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phoenixkaptain · 1 year

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I love it when pre Original Trilogy era shows how much effort went into making the Death Star. It took decades, literal decades, and it took so much money and so many people and it was such a secretive thing and it’s staffed by millions because it’s the size of a small moon.

I cannot express how much all of the added information makes it so much funnier that Luke blew it up.

Luke destroys literally everything Palpatine built. He blows up the Death Star, which was referenced in universe as early as the second movie. He blew up the weapon of mass destruction twenty years in the making. And he blew it up pretty much directly after it’s first and only successful attack. It was operational for fifteen minutes, fifteen minutes that Palpatine had the thing he’d been building for longer than Luke has been alive, and Luke blows it up. First day retirement, but first hour retirement.

Luke convinces Darth Vader to turn back to the light side, a feat thought literally impossible by literally everybody. Sidious clearly doesn’t see Vader’s betrayal coming. Vader’s betrayal was not in his plans, nor was it something he was prepared for. Sidious is a powerful Force user with all four limbs while Vader is a man in the tin can Palpatine put him in. If Palpatine had seen Vader turning coming, he would not have allowed it to happen.

Luke literally should not even be alive. Palpatine almost definitely got Padme out of the way on purpose, and he almost certainly was trying for her unborn child as well (there was way too big of a risk that a cute liddol bebe would bring some humanity back to Anakin, and Palpatine did not want Anakin to have any humanity) Luke living is literally the first step in Palpatine’s ultimate downfall, especially once Vader finds out that Luke is his son. His very alive son. His son that is not dead, despite Palpatine claiming Anakin killed Padme. Implying that Anakin killed Padme and she posthumously gave birth. But, she didn’t give birth on Mustafar, which was the last place Anakin interacted with her. And once the mother dies, you have to get those fuckers out fast or they die too.

I imagine Darth Vader piecing all of this together is that meme with all the math floating around his head, because how could Padme have died by his hand and then given birth like two hours later?

Luke killing Palpatine is what ultimately leads to the dissolution of the Empire as an omnipotent entity. Luke killed the Empire. Luke spends a good amount of his adult life killing Empire remnants. We see that in the Mandalorian, since he’s so recognizable that Gideon immediately knows he’s fucked just by seeing an X-wing. We read it in Legends’ continuity, where Luke terrifies Imperials because he can walk into their changing room and stand in their for a minute and they don’t even notice.

Luke destroyed Palpatine’s life’s work. Everything Palpatine spent his whole life working towards, and Luke kills all of it. He blows up not one, but two Death Stars (he may not have pulled the trigger on the second Death Star, but without him, it never would have been destroyed). He convinces not one, but multiple Sith and Dark Jedi to return from the Dark Side. He is the only reason that Obi-Wan Kenobi, the biggest pain in Palpatine’s ass ever born, lives long enough to make it to the Death Star.

Palpatine went through so much effort. And just when he had finally won, when he finally had a weapon capable of destroying entire planets with a single blast, making it impossible for any planets or peoples to go against him, Luke shows up nineteen years late to the Jedi party with space Starbucks and a droid twice his age and almost singlehandedly destroys everything Palpatine ever had a hand in creating.

Luke manages to become even worse than Obi-Wan Kenobi, the ultimate thorn in the side of politicians, and Luke doesn’t even understand any politics. He wasn’t trained in diplomacy like Obi-Wan and Leia, no, he’s a farmboy who left home for the first time in his entire life, just this morning. And he is the one to destroy the Empire.

If they rewrote Star Wars and had it entirely from Palpatine’s perspective, Luke Skywalker would be his greatest foe. Luke Skywalker would be the final boss. Luke Skywalker is the antithesis of everything Palpatine believes in and he is the one character that Palpatine cannot predict. He isn’t as moldable as Anakin, he doesn’t respond to threats very well, he’s apparently impossible to kill via Force lightning (still the funniest scene of all times, the progression of Palpatine’s face falling and him looking like “what the fuck??? Is this kid rubber??? I’ve electrocuted him eight times???”), his unwavering faith in his father’s goodness makes Darth Vader want to be a better person, Luke Skywalker is the big bad of Palpatine’s story and—

There is nothing in this world that is funnier than someone’s biggest antagonist being Luke fucking Skywalker. Luke Skywalker, who saved the galaxy with the power of love and who shouldn’t exist, by Jedi rules and by Palpatine’s own attempts, and whose best friends are literally droids, which Palpatine canonically hates!

