creator George Lucas one of the most powerful men in the film and entertainment industries.
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It kickstarted brands like THX, Industrial Light and Magic, and Pixar, and, years later, allowed the Walt Disney Company to become an even more influential media empire. The main saga is split into series of movies set in their own eras, all following a Myth Arc about the Jedi, the Dark Side, and the battle to restore peace to the Galaxy.
Appearances in the main saga Original trilogy. The Emperor is mentioned in the original Star Wars, the first film in the original trilogy, but does not appear until. Darth Vader, also known as Anakin Skywalker, is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe. Vader appears in the original trilogy as a pivotal figure whose. Join us on 'Style Code Live' daily to connect, shop and chat live with fashion designers, beauty experts and celebrities! Discover today's best beauty hacks and the.
Three of these sets of films are trilogies, while a series of spin- off films serve as side- stories unrelated to the overall story of the Skywalker bloodline. The Original Trilogy. Opening with a tale of a brave rebellion fighting the evil empire, the story centers on Luke Skywalker, a simple Farm Boy who finds himself drawn into that conflict when some robot buddies show up at his doorstep with some important information. On his three film long Hero's Journey, he meets many now- legendary characters like Princess Leia, the Lovable Rogue Han Solo and the Old Master Obi- Wan Kenobi.
With guidance from Obi- Wan and later Yoda, Luke learns the ways of mystic powers of the Jedi and brings down The Empire. Along the way, he famouslydiscovers that Darth Vader, the chief enforcer of the Emperor, is his father Anakin Skywalker, and the (not) love- interest. Princess is his twin sister. Prequel Trilogy. The second trilogy centers on Luke's father, Anakin Skywalker, and his growth from a young slave on a remote planet into a powerful Jedi Knight, and then into a Sith Lord.
It showed how Senator/Chancellor Palpatine (the Big Bad of the Original Trilogy) gained supreme power through complex schemes, and Anakin's corruption at his hands. It also showed Obi- Wan's story in training Anakin and the fall of the Jedi Order, with Obi- Wan and Yoda becoming the last of their kind. Sequel Trilogy. Following The Walt Disney Company's acquisition of Lucasfilm in 2. Its story opens 3. Return of the Jedi, and revolves around a scavenger, an Imperial deserter, an X- wing pilot, and a number of other Unlikely Heroes becoming involved in the conflict between an Imperialremnant known as the First Order and an offshoot of the former Rebel Alliance called the Resistance. Along the way, they cross paths with numerous characters from the Original Trilogy, including Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Leia Organa, Chewbacca, C- 3. PO, and R2- D2. Episode VII was written by J.
Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan, and directed by Abrams. Episode VIII will be written and directed by Rian Johnson. Episode IX will be directed by Colin. Trevorrow, with Rian Johnson currently writing a treatment. Anthology Series.
Disney has put into production several Spin- Off movies under the Star Wars Anthology banner. The Anthology films revolve around characters outside the Skywalker family. Early films in the Anthology series include ideas that George Lucas was interested in developing prior to his retirement. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (December 1. Untitled Han Solo film (May 2.
Untitled Star Wars Anthology film (2. Boba Fett. In addition to all of this, there are preliminary plans for movies for 2. Rogue One. Its inspiration includes the 1.
Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. The story goes that after Lucas made American Graffiti he wanted to make a Flash Gordonremake, and upon being denied the rights to the property (a film was already in the works) he set out to create his own pulp sci- fi universe. After multiple incarnations, some of the names and concepts of which he repurposed in the universe later, Lucas formed the basic story of the first film. The overarching story continued to evolve for the sequels and later the prequels. But from the beginningit was always meant to be just one story in a vast galaxy. Lucas had also derived inspiration from Akira Kurosawa's mystical samurai heroes and bumbling sidekicks. Kurosawa's films The Hidden Fortress and Yojimbo were particularly influential on the first movie; an early draft was basically .
The Jedi and their rivals the Sith were originally imagined as samurai- like warriors without superhuman abilities, and the name . There are echoes of Isaac Asimov's Foundation in the decaying Galactic Empire. Frank Herbert's first few Dune novels provided some inspiration, notably for the desert planet Tatooine. Also, The concept of a superpowered psychic galactic police force is taken from E.
Mark Hamill, who plays Luke, once asked Lucas where he got the idea and Lucas answered, . The Force can also be traced to the post- hippy atmosphere of the The '7. Eastern philosophy.
