Star Wars Jokes and Memes That Aren’t Just For The Fans

Star Wars Jokes and Memes That Aren’t Just For The Fans

Hello there! If you immediately mentally replied to that with, “General Kenobi, you are a bold one,” then boy, are you ever going to enjoy this article. Even if you’re more of a casual fan, however, read on – these ARE the memes you’re looking for.

We think George might have a problem…

Sometimes, a shoestring budget is a blessing is disguise. When George Lucas was a plucky young filmmaker crafting his little space opera, everyone thought he was nuts. Computer effects were pretty much non-existent, even if he could afford them, so everything had to be done pretty much on-camera.

We think George might have a problem…

That’s the magic of the original trilogy. Sure, it looks kinda janky – but that’s what makes it realistic. Then, in the prequel trilogy, Lucas had enough bank to buy a medium-sized Central European country, and it seems like he spent all of it buying green cloth at Michaels.

Your kids are gonna love it

Twenty-first century Star Wars fans know Clone Wars as the TV show (well, movie, then TV show) that introduced us to Ahsoka Tano, recently portrayed in The Mandalorian by the woman of our dreams, Rosario Dawson.

Your kids are gonna love it

Speaking of Mando, it also brought Dave Filoni and his cowboy hat into the Star Wars game, so we love it on that basis alone. Anyway, it’s true – Lucas dropped a reference to the Clone Wars in A New Hope, during a conversation between Obi-Wan and Luke. Wonder if he ever imagined a throwaway line would spawn a multimedia franchise…

Obi-Wan had Obi-One job

He’s been a beloved character, a focal point of Star Wars for four decades, and… he’s completely useless. We mean, the only thing he had to do was watch over a kid so he doesn’t turn into a youngling-slaying maniac.

Obi-Wan had Obi-One job

Couldn’t you give him crayons and activity books and left him on a planet with no sand or something? Jeez. Oh, and “If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine”? Being a shiny ghost doesn’t mean being powerful, Casper.

Just an ordinary old woman having an ordinary desert conversation

Let’s talk about The Rise of Skywalker, and more specifically about its ending. After going through three movies worth of nonsense, Rey goes back to Tatooine, to Luke’s childhood home. There, she buries his and Leia’s lightsabers, before some random old lady passes by and this conversation takes place.

Just an ordinary old woman having an ordinary desert conversation

Of all the stilted, awkward, unnatural Star Wars dialogue, this may just be the worst. Whoever wrote that: people don’t just walk up to random strangers and start aggressively grilling them about their names. And Rey? You can’t just decide you’re a Skywalker. That’s identity theft.

Wonder who the evil Sith Lord might be…

Old men living in caves wielding space magic? Sure thing. A galactic empire defeated by Build-A-Bear rejects? Sign us up! Over the years, Star Wars has asked fans to swallow a few clunkers in order to move the plot along. That’s fine… except for one thing.

Wonder who the evil Sith Lord might be…

In the prequel trilogy, some mysterious Sith Lord is behind all the threats to the Republic. No one can figure out who it is… despite the fact that Senator Palpatine is clearly the most evil man ever born. Seriously, no one noticing that Superman’s just Clark Kent without glasses is more believable.

So who here liked the sequel trilogy?!

The Star Wars fandom is quite unique, in that nobody on the planet seems to hate Star Wars quite as much as Star Wars fans do. It’s a little mystifying, to be honest. Not all of the fandom is like that, of course, but there’s a very dedicated, very intense, and very loud subset that just absolutely loathes everything made after the Reagan era.

So who here liked the sequel trilogy?!

Seems like kind of a waste of effort, especially since Star Wars is now about a toddler version of Yoda eating frog eggs. Or something, our neighbor won’t give us their Disney+ password.

Smooth, Ani, real smooth

Okay, so sure, almost every single line of dialogue Anakin has in the prequel trilogy made us cringe so hard our clothes nearly fell off. But think about it – isn’t portraying a lovestruck teen as awkward, weird, and slightly creepy… y’know, faithful to the source material?

