abandoned his Jedi training to save Han and Leia on Bespin despite Obi Wan’s and Yoda’s warnings
gave his father, who was an evil warlord for over 20 years, a proper Jedi funeral
would not kill his enemies even though it was the easy way out
never ended up picking up power converters at Tosche Station
childhood nickname was “Wormie”
perfect cinnamon roll, too Good for this world, too Pure
i mean he did kill his enemies, let’s not forget that massacre at jabba’s palace there
Yes, but he also tried to bargain for Han’s life before resorting to violence. He’s more like his mother; try and be diplomatic and if that doesn’t work, violence is the last resort.
Also, I was referring to more Palps and Vader. No matter how much Palpatine taunted him, Luke refused to strike him down.
very true, but even then, was destroying the ship and killing everyone left on board entirely necessary? also, he let himself in jabba’s palace by force choking the guards – that’s to show that he may still be close to the dark side, that he may turn like his father (which is silly of course, but that’s what was the goal for the audience)
i think after that bout of violence he smooths out; after he speaks with yoda i feel like there is a change, and that change is what allowed him to stand up to palpatine without violence.
I think the whole scene at Jabba’s was to set up the fact that Luke was pretty damn close to the Dark Side. That’s his whole character, actually. Here is this pretty innocent kid who dreams of far off places, but is angry and impatient. Unlike his father, he learns to control those feelings and use them for good, but he struggles with them throughout his journey of becoming a Jedi Knight.
With Luke, he tries to be diplomatic, but when it doesn’t work his anger gets the best of him and he does some pretty questionable things. When he figures it all out, when he learns “control” as Yoda told him, then he’s able to find peace with himself. Who knows, maybe to him, he felt like killing the guards was the only way to get to Leia or to escape. That and it was a rescue mission, so you gotta do what you gotta do haha
Luke isn’t The Punisher but at the same time, outside of special cases like the Emperor/Vader, he generally doesn’t hesitate to kill enemy combatants. In our first glimpse of Luke after ROTJ (in the comics), he’s behaving more like the guy who wrecked Jabba’s palace:
The dialogue is even a callback to Jabba’s palace (“That’s the last mistake you’ll ever make”). Which isn’t to say I think he’s back to skirting the dark side or that he’s acting out of anger, but rather that killing enemies doesn’t seem to present a moral dilemma for Luke. Or any lightsider for that matter – after all, the PT Jedi racked up pretty high kill counts themselves.
I mean, to be fair(ish), most if not all of those people on Jabba’s barge weren’t exactly innocent I gather…
