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!Jedi Masters

[[folder:Obi-Wan Kenobi]]
!!!See [[StarWarsMain Star Wars Main Protagonists]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Yoda]]
!!Yoda
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->'''Voiced by:''' Frank Oz (Ep.I-VI)

-->''"Try not. Do or do not. There is no try."''

A diminutive Jedi Master of unknown species, he is. From him, training Luke seeks in [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack Episode V]]. Originally a spiritual (and very old) character drawing on the wizened OldMaster tradition, his true capabilities he shows in Episodes [[Film/AttackOfTheClones II]] and [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith III]], in which (not coincidentally) of the SerkisFolk variety, he is. In all other {{film}}s, a puppet performed by the legendary Frank Oz, who also brought us [[Series/TheMuppetShow Fozzie Bear, Miss Piggy]] and [[Series/SesameStreet Grover]], he is portrayed by.
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* ActuallyIAmHim: When Luke is looking for Yoda.
* AdventureRebuff: "He is too old. Yes, too old to begin the training."
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: There's a reason why Yoda is called the Master or Grand Master of the Jedi Order.
* BadassGrandpa: Yoda is around 800 and nearing the end of his species's natural life span, but can still go toe-to-toe with the likes of Count Dooku and [[BigBad Emperor Palpatine]]. Even thirty years later, Yoda retains enough power to easily lift an almost-completely submerged X-Wing from a swamp. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRd9PGmAQUE Proof of the above, there is.]]
* [[BarefootCartoonAnimal Barefoot Cartoon Alien]]: Wear shoes, he does not.
%%* BenevolentBoss
* BewareTheNiceOnes: When facing a Sith Lord in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''. In ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', Yoda gets even better, decapitating two troopers with a single blow.
* BigGood: The Grand Master of the Jedi Order.
* BigNo: In Episode II, Yoda hearing Qui-Gon's voice after Anakin's RoaringRampageOfRevenge against the Tusken Raiders.
* CloudCuckoolander: Especially when Luke first meets him.
%%* CoolOldGuy
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Compare his introductory scene in Episode V to his fight with Dooku in Episode II.
* [[DotingParent Doting Grandparent]]: To ''every'' warrior in the Jedi Order, younglings in particular ... when not giving them TrainingFromHell, that is.
* EccentricMentor: A little eccentric, but still very capable and wise, he is.
* EmeraldPower: Yoda, [[LittleGreenMan who is green skinned]], is one of the strongest Jedi there is.
* ExpositionOfImmortality: Yoda already looks like he's seen his fair share of years; walking stick, not much hair, crotchety old man. And clearly, he's been around for a while if he was the Jedi Master who trained Obi-Wan Kenobi, himself no spring chicken by Episode IV. Nevertheless, a sense of his true age is held back until he turns around and says:
-->'''Yoda:''' "What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own council will I keep on who is to be trained."
%%* GenreSavvy
* GoodCounterpart: To [[EvilCounterpart Darth Sidious/Palpatine.]]
%%* HermitGuru
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: While there are several examples of GoodIsNotSoft among Jedi, and Yoda himself [[LetsGetDangerous can be a good exponent]], he appears to be the one who most firmly stays away from the dark side.
* InexplicablyAwesome: He's just a short, green, centuries-old alien who is quite possibly the most powerful Jedi alive. How he got that way is officially the one NoodleIncident the expanded universe will never touch.
* JediMindTrick: In ''StarWarsCloneWars'', Yoda uses it on Padmé's security chief, who takes on Yoda's speech patterns. Padmé sees through it, but agrees with Yoda's request anyway.
* LargeHam: In ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''.
* LastOfHisKind: Yoda himself [[SingleSpecimenSpecies may very well have been]] The Last Of The Wrinkly Green Muppets. Only one other is seen in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', and she was killed during the Clone Wars.
** In the otherwise enormous and [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters character-filled]] Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse, only three members more from this species are shown, and among them, only one is given significant background (and, interestingly, a surname).
* ALessonInDefeat: Yoda sends Luke into the cave to experience the dark side of the Force. When he thinks he kills Vader, the mask explodes and reveals Luke's own face, showing that he could give into the dark side himself. An alternative interpretation of the scene, supported by the radio adaption of Empire, is that Yoda is showing Luke what is holding him back, namely himself and his own attitudes. Yoda tells him explicitly that he won't need weapons, and that the only thing in the cave is what he takes with him.
%%* LittleGreenMen
* LivingLegend: In the original trilogy, everybody refers to Yoda as if he were the one invincible, unmatchable Jedi. Inexplicably, although he was the most famous Jedi in the galaxy and his death was never confirmed, not twenty years later there's not a single record of what Yoda ''looked'' like for Luke to consult.
** Palpatine planned to wipe out the Jedi and all knowledge of their order: Jedi famous enough for him to know by name would receive the closest attention. And saying "The Jedi are extinct... except that little green guy who kept throwing chairs at me" doesn't have the same ring.
* MasterApprenticeChain: In the original trilogy, on his deathbed Yoda entrusts Luke with passing down what he has learned from Obi-Wan and him, thus it becomes: Obi-Wan and Yoda > Luke Skywalker > The new Jedi.
* MasterSwordsman: As shown in ''AttackOfTheClones'' and ''RevengeOfTheSith''.
* MeaningfulName: Yoda means "warrior" in Sanskrit, though we don't see him live up to his namesake until [[AttackOfTheClones Episode II]]...
** It also means "one who knows" in Hebrew.
%%* MentorArchetype
* MentorMascot: One of the most recognisable symbols of the series, he is, and he's a mentor to boot.
* MentorOccupationalHazard: Played with this trope. In ''ReturnOfTheJedi'', [[spoiler:Yoda does; while passes away he certainly does, not in battle does he fall.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: Goes into exile after his failure to defeat the Emperor in their duel.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: When Yoda dies, his body disappears, leaving behind an empty robe.
* NoNameGiven: Only has one name.
** In the story treament for ''Star Wars Episode V'', he was originally referred as "Minch Yoda", but it was left only as Yoda in the final version. The "Minch" part was later used in the canon for a Jedi Knight also belonging to Yoda's species.
* NamesTheSame: There's also Col. Igor Yoda, who was Deputy Commander for Logistics in the [[TricoloursWithRustingRockets Russian military space forces]] since 2007. Local Star Wars fans found it really funny.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: It has been known for ages that platitudes fall flat on the hurting. Unfortunately, Yoda didn't know this when Anakin came to him for advice on Padmé.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Yoda is a wizard, an alien and an old master.
* NoSell: Dooku's Sith lightning does not work against him. Even [[BigBad Palpatine]] fails to kill him, and it's Father Time that finally gets Yoda.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Pretends to be a wacky old hermit in ''TheEmpireStrikesBack'' as a test of Luke's patience and tolerance of strangers. Fail miserably, Luke does.
** ObfuscatingDisability: That cane. He normally hobbles about on it like a hunchbacked geriatric, but once that cane is tossed aside and the lightsaber comes out... good luck eye-tracking him.
* OldMaster: To every single Jedi, but especially Luke.
%%* OneManArmy
%%* OnlyOneName
* ThePaladin: Wise and powerful.
%%* TheParagon
* PintSizedPowerhouse: Arguably the king of this trope. Less than a meter tall but still one of the most powerful Force users and one of the best duelists in the Jedi Order.
%%* PointyEars
%%* PsychicPowers
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: He's 900, although he does look like it.
---> '''Yoda''' ''(indignantly):'' "When nine hundred years ''you'' reach, look as good ''you'' will not - hmm?!"
%%* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
* ReluctantWarrior:
-->''A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.''
* RetiredBadass: By the time of the original trilogy he's retreated to a lonely planet in self-imposed isolation.
* RiddleForTheAges: George Lucas typically doesn't involve himself in the EU very much, but it's known that one of the few things he's explicitly forbidden EU authors from doing is revealing Yoda's species.
* ScreamingWarrior: He often lets out a {{Kiai}}-like yell while fighting.
* SerkisFolk: In ''AttackOfTheClones'' and ''RevengeOfTheSith''.
** In the 2011 Blue-ray release of ''ThePhantomMenace''.
** As well as the 2012 [[ThreeDMovie 3-D theatrical re-release]].
* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: [[SelfDemonstratingArticle Hmm, yes he is? Agree, you do.]]
* SupportingLeader: During the assault on Geonosis in ''AttackOfTheClones'' and the battle on Kashyyyk in ''RevengeOfTheSith''.
%%* TechnicalPacifist
%%* ThereIsNoTry: TropeNamer.
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Throws his lightsaber into the chest of a clone trooper in [[RevengeOfTheSith Episode III]]. It probably works by using the Force.
* TrainingFromHell: Yoda forces Luke to perform inhuman feats of strength, dexterity and stamina as part of his Jedi training. (The novelization/written version of the stories mentions he had to do a thumbstand, i.e. a handstand on one thumb.) The implication, however, is that Luke is being forced to rely on the Force — Yoda is making him perform superhuman feats that, as a human, he is not capable of performing — but as a Jedi, with the Force flowing through him, he is.
* TricksterMentor: Especially in Episode V.
* VerbalTic: Talks backwards all the time, he does.
* WeaponOfChoice: A small green lightsaber in Episode in ''AttackOfTheClones'' and ''RevengeOfTheSith''.
* XanatosGambit: First hinted at in Yoda's last scene in Episode V; it becomes clearer in Episode IV and is spelled out in Episode III. Yoda hoped to destroy the Empire at its beginning; when that didn't work, he arranged for Anakin's son to be raised virtuously not far from where Obi-Wan was hiding out, so that the boy could one day start CallingTheOldManOut; and if ''that'' failed, he intended to keep Anakin's daughter in reserve, not even telling Luke that he ''had'' a sister. Fortunately this Plan C never became necessary.
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[[folder: Mace Windu]]
!!Mace Windu
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/SamuelLJackson (Ep.I-III)

-->''This party's over.''