Everything about this is hilarious, this is the funniest thing in all of media, Palpatine loses absolutely everything to some backwater farmboy who fucking likes droids.

#luke skywalker #star wars #anakin skywalker #sheev palpatine #darth sidious #original trilogy #the inane ramblings of a madman #listen i recognize that other people are important in the plot of sw #but at the same time #luke is the marble that gets things rolling #just in general #luke is the reason obi wan eventually actually kills maul #luke somehow gave yoda hope that another generation of jedi was an achievable goal #luke saved leia from being executed #luke is the sun of the series #it’s from him that literally everything grows #the story that began this universe #is one of a boy becoming an adult #and so without luke skywalker #none of the characters would exist #thus luke is the sun and we should all bask in the rays #but also in how funny it is #that this guy was more of a pain than obi wan kenobi #a feat previously thought impossible #long post

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rubixcubi · 3 months

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Goofy painting is done and turned in

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furious-blueberry0 · 3 months

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Hey, am I the only one who does not like the idea of Luke's new Jedi order allowing romantic relationships, marriage and having kids?

Like, George Lucas even said that the reason he did not give Luke a love interest in the end was because Jedi do not marry? And he even gave us a clear example of what happens with that in the Prequels?

I just don't understand this whole "Luke's Order was better because people could finally love" or "That's why the old Order fell"

Yeah sure buddy, they ceartenly did not fell because they had a freaking Sith Lord as head of the Republic who orchestrated one of the greatest evil plans the galaxy had ever seen, no no no, they fell because they didn't let Jedi to marry. sure.

The Order had the rule of non attachments for 25,000 years, and it's a rule that makes sense, we even saw what happens when Jedi form attachments and are unable to let go.

So I don't understand how a new Order without this rule would be better than one that survived for that long with it.

#I know that this idea comes from Legends #and it's one of the reasons why I won't read anything related to the New Order there #but I think it also comes from the idea that if you're not in a relationship you're incomplete #there are people who cannot comprehend others being happy without a partner #and so they try to always give one to characters that just do not need that #please if you want to start a discussion be civil #every insult will be blocked immeadiatly #luke skywalker #pro jedi #jedi order #jedi philosophy #star wars #jedi love #jedi #new jedi order

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merrysithmas · 1 year

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me when someone says luke is a bad teacher and made grogu "choose" btw being a jedi and his dad:

what he did was ensure grogu could one day be a jedi AND have his dad now!!!

#bruh....#he said grogu's HEART wasnt in it #then created a child-appropriate scenario where grogu would be free to choose his dad with no ill will #realizing of course the love between grogu and din and feeling compassion as he loved and misses his own father so dearly #and he has a new Order where he will allow those attachments #only to hope one day (perhaps even after his own death) grogh would return to complete his trainjng #KNOWING he would never be able to do so if he isnt ALLOWED TO LOVE HIS DAD NOW WHILE HE HAS HIM #which was the OPPOSITE OF THE OLD ORDER AND THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT THE JEDI DID TO ANAKIN AND SHMI #luke skywalker is WISE and compassionate #he totally understood grogu #he said you may never see the mandalorian again- your training may take you elsewhere your bond may be frayed #and its true #maybe din would die on his own without grogu's help #which would have happened several times already in s1-2 #LUKE GETS IT #anyway #dinluke #luke skywalker #i mean im not defending favloni bc they have no idea what theyre doing #but i dont think this was ooc as per luke's outlook on his new jedi ordee #order #din grogu #what he did was ENSURE GROGU COULD HAVE THE JEDI AND HIS DAD!!!

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arleniansdoodles · 2 years

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I’ve been reading this awesome Star Wars fanfic, The Protégé, written by @spell-cleaver, and it really inspired me to draw some fanart! This scene is from chapter 4, where Luke and Leia are having some bonding time XDD

If y’all are interested, the fanfic’s premise is that Luke is raised by the Naberries, becomes the Senator of Naboo, and is sent to work in the Senate while Padmé is Empress and Vader is her bodyguard. The political intrigue and character relationships are amazing! Thank you so much SpellCleaver for your work!! While I wait in anticipation for the next update, please accept this humble offering as a token of my appreciation <333

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etre-grantaire · 1 year

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I absolutely loved Glenn’s tumble down from the echelons of coolness in this episode bc I feel like it reflects a lot of what people have been saying, that Glenn’s whole Cool Guy persona is put on bc that’s what people expect, and people don’t really question you when you’re behaving in the way they expect

Like it took 23 episodes for the other dads to notice that Glenn never talked about his wife bc he created this persona who you can’t imagine you can have deep conversations with. He hid behind this character he created, which of course is still rooted in him and his personality, because it’s easier to play a role than it is to allow yourself to be vulnerable after you’ve been hurt.

