We all have a Star Wars introduction story. Some of us never got to see the movies until we were adults, and some of us saw it when we were kids. I did not hear of Star Wars until I was five years old. My aunt on my mother's side, while spending time with me, asked if I had seen Star Wars yet. "Star Wars what?" I replied. She sat me down the very next day and we watched the entire original trilogy. Forever afterwards, I loved the series and Star Wars quotes were always at the tip of my🌃 tongue (still are, as a matter of fact).
Ask anyone who is a huge Star Wars fan, and I'm sure they can remember the first time they saw it. And now that the series has gotten revitalized by The Force Awakens and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Last Jedi, love for Star Wars can spread to more and more people. Kids can soar into a galaxy far, far away once again, and we will have t𝓡he opportunity to show it to them as it was once shown to us.
As with anything we saw as children, there are certain things about Star Wars that are mildly (or wildly) inappropriate that we never noticed. As a kid, we never thought about whether or not something was a tad too adult for us, or a bit too dark. But one of my favorite things to do is re-watch all the Star Wars movies and revel in the aspects that might have been ill-suited for me when I was younger. Read on to recall some of the more disturbing or gross moments across all of the Star Wars films. They may not have been suitable for children, but these moments made up some of the happiest parts of my childhood. (And that does not depress me at all. Life well spent.)
25 ไ Vicious Monster🦩s
Ewoks appear to be cute, little bear-creatures, but under further examination, it is revealed that they are quite the monsters. When the Ewoks capture, Han, Luke, Chewie, and the droids in Return of the Jedi, chuckles ensue because they view the neurotic C-3PO as a god. In honor of his appearance, they decide they're going to cook the others and feed them to him. Now, I'm not calling the Ewoks monsters because they eat meat. But seriously, Luke, Han, and Chewie were speaking creatures. They had clearly attempted communicating with the Ewoks with the help of some translating from C-3PO. And the Ewoks still planned to burn them alive for a meal. Who knows how many other hapless beings fell victim to the Ewoks' hunger for sentient flesh. Just because they were scared int🗹o not cooking Luke and his friends, doesn't mean they weren't planning to.
24 ✃ 🎐 Father-Daughter Bonding
In the first Star Wars movie, Episode IV when looking at the entire continuity, we are not yet aware that Darth Vader is Luke and Leia's father. He's just the evil figurehead of the Empire who captures Princess Leia (who was on a diplomatic mission to Alderaan, wink-wink nudge-nudge). But looking back on A New Hope with the knowledge that we have about Leia's parentage, the scene where Darth Vader gets information out of her is so much darker. Vader visits Leia in her cell with an IT-O Interrogator droid in order to find out where the hidden rebel base is. Not only is a father repeatedly attacking his daughter in th💟at scene, but the manner in which the Interrogator works is frig🐲htening. It injects the prisoner with a chemical that diminishes the pain threshold, making them more susceptible to even the slightest wound.
23 🌱 Can No One See This?!
One of the most annoying things that you may not have noticed if you watched the prequels when you were a kid was how irritating and whiny Anakin Skywalker is. While the audience may have noticed and been irked by his petulant behavior, characters in the films seemed to turn a blind eye to it. Obi-Wan, as Anakin's mentor, only lightly rebukes him whenever he was rude. The Jedi Council still thinks Anakin is the "Chosen One" despite his many public tantrums (though beggars can't be choosers, I suppose). And Padme agrees to marry him even after she's seen his whining in action! Anakin's attitude makes him no better than a child. And yet, he is portrayed as the hero of the prequels. Besides helping out Qui-Gon and Padme in The Phanton Menace, name one selfless thing that Anakin did in the movies. His b⛦ehavior is wildly diffe꧙rent from what a hero's should be.
22 🔴 Dancing Slaves
Jabba's disgusting enough. You don't have to add to his disgusting qualities. But that's just what they did in Return of the Jedi. I knew Jabba only as the fat worm thing who was keeping Han Solo as a wall decoration when I was fiver years old. I never really stopped to think about the club set-up he had going on in his palace. But think about how really messed up it is that he had dancing slaves kept around him against their will. And they were chained next to him and had to sleep next to him and everything. (And you know he did not smell pleasant.) I cringe every time I watch this part now; it just seems so gratuitous. Ugh, and when Jabba licks his lips, it makes me want to hurl. I only hope he did not do anything else to Oola or Leia.
