9 LANDO CALRISSIAN
Episodes V, VI & IX
Last seen in Episode VI, The
Rise of Skywalker heralds the
return of the galaxy’s smoothest
criminal. But will he choose
Team Light or Team Dark? With
Lando, you never know for sure!
6 EMPEROR PALPATINE / DARTH SIDIOUS
Episodes I-III, V, VI & IX
The Empire’s wizened kingpin was believed to have
perished when Vader threw him into the Death
Star’s reactor. But the climactic cackle in The Rise
of Skywalker trailer is unmistakable. Chills!
Did you
know?
Han is partly
based on the
director Francis
Ford Coppola
Darkest moment: Instructing Anakin to kill Dooku!
HAN SOLO
8 OBI-WAN KENOBI
Episodes I-VI
This gently spoken Jedi is
Luke’s introduction to the Force
and consequently ours, too. His
death at Vader’s hands is the
saga’s first big shock. No one, it
tells us, is safe in this universe.
7 YODA
Episodes I-III, V, VI & VIII
Luke’s green-skinned mentor
has a comical way of dispensing
wisdom but mock him at your
peril. At 900 years old, he’s the
wisest, most powerful Jedi in
the galaxy. Love him, we do!
Episodes
IV-VII
Shifting
everything
from spice to
rathtars in his rough-
and-ready starship, the
Millennium Falcon,
Harrison Ford’s
scoundrel smuggler
owes debts all over
the galaxy. But in
the real world it’s
creator George
Lucas who owes
Han Solo a debt...
of gratitude. The
“scruffy-looking nerf
herder” is the original
trilogy’s MVP, a cocksure
flyboy with charm to
spare. He ‘is’ Star Wars
and his death still hurts.
Best moment: “I love you!”
“I know!” Han in a nutshell.
Jump to Episode IV: A New Hope and we’re
introduced to Luke Skywalker, a farmboy who is
trained by Obi-Wan for a mission to rescue Princess
Leia and retrieve the plans that will help the Jedis
destroy Palpatine’s nightmarish Death Star. With the
help of smugglers Han Solo and Chewbacca, Luke
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succeeds, but Kenobi is killed in a duel with Vader.
Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is all about the
daddy issues, as Luke learns Vader is his father, and
there’s a sense of resolution in Episode VI: The Return
of the Jedi, as Palpatine’s forces fall to the Rebels.
But that peace is shattered by Episode VII: The Force