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Those precise moments you realised the Force was not strong enough with these Star Wars characters.
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00:00From certain characters needing to be despatched in order to set up the flicks we know and love
00:04later down the road, to eerie callbacks subtly suggesting that a much-adored personality's time
00:10is up, these Star Wars faces were all clearly done for from these precise moments on.
00:15Gareth here from WhatCultureStarWars and here are 10 exact moments we knew these Star Wars
00:19characters were doomed. Number 10, Luke catches up with an old friend called Biggs, a new hope.
00:25War is a cruel and merciless mistress, and make no mistake about it, from the second we stumble upon
00:31the Rebel Alliance and their conflict with the Big Bad Empire, our heroes find themselves thrown
00:35right into the thick of this frequently harsh reality. And in order to get over just how high
00:40the stakes are in this galaxy-altering battle for the future of their universe, Lucas and the gang
00:44opted to add a rather genius but eventually devastating callback to simpler times, when
00:49Luke Skywalker bumps into his old pal Biggs Darklighter as the pair both prepare to take on
00:54Darth Vader and his stormtrooper cronies on the Death Star. As the pair reminisce and Biggs
00:59bigs up the future Jedi's supreme pilot skills, Darklighter's comments on wanting to hear about
01:04all of Luke's stories when he gets back pretty much acts as the verbal nail in his own coffin.
01:09Sure enough, in the heat of battle, Biggs is blasted to smithereens by none other than
01:13Luke's own pappy, adding as yet another significant blow to the young farm boy. Breaks your damn heart.
01:19Number 9. Almost everyone who didn't turn up in the OG trilogy after Order 66 happens,
01:25Revenge of the Sith.
01:27Though it was undoubtedly awesome to finally see a world simply overflowing with the galaxy's
01:31protectors over the course of George Lucas' prequel trilogy, the daunting realization that
01:36an unquestionably depressing purge would be on its way always acted as a subtle shadow in an
01:41otherwise vibrant Jedi landscape. Simply put, if the Jedi Order wasn't all but extinct,
01:46as Ben Kenobi put it in A New Hope, by the time of the original trilogy, then some rather
01:51substantial plot holes would have likely made their presence known before long.
01:55So whether fans liked it or not, a whole host of Jedi faces we'd come to appreciate and
01:59admire over those first two prequel features were doomed to bite the dust from the second
02:04Anakin Skywalker helped Palpatine overcome Mace Windu. But more on that later. And set the
02:09stage for Order 66 to become an excruciating reality. Just like that, the likes of Kiari Mundi,
02:15Plo Koon, and Aayla Sakura, and many, many more were all wiped out by clones. We knew it all had
02:21to end at some point, but that still didn't make it any easier to swallow this devastating pill.
02:27Number 8. Shmi Skywalker Gets Abducted, Attack of the Clones
02:30Keeping with the fallen Jedi who helped kickstart a seismic shift in both the galaxy and the balance
02:36of the Force, the moment that pretty much ignited Anakin Skywalker's steady fall into darkness in the
02:42first place, could be spotted coming a mile away from the second this defiant Jedi Padawan opted to
02:47go looking for his mama on Tatooine. Clearly still possessing a strong bond with his single parent,
02:52even experiencing dreams of her suffering from afar. Those first few premonitions of Shmi's pain
02:57acted as the unnerving earliest hint at the grim fate that was always destined to grip the future
03:02Darth Vader's loving mother. A wild goose chase on the desert planet ensued in Attack of the Clones,
03:07only to present the deeply tormented Jedi with a scenario involving his mama being abducted by
03:13Tusken Raiders a month before he landed. At that point, seen as a hugely hostile group,
03:18to expect Shmi to survive that long being held captive by the Raiders was sadly unrealistic.
03:23And her dying breaths to her little Annie were always necessary in nudging this troubled
03:27lad down the dark path we all knew he was heading down.
