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 tried to avoid making Starkiller too rigidly defined while keeping the character developed. Starkiller was designed as Luke Skywalker's photo-negative, and is named after "Annikin Starkiller" (Luke or Anakin Skywalker's original name in the early Star Wars 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 used feedback from focus test respondents and executives at LucasArts in order to make Starkiller. Before deciding on Starkiller's character, 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 Star Wars: The Force Unleashed to make a brand-new character. Samuel Witwer provides both the voice and the likeness for Starkiller's character. Starkiller has mostly received positive reviews from critics. Starkiller also appears as a crossover character, along with Darth Vader and Yoda, in the fighting video game Soulcalibur IV, which was released before The Force Unleashed and included the character as a contemporary tie-in. The character's likeness and voice were provided by Samuel Witwer, who would later voice Darth Maul in Star Wars expanded media. The character's name is taken from Luke Skywalker's original name, "Luke Starkiller". His annihilative nature gains him the description of a "Force wrecking ball". Given the Sith name "Starkiller" for his unmatched potency with the Force, Marek is used for destructive purposes. The son of a fugitive Jedi, Marek is kidnapped, raised, and apprenticed by Darth Vader after the death of his father at Vader's hands. Starkiller, born Galen Marek and also known as The Apprentice, is the fictional protagonist of the Star Wars: The Force Unleashed video games and literature, part of the Star Wars expanded (Legends) universe.
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