If Yoda is the wise heart and soul of the Jedi Order, Mace is its invincible mailed fist. Though he bows to Yoda in matters of spirituality, he takes the lead in battle, and is the greatest warrior of his generation. Amongst the Jedi Council, he shows the greatest distrust towards Anakin, which proves ultimately well-founded, or [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation at the very least]] a SelfFulfillingProphecy...unto his death.
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* AuthorAppeal: Creator/SamuelLJackson requested the purple lightsaber because it's his favorite color (plus making him easier to spot in large battle scenes).
* AwesomeDearBoy: Samuel signed on before even knowing what he was gonna play. In one interview, he said he would have signed on even if his role was [[RedShirt "Random Stormtrooper"]]
%%* {{Badass}}
%%* BadassBaritone
%%* BadassBoast
%%* BaldOfAwesome
* BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil: He is the deadliest fighter among the Jedi because he's Samuel L. Jack-- uh, sorry, because he practices a combat style that involves treading on the very edge of the Dark Side without actually succumbing.
* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: Mace was the leader of the Jedi Council (while Yoda was the Grand Master of the Jedi Order) until he stepped down to concentrate on kicking ass in the Clone Wars.
* BigGood: Alongside Yoda in the prequel trilogy.
* BlingBlingBang: His lightsaber hilt is studded with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrum electrum]], an alloy of gold and silver, as part of his privileges as a high-ranking Jedi Master. There is debate over whether it has "[[Film/PulpFiction Bad Motherfucker]]" engraved on it.
* CoolSword: Mace has a purple lightsaber which stands out.
** In an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubyo5eZz_Jc interview]] with Graham Norton, Jackson stated that he personally requested to have a purple lightsaber even though all Jedi lightsabers seen before that were blue or green so he could find himself in the big arena fight scene in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''.
* CynicalMentor: Mace is quite cynical in his view of galactic affairs, compared to many of the other Jedi, such as [[TheObiWan Obi-Wan Kenobi]]; he also doesn't seem to like [[DarkMessiah Anakin]] much at all and he opposed little Anakin's training from the start.
** However, it could be seen as not disliking Anakin, but rather that it's policy. Mace shares the Jedi's belief that Jedi training should start at infancy, not at age ten. His cynicism, on the other hand, is probably just a sign that he has his eyes open amid the decaying Republic.
* DeadpanSnarker: Mace is very sarcastic.
%%* GoodIsNotSoft
* HeroesPreferSwords: Mace uses a purple lightsaber.
* InformedAbility: Though WordOfGod has made him out to be a crafty diplomat and politician, his onscreen representations almost exclusively focuses on his life as a warrior.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Spectacularly so, in a case of [[spoiler:DestinationDefenestration in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''.]]
%%* KnightInSourArmor
* KnightTemplar: Somewhat downplayed as Mace lacks the self-righteousness of many of his counterparts, but Mace believed in unquestionably upholding the peace of the Republic, even if it means breaking the Jedi code. [[spoiler: Palpatine ends up playing this against him.]]
* MasterSwordsman: According to WordOfGod, he was Yoda's ''superior'' as a warrior. [[AllThereInTheManual According to expanded universe sources]], he's perfected Vapaad, a long incomplete and [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique dangerous]] lightsaber fighting form.
%%* OneManArmy
* PsychicPowers: Like many of the other Jedi.
* PurpleIsPowerful: His lightsaber is purple, which was requested by Jackson himself.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
* SacrificialLion: He is the first major Jedi to be killed, which sets the stage for the Jedi assassinations that were to follow.
%%* ScaryBlackMan
%%* TheStoic
* SupportingLeader: During the Jedi assault on the arena of Geonosis in ''AttackOfTheClones''.
%%* TechnicalPacifist
* TokenMinority: Sam L. Jackson as Mace may be a example of this, as his character serves as little more than a background character until Revenge of the Sith (excluding his excellent use in the Clone Wars shorts).
** Although it's been said that Lucas saw an interview with Jackson stating he was a Star Wars fan and would like to be in a Star Wars movie. Lucas decided to cast Jackson as Mace Windu a character that had been cut from the original trilogy.
* UnwittingPawn: Mace dies in an attempt first to arrest and then just kill Chancellor Palpatine, which is not only unsuccessful, but also provides Palpatine with ammunition for his claims that the Jedi [[TheDogShotFirst SHOT FIRST.]] In a double irony, he also ends up making TheChosenOne (Anakin), who he himself had doubts about already, switch his allegiance to the man he attempted to "assassinate".
* WeaponOfChoice: His purple lightsaber.
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[[folder: Qui-Gon Jinn]]
!!Qui-Gon Jinn
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->'''Played by:''' LiamNeeson

-->''Your focus determines your reality.''

The master of Obi-Wan and the former apprentice of Dooku. Noted for his [[FriendToAllLivingThings compassion for all living things]] and [[BunnyEarsLawyer his unorthodox ways]], it is his desire to train a young Anakin that leads to the events of the rest of the series.
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%%* {{Ambadassador}}
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: According to Yoda.]]
%%* {{Badass}}
%%* BadassBeard
* BadassGrandpa: Early drafts of the script has his age as 60.
* TheCassandra: His beliefs that the Sith have returned and Anakin is TheChosenOne are dismissed by the Jedi at first but [[CassandraTruth turn out to be true.]]
* TheChooserOfTheOne: Qui-Gon chose Anakin (discover correct choice).
* CoolOldGuy: How many other Jedi would cheat at gambling to free a slave?
* DecoyProtagonist: In Episode I. It appears that Qui-Gon is the protagonist of the movie but the actual protagonist is [[TheChosenOne Anakin]].
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Qui-Gon is often noted for having much compassion for all living things.
* GreyAndGrayMorality: Being a Jedi doesn't stop him from trying to swindle Watto out of a hyperdrive generator, manipulating Boss Nass into providing a transport to the capital, or subverting the authority of the Jedi Council to ensure that Anakin is trained as a Jedi.
%%* HonorBeforeReason
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: How he dies in ''ThePhantomMenace'', tragically.
* JediMindTrick: In Episode I, Qui-Gon pulls one on Boss Nass, saving Jar Jar Binks' life and getting them transport.
* TheLastDJ: If not for his unorthodox ways and his tendency to do things his own way, he would've been a member of the Jedi Council.
* LooksLikeJesus: Even wears robes as part of his Jedi outfit.
* MasterSwordsman: Comes with being an experienced Jedi as well as a Jedi Master.
* MeditationPowerUp: During one of the gaps in his fight with Maul. Actually, he takes them thanks to some opportunely closed laser shields.
%%* MentorOccupationalHazard
* TheObiWan: To ''[[TropeNamer the man himself]]'', no less.
* OldMaster: In Episode I. Qui-Gon is the first maverick master seen on-screen (chronologically), at odds with the Jedi Council but respected nonetheless. He trained Obi-Wan and was the person most accountable for introducing Anakin Skywalker to the way of the Jedi. [[HarsherInHindsight All things considered.]]
* ParentalSubstitute: To Obi-Wan, and Anakin.
%%* PsychicPowers
* TheQuietOne: Is almost always softly spoken, compared to his two proteges.
* RapunzelHair: Subverted. His hair is only ''kinda'' long, but it looks like this compared to all the other male characters.
* SacrificialLion: His death shocks the Jedi into realizing the Sith have returned.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight:
-->"You ''will'' be a Jedi. I promise."
* SupportingLeader: In Episode I.
%%* TechnicalPacifist
* TheUnfettered: Qui-Gon is the OldMaster kind of unfettered: 'I do what I must.' Without remorse, without regret.
** Not coincidentally, many Star Wars fans consider Qui-Gon to be a good movie example of a Gray Jedi - that is to say, [[GreyAndGrayMorality a Force-user that doesn't necessarily believe in the Light/Dark duality of the Force.]] The fact that he serves the Jedi as opposed to the Sith is inconsequential.
** He says of Obi-Wan that "he has more to learn of the Living Force", but otherwise he's ready to be a Jedi Knight. He's the only one in the films to refer to it as living. He was also the first to master, albeit incompletely, the technique for remaining alive as a force ghost rather than dissipating into the force, as seen in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars''.
* UnintentionalBackupPlan: Played straight. Qui-Gon's original plan was for Anakin to bring balance to TheForce. However, he ends up falling to the Dark Side and it seems that he won't. In ''ReturnOfTheJedi'', however, Anakin does bring balance to the Force by ensuring that the last of the evil aspect of the Dark Side of the Force dies with him.
* WeaponOfChoice: Green lightsaber.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ki-Adi-Mundi]]
!!Ki-Adi-Mundi
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->'''Played by:''' Silas Carson (Ep. I-II-III)

Cerean Jedi Master who served on the Jedi High Council in last years of the Galactic Republic and played a major role in several battles during the Clone Wars. He was [[BodyguardBetrayal shot to death by his own squad of clone troopers]] when the Order 66 was launched.
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%%* {{Badass}}
%%* BadassBeard
%%* BadassMustache
%%* MasterSwordsman
* MyBrainIsBig: In fact, his head harbors a second heart to irrigate his binary brain.
* OhCrap: One of the few Jedi who had a prescient moment about the Purge. Alas, it was not enough to save him.
%%* OldMaster
%%* PsychicPowers
%%* RubberForeheadAliens
* SnowMeansDeath: Killed while he and his troops are fighting a battle in the middle of a snowstorm.
* SupportingLeader: A Council member who gets a few lines but not much screentime.
* WeaponOfChoice: His blue lightsaber.
[[/folder]]

!Jedi Knights

[[folder:Anakin Skywalker]]
!!Anakin Skywalker
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->'''Played by:''' Jake Lloyd (as a child, Ep.I), Hayden Christensen (Ep.II-III; as a Force ghost in the 2004 rerelease of Ep.VI), Sebastian Shaw (Ep.VI)

-->''Something's happening. I'm not the Jedi I should be. I want more, but I know I shouldn't...''