Smooth, Ani, real smooth

Not us, of course – we were dating super models in junior high. But we hear teenagers are usually about that level of unpleasant. Of course, all that having been said, Padmé still knew Anakin since he was like eight, and everyone except Florida schoolteachers would find that upsetting.

50 Shades of Grogu

Granted, this could have made Fifty Shades of Grey into a very, very different movie than the one your significant others dragged you to the theater to see, but also arguably a better one. We’re kidding – there’s no argument. It definitely would’ve made for a better movie.

50 Shades of Grogu

In fact, if all Christian Grey had was a huge storage room filled wall to wall with Star Wars collectibles, your mom might have agreed to watch your movie, Dakota. We mean, okay, probably not. But there still would’ve been a better chance.

Not the brightest power converter in Tosche Station

How much of an absolute legend you are, on a scale of one to Mark Hamill not even remembering whether this image was actually in A New Hope? We mean, it’s not completely off-brand for Luke. Sure, these days he’s a grizzled green milk-guzzling veteran.

Not the brightest power converter in Tosche Station

But back in the first Star Wars movie, he was just some hayseed from a backwater plane. It checks out, right? Well, don’t wear out your old VHS copy looking for this scene. As Hamill found out by asking on Twitter, this is just a production photo from the set.

Sure, it’s evil when THEY do it!

Almost forty five years into this franchise – with movies, TV shows, books, comics, video games, and one holiday special we’re not allowed to talk about – enough is enough. Can we all finally admit that what the Jedi have been doing since day one is no better than the stuff we vilify the Sith for?

Sure, it’s evil when THEY do it!

Sure, they teach their younglings about calmness and singing kumbaya around the space campfire, but… still. They’re taking children at their most impressionable and brainwashing them into believing that all emotion – even love – is the path to destroying the galaxy. How is that okay?!

Conveniently forgot to mention that second part

“He’s more machine now than man; twisted and evil.” With this short, judge-y sentence, Obi-Wan cemented himself as one of the biggest jerks in all of Star Wars. First of all, if Star Wars is “about” anything, it’s about no one ever being beyond redemption.

Conveniently forgot to mention that second part

That was true for Darth Vader as it was for Kylo Ren. So just on that alone Obi-Wan can just heck right off. But wait, let’s not gloss over the fact that oh, y’know, YOU MADE HIM THAT WAY, KENOBI. Good Lord, what a schmuck.

Move over, Woman Yelling at a Cat

In early 2020, when the world became a post-apocalyptic nightmare, we had only one thing to stop us from teetering over into madness – Baby Yoda. We didn’t even care that technically speaking he was neither a baby nor Yoda himself.

Move over, Woman Yelling at a Cat

He was so awesome that he even got non-Star Wars fans to be interested enough to maybe give The Mandalorian a watch. Weirdly, that kind of made us mad. Like, you don’t get to just hop aboard now and ENJOY the franchise, normies! We had to suffer through the sequel trilogy to get to this point!

What happens when you don’t have a blog

If we started airing all grievances against the sequel trilogy, we’ll be here forever. Of all its many, many missteps, however, the worst was the fact that neither Rey nor Kylo ever used their weird Force bond to talk about stuff like this.

What happens when you don’t have a blog

We’re just expected to believe that in a world without Tinder, two single-and-ready-to-mingle Force users wouldn’t start a telepathic conversation with “You up?” Another ignored point – what if one contacted the other while they were on the toilet? We’re sick of being the only ones with the guts to ask these questions.

Gotta be Leia

Ask George Lucas and he’ll tell you how much Star Wars owes to classic serials like Flash Gordon. In fact, he’ll probably start sweating, considering he tried getting the rights to the actual Flash Gordon property before being creating his own but carrying over several “inspirations.”

