10 Star Wars Fan Theories That Make Too Much Sense To Ignore

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Maybe Ahsoka had more impact during the original trilogy than most people thought.

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00:00The scope of the storytelling seen in the galaxy far, far away has grown exponentially since 1977,

00:07with its on-screen presence stretching almost 70 years of in-universe time.

00:11Of course, not every single detail within that period has been explored,

00:15and in fact there are some pretty big gaps that have been left wide open.

00:19This is where the Star Wars fans step in with some pretty compelling fan theories.

00:23There have already been some famously popular theories debunked,

00:26including those revolving around Snoke's true identity and Rey's parentage.

00:30But there is still so much of Star Wars left that exists between the lines.

00:34Thankfully, this always leads to great theories that make an undeniable amount of sense.

00:39So with that in mind, I'm Padawan Gareth from WhatCultureStarWars,

00:43and here are 10 Star Wars fan theories that make too much sense to ignore.

00:47Number 10. Darth Vader Stopped Luke From Going Down the Dark Path

00:51Throughout Star Wars, Emperor Palpatine has always tried to manipulate those around him.

00:56Usually, successfully so.

00:58The most obvious example of a character defying him was Luke Skywalker,

01:01who told him he would never join the dark side, but was that actually true?

01:06During the events of Return of the Jedi, Palpatine encourages Luke to strike him down,

01:10to channel all of his anger and hate and kill him.

01:14I'll stop at that now.

01:15This would have completed his journey to the dark side,

01:18and Luke actually took the shot, it's just that Darth Vader blocked it.

01:22The most obvious explanation for this, is that this was an apprentice protecting his master.

01:26But what if instead, this was a father protecting his son from striking the blow

01:30that would have changed the course of the entire galaxy?

01:33Way back when, Palpatine encouraged Anakin Skywalker to kill Count Dooku in much the same way,

01:38starting him on the ultimate path to becoming a Sith Lord.

01:42Seeing that Luke was about to take that same path,

01:44Vader stopped him, knowing just how crucial such a moment would have been.

01:47This may have actually been Anakin's first step back towards finding the good inside of him.

01:52Number 9, Darth Jar Jar

01:54Looking for a way to see Jar Jar as more than just the most annoying character in Star Wars history?

01:59Well, look no further than the theory that suggests he is no mere Gungan idiot,

02:03but instead a powerful Sith Lord.

02:05He may come across as a bumbling buffoon, but he is clearly a skilled fighter.

02:10Just look at how he not only survived, but thrived in the Battle of Naboo.

02:13Then there is his potential use of Jedi or Sith mind tricks.

02:18Jar Jar does gesticulate a lot when he speaks anyway,

02:21but watch when he gets promoted by Boss Nass to General,

02:24or when Padme raises him to Senator.

02:26Even when he addresses the Senate to convince them to give Palpatine emergency powers,

02:30in every instance his hands are waving as if using the Force to manipulate their minds.

02:35On that last point, surely the fact that it was Jar Jar who essentially won Palpatine the power to create the Empire,

02:40to remove democracy from the Senate altogether should ring some alarm bells.

02:45Add in the fact that both he and Palpatine are from Naboo,

02:47and may have had a relationship stretching back many, many years.

02:51And this theory starts to make more and more sense.

02:54Number 8, K2SO doomed his entire droid line.

02:58Rogue One, a Star Wars story, is one of the strongest movies the franchise has ever put out.

03:02It's easily the best outside of the original trilogy,

03:05and is rather unique among the rest in that it ends with every main character's death.

03:09Yay!

03:10There is, however, a theory that the sadness doesn't stop there,

03:13and that an entire line of droids was decommissioned as a result.

03:17The reason?

03:17Well, one of the galaxy's most beloved droids, K2SO.

03:20Originally an Imperial droid, K2SO was reprogrammed to fight with the Rebellion against the Empire.

03:25Something that after the movie's conclusion on Scarif would have been impossible to hide.

03:30Perhaps this is the reason why no other similar droids are ever seen later in the Star Wars timeline.

03:35The Empire sees how easily K2SO was corrupted, and immediately decommissions that particular line,

03:40and destroys any others to stop the risk of it happening again.

