10 Best Everything You Know Is A Lie Moments In Star Wars

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Those Star Wars moments that changed everything... forever!

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00:00From glorious family surprises leaving a permanent mark on pop culture,

00:04to disappointing revivals tainting an entire trilogy,

00:07these are those shocking moments when an unanticipated truth completely changed the galaxy forever.

00:13Gareth here from WhatCultureStarWars and these are the 10 best everything you know is a lie moments in Star Wars.

00:19Number 10, Will the Real Queen of Naboo Please Stand Up?

00:22Episode 1, The Phantom Menace

00:24This particular Star Wars lie hiding in plain sight was so damn convincing,

00:29it also just so happened to fool the actor's own mothers.

00:32That's according to Keira Knightley herself,

00:34with the Sabe actor being so convincing as Queen Amidala during the events of The Phantom Menace

00:39that both her own and Natalie Portman's mum weren't sure who was who on set.

00:43Well, they clearly weren't the only ones.

00:45The eventual reveal that Sabe was actually the real Queen of Naboo's decoy,

00:48with Padme going undercover as a handmaiden throughout the film

00:51in an effort to protect herself from the threat of the Trade Federation,

00:54left just about everyone watching on rubbing their eyes out of disbelief.

00:58Both the audience and the likes of Anakin Skywalker, Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi

01:02are quickly forced to come to terms with the fact that they'd actually been in the presence of the real Queen

01:07throughout their prior Tatooine adventure.

01:09So remember those moments when Jinn in particular acted quite recklessly

01:12behind who he assumed was the real Queen's back, for example?

01:15Well, they take on a whole new level of awkwardness the second it's made clear

01:18that he was actually patronising the leader of Naboo herself on the desert planet.

01:23What a silly sausage.

01:23Number 9, Palpatine is alive and has been the voice in Kylo Ren's head.

01:28Episode 9, The Rise of Skywalker

01:30Admittedly, the idea of just about any seemingly deceased Star Wars figure being truly gone forever

01:35has long since been made a mockery out of.

01:38But even with that being the case,

01:40the visual of Emperor Palpatine somehow managing to come back from his reactor shaft end in Return of the Jedi

01:45and ultimately becoming the sequel trilogy's real big bad was still a tough one to swallow for most.

01:50Not only had the Dark Lord of the Sith made an unlikely return though,

01:53but he'd also actually been pulling the strings from afar this entire time.

01:58As he quickly revealed to a no doubt perplexed Kylo Ren during the opening stages of The Rise of Skywalker,

02:03the voices he had heard in his head over the years were actually little more than Sidious

02:07manipulating the one-time Ben Solo through Snoke and via an impersonation of Darth Vader.

02:12What a scamp.

02:13So on top of shocking the entire galaxy and much of an underwhelmed audience with his entirely unexpected

02:18clone-assisted return, it turns out that Sidious was also the one really guiding the young Darkseid user all along.

02:25Because of course he was.

02:26Number 8. The Clones Weren't On The Jedi Side After All

02:29Episode 3 Revenge of the Sith

02:31While the clues were rather evident in the fact that the Clone Troopers' armor bore a pretty clear resemblance

02:36to the get-up sported by the Empire's eventual Stormtroopers,

02:39many of the Jedi tasked with attempting to protect the galaxy weren't to know that their apparent allies

02:44had a galaxy-altering dark secret.

02:46But they soon found out that they'd all been living something of a tragic lie throughout the Clone Wars,

02:50the minute Emperor Palpatine uttered the now infamous phrase of

02:53Execute Order 66.

02:56With the many brothers in arms they'd been heading out into battle with,

02:58quickly turning on their former generals and commanders without a second thought.

03:02Now sure, it was hardly their fault,

03:04with pretty much every clone soldier succumbing to the inhibitor chip that had been surgically planted into their brains.

03:09However, that still didn't change the fact that Darth Sidious' final phase of a galaxy-conquering master plan

03:14completely caught the Jedi Order off-guard,

03:17and resulted in almost all of the light-side users fighting the good fight

03:20being wiped from the galaxy in a relatively short space of time.

03:24Number 7. Agent Kallus Reveals He Is Fulcrum Rebels

03:28In order to bring down a ruthless galactic empire hell-bent on ruling and oppressing the galaxy,

03:33you likely need a few inside men and women to help turn the tide in your favor.

