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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
00:30upon the Rebel Alliance and their conflict with the Big Bad Empire, our heroes find themselves
00:35thrown right into the thick of this frequently harsh reality. And in order to get over just how
00:39high the stakes are in this galaxy-altering battle for the future of their universe, Lucas and the
00:44gang opted to add a rather genius but eventually devastating callback to simpler times, when Luke
00:49Skywalker bumps into his old pal Biggs Darklighter as the pair both prepare to take on Darth Vader
00:54and his Stormtrooper cronies on the Death Star. As the pair reminisce and Biggs bigs up the future
01:00Jedi's supreme pilot skills, Darklighter's comments on wanting to hear about all of Luke's stories when
01:05he gets back pretty much acts as the verbal nail in his own coffin. Sure enough, in the heat of battle,
01:10Biggs is blasted to smithereens by none other than Luke's own pappy, acting as yet another significant
01:16blow to the young farm boy. Breaks your damn heart.
01:199. Almost everyone who didn't turn up in the OG trilogy after Order 66 happens, Revenge of the Sith
01:26Though 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, as Ben Kenobi put it in
01:48a new hope, by the time of the original trilogy, then some rather substantial plot holes would have
01:52likely made their presence known before long. So whether fans liked it or not, a whole host of
01:57Jedi faces we come to appreciate and admire over those first two prequel features were doomed to
02:02bite the dust from the second Anakin Skywalker helped Palpatine overcome Mace Windu, but more on that later,
02:09and set the stage for Order 66 to become an excruciating reality. Just like that, the likes of
02:14Ki-Adi Mundi, Plo Koon, and Aayla Sakura, and many, many more were all wiped out by clones.
02:20We knew it all had to 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
02:29Attack of the Clones
02:30Keeping with the fallen Jedi who helped kickstart a seismic shift in both the galaxy and the balance of the Force,
02:37The moment that pretty much ignited Anakin Skywalker's steady fall into darkness in the first place,
02:42could be spotted coming a mile away from the second this defiant Jedi Padawan opted to go looking for his mama on Tatooine.
02:49Clearly still possessing a strong bond with his single parent, even experiencing dreams of her suffering from afar.
02:55Those first few premonitions of Shmi's pain acted as the unnerving earliest hint at the grim fate that was always destined to grip the future Darth Vader's loving mother.
03:04A wild goose chase on the desert planet ensued in Attack of the Clones, only to present the deeply tormented Jedi with a scenario involving his mama being abducted by Tusken Raiders a month before he landed.
03:15At that point, seen as a hugely hostile group, to 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 lad down the dark path we all knew he was heading down.
03:31Number 7. Obi-Wan's love is introduced
03:34The Clone Wars
03:35In another instance of a vital character being introduced in a project set before the events fans had already seen come to pass in the likes of Revenge of the Sith and the subsequent features that would ultimately unfold.
03:45The arrival of Satine Kryze in The Clone Wars was always destined to be a bittersweet one.
03:50While it was a captivating development to see the world of Mandalore ruled by 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 was pretty much doomed from the second it became clear that she and Kenobi had a romantic past of sorts.
04:08Simply put, Satine isn't mentioned in the slightest in the time following on from The Clone Wars, so fans were rather morbidly anticipating her demise from the get-go, and in the end it was none other than Kenobi's great adversary Maul who dealt the fatal blow, murdering Satine in front of him as he was helpless to save her.
04:25Number six, 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 a 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 Boba with a tragic foundation on which the rest of his captivating journey was built upon throughout 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 started cheering on the violence and carnage he was witnessing going down within the Geonosian Petronaki Arena, however.
05:05You don't bring a youngster along for the evidently perilous ride if you're not intending to scar him for life, right?
05:10As expected, it wasn't too long before Jango, fresh off of showing off his slick pistol skills in dispatching some Jedi under Reek, well and truly met his Mace Windu match, having his head taken off by the masterful Jedi in front of his kid's very eyes.
05:24Dick move Windu!
05:26Number 5, Leia calling out to Ben harkens back to Luke's passing, the Rise of Skywalker.
05:31While it was admittedly one of the more divisive Star Wars passings, the sight of Luke Skywalker finally becoming one with the Force after projecting himself across the galaxy in an attempt to reconcile with former student Kylo Ren, while simultaneously aiding the future of the Jedi in Rey, was one that had a lasting and profound effect on the grand finale of the Skywalker saga.
