Poll of the Day > is mace windu even confirmed dead

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like, he fell out of a window, sure, but he's also one of the strongest fucking jedi

https://www.starwars.com/databank/mace-windu

When Anakin discovered Palpatine was the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, Mace knew the future of the Jedi Order was in grave danger, and sought to arrest the Supreme Chancellor. Mace seemed to defeat Sidious and raised his lightsaber to strike down the Sith Lord, but a desperate Anakin ignited his own weapon and severed Maces forearm. Sidious then blasted Mace with Force lightning, sending the great Jedi champion plummeting to his death.

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Mace_Windu#Duel_with_Darth_Sidious

Windu, whose original goal was to put the Chancellor on trial, concluded that Sidious was too dangerous to be left alive due to his control over the Senate and the courts. But before Windu could deliver the killing strike, Skywalker betrayed Windu by severing his right hand, enabling Sidious to unleash a torrent of Force lightning that sent the Jedi Order's great champion plummeting to his death.

Both the official site and the Wookiepedia site list it as such. So officially dead. Doesn't mean they might not decide he survived for some pre Death Star spinoff, but until they do, he went splat on impact.

I generally assume that anyone that seems to die by falling in movies/TV will be revealed to be alive later if somebody decides it'll help the story.

adjl posted...

I generally assume that anyone that seems to die by falling in movies/TV will be revealed to be alive later if somebody decides it'll help the story.

9/10 that someone is wrong.

Idiot_Savant posted...

I generally assume that anyone that seems to die in any media will be revealed to be alive later if somebody decides it'll help the story

That too, but falling in a visual medium is deliberately ambiguous enough to make it easy to say they survived. Same with being buried under rubble or caught in a chaotic explosion where they disappear. If there's no body, there's a good chance they survived.

No body no death

I kinda though Jedi could control their fall but maybe being electrocuted effected that

Metalsonic66 posted...

No body no death

Sometimes even this doesn't confirm it.

We already know force portals are a thing too, so Mace could have portaled somewhere else to heal.

Metalsonic66 posted...

No body no death

body literally disappears on death

adjl posted...

I generally assume that anyone that seems to die by falling in movies/TV will be revealed to be alive later if somebody decides it'll help the story.

"NO ONE'S EVER REALLY GONE A HYURP DERP!"

But yeah. They're crapping out content so hard and fast at this point (with absolutely no regard for quality) that the moment someone can talk Samuel L Jackson into it, we'll be getting the Mace Windu Disney+ show where it's revealed that he's been alive the whole time and living in hiding in the slums of Coruscant. But then decades later, when he's a bitter grumpy old man, he'll meet a plucky teen girl who will restore his faith in the Force and they'll go on adventures together.

We're already at the point where Yoda's "when gone am I, the last of the Jedi will you be" in Return of the Jedi is laughable horseshit. Because in Disney canon it seems like half the damned Jedi Order just faked their deaths and went into hiding and had tons of secret adventures.

At this point, the only way a character will ever really die for good is if their actor dies in real life. And even that might not be enough, if they just recast the role or use CGI to fill in for the actor.



RVallant posted...

9/10 that someone is wrong.

99% of what Disney has been doing with the Star Wars canon is wrong.

I always used to crap on the EU (and rightfully so), and praised Disney's decision to shitcan it - but they've proceeded to replace it with something far worse.

Arguably it's a problem with post-modernism and "pop culture eating itself", where today's writers lack life experience and mostly only grow up reading/watching pop culture entertainment, and thus lack the creativity to truly come up with new ideas rather than regurgitating or parasitically attaching themselves to old ideas (the same reason why retcons became such a popular storytelling device in comics, where every old story winds up getting retroactively ruined by shitty new writers). Way too much of today's content can basically be described as "telling the same story again, only worse". Or worse, replicating popular scenes and story-beats from older properties, without understanding why they worked in older properties, and thus cranking out stories no one enjoys and no one wants.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

hat the moment someone can talk Samuel L Jackson into it, we'll be getting the Mace Windu Disney+

https://www.cbr.com/samuel-l-jackson-wants-mace-windu-star-wars/

he doesn't need to be talked into it

he already wants it

i can't wait for the all new plo koon adventures coming next fall.

Lokarin posted...

body literally disappears on death

No Jedi robe tumbling gracefully to the ground sans-body, no Jedi death

Darth Maul got cut in half before his fall and they brought him back.

funkyfritter posted...

Darth Maul got cut in half before his fall and they brought him back.

Yeah this

Also Palpatine literally blew up or something

Nade_Duck posted...

i can't wait for the all new plo koon adventures coming next fall.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/2/28292451.png

Yellow posted...

Also Palpatine literally blew up or something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsjwVu_ihKU

What more explanation do you need?

it will be exciting to see what ki adi mundi was doing during the battle of yavin after surviving his epic battle against 80 clone troopers and taking 437 laser blasts to the back.