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== Disney Villains ==

* The Inquisitors: The Disney version of the above, here reimagined as fallen Jedi who have taken up hunting their fellows for the Empire and wielding spinning double-bladed lightsabers while doing so. Actually rock a pretty boss set of designs overall, but sadly most of them are underdeveloped in both personality and backstory, with the exception of the Grand Inquisitor and Fallen Order's Second Sister. Composed of about a dozen members, with the Grand Inquisitor at their head and the other members having a "brother/sister" naming system. The Grand Inquisitor is noteworthy for actually being a former Jedi Temple Guardian, who willingly betrayed the Jedi prior to Order 66 by murdering his fellow Guardians as he felt slighted by not being allowed into the forbidden archives. Despite being killed off, Vader resurrected him as captive Force Ghost to serve as a trap for surviving Jedi, with the ghost noting that he was caught in a fate worse than death. The rest of the Inquisitors were killed off one by one, with Palpatine apparently not recruiting replacements, either because he felt that the Inquisitors were too weak or because they'd already purged all potential force users. By the Original Trilogy, the Inquisitorious appears to have been either disbanded entirely or severely reduced in size, as there were hardly any surviving Jedi left to hunt down, and in the end Vader took over much of their role, especially since they were not full Sith they were much weaker in power potential.
** Grand Inquisitor: Head honcho. An Pau'an who used to be a Jedi Temple Guard before going bad. Voiced by Lucius Malfoy / Admiral Zhao and similarly evil. By far the coolest (and most competent), villain in Season 1 of Rebels, so of course they killed him off. Also shows up in live action in Kenobi where Third Sister stabs him, but his showing up in Rebels later suggests he walked it off, which was confirmed outright in Episode 5 of the Kenobi mini-series. His spirit is cursed by Vader to continue serving him in death as a trap for Jedi, and was only defeated by Luke Skywalker during his search for a replacement lightsaber after ''The Empire Strikes Back.''
** Second Sister: Main villain of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, and as mentioned above, easily one of the more well-developed of the bunch besides GI himself. Once the Padawan of Cal's mentor in the game Cere, and hates her something fierce for feeling abandoned by her, leading to the Empire capturing her and giving her the [[Inquisition]] / [[Dark Eldar]] treatment. Just when it seems like she ''might'' make amends with Cere, Vader, unhappy that Second Sister failed him, cuts her down on the spot. 
** Third Sister: Another one of the better fleshed-out Inquisitors. One of the main villains of Kenobi series on Disney+, hunting him in the hope that Vader will give her a promotion in exchange...or so it seems. Turns out she actually just wants a chance to get close to Vader so she can kill him for murdering her fellow Younglings during Knightfall. But of course, Vader's way out of her weight-class. Can pose and parkour like a superhero, and has a [[Angron|bad temper even by Dark Side standards.]] Character and actress got crap from the [[/pol/|usual offenders]]. The original script gave her less confusing motivations as she didn't know that Anakin was Vader and she blamed him and the Jedi Council for causing Order 66, so she was a more willing (if misled) participant in all the atrocities she'd commit as an Inquisitor.
** Fourth Sister: Another Inquisitor introduced in Kenobi. Looks a bit like a Twi'lek but isn't listed as one. Not much else to say.
** Fifth Brother: One of the more prominent male Inquisitors besides the GI (enough so that he shows up in Rebels and the Obi-Wan mini-series). Like Third Sister he covets the Grand Inquisitor's position, and the two dislike each-other. Confirmed by the creators as being blind in Rebels, but able to see through the Force. Killed off in Rebels Season 2 when Maul wipes the floor with him.
** Sixth Brother: Minor Inquisitor who's main moment in the sun is fighting Ahsoka and getting killed by her. 
** Seventh Sister: One of the two main Inquisitors in Rebels besides Fifth Brother. Voiced by Sarah "Buffy" Michelle Gellar, who is also the wife of Kanan's voice actor, which the writers reference by giving Seventh Sister some flirting. Is a Mirialan like Barriss, but it has yet to be confirmed that the two are one and the same even though it would make sense. Killed off in Rebels Season 2, when Darth Maul takes a page out of Kenobi's book (oh the irony) and cuts her in half. 
** Eighth Brother: Throwaway Inquisitor who also dies the most embarrassing death of any Inquisitor to date (his helicopter lightsaber malfunctions and he falls to his death). Cool helmet though.
** Ninth Sister: The "muscle" of the bunch, being big, brutish, and filled with rage. Though beaten by Cal Kestis on Kashyyyk, her death hasn't been confirmed, so we might see more of her...which we do, when she shows up in the second game as the starter boss. Unfortunately for her, Cal's a lot better than the last time, and gives Ninth Sister the Jango Fett treatment. 
** Tenth Brother: So far exclusive to the comics, he was once a Jedi in the Clone Wars who tried to off Mace Windu, which went as well as you'd expect. Since Jedi tend to frown on executing people, they sent him into exile...which allowed the Empire to pick him up and turn him into an Inquisitor. Whoops. He eventually bit it when a Jedi manipulated several [https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Purge_Trooper Purge Troopers] into Order 66-ing his ass, in a moment of positively delicious irony.