05:52One film on from The Last Jedi, Ren was once again tasked with duking it out with Palpatine's grandkid, yet the fallen Jedi was once again stopped in his tracks by a Force-sensitive relative, this time in the form of his mama, General Leia Organa.
06:05Acting as another life-draining projection of sorts from across the galaxy, it was evident from the second that Leia hobbled away to contact her son that this was to be the final act for the legendary figure.
06:16The tragic real-life passing of Carrie Fisher also left many sensing that the series would give the iconic face a fitting send-off at some point in the saga Ender too, and in acting as the catalyst that would bring Ben back towards the light, Leia's final action felt as meaningful as it did gut-wrenching.
06:32Number 4. Obi-Wan is compromised as Dooku is disarmed. Revenge of the Sith
06:37The knowledge of Darth Vader's eventual rise always brought with it the inevitable end of the former Jedi Master known as Count Dooku.
06:45However, it wasn't precisely clear when his time at Darth Sidious' side would come to an end coming into the final prequel entry.
06:52That was until Obi-Wan Kenobi found himself sidelined in the midst of his rematch alongside Anakin Skywalker with the dastardly Sith.
06:59From the moment the Jedi Master was buried underneath a platform, leaving only the easily manipulated Anakin to juke it out with Dooku,
07:06all signs pointed to the highly emotional Force user losing control and getting some much-needed revenge on the tyrannical Darth Tyrannus.
07:14One do it later, Skywalker had successfully decapitated the one-time Jedi in front of his soon-to-be master,
07:21but had Obi-Wan still been conscious, you have to imagine Dooku would have likely lived to see the inside of a prison cell instead.
07:27Number 3. Han Solo meets his son face-to-face, The Force Awakens
07:31While many would confess to being wholly shocked at the most devastating development to come out of the first sequel flick,
07:37that and the fact that Luke Skywalker didn't even get the chance to utter a single word.
07:41In truth, eagle-eyed fans could very much feel this demise a-coming.
07:45With much of The Force Awakens taking inspiration from another beloved Star Wars tale in A New Hope,
07:50it felt somewhat appropriate that the wise old mentor of this flick would fall in a similar fashion to that of Ben Kenobi in that fourth episode.
07:58Upon stepping out to come face-to-face with his fallen Jedi son, Kylo Ren,
08:02the eerie similarities to that aforementioned Vader-Kenobi showdown were glaring for many.
08:07Add into that the late inclusion of the rest of the heroic gang arriving on the scene to watch the pair's interaction from afar,
08:13and 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,
08:21is forced to take the next steps on her journey without her newfound mentor.
08:25Hey, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
08:27Number 2. Mace Windu tells Anakin Skywalker to stay out of it.
08:30Revenge of the Sith
08:32A great many of the beats that ultimately led to the apparent Chosen One heading into the dark side of things,
08:37could have likely been avoided had Anakin Skywalker been supported or just trusted a little more at numerous points throughout his gradual fall.
08:44And while Obi-Wan getting knocked out of the action and leaving Anakin to be manipulated by Sidious earlier on in the Revenge of the Sith film,
08:50couldn't really be helped.
08:52The way Mace Windu went about ordering Skywalker to keep from interfering with his arrest of Palpatine was 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,
09:05and Windu's rejecting of Anakin's help due to the confusion he sensed within him likely didn't help his cause either.
09:11Then upon inevitably disobeying said order and witnessing Windu suddenly decide that Sidious must be killed instead of put on trial.
09:18After all, he's too dangerous to be kept alive.
09:20That loss of faith in the Jedi would finally nudge Anakin over the edge,
09:24as he betrayed the purple-bladed Jedi Master and set the Great Jedi Purge in motion.
09:291. The Laser Gate Split The Fight The Phantom Menace
09:33The jaw-dropping Duel of the Fate still sits as one of the most masterful and skillfully crafted climaxes the series has to offer.
09:40Highlighting the sheer size and power of the opposition now standing in their way,
09:44both Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi find themselves pushed to their limit by the dual-bladed Sith Darth Maul early on.
09:51And with the pair already struggling to best this seemingly indomitable Sith as a unit,
09:55the introduction of some frustrating laser gates in the thick of the drama acted as a rather unnerving hint at what was to come.
10:02Qui-Gon had already struggled to see off Maul on his own whilst colliding with the mysterious Darksider on Tatooine,
10:07so despite it acting as one of the most savage and soul-crushing acts of the entire saga,
10:12his 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 Avengers Master's death.
10:26But the Fate-sealing damage had already been done.
10:29And that's our list of any other exact moments we knew Star Wars characters were doomed.
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