But now that he’s back with Morgan (even if it’s a slightly different Morgan, and is that weird? I think it’s kind of weird) he doesn’t need to hide as much, so while he’s still ultimately the same person, it doesn’t matter as much if he stumbles over a joke or completely whiffs it because he doesn’t have that same fear of vulnerability, because he knows that Morgan knows that he’s kind of weird and kind of passionate in an off-kilter way and she loves him for that

And he still has his Cool Guy persona but it’s more clearly a performance and she sees what he’s saying with it, and she loves him whether he’s shredding a solo or stumbling over a Cool Guy line

#sorry will but this is not a luke skywalker situation I’m going to make Glenn’s fall to loserdom have MEANING #I’m going to have to relisten to this episode when I can get through the Glenn-Taylor fight without literally laughing so hard I cry #I had to take a break and have a glass of water to recuperate before I could keep going #I haven’t laughed this hard at an episode since they were stabbing each other in the head at the papa john’s #glenn close #morgan freeman #dndads #dndads s2 #dndads s2 spoilers #dungeons and daddies #dungeons and daddies spoilers

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dragonjadearts · 1 year

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Son of the Desert

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if you like it PLEASE REBLOG IT

#couldn’t decide whether i like it better with or without the poncho #so i included both lol #can you tell i adore drawing luke?#star wars #star wars luke #luke skywalker #star wars luke skywalker #luke skywalker fanart #luke star wars #star wars characters #star wars fanart #star wars art #digital art #art #my art #fanart

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hangingoffence · 1 year

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your honor, they mean the world to me

#anyway wanted to practice without lineart and also wanted to draw them <3<3 so here #also i didn't use any blending bc i was lazy but i kinda like it this way #leia & luke #leia organa #luke skywalker #star wars #myart

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tonigiacopelliart · 2 years

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My favourite part in star wars was when Anakin realised it was all a dream and then him and Padme lived happily ever after, raising Luke and Leia 🙃

#Watching Kenobi so far has hurted meeee #I thought painting this might make me feel better..... I WAS W R O N G #Now I'm just angsting over what could have been 😭#anakin skywalker #padme amidala #luke skywalker #leia organa #Star wars fanart #anakin x padme #Star wars #Revenge of the sith #Kenobi series #Anakin fanart #Padme fanart #tonigiacopelliart #‼️do not repost without permission and credit ‼️

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positivityjediprince · 2 years

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Late at night on Mandalore:

Luke, who is spooning Din: *starts gently shifting around and making random wooshing noises*

Din, who had just fallen asleep: "hu?"

Luke: *continues making wooshing noises, now interrupted by giggles*

Din, resigned to fall asleep despite his husband's shenangians: "sleep riduur"

Luke, stops moving, leans close and whispers: "I'm a jet pack nyoom"

Din:

Luke:

Din:

Both: *Uncontrollable giggling that goes on for far too long cause they're both overtired and keep setting eachother off*

#you know when you really need to sleep and suddenly everything is so funny #its even worse when theres two of you #theyre such a good couple and have so much pressure and work etc that when its just them sometimes theyre very silly #as is their right #it just bubbles out at the worst time and theyre trying so hard to sleep but Din keeps doing bad animal impressions #also this fluff exists cause i miss my boyfriend im just a lil sad gayboy without my boyf #luke skywalker #dinluke #din djarin

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white-weasel · 11 months

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I am staring DIRECTLY at Film Reroll Luke Skywalker watching and anticipating his next move

