![]() Sam Witwer has said that Starkiller would be a character he wouldn't mind revisiting. Blackman noted that Witwer brought new ideas and a sense of humanity to Starkiller. Starkiller's expressions are based on Witwer's, which Blackman described as a "a new approach for LucasArts", noting that it "affected the way we handled casting for The Force Unleashed" and comparing it to how people see Bill Nighy as Davy Jones in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. According to Blackman the staff were very hard on Witwer when casting him, but claimed he was far above the other candidates and that "he was already inhabiting the mind of this character". Starkiller was voiced by and given the likeness of Sam Witwer. Sam Witwer provides both the voice and the likeness for the character of Starkiller. During an interview to Haden Blackman by The Guardian, Blackman claimed that most of the testing players wanted the character to be ultimately redeemed by the end of the game. They attempted to make Starkiller feel like he would belong in the classic Star Wars trilogy by making his actions faster and more intense. In order to avoid the character being over emotional, they tried to let short pieces of dialogue and looks carry scenes so that the player could interpret how Starkiller felt. The developers also wanted to avoid making Starkiller seem irredeemably evil, and used elements of his backstory and his relationships with other characters to balance it, while trying not to explain too much of his backstory. The developers of The Force Unleashed tried to avoid making Starkiller too rigidly defined while keeping the character developed. Starkiller was designed as a photo-negative of Luke Skywalker, and is named after "Annikin Starkiller" (Luke Skywalker's original name in Star Wars Template:'s early scripts). ![]() The developers consciously decided not to give him a name in the game, but as the novel's author ( Sean Williams) said he needed a name "Galen Marek" was given in the novel. The developers of The Force Unleashed used feedback from focus test respondents and executives at LucasArts in order to make Starkiller. Before deciding on the character of Starkiller, other ideas for the main character included a Han Solo-like smuggler, a superheroic Rebel Wookiee, "the last Skywalker" and a gadget-wielding mercenary. George Lucas motivated the team working on The Force Unleashed to make a brand-new character (a friendly Sith). In GameSpot's vote for the greatest video game character of all time Starkiller (as "The Apprentice") was eliminated in round 1 against Niko Bellic, based solely upon his appearance in Soulcalibur IV. However, GamesRadar has criticized Starkiller's design. Starkiller has been well received by IGN, who called his story arc in The Force Unleashed "nice and complete", as well as by Game Informer, UGO Networks and GameDaily. ![]() Witwer has also said that while for other Force-users fighting a battle against a powerful opponent might be a difficult struggle for them, for Starkiller "finding a moment of inner peace is the true struggle". Witwer described the character as being extremely competent, aggressive and unsubtle, but having an innocent side to him, stating that his growth had been stunted by being raised by Vader, meaning there are many parts of the character that are wide-eyed and innocent. The character's name is taken from Star Wars creator George Lucas' working name for Luke Skywalker, "Annikin Starkiller" the character is designed to be a "photo-negative" of Skywalker. Starkiller escapes from the cloning facility, and at the end of The Force Unleashed II he captures and imprisons Darth Vader. After Starkiller's supposed sacrificial death in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, he is either resurrected or cloned by Darth Vader in order to be his secret apprentice again. He is potent with using the Force for destructive purposes, with Witwer describing him as less of an assassin and more of a "Force wrecking ball". After Darth Vader kills Galen's father, he is raised by Vader and is made his secret apprentice, under the name "Starkiller". ![]() He is voiced by Sam Witwer, who also gave his likeness to the character. Starkiller, also known as Galen Marek and The Apprentice, is the anti-hero main protagonist of the Star Wars: The Force Unleashed project (including a video game, novel, and comics), who first appeared in the game Soulcalibur IV.
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