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- “Amazing. Every word of what you just said was wrong. The Rebellion is reborn today. The war is just beginning. And I will not be the last Jedi. (Ren: I'll destroy her, and you, and all of it.) No. Strike me down in anger and I will always be with you. Just like your father. See you around kid.”
- ― Luke's final words to his nephew before he dies
Luke Skywalker is a major protagonist in the Star Warsfranchise, serving as the main protagonist of the Rebellion Era and one of the overarching protagonists of the New Republic and Resistance Eras. He is the protagonist of the Original Trilogy, a minor protagonist in the Prequel Trilogy, and a supporting character in the Sequel Trilogy.
In the storyline, Luke was the son of Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker and Senator Padmé Amidala through a forbidden marriage and the fraternal twin brother of Leia Organa. He became a Commander in the Rebel Alliance and redeemed his father as Anakin once more after his brutal corruption from Darth Sidious. After the rebellion, Luke trained a new generation of Jedi and was the brother-in-law of his good friends Han Solo and uncle of Ben Solo.
In the Legends, Luke Skywalker was married to Mara Jade Skywalker, the father of Ben Skywalker, uncle of Jaina Solo, Jacen and Anakin Solo and great-Uncle of Allana Solo
Background
Powers and Abilities
- The Force
Star Wars saga
Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Shortly before the end of the Clone Wars, Padme announced her pregnancy to her husband, Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, who felt overjoyed they would be parents. However, Anakin started having nightmares of Padmé dying in childbirth and Obi-Wan comforting her. In the middle of the night, Anakin told Padmé what he dreamed about. He also compared his vision concerning his mother's death and feared losing Padmé. She asked about the fate of the baby but Anakin is unsure if their child survived.
Palpatine was aware of these visions that plagued Anakin. He revealed his identity as a Sith Lord to Skywalker. Anakin revealed Palpatine's identity as a Sith Lord to the Council. After Anakin inadvertently assisted Sidious in stopping Mace Windu, Palpatine promised him with power that would save Padmé and the baby if Anakin became his new specific.
Desperate to save his family, Anakin was seduced by Sidious to finally submitting to the dark side of the Force and became Darth Vader. Afterwards, Obi-Wan seeks out Padmé to discover Vader's whereabouts and reveals his treachery. Padmé travels to Mustafar—unaware that Obi-Wan has stowed aboard her ship—and pleads with Vader to abandon the dark side. When Obi-Wan emerges, Vader believes Padmé has betrayed him and force-chokes her into unconsciousness. The two engage in a lightsaber duel, which ends with Obi-Wan severing Vader's left arm and both legs. Vader is then burned alive by a nearby lava flow as Obi-Wan retrieves Vader's lightsaber and leaves him for dead.
Obi-Wan took a weakened Padmé to the asteroid, Polis Massa, where she went into labor. However the medical droids revealed that they were losing her because she lost the will to live since her husband fell in childbirth. They also revealed that Padmé was carrying twins.
At that moment, Padmé gives birth to twins, whom she names Luke and Leia. She dies soon after, still believing there is good in Anakin.
Yoda, Bail Organa, and Obi-Wan Kenobi made the decision to protect the Skywalker children from their father and Sidious. While Leia was adopted by Bail and taken to Alderaan, Obi-Wan entrusted Luke to Anakin's step-brother, Owen, and his newly married wife, Beru Whitesun, on Tatooine. The couple accepted their nephew and raised him as if he were their own.
Episode IV: A New Hope
In 0 BBY, Luke was nineteen years old when his father's droids, C-3PO and R2-D2 return to the Lars Homestead. They quickly become friends. Luke accidentally charges the message Princess Leia, unknown as Luke's twin sister, to Obi-Wan Kenobi. R2 goes missing and Luke and 3PO try to search for the robot. After half a day wasted finding Artoo, Luke and his droids are attacked by Tuskin Raiders, who had previously kidnapped and killed his paternal grandmother. The Raiders had been spooked by Obi Wan Kenobi (known as Ben Kenobi). Kenobi reveals the truth of Luke's father, Anakin, from a point of view. He was a Jedi Knight, killed by Darth Vader. He is given his father's lightsaber. After the message to Ben, Luke refuses to leave to train as a Jedi on Alderaan. After his aunt and uncle were brutally killed by Imperial troopers on the order of Vader, Luke changes his mind to fight for his deceased family members.