Gotta be Leia

Anyway, what we’re saying is that swashbuckling adventure is as much a part of Star Wars as Han shooting first (we’re settling all the scores today, Lucas). Speaking of shooting, actors from the original trilogy to the newest can’t seem to do it without looking like total doofuses. So what’s your pick?

The Jedi afterlife must be pretty crowded

Let’s talk about how ridiculous Force ghosts are. Originally, it was said to be something only masters of the light side of the Force could ever do – such as Obi-Wan.

The Jedi afterlife must be pretty crowded

But then a straight up evil dude like Darth Vader repented 35 seconds before kicking the bucket and got his own ghost, not to mention evil Sith who stayed evil and somehow became ghosts. Then, and we swear we’re not making this up, canon settled on the deceased being able to learn how to become Force ghosts AFTER dying. Can we imagine they don’t exist please?

Anakin loves mom’s spaghetti

No, this is not from an alternate cut of The Phantom Menace co-written by aspiring screenwriter Marshall Mathers. Sadly, this is just a meme that’s actually about seventy-fives times better than the actual scene between a very young Anakin and Ki-Adi-Mundi – we swear that’s his name.

Anakin loves mom’s spaghetti

Kool-Aid or whatever just harasses the little guy, and then Yoda and Mace Windu gang up on him as well. If this was Anakin’s first experience of Jedi authority, no wonder he went to the dark side. One aside – why does it look like Mace is wielding Thor’s hammer?

A dead giveaway

John Williams is the greatest film composer of all-time. Not “one of,” not “in the conversation.” Best. Ever. Just a random statistic – he has 52 Academy Award nominations, which is good for the second most in history after a little indie filmmaker by the name of Walt Disney.

A dead giveaway

For our money, it doesn’t get any better than his 1977 Star Wars score. How many other movie themes can you name that you immediately recognize after one note? Still, much as we love his score, maybe we didn’t need to hear it cycle throughout the movie 35 times.

#NotOurLuke

If you weren’t a fan of the sequel trilogy’s Luke Skywalker, don’t fret – Mark Hamill apparently wasn’t a huge fan either. Taking every opportunity to vent his frustrations, Hamill spoke about how his view of the farm boy conflicted with the filmmakers’ often. He’s since walked back some of those assertions, because he’s an absolute sweetheart of a man, but the point stands.

#NotOurLuke

You can’t tell us there isn’t a discrepancy between the man who risked everything because he believed he could reach another and the man who seemed to have waited his entire life for the opportunity to whack his nephew.

Shorter, true, but a lot more realistic

If you weren’t a hardcore Star Wars fan in 1999, you have no idea what it was like to hear about The Phantom Menace. After 16 years with no original Star Wars content, George Lucas was coming back to the epic he created – and then ruined by tinkering with it until it broke.

Shorter, true, but a lot more realistic

Nevertheless, fans were frenzied… until we got to the theater and saw a nine-year-old asking a much older young woman if she was an angel. Padmé’s actual response – “You’re a funny little boy” – didn’t make nearly as much sense as this one.

No hard feelings, right?

Pictured here are Hayden Christensen, which we all know played Anakin in Episodes II and III, alongside Ross Beadman. Less well-known, Beadman nevertheless achieved Star Wars infamy by being the cute little youngling that asks Anakin what they’re going to do. Anakin doesn’t answer, and the scene thankfully cuts away. Nothing brings down a movie like wholesale child saber-ing!

No hard feelings, right?

Luckily, the two met up at a London convention a few years back and there seem to be no hard feelings. Fun fact – Beadman revealed recently that Christensen yelled “Boo!” at him to get an authentic startled reaction.

Man, corporate synergy is really getting out of hand lately

In The Rise of Skywalker’s climactic scene, Rey lays motionless on the floor, almost defeated, when she’s visited by the ghostly voices of Jedi past. From household names like Obi-Wan, Anakin, and Yoda to Jedi so obscure even we’ve never heard of them, seemingly everyone who ever had a cup of coffee in the Jedi Order makes an appearance.