03:31Number 7. Obi-Wan's Love is Introduced, The Clone Wars
03:35In another instance of a vital character being introduced in a project set before the events,
03:39fans had already seen come to pass in the likes of Revenge of the Sith and the subsequent features
03:44that would ultimately unfold. The arrival of Satine Kryze in The Clone Wars was always destined to be a
03:49bittersweet one. While it was a captivating development to see the world of Mandalore ruled
03:53by the Duchess determined to move the people of her planet on from their largely violent ways of the past,
03:58the powerful figure, who also acted as the unexpected love interest of a certain Obi-Wan Kenobi,
04:03was pretty much doomed from the second it became clear that she and Kenobi had a romantic past of
04:08sorts. Simply put, Satine isn't mentioned in the slightest in the time following on from The Clone Wars,
04:14so fans were rather morbidly anticipating her demise from the get-go. And in the end,
04:18it was none other than Kenobi's great adversary Maul who dealt the fatal blow,
04:22murdering Satine in front of him as he was helpless to save her.
04:26Number 6. A Nervous Young Boba Watches His Father on the Battlefield, Attack of the Clones
04:31George Lucas' decision to introduce us to the Fett who had set the stage for Boba did admittedly feel
04:37a little shoehorned at first, but not more than that a New Hope special edition scene.
04:41But said origin story of the coolest bounty hunter in this galactic series would ultimately provide
04:46Boba with a tragic foundation on which the rest of his captivating journey was built upon
04:51throughout The Clone Wars, Original Trilogy, and subsequent live-action Disney Plus series.
04:55Said tragic event could be seen coming from the minute the jubilant young son of Jango
05:00started cheering on the violence and carnage he was with.
05:05However, you don't bring a youngster along for the evidently perilous ride if you're not
05:09intending to scar him for life, right? As expected, it wasn't too long before Jango,
05:14fresh off of showing off his slick pistol skills in dispatching some Jedi under Reek,
05:18well and truly met his Mace Windu match, having his head taken off by the masterful Jedi in front
05:23of his kid's very eyes. Dick move, Windu!
05:27Number 5, Leia calling out to Ben harkens back to Luke's passing, The Rise of Skywalker.
05:33While it was admittedly one of the more divisive Star Wars passings, the sight of Luke Skywalker
05:37finally becoming one with the Force after projecting himself across the galaxy in an attempt to reconcile
05:42with former student Kylo Ren, while simultaneously aiding the future of the Jedi in Rey, was one that
05:48had a lasting and profound effect on the grand finale of the Skywalker saga.
05:53One film on from The Last Jedi, Ren was once again tasked with duking it out with Palpatine's
05:57grandkid, yet the fallen Jedi was once again stopped in his tracks by a Force-sensitive relative,
06:03this time in the form of his mama, General Leia Organa.
06:06Acting as another life-draining projection of sorts from across the galaxy, it was evident
06:11from the second that Leia hobbled away to contact her son that this was to be the final act for the
06:16legendary figure. The tragic real-life passing of Carrie Fisher also left many sensing that the
06:21series would give the iconic face a fitting send-off at some point in the saga Ender too,
06:25and in acting as the catalyst that would bring Ben back towards the light, Leia's final action felt as
06:31meaningful as it did gut-wrenching.
06:33Number 4, Obi-Wan is compromised as Dooku is disarmed. Revenge of the Sith.
06:39The knowledge of Darth Vader's eventual rise always brought with it the inevitable end of the
06:43former Jedi Master known as Count Dooku. However, it wasn't precisely clear when his time at Darth
06:48Sidious' side would come to an end coming into the final prequel entry. That was until Obi-Wan Kenobi
06:54found himself sidelined in the midst of his rematch alongside Anakin Skywalker with the dastardly Sith.
07:00From the moment the Jedi Master was buried underneath a platform, leaving only the easily manipulated
07:05Anakin to duke it out with Dooku, all signs pointed to the highly emotional Force user losing control,
07:11and getting some much-needed revenge on the tyrannical Darth Tyrannus.
