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The Glove of Darth Vader

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The Glove of Darth Vader	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Glove of Darth Vader is the first installment of a series of Star Wars Legends novellas for younger readers written by Paul and Hollace Davids and published in the early 1990s. Introducing a new hero named Ken, this storyline also follows the continued adventures of the heroes of the movie trilogy as they fight the remnants of the Empire, now led by a sinister cult called the Prophets of the Dark Side and a man who claims to be Emperor Palpatine's son. The books are most remembered nowadays for their questionable quality, but occasional references to them crop up in later Legends books, and they've been neatly fitted into the official Legends timeline (with a little bit of retconning to make them fit better). The title of the first book has been adopted for the (untitled) cycle as a whole, which is also known by the names of Jedi Prince and Son of Palpatine.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Books in the series include: The Glove of Darth Vader (1992) The Lost City of the Jedi (1992) Zorba the Hutt's Revenge (1992) Mission from Mount Yoda (1993) Queen of the Empire (1993) Prophets of the Dark Side (1993)In 1996, omnibus editions were released that collected the whole series in two volumes. There was originally supposed to be a concluding seventh installment, relating the final fate of the Prophets of the Dark Side, but this was never written, perhaps because of the backlash against the previous books and the release of other, more popular Expanded Universe works which followed a different timeline.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_137f2d7	comment	Card-Carrying Villain: The baddies in these books take this to the level of Narm — see that entry below as well as And That's Terrible!, above.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: While the Prophets as depicted here are mostly vague and ominous, The Dark Side Sourcebook provides a fleshed-out depiction of their whole vaguely Gnostic theology, which both grants it real philosophical depth and manages to make them genuinely terrifying, if they weren't already.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_187bddc1	type	Religion of Evil
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_187bddc1	comment	Religion of Evil: The Prophets of the Dark Side, a sort of clerisy that supports Palpatine's philosophy of the Force. They got more fleshed out in later supplements, but can be surprisingly sinister at times even in their original appearances here, considering how generally light-hearted the series otherwise is.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_247b578a	type	NotSoHarmlessPunishment
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_247b578a	comment	Not So Harmless Punishment: The Prophets of the Dark Side sentence two enemy moffs to three and four years in prison and a third to five years as a sentry. The prisons and sentry outpost are all on Death Worlds where people tend to die within a couple of years.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_25b7257f	type	Red Right Hand
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_25b7257f	comment	Trioculus' three eyes. Plus, he literally receives a Red Right Hand as one of the unintended side-effects of his medical droid's modifications to Vader's glove.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_2e206837	type	Bed Trick
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_2e206837	comment	Bed Trick: Teased. When Trioculus was to marry Leia, the Rebels substituted a human-appearing robot doppelganger for her instead. However, she/it killed him before the marriage could be consummated.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: What does Trioculus do when his forces are out looking for the glove, ignoring plenty of strategically significant discoveries on the way? He tootles around hunting endangered wildlife. Green Aesop ahoy!
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Both Hissa and Kadann are basically running the Empire by manipulating the rather fickle and buffoonish Trioculus who nominally rules. In the end, though, Kadann comes out ahead.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Trioculus' career as "Emperor" and a villain in general is really just one long list of one humiliation after another.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_4a02a75e	comment	The Theocracy: After Trioculus' fall from grace, Supreme Prophet Kadann decreed that he would rule the Empire in his own name while awaiting the true messiah of the Dark Side, effectively turning it into this.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_4f84cdef	comment	Hissa is a Smug Snake to the core, who even has sharp teeth.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: What befalls Hissa on Duro. Specifically, having his limbs burned away with industrial chemicals.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_52aa0c4a	type	The Caligula
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_52aa0c4a	comment	The Caligula: Trioculus. Murderous tantrums, sexual obsessions, grandiosity, whining? Check. Of course, since he's a G-rated villain, he rarely succeeds at killing anyone in his rages.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_535addbd	type	Raised by Robots
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_535addbd	comment	Raised by Robots: Ken was raised by droids in the Lost City of the Jedi.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_558f5da6	comment	Cryptic Conversation: Kadann speaks like this when pronouncing his prophecies, presenting ominous sayings in a sort of verse.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_56b53152	type	Green Aesop
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_56b53152	comment	Green Aesop: One in each book except the last one, invariably Anvilicious. The Glove of Darth Vader: Save the whales! The Lost City of the Jedi: Save the rainforest! Zorba the Hutt's Revenge: Smog is bad! Mission from Mount Yoda: Toxic waste is bad! Queen of the Empire: Overzealous dairy farming will lead to global warming, causing catastrophic hurricanes!