Depictions of World War II naval battles also influenced Lucas, with the bombing run sequence from the first movie inspired by the Royal Air Force movie The Dam Busters. Though many tropes did not originate with Star Wars, it has popularized dozens of them, to the point numerous modern Space Opera and Sci- Fi works contain homages to the franchise.
Even this site has made the franchise a Trope Namer for fifty odd tropes, listed here. You can vote for your favorite movie here. The Star Wars Expanded Universe is massive, probably one of the largest, spanning novels, comics, made- For- TV films, radio dramas, video games, toys, even pinball machines. This universe was famous for how much effort was given to make it as internally consistent as they could, as such a single person at Lucasfilm, Leland Chee, was tasked with making every bit of continuity fit together in some way. From the creation of Lucasfilm up until the Disney buyout they created a tier- based system that made certain elements a higher canon priority than others, with anything handled personally by Lucas at (or close to) the top.
While not perfect and prone to its own Continuity Snarls, the system was embraced by fans as containing a running continuity (even between different authors) and being more consistent in tone than other EUs and thus, more believable as a genuine expansion of the canon. After the buyout this system was reorganized, anything not handled personally by Lucas was declared non- canon on April 2. Anything associated with the original EU has been renamed Star Wars Legends, in effect becoming Alternate Continuity.
For the foreseeable future any EU material created is handled by a new Story Team that will ensure everything made in conjunction with and after these movies will be iron- clad capital- C Canon, disregarding the older system entirely and creating a new official Star Wars Expanded Universe. Characters, stories and other ideas from Legends may, and in some cases have been, reintegrated into the new canon, but only partially and selectively. Many of the initial canon book and comic book releases under the new Star Wars canon focus on bridging two major gaps in Star Wars continuity: events between the Prequel and the Original Trilogy and between the Original and the Sequel Trilogy. Also has a 1. 00,0. Star Wars, both in fiction and fact. Tropes featured in general in the franchise open/close all folders #- H Action Figure File Card: Some of the 1. Action Girl: Padm.
Rey fully takes this role in the new trilogy. The animated entries into the franchise have tons, however, most notably Ahsoka Tano.
Adult Fear: Anakin falls to the Dark Side because of the fear of losing Padm. Luke. The Aesthetics of Technology: Over the two film trilogies nearly every variant prevalent in sci- fi is applied: The architecture of Coruscant and the fleet of Naboo are in Raygun Gothic style, featuring elongated buildings and Shiny- Looking Spaceships with sleek curved outlines. The Trade Federation and the Separatists go for the darker take on Raygun Gothic with vessels such as shark- like assault frigates and hover tanks, and droids mostly looking like arthropods, skeletons or zombies, tanks walking on four legs or just evil- looking Killer Robots with red eyes.
The Grand Army of the Republic goes mostly from the sleek, modern style (in Attack of the Clones, owing to a strong Kaminoan influence) to the more blocky and rectangular one in Revenge of the Sith. However, the vehicles and ships still maintain a segmented, . At the end of the movie the ships are repainted gray, becoming fully this trope. The Galactic Empire maintains the interior sleek and shiny, while on the outside it retains the basic shape the ships had at the time at the Republic, only making it more streamlined and monolithic, composed of basic geometric shapes: triangles, hexagons, rectangles and spheres. Note that The Death Star was of Separatist design and their Lucrehulk ships are a visual call- back/foreshadowing to it. They also change the color scheme to dull gray, sinister black and bone- white. The Rebel Alliance mostly has worn- out equipment at their disposal.
A notable example are the Y- Wing bombers which are stripped of their plating and in much worse shape thanthey were at the time of the Clone Wars. Affectionate Parody: The popularity of the series has led to many parodies and spoofs, including: Agony Beam: Force Lightning. Airstrike Impossible: The Rebels and their successor the Resistance sure love flying into extremely dangerous spaces to destroy anti- planet weapons: In A New Hope, Luke and his wingmen dive into the Death Star's equatorial trench to fire photon torpedoes into the exhaust port, with the explanation for the tactic being that the port's shielded from above. In Return of the Jedi, Wedge in his X- Wing and Lando in the Millenium Falcon fly through ventilation ducts to reach the core of the Death Star II and destroy it.
The Force Awakens uses a combination of the above two, with Poe flying through the trench of Starkiller Base with his wingmen and then flying into the weapon itself to destroy the oscillator and destabilize the weapon and the planet it's built into. Also in The Force Awakens, Rey flies the Falcon into the wreck of a Super Star Destroyer to evade TIE Fighters.