this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2026
575 points (99.3% liked)

Star Wars Memes

17298 readers
397 users here now

Hello there. Somehow, Star Wars memes have returned. It's not a trap, this is where the fun begins.

==========

Other universes to visit:

!lotrmemes@midwest.social

!tenforward@lemmy.world

Separatist systems:

!prequelmemes@lemmy.world

Oh hey some real SW content for a change (perhaps):

!star_wars@lemmy.world

!starwars@lemmy.ml

!starwarstelevision@lemmy.world

==========

IMPORTANT

Please do not post the "good friend" or similar copypasta

==========

Our galactic citizens have requested more specific rules, so here are a few.

The general idea is, if you're looking here for rules, you're probably someone who doesn't need to have them spelled out. You're fine. But anyway:

  1. This is a community for Star Wars memes. This means typically screenshots of Star Wars media with some text or context that's meant to be funny and/or thoughtful. All SW media is welcome: movies, games, comic books, fanart... Other kinds of content, like video links or meta memes (about this community, or Lemmy), are fine as well, just keep it on topic.

  2. We are all friends here, and love (sometimes love to hate) Star Wars. Be nice to each other.

  3. As fans of fictional media, we can be passionate. If you very strongly disagree with something or someone, take a deep breath before reacting. Anger leads to the dark side!

  4. Everything in Star Wars has happened a long time ago, in a galaxy far away, and it's a rich universe of millions of words and millions of years of history. So current Earthly matters really shouldn't concern us here. In other words, leave politics, philosophies and convictions behind the door. This applies even if it's about something related to Star Wars.

  5. Original content is preferred. Reposts are fine, just please limit to a maximum of 3 per day, per citizen. It is recommended, but not required, to mark original memes as (OC) and reposts as (repost).

  6. Local mods are the Jedi council. They may take actions that are necessary to maintain peace and stability of the Republic, even beyond the rules outlined here. Follow their guidance.

  7. Regular rules of the Lemmy.world instance apply.

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
 
top 36 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] bangupjobasusual@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

He could have said that at any point while he was doing padme, no?

[–] spacegoat@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

You’re talking about Obi-Wan right?

[–] bangupjobasusual@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

No, I mean look, anakin knew padme was pregnant, he could have had a chat with obi wan off screen at any point saying that he wanted his kid to be a Jedi and that he wanted to pass the torch is some literal sense

[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 114 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Obi-wan lies to the kid about a lot of things, I just assumed he didn't feel like getting in to the Anakin backstory anyways. Would you tell a kid about how his bio mom was an elite politician who hooked up with a much younger wannabe Jedi for reasons unclear to everyone involved and proceeded to go on a murderous rampage after getting denied a promotion he did not deserve right before he was born, which contributed to her death in childbirth?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 63 points 2 days ago (4 children)

getting denied a promotion he did not deserve

Not deserve? Listen, Anakin was on a lot of bullshit. But how can he be put on the council and not be granted the rank of master? This is the Jedi equivalent of telling you to teach six classes but denying tenure.

[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 52 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

That wasn't really the Jedi council's fault. Sidious put them in an impossible situation asking Anakin to be his "person on the Jedi council". They were doing their best to appease the Chancellor, not knowing at the time he was a Sith playing them.

The council were a bunch of fucking idiots (Windu especially), but this was one of those times they actually chose the best, worst option.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

That wasn’t really the Jedi council’s fault.

I don't think anyone can seriously argue that Anakin's skills were below the level of a master by Episode 3. They were being stingy in no small part because they hadn't wanted him trained as a Jedi to begin with. They definitely didn't want him as a peer.

They were doing their best to appease the Chancellor, not knowing at the time he was a Sith playing them.

Sure. They were playing a game of compromise, because they were too fixated on incremental victories and blind to the end game. That's what ultimately spelled their downfall.

The council were a bunch of fucking idiots (Windu especially), but this was one of those times they actually chose the best, worst option.

I don't think it would have made much of a difference. The Jedi were doomed as soon as they started surrounding themselves with Clone Troopers on active battlefields.

But even beyond that, the ultimate sin of the Jedi council was the (attempted) extermination of Sith Lords. They reaped what they'd sown. While Anakin was absolutely a whiny little shit, he wasn't wrong when he proclaimed "From my perspective, it is the Jedi who are evil". The Jedi held dominion over the Old Republic. The Jedi policed the Galaxy and imposed their orthodoxy at saber-point. The Jedi persecuted anyone who used the Force heretically, in no small part because of their own fears and megalomania.

It was the Jedi who unwittingly created the Galactic Empire entirely because they could not conceive of a Galaxy that wasn't firmly under their control.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 40 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I don’t think anyone can seriously argue that Anakin’s skills were below the level of a master by Episode 3.

There's more to it than mere skills, though. It's also supposed to require learning and wisdom, which Anakin defintely lacked.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 19 hours ago

And emotional stability...

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Exactly, he definitely lacked maturity and patience. And of course the ability to not kill a bunch of kids because he was throwing a tantrum:p

[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 31 points 2 days ago

how can he be put on the council and not be granted the rank of master?

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

There was clearly some maturity and wisdom missing before he could go there...

[–] LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Not only is it outrageous... its also completely unfair!

[–] Bigfishbest@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Also, Luke asks Leia what she remembers about their mother. And the newly born Leia apparently had 2 seconds more with Padme, cause she remembers she often seemed sad. Darnation, don't mess up your own storyline!

I figured force people had awareness in the womb because they are special like that

[–] 7uWqKj@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Obi-wan didn’t lie to Anakin but George lied to us

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Nah, just give him a laser sword and let him fuck shit up

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 42 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you're writing a script for a prequel film, never going back to watch the other films you've made is a great way to save time!

[–] usernamefactory@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Obi-Wan was outed as a bullshitter as far back as Empire Strikes Back, though. This was nothing new.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 5 points 1 day ago

Surprised he didn't sell Ani's old light saber for spice, frankly.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)

More Jedi lies, just like when they tried to show doctored footage of Anakin killing younglings. That was all ancient Jedi holocrystals and crooked Kenobi. The bothans made up the death stars, Coruscant is a toroid, and the Jedi eat your pets. Look it up, do your research (searching on the galactic network and listening to shortwave huttcasts), it all adds up.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

Is this the tankie version of Star Wars?

[–] Atropos@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

It's clever, and a good parallel, but damn does this just make me depressed

[–] bright@piefed.social 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

At some point Anakin wasn't evil. Obi is expressing the ideas that pre-evil Anakin would've had

"Your father wanted you to have this. Go kill some sand people with it."

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Anakin as a good father and Jedi would have wanted Luke to build his own saber, as that's part of the rite of passage. Not some hand-me-down. Obi-Wan is so full of it in so many ways, all because he was afraid of Anakin/Vader and Palpatine figuring things out. Fear leads to some things, Obi-Wan, thought you knew this stuff.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well he had to make one eventually unless they recovered it out of the gas giant it fell into after Vader cut the hand holding it off.

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

His second one is a completely different color.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

"Oh that was just the gas interacting with its kuiper crystal. It was fixed before being given to Rey." - Disney

A damn fine roast, I.ll have seconds!

Alt history Luke: Hey, what is that thing cut in two pieces on your wall, I can fix that I think.

takes Maul's saber and repairs it.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We all got a chicken duck woman thing waiting for us.

[–] anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Every day I'm waiting all day

[–] Mika@piefed.ca 7 points 2 days ago

Jedi and their lies

[–] MrBackwardsCap@fedinsfw.app 4 points 2 days ago

Ahhh, exactly as I remember it