07:15One do it later, Skywalker had successfully decapitated the one-time Jedi in front of his soon-to-be master.
07:22But had Obi-Wan still been conscious, you have to imagine Dooku would have likely lived to see the inside of a
07:26prison cell instead.
07:28Number 3, Han Solo meets his son face-to-face, The Force Awakens.
07:32While many would confess to being wholly shocked at the most devastating development to come out of the first
07:37sequel flick, that and the fact that Luke Skywalker didn't even get the chance to utter a single word.
07:42In truth, eagle-eyed fans could very much feel this demise a-coming.
07:46With much of The Force Awakens taking inspiration from another beloved Star Wars tale in A New Hope,
07:51it felt somewhat appropriate that the wise old mentor of this flick would fall in a similar fashion to that of Ben Kenobi
07:57in that fourth episode.
07:59Upon stepping out to come face-to-face with his fallen Jedi son, Kylo Ren,
08:03the eerie similarities to that aforementioned Vader-Kenobi showdown were glaring for many.
08:08Add into that the late inclusion of the rest of the heroic gang arriving on the scene to watch the
08:12pair's interaction from afar, and Han Solo's end was all but confirmed.
08:16Helpless to save the iconic smuggler as he is impaled by his lad, Rey, like Luke before her,
08:22is forced to take the next steps on her journey without her newfound mentor.
08:26Hey, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
08:28Number 2, Mace Windu tells Anakin Skywalker to stay out of it.
08:31Revenge of the Sith.
08:33A great many of the beats that ultimately led to the apparent Chosen One heading into the dark side of things,
08:38could have likely been avoided had Anakin Skywalker been supported or just trusted a little more
08:43at numerous points throughout his gradual fall.
08:45And while Obi-Wan getting knocked out of the action and leaving Anakin to be manipulated by Sidious
08:49earlier on in the Revenge of the Sith film couldn't really be helped,
08:53the way Mace Windu went about ordering Skywalker to keep from interfering with his arrest of Palpatine
08:57was both avoidable and in the end, deeply foolish.
09:00It was during this verbal back and forth that it became clear that Anakin's faith in the Jedi was at an all-time low,
09:06and Windu's rejecting of Anakin's help due to the confusion he sensed within him likely didn't help his cause either.
09:12Then, upon inevitably disobeying said order and witnessing Windu,
09:16suddenly decide that Sidious must be killed instead of put on trial.
09:19After all, he's too dangerous to be kept alive.
09:21That loss of faith in the Jedi would finally nudge Anakin over the edge,
09:25as he betrayed the purple-bladed Jedi Master and set the Great Jedi Purge in motion.
09:30Number 1. The Laser Gates Split the Fight
09:32The Phantom Menace
09:33The jaw-dropping duel of the fates still sits as one of the most masterful and skillfully crafted climaxes the series has to offer.
09:41Highlighting the sheer size and power of the opposition now standing in their way,
09:45both Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi find themselves pushed to their limit by the dual-bladed Sith Darth Maul early on.
09:52And with the pair already struggling to best this seemingly indomitable Sith as a unit,
09:56the introduction of some frustrating laser gates in the thick of the drama acted as a rather unnerving hint at what was to come.
10:03Qui-Gon had already struggled to see off Maul on his own whilst colliding with the mysterious Darksider on Tatooine,
10:08so despite it acting as one of the most savage and soul-crushing acts of the entire saga,
10:13his impaling at the hands of Maul as a helpless Obi-Wan watched on felt depressingly inevitable from the second those dastardly gates appeared.
10:20In the end, Maul's defiance would get the better of him as Kenobi eventually dealt a seemingly fatal blow to avenge his master's death,
10:27but the fate-sealing damage had already been done.
10:30And that's our list of any other exact moments we knew Star Wars characters were doomed.
10:34Let us know all about them in the comment section right down below,
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10:49I've been Gareth from WhatCulture Star Wars, may the Force be with you,
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