Female Villains in The Star Wars Universe [closed]

Question

I'm a Star Wars fan, however my knowledge of Star Wars comes from the movies, not the numerous books, fan websites, and other sources of information that allow one to talk about the Star Wars "Universe."

There have not been any female villains in the Star Wars movies. We have the Emperor, Darth Vader, Count Dooku, and recently Kylo Ren.

In the Star Wars universe are there female villains and, if so, ones that can be just as uncool as Darth Vader? Or is the Dark Side something into which only men are seduced?

Answer 1

Lucas canon

Aside from what other answer answers mention:

• Aurra Sing, the bounty hunter

Disney Canon

• First Order's Captain Phasma (she's not as much of a freak as Kylo Ren, but she's quite happy committing and commanding massacres, genocide and other war crimes). This is far above and beyond an average Imperial officer.

• Arguably, Captain/Admiral Rae Sloane, though I'd be more hard-pressed to consider her a villain as opposed to simply antagonist.

EU/Legends

• Irek Ismaren's mother Roganda - Emperor's consort and 12BBY conspirator to earn Imperial throne for her son.

• Intelligence Director Ysanne Isard, villain of X-Wing books

  • X-Wing also had a minor female villain, Erine somethingporother.

• Admiral Daala, Tarkin's girlfriend, who launched not one but TWO failed attempts to whack the New Republic, one with a brand new planet destroying superwerapon, Sun Crusher.

• Mara Jade was a subversion, set up as Luke's nemesis (she had a mental order from Emperor Palpatine sent moments before DS2 exploded to "kill Luke Skywalker") but later becoming Luke's frenemy, then friend, then wife and his son's mother. She was also very explicitly noted by Luke to have never been on the Dark Side despite serving as Emperor's hand

• Lumiya, Mistress of the Sith

• Vergere, Jedi turned Sith

• Abeloth, Luke Skywalker's last great antagonist entity.

• Darth Traya of the Old Republic. IIRC there was at least one more female Sith Lord at that time (or even more - this answer covers Old Republic)

• EV-9D9 was the droid who tortured other droids in Jabba's palace and before that on Cloud City. "Tales from Jabba's palace" paint her as far more of a villain than even the films can.

• Darth Talon, serving Krayt

Answer 2

Asajj Ventress was a Sith apprentice to Count Dooku during The Clone Wars for most of the series, until she realized he was playing her so she became a rogue force-wielding mercenary-type.

Answer 3

Canon

There is an entire order of female dark side users called the Nightsisters. A prominent Nightsister was Mother Talzin, who was Darth Maul's mother.

[Asajj Ventress]]3] was also at one time a Nightsister and was later a Sith apprentice to Count Dooku.

Legends

In addition to the female, Force-sensitive villains from Legends mentioned in other answers, the following characters also fit your criteria:

• Darth Cognus was an assassin who worked for Darth Bane (who is canon) and his apprentice Darth Zannah (also female, but Legends-only) before becoming Darth Zannah's apprentice.
• Darth Zash, who attempted to take over the body of her apprentice in order to prolong her life; this apprentice survived the attempt and became Darth Nox.
• Atris was a Jedi who slowly turned to the dark side.

Answer 4

Knights of the Old Republic

^{If you consider playing this game and haven’t done so, be advised that some of the following spoilers are central to its story.}

• You can decide to play the player character female and villainous.

• The main villain on Dantooine is a fallen female Jedi called Juhani.

  You can turn Juhani light again and become one of your companions.

• One of the instructors of the Sith academy on Korriban is a female Twi’lek called Yuthura.

• Bastila will eventually turn to the dark side and become a short-time villain.

• Revan – former Dark Lord and “founder” of the current incarnation of the Sith and responsible for the mess you are trying to fix – has the same gender as the player character […]

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  […] because the player character was Revan, before the Jedis wiped her mind.

Answer 5

Darth Bane story line introduced two female Darksiders:

• Githany, former Jedi
• Zannah, Bane apprentice

These characters were first introduced in Star Wars: Jedi vs. Sith comic books and then re-imagined and expanded in Darth Bane novels trilogy.

Githany and Zannah are considered Legends now; Darth Bane spectre appeared in final episode of Star Wars: Clone Wars animated series, so he is somewhat of a canon.

Answer 6

In the Empire Strikes Back one of the TIE pilots pursuing the Millenium Falcon is identified as Civé Rashon, a female who rejoices in the callsign Howlrunner.

In various Star Wars related tabletop and video games, her backstory has been filled in to fairly villanous proportions. She lead the elite Obsidian Squadron through several engagements, culminating in the Battle of Endor.

Answer 7

From SWTOR the MMO you have quite a few villainous females.

Most notable beeing 2 of the most powerful Sith in the galaxy at that time.

• Brontes, also known as the "Architect of Fear", was a powerful female Sith sorceress and member of the Dread Masters.

• Bestia, also known as the "Keeper of the Dread Seeds", was a member of the Dread Masters, powerful Sith sorcerers.

Then there is the "comical" Darth Zash

Answer 8

If you count all Imperial officers as villains then there are plenty.

The most senior that I know of from Disney canon is Moff Mors, who is introduced in the book Lords of the Sith.

It is interesting to note Moff Mors and other Imperial officers. The Star Wars universe is not sexist in any of the canon. The key -ism in Star Wars is speciesism. Many (but by no means all) Imperial officers are human, and non-human species, e.g. Twi'leks, Wookiees etc. are exploited for their worlds' resources or as slave labour.

Edit: extra villainous added

There was also Queen Karina, Queen of the Geonosians. She controlled an army of undead Geonosians and held Luminara hostage.