Curated category
Star Wars comics characters
- 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…
- Princess LeiaPrincess Leia Organa first appears on screen with the stolen plans for the Death Star hidden inside a small droid, R2-D2.
- 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…
- Grand Admiral ThrawnTimothy Zahn introduced Grand Admiral Thrawn in the 1991 novel Heir to the Empire. This book marked the first appearance of an alien military leader within…
- Han SoloHan Solo made his first appearance not on screen but on the page, in the novelization of Star Wars published in 1976, a full year before audiences saw him…
- 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…
- Padmé AmidalaPadmé Amidala enters the Star Wars universe as the teenage queen of Naboo, a planet under military occupation. She is fourteen years old, recently elected…
- 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…