Luke Skywalker
Luke Skywalker is a male film character who features in Star Wars.
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Biography
Luke Skywalker was a male human who was born in the galaxy far, far away as the son of Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala with him having a twin sister named Leia. His mother was pregnant with him and his sister during the end of the Clone Wars where his father had been corrupted to the Dark Side of the Force by the Sith Lord Palpatine. In an attempt to prevent his fall, Amidala attempted to appeal to Anakin on Mustafar and he mistakenly believed that he had killed Padmé along with the unborn children. In reality, Obi-Wan Kenobi took the injured Amidala where she gave birth to the twins on the planet Polis Masa but Padmé came to die after naming her children. Luke was taken by Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi for safekeeping where he took the child to Tatooine where he was to be raised by his uncle Owen Lars along with his wife. The boy was raised unaware of his parentage or heritage whilst Kenobi remained in the shadows to keep watch over him. During this time, the galaxy had fallen in the dark times that saw the destruction of the Jedi Order and implementation of the Jedi Purge at the hands of the newly formed Galactic Empire.
In 9 BBY, Kenobi kept an eye on Skywalker from a distance using via macrobinoculars around the same time that the Empire's Inquisitors came to Tatooine looking for the Jedi Nari. Skywalker was tasked with a chore by Lars but instead disappeared causing Lars and Beru to wonder where he went. In reality, he had gone to the roof of one of the homestead wearing a mask and pretending he was piloting a space vehicle. The next evening, Kenobi visited the Lars homestead and left a toy model of a T-16 skyhopper for Skywalker. Lars found the toy and returned it to Kenobi the next day telling him to stay away from Skywalker and that they would not accept gifts from Kenobi. Kenobi tried to explain to Lars that there was more to life than just his farm and that there was a whole galaxy out there for Skywalker to explore. Despite being concerned for Skywalker, Lars accused Kenobi of only caring about his well-being only if he was showing signs of force-sensitivity. Lars refused once again to let Kenobi train Skywalker. While Kenobi was off-world, having been sent by Bail Organa to protect Leia, Kenobi received a transmission from Bail, who was worried that Kenobi had not communicated with him. Bail informed him that if Vader had learned of Skywalker and Leia's existence, or if he did not hear back from Kenobi, he would go to Tatooine to help Lars with Skywalker.
After an Imperial attack on Jabiim, Skywalker was sleeping at the Lars homestead when the holoprojector disk containing Bail's message was found by former Inquisitor Reva Sevander who learned from it that Vader's son was on Tatooine in the care of someone named Owen, who she had met. As she started to pursue Skywalker, Kenobi sensed something was wrong in the Force. Luke did some work on Owen's speeder and accidentally broke it, so he was marched into a repair shop with Owen to have it fixed. However, the former Inquisitor Reva Sevander, blinded by rage and focusing that anger on the boy, traveled to Tatooine on the hope that killing Luke would bring her justice. Warned of Sevander's coming attack, Owen and Beru hid Luke inside their house and claimed that it was the Tuskens who were coming, but Sevander ultimately fought past the aunt and uncle. With Sevander in pursuit, Luke fled into the desert but was knocked out by a fall. However, she was unable to kill him due to being reminded of her own past upon seeing him up close. With Sevander returning the boy to Owen, Beru, and the suddenly-back Kenobi, who had drawn on the hope of what Luke and Leia were capable of to triumph over Vader on a barren moon before returning upon sensing that he was in danger, Luke was ushered back to the homestead by Owen and Beru. The following day, Kenobi stopped by to meet with Owen, who allowed Kenobi to finally meet the young Skywalker.
Years later, he received a call from the Force that came from a youngling named Grogu who was seeking out another of his kind to help train him. The summons led to Master Skywalker taking an X-Wing and tracking the child to an Imperial light cruiser commanded by Moff Gideon who had kidnapped Grogu for experimentation. Arriving on the ship, Luke battled a platoon of third-generation droid Dark Troopers as he made his way to the bridge of the ship that had already been taken over by a Mandalorian bounty hunter named Din Djarin and his allies who had moved to rescue the child. Clearing out the Imperial forces, Skywalker met Grogu where he revealed to Djarin that the child wanted permission to leave with the Jedi Master. Luke had remarked the youngling was strong in the Force but that this talent alone was nothing without training. Djarin then agreed for the child to accompany the Jedi who vowed to protect Grogu with his life as he and R2-D2 then departed for his X-Wing to begin the child's training.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In his youth, he longed for adventure when he grew up on Tatooine where he wanted to go out into the wider galaxy.
Luke Skywalker was the son of Anakin Skywalker who was a noted Jedi Knight with his mother being Senator Padmé Amidala. He also had a twin sister by the name of Leia Skywalker who was raised as Leia Organa.
He later had a nephew who was his sister's son through her marriage with Han Solo with this being Ben Skywalker. The young Ben came inherit the ability to use the Force with Luke taking responsibility for his training.
Powers and abilities
As a Force-sensitive, Luke Skywalker was born with the ability tap into the power of the Force. This gave him a range of abilities beyond a normal person ranging from touching the minds of others to move objects with his mind.
Upon meeting Obi-Wan Kenobi, he began steps in training to be a Jedi with this progressing under Yoda. As part of his training, he was given his father's lightsabre and trained in its use.
During his fighter with Darth Vader, he came to lose his right hand which was replaced with a cybernetic prosthetic.
Notes
- Luke Skywalker was created by George Lucas and the character was portrayed by actor Mark Hamill.
- In 2015, Luke Skywalker was selected by Empire magazine as the 50th-greatest movie character of all time. [1]
Alternate Versions
In other media
Television
Video games
- In Star Wars: Battlefront II, Luke Skywalker appeared in the setting of the 2017 video game where he featured in the story mode and was playable in the multiplayer mode with him being voiced by actor Matthew Christopher Mercer.
Appearances
- Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope:
- Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back:
- Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi:
- The Mandalorian:
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