List of Legends elements in the films


 * The name "Coruscant" was originally used by Timothy Zahn in the Thrawn trilogy of novels. Lucas was going to include the capital world of Had Abbadon in Return of the Jedi, but adopted Zahn's name for Imperial Center when presenting the planet in the Special Edition and prequel movies.
 * Swoop bikes. In the special edition scenes added to A New Hope, a swoop bike scares a ronto.
 * Quinlan Vos. The look of Vos' character was based on a background extra seen at the Mos Espa café in The Phantom Menace. A cameo appearance of this character was planned but not filmed for Revenge of the Sith. His name (as 'Master Vos') was mentioned by Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Jedi briefing room.
 * Aayla Secura. Appeared as a significant, albeit minor, character in Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. She is the second victim of Order 66, as seen in Episode III
 * The Outrider and with it, the YT-2400 freighters in general. Minor cameo, seen from distance lifting off from Mos Eisley, in the special scenes added to A New Hope for the Special Edition.
 * Action VI Transports, initially appeared as the Wild Karrde in Heir to the Empire, they also arrive at the Theed Spaceport in Attack of the Clones.
 * Prince Xizor. A Micro Machines model of the Shadows of the Empire villain was used to populate the spectator stands at the Mos Espa Arena.
 * The Force Speed ability, first created for the West End Games Star Wars Roleplaying Game. Used in The Phantom Menace by Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi to evade droidekas.
 * The planet Tund, first mentioned in the Adventures of Lando Calrissian, was identified as the planet Ben Quadinaros was from in The Phantom Menace.
 * The planet Rishi, introduced in Dark Force Rising, was given a mention via the Rishi Maze in Attack of the Clones.
 * Nee Alavar, a background character in Revenge of the Sith, was identified as a Lorrdian. The Lorrdian people first appeared in the novel Han Solo's Revenge.
 * The Aurebesh that appears in the original trilogy is nonsense characters. West End Games created an original signification with English letters for Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game based on those characters. This new alphabet has been used in prequel trilogy and the remastered original trilogy
 * The Prequel Trilogy has also many references to names and elements introduced in Star Wars: Droids due to Ben Burtt's large involvement in both.

On the other hand, Lucas has been known to ignore C-canon material when creating the prequel trilogy, even when this material is well-established and central to the EU continuity. This has led some to believe that the C-canon material is not, in fact, closely aligned with Lucas' vision. Examples of these inconsistencies include:


 * While in the EU the Republic was established to be extant for 25,000 years, in Attack of the Clones Palpatine says that the Republic has stood for a thousand years. This almost deleted the majority of the EU. Authors invented the Ruusan Reformation, in which the Republic is reorganized following the defeat of the Sith, occurring a thousand years before the movies, in order to explain this statement.
 * Similarly, in Attack of the clones, Sio Bibble states that "there hasn't been a full-scale war since the formation of the Republic." This is not true; indeed, dozens of wars have occurred since the Republic's formation such as the Great Hyperspace War, the Sith War, the Mandalorian Wars, the Jedi Civil War, the New Sith Wars, and numerous Great Schisms.Bibble, like Palpatine above, must have been referring to the post-Ruusan Reformation Republic, as that is the only explanation that makes sense without undermining much of the EU.
 * The deaths of Obi-Wan, Yoda, and Darth Vader in the original trilogy made it appear that dead Jedi typically disappeared and reappeared as Force ghosts. The prequel trilogy, particularly Revenge of the Sith, revealed that this has happened for these three characters and Qui-Gon Jinn.
 * Boba Fett's origins originally named him 'Jaster Mereel', a Journeyman Protector from Concord Dawn. This backstory was later rearranged and became part of Jango Fett's backstory (in Open Seasons, Jaster Mereel is Jango's mentor on Concord Dawn).
 * The Clone Wars, as described in Zahn's Thrawn trilogy, were a struggle between the Old Republic and the Clone Masters. Attack of the Clones, on the other hand, revealed tha the Clone Wars were fought between the Old Republic (using clones) and a Separatist movement (using droids). The exact date of the conflict had yet to be pinned down, and so Zahn's estimate was at least a decade out. This was easily explained, since it is the Noghri who mention the date, and this species would thus be using their own unique dating system.