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00:00From awkward instances of unwanted romance, to a frankly disturbing amount of child dispatching
00:05visuals for a family-friendly franchise, these are those times Star Wars likely went a little
00:11bit too far. Gareth here from WhatCultureStarWars and here are the 10 most inappropriate moments
00:16in Star Wars. 10. An Awkward Naboo Visit Was Very Nearly Even More Inappropriate
00:22Episode 2 Attack of the Clones
00:24There's actually a reason why George Lucas routinely forced his actors to let loose some
00:29of the most painful dialogue ever uttered by a human being over the course of his prequel
00:33trilogy. When he allowed his stars the freedom to explore and improvise a touch, some rather
00:38inappropriate shenanigans had a habit of trickling onto the Star Wars scene. That's according
00:43to Padme Amidala actor Natalie Portman at least. With the Academy Award winner explaining in
00:49an extract from The Best of Star Wars Insider Volume 8, The Saga Begins, that the scene involving
00:54herself and Hayden Christensen's Anakin Skywalker flirting over floating fruit on Naboo took a turn
01:00the minute they were allowed to go off script a touch. As she put it, I don't think George was
01:04satisfied with the dialogue he had written, because he told Hayden and me to just improvise, which was
01:10amusing because it got inappropriate very quickly. That being said, the sight of the two cheekily
01:14quipping at one another likely wouldn't have been any more inappropriate than the disturbing visual
01:19of Anakin intensely claiming he was in agony and tormented by his eventual lover later down the
01:25road. But with the finished scene not exactly overflowing with raunchy dialogue, it's clear
01:29Lucas opted to leave most of said inappropriate ad-libs on the cutting room floor.
01:349. Luke and Leia's Smooch Episode 5, The Empire Strikes Back
01:38Highlighting the fact that George Lucas didn't quite have his Skywalker saga as fully mapped out as he'd
01:43later suggest, eventually revealed siblings Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa share a number of
01:48smooches, with the most passionate coming in the wake of the former's wampa scare on Hoth in The
01:53Empire Strikes Back. And while clearly laced into Episode 5 as a way to get under Han Solo's skin,
01:58that still doesn't change the fact that these brief moments of ultimately confirmed incest make for a
02:03pretty uncomfortable watch whenever you opt to return to the OG trilogy. Had Lucas opted to stick to
02:08Lee Brackett's first story treatment, then the emergence of Nellith Skywalker as Luke
02:13sister could have helped take some of the inappropriateness away from those smooches.
02:17But the mind behind the Force had other ideas, and so an awkward moment that Mark Hamill is still
02:22making fun of to this day was born.
02:248. Grogu Chows Down on Frog Lady's Eggs, The Mandalorian
02:28For all of the undoubted cuteness the Jedi youngling slash Mandalorian foundling brought to the Star Wars
02:33party during the first two seasons of The Mandalorian, there was still a moment there that threatened to
02:37undo all of the good work Jon Favreau and the gang had put into making the little green legend a
02:42precious household name. After Mando agrees to help a frog lady transports her unfertilized eggs to her
02:48husband during the events of the passenger, the child soon decides to help himself to a few of
02:52the unborn offspring upon getting a bit peckish. And sure enough, fans of the usually adorable alien
02:57very quickly recoiled at the sight of him seemingly casually munching on some soon-to-be children.
03:03Lucasfilm creative art manager Phil Sostak would ultimately defend this rather jarring action,
03:07claiming the episode makes it clear that the frog lady's eggs are unfertilized, like the chicken
03:12eggs many of us enjoy. But obviously chickens aren't sentient beings, and the child eating the
03:17eggs is intentionally disturbing for comedic effect. But it's not too hard to see why some found this
03:22one a little more unsettling than, you know, hilarious.