Traveling to Anchor Head at the Mos Eirley Airport, they hire Han Solo and his friend Chewbacca, smugglers who owns the Millennium Falcon. On the journey to Alderaan for Luke to continue his Jedi training, only to find the planet is destroyed by the Empire. While tracking a TIE fighter, the tractor beam on the Death Star I attracts the Falcon into its station. Solo and Skywalker disguise as stormtroopers and kill the guards in the gain control. R2 finds that princess Leia is held captive. Luke convinces Han and Chewbacca to help save the princess. Hans and Luke disguise as warriors to get Leia. Their escape route is cut off, so they're forced to stay in a garbage chute. With the help of Threepio and Artoo, the quad manages to escape the garbage chute.
Luke and Leia get separated from Solo and Chewie and forced to fight off thousands of stormtroopers. Luke manages to buy him and Leia little time before the stormtroopers on the other side can come through the door. He manages to take a grappling hook to take the duo across the bridge, where Organa plants a kiss on Luke’s cheek, and the two escape to be united with Solo and Chewie again
While escaping Luke watches Ben Kenobi fighting Darth Vader the man who "killed" Anakin Skywalker. Vader takes the opportunity to strike the former master, only catching a glimpse of Skywalker before the door could close. Luke fled with his friends, and grieved over the death of Ben.
During the Battle of Yavin IV, almost everyone besides Luke and Wedge is alive. His ship is almost attacked. Han Solo returns and destroys the TIE fighters, which Vader and his flight away. Luke destroys the Death Star before it fired on the rebel base. They both are later awarded medals by Leia for their heroism and bravery.
Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Three years after the Battle of Yavin, Luke, now a commander in the Rebel Alliance, who have been living on the ice planet Hoth after their previous base had been discovered, was out scouting with Han Solo. Seeing a crater formed from afar, Luke went to expect it himself while telling Han to return to the base. However, as soon as he is alone in the planet, a Wampa attacks Luke and his Tauntaun, while the Wampa kills the animal and knocks Luke out, taking him back to his cave and intending to eat him later. Back at the Wampa's cave, Luke is bound upside down to the frozen ceiling by the feet and he wakes up when the Wampa is having the Tauntaun as a meal. Luke saw his lightsaber had fallen into a snowbanK. Summoning it with the Force, Luke used it to free himself from his prison. The Wampa attempted to kill Luke but he took his lightsaber and cut its arm off and made his escape and into the wintry landscape.
Luke began making his way back to the Rebel base but along the way, Luke passed out due to the excessive cold and exhaustion. The spirit of Obi-Wan appeared to Luke and instructed him to go to Dagobah, where former Jedi Master Yoda lives and to complete his Jedi training. Han appears and sees Luke unconscious and on the brink of death. Using the boy's lightsaber, Han cuts open his dead Tauntaun to keep Luke warm until the morning. The next morning, reinforcements appear and take Luke and Han back to the base, where Luke is nursed back to health. In the aftermath, Han infuriates Leia and kisses Luke in retaliation
As soon as Luke recovers, he goes to fight in the Battle of Hoth and bids farewell to both Chewbacca and Han. After the battle, Luke travels to the planet, Dagobah and to be trained by Yoda the Jedi Master with R2 to learn the ways of the Jedi.
Luke travels with R2 to learn the way of the Jedi. He visions himself and Vader fighting, while Luke slashes his head off and realizes that if he does face him, than Luke will become Darth Vader himself. As he feels his friends in pain, Luke heads off to rescue them, disobeying Yoda and Ben for the sake of his friends
Unaware of the trap, Luke goes to rescue his friends. He watches Han being drifted to Boba Fett’s ship and his friends being dragged into another one. Leia sees Luke the last moment and tries to warn Luke it's a trap. He ignores the warning and comes face-to-face with Darth Vader for the very first time and ignites into a lightsaber duel.
During the duel, Vader cuts off Luke's right hand that holds his father' saber. He hangs off on a pole of the catwalk. The dark lord tries to seduce Luke to the Dark side and rejects to rule the galaxy at his side. He refused to be corrupted, as he starts to talk of Luke's father. Luke tells him that it was Vader that killed his father, but is his father. Luke falls into the abyss and feels angered and upset.
Luke telepathically calls Leia to help find him. She and the team find and rescues him from falling and fint for a prosthetic hand covered with a black glove. Injured, Luke hears his father talking to him, saying, "father…" while Vader tries to get his son to come back and join the dark side, saying it's his destiny to fall into the side
The film ends when they plot to rescue Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, which would take an entire year to save him.
Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi
Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Episode VI: The Return of the Jedi
Episode VII: The Force Awakens
Episode VIII: The Last Jedi
Initially, Luke refuses to teach Rey how to use the Force but trains her to show her why the Jedi should end. At the end of the film, Luke reunites with Leia while sending a projection to planet she's on. He uses what is left of his strength to fight Kylo Ren as the Resistance escapes and promises he won't be the last Jedi
Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker
Personality
Luke is resourceful, selfless, and brave, but is known to be impulsive, much like his father, Anakin Skywalker. Also like his father, he has a sense of justice, honor, and good morals. From his parents, Luke shares his rebelliousness and compassion with them, but as opposed to his sister, Leia Organa, Luke chooses to see the goodness in others; this is due to his firm belief that he could redeem Anakin, unknowingly fulfilling his mother's dying wish. He is not a very good liar.
