Star Wars 10 Things Only Comic Book Fans Know About Luke Skywalker

Star Wars: 10 Things Only Comic Book Fans Know About Luke Skywalker

There’s a whole galaxy worth of canon adventures in the Star Wars comics, making Luke Skywalker’s story even more complex than what’s shown on screen.

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Luke Skywalker has been the heart and soul of the Star Wars franchise for over 40 years, so when it comes to expanding the universe in the comics, he is an obvious subject choice. Whether it’s his years as a farm boy, time training as a Jedi, or what came before his exile, Luke’s life has been fleshed out in detail way beyond that of the movies.

The best thing about comics is that they allow so much more freedom than the medium of film, letting you hop around a character’s timeline without the constraints of an aging actor or studio budgets. There’s way more to Luke than the screen would have you believe.

10 He nearly died as a child

As far as movie fans know, Luke’s led a pretty sheltered life until A New Hope. Growing up on a desolate planet’s moisture farm doesn’t exactly scream danger, and part of his character’s evolution is how grows from a naive farmboy to a budding Jedi.

But Luke’s childhood wasn’t entirely peaceful. In Marvel’s Star Wars #7, an eight-year-old Luke challenges Jabba the Hutt’s thugs when they try to forcibly take a water tax from his aunt and uncle. Thankfully, Obi-Wan Kenobi senses Luke’s danger and manages to take out Jabba’s men while Luke (who trips and hits his head) is unconscious. Obviously, the franchise couldn’t lose its hero before it had even begun, but it’s interesting to see how intrinsic Obi-Wan was to Luke’s life without him knowing.

9 His second lightsaber was yellow

Having lost his first lightsaber – blue, inherited from his father – in The Empire Strikes Back, Luke pops up in Return of the Jedi with a green replacement that you would assume is his second. However, there’s a huge chunk of time between the two movies, filled in by The Destiny Path.

This reveals that after Bespin, Luke actually travels to an abandoned outpost on Tempes. There he finds a yellow saber once wielded by a Jedi Temple Guard but later decides to build his own replacement anyway. Reactions to Rey’s yellow lightsaber in The Rise of Skywalker weren’t entirely positive, so maybe that’s for the best.

8 He lost confidence in his connection to the Force

Spoiler alert: Darth Vader is Luke’s father. This news shocked audiences almost as much as it does Luke himself. Doubting everything he thought he knew, he undergoes a lot of soul-searching in the immediate aftermath of The Empire Strikes Back, documented throughout The Destiny Path.

This sees Luke struggle with a weakened connection to the Force. After failing to use it to contact Yoda, he starts to wonder if he’s even meant to be a Jedi after all. This adds much more depth to his sudden transformation into a slickly-dressed, uber-confident Jedi in Return of the Jedi. Considering how huge this revelation of his true parentage really is, Luke also just deserves a bit of an identity crisis.

7 He fell in love

When Disney announced the sequel trilogy in 2012, it also declared the decades of novels, comics, and video games that made up the Star Wars Expanded Universe obsolete. This may have spelled the end for Luke’s formerly-canon wife Mara Jade, but his romantic prospects aren’t entirely dead.

In 2018, Star Wars #58 revealed that shortly before the events of Empire Strikes Back, Luke fell in love for the first time. Fleeing Darth Vader’s army, he, Leia, and Han are taken in by former mercenary Thane Markona. During his time there, Luke bonds with Thane’s daughter Tula over their shared Jedi heritage. They ultimately go their separate ways when the Rebels’ presence leads to her father’s death, but it’s proof that Luke wasn’t just all Jedi, all the time.

6 He’d already fought Boba Fett

Fans are first introduced to Boba Fett in The Empire Strikes Back when Jabba the Hutt pays him to retrieve Han Solo. There’s no indication on screen that Luke has met him before but, in true Star Wars style, the series later retconned their history in the release of Star Wars #5.

Tasked by Darth Vader himself to locate the pilot responsible for the destruction of the Death Star, Boba Fett manages to track Luke down to Obi Wan’s abandoned hut on Tattooine. The pair fight – with Fett actually coming close to killing Luke with his own lightsaber – before Luke manages to knock him out and escape. As if this encounter isn’t exciting enough, Fett is also the one to break the news to Vader that Luke is a Skywalker, proving himself to yet again be the franchise’s most undervalued player.

5 He lacks some of his father’s natural skill

While they have their similarities, Luke and Anakin are very different. Luke never feels as strong of a pull to the Dark Side as his father, and while both are technological whizzes, he also lacks his natural flair in one area: podracing.

In a comic featured in the 2018 Star Wars annual, Luke stumbles into a podrace and naively assumes it can’t be too different from flying a landspeeder. He is, of course, soon proved wrong. While he eventually gets to grips with it, he doesn’t possess the same innate skill for the sport as a young Anakin. The race ends in a crash-landing, cutting Luke’s podracing career short.

4 He gave Snoke his scars

Luke spends the original trilogy trying to bring down the Empire before ditching the fight entirely for the sequels. However, his battle against the Dark Side continued in between the two eras, with The Rise of Kylo Ren confirming that he had in fact fought Snoke.

When a young Ben Solo flees to Snoke after the destruction of the Jedi Temple, he laments the damage Luke has wrought to Snoke’s face, implying that the pair previously came to blows. This explanation for Snoke’s scarring solves one question about the mysterious antagonist but poses plenty more questions about their shared past, leaving the door open for potential exploration.

3 He saved his uncle’s life

Comic fans know Luke’s adolescence was much more dramatic than his farmboy persona suggests. Star Wars #20, recounted through Luke’s discovery of an old journal written by Obi-Wan Kenobi, tells of an instance where Luke planned to run away from home (again) but characteristically happened to stumble into an act of heroism.

After an unfortunate encounter with a Wookiee bounty hunter named Black Krrsantan, Uncle Owen is held hostage. It’s lucky Luke’s emotions have always been his weakness because he has a bad feeling and returns from Mos Eisley just in time. Thrown from a cliff, Owen is caught by Luke’s T-16 Skyhopper just before he hits the ground.

2 He defeated all the Knights of Ren

Luke’s issues with the Knights of Ren run pretty deep. Not only are they devotees to the Dark Side of the Force, but the group adopted his nephew Ben as their master after he destroyed the Jedi Temple.

It turns out his problems with the group started long before this incident. Together with a young Ben and Lor San Tekka, Luke encounters the group in The Rise of Kylo Ren and manages to defeat all six Knights single-handedly before frightening off Ren himself with his powers. A rematch between the group was obviously impossible thanks to his self-imposed exile, but it’s safe to assume it would have been as resounding a victory as Ben’s in The Rise of Skywalker.

1 Even Luke can miss a shot

Blowing up the Death Star with one well-aimed shot is Luke’s first big act of heroism, and he isn’t even properly trained at the time. He proves in later movies that this is more than just a fluke. But even the legendary Luke Skywalker isn’t without faults, as proven in Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters.

In a mission to trigger a volcanic eruption beneath an Imperial Star Destroyer, the Rebels call upon Luke to repeat his feat with the Death Star and deliver another one-in-a-million shot. While last time the Force helped him focus on the task at hand, this time it distracts him with visions of events elsewhere. It’s rare to see Luke truly fail, and it’s a humbling – but necessary – event on his Jedi path.

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