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10Star Warscharacters ' dumbest decisions reveal that some of the galaxy ’s heroes were actually part of the trouble . It ’s gentle to channelize to Anakin Skywalker or Emperor Palpatine as two ofthe most brawny villain ofStar Wars , but a few heroes are enough culpable themselves due to their refutable , shortsighted decisions . While Palpatine is no doubt the mastermind , behind the scenes even inStar Wars : The wage hike of Skywalker , manyStar Warscharacters inadvertently helped to createDarth Vaderand stimulate plenty of other issue , too .

Despite many of these character beingStar Wars’strongest Jediand wisest leaders , they did n’t always make the best decisions . Tough song had to be made to handle threats of war and manipulation by the Sith , but some heroes had unpaired responses to situation that were passably straightforward . 10 choices in finicky not only are the galaxy ’s dense but also give away thatmany ofStar Wars’best lineament exasperate the issues in the galaxy .

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Liam Neeson as Qui-Gon Jinn from Star Wars The Phantom Menace, Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker from Star Wars A New Hope, Daisy Ridley as Rey from Star Wars The Force Awakens

10Qui-Gon Jinn

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Qui - Gonn Jinn is everyone ’s favored Maverick Jedi , but he may have take it a bit too far when he land on Tatooine to get ship parts and left with a small male child . Qui - Gon immediately cognize Anakin is special , but that bitch - starts a reckless allegiance to getting Anakin off Tatooine , going against the Jedi ’s wishes to train him no matter the hazard , and ignoring the fact the Jedi have rules about ages and attachments for a ground . Anakin , while then just a sweet little boy , was already a bit of a red flag , but Qui - Gon unilaterally decided that was fine .

gift that Anakin would go on to become a genocidal teenager and a tyrannical ruler in his early XX , it ’s possible Qui - Gon may have been better off leaving well enough alone . While a well - known rule - breakers , it would have behoove Qui - Gon to take anyone else ’s opinion into report rather than barreling his way through an entire Jedi code and Council of Jedi Masters to get what he wanted . Obviously , his decease further complicated things , but even had he lived , removing a 9 - class - old from his mother ( whom he left enslaved ) and demo him to the Council as a non - negotiable would have backfired .

9Mace Windu

Mace Windu was n’t exactly following the Jedi way of life of compassion when he meet andimmediately seemed to form a personal vendetta against a 9 - class - old . While he had grounds to be concerned about Anakin joining the orderliness , especially given how Qui - Gon had refused to hear any discussion about it , icing Anakin out as a nipper and playing perturbed by his mien throughout the prequels may not have been the good course of action . It ’s within the kingdom of possibleness that being address as a pain and a scourge for 13 old age had a maor effect on Anakin ’s view of the Jedi .

8Padmé

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

While few could fault Padmé for falling for Anakin during their early days on Naboo , when he was constantly calling her " M’lady " and making fruit float toward her through the Force , her answer to the mounting evidence that Anakin was turn to the dingy side are bewildering . Most alarming iswhen Anakin confesses that he went on a cruel , fad - fuel rampage , butcher Tusken men , woman , and children . Rather than raising alarm Alexander Bell that send her running to the Jedi Council , Padmé seems unfazed , distinguish Anakin,“To be angry is to be human . "

Padmé ’s committal to her relationship is honorable , and none could criminate her of miss loyalty , but it might have been helpful ifshe had at least mentioned to Obi - Wan that Anakin was very comfortable with murder . This continue inStar Wars : Episode III - Revenge of the Sithwhen she attempt to negotiate a way of life forward in their marriage ceremony after discovering Anakin polish off a room of younglings , a meeting for which she take the time for an outfit alteration and did her pilus . But of course , to be uncoerced to do ethically ambiguous thing in the name of love is to be human .

7Master Yoda

Yoda had significant wind that Anakin was trending in the Darth Vader direction , but he had a pretty unfailing plan for addressing it : ignore Anakin ’s concerning behaviors and , if that did n’t figure out , simply tell Anakin to stop it . InStar war : Episode II -Attack of the Clones , Yoda senses fear , pain , and death through the Force , explicitly relate it to Anakin , when Anakin commits genocide against the Tusken Raiders . presumptively , Yoda became a little too busy with the Clone Wars to follow up , because he never asked Anakin about what may have led to those disturbances in the Force .

Since ' ignore it ' failed , because Anakin fetch his fears , anxiousness , and nightmares immediately to Master Yoda inRevenge of the Sith , Yoda had to employ Plan B , which involve remind Anakin that his feelings were bad . Helpfully , Yoda added to this tenet by differentiate Anakin to simply not mourn or overlook the dead . Given that Anakin had buried his female parent just a few years before , after go out how the Tuskens had brutalized her , this probably did n’t help him all that much .

6Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru

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Aunt Beru and Uncle Owen know that a mysterious Jedi had go forth a babe in their tending just as the Empire rose to power , and , in theObi - Wan Kenobishow , they are directly exposed to the horrors of the Empire . Not only doImperial Inquisitorsshow up on Tatooine and menace Owen in fussy , but one , Reva , also returns and essay to pour down their 10 - year - quondam nephew specifically . While Beru and Owen were ready to fight an Inquisitor in hired man - to - mitt combat , they evidently were n’t ready to talk about how risky the Empire was with Luke .

While it made sense for them to shield Luke from some of the truths of his parentage , it ’s odd thatthey neglected to explain how much of a menace the Empire posed to him . By the beginning ofA New Hope , Luke is not only ambivalent about the Empire , but he is also quick to get together the Imperial Academy if it mean have off Tatooine . Perhaps if Beru and Owen had been a bit more honest about how much an Inquisitor had antecedently need to murder him as a child , Luke would have thought double about employment with the Empire .

5Obi-Wan Kenobi

Alec Guinness ’s characterization of Obi - Wan Kenobi inA New Hopewas wondrously cryptic and set a perfect case in point for Ewan McGregor taking up the torch in the prequel trilogy . However , Obi - Wan ’s shroud of mystery was not the most helpful for Luke . As Luke was mean to single - handedly carry on the legacy of the Jedi , it would have been beneficial if Obi - Wan had give Luke the fact more directly , rather than mistily peach about the Jedi , the Clone Wars , and Luke ’s Father of the Church . Particularly bring out Luke ’s parentage may have at least eased that shock absorber for Luke , who famously respond with crushing demurrer .

4R2-D2

The Empire Strikes Back

R2 - D2 seems to have take on Anakin ’s penchant for pandemonium , given that he elected to model back and watch Luke romanticism his babe rather than explain that maybe they should n’t be kiss . Failing to intervene while the twins were get flirty is just one ( although one of the worst)secrets that R2 - D2 kept from everyone else inStar Wars;throughout the Skywalker Saga , R2 remains unco uninvolved in explaining any of the event he was present for , from telling Luke about the history of the Jedi to revealing that Obi - Wan was stretching the truth a number about Vader killing Luke ’s father .

3Lando Calrissian

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Lando Calrissian ’s perfidy of Leia and Han Solo inThe Empire Strikes Backis well - known , but he does n’t seem totally reform by the subsequence trilogy . When the Resistance send off out a desperate hurt signal for any ally to come crusade with them when they are on the brink of extinction inStar warfare : The Last Jedi , Lando is patently too meddling to go save their lives . ForTheRise of Skywalker’sbattle on Exegol , though , he suddenly has not only the power to come and fight , but is also able to sway an US Army to sprain up too .

2Rey

At the end ofThe ascent of Skywalker , Ben Solo transportation his life force to Rey , resurrecting her but sacrifice himself . Despite the emotional weight of that red , when Rey have back to the Resistance , she is ready to fete , all smiles along with everyone else . She elects to forego acknowledge Ben ’s last , and she does n’t exactly seem that broken up about it . perhaps she grieved on the ship ride over and had already worked it out of her organization by the time she come back . ( To be fair , she had more than earned a bit of lionise . )

1Princess Leia

Leia , who became a Force ghost inThe ascent of Skywalker , had an even worse send - off for her son . When Ben expire on Exegol , none of his Force ghost family show up . They did manage to make an show for Rey to bury their lightsabers on a planet they both hated , though . Given that Obi - Wan and Yoda were willing to appear duriing Anakin ’s funeral , despite him killing one of them and all their acquaintance , it would ’ve been squeamish for Luke and Leia to set by some clip for Ben ’s death .

While many on this list areStar Warsfan favorites , their trip suggest that even the franchise ’s greatest heroes cause some serious issues for the extragalactic nebula . While none can be held as responsible as the Empire or the First Order , who sought the force to demolish entire planets with the push of a button , these grave oversights had major branching , many of which were enough destructive themselves . Of course , it ’s also a nice reminder that , specially inStar Wars , near and immorality are n’t black - and - white concepts .

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Emperor Palpatine laughing maniacally in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith.

Diego Luna as Cassian Andor in Andor season 2

Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan, and Yoda from Star Wars' original trilogy.

Qui-Gon Jinn smiling at Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars The Phantom Menace

Anakin Skywalker and Master Yoda talking about Anakin’s nightmares in Revenge of the Sith

Owen and Beru Lars in Revenge of the Sith smile holding baby Luke

Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan Kenobi in his Tatooine hideout in Star Wars A New Hope

Lando Calrissian stands opposite Leia, Han Solo, and Chewie in front of a room of stormtroopers in Empire Strikes Back

The Rise of Skywalker’s central trio of Rey, Finn, and Poe hugging.

Carrie Fisher’s Leia Organa and Mark Hamill’s Luke Skywalker as Force ghosts on Tatooine in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

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