Affluent Ascetic: As the head of the largest criminal enterprise in the galaxy, Xizor is one of the wealthiest people alive yet dislikes Conspicuous Consumption.Affably Evil: While he's Faux Affably Evil with his enemies, Xizor is more Affably Evil when dealing with the everyday parts of his job of ruling a criminal empire, as he generally prefers to use the carrot rather than the stick when he deals with his subordinates.The video game instead has him going into Gall alone and blasting his way through the Imperial outposts to do the job. Adaptational Heroism: The novel and comic has Dash abandoning the other heroes on Gall as soon as trouble arrives, because they didn't pay him to fight.Both are experts in an unarmed combat technique Shadows of the Empire: Evolution also shows they're equally skilled with blasters. He watches a holo where they wipe out eight armed stormtroopers and approvingly notes neither is even breathing hard after.

Early on, Xizor also hires the Pike sisters as assassins due to their skills as martial artists.Leia gets up to less action in this book, but still briefly shows her stuff, kneeing Xizor in the groin at once after breaking free from the pheromone-caused lust toward him.Guri is a deadly female cyborg in Xizor's employ who can easily kill most people (only Luke ever beats her).

This guy was so full of himself it was a wonder he didn't explode and spew ego all over the place.

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