03:44Oh, how sad.

03:45Number 7, Yoda's home planet is Ilum.

03:48It has never been confirmed exactly where in the galaxy Yoda comes from,

03:51but there is a compelling argument that it could be Ilum.

03:54This is a snow-covered planet where Jedi were taken for the gathering,

03:58a ceremony in which they would select the kyber crystal from which they would create their own lightsaber.

04:02Clearly this planet had strong ties to the Force and the Jedi.

04:06There have only been three of Yoda's species introduced on the screen thus far.

04:10Two of them, Yoda and Yaddle, are extremely powerful Jedi with seats on the council,

04:14with the other being Grogu, another incredibly Force-sensitive being.

04:18This is no coincidence, and it would make sense if this species came from an environment so tethered to the Force.

04:24There is also the tiny added detail that in the Clone Wars,

04:27Yoda didn't feel the need to wear a jacket on Ilum when everyone else did.

04:31Apart from if you're a Wookiee.

04:33Could this suggest that the Jedi Master was used to the freezing temperatures of his home planet?

04:38Maybe.

04:38Number 6, Palpatine is Anakin's father.

04:41There are a lot of reasons why Qui-Gon Jinn gravitated towards Anakin Skywalker

04:45and believed him to be the prophecy chosen one.

04:48Among the fact that his midi-chlorian count was higher even than that of Master Yoda's,

04:52there was the fact that he didn't have a father.

04:54Naturally, this immediately raised eyebrows.

04:56His mother couldn't explain it, but a hugely popular Star Wars fan theory certainly could.

05:01There must have been some Force behind Anakin's conception,

05:04and with Darth Plagueis teaching his apprentice Darth Sidious everything he knew,

05:08including how to manipulate the Force into creating life,

05:11it's hard to disagree with this one.

05:13Knowing the Rule of Two would be so important to him as a Sith Lord,

05:16why would Palpatine not decide to create his own tailor-made apprentice?

05:20He craves power, and this would be one more thing that was under his control.

05:24Yes, he may have had apprentices like Darth Maul and Count Dooku in the meantime,

05:28but ultimately wouldn't the Emperor be able to rely on what he designed and created himself

05:32in a way he couldn't with anyone else?

05:34Number 5, Grogu was created by the Force.

05:37Coming off the back of the previous theory,

05:39should Palpatine have been able to create Anakin from the midi-chlorians alone himself,

05:43there is a further theory that this act of evil was combated directly by the Force itself.

05:48The hinge of the theory is that Anakin Skywalker and Grogu

05:51were supposedly born in the same year of 41 BBY,

05:54with the idea being that this wasn't a coincidence.

05:57What if the Force actually created Grogu as it may have done Yoda and Yaddle previously in a time of need?

06:03The mystery behind the race of little green Force users could be explained

06:07by them perhaps not even having a home world at all.

06:10Instead, they are created by the Force itself.

06:12Grogu being brought into the world is a direct opposition to the evil

06:16that Palpatine brought forth in Anakin.

06:18Ultimately, he could be the light side's yin to the dark side's yang.

06:22Number 4, Yoda is Grogu's father.

06:25Yes, Grogu may have been created by the Force,

06:27but that's certainly not the only fan theory surrounding the small green creature

06:31that took the world by storm in 2019 and 2020.

06:34Maybe those that referred to Grogu as baby Yoda weren't that far off after all.

06:38It's well known that Jedi are forbidden from love and from starting families.

06:41This is why Anakin's marriage to Padme had to be kept secret.

06:45There are exceptions, however, one of which was Ki-Adi-Mundi.

06:48As part of Star Wars Legends, the Jedi Master was allowed to have a child

06:52in order to try and save his endangered race.

06:54Though by definition anything classed as Legends is no longer canon in the Star Wars universe,

06:59something similar could have happened with Yoda.

07:01He and Yaddle, the only two of their species at the time known to the Star Wars universe,

07:05were both insanely Force-sensitive, both rising to the rank of Jedi Master.

07:09It would have made sense then that the Jedi Order would want to create more of this powerful race.

