History ComicBook / StarWarsInfinities

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: ''Infinities -- A New Hope'' ends with Yoda dropping the Death Star ''directly on top of Palpatine''.

[[WhatIf What If]] the ''Franchise/StarWars'' original trilogy had its turning points dramatically changed? What if Luke failed to destroy the Death Star in ''Film/ANewHope''? What if he freezed to death during that blizzard in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''? What if C-3PO got damaged during Leia and Jabba's negotiations in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''?

** ''Infinities -- A New Hope'': Luke fails to destroy the Death Star because one of his torpedoes malfunctions. As a result, the Empire catches several Rebels trying to escape Yavin, including Leia, who Vader trains as his apprentice. In the meantime, Luke trains with Yoda, and after five years he confronts Vader and Leia, ultimately ending when Yoda {{Colony Drop}}s the Death Star on top of the Emperor's palace.

* ForWantOfANail:
** ''Infinities -- A New Hope'': Luke fails to destroy the Death Star because one of his torpedoes malfunctions. As a result, the Empire catches several Rebels trying to escape Yavin, including Leia, who Vader trains as his apprentice. In the meantime, Luke trains with Yoda, and after five years he confronts Vader and Leia, ultimately ending when Yoda {{Colony Drop}}s the Death Star on top of the Emperor's palace.
** ''Infinities -- The Empire Strikes Back'': Luke dies of exposure on Hoth, leading Han and Leia to seek Yoda. Lando doesn't betray Han, getting Cloud City destroyed. [=C3PO=] ends up in Vader's hands and finds out about Dagobah, leading him to confront Yoda (and get into a mental battle against the spirits of Jedi passed like Qui-Gon and Mace). Vader gets killed in a surprise attack by Han, leaving him and Leia to rejoin the Rebels and fight the Emperor.
** ''Infinities -- Return of the Jedi'': [=C3PO=] gets disabled by accident, forcing Leia to reveal her identity to Jabba and allowing Boba Fett to escape with Han in the confusion. Yoda dies before Luke can hear his final message, meaning Luke (and the Emperor) sense his death and Luke gets captured leaving Dagobah. Meanwhile, Leia mounts a rescue mission to save Han, but he's become permanently blind. Because the heroes don't befriend the Ewoks, they attack both sides at the shield generator, meaning Han and Lando have to take it out. Luke and Leia manage to redeem and rescue Vader, who [[GoodCostumeSwitch dons a white costume]] and [[HeelFaceTurn joins the good guys]] in hunting down the Emperor.
** [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall In a nice touch,]] the highly trained Force users can ''sense'' that things are not as they should be, though they don't quite know what is going on. They just know the Force is going ''nuts''. Also interesting, each scenario still results in the heroes defeating the villains, just with the plots changed significantly. (In fact, each ending may have actually been ''better'' [[BittersweetEnding if slightly bittersweet]].)

* BreakingTheFourthWall: In ''Infinities -- A New Hope'', as Yoda is going to crash the Death Star on Coruscant, Linkara takes over the narration and says: "And, yep, as our heroes escape on the ''Millennium Falcon'', Yoda brings the Death Star crashing down into Corescant, right on top of the Emperor!"

** ''Infinities -- The Empire Strikes Back'': Luke dies of exposure on Hoth, leading Han and Leia to seek Yoda. Lando doesn't betray Han, getting Cloud City destroyed. [=C3PO=] ends up in Vader's hands and finds out about Dagobah, leading him to confront Yoda (and get into a mental battle against the spirits of Jedi passed like Qui-Gon and Mace). Vader gets killed by a surprise attack by Han, leaving him and Leia to rejoin the Rebels and fight the Emperor.

** [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall In a nice touch,]] the highly trained Force users can ''sense'' that things are not as they should be, though they don't quite know what is going on. They just know the Force is going ''nuts''. Also interesting, each scenario still results in the forces of Good defeating Evil, just with the plots changed significantly. (In fact, each ending may have actually been ''better'' [[BittersweetEnding if slightly bittersweet]].)

** In ''Infinities -- The Empire Strikes Back'', Leia becomes a Jedi following Luke's death in Hoth. This same plot is used in he non-canon Endor DLC of the second installment of ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed''.

[[WhatIf What If]] the original trilogy of the ''Film.StarWarsTheSkywalkerSaga'' had its turning points dramatically changed? What if Luke failed to destroy the Death Star in ''Film/ANewHope''? What if he freezed to death during that blizzard in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''? What if C-3PO got damaged during Leia and Jabba's negotiations in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''?

