'Star Wars' Reveals the Reprehensible Reason Vader Cut Off Luke's Hand

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Luke Skywalker screaming at Darth Vader's revelation in 'Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back'

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9 Comments

  1. Kelvington

    Not to be THAT GUY, but you got the line wrong, the line is, “No, I am your father.” You should list it as, to paraphrase the famous line Darth Vader says – I am your father -. Getting things right is important.

  2. Backcountry164

    Nope. I’ll stick with what was Lucas’s original intent. No one cares what sort of garbage the Story Group comes up with. If Disney wants their golden goose to start laying eggs they’ll have to retcon most of what’s been spewing from Lucasfilm the last few years anyway…

  3. Tony Junior

    In a “Star Wars” comic from the 90’s, the Jedi use the Force to yank weapons away from their enemies, as they prefer to disarm rather than fight. Darth Vader famously did this to Han Solo in “The Empire Strikes Back”.

  4. Bandit

    I have one hand. I was happy Vader cut off Luke’s hand.
    We call folks with two arms and legs “people with spares”.
    I was able to identify with Luke after Vader cut off his hand.

  5. Eric Walker Williams

    Also by cutting of his hand he is enduring the trial of the flesh which one must pass to become a Jedi knight just as Anakin did

  6. Chris

    Vader cut off Luke’s hand after Luke got a shot in on Vader’s right shoulder which was live tissue. At that point Vader said play time is over, I’ll teach you little bitch and cut Luke’s hand clean off!

  7. RS_1

    “Cho mai” is covered in great length in the EU. Jedi don’t like killing unnecessarily. Sith often used it when they wanted to turn a Jedi to the Dark Side.

    Cutting off an opponents arm ends the fight immediately. It’s a grievous wound with a huge shock factor.

    It’s that simple. Not sure why this new, lesser, era led but Disney seeks to overcomplicate things. It’s just like the idea of bleeding a force crystal. Much more complex and stupider than the idea that Sith only had access to red synthetic crystals.

  8. Jon Caroulis

    Screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan said he came up with the idea of Like losing his hand, foreshadowing the possibility that Luke could become another Darth Vader.

  9. Nikos

    Would there be pain if it was cauterized the moment it was cut off?

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