Could 'Jedi: Fallen Order 2' Bring Back This Fan Favorite Character As a Villain?

The massive success of Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order is a good indication of how the market is still there for quality Star Wars games. The remakes of the Battlefront games were little more than gambling dens for loot boxes and large PVP battles, that don’t deserve to share the name of the nearly perfect originals. So seeing a great, innovative, and overall fun Star Wars game was a breath of fresh air. The story was engaging, the mechanics were overall pretty solid, and the new characters are easy to get invested in.

A sequel was a foregone conclusion, even if the story hadn’t left on a big cliffhanger that all but demanded a second game. As of this writing, a second game has not yet been announced, but between the positive fan reaction and the millions of copies sold, a sequel was inevitable. As it has yet to be announced, all we have to go on now is fan speculation.

Some of that speculation revolves around old friends.

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The 2008 game The Force Unleashed introduced the world to Darth Vader’s secret apprentice, Galen Marek, AKA Starkiller. The game as a whole was met with mixed reviews, but the character himself is an undeniable highlight. The idea of Darth Vader training a new Sith in secret to overthrow the Emperor is one ripe with possibilities, and the game takes advantage of a fair few of them. However, the game was made non-canon alongside almost everything else outside of the movies when Disney bought the rights to the franchise. Starkiller was sent to Legends.

As Disney has made more for the franchise, it’s making more and more beloved old material into canon. Fan favorite characters such as Grand Admiral Thrawn and Darth Revan have been made official, so the door is never closed for anybody.

There is certainly a path for Starkiller to appear in Fallen Order 2 as an antagonist for the hero, Cal Ketsis. The idea isn’t completely far fetched. Marek was initially going to be a villain in the Star Wars: Rebels TV series as an Inquisitor, but the idea was ultimately scrapped. If Marek is going to be in canon going forward, the second game would be a great place to introduce him. It’s more than likely that the second game would also have the player fighting Inquisitors, a that Marek could fill. We’ve even seen the character walk the path of the dark side in the games before, with him becoming powerful enough to take down the heroes from the original trilogy. He’s been shown to be incredibly powerful, so he’d make an excellent main antagonist and final boss fight. Maybe you could even redeem him in the end.

Beyond all of that, the meeting of an old game character and a new game one has a lot of potential to be great from a mere nostalgia level. People who played both games would have fun with seeing the two interact, and if the developers did the reveal right, it could be great, imagine this for the final boss fight;

Cal walks down the hallway, his hand gripping his unignited lightsaber, ready to turn it on at a moment’s notice. He senses a great disturbance in the Force as BD-1 shifts uneasily on his back. Something isn’t right here, but he has to get the holocron and get back to the Stinger Mantis. Cal tenses as he feels a wave of dark side energy behind him. He whirls around and ignites his cyan blade, ready to defend himself against his new foe and, hoping to whoever would listen, that it isn’t Vader himself. All he sees behind him is shadow, but there is the faint outline of somebody there. A crimson blade emerges from the darkness, and Cal takes a step back. No way out of this except a fight. The stranger lightly chuckles and raises his saber, illuminating his face for the first time; Starkiller.

“Cal Ketsis. Good day.”

Starkiller grins in a way that reminds Cal of a cat who has just found a helpless mouse.

“I’ve been looking for you.”

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Written by Tommy Durbin

Source(s): Screen Rant

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