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"Oh, how awful. Did he at least die painlessly?"
While it's good to have some recurring features in your campaign world, sometimes it's a good idea to change them up a bit. Throw in something unexpected.
For example, if mountains float in the sky in your world, sure have plenty of floating mountains. But throw in a curveball or two. Have a mountain that isn't actually floating but has an illusion cast on it to make it appear as though it is. A floating lake - just a huge body of water suspended in the air. Or a regular mountain that's suspended by cables dangling down from an even higher floating mountain. (Hmm, I wonder what would happen if an adventurer cut one of those cables...?)
Commentary by memnarch (who has not seen the movie)
I'm with Sally here. Floor pits are extremely commonplace in Star Wars! But a pit that doesn't just fall away into nothingness to show someone's dead? What nonsense is this! At least it's full of plasma arcs and it threw the bits back up to show they're gone. Now I'm curious if falling into a stomach/brain slicer counts for the GM. Boba Fett's body was never seen after all!
Also, hang on a moment. Darth Maul got brought back by Jim? That must have happened in Jim's big back story, and I never got to that part. I should really catch up on that compilation at some point. Though I suspect that Maul won't be recognizable when I do catch up to that part; kinda like how Jabba got to show up in name only in the adaptations of both Rogue One and Solo. I hope he's still got robot legs if he has made an appearance there.
And yeah, Pete, no need to worry about enemies being recycled with the GM. Just cloned, or cyborgified, or having a suspiciously similar looking kid..... Why, none of those are anywhere near a recycling center at all!
Transcript
Kylo Ren: I toss a guard into the open pit in the floor.
GM: What makes you think there’s an open pit in the floor?
Kylo Ren: It’s a throne room! There always is!
[SFX]: Kzrrzzk! {Kylo blocks a blow from a guard}
GM: ... Fair enough. {Kylo tosses the guard aside}
[SFX]: fall... {the guard falls into a previously unseen pit in the floor}
GM: Plasma sparks erupt and shredded bits of guard are blown briefly up into the room.
[SFX]: ka-splut!! {what the GM said}
Kylo Ren: ... That’s new.
[SFX]: whoooom!! {another guard swings a weapon at Kylo, who attacks back}
Rey: They finally figured out to put an actual garbage disposal in there so people wouldn’t keep falling to their doom, only to reappear alive later.
[SFX]: whoooom!! {Rey swings her sword at another guard while pulling her torso back to avoid a blow aimed there by a kneeling guard; the fire is spreading around them}
Kylo Ren: That wouldn’t happen with such a minor NPC.
Rey: How minor was Darth Maul?
[SFX]: whoooom!! {Rey swings at a guard as the flames rage in the background}
GM: Jim brought him back, not me.
[SFX]: whoooom!! {Kylo drives another guard back, wielding both his sword and the dropped weapon of a vanquished guard}
Kylo Ren: Right. You’d never resurrect an enemy we all thought died in a pit.
GM: Er... Yeah.
Rey: At least with that guard being reduced, he can’t be reused and recycled!