The most pivotal man in the galaxy, whose decisions changed the fate of every living being. Also had a son [[GenerationXerox who did the same thing]]. Anakin was born on a [[SingleBiomePlanet desert planet]] (the same one, actually) and grew up with Jedi training; unlike Luke, he was [[HotBlooded hot-tempered]], brash and sometimes undisciplined. Evidently that made all the difference; ''Luke'' didn't help put the galaxy under the heel of an evil dictator.
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* AccidentalHero: In ''ThePhantomMenace''. Anakin gets into Naboo fighter ship to avoid a firefight in a hanger on Naboo. After accidentally activating the autopilot, the ship flies to the scene of the space fight, where Anakin figures out how to turn off the auto pilot. In an effort to escape being blown up by federation fighters he flies the ship into the hanger bay of the enemy federation ship. After several robot droids notice him and start approaching his ship, he fires on them, destroying the droids. Conveniently, several of Anakin's missed shots at the droids hit a power system structure, which happens to be directly behind the droids. Anakin narrowly escapes the erupting federation ship, which is noticed by other Naboo fighters. "There's one of ours out of the hanger." After the federation ship is destroyed by Anakin's bad aim, the battle is over as without the command and control from the federation ship the attacking droids all shut down.
* TheAce[=/=]BrokenAce: Anakin is one of the most, if not THE MOST, powerful and skilled Jedi's in the entire galaxy. Unfortunately, Anakin has a lot of personal problems including emotional issues, relationship issues with those close to him, and conflicting feelings of guilt, fear, pain, and anger.
* AcePilot: Anakin is a fantastic podracer pilot at the ripe age of seven, and the best starfighter pilot in the galaxy after he grows up.
* {{Adorkable}}: In Episode I. Even in Episode II, Anakin shows adorkable moments especially around Padme.
* AffectionateNickname: Padme and those close to Anakin call him "Ani".
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: His quest to save Padmé from death [[spoiler:[[GoneHorriblyWrong which ironically kills her]]]].
* AndIMustScream: Definitely played with. Vader in the mechanical suit only has a small triangle-shaped vent where a mouth would be. Also driven home when for the first time in any of the six films, we get to see for a brief moment what Anakin's field of vision looks like from inside the mechanical suit. The "look" on Anakin's face when the mask is put on is very disheartening and depressed, since he knows he will have to wear it for the rest of his life. The novelization describes exactly how painful it is for Vader to have his suit breath and see for his burned lungs and eyes.
* [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie And Then Anakin Was A Sith Lord]]: And then the Jedi Anakin Skywalker became the evil Sith Lord, Darth Vader.
* {{Angrish}}: After he loses his epic battle with Obi-Wan on Mustafar.
* AntiAntiChrist: Inverted. Anakin is implied to have been created by a [[DarkMessiah Sith Lord]] in order to wipe out the Jedi. The Jedi discover him and believe he's TheChosenOne who's supposed to destroy the Dark Sith, but he ultimately chooses not to (out of love for Padme) and instead destroys the Jedi, then (again, because of love for his son, Luke) chooses to destroy the Sith. The oddest prediction turns out to be the most accurate, that Anakin's destiny would be to 'bring balance to the Force' by making both sides start again.
* AntiHero: Type II or III, veering towards V on the occasions that he flirts with TheDarkSide.
* AntiVillain: [[SlidingScaleofAntiVillains Type II]], although he believes himself to be [[NecessarilyEvil Type III.]]
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Especially in Episode III, as Anakin starts to do a FaceHeelTurn and [[FallenHero descend into darkness]].
** Especially evident in Episode III when Anakin battles Obi-Wan on Mustafar.
* ArtificialLimb: Has a cybernetic arm, thanks to Dooku, [[spoiler: and later gains three more cybernetic limbs and a black suit of armour after losing to Obi-Wan on Mustafar.]]
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: He dies as a Jedi, having redeemed himself by saving his son and fulfilling the prophecy of the Chosen One.]]
%%* AwesomeMcCoolname
* AGodAmI: In Episode III, after turning to TheDarkSide, Anakin says that he is becoming the most powerful Jedi in the entire galaxy and that he is so powerful that he can overthrow Chancellor Palpatine. Anakin also openly desires that he wanted to rule the galaxy with Padme as his Empress by his side.
%%* {{Badass}}
* BadassAdorable: In [[Film/ThePhantomMenace Episode I]]. Anakin is born of the Immaculate Conception, incredibly sensitive to The Force, a mechanical genius on his spare time and one of the best podracer pilots in the galaxy, plus his instant mastery when it comes to pilot a Naboo royal starfighter, destroying the Trade Federation's mothership thus putting an end to the conflict on Naboo in the process. And he was only 9 years old.
* BadassDriver: He IS called the best starpilot in the galaxy.
* BadDreams: Anakin has dreams of Padme dying during childbirth through Episode III.
* BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil: There is a Jedi prophecy about Anakin bringing "Balance to the Force". In a subversion, balance means inbalance here, the lines from the movies which make the viewer think that the Jedi misunderstand the prophecy are set as true by WordOfGod. Anakin fulfills the prophecy at the end of the original trilogy, when he as a Sith finally turns on his treacherous master and proves the death of them both.
* BashBrothers: With Obi-Wan before Anakin turns to TheDarkSide and does a FaceHeelTurn.
* [[BastardBoyfriend Bastard Husband]]: To Padme at the end of Episode III. Anakin force chokes her, almost killing her, until Obi-Wan tells Anakin to let her go. On top of it Anakin accuses Padme of turning against him by bringing Obi-Wan to kill him.
* BastardUnderstudy: To Palpatine in Episode III.
* BattleCouple: With Padme.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Subverted. Anakin ends up getting a scar on the right side of his face. It gets worse in Episode III, when his face and his entire body becomes deformed due to suffering from severe burns and scarring. Anakin even loses his limbs.
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: As Obi-Wan tells him before their duel.
* BeingEvilSucks: Anakin's turn to TheDarkSide in ''RevengeOfTheSith'' costs him everything and everyone that he loves as well as leaves him locked in a robotic life-support system.
* BerserkButton: Harming someone he loves. [[spoiler: Palpatine]] found that out the hard way in ReturnOfTheJedi. A tribe of Tusken Raiders (men, women and children) found it out ''way'' earlier.
* TheBerserker: Anakin is naturally aggressive and reckless, but this side of him really showed the first time he tapped into the Dark Side to kill the Tuskan Raiders who killed his mother.
* BizarreHumanBiology: His Midi-chlorian count is 20,000! That's even higher than Master Yoda, guys! Like wow!
* BlackCloak: He begins [[{{Foreshadowing}} dressing in black robes]] in ''RevengeOfTheSith''.
* BlackShirt: He doesn't support the Sith at first, but he is very much into the idea of the Republic's democracy being replaced by totalitarianism.
* BloodbathVillainOrigin: Anakin's first task after being christened Darth Vader by Emperor Palpatine is to lead the attack on the Jedi Temple.
* BloodKnight: Anakin rushes into combat lightsaber swinging and is very aggressive.
* BodyguardCrush: On Padmé in Episode II. Anakin re-encounters Padme, his childhood crush now having become a full-fledged infatuation. Tasked with being Padme's bodyguard following several attempts on her life by Jango Fett and Zam Wesell, he accompanies her back to Naboo, where they become closer by the day, quickly falling in love, which is against the laws of the Jedi Order.
* BodyguardingABadass: Is assigned to protect Padmé in Episode II.
* BodyHorror: Anakin's [[EmergencyTransformation transformation into Vader.]] WordOfGod says he wasn't given any anesthetic for it [[StrappedToAnOperatingTable and was awake the entire time.]]
* BornIntoSlavery: On Tatooine. Raised by his mother, Shmi, the property of Watto. Apparently, Watto wasn't that bad as slave-owners go, but it still couldn't have been pleasant.
* BoyMeetsGirl: Anakin's relationship with Padme. They first meet in "The Phantom Menace".
* BreakTheCutie: Anakin never catches a break and he endures much suffering, pain, loss, and grief throughout the series. So much that it turns him to TheDarkSide. The incredibly sweet little boy of ''ThePhantomMenace'' and the naive, idealistic, and romantic teenager of ''AttackOfTheClones'' are crushed by the events of the second film; then the choices he makes (or is duped into making) in ''RevengeOfTheSith'' not only finish smashing Anakin into tiny bits, the bits are then stomped on and finally set on fire. When Anakin kneels in front of Sidious and receives his Sith title, you can see in his rag-doll posture how completely and utterly broken he is. As Yoda tells Obi-Wan, ''"The boy you trained, gone he is."''
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Anakin is the Brooding Boy to Padme's Gentle Girl.
* BroughtDownToNormal: Well, normal for a Jedi, anyway. WordOfGod is that losing all his limbs cost him enough of those precious midichlorians to stop him being the most powerful Sith who ever lived, which kind of put a crimp in Palpatine's plans or something.
* ByronicHero: A dark antihero with enough emotional issues to overfill the Death Star? Check please.
* CainAndAbel: With Obi-Wan with Anakin as the Cain to Obi-Wan's Abel. Hammered home when Obi-Wan addresses Anakin as his brother and that he loved him at the end of their epic fight.
* CaptainCrash: He could out-fly grown pilots when he was a kid; it's just a shame he never quite got the hang of landings.
* TheChampion: When Anakin professes his love for Padmé, he says that he will do anything she asks.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: With Padmé.
* ChildProdigy: Thanks to his robotics and piloting skills (which are themselves considerably empowered by The Force).
* ChildSoldier: In Episode I, Anakin is a nine year old who trains to become a Jedi.
* TheChosenOne: [[DoubleSubversion Doubly subverted]]. Anakin is the Jedi's prophesied Chosen One, though he goes through several movies of being TheDragon before doing a HeelFaceTurn and fulfilling his destiny. He remains extremely lucky and unusually skilled (at everything except relationships, apparently) the whole time, consistent with a standard Chosen One package. He joins [[spoiler: TheDarkSide]], then [[spoiler:[[HeelFaceTurn destroys the Emperor]] at the end of the saga.]]
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Oh, so much. Ironically, his loyalty to the people he cares about ends up being [[SubvertedTrope the reason he is constantly stabbing people in the back.]]
* ComingOfAgeStory: Anakin's journey is leaving his home and family to begin his training as a Jedi Knight.
* ConflictingLoyalty: In [[RevengeOfTheSith Episode III]], Anakin fell to TheDarkSide when circumstances forced him to choose between his loyalty to the Jedi and the need to save Padme, which Palpatine had promised he could do. [[TragicMistake He chose Padme.]] He '''FINALLY''' makes the right decision in ''ReturnOfTheJedi''.
* CoolStarShip: ''Eta-2 Actis-class'' light interceptor in ''RevengeOfTheSith''.
* CoolSword: Anakin's lightsaber, the Jedi's WeaponOfChoice.
* TheCorruptible: To Emperor Palpatine.
* CorruptTheCutie: Anakin starts off as a WideEyedIdealist little boy in Episode I, whose first thought is how he can endanger his own life just to help a group of strangers get off a planet. As he grows older, however, he becomes more and more ambitious in his desires for power and for love, partially egged on by [[MagnificentBastard Palpatine]]. As Palpatine plays him against his own Jedi brethren, who in turn play him against Palpatine, he marries in secret and his wife ends up pregnant. He then starts having visions of her death. The stress of the situation builds and builds until finally..
** Made even more painful by the fact that, from the moment sweet, selfless, loveable little Anakin is introduced in ''ThePhantomMenace'', [[DoomedByCanon you know what he will ultimately become.]]
* CrazyJealousGuy: In regards to Padme in Episode III. Anakin starts to get paranoid and suspicious over Padme and Obi-Wan. It is very clear that jealousy has gotten the best of him but this is to be expected since Anakin is a {{Yandere}} for Padme.
* CuteBruiser: In Episode I, as a young boy. Anakin is TheChosenOne after all.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Anakin's descent into evil is paralleled by his cyborg conversion. Also, by WordOfGod, losing body parts makes you lose midichlorians and thus get weaker in the Force.
