Yoda

Yoda is one of the major characters from the Star Wars franchise.

Yoda is a Jedi master of an unknown race from the Star Wars universe. Having trained Jedi for more than 500 years, he is considered one of the wisest masters ever to have lived. His video game appearances include most licensed Star Wars games, considering his high fan-popularity and long lifespan. He is one of the most influential fictional movie characters of all time.

Not much is known about Yoda's past nor his species since they are so long lived and so scarce. However, this does not impede Yoda's impact on events in Star Wars. Yoda is a teacher at heart and has taught many, most notably taking Count Dooku, Ki-Adi-Mundi, and Mace Windu as a Padawan. He also oversees many younglings, who are children who are force-sensitive, and teaches them many ways of the force. Alongside this, he gives advice to almost every single influential character in the Star Wars saga, making him one of the most important characters in the Star Wars franchise.

Appearance
Yoda appears as a dwarf-like humanoid with balding white hair, green skin, eyes and long ears. His hands feature long nails and instead of feet, features digitrade talons. His attire is based on the prequel trilogy, wearing a flowing light robe made of a silk-like material and a darker uniform. His secondary outfit recolors the robe to a brown shade, matching his appearance from the original trilogy.

Personality
Yoda was a kind and wise individual, known for his sense of humor and his willingness to listen and offer counsel. Though quick to comfort and guide, he was equally quick to warn and to express disapproval in the face of wrong-doing. In his earlier days he often used his customary walking stick to support himself while walking, though in battle it quickly became evident that he was not as feeble as he let on. Yoda, like all true Jedi, disdained the idea of violence, feeling that Jedi who resort to fighting in war have already lost.

For all his wisdom and experience however, Yoda was not without his faults and flaws. His part in expelling Ahsoka Tano from the Order after she was framed for terrorism and her subsequent refusal to rejoin the Order after her name was cleared haunted him for many years. Along with his original hope that having him mentor Ahsoka would help Anakin learn to let go failed, and in fact contributed to Anakin's fall to the Dark Side.

Abilities
Despite his advanced age and small size, Yoda was very strong with the Force and was an extremely skilled warrior. Wielding a green-bladed lightsaber, Yoda was capable of holding his own in combat against opponents such as Count Dooku and Emperor Palpatine. He was also able to deflect the Force lightning of the aforementioned Sith with his bare hands, a feat he demonstrated in both duels. Yoda could also telekinetically toss aside metal pieces hurled at him by Dooku, levitate stone slabs in mid-air, or move Senate hoverpods around.

During a confrontation with Confederate forces on the coral moon of Rugosa, Yoda annihilated an entire squad of droids without using his lightsaber, and destroyed three assault tanks and their accompanying infantry single-handedly.

While isolated on Dagobah, Yoda was able to see other Jedi that were active in the Force; he could not see one that had forsaken the ways of the Jedi. He could keep in mental contact with the Jedi Temples across the galaxy, such as the one on Lothal and telepathically converse with any Jedi within them.

Yoda was able to actively have Force visions, and was not limited to spontaneous visions. However, he understood that Force prophecy was not absolute and that the future was always in motion. His visions led him to foresee the fall of the Jedi in the Clone Wars and even his own death.

In spite of all his abilities, the diminutive Jedi Master was ultimately unable to defeat Palpatine during their final duel in the Senate chamber; they fought to a draw and Yoda was forced to flee.

Trivia

 * He is voiced by Frank Oz, the same actor who voiced Yoda in the original and prequel Star Wars films, as opposed to Tom Kane, who portrayed him in The Clone Wars. He is one of two characters in Rebels to be portrayed by his actor from the movies rather than his Clone Wars voice actor, the other being Sheev Palpatine.


 * In Soul Calibur IV's Chain of Souls, Yoda is only shown to be the enemy of Darth Vader. He doesn't show any interest in neither swords or neither characters.
 * The alternate-history comic Star Wars: Infinities for A New Hope has Yoda using a Jedi mind trick on Admiral Tarkin to take control of the Justice Star (the Death Star) and use it to destroy the Imperial fleet in space around Coruscant before sacrificing himself to crash it into the Imperial Palace, killing Palpatine.
 * The real gameplay reason that Yoda's attacks throw him into the air is to counter the immense advantage of having high attacks go right over his head (although it also reflects how Yoda fights in Episode II and Episode III). In addition, because the animations would have to be altered for his small size, Yoda is completely immune to grab attacks (only exception is Darth Vader's force grabs, however, 4A+B A+B will not launch as high as it is supposed to)
 * Yoda is the only character in the Soul series that cannot be grabbed due to his size. (excluding Colossus and Will-o-the-Wisp )
 * All Critical Finishers performed on Yoda are different than the character's original finisher because of his extremely small size, all characters will perform an unblockable attack on him as a Critical Finish.
 * On October 23, 2008, Yoda became available as downloadable content to PlayStation 3 owners in Japan, North America and Europe.
 * Many reviewers claim that Yoda is overpowered because high attacks will miss him and he cannot be grabbed due to his small size, though this is counteracted by his low damage output and short range.
 * If two players were to be Yoda, they will remain immune to grabs because he usually jumps above his own height and grabs his opponents. This makes him fully immune to grabs even in a mirror match.
 * Yoda's Force Judgement Critical Finish's conclusion is similar to a scene from Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith in which while fighting clone troopers guarding the Jedi Temple, Yoda dispatches one of them by throwing his lightsaber into his chest, then jumps up and retrieves it.
 * Yoda is probably one of the wisest characters to appear in Soul Calibur, due to his being one of the most powerful and longest-lived Jedi.
 * One of Yoda's 8-Way Run moves is Whirlwind Strike, a move that has the same name as one of Count Dooku's moves in the Xbox/PS2 Star Wars: Episode III game. Due to Yoda and Dooku's master-student relationship, it's possible Yoda taught Dooku this move.
 * Yoda can also perform an aerial variant of it, demonstrating mastery of this techinque-passed-onto-Dooku.