#film reroll #the film reroll #Tim Nolan you played him so well!!!!#I don’t think this will happen but this version of Luke is one I can kinda see turning to the dark side??#like think about it. your aunt and uncle are killed. Ben Kenobi tells you it’ll be alright though and that you have the force in you #you can come with him and train to be a Jedi just like your father was #you leave planet and on the way have to put up with this asshole smuggler and even free a serial killer just to get to the rebels #but it’s fine! because once you’re with the rebels you’ll then be able to train with Ben like he’s promised #except you get there and there are two other Jedi candidates. each seemingly better options than you #one is a child who already has pretty good control of the force without anyone telling her how to wield it.#she’s also young and thus full of so much more potential than you #and the other is a woman older than you. but she has so much more life experience. she’s proven herself worthy both to the rebels #and to the force itself. she is strong and basically everything you’re not #but that’s alright too because Ben knows you. of course he’s going to pick to train you!! but then they say your name Skywalker with horror #and you are told about who your father is and how if you are trained and given everything you want you will become just like him #you are evil and violent by nature even though you feel as if you are anything but… except maybe they’re right #because when confronted with this fact your first instinct was to attack an injured man on death’s door #and if Kenobi has his time taken up by training either kahki or Jyn/planning the destruction of the Death Star #Luke is potentially left in a very vulnerable state to stew #I just am foaming at the mouth thinking about it!!!!#(I do feel like Andy will ultimately take Luke in a more redemption/I am not my father by ‘righteous’ sacrifice’ route though #which also has a lot of potential to be delicious)

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sundrenchedgay · 2 years

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Han saying he doesn't believe in The Force and won't trust anything like that to determine his destiny.

Then literally tells Luke, when he thinks it'll be the last time he sees him, "May the Force be with you."

#the depth of saying a religious phrase for someone ans knowing it means so much to them is just #ITS RAW AND VULNERABLE AND SAYS I CARE ABOUT YOU WITHOUT #SAYING IT #im in shock over this #skysolo #star wars series #star wars #media: star wars #textin.chats #han solo #luke skywalker

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zeb-z · 1 year

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People complaining about Star Wars shows being too slow, too much filler, like ok why don’t you just not watch? Log off Twitter?

If you can’t see any of the importance of the episodes that don’t have firefights and explosions every five fucking seconds, and complain there’s no story when the plot flies right over your head, that’s not everyone else’s problem. Yes the beginning of Andor takes a while to swing into things, and there’s many reasons for it. I frankly don’t even understand the complaints around the Bad Batch because each episode is far more obvious in its intents and still very exciting. How did any of you watch The Clone Wars?????

No one cares that you think the episodes not involving direct conflict with the Empire are boring. You’re boring. Gain some sort of common sense and think critically about the storytelling before you complain that there is none :)

#sorry luke skywalker isn’t there to hand feed you the plot and symbolism and lessons you’re meant to take away!#this is mostly happening on twt but I’m complaining here it’s my god given right #stop saying this last episode was filler! they got their ship back omega has a lesson of what home is to others and that injustice can #happen anywhere. power imbalances and greed and unjust actions. there’s also those who can step in and help fight it #like sitting at thanksgiving talking about Andor with my uncle and he’s like ‘it was just soooo slow starting out’ and I was like ????? huh?#i get that stuff like Andor or some episodes of tbb don’t appeal to everyone. complain away whatever. I’m talking about people who say that #it’s just filler or that there’s no story so it’s boring. like huh????#also filler is such an overused and misused term. episodes where there isn’t huge direct conflict with large plot points aren’t just filler #meet the characters explore their relationship there’s story there there’s often more than that even #it’s their first real battle without echo! there’s meaning behind this! sorry you don’t get dramatic empire villains and huge heroic shots #which even then you do! hunter in the big fuckin exhaust pipe! hunter barely saving omega! tech and wrecker shooting the droids!#anyways that’s my opinion ✌️😘#tbb #sw #the bad batch spoilers #z speaks #not gonna tag this as anything else because it’s not my silly little analysis it’s just me complaining

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glupshittosupremacy · 1 year

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No because Luke Skywalker is like what if you were born from death, from tragedy. What if you grew up with a family who loved you but something in your chest always told you that it was temporary, that you weren’t meant to be here, that half of you was missing. What if that family was horrifically ripped from you and you had to watch their bodies burn. And then the pseudo father figure you take on afterwards sacrifices himself for you and it’s the third body of someone you love you’ve watched die now. What if your connection to the force comes with the weight of centuries on it, that you are expected to continue the legacy of something you don’t even understand, that all that’s left of the people who might help you, who might understand, are ghosts. That your inheritance of the force is an inheritance of pain. What if you found out that your father was alive but he was responsible for all the grief within your life, that he had chosen to dedicate himself to furthering suffering. What if you have to choose the light, have to choose good because you look around yourself and realise that without it you would have nothing left.