03:37And luckily for the Rebels and Ghost Crew,

03:39that's precisely what they had in the form of a secret spy by the name of Fulcrum.

03:43This moniker had actually been used by a number of undercover figures

03:46who helped the Rebel Alliance by providing them with valuable intel.

03:50But the unexpected reveal of Ahsoka Tano being the first figure behind the moniker,

03:54paled in comparison to the revelation of a one-time Imperial Security Bureau agent

03:59being the latest person sporting the codename on Rebels.

04:02After becoming disillusioned by the Empire on the back of being stranded on a moon with Rebel Zebra-Elio,

04:07Alexander Kallus secretly decides to begin aiding their cause from within.

04:11Due to his regular battles with the likes of Kane and Jarrus, Ezra Bridger and the gang though,

04:15it's safe to say that some of Ghost Crew weren't quick to believe their long-time enemy

04:19had actually been helping them for quite some time.

04:21But it was the truth,

04:22as Kallus had routinely secretly supported the Rebels with his vital transmissions

04:26ever since that spell on a moon with Zeb,

04:29and continued to do so after realising the Empire didn't actually care about him in the slightest.

04:34Number 6, Anakin Learns Palpatine's True Nature

04:37Episode 3, Revenge of the Sith

04:39The reveal of Sheev Palpatine being far more than what initially met Anakin Skywalker's eye

04:43ultimately kick-started a chain of events that drastically altered the entire galaxy going forward.

04:49Sensing Anakin's faith in the Jedi was at an all-time low in the wake of not being granted the rank of Master,

04:54despite sitting on the Jedi Council,

04:56the eventual Emperor chose to reveal his true self to his conflicted long-time friend.

05:01And while this jaw-dropping revelation initially resulted in the understandable lightsaber-brandishing response,

05:06Darth Sidious reminding the frustrated Jedi that if he turned him in,

05:09then his beloved Padme Amidala would likely die,

05:12ultimately set the stage for a shocking turn of events later down the road.

05:16Instead of cutting down Palpatine there and then,

05:18Anakin's last few flickers of loyalty toward the Jedi

05:21saw him reveal the truth about the Chancellor to the Council.

05:24But rather than allowing Palpatine the chance to stand trial and live and save Amidala,

05:28Mace Windu's attempt to cut him down provided the final straw for the troubled Jedi,

05:33with Anakin finally seeing through the lies of the Jedi

05:35and deciding to take matters into his own hands

05:38by slicing the Jedi Master's arm off en route to turning to the dark side.

05:42Number 5, The Tusken Raiders Show Their True Colors

05:45The Book of Boba Fett

05:46For the longest time,

05:47Tatooine's Tusken Raiders were presented as barbaric beings to be feared,

05:51with the Sandworld natives infamously attacking Luke Skywalker during A New Hope,

05:55and taking Shmi Skywalker captive before her son horrifically massacred a clan in Attack of the Clones.

06:01But instead of doubling down on this problematic framing of indigenous communities being little more than feral brutes,

06:06The Book of Boba Fett opted to brilliantly change the way both the audience and central figures in the galaxy far, far away

06:12viewed the Tatooine race.

06:14With the titular bounty hunter also finding himself being captured by the unmistakable group,

06:18in the wake of escaping his Sarlacc pit fate,

06:21his taking down of a sand beast while being forced to dig for black melons,

06:24eventually leads to the tribe accepting him as part of the gang.

06:28And it's this development that paves the way for both Fett and the viewer to see the Tuskens in an entirely different light than before.

06:34Far from being little more than a wild, bloodthirsty people,

06:37Boba soon discovers that the Raiders actually boast their own religious traditions,

06:40a complex language, and a strong community who are simply doing all they can to survive

06:45and protect their families on the unstable desert world.

06:48Number 4, Galen Erso reveals he's been living a lie to add a Death Star weakness, Rogue One.

06:53After being abandoned by her paps pretty early in her life,

06:56with Galen Erso being forced back into working for the Empire,

07:00the resilient rebel Jyn was then eventually left behind by Saw Gerrera and his partisans later down the road too.

07:05So it's not hard to see why Jyn would be nursing a bit of resentment towards both men

07:09in the lead up to the moment she was tasked with meeting with Gerrera

07:12to uncover the message Galen had sent to the rebels about a superweapon being forged by the Imperials.