** In an episode of ''StarWarsCloneWars'', in a sequence reminiscent of Luke's experience in the cave on Episode V, Anakin has a vision in which a warrior loses his arm in battle, and replaces it with a mysterious shiny, black one with great power. At first he is able to defend his home and friends with the power of the arm, but soon it reaches out and kills a bunch of stuff without him meaning to, eventually including his wife. It could be though. The parallel to the loss of his own hand is clear, and it is certainly tracks to his own tragic fate and reliance on the power of The Force to protect the ones he loves.
* CynicismCatalyst: In ''RevengeOfTheSith'', the fear of the loss of his wife Padmé by childbirth is what drives Anakin over the edge to TheDarkSide. Before that, there was the death of his mother, Shmi, in ''AttackOfTheClones'', which also shaped his destiny and started his descent. For extra irony, Padme dies from childbirth because she loses her desire to live (in other words, she dies of a broken heart) after seeing the monster Anakin becomes in trying to prevent her death.
* DarkLordOnLifeSupport: After being dismembered and nearly immolated during his fight with Obi Wan, Palpatine has Anakin outfitted with his iconic suit of PoweredArmor that functions as a life-support system.
* TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget: Anakin joins TheDarkSide in ''RevengeOfTheSith'' in order to [[LoveMakesYouEvil save his wife from dying.]] Then he starts killing younglings and things go downhill from there. When he force-chokes Padmé, it solidifies him into this trope.
* DarkMessiah: To the core. It's played with somewhat as he makes a DealWithTheDevil, Palpatine, essentially acting as an TheAntiChrist.
* DeadpanSnarker: Anakin is incredibly sarcastic and witty.
* DealWithTheDevil: In Episode III, with Chancellor Palpatine, which solidifies Anakin's FaceHeelTurn. Anakin's desire for Padmé's-life-spared-at-any-cost might not have been spelled out and Palpatine himself might not be the devil, but otherwise the trope is played to the hilt.
** Palpatine had told Anakin that Darth Plagueis was his master (in the books) and that he could teach Anakin the technique Darth Plagueis used to extend the life of whomever he chose to effectively eternity. Even though Anakin effectively sold his soul to Palpatine to save Padmé from possible death, the deal failed for two reasons. 1. Anakin ended up killing his own wife, or at least contributing to it, so he had no wife to save. 2. In the books, Palpatine reveals in his thoughts that he had never learned the technique Darth Plagueis had, and Palpatine ended up having to resort to making clones and the Sith technique of transferring his soul into another body just to extend his own life. Turns out, that said technique for saving people's lives is all just a plain old lie. Yep, Anakin was effectively left with nothing as a result of the deal.
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Padmé's death]]. TheEmpire is all he has left.
* DestructiveSavior: To the core.
* TheDeterminator: Once Anakin wants something, HE NEVER GIVES UP.
* DeusAngstMachina: When is Anakin not brooding or angsting? Although it is completely understandable why he does.
%%* DiedHappilyEverAfter
* DisabilityImmunity: [[spoiler:After falling in lava after a duel with Obi-Wan Kenobi, he manages to climb to safety because his prosthetic arm remains intact.]]
* DisappearedDad: ''Non-existent'' dad; WordOfGod confirms that he was conceived by The Force itself.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Anakin massacres the entire village of Tuskan Raiders, including the children, to avenge his mother's death. [[ItsPersonal It was personal.]]
* DontMakeMeDestroyYou: Anakin threatens to kill Obi-Wan before their duel commences in Episode III.
* DoomedByCanon: It was known what [[FaceHeelTurn Anakin's destiny was going to be since Episode I, despite being a young and innocent boy.]]
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Anakin's recurring nightmare about Padme's death during childbirth in Episode III.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Even when Anakin is not in an extreme sports race or space battle — and on Coruscant, driving is a three-dimensional affair.
** Anakin's piloting: Crazy? Yes. Bad? Anything but. He's one of if not the best pilot in the entire series based on the ridiculous lengths he's willing to go to.
* DualWielding: At the end of Episode II. Anakin fights Dooku with two lightsabers at one point. Unfortunately, it only lasts a short while before he's forced to switch back to one.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Anakin felt that he wasn't gaining any respect from the Jedi Council, a minor reason why Anakin slipped over to the Dark Side.
* DyingCurse: Anakin during his VillainousBreakdown after he's defeated by Obi-Wan on Mustafar, screaming out his hatred towards the Jedi master. Subverted in that he doesn't die.
* EmergencyTransformation: When he becomes Darth Vader.
%%* EntitledBastard
* EtTuBrute: Anakin believes that the Jedi have betrayed him, and Obi-Wan has this realization himself when he discovers a hologram recording of Anakin kneeling before Palpatine.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: Anakin [[InTheHood also puts his hood up a lot more]] after being christened Darth Vader, and in the ultimate evil costume switch, he [[BecomingTheMask becomes]] the infamous biomechanical suit of armour we are familiar with.
* EvilFeelsGood: When Anakin begins to turn to TheDarkSide, he becomes significantly darker and edgier.
* EvilFormerFriend: To Obi-Wan at the end of Episode III.
* EvilIsHammy: Especially in Episode III, when Anakin starts to take a FaceHeelTurn and turns to TheDarkSide.
* EvilMakesYouUgly: Anakin wouldn't have fallen into that lava if he hadn't turned evil. Even before falling into the lava, Anakin experienced slight changes in appearance (the glowing yellow eyes in particular).
* EyeColorChange: Anakin's eye colour changes to yellow once he turns to TheDarkSide and becomes a Sith. See RedEyesTakeWarning and GlowingEyesOfDoom.
* FallenHero: Could easily be the TropeCodifier.
* FantasticRacism: After his mother is killed by them, he ''really'' hates Sand People. Enough to [[FinalSolution kill every last one of them]].
* FateWorseThanDeath: Anakin is, according to WordOfGod, a man who made a DealWithTheDevil ([[BigBad Emperor Palpatine]])... and lost. After the events of ''RevengeOfTheSith'', where he becomes Darth Vader, he is condemned to a life of constant emotional, psychological and physical pain, until the very end of ''ReturnOfTheJedi''.
* FlawExploitation: Anakin's love for his family, friends and loved ones.
* TheForceIsStrongWithThisOne: Emperor Palpatine says this almost word for word to Anakin in Episode III when Anakin converts to TheDarkSide.
* ForegoneConclusion: Anakin turning to the Dark Side and becoming Darth Vader was a given since that is what the story revolves around.
* ForWantOfANail: InUniverse in ''The Lost Command''. [[spoiler:Darth Vader dreamed that had he either killed Darth Sidious himself or he let Mace Windu deliver the finishing blow, his wife would have been the chancellor, he'd be a grandmaster on the Jedi Council, he'd have a son, Jinn Skywalker, and the Republic would have remained the Republic.]]
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Anakin finds himself with this problem with the Jedi Council after he's refused the rank of Jedi Master.
* FreudianExcuse: Anakin was raised as a slave on a hellish backwater planet, as Yoda pointed out in the very beginning. Then his mother gets killed by Tusken Raiders. On top of it, the love of Anakin's life and the woman that he can't live without, Padme, dies at childbirth. Anakin loses everything and everyone that he loves and has suffered so much loss that it is understandable why Anakin turned to TheDarkSide.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Anakin's eyes glow a bright yellow when he goes off to kill all the youngling Jedi. He covers his head with a hood, but you can tell that they glow in the shadow. Also, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking he is wearing eyeliner.]] [[EvilMakeover That's what happens when you go dark side.]]
%%* GoodIsNotNice
%%* GoodIsNotSoft
* GoodColorsEvilColors: In Episode's I-II, Anakin is seen wearing lighter coloured clothing. But in Episode III, Anakin begins wearing darker or black clothing, which symbolizes Anakin turning to TheDarkSide.
* GoodHairEvilHair: In Episode III, Anakin grows his hair out and it is more curly in nature, which also suggests that Anakin is falling to TheDarkSide.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: He has a scar next to his right eye by the time of ''Episode III'', before ending up [[CoveredWithScars covered in burn scars]] after his battle with Obi-Wan.
* GoOutWithASmile: Anakin's farewell to Luke.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold --> BlondGuysAreEvil: Anakin starts out as a good-hearted, kind and noble blond in Episode I. However, by the time of the Mustafar duel in Episode III, he's switched to BlondGuysAreEvil due to [[FaceHeelTurn turning to]] TheDarkSide.
* HairTriggerTemper: Anakin is very impulsive, hot tempered and easily angered.
* HandicappedBadass: In Episode III, after losing an arm in Episode II. Later on, Anakin as Darth Vader manages to be an almost invincible BigBad despite [[ArtificialLimbs missing both hands, one entire arm, and both legs]], the entire remainder of his body covered in horrible burns, and having to wear a life support suit at all times. Episode III implies that, had he not been so injured, his Force abilities would have surpassed even the Emperor's; as it is, he's still strong enough to defeat him after getting his ass kicked by his own son.
* HeartbrokenBadass: Especially after Padme dies, which only solidified his allegiance to TheDarkSide.
* HeelRealization: His speech about killing the Tusken Raiders that caused his mother's death has elements of this, in the sense that he feels like he's failing as a Jedi.
%%* HellBentForLeather
* TheHerosJourney: Anakin's purpose for the entire saga.
* HeroesPreferSwords: Anakin uses a lightsaber as he is a Jedi and lightsabers are the Jedi's WeaponOfChoice.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Obi-Wan. Before that all goes to hell.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: The reason why he becomes a Sith Lord. He not only slew the Tusken Raiders responsible for Shmi's death, he also "killed the women and the children."
** Lampshaded by Obi-Wan Kenobi in ''RevengeOfTheSith'': Right before his dual with Anakin, he points out that Anakin has become the very thing he sought to destroy, a Sith Lord.
* HotBlooded: Anakin is overly emotional, passionate, brash, impulsive and hot headed.
* HumanoidAbomination[=/=]{{Golem}}: The films offer us two choices for Anakin's origin: Either he's an avatar of The Force, conceived by parthenogenesis...or he was [[ArtificialHuman created by the Sith Lord Darth Plagueis in that exact same way]].
** ''Literature/DarthPlagueis'' implies that [[spoiler:he's ''both''; he was created by Plagueis's experiments, all right, but the Force didn't like being screwed with and thus ensured that the resulting creation would [[HoistByHisOwnPetard hoist the Sith by their own petard]]]].
* HumanMomNonHumanDad: Anakin's mother is human but the origin of his father is ambiguous and unknown. Anakin's father is nonhuman regardless of which origin story is the truth. Either he was conceived by TheForce or he was created by Darth Plagueis, a Muun and Palpatine's Master. [[spoiler:The ''Literature/DarthPlagueis'' novel explains that the latter was the case.]]
* {{Hunk}}: Anakin is a cross between this and a PrettyBoy.
* HurtingHero: Being TheChosenOne is NOT easy for Anakin.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: When trying to justify his actions to Padmé in ''RevengeOfTheSith''.
* IDieFree: [[spoiler:He kills his master, even though doing so gets him electrocuted.]]
* ILetGwenStacyDie: Shmi (Anakin's mother) and Padme could be considered Anakin's Gwen Stacys, as they both fed into his wangst that aided his FaceHeelTurn. The former's death he believed he could have prevented if he had stayed at home, while the latter he believed that he had accidentally killed (after all the trouble he went through [[LoveMakesYouEvil turning evil to save her]]).
* IfICantHaveYou: More like "If I Can't Have My Wife" for Anakin.
* ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne: Anakin is TheChosenOne destined to bring balance to The Force. Unfortunately, he ends up getting corrupted to TheDarkSide.
* IgnorantOfTheCall: In Episode I, although it is not exactly clear.
* ImprobablePilotingSkills: Anakin somehow manages to land the remaining section of a breaking-apart capital ship on a landing strip on Courosant.
** Anakin also takes down the Trade Federation blockade in a Naboo Starfighter without prior experience flying one.
** Also he's the only human who can podrace, apparently.
* InTheHood: After joining the Sith, Anakin begins wearing hooded robes a lot more. Until he's encased in armour, that is.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Though he's impulsive, arrogant, and quick to anger, he ultimately is a good person. He even gives a speech to Obi-Wan in ''Revenge Of The Sith'' apologizing for the "Jerk" aspect of his character.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Anakin Skywalker from the prequels. Specifically, he quickly goes from agonizing over his role in Mace Windu's death to killing younglings without a problem. Anakin finally slips so far, his own wife, Padme Amidala, loses the will to live and eventually dies, and Obi-Wan Kenobi is forced to duel him, ending gruesomely. In order to keep Anakin alive, Emperor Palpatine, a.k.a. Darth Sidious, subjects him to painful body reconstruction. The final push to the Dark Side comes from Palpatine himself- when Anakin asks if Padme is still alive, the Emperor tells him in his anger, he killed her. In pure disbelief of this, Anakin's true power flares up, and he screams out in despair, fully overtaken with pain and hate, completing his transformation into Darth Vader.
