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One of Obi-Wan Kenobi’s most physical scenes in Attack of the Clones happens on Kamino, when he tries to stop Jango Fett from escaping. At that point in the film, Obi-Wan has already followed the trail from the assassination attempt on Padmé Amidala to Kamino. There, he discovers the clone army, meets Jango Fett, and …

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Before Darth Plagueis became the Sith Lord who trained Palpatine, he was still only an apprentice. In Legends, he did not become the Sith Master through ceremony, inheritance, or permission. He took the title the Sith way, by killing the master who came before him. Plagueis Was Trained By Darth Tenebrous  Before he became the …

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With Maul: Shadow Lord bringing Maul back into the spotlight, one detail about his body stands out again. His legs are mechanical, but whenever his prosthetics are damaged, Maul reacts like he can still feel it, so why does pain still reach him through metal? Maul’s Legs Were Rebuilt Into His Body  Mother Talzin Repairs …

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Darth Plagueis was not the kind of Sith who scared easily. By the time of The Phantom Menace, he and Sidious had already spent years moving the galaxy exactly where they wanted it. The Jedi were distracted, the Republic was weakening, and the Sith were closer than ever to victory. But then one Jedi found …

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The opening of A New Hope drops right into a high-stakes hunt. A massive Imperial Star Destroyer relentlessly pursues the Tantive IV, a small Rebel corvette, over the desert sands of Tatooine.  Active long-range hyperspace tracking was an impossible technology that wouldn’t be invented until decades later, and jumping to lightspeed was supposed to be …

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Every Star Wars fan has that one storyline they still think about. Not because it was bad, but because it was left open for so long that it almost became painful. A character disappeared, a promise was never followed up, or a huge emotional moment was set up and then never properly resolved. And out …

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When Kylo Ren first appeared in The Force Awakens, he had almost everything people usually connect with a Sith villain. He wore black. He carried a red lightsaber. He used the dark side. He served a mysterious master. And above all, he worshipped Darth Vader so much that he seemed desperate to become the next …

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One of the weirdest things about Kylo Ren is that he spends so much time worshipping Darth Vader, when Vader himself would probably hate what Kylo was doing. Vader’s final act was saving his son and turning against Palpatine. Kylo knew the legend, but he seemed obsessed with only one part of it, the mask, …

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After Darth Sidious defeated Maul on Mandalore, it looked like Maul’s war against the Sith was over. He had lost Savage Opress, lost control of Mandalore, and ended up as Sidious’s prisoner. But in Darth Maul: Son of Dathomir, Maul does not stay broken for long. Once his Mandalorian forces free him, Maul returns to …

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