Man, corporate synergy is really getting out of hand lately

That includes, of course, Mace Windu, played by Samuel L. Jackson. These days, Jackson’s known more for playing a different no-nonsense master – Nick Fury. Don’t laugh – Disney’s probably one underwhelming fiscal quarter away from making this a reality.

We would’ve stabbed him too

The Force Awakens brought back fan-favorite Han Solo, only to immediately have his son, Ben (now going by the angsty name of Kylo Ren), give him the old lightsaber-to-the-gut treatment. This wasn’t some weird Hollywood exec decision either.

We would’ve stabbed him too

Harrison Ford hates Star Wars so much that literally the only way to get him to return was to ensure he’d never have to do another one again. But let’s spare a thought for Han Solo, and how ill-equipped he must’ve been to being a dad. You can excuse this misstep, as wookies are notorious for loving dad jokes.

He calls ’em like he sees ’em

Ah yes, the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise. It’s not a story the Jedi would tell you. This Sith legend launched a million memes, not all of them quite as funny as a Jar Jar Binks comedy routine. This one reimagines Senator Palpatine, being that annoying guy at a movie theater who won’t stop babbling, finally getting what he deserves.

He calls ’em like he sees ’em

It’s funny, because it couldn’t have been more obvious Palpatine himself was the apprentice who assassinated Plagueis if he was wearing a shirt saying “I shanked my master and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.”

So demeaning

To be completely fair, Star Wars is, after all, “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.” We can only imagine, then, that it’s so long ago that Captcha wasn’t yet a thing. Good thing, too, considering like 75% of the movies’ close calls end up being salvaged by R2D2.

So demeaning

We suspect that every time a Star Wars writer paints themselves into a corner, they just write a scene where Artoo somehow saves the day. Meanwhile, us regular ol’ humans have to prove that we’re not robots… to a computer. The future is terrible.

He’ll always be Baby Yoda to us

It took 13 episodes of the Mandalorian – almost a season and a half – for us to finally learn that the creature referred to only as “the Child” was actually named Grogu. You know what they say, though – a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.

He’ll always be Baby Yoda to us

This was definitely the case here, as by the time the show got around to telling us his name, the entire world already knew he was Baby Yoda. Who knows, maybe next we’ll learn what Grogu and Yoda’s species is called…

Ah, ah, they said it! They said it!

Now, we don’t want to say that the dialogue in the prequel trilogy was clunky… but we’re not saying it WASN’T either, y’know? Don’t get us wrong, having George Lucas write three more Star Wars films was a dream come true at the time.

Ah, ah, they said it! They said it!

It’s just that he apparently forgot how humans speak since making Return of the Jedi in 1983. Countless lines were awkward or unnatural, to the point that we kind of wish the exchange pictured here actually occurred. At least then we could’ve gotten a Peter Griffin-level satisfaction from someone saying all the titles.

This is the way

With two seasons of it in the can, we can safely say without fear of contradiction that The Mandalorian is a rager of a show. It not only brought back old favorites like Boba Fett but also gave us our first live-action glimpse of beloved characters like Ahsoka Tano.

This is the way

And that’s saying nothing about the absolute frenzy surrounding Baby Yoda. Watching, and talking about, Mando and his merry men (and women) was so much fun that we often forgot how literally every episode was a fetch quest from a computer role playing game.

Anakin is the worst

Attack of the Clones brought us many memorable moments, not least of which was the time Anakin woodenly tells Padmé about the genocide he’d just committed and she reacts with all the emotion of drywall.

Anakin is the worst

While there’s no verifiable evidence that this was actually the case, we like to imagine that one day Hayden Christensen just showed up on-set crying and screaming about obliterating a whole village, including the women and children, and George Lucas liked it so much he decided to keep it in the film.

A fair reaction

Of all the Star Wars films released in the past five or so years, we’d argue that Rogue One was probably the best. Sure, it took one throwaway line from A New Hope’s title crawl and spun an entire feature-length movie out of it, but isn’t that how the best movies are made? It’s not? Quickly moving on then.