* Agent Kallus: Continuing Star Wars' proud tradition of unsubtly named characters, Kallus is Rebel's equivalent to Asajj Ventress, being the semi-competent, semi-bumbling secondary villain who gets a redemption arc. Was involved in a massacre of Zeb's people, but had not actually ordered said massacre and feels kind of bad about how it all went down. Later joins the Rebel Alliance after Thrawn outs him as a spy. Rocks some Wolverine-esque sideburns, but not the weird haircut to go with it. Art crew considered making him a Chiss based on the concept art, but it seems they decided there's only room for one in the Empire's hierarchy. 

* Kylo Ren: A Dark Jedi (not Sith, they technically went extinct with Vader, Sheev, Dooku, and Maul) who is actually the son of Han and Leia, Ben Solo, which the Internet absolutely refused to shut up about after it was leaked.  He's mostly based on Jacen Solo from the EU (a son of Han and Leia who became a Jedi then fell to the Dark Side and became a Sith) with his new name likely taken from EU character Kybo Ren and having the same real name as Luke's son from the EU with Mara, Ben Skywalker.  He idolizes his grandfather, Darth Vader and wears a black suit and a mask to show this. He wields a unique crossguard lightsaber. People thought he would be a badass after seeing the trailers but after seeing the movie, he turned out to be a half-naked pussy looking like a gay Turkish oil wrestler who very often gets temper tantrums and gets his ass kicked by a teenage girl (though to be fair, if he had been a complete badass, everyone would’ve just complained that he was a rehash of Vader. So, you know, rock and a hard place. Also he only had his ass beat since he was already shot by a bowcaster and stabbed with a lightsaber, so fighting even in spite of that is pretty badass). Kylo's character became significantly more fleshed out in TLJ, ironically making him one of the only characters to have actual development in the whole movie.  Between that and Kylo's actor Adam Driver being really bro-tier about the whole situation (he even appeared in a skit as Kylo which also included poking fun at Kylo's emo traits), Kylo has managed to win over many fans, with some citing him as probably the most interesting character in the Sequels.  Serves Palpatine before turning on him with Rey and gives his life to heal her, scoring a kiss with her before he dies redeemed as Ben, ala Vader dying as Anakin.  This relationship between Rey and Kylo ''sharply'' divided the fanbase and created some extreme reactions.  The worst cases were some extremely rabid Kylo/Rey shippers who insisted Adam and Daisy Ridley - Rey's actor - become a real-life couple (despite both being in separate relationships), to the point that they '''harassed Daisy Ridley's boyfriend on social media, harassed Adam Driver along with his family (including stalking them and sending messages hoping for the deaths of Adam's wife and/or newborn son) and made death threats against JJ Abrams''' (far surpassing practically any other Star Wars backlash, even the death threats thrown at Ahmed Best - Jar Jar's VA - and the purported backlash against Kelly Marie Tran - Rose Tico's actress); it cannot even be “justified” (and justified is used ''very'' loosely here) as the ravings of butthurt ultra-fanboys, this crossed the line into full-on bullshit. To repeat, this one was Skub incarnate. Most fans either adore the Reylo ship or absolutely hate it with a passion. 

* Snoke: Supreme Leader of the First Order who speaks to his underlings through a massive hologram. <s> Very little is known about him at the moment. Though many fan theories say that he is Darth Plagueis, the old master of Palpatine who was assumed dead (everyone assumes every new Darksider is him, though, so grain of salt) the powers that be have repeatedly denied the theory (though it's admittedly a better guess than suggesting that Snoke is [[What|Mace Windu, Boba Fett, or a clone of Darth Vader]], which we would like to stress are [[Derp|actual fan theories]])...unfortunately, we will have to wait for an inevitable comic book or novel to explain it, since he [[RAGE|gets killed like a chump by his own servant, Kylo Ren.]] It is possible he may return given that the ring on his finger has inscriptions that translate to various rephrasing of “survive death” that is carved from the stone of Darth Vader's lava castle (yes, you read that right), but that may actually be a nod to Palpatine’s EU resurrections.</s>  Turns out to be a genetically engineered pawn of Palpatine's, like he was literally born looking as shriveled and injured as he did and had some kind of fabricated backstory like an organic Blade Runner Replicant, whose sole purpose was to babysit the First Order and get Ren to fall to the Dark Side. So in sum, a dime-store Palpatine knock-off. Of course, the explanation we got in Episode IX was still pretty weak so it took Lucasfilm years after the fact to finally give him a proper story; Snoke was a failed Palpatine clone who was still pretty strong in the Force, so Palpatine used him as his proxy in getting the Imperial Remnant back under his control and to help him find Rey, his only viable descendant. Snoke didn't like being Palpatine's puppet so he engineered a plot to have Ren kill Rey and the two of them would overthrow Palpatine. This failed however, as Palpatine knew that Ren would turn on Snoke and that he'd get his hands on Rey eventually. ''Would've been nice if they planned that from the start...''

