Curated category
Fictional swordfighters in films
- Obi-Wan KenobiObi-Wan Kenobi entered the Star Wars franchise in 1976, a year before the first film's 1977 release. He first appeared in that year's novelization, published…
- Luke SkywalkerLuke Skywalker first appeared on screen in 1977, a teenager from a desert planet who wanted nothing more than to leave home.
- Darth VaderDarth Vader first appeared in 1977, and the question George Lucas put before his production team was deceptively simple: how do you make a villain feel like…
- Kylo RenKylo Ren is, in the words of Guardian critic Peter Bradshaw, "gorgeously cruel, spiteful and capricious." He is, Bradshaw added, a Star Wars villain given to…
- Qui-Gon JinnQui-Gon Jinn dies in The Phantom Menace, cut down before the story he set in motion has fully begun. His hours on screen are numbered, his arc unresolved.
- PalpatineSheev Palpatine is the main antagonist of the Star Wars franchise, a character so carefully constructed that his first name did not appear on screen until…
- Finn (Star Wars)Finn first appears in the Star Wars franchise as stormtrooper FN-2187, a First Order soldier without a name of his own. On his first combat assignment…
- Darth MaulDarth Maul arrived on screen in 1999 with a face that concept artist Iain McCaig described as what you would see if you stripped the flesh off your own face…
- SithThe Sith are the ancient enemies of the Jedi and the primary antagonists across the entire Star Wars franchise. They began not as outsiders but as rebellious…
- Connor MacLeodConnor MacLeod, known to audiences as The Highlander, was born in 1518 in Glenfinnan, Scotland, near the shores of Loch Shiel.
- JediThe Jedi Order is a fictional organization at the center of the Star Wars franchise, yet its influence has spilled far beyond movie screens.
- Rey (Star Wars)Rey is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. In her final on-screen scene, she stands near Luke Skywalker's childhood home on Tatooine, having…