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Enemy of the Empire (Comic Book)

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Part of the deluge of new additions to the original Star Wars Expanded Universe that accompanied The Phantom Menace, this six-issue miniseries is an interesting one; along with The Bounty Hunter Wars and Death, Lies, and Treachery, it's one of the relatively few stories to feature Boba Fett as the main character before much had been established about the Mandalorians and, more importantly, it takes place prior to the expansion of Fett's backstory in Attack of the Clones. As such, Enemy Of The Empire is about Boba Fett being awesome without all of the Proud Warrior Race Guy baggage that's come to be associated with the Mandalorians in the Star Wars EU.Boba Fett is hired by Darth Vader to locate and execute an Imperial deserter named Abal Karda, who shot dead his commanding officer and absconded. However, it soon becomes clear that the Dark Lord's interest does not lie with Karda, but in the plain, kneebshide casket that the Colonel took with him when he went on the run; Fett is to return this mysterious box unopened or suffer consequences. Just in case, Vader secretly dispatches a the assassin Nevo and his gang of thugs to shadow Fett, kill him and take the casket when he finds it.Following Karda's trail, Fett comes across soldiers who served under Karda during the hellish Icarii campaign, a war that Karda decisively won when he unleashed a biological weapon that rendered the enemy extinct and captured their Queen, a precog, who he later decapitated personally.The clues left behind by Karda lead Fett to the desolate, volcanic world of Maryx Minor, where he ambushes and kills Nevo's team and tracks Karda to a hermitage where he has claimed sanctuary, the home of the Ancient Order of Pessimists. After killing Karda, Fett confirms his suspicion that the casket contains the severed head of Selestrine, which was kept alive by Karda so he could use her precognitive powers to advance his own career. Instead, she avenged the genocide of her people by manipulating him into engineering his own destruction.Surviving a pitched battle with Darth Vader that costs him possession of the casket, Fett escapes to hunt another day.
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Nonindicative Title: The full title is technically Boba Fett: Enemy of the Empire, which has lead many to assume that it's about "Boba Fett, the Enemy of the Empire". "Boba Fett and the Enemy of the Empire" is probably a better representation of the storyline. Then again, considering that it ends with a fight between Fett and Vader, it's arguably a very indicative title. Vader even says it's him whom the Empire should have named this by the end.
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Curb-Stomp Battle: Nevo and his gang find themselves on the receiving end of one when they run into Boba Fett on Maryx Minor. During their fight, Vader admits Fett is a worthy opponent, as they seem fairly well matched. He then proceeds to utilize the Force, completely outclassing Fett once he does.
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Parody Religion: The Ancient Order of Pessimists. Their final fate is annihilation by orbital bombardment when the High Hermit commits heresy by proclaiming his intent to look on the bright side in the future.
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Bringing Back Proof: Darth Vader hires Boba Fett to hunt down and kill an Imperial deserter, and, as proof the deed is done, to bring back a case the deserter took with him when he murdered his commander and fled.
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The Snack Is More Interesting Vader has to threaten Nevis team to get them to abandon their lunch and get straight to the mission.
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Fat Bastard: The rotund General Nim was despised by his own soldiers for flippantly wasting their lives in human wave attacks and also committed genocide against a species which had been trying to mind its own business.
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The Eeyore: The hermits are so pessimistic that a simple order to bring a man a meal leads to the courier worrying about tripping and stabbing himself with the silverware.
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Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Wookieepedia suggests that the Icarii are intended to be a Star Wars counterpart to the Zulu.
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Losing Your Head: Selestrine's head survived long after Karda sliced it off.
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Implacable Man: Fett himself, at least as far as Karda is concerned. In the backstory, the Icarii warriors certainly qualified.
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He Knows Too Much: Deciding that the Pessimists saw too much during his fight with Boba Fett, Vader destroys their hermitage via orbital bombardment.
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Demanding Their Head: Darth Vader hires Boba Fett to retrieve a box (naturally keeping the true nature of its contents secret) that is later revealed to contain the still-living decapitated head of an alien prophetess who can predict the future, but in the end, Boba Fett decides to destroy it, rather than be forced to turn her over to Emperor Palpatine.
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You Can't Fight Fate: "Your days are numbered, thirty-and-one." Selestrine tortures Karda with the knowledge that Boba Fett is coming for him and will kill him, no matter what he tries to do.
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Shell-Shocked Veteran: Kabra and Nim's men are drunk and freaked out at the very mention of Selestrine's people after the long bloody campaign against an army that could predict their tactical movements and fight with missing limbs.
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Only in It for the Money: Selestrine informs Vader that while everyone else involved in the story was interested in how they could use her prophetic talents for their own ends, Fett was only interested in how much he could get from selling the casket.
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Villain Protagonist: Boba Fett is a cold-blooded self-interested killer in this story who is well aware of the Empire's genocidal tendencies and still works for them.
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Vader plans to pull this on both Fett and Nevo's crew.
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Villainous Breakdown: Abal Karda seems to be undergoing a long, drawn-out one throughout the series after learning about his approaching death. Almost every time he appears he's locked himself in his cell, ranting and raving and shooting anyone who looks at him the wrong way.
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Deadpan Snarker: Darth Vader of all people makes sarcastic jibes at the expense of the assassin Nevo and his crew.
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Prophecy Twist: Karda is informed that his hated superior, General Nim, will meet an untimely end which will result in his own promotion. This foretelling does indeed come true, but not as he would have liked; Karda kills Nim when he tries to take the casket, resulting in his promotion to Enemy of the Empire.
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Precognition: The ability that makes the severed head of Selestrine so valuable.
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Yank the Dog's Chain: The pessimistic High Hermit is overjoyed that so many of his group survived in the middle of a fight with some of the galaxy's deadliest killers and is reevaluating his whole life. Then Vader orders the area bombed.
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Colonel Badass: Abal Karda in the backstory, though by the time we see him he's gone completely off the deep end.
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The Chessmaster: While this is typically Emperor Palpatine's defining characteristic, this story shows that Darth Vader is just as good at playing his minions off against one another.
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The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny: The series is really one big Excuse Plot to give Vader and Fett an excuse to fight each other (and was basically advertised as such back when it first came out). Fett technically wins, but forfeits the fight when he realizes that killing Vader would make him the most wanted man in the galaxy.
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Last Of Her Kind: Selestrine's severed head is the last remnant of the Icarii race, which fuels her Death Seeker tendencies.
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Only a Flesh Wound: Part of what made the Icarii so dangerous was their ability to keep fighting after suffering grievous wounds; even their severed limbs would keep striking out once they were cut off. This information is what tips Fett off to the true contents of Karda's casket.
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Death Seeker: Selestrine is keen to escape her wretched existence and join the rest of her species. In the final issue of the miniseries, Vader obliges her.
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