As a whole, Star Wars is seemingly built on the idea that the Sith are evil and the Jedi are heroes, but the truth is not so black and white. While there are characters like Obi-Wan Kenobi who are truly good-hearted and remain that way, there are characters that can be labeled as Jedi that do not uphold what that title stands for.

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Whether it's through past trauma or manipulation, some Jedi fall from grace and become no better than what they claim to be fighting against. Others completely change from Jedi to famously becoming Sith Lords wielding the Dark Side of the Force.

10 Cere Junda

Cere Junda using the Dark Side in Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order

Cere Junda fights to protect Force-sensitive children, but without the Force at her disposal. This fallen Jedi cut her connection to the Force because she knows that she is rather powerful with the Dark Side, and if she connects, she becomes on par with the Sith Inquisitors.

Through most of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Cere maintains a level head as she guides Cal Kestis on his journey. However, the story's final act showcases what Junda is capable of when she reconnects with the Force, using her anger to eradicate armies of Stormtroopers and Purge Troopers alike and setting up that she could become a villain in sequels.

9 Ezra Bridger

Ezra Bridger wielding a lightsaber from Star Wars Rebels

Like Anakin Skywalker, Ezra from Star Wars: Rebels began training at an older age than most padawans. After losing his parents, Bridger's immense power in the Force was met with anger in his heart; thankfully, Kanan and the crew of the Ghost kept him on the path of good.

That changed when Ezra gained access to a Sith Holocron and received mentoring from Darth Maul. This led Ezra down a dark path where he mercilessly slaughtered his foes, betrayed his friends, and learned to use the Dark Side. Thanks to Kanan and Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ezra did not fall entirely, but he was no longer a Jedi nor a Sith.

8 Mace Windu

Mace Windu dueling Chancellor Palpatine in Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

In a way, Mace Windu is on the opposite side of the same coin as Anakin Skywalker; where Anakin was constantly questioning his faith in the Jedi, Mace Windu was downright zealous in his following of the Jedi Code. He has little to no emotion except for his anger, which he uses in his rare Vaapad lightsaber fighting style that is usually used by Sith.

In fact, Windu's famous purple lightsaber blade results from the same connection to the Dark Side that Anakin has. So, it is ironic that Mace ends up being the most antagonistic and doubtful of Anakin. Yet, he displays just as many Sith-like qualities as he does, even wanting to murder Palpatine without a fair trial.

7 Barriss Offee

Barriss Offee with two red lightsabers in Star Wars The Clone Wars

Claiming to see the faults in the Jedi Order, Barriss Offee could have simply left much as Ahsoka Tano ends up doing. Instead, Barriss became corrupted by her anger and decided to frame her friend Ahsoka for multiple crimes, thus turning her into a public enemy of the Republic.

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It's a sad case because Barriss was the apprentice of Luminara Unduli, a decorated Jedi Master who valued life. Barriss viewed the Jedi as nothing more than warmongers profiting from the Clone Wars, and while she was not exactly wrong, she went about it in the worst way possible.

6 Asajj Ventress

Asajj Ventress wielding her two red lightsabers in Star Wars

Beginning as a Jedi, Asajj Ventress was a talented apprentice. However, similar to the powerful Sith Inquisitors that would come later, pain and suffering led to her being twisted into an assassin for the Sith. Ventress delighted in inflicting pain on others and excelled as a heartless assassin.

That changed when Ventress was betrayed by Count Dooku, forcing her to survive on her own. Over time, she became less of a villain and more of an anti-hero, becoming an in-between of Jedi and Sith, especially in the Dark Disciple novel.

5 Count Dooku

Count Dooku unleashing his Force lightning in Star Wars: Attack Of The Clones

One of the most powerful characters in Star Wars, Count Dooku is another Jedi that fell to the Dark Side. He saw that the Jedi were too corrupted by their own hubris and obsession with politics, but he was loyal to them until Darth Maul murdered Qui-Gon Jinn.

Darth Sidious wasted no time manipulating Dooku into becoming Darth Tyrannus and betraying the Jedi to become a Sith Lord. Despite once being an honorable Jedi, his time as a Sith turned him into an extremist who stopped at nothing to overthrow the Republic and the Jedi Order while lusting to replace Sidious as the true Sith Lord.

4 Ben Solo

Kylo Ren meets Emperor Palpatine in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

While Ben Solo did turn back to the light in the end and redeem himself, there is no denying the evil acts he performed as Kylo Ren. From conquering entire planets to slaughtering innocent people to using the Force to scramble the minds of victims, Kylo Ren made a name for himself as a monster that the galaxy feared.

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When Ben killed Supreme Leader Snoke, it wasn't for the benefit of the galaxy. Kylo even committed patricide by impaling Han Solo with a lightsaber after falsely giving his father hope that he would turn good, but the kill would end up being the catalyst that would begin his change to the Light Side.

3 Anakin Skywalker

Anakin Skywalker fallen to the Dark Side in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

Poor Anakin is the prime example of everything wrong with the Jedi Order. From a young age, Skywalker has always had such anger within him due to his origin as a slave on Tattooine. That only heightened after the Order betrayed him so many times in different ways, leading him to become Darth Vader, a killer of men, women, and children, including his own wife.

That is only a fraction of the sins committed by Darth Vader, who would go on to be an unstoppable villain that would conquer entire systems without caring who is hurt or killed in the process. He would constantly scheme ways of possibly killing the Emperor to take complete control and torture surviving Jedi into becoming Inquisitors.

2 Taron Malicos

Cal Kestis confronting Taron Malicos in the Dathomir temple in Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order

Debuting in Fallen Order, Taron Malicos is a stand-out character in Fallen Order because he is a Jedi that fell from the Light Side to the Dark but does not embrace the Sith moniker. Instead, Taron is the epitome of a rogue Jedi, relishing in the darkness found naturally on Dathomir.

The Dark Side turned Malicos into a twisted murderer who wants to rid the galaxy of all Jedi loyal to the Order. He lied to the last Nightsister, Merrin, causing her to make enemies with people like Cal, who mean no harm to her or her people. It's a shame that Malicos dies because he could have been a recurring threat unlike any other.

1 General Pong Krell

Pong Krell fighting Rex in Star Wars: The Clone Wars

If the Sith had recruited General Pong Krell and taught him all they knew, he arguably would have been on par with Darth Vader. Unlike Dooku or Anakin, who betrayed the Jedi for what they thought was a good cause, Krell did it because he liked it, that it was exhilarating to be the bad guy.

Pong willingly sacrificed clone troopers, viewing them as lesser beings than himself while using his immunity as a Jedi to get away with it. Captain Rex is able to expose Krell for the cruel villain that he really is, an acolyte of the Sith who enjoys slaughtering clones and being the one in charge.

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