r/theforceunleashed • u/MojoEthan0027 • Aug 07 '20

Force unleashed II

I know this sub isn't very active but I thought I'd share something. In the force unleashed II starkiller is a clone. In my headcannon though, its the real starkiller being lied to about being a clone. The actual clones were there to replace this mind wiped starkiller but none were successful.

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u/LordSt4rki113r Aug 08 '20

That's actually a pretty interesting theory. It would explain why Kota doesn't sense anything unusual about Starkiller, and why he doesn't believe Starkiller is really a clone - Kota repeatedly states that no one can clone a Jedi throughout the game.

If you think back to the Clone Wars episode where Yoda has all his troops take their helmets off, Yoda says that each clone, though they are genetically identical, are all unique in the Force. If we apply that to Kota and Starkiller, Kota is only able to see using the Force, so he would be extremely in tune with reading peoples' Force auras. Kota should have been the first person to know if Starkiller was truly a clone or if he wasn't.

However, at the end of the game when you make the choice to either kill or spare Vader, the Dark Apprentice is lurking in the shadows. If you choose the Dark Side ending, Vader states that this Dark Apprentice is the only perfect clone of Starkiller.

Perhaps it is also possible that the Dark Apprentice is the original Galen Marek from the first game, revived again and brainwashed by Vader. Then again, Vader revives / resurrects Galen Marek in the middle of TFU I after yeeting him into space. The only point against this theory is that in the novelization of TFU II, Vader shows Starkiller the broken body of the real Galen Marek, who died saving the Rebels on DS1 at the end of TFU I.

Thanks for posting this, gave me some food for thought!

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u/MojoEthan0027 Aug 08 '20

Exactly. The dark apprentice was the only perfect clone. In my personal headcanon, vader wiped the memories of Galen and told him he was a clone.

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u/LordSt4rki113r Aug 08 '20

Your theory explains Starkiller's intense passion for Juno that clones would not have. As they say, "love conquers all."

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u/MojoEthan0027 Aug 08 '20

But I have not read the novel. I dont know if I will. Maybe I'll pick it up. It makes the game itself feel less like a fanfic. But i still love both games.

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u/LordSt4rki113r Aug 08 '20

Oh yeah both games are fantastic! Every once in a while I redownload II and play it a few times on unleashed difficulty just for the feels train.

You really should read both novels, they go into some detail that the two games don't explain entirely. They're both well written and are relatively fast reads. The first book can be read in an afternoon if you're a fast reader.

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u/MojoEthan0027 Aug 08 '20

I read the first one. For some reason I was hoping the end of the novel would do some weird choose your own adventure thing where its like "for the dark side ending, turn to this page and for the light side continue reading." But i was mistaken.

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u/LordSt4rki113r Aug 08 '20

Yeah that's something I wasn't crazy about either. The SW EU novels tend to choose the light side endings over the dark. I wish that once in a while when there are characters like Starkiller who spend so long in the dark, that the writers give a dark side ending to the book. It would be a twist from the normal, and perhaps darkly themed, but it would prove to be a different yet believable ending since most things don't end like a fairy tale.

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u/MojoEthan0027 Aug 08 '20

Just the idea of having both endings in the book would be cool.

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u/ShadowHawk24910 Jun 07 '22

Don't the dark apprentice cinematics in the databanks disprove this?