KotOR1 Characters

The characters of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic in LEGO minifig form.
Posted 7/15/2004.

This is my representation of the main character from KotOR1. Your main character might be completely different than mine, of course. Mine is Justin Arkanian, based on the main character of my Star Wars Fan Fiction. He's a male human Scoundrel (by far the coolest class) dual-classed to a Jedi Guardian once he gets his two red lightsabers. Red crystals can be obtained by smashing the Kinrath eggs in the crystal caves on Dantooine. The red robes my sig fig here is wearing can be obtained by convincing Juhani to join your team. She's wearing them when she joins, and I just stole them from her. Note that even though I chose red lightsabers and red robes, I actually still played a good character... although not strictly all-good... more "chaotic good." Thankfully you can do that!

This is Bastila Shan, practically the "secondary main character" of KotOR, and the romance interest for male characters. She's the Jedi replacement for Lady Aribeth de Tylmerande from BioWare's previous game, Neverwinter Nights. Oops, did I just say that? Visit my Baldur's Gate minifigs page for my LEGO of Aribeth. Anyway, just like Aribeth, Bastila is a preachy Lawful Good jerk who, despite her goody-two-shoes-ness, somehow is convinced to turn to the Dark Side and you have to either save her or slay her, depending on how convincing you are. I, of course, spared both Aribeth and Bastila. I'm pretty merciless with my justice/vengeance most of the time, but I have a weak spot for the ladies.

If you're female, you're stuck with Carth Onasi here as your romance interest (although I've heard you can, erm, hook up with Juhani late in the game if you're into that sort of thing). Carth is your generic Lawful Good soldier type who just happens to dual-wield pistols for some reason (perhaps the only cool thing about him). Sorry for again making use of the overused Qui-Gon Jinn head that I seem to use on all my creations. Why did I give my minifig orange pants, you ask? Because I can.

Mission Vao is the Twi'lek scoundrel you meat on Taris. She's young and naive, but actually quite intelligent and a very useful character to keep around. At first I couldn't stand her, but I actually became rather fond of her as the game progressed. And she's actually better-looking than most of the female characters in the sequel, KotOR2. Go figure. Anyway, here's my fig. Sorry for using the Bib Fortuna head-tails piece, but I was too lazy to do anything else. I think it looks fine myself, but some people complain... They always do.

Zaalbar is the boring Wookiee character that Mission is friends with. He can join your party and is a pretty darn tough fighter, but has very little personality except on the Kashyyyk levels...

Canderous Ordo here is easily one of my favorite characters in all of KotOR. He's a Mandalorian soldier turned mercenary, an expert at either guns or melee, and with quite an attitude to match. Some people have voiced complaints about the head I chose to use for him, since they say it's supposed to be a beard. Well, somehow I've always thought of it as grey stubble instead of a beard. Maybe I'm just crazy. This is, by the way, the first time I've ever used that annoying spikey LEGO hairpiece to a satisfying effect...

T3-M4, the generic astromech droid! He's kind of an odd little fellow, looking somewhat like a blend of Pit Droid and R2 Unit. His personality is pretty much R2-D2 all over again.

And here, of course, is everyone's favorite KotOR character: the assassin/protocol droid, HK-47. Much like Minsc is the most easily recognized character from the Baldur's Gate series, HK-47 is the signature character from KotOR. HK-47 (whose name sounds suspiciously like a combination of certain German and Russian assault rifles) is a loyal droid who will follow his master's orders perfectly... sometimes too perfectly, as he tends to leave lots of dead masters in his wake as a result of his "missions." But that's okay, because he loves to kill people, especially humans, whom he calls "meatbags," since they have "so many squishy parts." HK is easily the coolest droid character in anything, ever. Some people don't like the strange way I built him, but I think it turned out pretty good myself. You can see an improved version of it in the KOTOR2 section.

