In no particular order, these are just a few of the characters that we feel help to make the Star Wars universe as cool as it is. These characters come from the Video games, novels and comics, so don't be confused if you have never heard of some of them.
The Dark Woman:
Active during the declining age of the old republic, the Dark Woman was active as a spy during the clone wars.
Why: The Dark Woman gave up her name to show her commitment to the living force and to recognize the unimportance of individual titles. She is the Jedi who found Master Ki-Adi-Mundi and brought him before the Jedi Counsel.
Why Not: She's also responsible for the training of Aurra Sing, one of the deadliest Jedi assassins ever. She was known for extreme brutality in her training, so brutal that Sing was easily convinced that the Dark Woman had decided to sell her into slavery. Way to go, jerk.
Quinlan Vos:
He’s one of the few Jedi to survive the purge and there is still no real record of his demise.
Why: Aayla Secura. He discovered her during a mission years earlier and eventually became her Jedi Master. Always lured by the dark side, Vos has been involved in several major conflicts on both sides of the clone wars. He even met Han Solo once when he was older and even then, was still a total bad ass.
Why Not: Quinlan got people killed, if not killed then horribly scarred for life. Just ask Aayla Secura, thanks to that jack ass she ended up a slave to her uncle with no memories, and thanks to his meddling, she accidentally pushed her uncle out a window. Obi Wan Kenobi was like Quinlan’s best friend and we all know what happened to him.
Exar Kun:
One of the more powerful Sith Lords, Exar Kun existed before the Mandalorian War.
Why: When his apprentice Ulic Qel-Droma was captured and put on trial, Kun showed up there by himself and killed his former master easily before killing most of the senate as well as the current Supreme Chancellor. He’s also the original creator of the double bladed Lightsaber.
Why not: What a pansy! Who gets hoodwinked by a guy named Freedon Nadd anyway? Even Mara Jade wasn’t impressed with this loser. This idiot got all this power from the dark side and still ended up trapped inside his own fortress for like four thousand years. Don’t remember Exar Kun, well neither did anyone else.
Canderous Ordo/ Mandalore:
Canderous is featured during the Mandalorian War and the Jedi Civil War.
Why: Mandalore was hard. Harder than Jango Fett, harder than Boba Fett, harder than your whole family. This dude wasn’t afraid of anyone or anything and would bust caps at anyone who got in his way. Darth Nihilus was powerful enough to destroy an entire planet but still wasn’t dope enough to avoid Canderous’ repeating blaster. Canderous lead a strike force to Nihilists ship and blew the whole thing to hell and lived to tell the tale. He is the reason Mandalorians would be feared for generations.
Why Not: What a cry baby. “Oh god, Revan why did you leave me?”, “Was it something I did?” “I guess I’ll just put this helmet on and cry myself to sleep every night on Dxun.” He even let Kreia talk mess to him. He would probably be a better shot if he could see through all the tears.
Joruus C’baoth:
Note the spelling of the name here, we’re talking about the insane clone of the original Jedi Master.
Why: Joruus C’baoth spent years on a small outpost planet just kinda dominating the indigenous people and killing any and all outsiders. That alone should get him an honorable mention. Even Thrawn was afraid of this lunatic, and with good reason. He used his battle meditation to almost bring the New Republic to its knees, something that Sidious was known for.
Why Not: He was a lackey for the most part. An extremely dangerous and madly insane lackey, but a peon nonetheless. I mean, how tough can you be when all it takes is a weird looking lizard to nullify his powers. Plus he made a clone of Luke, and the only way to tell them apart was that the clone’s name was Luuke Skywalker. How lame is that?
Darth Bane:
Darth Bane devised the Sith ‘Rule of Two’.
Why: Bane killed all who opposed him, he wasn’t playing around. If you didn’t like the way he went about things then he would gather you and all your friends up and blow you all to hell. At one point he was even attacked by tiny creatures that covered his body, and he just turned them into armor.
Why Not: Of course, the predecessor of Darth Sidious would end up a Dark Lord because he had daddy issues. That’s right, big bad Darth Bane used to get his ass whupped everyday by his dad. He even gave him the name Bane in the first place. If you listen close, whenever Bane felled an opponent he would whisper, “Are you happy now dad, are you?!?!?!”
Prince Xizor:
One of Vader’s only rivals, Prince Xizor was essential to the creation of the Imperial war machine.
Why: The Hutt’s ran the illegal activities in the galaxy so well that even the Empire didn’t want beef. But Xizor used subterfuge, and sheer force to make Black Sun the dominant criminal enterprise in the galaxy, so much so, that numerous Hutt’s worked under him. He even challenged Vader.
Why Not: Who is stupid enough to challenge Vader? Obsessed with revenge, this idiot took on the one person in the galaxy you don’t want to tangle with. This guy went looking for the guy everyone else was running from. To make matters worse, he actually tried to get revenge on Vader (who killed his whole family) by killing Luke Skywalker. It should be no surprise that Vader had him blown into the next world.