* KickTheMoralityPet: In Episode III, Anakin force chokes Padmé, his own pregnant wife, nearly to death when she tries to convince him what he's doing is evil. Unfortunately, the incident doesn't prompt him to stop, instead he just blames Obi-Wan for turning her against him.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: In Episode III, the newly minted Sith Lord Darth Vader (i.e. Anakin) slaughtered the entire Separatist Council; but these people not only led an [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized evil rebellion]] against the Republic, they did so with the explicit knowledge that it was purely for the benefit of [[BigBad Darth Sidious, the Dark Lord of the Sith]]: all their ideals of restoring proper democracy were completely false. Therefore, lots of fans aren't particularly sad about Lord Vader's actions.
** Even earlier one: In Episode II: Anakin's killing the village of Tusken Raiders is clearly meant to be seen as the first step in his JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope into villainy. But seeing how those Tusken Raiders did kidnap his mother and tortured her to death, many viewers couldn't help but feel that his actions were pretty justified.
* KidHero: In Episode I. Anakin single-handedly (if accidentally) won the Battle of Naboo at the age of nine.
* KillTheOnesYouLove: [[spoiler: He ends up Force choking Padme, who later dies in despair.]]
* KnightInShiningArmor: He wants to be the most powerful Jedi Knight, but his love for Padme is his first priority.
* KnightTemplar
* KnightTemplarParent: Heartbroken by the seemingly impending death of his wife, Padme, and possibly of his child/children (whose future he cannot see in his visions), he goes on a savage killing spree to to immerse himself in the powers of the Dark Side of the Force, in order to gain the power to save Padme and, if need be, the baby too (this is not precisely clear in the movies - the novelization makes it much more apparent).
* KungFuJesus: A tragic {{deconstruction}}, and eventual {{reconstruction}} of this trope. His son plays it arrow-straight though.
* LadyAndKnight: The Knight to Padmé's Lady.
* TheLancer: To Obi-Wan in the Clone Wars.
* LargeHam: Not in his normal personality, but after his FaceHeelTurn, he becomes a bit bombastic at times.
* LeeroyJenkins: In ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' and ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith. As Darth Vader, this attitude costs him his limbs and most of his body, and after being outfitted with his iconic armor he becomes a much more cautious and calculating fighter.
* LightIsNotGood --> DarkIsEvil --> EvilWearsBlack
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: For Padme. Padme is so heartbroken and devastated by the loss of Anakin that she dies of a broken heart during childbirth.
* LoveCannotOvercome: With Padme in Episode III.
-->'''Padme:''' I don't believe what I'm hearing! Obi-Wan was right... you've changed! You have turned to the dark side! You're not Anakin anymore!
-->'''Anakin:''' [with a growing angry look and voice] I don't want to hear any more about Obi-Wan. The Jedi turned against me. Don't you turn ->against me!
-->'''Padme:''' [crying] Anakin, you're breaking my heart! You're going down a path I cannot follow!
-->'''Anakin:''' Because of Obi-Wan?
-->'''Padme:''' Because of what you've done... what you plan to do! Stop! Stop now... come back... I love you!
* LoveHungry: Anakin in Episode III for Padme's love. Even more explicit in Matt Stover's novelization, where Anakin reacts angrily and violently towards any perceived threat to his relationship with Padme.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Courtesy of the visions that Padmé would die in childbirth.
* MacGyvering: He built his own podracer from Watto's junkyard. And won the Boonta Eve Classic with it.
* ManOnFire: [[spoiler:The reason for his EmergencyTransformation.]]
* MasterSwordsman: Anakin mastered the Form V: Djem So style of lightsaber combat, which focused on offence.
* MeaningfulName: The name Anakin means "warrior".
* MessianicArchetype: He was prophesied to bring balance to the Force.
* MomentOfWeakness: See StartOfDarkness.
* MoralDilemma: Anakin believes he has to use the Dark Side or else Padmé will die.
** Also, Anakin's choice between letting Mace Windu unlawfully kill Palpatine or saving the Sith Lord's life.
* MrFanservice
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: In Episode III, Anakin says this (minus the "My God") after watching Palpatine kill Mace Windu, which he was only able to do because Skywalker had just cut off the Jedi Master's hand, causing him to lose the lightsaber he'd been using to block Palpatine's lightning.
** Although he refuses to admit it, insisting he hates them, Anakin is clearly genuinely shaken up by his slaughter of the Tusken Raiders.
** And the end of the film, when Anakin newly turned into Darth Vader gets out of surgery and he is told what happened to Padme. And in this case doubles as a BigNo.
* MyGreatestFailure: Not being able to [[SelfFulfillingProphecy save Padme from dying during childbirth]].
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: To Palpatine.
* {{Necromantic}}: In Episode III, Anakin turns to the TheDarkSide so he can learn how to keep his wife from dying, and if necessary bring her back from the dead. Before she's actually dead. [[SelfFulfillingProphecy And then he kills her because he's evil now.]]
* NeverMyFault: In Episode III, Anakin blames Obi-Wan for turning Padmé against him. It couldn't have been your [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope sharp descent]] into [[FaceHeelTurn violent murder and villainy]], no...
** Later on, Anakin, waking on the slab, initially has this reaction to being told that he had killed Padme. He thinks that he loves her, always will, could never will her death - but he remembers the cold terror he felt when thinking of her death (said terror is called "the dragon" in the text. ItMakesSenseInContext) that made him create Darth Vader, and he remembers Vader's fury and hatred.
* NiceJobBreakingItHerod: Subverted. There is a prophecy about TheChosenOne (Anakin) bringing balance to TheForce; while some interpret this to mean that he'll decimate the Jedi who are more numerous than the Sith, the Jedi view, and the one espoused by WordOfGod, is that he will root out and destroy the Sith Lord lurking in the shadows. [[BigBad Palpatine]] knows about this prophecy, and when TheChosenOne is discovered, he doesn't kill him (Anakin). Palpatine spends quite some time befriending and grooming the boy (Anakin) until he could cause a FaceHeelTurn and use him against the Jedi. However, the Original Trilogy then has the son of TheChosenOne (Luke), redeem him and cause a HeelFaceTurn in Anakin. Palpatine tries to kill Luke, and Anakin, TheChosenOne, kills him, finally fulfilling the prophecy.
** The Sith have their own prophecy, of the Sith'ari, who will both destroy their order and bring it its greatest height of power (the order in which this will happen not being explicitly specified). While Word of God holds that prophecy had already been fulfilled 1000 years earlier, many fans find it more appealing for Anakin/Darth Vader to be the fulfillment of both prophecies, by destroying both the Jedi ''and'' the Sith.
* NobleMaleRoguishMale: With Obi-Wan. Anakin is the Roguish to Obi-Wan's Noble.
* OedipusComplex: Anakin was very obsessed with his mother, Shmi. He marries a woman (Padme) who looks like his mother. His mother's death is one of the things that drives him to the Dark Side. He supposedly doesn't have a biological father, but Palpatine is hinted to have used TheForce to create him and acts as a father figure to him. Obi Wan is also a father figure to Anakin. Guess what happens to the both of them.
* OfficialCouple: With Padme as of Episode II.
* OhNoNotAgain: Anakin dives off a speeder in the middle of aerial traffic and all Obi-Wan can come up with is a mildly disgruntled "I hate it when he does that." Anakin also commented that his lightsaber had been destroyed once before.
* OneManArmy: In Episode III.
* OpposedMentors: Anakin has to choose between following Obi-Wan Kenobi and Palpatine. Eventually, [[FaceHeelTurn he chooses Palpatine]] and turns to TheDarkSide.
* PapaWolf: To his unborn kids. [[spoiler: And to his son Luke when Palpatine tries to kill him.]]
* ParadiseLost: Anakin, the Jedi's Morning Star, standing against the fire-and-brimstone backdrop of Mustafar in Episode III.
%%* TheParagonAlwaysRebels
* PassedOverPromotion: Part of his resentment against his fellow Jedi stems from their not making him a Knight sooner, which he feels is long past due, and [[YouAreNotReady for not promoting him to the rank of Master]] when he's appointed to serve on the Jedi Council. Obi-Wan points out that being on the Council at all is an impressive achievement and unheard of at his age.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Anakin's slaughter of the Tusken Raiders for killing his mother.
* PhysicalGod: WordOfGod says that had he not been crippled at Mustafar, he would've eventually ended up as this. His son realizes his potential in the ExpandedUniverse.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: See his FantasticRacism towards the Sand People. He also has authoritarian political views which are rapidly warped into ''totalitarian'' ones when he becomes Darth Vader.
* PowerLevels: The "[[DoingInTheWizard midichlorian]]" concept was criticized by fans as this, especially with Obi-Wan's non-ironic observation that Anakin clocks in at OverNineThousand. This didn't stop WordOfGod from declaring that Anakin ''is'' meant to be the strongest Force-user in canon, equaled only by his son. See also CyberneticsEatYourSoul.
* PrettyBoy: Anakin is a cross between this and {{Hunk}}. How is that even possible?
* TheProtagonist: Anakin is the focal or central character of the entire ''StarWasrs'' saga or series.
%%* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain
* PsychicPowers: As a highly Force-sensitive little boy, he was able to use them in some situations (podraces, for instance) without really knowing where it came from. He learned to master them during his Jedi training.
* PsychopathicManchild: He becomes one in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' after his FaceHeelTurn.
* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: [[ItWasHisSled Obviously.]]
* PyrrhicVillainy: Sure, Anakin helps to won the war, and his FaceHeelTurn to TheDarkSide allowed Chancellor Palpatine to take over the galaxy. But he ends up losing Padme, the pregnant wife he did it all for, had his limbs chopped off by Obi-Wan at the end of their fight and severely burned away by the magma, resulting in him being reconstructed with cybernetic limbs and black armor.
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler:He gets his legs and arm chopped off, is set on fire and immolated, and then left to die. Subverted in that he survives.]]
%%* RedemptionEqualsDeath
* RedEyesTakeWarning: After turning to [[spoiler: the Dark Side]], his eyes become jaundiced.
* RedHerring: When Anakin is trying to fight against the Geonosians inside of the Droid factory, he at one point gets his arm trapped within a piece of molded armor, and is drawing closer and closer to a crushing machine/cutting machine, causing the audience to think he'll lose his arm as a result of the battle. Turns out, he actually loses it during the battle with Dooku.
* RedOniBlueOni: The Red to Obi-Wan's Blue.
* ReforgedIntoAMinion: In Episode III, Emperor Palpatine's conversion of Anakin into the infamous masked cyborg counts, although Anakin had already joined TheDarkSide and was significantly weaker afterwards.
* RenownedSelectiveMentor: Due to his unusual affinity with the Force, Anakin gets mentoring and attention from high-ranking Jedi beyond that given to other padawans.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Anakin performs one of these on a camp of Tusken Raiders after they kill his mother.
* RogueProtagonist: If you go chronologically, Anakin is the protagonist of the entire series or saga and later on, he becomes the antagonist.
* ScarsAreForever: The scarring Anakin incurred in Episode III is what made Darth Vader's iconic appearance and sfx in the original trilogy possible — even necessary.
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Anakin, trying to stop Padmé from dying in childbirth, ends up killing her.
* SelfProclaimedKnight: At the end of ThePhantomMenace, Anakin is allowed to be trained as a Jedi Knight in even though he is too old. He vents his frustration to Senator Amidala in AttackOfTheClones that he's ready to be a knight, but they won't let him move on.
* SerialProstheses: Anakin loses a hand in Episode II, and then loses most of his remaining limbs in Episode III. He re-loses some of those limbs, and in Episode VI, Luke cuts off his arm again.
* ShirtlessScene: Anakin after waking up from his nightmare in Episode II.
* SingleTargetSexuality: Anakin was in love with Padmé since [[PrecociousCrush he was ten]], and his love never weakened, even though they didn't meet for ten years after in Episode II.
* SingleTear: After [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope murdering hundreds of Jedi]] [[KickTheSonOfABitch and the helpless Trade Federation leaders]], Anakin looks out into the [[DeathWorld hellscape]] that is Mustafar and [[ManlyTears silently sheds a tear of remorse.]]
* SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: Killing the Tusken Raiders is Anakin's first openly evil act, specifically intended to foreshadow his eventual fall.
* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Kind of: When Anakin meets Watto again and asks where Shmi Skywalker is, Watto wonders if he is Anakin, but then decides he really is Anakin after he notices that his pit droid was fixed.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Anakin's destroying the Trade Federation's droid control station in the first prequel was a massive stroke of luck. To the extent that not even he realized what was happening. He just hid in an unmanned Naboo fighter and stuff happened.
* SpoiledBrat: He thinks he was entitled to everything the Jedi would give him.
* StarcrossedLovers: With Padme. Due to their respective roles as Jedi and Senator requiring them to be on different planets, they were often star crossed. [[ShoutOut Even their romance theme was entitled: ''Across the Stars''.]]
** By ''RevengeOfTheSith'', this overlaps with DatingCatwoman [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation to an extent.]] Anakin sides with Chancellor Palpatine while Padme leads the political opposition against him. Hints of this are shown earlier in which he talks about how much he hates politicians and that a system with a benevolent dictator would be superior.
* TheStarscream: To the Jedi, and tries to be this to Palpatine twice. In ''RevengeOfTheSith'', Anakin believes he can overthrow Palpatine and rule the galaxy with Padme, likely foreshadowed in ''AttackOfTheClones'' with his mistrust in Senatorial politics. Then he tries it again with his son in ''TheEmpireStrikesBack'' and ''ReturnOfTheJedi''. Special mention given because it does not involve the typical Sith MO of killing their masters over power, for it seems more like Anakin does not like how Palpatine rules, and wants to supplant him and perhaps do it better.
* StartOfDarkness: [[PayEvilUntoEvil Slaughtering the]] [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman Tusken Raiders]] after [[ItsPersonal his mother's death.]]
* StudentAndMasterTeam: With Obi-Wan from Episodes II-III.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: Per WordOfGod, this is how Anakin defeats Count Dooku ... but it has the cost of causing him to [[StartOfDarkness edge closer]] to TheDarkSide.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: After the newly minted Darth Vader kills the Separatist council, his eyes are shown with yellow irises with [[RedEyesTakeWarning red rims]].
%%* SuddenSequelHeelSyndrome
* TantrumThrowing: In Episode II. Anakin does this while ranting about how Obi-Wan's "holding him back."
* TearsOfRemorse: Anakin as the newly-forged Darth Vader in ''RevengeOfTheSith'', while massacring a roomful of untrained kids in the Jedi Temple and after slaughtering a roomful of surrendering Trade Federation leaders and their bodyguards.
* TheseHandsHaveKilled: he first thing Anakin says when he looks at his own hands is to admit that he killed the Tusken Raiders.
* ThirdActMisunderstanding: In Episode III, Anakin comes to believe that Padmé and Obi-Wan are conspiring against him because they've been talking to each other about their concern over him.
%%* ToBeLawfulOrGood
* TooDumbToLive: In Episode III, Anakin on Mustafar. He was blinded by his arrogance and rage, and was nearly killed because he tries to make the jump towards Obi-Wan standing at the shore of the lava river. He would've died if Palpatine didn't arrived on time to rescue him.
* TookALevelInBadass: Between ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' and ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''. Anakin takes a level in badass between Episodes II and III, becoming a full Jedi Knight (and losing the awful rattail). By the time of the original trilogy this has flip-flopped though, with him being more ruthless and physically stronger as a cyborg but less powerful with the Force (and [[BodyHorror horribly crippled]]).
* TookALevelInJerkass: To a GREAT extent. But [[StartOfDarkness this is kind of the whole point of the trilogy]].
* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: Anakin's impatience and unwillingness to listen to Obi-Wan's advice turns him against the Jedi.
* TragicHero: Anakin was a hero of the Republic, got the girl, helped win the war, and saved his Master a number of times. His Fatal Flaw was the fear of losing those he cared about, which fed a hunger for power to prevent it from ever happening, and that eventually turned him into the ever-popular BlackKnight Darth Vader.
** Anakin's main fatal flaw was the desire for control - a concept that had evaded him his entire life. As a slave, he had no control over his life and neither did he as a Jedi. His fear of death and the death of his loved ones (i.e. his mother, Padme, etc) is a representation of his need to control '''EVERYTHING''', even what should be uncontrollable (i.e death). This flaw is tucked away for much of the prequel trilogy with only odd mentions (he mentions a couple of times to Padme how he wants to control the galaxy) but fully reveals itself in the OT where Vader is the epitome of tyranny and order. With all of Anakin's loved ones dead or now his enemy, all the man has left is his intense need for ultimate power and control.
* TragicMistake: Anakin breaks with the Jedi by unintentionally aiding Palpatine in killing Mace Windu. "What have I done?" indeed. Mace also makes the fatal mistake to focus on Palpatine's "shatterpoint", which was Anakin, while completely ignoring Anakin's "shatterpoint", Padme.
** WordOfGod suggests that the real tragic mistake was Mace Windu taking that dramatic killing swing at Palpatine, instead of just finishing him off instantly. It gave Anakin time to intervene.
** WordOfGod also suggests that while Palpatine knew Anakin would intervene, Mace had no idea it would happen, leaving him deceived by the old man.
** WordOfGod also suggests that Anakin did not intend for Mace Windu to be killed by Palpatine, as he was actually trying to stop Windu from falling to the Dark Side by murdering Palpatine (presumably due to guilt for killing Dooku). Unfortunately, he didn't anticipate that Palpatine would play possum and then attack Mace Windu when his guard was forcibly dropped.
%%* TraumaCongaLine
%%* TroubledButCute
* TwoRoadsBeforeYou: Anakin struggled with being loyalty to The Jedi and to The Sith. He was also caught between being a part of TheForce or TheDarkSide.
* UngratefulBastard: Wow, is he ever. Anakin himself starts to show signs of this when he puts the blame on Obi-Wan for holding him back after he failed to save his mother at the Tusken Raider camp.
** Anakin was rather distrustful of the Jedi for not going easy on him and more so when he was refused the rank of Jedi Master. So how does he repays them after all his years of serving them? By making his FaceHeelTurn to TheDarkSide and killing them in Order 66.
* UniversalDriversLicense: He could pilot anything from a podracer in his youth (in ''ThePhantomMenace'') to the Confederacy's enormous flagship (in ''RevengeOfTheSith''). With ease.
* UnstoppableRage: Anakin has serious issues with anger, rage and controlling his temper. He becomes better at [[TranquilFury outwardly restraining himself]] after this costs him the majority of his body.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Anakin is the Instigator of his own doom. If he hadn't finished that protocol droid he had started in The Phantom Menace, things could have been very different. One possible unfolding: R2-D2 would have never been sold to the Lars family without C-3P0's endorsement, thus R2 stays with the Jawas, R2 gets vaporized when the detachment of Stormtroopers find the sandcrawler, and Leia's message never reaches Obi-Wan.
* UnwittingPawn: For Palpatine, who manipulates him into succumbing to TheDarkSide.
* UpbringingMakesTheHero: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. Anakin had as good an [[BornIntoSlavery upbringing as a slave]] could have thanks to his mother, Shmi, though he still struggled with anger and emotional issues during his entire career as a Jedi. When she died, horribly and just after Anakin rescued her, he took it very badly and the fear of losing his wife and unborn children as well were key factors in his fall to TheDarkSide, (though Palpatine easily capitalized on this to convert him).
** The StarWarsExpandedUniverse actually gives many justifications for Anakin's eventual fall. After being adopted by the Jedi, the other Jedi didn't exactly welcome him lovingly. Instead Anakin spent his adolescent years being mostly alienated by his masters and peers; he also would rather clutter the Temple's halls with droids he built and join illegal street races than meditate, and the few genuine friends he did make ended up dead. By the time he made the choice to fall, Mace Windu was fully aware that Anakin was a tangled emotional wreck who had been bounced around between conflicting allies and didn't know where to turn, but unfortunately Mace didn't know how he could help Anakin with his troubles without making them worse. Prequel-era Jedi in general are often portrayed as not being very competent regarding psychological stability despite all their preaching about peace and calmness, which is why many Jedi had rebelled during the Clone Wars.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Courtesy of Shmi's death.
* VaderBreath: When Anakin officially becomes Darth Vader at the end of Episode III.
* VillainousBreakdown: In Episode III, Anakin went through this after his FaceHeelTurn. He really start to lose after seeing Obi-Wan on Padme's ship, resulting in him Force choking his wife and dueling with his former Jedi master on Mustafar.
* VillainProtagonist: In the second half of of ''RevengeOfTheSith''.
* WeCanRebuildHim: He gets his arm replaced with a mechanical one more than once. There's also his becoming Darth Vader.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Anakin tries to convince Padme to become his Empress so they can rule the galaxy and "make things the way we want them to be!" Her horrified reaction is similar to their son Luke's when Anakin makes a similar offer to him in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: With Obi-Wan. Taken to the extreme in Episode III, during the battle between Anakin and Obi-Wan.
* WeaponOfChoice: A blue lightsaber in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''.
* WellDoneDadGuy: ''InTheTruceAtBakura'' (of the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse''), Anakin, who was a Force ghost, expresses to his daughter Leia how he is really proud of her, but she became angry with him due to the atrocities he had committed in his reign as Darth Vader. Later on though, Leia does come around, albeit uneasily.
* WellDoneSonGuy: His relationship with [[TheObiWan Obi-Wan]] was shaped by his desire to earn his master's approval, which was rarely forthcoming. Obi-Wan and Anakin share such a moment in Episode III, where Anakin expresses his anger over being allowed on the Jedi Council while not being advanced to being a Jedi Master. Obi-Wan expresses that his skill and talent is what got him on the Council in the first place, and not to be distraught over the disapproval of the other Jedi. Unfortunately, this doesn't help.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Anakin comes to believe that the Republic is corrupt (true) and that the Jedi are conspiring to take over the galaxy (not true).
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: The more powerful a Jedi Anakin becomes, the more corrupt he becomes and the more Anakin is pushed to join TheDarkSide.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: In Episode III, Anakin final transformation into Darth Vader is shown to be caused by losing everything and everyone he cares for, albeit due to his own actions.
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler:He strangles his wife when she finds out that Obi-Wan stowed away on her ship.]]
* WouldHurtAChild:
** He murders Tusken Raider children after his mother dies.
** [[spoiler:He kills children in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' because they're affiliated with the Jedi.]]
* {{Yandere}}: In ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' for Padme. Anakin lives this trope. He falls in love with exactly ''one'' girl, Padme, in his whole life, and they go from "old crush" to "man and wife" in the course of ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''. Then, he thinks she'll die in childbirth during ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith, so he makes his FaceHeelTurn to TheDarkSide to prevent it...and then he Force Choke her to near death (she later dies on the medical table after her childbirth) because he got it into his head that she betrayed him for Obi-Wan, whom he saw as competition even though he really wasn't.
* YouCantFightFate: In Episode III, Anakin had foreseen his beloved Padme's death and tried to find ways to prevent it, which led him to the dark side. Ultimately, he failed to prevent Padme's death. Not only did he fail to prevent Padme's death, he was the direct cause of it. She "gave up on life" because she had lost him to the dark side. Also, the force choking didn't help matters too much either.
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!!Aalya Secura
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-->'''Played by:''' Amy Allen (Ep. II & III)

