Kueller is a minor antagonist in the Star Wars franchise, serving as the main antagonist of the Almanian Crisis and a posthumous antagonist for the rest of the franchise. He was a former student of the New Jedi Order named Dolph who fell to the dark side after his parent’s death.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- After the Almanian government murdered his parents, he not only killed everyone who was a part of the government but also anyone he considered a "sympathizer" of the government, resulting in the deaths of millions.
- Established himself as the dictator of Almanian becoming no better than the previous government.
- Corrupted another former student of Luke named Brakiss, turning him to the dark side.
- Planted bombs in the majority of the New Republic fleet and Starfighter Corps, planning to wipe them out to conquer the galaxy.
- Wiped out the population of Almania's neighbor Pyrdr using bombs, killing 1.6 million people and enslaving the 1000 survivors. Every time he killed someone; he grew in power of the dark side.
- Bombed the New Republic Senate, killing 25 senators and injuring 100 more. This also rendered Chief of State Leia temporarily deaf and allowed pro-Imperial senators to gain greater power and try to frame Han for the bombing.
- Frequently killed his subordinates for failing him and killed his faithful right-hand for calling him weak and turning on him.
- Forced Brakiss to draw out and dual Luke Skywalker and Brakiss begged Luke to kill him when defeated rather than face Kueller's wrath.
- Severely injured Luke Skywalker when Luke accidentally triggered the bomb in his starfighter and defeated the Grand Master in a duel, only keeping him alive to blackmail Leia.
- Demanded that Leia surrender the New Republic to him or else he would execute Luke.
- Killed the majority of the population of Auyemush, resulting in the deaths of over a million people just to demonstrate his power to Leia.
- After Leia rejected his demands and resigned to hand power over to Mon Mothma, he planned to kill Luke only to find that he had escaped.
- Detonated his bombs to cripple the New Republic fleet but luckily the New Republic deactivated the bombs.
- Ordered his small fleet of 3 Star Destroyers in a battle with a special task force led by Wedge Antilles, inflicting heavy casualties before Wedge figured the fleet was crewed entirely by droids and outsmarted them.
- Tried to kill Leia and Luke and was so powerful that Luke nearly sacrificed himself like Obi Wan Kenobi did decades ago to guide Leia to defeat him.
- Once temporarily depowered by the force negating ysalamiri brought by Mara Jade, Kueller planned to activate dozens of bombs he laid throughout the galaxy to feed off the millions of deaths this would cause before finally being shot in the head by Leia, killing him.
- He was apparently so traumatic that Mara had nightmares of him alongside Darth Vader and Palpatine before her wedding to Luke Skywalker years later.
- He accomplishes all this despite being the ruler of one of the poorest planets in the galaxy and not even having proper military as he had to buy three-star destroyers and a droid crew as his military.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- He does have a tragic backstory as his parents were killed by the totalitarian Almanian government which caused him to fall to the dark side, conquer Almania, and attack the New Republic which he blamed for the death of his parents since the Almanian government was part of the Rebel Alliance, the predecessor to the New Republic and the New Republic did nothing to stop the horrible government. That being said, considering the millions he has killed, it is pretty minor, but the story makes it clear that he is motivated over grief over his parent’s deaths.
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