A fair reaction

In one scene, Director Krennic meets up with Darth Vader and the two have a friendly chat. The scene begins by Vader seemingly forgetting he’s a seven-foot-tall armored space wizard. Isn’t “unsettled” the mildest reaction he’s ever gotten?

Still untouchable after all these years

A frequent collaborator of both George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, composer John Williams pretty much invented the summer blockbuster. We mean, Jaws is credited with being the first true summer hit, and what would it be without Williams’s epic DUN DUN, DUN DUN theme?

Still untouchable after all these years

He composed music for all nine Star Wars films too, and while the movies themselves received a… varying response from fans, J-Will (as no one calls him) remains Teflon – nothing sticks to him. Sadly, while Disney will undoubtedly be making Star Wars films until the end of cinema, Williams announced his retirement from the franchise.

*cue Always Sunny theme*

Not everyone’s always going to love the exact same thing. So, all the sequel trilogy hate, while clearly underpinned by fans’ love of the franchise, can get a little too much. Except for the case of Supreme Leader Snoke.

*cue Always Sunny theme*

The First Order’s leader is set up by The Force Awakens to be the ultimate big bad of the new trilogy. Heck, he seduced Ben Solo into turning full-on dark side. Then, after fans formulated a gazillion theories about his true identity, he got unceremoniously sliced in half by the very same Solo in The Last Jedi. Whomp whomp.

Well, he IS evil, isn’t he?

We’re in no way making light of the origin of the phrase, but watching The Phantom Menace made us think of the “banality of evil.” Evil isn’t always mustache-twirling, maniacal laughter, you see. Sometimes evil is as arbitrary as going out of your way to run over some random child in the desert.

Well, he IS evil, isn’t he?

Now, just take a moment to imagine how differently the rest of the story would have been if Anakin didn’t listen to Qui-Gon and drop. With one silly over-the-top act of evil, Darth Maul could’ve prevented the Empire from ever taking over.

General Grievous got a little carried away

Man, General Grievous sure was a weird villain, wasn’t he? Apart from underlining George Lucas’s ultimately fatal fascination with CGI, the warlord from Attack of the Clones was just an all-around bizarre character.

General Grievous got a little carried away

Neither Jedi nor Sith, Grievous loved nothing more than fighting with multiple lightsabers, often creating more arms out of thin air to wield them. And he did all of that while looking like a PlayStation 2 character that seemed dated while the movie was still being made, let alone now. Need proof? This gif looks better than anything fans paid to see in the cinema.

He just felt a disturbance in the Force

The existence of Force ghosts, beyond the fact that every rando can apparently become one, opens the door for a whole host of disturbing questions. For example, where do these ghosts go when they’re not directly interacting with their loved ones or comrades?

He just felt a disturbance in the Force

Is there like a cosmic Force ghost waiting room with light refreshments? If there isn’t, and they just follow people around the entire time, choosing when to become visible, is even more troubling. Sure, Obi-Wan was cool and all, but you don’t want him spying on you and your date at space lovers’ lane.

A perfect plan

Often, us geeks are served something by the universe that’s simultaneously a blessing and a curse. First, fate allows us to find a significant other. Then, as if to mock us, it makes sure they’ll have absolutely zero interest in the stuff we love most.

A perfect plan

This can only lead to tragedy and heartbreak, which is why Disney took it upon itself to save these otherwise doomed relationships. Enter Baby Yoda, who seems to have been created using precise mathematical calculations for maximum cuteness. Remember, kids: Baby Yoda is a gateway to the prequels.

Star Wars: Game of Thrones before it was cool

The funny thing is that they both turned out to be right! Come to think of it, there’s way more relative smooching in Star Wars than anyone realizes. Also, considering that the universe is infinite and always expanding, how come literally only one family matters (no, not the Winslows)?