03:257. Droid Torture Makes Its Presence Known
03:28Episode 6, Return of the Jedi
03:30Whether it makes any real sense or not, there's still no getting around the fact that Star Wars boasts a
03:35rather disturbing instance of pretty extreme torture in the opening stages of Return of the
03:40Jedi. Coming as C-3PO and R2-D2 get to know the ins and outs of Jabba's palace, the two lovable
03:46droids are soon exposed to the sight of a gonk droid being flipped upside down and having its feet
03:51scorched by another sadistic robot in the crime lord's torture chamber. If the visual of a helpless
03:56little bot being burned alive wasn't bad enough though, the scene also seems to suggest that droids can
04:02actually feel pain in this galaxy far, far away. With the Gronk unit letting out squeals of anguish
04:08before the scene also highlights another droid being horrifically dismembered.
04:12Now sure, the fact these machines are technically little more than bolts and circuits takes a bit
04:16of the edge off of the horror, yet there's still no escaping the reality of Episode 6 getting the
04:21ball rolling with a moment that would have likely been classed as anything but PG had the
04:26bot's been replaced with living beings.
04:28Number 6, Rey and Ben Solo suddenly get romantic, Episode 9, The Rise of Skywalker.
04:33While it thankfully didn't involve any siblings locking lips out of the blue, we don't think,
04:38that still doesn't make Ben Solo and Rey's decision to suddenly take part in a passionate
04:42smooch towards the end of The Rise of Skywalker any less jarring to behold.
04:46After the pair of four sensitive souls help to take down Rey's grandpalps, the Emperor's
04:51granddaughter suddenly kisses goodbye to the land of the living herself. What a bummer.
04:55Yet in an act that would effectively complete his redemption arc, the former Kylo Ren soon
05:00finds a way to revive his long-time rival via the Force. Instead of just having the pair
05:05share a knowing look of respect, or Rey simply show her gratitude by giving the redeemed Ben
05:09a more justifiable embrace for saving a life however, J.J. Abrams opted to have the two share
05:14an unexpected snog. And clearly sensing the backlash that would be heading their way had Disney and
05:20Lucasfilm leaned into this being a fully romantic moment, the eventual rise of Skywalker novelization
05:25would try and explain away the sudden beat of passion as a kiss of gratitude and an acknowledgement
05:30of their connection. Yeah, sure it was. Frame it however you want. But that still won't change
05:35the fact that this climactic and rather forced smooch felt somewhat out of place as the Skywalker
05:39saga reached its end.
05:41Number 5. Crispy Fried Owen and Beru Episode 4 A New Hope
05:45Nothing inspires a hero to leave behind their humble home and finally learn the ways of the Force
05:51quite like the visual of their family being fried alive by stormtroopers, eh? Well that's what George
05:55Lucas thought during the first act of A New Hope at least, with Luke Skywalker soon stumbling upon
06:00the charred remains of his Aunt Beru and Uncle Owen in the wake of discovering what he thought was the
06:04truth about his father from Obi-Wan Kenobi. Little did he know. Admittedly, seeing the smoking
06:10and destroyed Lars' family homestead did highlight very early on just how barbaric the Empire could be
06:15during their request to get precisely what they wanted. But did folks really need to see the crispy
06:20fried skeletons of Luke's guardians lay on the Tatooine sand to get that point across?
06:24It no doubt helped burn the horrific moment into the minds of infants the world over upon witnessing
06:30this shocking act for the first time, sure. But looking back, the sequence feels like something
06:34straight out of a horror flick rather than a brief beat of darkness in the thick of a fantastical space
06:39opera. Number 4, Kylo Ren's chest makes a jarring cameo. Episode 8, The Last Jedi.
06:45Kylo Ren suddenly popping into Rey's head half naked is still, well, something else isn't it?
06:49And though Rian Johnson would later explain this decision to have Adam Driver oddly bear his chest
06:54mid-movie as a way of upping the intimacy of Rey and Kylo's bizarre force connection, claiming what's
06:59even more uncomfortable having a conversation face to face with a person you don't want to,
07:03is if they're half naked during it while you're having to do it. The end result still elicited a
07:07feeling of wholly unwanted awkwardness. Between the attempts to fuse a highly dramatic conversation
07:13with some rather misfiring comedy, and the unintentionally hilarious sight of Ren boasting
07:17nothing but some freakishly high-waisted trousers, this moment had bad news written all over it from
07:22the get-go. But at least one of the most surreal and ill-suited visuals the Skywalker saga had to
07:27offer gave birth to Lego topless Kylo and led to the moniker of Ben Swolo becoming a thing. Every cloud
07:33and all that. Number 3, Anakin chops down some younglings. Episode 3, Revenge of the
07:37Sith. At the risk of stating the obvious, Anakin Skywalker slash Darth Vader performs some truly
07:43unforgivable acts at various points throughout his time wreaking havoc on the galaxy far far away.