21 Some People🧸 Like These...
By the time Rogue One came out in theaters, I was an adult that could enjoy a movie while still being able to analyze its various qualities. Plus, things that were inappropriate no longer went sailing over my head. And one creature in the film stood out as disturbing: Bor Gullet. Saw Gerrera, the leader of a group of extremely militant rebels known as the Partisans, kept this creature as a kind 🍷of lie detector. A Bor Gullet has the ability♚ to see into a person's mind with the added detriment of a large probability that the mind would be ruined in the process. My first problem with the Bor Gullet was what made it seem so inappropriate. In order to read minds, it had to wrap itself completely around its victims. Grossly so. Poor Bodhi Rook, the defector Imperial pilot, was just covered in its tentacles. My second problem was the question of how it would show the information it received. How could the Bor Gullet let Saw know what was in Bodhi's mind?
20 ♑ My Young Padawan Learner ൲
Ewan McGregor's performance as Obi-Wan Kenobi was phenomenal. In movies filled with some of the cringiest dialogue imaginable, McGregor managed to make his lines work. So despite not believing Anakin's fall to the Dark Side, I did believe Obi-Wan's grief when he called out to Anakin as his brother on Mustafar. However, immediately afterwards, Obi-Wan behaves in an abominably cruel manner towards one he considered his brother. As Anakin writhed legless by a river of lava, a spark caught in his clothes and he started to burn alive. Obi-Wan, his mentor, turned around and walked away, presumably leaving Anakin to burn to death. Why didn't Obi-Wan try to mercy-end him? Instead, Obi-Wan left Anakin to smolder in pain. Revenge of the Sith, by nece🔯ssity of Anakin's transformation to Darth Vader, had to be a dark movie, but man, that was one cold move on ไObi-Wan's part.
19 ꦕ Our Favorite S🔴muggler
Han Solo was our favorite scoundrel to love. By definition, a scoundrel is a bad person, but Han made up for it with his good heart and charming demeanor. That still doesn't change the fact that Han was a smuggler who worked for a gangster. Even in The Phantom Menace, Jabba the Hutt was a crime lord. We forget (or at least we forgive) that Han works for him because Han ends up being a hero alongside Luke. As a kid, I didn't even know that Han was a crim🔯inal. ওHonestly, I just thought a "smuggler" was a special kind of a pilot. But if Han was smuggling stuff for Jabba, odds are they were illegal. I doubt spices were the only things to hide in the Millenium Falcon's floor compartments.
18 🐼 Sweet Child Of Mine
One of the biggest complaints about Revenge of the Sith was the unbelievable nature of Anakin's fall to the Dark Side. I think it was hardly credible. He was supposed to be a good guy, but it feels as if Chancellor Palpatine was able to convince him to kill Dooku just a tad too easily. And what was worse was that when Palpatine ordered him to end the rest of the Jedi, Anakin hardly even hesitated. He had no assurances that Palpatine could even give him information that would save Padme, but he just blindly followed Palpatine's directives. We're supposed to feel bad about Anakin's fall. But how are we supposed to sympathize with a man who ends up ending small children? It does not happen onscreen, but there is no doubt that Anakin got rid of those younglings. It's nearly impossible to ignore. Think of all the kids who watched Revenge of the Sith th🦩inking Anakin was the good guy. Imagine th🐬eir surprise.
17 𝐆 The Heroic Pilot
As a kid, I wanted nothing more than to be a fighter pilot in an X-Wing. Their ships were cool, their uniforms were cool, and Luke Skywalker as one of them was cool. In the new movies, Poe Dameron personifies the idea of a dashing fighter pilot. But in actuality, he's not the hero we all think he is. In the latest movie, The Last Jedi, Poe Dameron's actions causes dozens of Resistance members to perish. His hotshot attitude ma✨kes him distrust Admiral Holdo, Leia's replacement when she was injured. Because he distrusts Holdo, Poe comes up witဣh a plan that jeopardizes the Admiral's. By spoiling Holdo's plans, Poe becomes responsible for the ensuing deaths. That's kind of his lesson in the movie, but I wonder if people watching realize the actual cost of Poe's mistakes.
16 Could You Give Me A Hand With This? ಌ ও
One of the darker traditions of Star Wars is the removal of limbs. My parents were usually pretty good at making sure I watched nothing too violent as a kid, but they must have missed the numerous limb removals in the Star Wars series. That one aggressive thug named Ponda Baba is the first to lose a limb in A New Hope. Luke loses his hand in The Empire Strikes Back; Vader loses his in Return of the Jedi. Darth Maul loses an entire torso in The Phantom Menace. It has become a running joke; there are actual lists about all the limbs lost in Star Wars (there's an idea for a new list here). If there is any series that has desensitized kids to the loss of limbs, it would be Star Wars.