5 Jedi Who Were Morally The Worst While Still Serving The Order

Jedi are supposed to be people of justice. They stand for what is right, protect the weak, and spend their lives fighting against the darkness of the Sith.

But not every Jedi lived up to that image.

Some stayed inside the Jedi Order while making choices that were selfish, cruel, dangerous, or morally unforgivable. So here are five Jedi who were genuinely terrible from a moral point of view while still serving under the Jedi Order.

1. Count Dooku

Count Dooku is one of the easiest names to bring up because his fall did not happen all at once.

In Tales of the Jedi, we already see how far his anger could go while he was still a Jedi. During a mission with Qui-Gon, Dooku nearly kills Senator Dagonet by Force choking him, and when Qui-Gon tries to stop him, Dooku pushes his own Padawan away.

Years later, after Qui-Gon’s death, Dooku goes deeper. In “The Sith Lord,” he enters the Jedi Archives and deletes Kamino from the records using Sifo-Dyas’ code. That one act helps hide the clone army mystery from the Jedi.

Yaddle follows him and discovers his connection to Darth Sidious. She gives him a chance to turn back, but Dooku chooses Sidious instead, fights her, and kills her.

2. Pong Krell

Pong Krell is probably the worst example of a Jedi abusing his position while still serving under the Order.

During the Battle of Umbara, he took command of the 501st after Anakin was recalled to Coruscant. From the moment he arrived, Krell treated the clones like tools instead of living soldiers. He refused to use their names, called them by their numbers, and kept sending them into brutal frontal assaults with little concern for how many died.

The worst part came when Krell manipulated the 501st and the 212th into attacking each other. Both groups thought they were fighting disguised Umbarans, but they were actually killing their own brothers because Krell had given them false orders.

When Rex and the others finally exposed him, Krell admitted he was not making mistakes. He had seen a future where the Republic would fall, and he wanted to join the winning side. He was deliberately sabotaging the clones because he hoped Dooku would accept him.

Krell was still a Jedi General when he used Republic soldiers as sacrifices for his own future.

3. Lucien Draay

During the Mandalorian Wars, Lucien was part of the Jedi Covenant, a secret group inside the Jedi Order that believed it could prevent the return of the Sith.

On Taris, Lucien and the other Masters of the First WatchCircle saw violent Force visions during their Padawans’ final trial on the Rogue Moon. They believed one of their students would bring back the Sith and destroy the Jedi Order.

Instead of taking that fear to the Jedi Council, they arranged a false Knighting ceremony.

After the Padawans returned from their trial, the Masters brought them into their chambers and killed them. Shad Jelavan, Kamlin, Gharn, and Oojoh died there, while Zayne Carrick survived only because he arrived late.

Then the Jedi Covenant blamed Zayne for the massacre.

4. Atris

During the First Jedi Purge, she gathered the surviving Jedi on Katarr for a secret conclave. Officially, the meeting was supposed to help the Jedi understand the threat hunting them.

But Atris had another plan. She leaked the existence of the conclave, hoping the Sith would reveal themselves.

The Sith did reveal themselves, but not in the way she expected. Darth Nihilus came to Katarr and drained life from the entire planet, killing the Jedi gathered there and nearly wiping out the Miraluka population.

After that, Atris hid herself on Telos, surrounded herself with Sith holocrons, and slowly fell to the dark side while still believing she was preserving the Jedi.

5. Barriss Offee 

During the Clone Wars, Barriss believed the Jedi had become too tied to the Republic’s war machine. Instead of leaving the Order or confronting the Council directly, she helped carry out the bombing of the Jedi Temple.

The attack killed Jedi, clone troopers, and civilians. Barriss then let Ahsoka Tano take the blame for it, even though Ahsoka had nothing to do with the bombing.

She went further by killing Letta Turmond in prison before Letta could reveal the truth, then later attacked Ahsoka while using Asajj Ventress’ stolen lightsabers to keep suspicion away from herself.

Barriss finally confessed during Ahsoka’s trial, saying the Jedi had lost their way and become an army fighting for the dark side.