Star Wars: Game of Thrones before it was cool

It’s all about the Skywalkers, and their family drama alone was enough to supply the plot for literally nine movies. Can we all just agree to call these guys Space Kardashians and be done with it?

This is when the fun begins

Say what you will about what Darth Vader will end up becoming and accomplishing, there are a few basic realities regarding the stuff that he’ll never have. The rank of master, the high ground, two arms, and a still-alive main squeeze are only a few of the things.

This is when the fun begins

With just a little effort, we also came up with breathing that’s not annoying to the point of probably getting kicked out of Sith meetings all the time, as well as being considered cool without needing to get his armor into a car wash to get washed and waxed.

Comes with a General Cannoli, and a large Yoda

True story – instead of accepting a pay raise of nearly 300% compared to his previous feature, George Lucas agreed to be paid just $150,000 for directing the first Star Wars if he could retain all sequel and merchandising rights. At the time, it seemed like he was off his meds.

Comes with a General Cannoli, and a large Yoda

In hindsight, he was a genius. Apart from being a gifted filmmaker, Lucas became a world-class marketer, slapping a Star Wars logo on everything from cereal to (probably) car parts. So, cross-promoting Palpatine’s Order 66 with some fast food joint is honestly not that far-fetched.

Rest easy, Padawan

Sometimes, things just have a way of working out. For example, when Disney made George Lucas a billionaire by buying Star Wars for $4 billion, many were concerned that the House of Mouse would “kiddy-fy” the beloved franchise. Looking back, it was the best thing that could’ve happened – we wouldn’t have gotten The Mandalorian otherwise, right?

Rest easy, Padawan

Just imagine a parallel universe, one in which WarnerMedia bought the whole thing instead. The new Star Wars content we might’ve gotten then would’ve been Mace Windu dropping F-bombs on some Sith and Baby Yoda being fed to wolves. Space wolves. Whatever.

Something that could’ve been brought to his attention yesterday

One of the biggest controversies of the past few years may have been the usage of Force healing. While this ability has been a permanent fixture of Star Wars video games, it was first showcased on-screen in 2019 – in The Mandalorian, by Baby Yoda, and in The Rise of Skywalker, by both Rey and Kylo Ren.

Something that could’ve been brought to his attention yesterday

The latter movie, in fact, shows the ability to be so powerful that it can actually bring the deceased back to life. Meanwhile, somewhere in Force Ghost Land, Anakin’s cursing up a storm that no one told him he could save Padmé.

Business is good

This is a bit of a conspiracy theory, but we love conspiracy theories and this is our article. So, what if the lightsabers weren’t first invented by some cow-looking Jedi on some far-off planet? What if, and bear with us here, they were invented by Big Prosthetics?

Business is good

After all, it seems like throughout nine films, the people who wield lightsabers on either side of the Force love nothing more than to go choppy-choppy on some limbs. It’s the perfect crime – first they make money on the saber, then on robot arms!

You miss 100% of the shots you DO take

Whoever needs to hear this, listen up: if stormtroopers could hit the broad side of a barn with a nuclear weapon, the various Star Wars movies would probably be about 35 seconds long.

You miss 100% of the shots you DO take

Somehow, things are actually the worst in the original trilogy, where the troopers are talked up to be this big scary menace, and we almost immediately find out that most of them have never seemed to hold a weapon before. We love Episodes IV, V, and VI, don’t get us wrong – but it’s DESPITE of the troopers.

Well, this is awkward

Spoiler for The Mandalorian’s last episode ahead! So, when Mando and his comrades are cornered by dark troopers – the non-useless kind – they’re saved by a de-aged Luke Skywalker. We didn’t even get hung up on how much he now looked like a Madame Tussauds wax figure, because he went right into ganking troopers in one of the show’s best action sequences.

Well, this is awkward

Here’s the thing, though – he and Bobba Fett have a history. One that involves battling before Fett embarrassingly tumbled into the Sarlacc pit. We really hope Luke scrammed before Bobba came in, or things would’ve gotten mega-awkward.