07:18However, as this frustrated and regularly discarded daughter eventually took in the message from her absent father,

07:23a lie she'd been believing in for 15 years soon began to unravel before her teary eyes.

07:28On top of revealing that he wasn't actually loyal to the Empire,

07:31and had gone undercover in order to plant a secret weakness in the heart of the Death Star,

07:35Galen explains via pre-recorded hologram message that his love for Jyn has never faded,

07:40and that he has desperately missed her all this time.

07:43There, in one of the most moving two minutes ever unleashed on the galaxy,

07:46Jyn's pain and heartache over being seemingly coldly ditched and forgotten by her father

07:51just evaporates as she realises he was simply trying to protect her and the rebels from afar.

07:56Number 3, Bo-Katan reveals Mando is a child of the Watch, the Mandalorian.

08:00It was established throughout the first season of Disney Plus' The Mandalorian

08:03that Din Djarin's clan of Beskar-sporting badasses were forbidden from revealing the faces

08:08they housed underneath their unmistakable helmets to another living being.

08:12And as far as Mando was concerned, that was simply the Mandalorian way.

08:16However, upon being rescued by a trio of fellow Mandalorians,

08:19during the show's second season, Mando's world was well and truly flipped upside down,

08:23thanks to a certain iconic member of the legendary group.

08:26As Bo-Katan Kryze unmasks and reveals herself to Jaren,

08:29you can almost hear the sound of the titular hero's jaw hit the ground, or his helmet, or something.

08:34And it's in this moment as Din recuses Kryze and her pals of not being Mandalorian,

08:38that the leader of the group explains to the confused soul that he is in fact a child of the Watch.

08:43Noting that the children of the Watch are a cult of religious zealots,

08:46whose goal is to re-establish the ancient way,

08:49Mando's belief that every Mandalorian out there was following these ideals soon comes crashing down around him.

08:54And this life-changing revelation has now likely set him on a path

08:57to leaving behind the religion altogether later down the road.

09:002. Rey isn't a nobody after all

09:02Episode 9, The Rise of Skywalker

09:04Poor Rey has to deal with quite a few game-changing reveals over the course of the sequel trilogy,

09:08desperately trying to figure out where she belongs in this balmy galaxy throughout episodes 7-9.

09:13The four-sensitive protagonist is initially told by longtime rival-slash-flame,

09:18Kylo Ren, that she wasn't the latest generation of Skywalker, Kenobi, or even his long-lost sister.

09:23Rey was actually a nobody whose junk-dealer parents died on Jakku many years ago.

09:28And while Ren did actually assume this was the case for a time,

09:31the real truth was actually far more depressing.

09:33Far from being a nobody, Rey was actually none other than Emperor Palpatine's granddaughter.

09:37With this latest world-rocking revelation once again being delivered by the former Ben Solo,

09:42as the pair collided during The Rise of Skywalker.

09:44Yet instead of letting her grand palp's legacy define her,

09:47Rey chooses to fully embrace the Jedi way,

09:49and eventually conquer the revived Emperor en route to dropping that last name in favour of her former master's moniker.

09:55Number 1, I am your father, Episode 5, The Empire Strikes Back.

09:59Yer knew it was coming.

10:01After originally believing that his father was nothing more than a spice freighter navigator,

10:05Obi-Wan Kenobi would ultimately explain to young Luke that his dad was actually a Jedi Knight,

10:10who was tragically killed by Vader many moons ago.

10:12But in the wake of that apparent truth changing the way Skywalker viewed his fallen father Anakin,

10:17Luke would once again have to deal with the fact he'd been living a lie

10:20on the back of the masked icon's legendary revelation of being his paps all along

10:24during the closing stages of The Empire Strikes Back.

10:27If that wasn't enough, when confronting his Force Girl's master about this unexpected turn of events,

10:31and being blatantly lied to certain points of view my ass,

10:34the Jedi in training soon discovers that the other that Yoda was referring to

10:38was actually a twin sister Luke didn't realise he even had too.

10:41And better yet, said twin was none other than Leia Organa.

10:45What an awkward rollercoaster, eh?

10:46And that's our list of any other everything-you-know-is-a-lie moments in Star Wars.

10:50Let us know all about them in the comments section right down below,

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11:03I've been Gareth from WhatCulture Star Wars, may the Force be with you,

11:06thank you very much for watching this video today,

11:08and hopefully I'll see you soon. Bye-bye!

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