At the climax of Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker      Rey   dies while killing the bad guy,      Palpatine.   Then      Ben Solo,   comes and uses Force Life Transfer++ to save her life. But in the process, he dies and vanishes. So why did he vanish upon his death but she didn't vanish upon hers?
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Some Jedi disappear when they die:   In Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope       At the end of his duel with Vader on the first Death Star, Obi-Wan Kenobi let down his guard and concentrated for a moment, disappearing entirely just as Vader's lightsaber passed through his empty robe.   In Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi      When Luke returned to Dagobah in the Return of the Jedi, Yoda also disappears when he peacefully dies.  In Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi      When Luke is exhausted after “being” on Crait he looks into the Horizon and disappears.    And others don't:   Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace      When Qui-Gon Jinn's dies after his duel with Darth Maul, he doesn't  disappear and is cremated.  Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi      When Vader/Anakin Skywalker dies on the second Death Star, he does not disappear and he is cremated by Luke.      Also, they all became a "ghost" after their death.
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Just as the question asks: Why did Anakin come to believe that Padmé could be saved if he embraced the Dark side of the Force? Padmé clearly didn't believe it. Why was Anakin so driven to save Padmé through the dark side?
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Is it because Rey just saved BB-8 from a net, and then the droid just decides to follow her about - or is it for some other reason?  Does BB-8 have any idea who Rey is prior to being rescued by her?  Just wondering as she literally tells the droid to go elsewhere.
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I rewatched the three newer movies and noticed that whenever a Jedi was killed, or let go of their lightsaber, it immediately turned off.  What was curious was that the lightsaber turns off right away, when a Jedi is killed, even before it leaves their hand (if it does fall out).  I could understand if the button needs to be held for it to stay on, but when a Jedi is shot and is still holding the lightsaber why would it turn off?
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May the Force be with you is the catch phrase of Star-Wars, but does it make any sense? Obi-Wan himself explains the force like this:  LUKE: The Force? BEN: Well, the Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together.  If &quot;it surrounds us and penetrates us&quot;, how could it not be with you?
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In Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, Chancellor Palpatine tells Anakin the tale of Darth Plagueis the Wise. He told Anakin that if he joined the dark side he could save the people he loved from death by extending their midichlorian count, just as Darth Plagueis had done (obviously more subtly than that).  When Anakin asked what had happened to Plagueis, Palpatine says:      Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew. Then his apprentice...killed him in his sleep.   It is revealed (not in the movie) that it was Palpatine himself that was Plagueis' apprentice  After Anakin and Palpatine kill Mace Windu, Palpatine says,     To cheat death is a power only one has achieved, but if we work together I know we can discover the secret.   This implies that Palpatine doesn't already know the secrets but if Plagueis taught him "everything he knew" then surely he would have.  So did Sidious know the entire time or was "everything he knew" an exaggeration?  Just to be clear when I say "cheat death" I only mean extending someone's midichlorian count, not "transfer essence" or anything else like that.
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I know there are similar questions out there, but from what I know the new Princess Leia comic deals IMMEDIATELY after the award ceremony and the ensuing evacuation.  My question:   Why not before?  (I know the real-world answer) they knew the planet was going to get destroyed.  Could it have been an act of loyalty to rebel high command?  Were they worried the Death Star would feint using it's super laser and try a ground assault (so they needed the troops)?  Or is there room for us simply to assume they did a partial evacuation, and then either just had the ceremony with the , or the evacuees returned to help break down the equipment?
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I always wondered why Admiral Motti and Governor Tarkin in the movie  insinuate that the Force is an old, dead religion?  :     The Jedi are extinct, their fire has gone out of the universe. You, my friend, are all that's left of their religion.   :     Don't try to frighten us with your sorcerous ways, Lord Vader. Your sad devotion to that ancient religion has not helped you conjure up the stolen data tapes, or given you clairvoyance enough to find the rebels' hidden fortress...   Tarkin, as human, must be around age 50, so, if in Episode IV Luke is about 20, when he was just born at the end of Episode III, Tarkin must have been around 30, so a perfect young man in a Galaxy that used to know Jedis, Jedi Council, Force etc..  Why, 20 years later, he just looks like someone who never saw a Jedi/Sith? Also, besides from Force sensitives (Obi-Wan, Yoda, Vader, the Emperor), nobody else looks like they ever heard of the Force ... that's really weird, isn't it?