* General Hux: The First Order's Tarkin equivalent and a moustache-less ginger Hitler in space. Delivers a pretty cool speech, but can't fight to save his life. The backstory for Hux is his father was an Imperial hero, and Hux wants to be the First Order version of his old man and lead the FO to a final victory. Hux openly dislikes Kylo Ren and has frustration with the Force-users borders on meta at times. Spends most of TLJ as a foil to the edgier and more toyetic bad guys, but he seems to be the only one to have noticed how impractical the Empire/FO's fuckhuge weaponry can be when you're fighting something smaller than a planet and have lost the element of surprise. Becomes Kylo Ren's comic relief ginger prison bitch at the end of TLJ, although he has an interesting scene where he was about to finish off the unconscious Kylo until he woke up. Sent some very simple info to the Resistance in Rise Of Skywalker that set off the movie plot (mostly by making them take the info they already had seriously) and later helped the main characters escape, and was immediately shot for his efforts. He is never mentioned again. 

* Captain Phasma: A First Order operative in charge of instructing the new Stormtrooper legions, Phasma serves as the Boba Fett of TFA - which is to say that she does nothing of note other than stand around and look cool until she figuratively and literally gets thrown into the trash in Force Awakens. Lucasfilm have apologized for overadvertising the character in the lead-up to the film since she was just supposed to look cool and do nothing like Boba Fett originally did but the huge presence of her in the marketing implied she was going to be a major character (remember, Jar Jar and generic Battle Droids had far more merch than Maul during the release of Episode 1) and have promised to give Phasma an actual role and backstory for TLJ that will play into Finn's story. (This turned out to be bullshit due to the fucked-up nature of TLJ's production, but the reshoots managed to give her a good showing anyway.) Her backstory was released in a novel where she was a tribal on a planet the Empire stripped into the stone age, who backstabbed her tribe for a stronger tribe, backstabbed her second tribe and brother to rescue a stranded Imperial officer and join the Empire, backstabbed her mentor to become the supreme commander of the Stormtrooper Corps in the First Order, then in the comic series she was shown to have survived the trash compactor when a Resistance bomb blew it up and she entirely disregarded everything (including saving Starkiller Base or Kylo Ren) to backstab and frame one of her subordinates for lowering the shields then promptly hunted him down to “bring him to justice”. So [[Skaven|she’s a spear-wielding backstabber extraordinaire.]] At the present she's got a nasty scar on one eye where her hyper durable helmet was busted in, and fell into a fire on a shattered starship to her confirmed demise. Worth mentioning that even many folks who liked TLJ considered this an unsatisfying send-off.

* Commander Pyre: The gold and male version of Phasma, and often the closest thing [[Fail|Star Wars: Resistance]] had to a big bad due to being in charge of most of the First Order's operations in the show. More active than Phasma usually is, but still not likely to become anybody's favorite new villain. And then he died, and no-one fucking cared.

* The Knights of Ren: The Dark Side warriors who Kylo is the leader of, each one having their own unique look and signature weapon. Also probably one of the biggest bits of [[Fail]] in the Sequel Trilogy on account of being teased in the first movie but completely absent in the second, and saying and doing absolutely nothing in the third before being unceremoniously killed off. Seriously, if you're one of those people who grouses about Boba Fett not having enough to do in the Original Trilogy, the way these guys are handled will drive you crazy. To put it into perspective, a ''non-canon LEGO short-film on Disney+'' gave these guys more characterization than the actual Sequel Trilogy did.

* Moff Gideon: Gus Fring in Star Wars (or Antón Castillo if you're a Far Cry fan), he serves as the main villain for the first three seasons of The Mandalorian. Responsible for the Purge of Mandalore, where he nuked the planet and made the Mandalorians an endangered people, as well as laying claim to the Darksaber. If his wardrobe, willingness to kill his own men, and ultimate plan to make clones of himself who can use the Force are anything to go by, he seems to be almost as much of a Vader stan as Kylo Ren is. Because he needs an actual Force-Sensitive to make his cloning plan work, he goes after Baby Yoda, which is revealed to be why he was hunting him throughout the series. Though arrested by the New Republic at the end of Season 2, he gets busted out and forms an army of [[Awesome|beskar armored Stormtroopers with jetpacks while also donning his own suit of Beskar armor to lead them]]. Comes to a fiery end in Season 3's finale, but given the aforementioned clones, some fans have wondered if it really was the real Gideon who died.

* Dagan Gera and Rayvis: Main villains of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (at least at first), being respectively a Jedi from the High Republic Era whose gone crazy and a Gen'dai (the same species as Durge from the 2003 Clone Wars cartoon). Dagan discovered a hidden away planet that couldn't be accessed by normal spacelanes, and decided it would make a great place to build a new Jedi Temple, but the planet was discovered by the Nihil, so the Jedi decided to cut their losses and not set up shop on the planet after all. This pissed Dagan off, and he became obsessed enough that his girlfriend hacked his arm off and put him in a bacta tank. Said bacta tank somehow preserved him until Cal discovered him and woke him up. As a one-armed, fallen hero from an older time, one could make comparisons to the Winter Soldier, though Dagan gets a much less happy ending.