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In the typical storyline, there are only three "career paths": Guy starts as a dark side user (like Palpatine). He does not ever learn the light side. Guy starts as a light side user, then ...
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In Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker we see Palpatine raise his hands slightly. Then we cut to the Final Order ships emerging from the ice. I always took this as Palpatine giving them signal and the ...
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The following exchange happens at the beginning of the finale of Episode V as Luke is departing to save his friends: LUKE: But I can help them! I feel the Force! BEN: But you cannot control it. This ...
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As anyone who has played Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II knows, after Starkiller defeats Vader in a fight, Rahm Kota and Starkiller have the following discussion: Starkiller: "You want him ...
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When one becomes a Force ghost it is said that they become more powerful than possibly imagined. We’ve seen Force ghosts in both Canon and Legends appear anywhere (including other galaxies), in Canon ...
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In Part V of the Obi-Wan Kenobi TV series, Vader grabs the first ship that is taking off instead of the second ship. It's safe to assume that Vader is too tired to grab the second ship after the first ...
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I've heard explanations like Tarkin wanted it and presented his plans to the emperor. And I've heard the comment by Vader was more for the audience, since Luke does destroy the Death Star using the ...
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Ahsoka mentions talent is a part of becoming a Jedi, but isn't a minimum amount of midichlorians needed to become a Jedi? I could be mistaken, but this is the impression I got from Star Wars I, so I ...
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A common defense for the Star Wars sequels (episodes 7-9) is that the balance that Anakin Skywalker brought to the force would not last forever, which would explain why the First Order was able to ...
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In The Last Jedi (2017), towards the end, Luke projects himself onto the planet where Kylo Ren has cornered the Rebels. Later he is seen fighting Kylo and ultimately dying. Have we ever seen someone ...
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I mean, in the old days, the ancient Sith could achieve incredible feats, such as eliminating all life on a planet or triggering a solar flare. While in the New Republic era, none of this can be ...
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In Ep 9: Rise of Skywalker we see Rey accidentally using force lightning on one of the stormtrooper ships and thinks she killed Chewie later realizing he was on another ship. But after this scene, it ...
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Star Wars is mostly about the Skywalkers bringing balance to the Force and destroying the Sith. Is the Force balanced after the events of Episode IX? This question arises considering the fact that ...
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Towards the end of Part V of the Obi-Wan Kenobi TV series, we see Vader use the Force to: The amount of power that Vader demonstrated in that scene seemed a little bit more extreme than anything I ...
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I have always wondered if Luke Skywalker had used the Force to forcefully lift up the large gate of Jabba's palace, or if he had used the Force to access the gate's control unit and manipulated it so ...
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I'm about half way through Perelandra, so please don't spoil the end for me, but I've read the entire conversation between Ransom and Weston were talking " Why did I do physics? Why did I ...
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In The Last Jedi, when Rey is on an island with Luke Skywalker, we see Kylo Ren and Rey force-connecting, and later in the film, when they are together in Snoke's throne room, Snoke tells them he ...
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There have been moments where members of the Jedi Council say "Impossible to see, the future is. The Dark Side clouds everything.". . . Conversely, We've seen a few moments where Palpatine's ...
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If you watch the lightsaber fights in the Prequel Trilogy, you'll see a lot of flips and twirls and duelists aiming for each other's lightsabers. Overall, a bunch of flair you would deem unnecessary ...
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So, I was marathoning all 9 Star Wars movies again because.... well, why wouldn't I right? I came across something I never thought of before. The force ghosts that we see in the movies only appear to ...
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In a couple of instances in the books these sentient planets seem to display Force powers, like when Yuuzhan'tar strips the Vong of the Force or when Zonama Sekot uses the Force to make Force ...
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I would like to know if some creature was to eat a Jedi or a Sith, would that mean that the Jedi/Sith's midichlorians would be absorbed into the creature and it would then become Force-sensitive? Take ...
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After re-watching a few parts of Episode 3 and watching The Bad Batch I noticed something. Usually if a character takes a blaster hit (and is not the protagonist) they are dead. When the Jedi get ...
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The final showdown in the video game Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order has a moment when a lightsaber is about to hit Cere and Cal but the blade seems to stop short of its intended targets, as if ...