''Infinities'' ran from 2002 to 2004 under Creator/DarkHorseComics.

** Palpatine turns the Jedi temple into his residence, which gets referenced in ''Literature/StarWarsTarkin'' (2014).

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Considering how little space was left, Vader's [[EvilCostumeSwitch Good-Guy Costume Switch]] to white might just have been shorthand for "Hey, Vader's part of the Rebellion now!" since readers might not have known otherwise. The costume is memetic now and has its own action figure.

* EvilCostumeSwitch: {{Inverted}}. In ''Infinities -- Return of the Jedi'', Vader undergoes his redemption aided by both his children and survives betraying the Emperor for their sake. In the denouement, we see him standing alongside Luke and Leia as one of the good guys wearing a costume identical to his usual one, just colored white and with some more cloth and a little less armor.

* AtopTheFourthWall: In ''Infinities -- A New Hope'', as Yoda is going to crash the Death Star on Coruscant, Linkara takes over the narration and says: "And, yep, as our heroes escape on the ''Millennium Falcon'', Yoda brings the Death Star crashing down into Corescant, right on top of the Emperor!"

* MythologyGag: Palpatine turns the Jedi temple into his residence, which gets referenced in ''Literature/StarWarsTarkin'' (2014).

'''Luke:'' I think it means trouble.

* RestrictedExpandedUniverse: Thanks to them being alternate continuities, the graphic novels can [[AvertedTrope break the restrictions]] imposed by Creator/{{Lucasfilm}} --such as that neither Luke, Leia, or Hans can be killed. Indeed, in the ''Infinities -- The Empire Strikes Back'' continuity, Luke dies and comes back one InUniverse century later as a Force ghost in ''ComicBook/StarWarsLegacy''.

Well, this series of graphic novels is the answer. ''Infinities'' is split into three independent {{Story Arc}}s, one for each film. This means that they are not sequels to each but self-contained CanonDivergence alternate continuities. For example, in ''Infinities -- The Empire Strikes Back'', Luke did destroy the Death Star and everything is exactly as canon until he dies in Hoth. The changes that ''Infinities -- A New Hope'' introduces do not carry on. Likewise with ''Infinities -- Return of the Jedi''.

** ''Infinities -- Return of the Jedi'':[=C3PO=] gets disabled by accident, forcing Leia to reveal her identity to Jabba and allowing Boba Fett to escape with Han in the confusion. Yoda dies before Luke can hear his final message, meaning Luke (and the Emperor) sense his death and Luke gets captured leaving Dagobah. Meanwhile, Leia mounts a rescue mission to save Han, but he's become permanently blind. Because the heroes don't befriend the Ewoks, they attack both sides at the shield generator, meaning Han and Lando have to take it out. Luke and Leia manage to redeem and rescue Vader, who [[GoodCostumeSwitch dons a white costume]] and [[HeelFaceTurn joins the good guys]] in hunting down the Emperor.

[[WhatIf What If]] the original trilogy of the ''Film.StarWarsTheSkywalkerSaga'' had its turning points dramatically changed? What if Luke failed to destroy the Death Star in ''Film/ANewHope''? What if he freezed to death during that blizzard in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''? What if C-3PO got damaged during Leia and Jabba's negotiations in ''Film/TheReturnOfTheJedi''?

Well, this series of graphic novels is the answer. ''Infinities'' is split into three independent {{Story Arc}}s, one for each film. This means that they are not sequels to each but self-contained CanonDivergence alternate continuities. For example, in ''Infinities -- The Empire Strikes Back'', Luke did destroy the Death Star and everything is exactly as canon until he dies in Hoth. The changes that ''Infinities -- A New Hope'' introduces do not carry on. Likewise with ''Infinities -- The Return of the Jedi''.

** ''Infinities -- The Return of the Jedi'':[=C3PO=] gets disabled by accident, forcing Leia to reveal her identity to Jabba and allowing Boba Fett to escape with Han in the confusion. Yoda dies before Luke can hear his final message, meaning Luke (and the Emperor) sense his death and Luke gets captured leaving Dagobah. Meanwhile, Leia mounts a rescue mission to save Han, but he's become permanently blind. Because the heroes don't befriend the Ewoks, they attack both sides at the shield generator, meaning Han and Lando have to take it out. Luke and Leia manage to redeem and rescue Vader, who [[GoodCostumeSwitch dons a white costume]] and [[HeelFaceTurn joins the good guys]] in hunting down the Emperor.