Twi'lek Jedi Knight who participated in many major battles throughout the Clone Wars. She was betrayed and killed by Commander Bly and her Clone troopers during Order 66.
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* ActionGirl: She is one of the few survivors of the two-hundred Jedi who went to Geonosis. She also manages to live through the Clone Wars, fighting in numerous major battles, only to get killed at the end during Order 66.
* AlienHair: Her "head tails", which are called lekku.
* BareYourMidriff: Her outfit leaves most of her waist exposed.
%%* BlueSkinnedSpaceBabe
* CanonImmigrant: First appeared in the Dark Horse Comic series, and was included in the films as a reference to that series.
* CustomUniformOfSexy: Her outfit is by far the most revealing of any Jedi.
* DroppedABridgeOnHer: Even though she is a prominent character in the comics (and later the ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'' series), she is seen getting executed by her Clone Troopers during Order 66 without even being able to defend herself.
* FashionableAsymmetry: She does the long sleeve/no sleeve version of the trope.
* InTheBack: Her troops open fire on her while her back is turned to them, [[NoKillLikeOverkill and keep firing into her back long after she has gone down]].
* MsFanservice: Although compared to other Twi'leks, she is pretty modest.
* WeaponOfChoice: A blue lightsaber.
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* FreudianExcuse: Anakin was raised as a slave on a hellish backwater planet, as Yoda pointed out in the very beginning. Then his mother gets killed by Tusken Raiders. Oddly, he seems to have been a fairly happy child. Probably would have cut his master's throat in the night if he'd made it to adolescence on Tatooine, though. On top of it, the love of Anakin's life and the woman that he can't live without, Padme, dies at childbirth. Anakin loses everything and everyone that he loves and has suffered so much loss that it is understandable why Anakin turned to TheDarkSide.