07:14Could they have greenlit Yoda and Yaddle coming together strictly just to create another of their species?

07:19In the hope that they too would grow to be one of the most powerful Jedi of their time?

07:23Perhaps, eh?

07:24Number 3. Kira leaked information to Enfys Nest

07:27Han's story in Solo was something of a comedy of errors.

07:31A lot of the time it seemed the only thing to move the story on would be a mistake or a plan backfiring.

07:36On more than one occasion, this came in the form of Enfys Nest.

07:40During Han's original mission with Tobias, it was Enfys who was a thorn in their side.

07:44A thorn that ultimately led to Dryden Vos' potential coaxium take being lost.

07:49The resulting heist of unrefined coaxium from Kessel was also interrupted by Enfys.

07:54Clearly, she had tangled with Tobias before the events of the movie ever happened,

07:57but how did she know so much about where they were going to be and when?

08:00One Hollywood Reporter interviewer offered a theory to Solo writer Jonathan Kazdan,

08:05that it was Kira who was leaking this information.

08:08The idea behind this is that Han's love either wanted to bring Dryden Vos down to free herself,

08:12or to seize his power as she ultimately did by the end of the movie.

08:16Though Kazdan said it wasn't exactly what was in his mind at the time,

08:19he did say that it was a great theory and never actually said no, so...

08:24Number 2. Finn is a child

08:25One of the key pieces to the opening scenes of The Force Awakens

08:29was Finn's baptism of fire on the battlefield for the First Order,

08:32and his subsequent betrayal and desertion.

08:34However, the more his backstory is examined, the more questions are raised.

08:39The character that would be known as Finn was apparently taken by Imperial Forces when he was just a child.

08:44Too young to remember who his true family were,

08:46yet the battle on Jakku at the start of the movie was his first combat experience as a stormtrooper.

08:51Why would this have taken so long?

08:53There is also the fact that the image on his ID card is of him as a child.

08:57Again, having supposedly been a part of the Imperial Forces since he was a child,

09:01why wouldn't this have been updated?

09:02This theory poses an answer to both questions, stating that Finn is in fact still something of a child.

09:08The clone troopers produced on Kamino during the Clone Wars were put through age and growth acceleration

09:13to ensure the Grand Army of the Republic wasn't waiting two decades for its troops to grow into maturity.

09:18Who's to say the First Order didn't do a similar thing with its own stormtroopers for those very same reasons, eh?

09:24Number 1. Ahsoka Tano trained Luke Skywalker

09:27It's generally considered that Luke Skywalker is one of the greatest Jedi Knights of all time.

09:32However, it wasn't always this way.

09:34Anakin Skywalker was once considered too old to be trained by Qui-Gon at just 9 years old,

09:39and yet Luke was almost double that when he first learned about the Force.

09:43Immediately, he was at a disadvantage.

09:45Even by the end of The Empire Strikes Back, Luke was very much a beginner.

09:48This all changed by the beginning of Return of the Jedi, however.

09:51By this time, he had become nothing short of a Jedi Master.

09:54He couldn't have ultimately defeated the Emperor if he wasn't far more skilled than before,

09:59and the only way he could have gotten this good would be to train with a true Jedi between the two movies.

10:03The manner of his conversations on Dagobah suggested that he hadn't seen Yoda or Obi-Wan at all in that time.

10:09So who could it have been?

10:11Arguably the most compelling answer to this question is Ahsoka Tano.

10:14There has always been a question as to what the former Padawan was doing during the original trilogy,

10:19and this could fill in a huge gap.

10:20Who better to train Luke Skywalker to defeat Anakin than Anakin's own Padawan, right?

10:25Hopefully there will be some insight into these years in Ahsoka's upcoming solo show on Disney+,

10:30and it would make a lot of sense should this be revealed.

10:33And if it is, you hit it here first, eh?

10:35And that's our list of any other Star Wars fan theories that make too much sense to ignore.

10:39Then let us know all about them in the comments section right down below,

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10:53I've been Gareth from WhatCultureStarWars, may the force be with you as always,

10:57and I have a theory, today is going to be a wonderful one for you!

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