I have three favorite characters in KotOR: HK-47, Canderous Ordo, and... Jolee Bindo. Jolee is easily one of the best characters in the game. First of all, he's extremely useful, since he's an expert with the Force. Secondly, he's a bit of a renegade, who left the Jedi Order and now lives as a hermit. Since he's more neutral than good, he can use either Dark or Light powers, and he questions many of the Jedi teachings with a wry, sarcastic wit that makes him one of the funniest characters in the game. In other words, he's awesome. In fact, he's possibly my favorite character in the whole game...

Yes, I made the minifig yellow. I ALMOST paused to consider making a brown minifig for once, but two things stopped me. First, I had already sworn I wouldn't do skin tone minifigs, and I prefer to stick to my word. Second, it wouldn't have looked right on a brown torso. So there you have it.

Juhani is a freakish cat-person-thing that can join your party on Dantooine... or, if you like, you can just kill her. I never really liked her that much, myself. With her freaky hair, she reminds me quite a bit of Aurra Sing, and I HATE Aurra Sing. So anyway, here's a generic and uninteresting minifig of her. Meh.

A Sith Trooper. I've never really liked the design of their armor much, but at least it has a helmet (something the KOTOR series needs is helmets for your character), which is a good reason to keep it as long as possible in KOTOR 1. You can do so by equipping it on Carth and then booting him out of your party when you talk to the guy who supposedly takes the armor away from you. Carth will still be wearing it afterward.

A Republic soldier. I actually made this fig and the Sith Trooper later than the rest of the figs here; they were made more around the time of my KOTOR2 minifigs. Still, I'm grouping them with the rest anyway. This fig here is based on Trask, a party member in the game who only stays in your party through the tutorial level, before meeting his final fate at the hands of Malak's apprentice, Darth Bandon.

The main villain of the game is Darth Malak, a rather silly Sith Lord who is continually breaking the 100 Things You Should Not Do As An Evil Overlord. In other words, he frequently laughs evilly, kills his followers at random, destroys entire planets, tortures people, and makes long speeches before fighting instead of just killing people when they're at his mercy. He's also missing his mouth. Besides this, he's really an extremely cliché character and I found him one of the more dislikeable things about the game.

In Baldur's Gate II, everyone seems to be able to just disappear and reappear anywhere using the Shadow Door spell, which they apparently can use whenever they want, infinite times per day. In KotOR, enemy characters who wish to engage you in a one-on-one duel can just stun your allies with a wave of their hand, and they stay stunned until the fight is over. Just how you are immune to this yourself is never explained.

Darth Malak's generic apprentice guy is Darth Bandon, one of the game's bosses that you face at a certain point in the progression of the storyline. He looks like a human motor-biker version of Darth Maul.

This wacky little guy is Calo Nord, an oddly short bounty hunter with a temper that's even shorter than he is. He gets an awesome introductory sequence and eventually becomes another of the game's bosses that you will have to face. I actually think he's one of my best custom minifigs.

Calo isn't really all that easy, but since I used one of those crazy two-sided movie-maker heads for him, I just had to take this picture...

Admiral Saul Karath here is an old commander of Carth Onasi, who turned to the Dark Side and joined the Sith, even leading them to bombard his own homeworld. Carth hates him, but naturally has to have a long conversation with him at the end...

In this conversation, Admiral Karath reveals to you for the first time the biggest plot-twist in the game (if you hadn't already figured it out like I did... or at least I suspected it): your character is actually...

Darth Revan! Revan is by far a cooler villain than Malak, something that's clear every time we see him in a cutscene. The fact that he (or she) is actually YOU only makes it even more awesome.

This was actually my original Darth Revan minifig, from 7/15/2004. I quickly decided he needed improvement...

This new version, first posted 5/31/2005, uses new Dark Red decals I made after the PC version of KotOR finally came out (and I bought it immediately, of course). The most accurate LEGO color for Darth Revan's armor is actually sand-red, but since I don't have minifig pieces in that color and since I prefer dark-red, well... there you go.

FINISH HIM!