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_5ac34441	comment	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": Whaladons (take a big fat guess as to which endangered Earth animals these stand in for in the book's Green Aesop) and "braze" (brown haze, i.e. smog), among others.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_6116ca8d	comment	Hellhole Prison: The Imperial Reprogramming Institute on Duro is this with a side order of Bedlam House, being a psychiatric clinic for mentally ill criminals and dissidents. This was also where Triclops was put.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_67f56a51	type	Thrown from the Zeppelin
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_67f56a51	comment	Thrown from the Zeppelin: Zigzagged. When Trioculus claims Palpatine's throne during a summit of Imperial warlords, a Royal Guard and a Grand Admiral question whether he has the best claim. Trioculus shocks them with (apparent) Force Lightning but stops short of killing them when the two recant their doubts. Shortly afterward, a second Grand Admiral refuses to support Trioculus's decision to build a military base on Hoth until he finds the Glove of Darth Vader and is shot by Hissa.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_68068108	type	Evil Laugh
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_68068108	comment	Evil Laugh: Zorba the Hutt has this as his trademark, a deep, rumbling HAW HAW HAW.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_6a47a1e2	type	Knight of Cerebus
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_6a47a1e2	comment	Knight of Cerebus: Zorba and Trioculus can't be taken seriously, but Kadann can sometimes be a serious threat.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: "Trioculus", 'Tri' — meaning 'three', and 'oculus' — a form of the word ocular, 'of the eye'; so, three eyes. And the man he serves as a doppelganger for, literally named Triclops. Hissa is a Smug Snake to the core, who even has sharp teeth.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_6c82a69d	type	Tabletop RPG
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_6c82a69d	comment	According to an article in issue 103 (October 1994) of the Polyhedron Tabletop RPG magazine (unlicensed, but written by one of the RPG's main writers), the series was actually a youngling-friendly retelling of those events by Leia Organa Solo to her children.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_6ccb6be	type	My Car Hates Me
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_6ccb6be	comment	My Car Hates Me: In the first book with a minisub.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_6de71c57	type	Disc-One Final Boss
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_6de71c57	comment	Disc-One Final Boss: Trioculus; he's frozen in carbonite at the end of the third book, then thawed out halfway through the fifth only to be assassinated at the end of it, dying in the first chapter of the sixth. While he's out of the picture, the Prophets solidify themselves as the real antagonists.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_7207025	type	Mad Dreamer
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_7207025	comment	Mad Dreamer: Triclops, who spent most of his life locked up in an asylum, dreaming of war, destruction and terrible new weapons.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_733e007a	type	Unwitting Pawn
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_733e007a	comment	Unwitting Pawn: Trioculus believes himself to be the true ruler of the Empire, and Grand Moff Hissa believes he is, courtesy of being Trioculus' handler. Actually, however, both men are little but pawns for Kadann and the Prophets — as Hissa eventually finds out when the latter have no further use for him.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_736d791f	type	Adaptational Badass
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_736d791f	comment	Adaptational Badass: In this series, it is strongly implied that Kadann, Jedgar and the other prophets are frauds who do not really see the future, but only pretend to in order to exploit the gullible. However, later books in the old Expanded Universe make clear that they were in fact extremely powerful Dark Side wizards — for example, Kadann foresaw Palpatine's downfall, which the Emperor himself did not.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_7431b974	type	Vile Villain, Saccharine Show
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_7431b974	comment	Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: The books are goofy light adventures for young readers, and it shows: Trioculus, Hissa and Zorba are buffoonish much of the time, and rarely genuinely threatening. However, the Prophets of the Dark Side (and specifically Supreme Prophet Kadann) are much more sinister in just about every way, as well as surprisingly competent, to the point that they work quite well as serious villains. Especially with the upgrade they got in subsequent fluff.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_746704c9	type	Divided for Publication
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_746704c9	comment	Divided for Publication: A series Omnibus was published as Star Wars: Book One and Star Wars: Book Two.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_7efe2c19	type	Portmanteau
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_7efe2c19	comment	Portmanteau: The Moffs hold a Mofference on the Moffship.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_80ed013b	type	The Chooser of the One
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_80ed013b	comment	The Chooser of the One: Kadann. As Supreme Prophet of the Dark Side, he is the conduit through whom the Dark One of Ancient Times speaks, and chooses Emperor Palpatine's successor.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_8485d41a	type	Interspecies Romance
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_8485d41a	comment	Interspecies Romance: Again, implied by the Back Story.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Since the plotlines were rarely referenced by later books, what became of its main characters was left fairly vague. Ken, for example — did he become one of Luke Skywalker's Jedi trainees later on? Or did he just disappear again, as happened to some others? One somewhat popular fan theory is that he became the New Jedi Order character Kenth Hamner (due most likely to the similarity of the names), but this has never been confirmed officially.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_8841192a	type	Like Father, Unlike Son
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_8841192a	comment	Like Father, Unlike Son: Extensively played with. Trioculus claims to be Palpatine's biological son, and for all his ineffectiveness is absolutely the Emperor's equal in cruel inhumanity, but is actually an impostor, with no force sensitivity. Triclops, Palpatine's true son, is allegedly so dangerously insane that even the cartoonish Imperial villains of this story fear letting him gain power. Then it turns out that he is a straight example: his "madness" is nothing more than pacifism and a desire for disarmament. However, his brilliant mind is not totally untouched by decades of mistreatment and electroshocks, and when he sleeps he dreams of weapons of war and horrific destruction, which the Imperials mine via an implant, hence their leaving him alive.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_8ace85ef	type	Audience Surrogate
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_8ace85ef	comment	Audience Surrogate: Ken is quite clearly intended to be one of these for the series' young audience. Wish-Fulfillment indeed!