After Luke lost his right hand to Darth Vader, he became far more calm, level-headed, and patient. Despite the fact that he obtained a far better control over his emotions and temper than his father did in his youth, Luke still has his moments of losing his patience and temper. THis was exemplified when he kept his anger in check when questioning Obi-Wan about his true parentage; while he was calm, Luke became tense when Obi-Wan explained that it was from a "certain point of view."
As a Jedi, Luke is shown to be highly intelligent and wise. He later sought to pass on his Jedi knowledge to a new generation of students. Luke is also willing to let people make a choice like when he was training Grogu, an Order 66 survivor and Mandalorian foundling who Luke let choose between his Jedi training or coming back to his adoptive father, Din Djarin. Luke did this because he understands what it is like to be with a father figure. Despite this, upon training his students, Luke sticks to the Jedi traditions and advises his apprentices to control their intense emotions instead of being controlled by them, and to relinquish their attachments.
Appearance
During the original trilogy, Luke was a tall and lean, handome young man with dirty blonde hair, fair skin, and blue eyes. He also had a white
By the sequel trilogy, his hair grayed and he sported a beard similar to what Obi-Wan did in his later years.
In the original trilogy, he began the series at nineteen years old. When he was on Tatooine, Luke had a loose white tunic with side slits below waist on both sides. Luke also wore a 2"-wide brown leather belt with a rectangular silver, marked-up buckle, a D-ring lightsaber hook, and a couple brown ammunition pouches that was off both long tool and triangular design. He also had sienna pants and suede ankle-length shoes with matching leg wraps from ankle to knee, matching poncho with chocolate trim (when meets Han and Chewie at Docking Bay 94 with Obi-Wan, C-3PO, and R2-D2. He wore a blast shield helmet, and kept his lightsaber that once belonged his father hilt around his waist
During the time they rescue Leia Organa, Luke switched to a Stormtrooper armor and helmet.Later Luke reverts to his same farmboy clothes and still carried a Stormtrooper's white belt around his waist with equipments, such as a comlink and a blaster rifle in a compact.
During the Battle of Yavin, Luke had put on orange flightsuit with mandarin-style collar and pointed tab, code cylinder pocket on his upper left arm, rectangular pocket with a flap closure on his upper right arm, and thigh pockets. He also wears a black mid-calf boots, silver leg flares in an olive drab holder. He had a light gray ejection harness and web belt (all 2” wide). Luke also wore a white accurate flak vest with ribbing, accurately-sized gray chest box with accurate decoration (buttons, rocker switches, pin stripes, etc.) and matching hose that should attach at the bottom of it and connect to the flightsuit. Luke also had a silver code cylinders in his left shoulder pocket (2 minimum & 3 maximum), black gauntlet-style gloves. He had an X-Wing helmet with his decals, mini flares on his belt, accurate belt buckle on the web belt, comm pad visible inside he comm pad pocket on his lower left arm.
Just at the end of the first film, during the ceremony after the battle of Yavin, Luke has black shirt with front flap and flat collar. Over it is a yellow jacket with ribbed sleeves, with beige trim down center front, matching stripes down front, and insignia on his left breastpocket. He also has a accurate gun belt and holster with a horizontal oval buckle. Luke also had brown pants with yellow accurate Corellian bloodstripes, black equestrian-type knee-high boots and was given a medal by Leia
Fifth appearance
By the time of The Empire Strikes Back, Luke is 22 years old. The Jedi has quilted sienns vest with large padded collar (portion above the belt line should be padded to appear puffy). He also had a quilted shirt with white sleeves, quilted gray padded shoulders, and pocket on his upper right sleeve. Luke also had light gray pants with quilted patches at the knees, white cap with gray trim and quilted ear flap. He also has a metallic comm box with antenna on his ear flap, brown terry cloth scarf around his cap. Luke wore a white rimmed ski goggles with yellow lenses, gray suede boots with suede wraps around them and 3 white strapsk. Around his waist was a brown leather belt and holster. He has a button pad on his left jacket breast and a light gray suede gauntlet-style gloves with comlink on his left wrist
Snow-speeder pilot form
In Luke's snowspeeder pilot form, he has the same materials of his X-wing uniform from the Fourth episode. He also has an orange flight jacket with rank insignia on his left pocket, puffy collar, zip front, hip level length, and ribbed sleeves, brown holster with a octagonal buckle with leg strap around his right leg, silver lightsaber D-ring hook on the front of his belt to hang his weapon down front of his left leg and either 2 or 3 regular pouches
Seventh appearance
Luke wears a different one when training with yoda or entering Dagobah. He has a beige jacket with mandarin collar consisting of a pocket with flaps on each breast and a narrow pocket on each upper arm. Luke also had a matching tank top with accurate fabric weave, brown holster (that carries a DL-44 blaster) with an octagonal buckle with a leg strap around his right leg. He also has a silver lightsaber D-ring hook on the front of his belt to hang his weapon down front of his left leg, vertical rectangular pouch and either 2 or 3 regular pouches, matching pants consisting of a pocket with a flap on each of his front upper thighs, sienna boots with wraps around them with 3 straps on each, blue back pack when carries Yoda in it as he runs.
