Darths and Droids/YMMV

• Accidental Innuendo:
  • A different meaning than intended was read in this strip. (See here.)
  • This moment after Jim's unusually skillful roleplaying:

Jim/Padmé: That was my best death ever!
Annie/Anakin: It was amazing. I've never felt so comfortable letting myself go in character before. I never found anyone I could trust.
Padmé: Trust me.

• Better Than Canon: The fact that it has much better story logic than the actual film really says something.
• Non Sequitur Scene: This strip. Padme "dies" in the desert then we abruptly switch to screencaps of The Princess Bride for some reason.
• Come for the X, Stay for the Y: Come for the Star Wars and Tabletop RPG jokes, stay for the Character Development as the players and GM become True Companions.
• Crazy Awesome: Sally is moving into this, especially since she started playing Yoda.
  • As far as NPC examples go, General Grievous (A.K.A. Valorum) has been retooled into this.
  • ...which is brought to a whole new level as General Grevious recites menacing poetry while trying to destroy Obi-Wan!
• Follow the Leader / Sincerest Form of Flattery: The writers admit up front this is based on DM of the Rings.
• Genius Bonus: The fact that the Geonosis factory sequence was added in by Pete acting as a substitue GM is even funnier if one is aware that it wasn't part of the original movie script, but was added during production.
• Nightmare Fuel: The revelation that Anakin is not only a Complete Monster... but always has been.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In this strip, Jim is admonished about even thinking about wearing Amidala's dresses, just in case they had good armor class. Now Jim is playing Amidala.
  • In a few Phantom Menace strips, Qui-Gon is obsessed with "casting Summon Bigger Fish". In Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Jar Jar does just that in one episode.
• Ho Yay: Darth Maul/Jango Fett. Am I the only one
  • No. No you are not.
• I Knew It!: The WMG that Jim plays Padmé when Qui-Gon dies.
  • Naboo is Mustafar. That is, there is no Mustafar, but Naboo takes its visuals.
• Memetic Mutation: Invoked. DMM encourages readers to spread "Jar Jar, you're a genius," across the net. As noted, the comic provided the very first instance of that sentence on the entire interweb.
  • Also, the "Summon Bigger Fish" spell, which gained a good deal of popularity after the Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode "Bombad Jedi".

"That Jedi has summoned a monster!"

• • • And now it's gone the other way around, with screencaps from "Bombad Jedi" used for "Summon Bigger Fish" here.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Jar Jar, who was originally the most hated character in all six movies. So much so that at least one reader actually hoped that the writers could find a way to insert him into the other five movies. At the end of the Revenge of the Sith game Yoda notes that Jar Jar was the only one who wasn't acting like a fool. Though this is kind of weakened by the fact Sally plays both Yoda and Jar Jar.
• The Scrappy: As admitted by Word of God and a complete inversion of the character as portrayed in the movies, there is an attempt to invoke this effect upon R2-D2. Whether or not this is successful will be left to the readers.