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_8ea2f1bf	type	Cruella to Animals
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_8ea2f1bf	comment	Cruella to Animals: Trioculus takes a break from pursuing our heroes to hunt animals.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_9397414	type	Unmoving Plaid
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_9397414	comment	Unmoving Plaid: In-universe example. The Prophets wear jet-black cloaks studded with stars and constellations that behave in this eerie manner, creating an effect that is said to be akin to a cloth woven out of the fabric of deep space itself.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Supreme Prophet Kadann is the ultimate antagonist of the books; Trioculus only thinks he is.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_9d72c7fe	type	Fan Boy
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_9d72c7fe	comment	Fanboy: Ken is essentially an in-universe Star Wars fanboy.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_a1b74f5d	type	And That's Terrible
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_a1b74f5d	comment	And That's Terrible!: "I bid you Dark Greetings" and "I grant you my Dark Blessing". They really wanted us to know that they knew the Empire was evil. And apparently even the Empire wanted the Empire to know that the Empire was evil. It makes some sense with the Prophets of the Dark Side, who are, after all, a regular Religion of Evil, but less so with the secular politicians and military men.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_a32334b4	comment	Canon Discontinuity: Even before being relegated to Legends with the rest of the Expanded Universe, this series suffered from this. It wasn't total, but the events of the books have been made a lot less significant to the overall Star Wars story than the writers probably intended. The decision to cancel the series just as other, better received, EU novels (such as Zahn's trilogy) were getting big has been interpreted by some observers as a damage-limitation exercise. At one point it was pretty much treated as completely non-canon (some gaming sourcebooks aside), but later Lucasfilm policy seemed to be that nothing was so contradictory to the rest of the EU that it can't be fixed with a big enough retcon. Some examples: Rather than taking place over the span of five years as stated by Paul Davids, it takes place within a year. While the series ends with Han and Leia walking down the aisle to be wed, Davids himself explained that in his plans for the unwritten seventh book, they are interrupted, and their plans for their marriage fall by the wayside, leaving them to be married in The Courtship of Princess Leia. The villains of the series (Trioculus, the Central Committee of Grand Moffs, the Prophets of the Dark Side) are revealed by The New Essential Chronology as being a splinter faction of the Imperial government trying to wrest power from Ysanne Isard, and lacked authority over most of the Empire. The Dark Side Sourcebook explained that the Prophets of the Dark Side were not the real Prophets of the Dark Side, who were much more powerful and dangerous servants of Palpatine, but Imperial agents masquerading as them as part of a "Church of the Dark Side", a propaganda tool. Aliens of the Empire reveals that Triclops is not really Palpatine's son (and thus Ken is not Palpatine's grandson), but an experiment created under Palpatine's orders, similar to how Anakin Skywalker may have been "created" by manipulation of midichlorians. Though subsequently, a later retcon retconned the retcon again. The Knights of the Old Republic Campaign Guide resolves in the inconsistency with Yavin IV having been terraformed by the Jedi (via the "Lost City of the Jedi") with its depictions of having always been a rainforest world in Tales of the Jedi by explaining that the war with Exar Kun, depicted in Tales of the Jedi, severely ravaged the moon, and the terraforming process was implemented to repair it. The New Essential Guide to Characters also states that Lando Calrissian quickly regained control of Cloud City from Zorba the Hutt, who won it from him in Zorba the Hutt's Revenge. According to an article in issue 103 (October 1994) of the Polyhedron Tabletop RPG magazine (unlicensed, but written by one of the RPG's main writers), the series was actually a youngling-friendly retelling of those events by Leia Organa Solo to her children.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: The titular glove, which is a MacGuffin in the classic sense because without its clever gadgetry it really doesn't do anything but drive the plot.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Since the series was never finished, Zorba the Hutt goes unpunished and still controls Cloud City in the end. Later sources Retconned that he was forced to cede control of the city back to Lando and returned to Hutt Space, where he ended up a penniless social outcast due to his mismanagement of Jabba's fortune. Ditto, while Trioculus eventually bites the dust, Supreme Prophet Kadann never gets his comeuppance, and apparently remains in charge of the Empire (albeit trapped in the Lost City of the Jedi) as of the final pages. As with Zorba, later material (published in Star Wars Insider #66) retconned this by explaining how he ultimately escaped Yavin IV and was killed by Grand Admiral Afsheen Makati upon returning to his old base, while also being revealed as an impostor.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_a7faec8e	type	Written Sound Effect