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Yeah, just that. Has Yoda ever turned to the dark side of the Force? Has he ever been tempted? Even just for a moment? Even just in his mind (I mean, clearly temptation is in his mind, but I mean ...
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Imagine that you are a very creative Jedi/Sith and you are fighting against somebody of the opposite side. What's stopping you from killing him through the Force? There are infinite ways of doing it ...
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There are many examples of Force telekenesis making a "blood rushing to the head" type of wooshing sound effect in much of the Star Wars canon. But it has never been clear to me whether or ...
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In Attack Of The Clones, Obi-Wan used his lightsaber to block Count Dooku's Force lightning; Mace Windu did the same thing in Revenge Of The Sith to counter Palpatine's. Why didn't Yoda do that in ...
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I read this novel or novelisation one afternoon at the city library somewhere between late 1984 and early 1986. It was set in the Star Wars universe and the main story was that there was some sort of ...
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Well we know that Force Lightning is generally considered a Dark Side ability in both Canon and Legends, we also know that there was a Light Side variant of the power known as Electric Judgement/...
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We've seen multiple occasions of Force Users using Force-Lightning of different colors but never is it explained anywhere what causes those colors for those people. Examples below. Darth Sidious - ...
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Ok so... I should probably break down what I mean - take Anakin Skywalker, has what is widely considered the greatest potential in the Force of all time, he was quite literally conceived by the Force ...
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One thing I see people say about dark side Force-users a lot is that physical pain, the kind of which is received from anything that pretty much harms you, makes them more powerful, and it is often ...
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According to Star Wars lore, midi-chlorians are the microscopic entities which reside within living creatures and essentially act as a vector for the Force. They can be detected in blood, and have ...
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Can anyone explain these aspects of the Force to me? From what I understand, the Cosmic Force creates life through the Midi-chlorians, but wasn't the Cosmic Force itself created by the Living Force, ...
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I know the whole "midichlorian count = Force potential" is a touchy and controversial topic among Star Wars fans, but the fact is Lucas has confirmed it as canon so it is, unfortunately, what it is. ...
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Are there any Star Wars novelizations, comics series/issues that exclude the Force (both Jedi and Sith, Dark Side and Light Side), and instead focuses purely on the Imperial vs Republic/Rebel Alliance ...
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The Force can be used for moving objects, including living animals. There are a few instances I can think of where the Force is used on a person, such as Anakin using the Force in Season 1, Episode 4 ...
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This may be out of universe interpretation but it feels like too much of a coincidence that R2 ends up in Luke’s hands carrying a message by no other than her sister. Too many coincidences in a very ...
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This is all based in Legends, and I'm looking for Legends answer material. Midi-chlorians are intelligent and appear to be mostly manipulated by the Force. According to the Wookieepedia article, they ...
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In the movie The Rise of Skywalker, when Ben Solo converted back to the Light Side and became a Jedi again, he would have become capable of channeling all the powers of all the past Jedi, and because ...
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Tutaminis is a very useful ability because it allows a Jedi to stop blaster bolts and lightsaber attacks. But how can someone learn this without losing a hand? This is how it plays out in my mind: "...
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In The Empire Strikes Back, Luke is hanging upside down in the wampa cave and reaches out to pull his lightsaber to him in order to cut himself down. However, we know that at this point his Jedi ...
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Users of the Force often refer to the "Light Side" and the "Dark Side". Is there any indication that there is an actual separation in the Force between these two sides, or do the terms just refer to ...
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Isn't Luke able to defeat the rancor using the Force (by means of choking, knocking, or any other telekinetic force attack using the Force), or it does not work on these monsters?
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"A Chosen One shall come, born of no father, and through him will ultimate balance in the Force be restored." ―A Jedi prophecy Master & Apprentice Now I know that the new novelisation for ...
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Reading this answer it seems like it's easier to read someone's mind with the Force when they are experiencing strong feelings. Jedi believe in suppressing emotion and resisting strong feelings, while ...
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On several occasions Palpatine’s extended use of Force lightning has bounced back on him. In each situation he has carried on firing lightning from his hands even when it was harming himself instead ...
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In Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker we see Force heal used at multiple points by Light Side users. However in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith it seems that this is a Dark Side ...
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In The Rise of Skywalker, It seems like an extraordinarily powerful ability that even the strongest Jedi and Sith masters of the past have never been able to do.
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