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In The Force Awakens, the following conversation takes place, on Starkiller Base:     Han Solo: People are counting on us. The galaxy is counting on us.      Finn: Solo, we'll figure it out. We'll use the Force.      Han Solo: That's not how the Force works!   Finn was willing to lead Han and Chewie behind the enemy lines, without really knowing what he was about going to do. At the site, he figured they'd use the Force – of which he was never even supposed to have heard of! Where did he get the idea the Force would help them? And in what way? As a Stormtrooper of the First Order, where did he get any thoughts regarding to the Force, and how it works?
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In Star Wars Episode III, before the battle on Mustafar, why didn't Obi-Wan admit to Anakin that it was his idea to hide in Padmé's ship to find him? His hate towards her would at least be forgiven, since Obi-Wan had no idea how the confrontation with Anakin would start or if Padmé died.
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We all knew from ANH that Leia was on a mission to bring Obi-Wan to Alderaan.  Now, in Rogue One we saw Mon asking Bail Organa to call "his jedi friend". Since Yoda always took a position of leadership both among the Jedi Order and among the Republic, shouldn't the Alliance have called for him, instead of Obi-Wan? Bail also knew that Yoda was in hiding, they meet together at the end of Episode III.  I realize that Yoda is in hiding so the Emperor and Vader would not feel his presence. Also, I know he said to Obi-Wan:     Yoda: Until the time is right disappear, we will.   Meaning they would stay in hiding until it was time to train Luke. But, since you are already going to call for a Jedi for help, why Obi-Wan and not Yoda? Or even both?
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In The Force Awakens:      Maz Kanata tells Rey that the lightsaber she just picked up and had visions from belonged to Anakin and Luke and now it's hers.   The lightsaber that Luke got from Obi-Wan Kenobi in A New Hope was lost/destroyed when Luke fought Darth Vader in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.  In Return of the Jedi Darth Vader compliments Luke on building a new lightsaber and tells Luke that his skills are now complete.   How could that possibly be the lightsaber that Anakin used originally, and that was then passed on to Luke, when that lightsaber no longer exists?  Writers notes, director's notes, interviews, cast interviews, etc. are welcome. Thanks.
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In Star Wars: The Force Awakens, before the battle between Kylo Ren and Rey we watch Kylo trying to force pull Luke's blue lightsaber but without success. Now, in The Last Jedi, Kylo uses the Force to move Luke's Lightsaber and      kills Supreme Leader Snoke.    What has changed and why can Kylo move the lightsaber now?
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How does Kylo Ren stop the blaster shot in the beginning when being shot at by Poe, only to be unaware of the coming blaster shot from Chewbacca, which seems much more predictable.   I am sure he knew Chewbacca, Rey and Finn where there as Chewbacca turns with the opening of the doors when Rey and Finn come in.  EDIT in regards to Richards Answer: I just want to expand a little more on question. What I don't understand is that Kylo Ren uses the force, so it is just not a matter him not hearing. When Poe shoots him from behind, he makes no sound, but yet he turns and stops the blaster and Poe. That has to be due to the power he commands in the Force.  And this is from Obi-Wan Kenobi:     "Well, the Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It's an energy field   created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us; it   binds the galaxy together."―Obi-Wan Kenobi —   So it seems to me that it would be very hard for him even in a weakened state to not even notice that he was being shot at by virtue of the force being a part of Sith and Jedi's alike. Even if he was too weak to actually stop the blaster, the Force should have been able to warn him.
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The default answer among most people to my previous  seems to be that Obi-Wan was referring to becoming a force ghost. Now whilst this seems pretty cool, you are now hindered into well Kyle Jones says it best     Force Immortality seems like a bust to me. Obi-Wan could get around the galaxy without a starship, true, but the fine print of the immortality contract restricted him to visiting only a few close friends. Seems like being alive with a good galactic cellphone plan would be an all-around better deal. And of course there were the women... – Kyle Jones    So what gives? Are you inherently more powerful as a force ghost?
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Hidden away in a storage room beneath Maz Kanata's Castle, Rey finds Luke's first / Anakin's second lightsaber      We last saw that weapon when Luke's hand was severed on cloud city, causing the hand and lightsaber to fall down the same chasm Luke later falls down.  How did it get from where we saw it last to eventually end up in Maz Kanata's Castle?
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In The Force Awakens there is a new Stormtroopr who is equipped with a lightsaber-resistant baton.    Except for one thing:   In Revenge of the Sith, most of the Jedi are killed. During the original Star Wars trilogy the last few remaining Jedi — except for Luke Skywalker — die.     And before The Force Awakens Kylo Ren kills off everyone at Luke’s school and drives Luke into exile.    There are practically no lightsabers in existence, so why are these weapons deployed at all if their only use is in counter-lightsaber combat?