07:48And whilst massacring villages, murdering Jedi masters and even force choking his beloved,
07:53all undoubtedly rank pretty highly on his list of despicable actions during the Skywalker saga,
07:58there's no questioning which highly inappropriate deed sits atop his list of villainous efforts.
08:03Remarkably though, despite unquestionably sticking out as one of the most shocking and
08:07unexpectedly appalling additions to the prequel trilogy, Anakin's cutting down of younglings was
08:12almost even more barbaric at one point. Before ultimately deciding that merely the suggestion of
08:17the fallen Jedi slicing up the youngsters was enough to inspire outrage and highlight how
08:22uncompromising Vader could be on his day, Lucas actually shot a scene that involved Skywalker very much
08:27chopping down the Jedi of tomorrow. But as Emperor Palpatine actor Ian McDiamid would explain later down
08:33the road, this gruesome alternative eventually ended up on the cutting room floor. Despite retaining a PG-13
08:39rating by not explicitly showing said youngling dispatching though, the visual hint at Anakin
08:44killing younglings was still enough to leave many feeling a touch uncomfortable coming out of the last
08:48slice of prequel drama.
08:502. Princess Leia Sports Her Gold Bikini As Jabba's Slave Episode 6 Return of the Jedi
08:56The fact that Carrie Fisher herself went on record to explain just how much she hated donning Princess Leia's
09:02now infamous Gold Bikini during the opening stages of Return of the Jedi is enough of a reminder why
09:07this rather inappropriate visual should have probably never made it into existence in the first place.
09:12In fact, upon being shown the outfit for the very first time by George Lucas, the actor would even
09:16note how she thought her director was kidding her, and the fact he ultimately wasn't made her
09:21understandably very nervous. Being able to eventually be the one to kill off Jabba the Hutt did at least
09:26slightly redeem the fact she'd been forced into this highly revealing outfit early into Episode 6,
09:31with Fisher revealing I really relished that because I hated wearing that outfit and sitting
09:36there rigid straight and I couldn't wait to kill him. But even with that being the case,
09:40the icon wouldn't hesitate in advising the likes of Daisy Ridley not to settle for simply being a
09:45sex symbol. You should fight for your outfit, don't be a slave like I was in the years that followed.
09:50All in all, Harrison Ford probably put it best in stating,
09:53she's a princess, what the hell is she doing walking around in a bikini?
09:571. Peter Cushing is brought back from the dead – Rogue One – A Star Wars Story
10:01Digitally de-aging an actor still very much alive and kicking is one thing, but completely
10:06resurrecting a star that has very much passed on left a decent chunk of Star Wars supporters
10:11feeling rather conflicted whilst taking in Rogue One – A Star Wars Story.
10:15Despite getting permission from Peter Cushing's estate to use the late Thespian's likeness when bringing
10:19in the iconic presence of Grand Moff Tarkin back into the mix, by infusing CGI with Guy
10:24Henry's performance on set, the sight of an actor fans of the franchise knew to be dead conversing
10:29with living figures during the flick inevitably still resulted in many being immediately pulled
10:34out of the story, even if only for a few seconds. The effect itself is admittedly rather impressively
10:39executed in the finished article it must be said, yet questions over whether bringing a deceased
10:43performer back to life was unethical still remained heading out of the compelling 2016 feature.
10:48And while Tarkin's unusual presence doesn't completely derail Rogue One as a whole,
10:53this heavily CGI performance was still one that some deemed to be inappropriate in the aftermath,
10:58with a lot of folks wondering why the less controversial call of simply, you know,
11:01recasting the legendary figure for his Rogue One appearances wasn't opted for instead.
11:06And that's our list, know of any other highly inappropriate moments in Star Wars?
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