Marvel Star Wars/YMMV

• Alas, Poor Villain - Baron Tagge.
• Author's Saving Throw - The writers operated with little warning of the plots of the upcoming films, which frequently led to frantic plot railroading in the months before the adaptations of Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
  • Being more familiar with the problem after Empire, the leadup to Jedi involved the rebels searching for two rebel spies (Tay Vanis and Yom Argo) and the important data they had, revealed at the end of the arc (and right before Jedi came out) that it was information on the new Death Star.
• Funny Aneurysm Moment: All of Leia's jealousy toward Shira, Dani, and any other woman who likes Luke, considering, you know...
  • One early annual, published before The Empire Strikes Back, features a character telling Luke that Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader saved his planet from destruction.
• Harsher in Hindsight: At one point, Vader consoles a Rebel wannabe whose mother was just killed. The young man becomes a stormtrooper... and, many issues later, a Dark Lord of the Sith.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Between ESB and Rot J, there's a multi-issue plot about a new Imperial superweapon called the Tarkin. The briefing on it includes someone saying "It answers a lot of questions we've been asking ourselves lately. Like for instance, why hasn't the Empire constructed a second battle station like the Death Star that almost destroyed our base on Yavin?"
  • A lot of letters to the editor come off rather funny now that the films are complete. One in particular is from #24 where a complaint is that "Luke and Leia act more like older brother and sister then sweethearts."
  • Han as an adventurer archaeologist, years before Indiana Jones.
  • In one of the annuals, the authors have Vader recruiting a young man who has just found his mother's dead body. (Vader didn't kill her, not directly, and the guy blames the Alliance for bringing the bombing down on them.) And Vader muses aloud that he was once in the same position. (The trick here is that, in-story, we're meant to think that this is Luke talking to the guy about finding his Aunt and Uncle ...)
• Idiot Plot - A'plenty. My personal favorite is how Leia's too busy playing Save the Villain with Luke and Han to go to a meeting she knew nothing about, so the Heroes of Yavin are forever barred from participating in the galactic government.
• Magnificent Bastard - Darth Vader, especially in the Tay Vanis arc.
• Memetic Mutation - If Lando dies, I'll destroy your planet!
• Never Live It Down - The series has a whole has a big reputation for silliness due to things like Jaxxon. The silliness is there in places but in fact the really oddball stuff is the exception rather than the rule.
• So Bad It's Good: The series could get very campy on occasion. Remember, this was before most of the universe was defined.
• This Is Your Premise on Drugs - Marvel Star Wars is Star Wars doing hard crack, but it supports Mary and her noble rebels.
• The Woobie - Dani. Also Wedge in one particular issue.