Full Series Starkiller in Rebels

Tone his powers down a lot and no part in the beginning of the Rebellion. Make him either Imperial or part of the Rebellion. Or brothers on opposite sides of the war.

 

I'm not super familiar with him, so I've not got a strong opinion.

What I know about the character makes it seem difficult to integrate him into the new canon. As someone whose only firsthand experience with the character is from SoulCalibur IV, from what I've read on Star Wars sites, blogs and forums like this, I feel like he would dominate the formation of the Rebel Alliance in a way that would put too many constraints on those in the story group and authors forming the current canon.

I'm open to some version of the character appearing, but hesitant. I'm sure Filoni, Kinberg and company could make something I'd enjoy, and I'm sure there are ways to take his main elements and add him to the new status quo, he just seems like he might be too cumbersome to integrate fully as he was established in The Force Unleashed, as it has been presented to me.

 

I'd love to see him make an appearance. Dumb down his powers though, for sure. His involvement with the formation of the rebel alliance was a story I always loved.

 

Starkiller was a fun character for the game, but him and that whole story line should stay out of anything else. His VA was pretty good though, maybe bring him back in for someone else other than Maul.

 

There are plenty other types of assassins who can be used by the Empire to kill off members of the Rebellion. Darth Vader does it, his inquisitors, the Emperor's Dark Hands, bounty hunters, and more can do the same as Starkiller does.

 

I think we'll get him, but under a different name and background story.

 

Starkiller in Rebels

What? Why? No.

 

I would allow him in on these terms.

PROXY is a must, aswell as Rahm Kota. However they can remix mr. Kota. Juno should be redshirt. Tone down his powers, same backstory, no TFU2 story elements.

Also give him some jedi kills.

 

Nope I liked Jar Jar... in the TCW but I couldn't abide him in the movies though!

 

You know make him an overemotional idiot whose easily angered into making mistakes might make him much more of a useful antagonist for the rebels but not a long lived one.
I like the idea of him being a spy or assassin but constant failures do not help make him last more than a season and the Inquisitor was a much better nemesis than Starkiller poses.
ISB Agents feel more appropriate make some time for espionage and imperial treachery with some losses for the Rebels to highlight its not all smooth sailing which given they've yet to lose a life with the crew of the Ghost its long overdue maybe the new recruits will share their experiences to help keep the Empire from being harmless save for Vader...

 

Oh, PROXY is must.

 

I voted yes, but pretty much only in circumstances like you describe. If he's an Inquisitor or Inquisitor-in-training, that's fine, even if he switches sides later... if he's another 'child of the Force' and works with the Rebels, fine... if he doesn't go by Starkiller at all, that's preferable (leaves the name open to a new canon use).

But if he's Vader's Secret Apprentice, if the Alliance crest is his family crest, if he's responsible for bringing various Rebel cells together to become an Alliance, then don't bother. Too cheesy. It sounds like a bad fan-fic character when you lay out his story: "He's the child of a Jedi Knight--Anakin wasn't the only one with a family!--and he's the most powerful Force-user ever. He's Vader's secret apprentice, and takes out Jedi across the galaxy before realizing the error of his ways. He brings together the Empire's enemies to gather them in one place, but sympathizes with them and thus is responsible for forming the Rebel Alliance himself. He kicks Vader's butt, leaving him all injured and his suit half-destroyed, but of course he has to die nobly to pave the way for Luke, and in doing so the Alliance honors his memory by using his family crest as their symbol."

 

Sabine is already using the starbird / phoenix symbol, I wonder if they are implying the events of TFU happened or if the origin is now completely different.

 

This:

Does not equal this:

 

I could be wrong, but I am 99.9% confident that the Rebel Alliance starbird symbol will be somehow redesigned from Sabine's starbird symbol at point in the series.

 

The concept artist that designed it for Rebels already said its based on the Alliance symbol, which was clear to me. I'm just curious if they're implying that Starkiller and his story are somehow intertwined in Rebels already, with Sabine using a starbird...

 

Yes, that is likely, but people keep treating them as the exact same design already, when they clearly aren't.

And no, they're not implying any connection with Starkiller's story. TFU is non-canon.

 

That's the thing though, we don't know what, if anything, they are implying until they explain why she's using that symbol. It's yet to be established, so they could be borrowing story elements from TFU or divising a new story with Sabine being the originator. If that's the case, it would interesting if there was a Mandalore connection to the symbol.

 

The "Starkiller starts the Rebellion" thing was about as fan-fic an idea as can be found in the EU (short of the Mary Sue accusations against Mara Jade and Corran Horn, I suppose). "My new character is Vader's Secret Apprentice! He's the most powerful Force-user ever, assassinated several Jedi, fell in love with a badass Imperial lady, has his own sweet ship and the best droid in the universe who's like Batman's Alfred and MCU Iron Man's Jarvis combined, he started the Rebellion by bringing everyone together himself, kicked Vader's ass and damaged his suit, and after all the good he accomplished the Alliance decided to use his family crest as their official symbol to remember him by. Oh, and the only reason he got killed is because George Lucas wouldn't let him kill the Emperor and change the timeline, tho he totally could have."

TFU's story wasn't all bad, and I really do like Marek and many of the others, but holy hell that Rebellion angle reeked of the worst of fan-fic. All it was missing was him rescuing Chewie from slavery but letting Han take the credit.

 

HEY! Who's scruffy looking?

 

This is interesting.

I actually think that Starkiller, working as an agent of Vader -- a secret Sith apprentice -- would make a pretty perfect foil for Ahsoka in Rebels.

As you say, give Marek powers roughly equal to that of Tano (but have them be powers realized through tapping into the dark side), and we can watch as the dance between the two students of Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader (one raised Jedi, the other, Sith) plays out.

I mean, it doesn't have to be Starkiller, per se. But I'm generally a fan of integrating EU characters and concepts into the canon when and where possible. And I was a fan of the character of Galen Marek. So if they ever were to integrate a 'Vader's Apprentice' into Rebels, I'd prefer it be Starkiller. His prior contributions to the founding of the Alliance can either be worked into the larger Rebels story line, or ignored in favor of something else, but I'd like to get him in there.

As I said before, though, crazy video game power levels are great for the game, but not for the canon. Just leave that out.

 

Looks like he combined the Jedi Knight logo with the Rebel Alliance logo. Sabine's entire bird theme looks carried over from Rook Kast, whether or not there is an familial connection or just carried over production art ideas remains unknown.

 

That's what I think will occur.

 

I think that would be great. If you think about it, Starkiller is in a way almost like Darth Vader's replacement apprentice after Ahsoka ran off. A showdown between Vader's former apprentice and his current apprentice could be pretty awesome. Starkiller hunted Jedi anyway. So it would even make sense for the confrontation to occur.

 

Shira Brie fits into the story much better than Starkiller, imo. She could be the perfect infiltrator, collecting critical information on the rebels and sending it to Lord Vader. Then, when the time is ripe, she betrays the rebels and we get a nice lightsaber fight between her and Kanan or her and Ahsoka. Also, she likes to use a lightwhip, which is pretty cool, much better than the spinny saber.

And we really don't have enough female darksiders in canon.