Jedi Knight Form
Luke just turned twenty three years old. He wore a black long-sleeve shirt with mandarin collar with fold-over bib. Luke also had a flat matching front tight-fitting pants, dark grey vest with scarf-style tabbards and wide sash belt. He also had a black equestrian-type knee-high boots. While he entered Jabba's castle, he wore a black hooded cloak (and leather belt with a silver weathered octagonal buckle with a small back pouch. After his hand is shot by Luke's enemiy, he covered it with a black right leather glove while they were going to Dagobah.
Powers and Abilities
Force Powers
- Telekinesis
- Force Push
- Force Barrier
- Force Pull
- Force Choke
- Force Grip
- Force Repel
- Levitation
- Force Crush
- Telepathy
- Mind Trick
- Mind Probe
- Force sense
- Force Tracking
- Force Focus
- Force vision
- Force rage
- Jump
- Dash
- Healing
- Force protection
- Force Spirit
- Sever Force
- Enhanced Strength
- Enhanced Speed
- Enhanced Agility
- Enhanced Durability
Cybernetics
- Cybernetic Hand
Master Lightsaber Duelist:
- Form I
- Form II
- Form III
- Form IV
- Form V
- Form VI
- Form VII
- Jar'Kai
- Dun Möch
Relationships
Leia Organa (twin sister)
Leia is Luke's sister, who was born with him shortly after childbirth. However, they were separated as children and would not meet each other until nearly twenty years later. During Return of the Jedi, Luke kept Leia's identity to their father a secret. They joyously reunited when the Battle was over. However, after Luke went into hiding due to guilt in not controlling Ben, Leia was desparate in searching for her brother
Anakin Skywalker (father)
Luke remained unaware of who his father really was and wouldn't meet Anakin until he was in his late teens. He was told by Owen and Beru, that his father, Anakin Skywalker, was a navigator on a space freight. Obi-Wan cleared things up, saying that Anakin was actually a Jedi Knight and fighter during the Clone Wars, and said that Anakin was betrayed and murdered by the Sith Lord, Darth Vader. However, Luke was unaware that Vader and Anakin were the same person.
After three years, Luke still believed Vader Killed his father. Vader revealed his relationship to Luke after they dueled in Cloud City. Luke tried not believing him but found that it was true when searching the Force, whether Luke liked the idea or not.
By The Return of the Jedi, Luke believed that his father could be redeemed but Vader reminded Luke that he was beyond saving, but Anakin was brought back to the light side of the Force when Darth Sidious tortured his son in front of him. Luke gave his father a proper funeral pyre and Anakin as a Force-ghost appeared with Obi-Wan and Yoda, happily watching his children and their friends from a distance.
Years later, Luke didn't blame his father's transformation to Darth Vader on him personally, but to the Jedi.
Padmé Amidala (mother)
Padmé Amidala was Luke's mother. Padmé loved both her children when they were born but she couldn't live on for them. Though he never interacted with his mother, Luke shared her hopes and beliefs that Anakin Skywalker could be redeemed and wished he had known his mother.
Trivia
- In Canon, Luke adheres to the previous Jedi doctrine of forgoing all attachments, but his Legends counterpart endorsed his students forming bonds with others (including marriage) while also training them how to not selfishly cling to those bonds like his father did. Luke also has a wife named Mara Jade and a son named Ben Skywalker.
- Luke's last name was originally "Starkiller".
- Luke was originally introduced earlier in A New Hope, in a scene in which he is repairing a moisture evaporator with Treadwell repair droid until he spots two ships battling in the sky.
- Luke has both traits of his parents:
- For Padme, they are kind, determined and believed that good was still inside Anakin when he is Darth Vader. They are loving, friendliness, forgiveness, and temperance.
- For Anakin, he inherited his father's strong connection to the Force, blonde hair and blue eyes.