Hey, it is what it is

Have you ever heard of the Mandela effect? Also known as a shared false memory phenomenon, it involves a large group of people being convinced that something happened a certain way even though it didn’t. Pop culture offers up several good examples of this.

Hey, it is what it is

Captain Kirk, for instance, never said the phrase that has become synonymous with Star Trek – “Beam me up, Scotty” – in either the TV show or the movies. Similarly, Darth Vader never says, “Luke, I am your father.” Instead, he says, “No, I am your father.” Real Star Wars fans know that.

Allegedly, yeah

Knowing that Episode IX was the conclusion of the Skywalker saga, for better or worse, made us feel odd. Sure, Disney will keep mining Star Wars for content until the heat death of the universe, but the story that George Lucas began in 1977 is now finally over.

Allegedly, yeah

They can tell side stories, like Rogue One, or unrelated stories, like The Mandalorian. But the story of Anakin Skywalker and his descendants is done. What we’re trying to say is, did it all really have to end with dialogue that sounds like it was written by a seven-year-old?

Hasn’t Anakin suffered enough?

Even though they’re no longer together, Hayden Christensen was married to fellow actor Rachel Bilson for ten years, and the two had a daughter together. Speaking to People magazine, Bilson said that they’ll probably avoid introducing their daughter to her dad’s on-screen persona for as long as possible.

Hasn’t Anakin suffered enough?

We mean, not for nothing, but the guy did take out all those younglings… Still, for Hayden this might’ve been déjà vu all over again – first Obi-Wan, now his own wife. The guy can’t catch a break!

But the Code forbids it!

In the greatest show ever produced, The Mandalorian, the titular bounty hunter lives by a strict Code that forbids him from ever taking his helmet off. Now, every true fan knows that other Disney shows have featured tons of other Mandalorians without helmets, but the show actually explains that.

But the Code forbids it!

Din Djarin was raised by a cult of religious zealots that broke away from mainstream Mandalorian society. That’s why on the few occasions that Djarin did take his helmet off, even though we’ve seen Pedro Pascal in Game of Thrones and a million other things, we were still shook.

It was Jar Jar all along

Episode I: The Phantom Menace was special for many reasons. For example, it featured the first fully CGI character in a live-action film. Too bad that this character was Jar Jar Binks. Widely detested by pretty much everyone, the annoying and vaguely offensive Gungan nevertheless stumbled all over the movie.

It was Jar Jar all along

To make sense of it all, fans have come up with a theory: that of Darth Jar Jar. George Lucas claimed that Jar Jar was his favorite character, adding that he’s “the key” to the whole saga. Of course he was – he was responsible for Palpatine receiving unchecked power!

Listen here, you little junk piles

When the obviously-Palpatine Darth Sidious issued the order to “Wipe them out, all of them” in Episode I: The Phantom Menace, we thought it was pretty clear. We mean, as far as orders go, it’s not exactly vague or ambiguous, is it?

Listen here, you little junk piles

Nevertheless, after the Trade Federations army of droids does indeed beat the Gungans, they… immediately take a lot of the annoying little things prisoner. We have a feeling that the people in charge of Palpatine’s CGI weren’t the same people in charge of the battle’s CGI, and they must’ve had a fight and weren’t talking.

Only Imperial stormtroopers are so precise

Our very first introduction to stormtroopers’ fighting prowess comes in Episode IV, when Luke and Obi-Wan come across a Jawas’ Sandcrawler that’s been shot up badly. Kenobi then speaks the immortal words: “These blast points… Too accurate for Sand People. Only Imperial stormtroopers are so precise.” They then spend about nine films not hitting a single dang thing.

Only Imperial stormtroopers are so precise

To make matters worse, In Episode I a Tusken Raider hits a fast-moving pod racer from hundreds of feet away. So, two choices here: either Obi-Wan doesn’t know what he’s talking about or… Nevermind, there’s only one choice.

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