Luke Skywalker has shaped so many lives out there that not only people from this generation, but some born in the late-1950s, will label Luke as their hero. The character’s heroic nature resulted in Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope becoming a smash hit and on its way to the then-highest-grossing film of all time. Loads of youngsters in the 1970s had Luke as their unquestionable hero and looked to Star Wars for life lessons learned. Luke’s presence stayed strong until 2015, when he’d last ♕been since onscreen thirty-two years previously.

With the Sequel trilogy starting with Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens, Luke’s popularity continued as a generation far different from the 1970s’ one had new stories to watch him in. Although he had no role in Episode VII, The Last Jedi had him in a pivotal role, one that would be remembered for years to come. Star Wars: Episode IX will close 🤪out the series for now and Luke is confirmed to be making an appearance in some form.

As technology has developed and we’ve gotten new ways to access Star Wars films, the scru💦tiny behind Luke’s past and abilities has increased. We know more about him now from rewatching the older movies than anyone did back then. With the Sequel trilogy offering us more꧟ material, the landscape has been set for us to find things about Luke that aren’t so obvious.

Here are 20 Strang🉐e Things About Luke Skywalker’💜s Anatomy.

20 💦 Abandoning Jedi Ways

In Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi, Luke did the unthinkable by shunning the Jedi mentality. The epic ending of the previous film’s continuation was shown to be Luke tossi♌ng away the coveted lightsaber Rey handed to him.

Throughout this movie, Luke would defy Rey at every turn and refuse to accept the Jedi manner of thinking that Obi Wan and Yoda had relayed to him. This was all too out of character and something the fans weren’t oཧkay with. The Lukeꦺ we had seen in the Original trilogy was hardly like this.

19 ꧃ Suddenly Having Love For Darth Vader

After his confrontation with Darth Vader in Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back, Luke escaped his father’s clutches and regrouped with his friends so as to l♌aunch a final a🦋ttack on the dark side.

However, in the very next film – which didn’t start off too far in the future – Luke already harbors considerable love for his father. Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi had Luke appealing to Darth Vader to return to being the good m🦩an he onꦆce was. But all this love came out of nowhere, with Luke outright refusing to fight his father.

18 Suddenly Knowing D🍸arth Vader Was His Father 🐷

Yes, we know Darth Vader was the oneꦺ who ap🐟pealed to Luke and informed him that “No! I am your father,” but Luke didn’t take Darth Vader’s word for it. The reason why Luke believed Darth Vader was because he “searched his feelings” to find out the validity to Darth Vader’s claims.

But at that point, Luke🌊 was hardly the Master Jedi he would become much later in the future, then how did he so expertly search his feelings that he instantly knew Darth Vader actually was his parent?

17 Suddenly Kn⛎owing Leia Can Tell She’s His Sister

Leia’s Force powers were never clear. In Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi, L🍌eia reaches out toward the ship she was blasted from using the Force and rescuꦜes herself from deep space, but she’s not supposed to be a Jedi.

Even more impressive was how she quickly gained these powers.

In Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi, Luke implored upon Leia to (again) “search her feeling♓s," which was enough for her to find out she was his sister. But how🦹 could Luke be so certain she could do that if he was the Jedi and not her?

16 🦄 Bꦛeing Attracted To Leia At First

Now that’s something you really can never live down. In Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, Luke showed signs of a crush on the beautiful princess and this was slightly expanded upon in Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back.

In one very notable scene, Leia planted a kiss on Luke’s lips to make Han Solo jealous, and Luke responded with enthusiasm. He was clearly attracted to her at that point before the story shifted and they were revealed to be siblings. Let’s hope ꦕhe was able to live down his earlier attraction to his own sister.

15 Weird Deleted Scene With Leia 🔜

George Lucas isn’t the kind of visionary Star Wars nerds like to make him out to be. George hadn’t planned a bunch of plot points for the films until late into production and the pivotal reveal that Luke and Leia were siblings wasn’t planned even while Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back was being filmed.

Th🦄is meant that a deleted scene where Luke and Leia were clearly very into each other had been filmed. Armed with the knowledge that they’re siblings, this scene is cringeworthy as it has both people almost leaning in for a kiss.

14 Why Did His Arm Also Disappear With Himℱ?

Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi featured the passin🅺g of the biggest legend in geek culture. Luke Skywalker met his end after being incredibly exhausted due to sending his force projection across the stars toward Kylo Ren. After Luke had duped Kylo Ren long enough for the brat to believe he had genuinely been there, Luke revealed the deception and faded away.

Hi𝕴s actual body was wracked with pain and after viewing the sunset one last time, he vanished into the Force. But how come his metallic arm did the same? That was just a prosthetic, which should’ve remained back in the physical world.

13 🐭 Appearing As Younger Version In Force🀅 Projection

Since we’re talking about things that are weird about Luke rather than wrong about him, we can include a ꦜpoint that has been addressed. Whe♊n Luke sends his projection to distract Kylo Ren, he appears much younger than the one we saw with Rey.

This was supposed to be due to Luke projecting the version of himself Kylo Ren was familiar with.

Appearing like this ma❀de the Sith mistake Luke to be genuinely present and moved his focus away from the Resistance. Still, seeing a Luke with shorter and darker hair certainly was weird ♍so late into the movie.

12 Training So Quickly 🎶

In Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back, Luke tracks down the old Master Yoda and begins training in the art of the Force. At first, he doesn’t do so great before he displays some great skills in it. Although Luke was shown to be a competent student, he didn’t complete his training befor🌼e heading off to face Darth Vader.

However, Luke was far from out of his league and looked as if he had been⛦ training for at least a couple years based on his performance. It doesn’t seem believable he could’ve progressed that well in just a f✱ew days.

11 Training ꦰRey Within A Couple Days

Just like he had absconded from his training under Yoda, Rey pulled a similar move in Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi by moving onto ass♛isting Kylo Ren against Supreme Leader Snoke. Also similar to Luke’s circumstances was how quickly Rey completed he💯r training.

She had a few hiccups before finding her footing and displaying immense talent in the Force, so much so that she and Kylo Ren could commun🎀icate stars apart. Luke didn’t apart such priceless wisdom that Rey could do the things she did, but such was what the film wanted us to believe.