-->'''Played By:''' Amy Allen (Ep. II & III)

* ActionGirl: She is one of the few survivors of the two-hundred Jedi who went to Geonosis.

%%* BareYourMidriff

!! All spoilers regarding the Prequel Trilogy and the Original Trilogy are unmarked. YouHaveBeenWarned.

%%* BizarreHumanBiology

%%* BornIntoSlavery

* AntiAntiChrist: Inverted. Anakin is implied to have been created by a [[DarkMessiah Sith Lord]] in order to wipe out the Jedi. The Jedi discover him and believe he's TheChosenOne who's supposed to destroy the Dark Sith, but he ultimately chooses not to (out of love for Padme, of course) and instead destroys the Jedi, then (again, because of love for his son, Luke) chooses to destroy the Sith. The oddest prediction turns out to be the most accurate, that Anakin's destiny would be to 'bring balance to the Force' by making both sides start again.

* BadassAdorable: In [[ThePhantomMenace Episode I]]. Anakin is born of the Immaculate Conception, incredibly sensitive to The Force, a mechanical genius on his spare time and one of the best podracer pilots in the galaxy, not to mention his instant mastery when it comes to pilot a Naboo royal starfighter, destroying the Trade Federation's mothership thus putting an end to the conflict on Naboo in the process. And he was only 9 years old.

* DoomedByCanon: It was pretty much known what [[FaceHeelTurn Anakin's destiny was going to be since Episode I, despite being a young and innocent boy.]]

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: The reason why he becomes a Sith Lord. Let us not forget he not only slew the Tusken Raiders responsible for Shmi's death, he also "killed the women and the children."

* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Anakin Skywalker from the prequels. Specifically, note how quickly he goes from agonizing over his role in Mace Windu's death to killing younglings without a problem. Anakin finally slips so far, his own wife, Padme Amidala, loses the will to live and eventually dies, and Obi-Wan Kenobi is forced to duel him, ending gruesomely. In order to keep Anakin alive, Emperor Palpatine, a.k.a. Darth Sidious, subjects him to painful body reconstruction. The final push to the Dark Side comes from Palpatine himself- when Anakin asks if Padme is still alive, the Emperor tells him in his anger, he killed her. In pure disbelief of this, Anakin's true power flares up, and he screams out in despair, fully overtaken with pain and hate, completing his transformation into Darth Vader.

* KnightTemplarParent: Heartbroken by the seemingly impending death of his wife, Padme, and possibly of his child/children (whose future he cannot see in his visions), he goes on a savage killing spree to to immerse himself in the powers of the Dark Side of the Force, in order to gain the power to save Padme and, if need be, the baby too (note that this is not precisely clear in the movies - the novelization makes it much more apparent).

** And don't forget the end of the film, when Anakin newly turned into Darth Vader gets out of surgery and he is told what happened to Padme. And in this case doubles as a BigNo.

* SerialProstheses: Anakin loses a hand in Episode II, and then loses most of his remaining limbs in Episode III. He re-loses some of those limbs, and of course, in Episode VI, Luke cuts off his arm again.

* StarcrossedLovers: With Padme. Due to their respective roles as Jedi and Senator requiring them to be on different planets, they were often literally star crossed. [[ShoutOut Even their romance theme was entitled: ''Across the Stars''.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: Between ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' and ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''. Anakin takes a level in badass between Episodes II and III, becoming a full Jedi Knight (and losing the awful rattail). By the time of the original trilogy this has flip-flopped though, with him being more ruthless and physically stronger as a cyborg but less powerful with the Force (and not to mention [[BodyHorror horribly crippled]]).

* WeCanRebuildHim: He gets his arm replaced with a mechanical one more than once. Of course, there's also his becoming Darth Vader.