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_a7faec8e	comment	Written Sound Effect: One of the series' major Narm sources. It's hard to escape the conclusion that the writers might have been better off doing a comic book. Or that they were being paid by the letter — "KRR-RR—AAAAAAANG!" is the sound of two submarines docking. Even R2-D2's beeps and buzzes are written out as dialog.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_ad5283e1	comment	Robot Girl: The Princess Leia android who marries Trioculus and then assassinates him.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_aff1ee2e	type	Small Reference Pools
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_aff1ee2e	comment	Small Reference Pools: When suggesting where to put the interim Imperial capital, the council only seem to have heard of planets that appear in the (original trilogy) films.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_b2280b66	comment	Since the series was never finished, Zorba the Hutt goes unpunished and still controls Cloud City in the end. Later sources Retconned that he was forced to cede control of the city back to Lando and returned to Hutt Space, where he ended up a penniless social outcast due to his mismanagement of Jabba's fortune.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": C-3PO gets one of these.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_c5b47b36	type	Offscreen Moment of Awesome
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_c5b47b36	comment	Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Several incidents (one egregious example: the starship carrying R2-D2 and C-3PO being discovered by The Empire and having to take refuge in an asteroid belt) are merely mentioned in passing.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_c67af1b0	type	Big Bad Wannabe
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_c67af1b0	comment	Big Bad Wannabe: Emperor Trioculus is a petty, incompetent idiot who thinks he is Palpatine's worthy successor. Yet he is a fraud, gets outsmarted by the protagonists easily and even loses to Zorba the Hutt and gets frozen in carbonite. Kadann knows he is a fraud, and saw him as just a puppet to kill and replace on the throne.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_c6b2fdd1	type	Fixing the Game
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_c6b2fdd1	comment	Fixing the Game: Zorba the Hutt takes Cloud City from Lando after beating him in Sabacc, using a deck of marked cards with UV-reflective symbols (which he can see.)
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_c83a589c	type	Luke, I Am Your Father
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_c83a589c	comment	Luke, I Am Your Father: Ken finds out that he's Triclops' son — and hence Emperor Palpatine's grandson.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_cdd676a3	type	Hyper-Competent Sidekick
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_cdd676a3	comment	Hypercompetent Sidekick: To say Grand Moff Hissa is more competent than Trioculus would be an understatement.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_df582b0b	type	Continuity Snarl
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_df582b0b	comment	Aliens of the Empire reveals that Triclops is not really Palpatine's son (and thus Ken is not Palpatine's grandson), but an experiment created under Palpatine's orders, similar to how Anakin Skywalker may have been "created" by manipulation of midichlorians. Though subsequently, a later retcon retconned the retcon again.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_e34ada78	type	Authority Equals Asskicking
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_e34ada78	comment	Authority Equals Asskicking: The Grand Moffs apparently can fight much better than their Stormtroopers. Grand Moff Hissa even gets to take Ken hostage and personally defeat Zorba the Hutt. Also, the Prophets of the Dark Side are supposed to be even more powerful.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_e3c70df1	type	Mister Big
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_e3c70df1	comment	Mister Big: Supreme Prophet Kadann is short, described as a dwarf several times. He is also the true villain of the series.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_e9327f58	type	Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_e9327f58	comment	Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: A near-literal example occurs when Zorba the Hutt is fed to the Sarlaac, only to be vomited up as his skin-mucus is too disgusting for even it to digest.
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The Glove of Darth Vader / int_fc7c4f92	type	Canon Immigrant
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_fc7c4f92	comment	Canon Immigrant: While this series was largely ignored by the old EU, some elements that it invented were included in later works: Zorba the Hutt's Revenge introduces the titular character, who is the father of Jabba the Hutt. Zorba is referenced in a number of later EU works, including The Han Solo Trilogy and Karen Traviss's novelization of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Queen of the Empire introduces a place called Hologram Fun World, which later appears in the Galaxy of Fear book The Nightmare Machine.
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