#this is why i am so obsessed with him #because luke chooses to be good again and again and again #he sees that without making that constant choice there’s only emptiness #and knows that because he watched it happen to vader #star wars #luke skywalker

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marvelstars · 9 months

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“So, you have finally accepted the truth,” Vader gloated.

“T have accepted the truth that you were once Anakin Skywalker, my father.”

“That name no longer has meaning for me.” It was a name from long ago. A different life, a different universe. Could he truly once have been that man?

“Tt is the name of your true self,” Luke’s gaze bore steadily down on the cloaked figure. “You have only forgotten. I know there is good in you. The Emperor hasn’t driven it fully away.” He molded with his voice, tried to form the potential reality with the strength of his belief.

“That’s why you could not destroy me. That’s why youwon’t take me to your Emperor now.”

Vader seemed almost to smile through his mask at his son’s use of Jedi voice-manipulation. He looked down at the lightsaber the captain had given him—Luke’s lightsaber. So the boy was truly a Jedi now. A man grown. He held the lightsaber up. “You have constructed another.”

“This one is mine,” Luke said quietly. “I no longer use yours.”

Vader ignited the blade, examined its humming, brilliant light, like an admiring craftsman. “Your skills are complete. Indeed, you are as powerful as the Emperor has foreseen.”

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“Come with me, Father.”

Vader shook his head. “Ben once thought as you do—’

“Don’t blame Ben for your fall—” Luke took a step closer, then stopped.

Vader did not move. “You don’t know the power of the dark side. I must obey my master.”

“T will not turn—you will be forced to destroy me.”

“If that is your destiny.” This was not his wish, but the boy was strong—if it came, at last, to blows, yes, he would destroy Luke. He could no longer afford to hold back, as he once had

“Search your feelings, Father. You can’t do this. I feel the conflict within you. Let go of your hate.”

But Vader hated no one; he only lusted too blindly. “Someone has filled your mind with foolish ideas, young one. The Emperor will show you the true nature of the Force. He is your master, now.”

Vader spoke just before the guards arrived.

“Tt is too late for me, Son.”

“Then my father is truly dead,” answered Luke. So what was to stop him from killing the Evil One who stood before him now? he wondered.

Nothing, perhaps.

Star Wars - Return Of The Jedi by James khan

So I have seen this movie many times but I forgot Luke tried to mind trick Vader into coming with him away from the Death Star and turn agaisnt the Empire in the novel while Vader just smiled about him doing that. (Head canon that Vader sees Luke as his little Kryat Dragon, who can do no wrong accepted)

I also love the little clues about Anakin/Vader inner conflict here:

He doesn´t want to kill his Son but has hold back many times in the past

He says he doesn´t hate anyone, he only lusts for power but also tells his Son that it´s too late for him as if telling him no to worry about him becase he is not worth it.

Little clues that later led to the climax in the story.

#star wars #darth vader #anakin skywalker #luke skywalker #Return of the Jedi #Luke original plan to bring his father over to the lightside was to mind trick him into it and that´s so sweet of him #Sure he´s a ball of sunshine but he´s not going to hang out with Darth Vader without a safety measure #thank you very much #He´s lucky Vader thought it was cute and made him smile

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kalak · 1 year

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There's this folk tale of a woodsman with a heart of gold losing his axe in a pond at the middle of a forest - he's devastated, but a helpful pond spirit comes up from the pond. Holding a golden axe, they ask if the golden axe is his, to which the woodsman says no - the spirit disappears and then reappears with a silver axe and asks if this one's his, to which he says no again. The third time the spirit appears with a regular old axe and the guy finally says that yes, that is his axe, and the spirit rewards his honesty by giving him all three axes.

This but, baby Luke skywalker meets some fae in the dunes and they ask him if 1. Obiwan's his dad 2. Maul's his dad 3. Cody's his dad etc etc and then they finally pull up Vader to which he... doesn't say yes, exactly - baby Luke just makes a face because the vibes say yes but the helmet says no. Still the fae rewards baby Luke and he gets like 10 dads.

You have to understand that the fae is just a troll. They pulled up all these dads in the middle of their day to day lives and now these mortal enemies (bail, vader, maul, obiwan, owen, cody etc etc) have to parent one child and also road trip back to civilization

#Ah fuck why is. Tumblr on laptop so hard to navigate #Look I'm just trying to document my brainworms without seeing andorposting for a month #I will be going insane when that finale drops #Luke skywalker #Dad vader #Star wars headcanons #my ramblings

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