WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Star Wars #5, by Charles Soule, Jesus Saiz, Arif Prianto, Dan Brown and Clayton Cowles, on sale now.

Outside of being incredibly powerful Force users, Luke and Anakin Skywalker don't have that much in common. Although they both started out on forgotten desert worlds, they pursued very different paths on their respective roads to infamy. And now, Marvel just revealed another one of the greatest differences between the two Skywalkers.

In Star Wars #5, Luke Skywalker finds himself in a pickle when he falls into the sea of Serelia while pursuing a Jedi fugitive with only R2-D2 to save him, as usual. As they reach the beach, he off-handedly remarks that he loves sand. Although this might have been an ironic remark, prompted by the fact that he had just almost drowned, it still stands in contrast with Anakin's feelings about the desert dust, which he famously expressed for the first time in Attack of the Clones while overlooking a lake of his own.

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On a surface level, these two lines work perfectly, as Anakin (the father) and Luke (the son) are in the exact opposite situations. When he says the line that launched a thousand memes, Anakin is a Jedi Padawan protecting a prestigious senator, with whom he has fallen in love, and who is falling in love with him. When he complains about sand being "coarse and rough and irritating" and getting everywhere, he's standing quietly on a paradisiac estate that overlooks a glimmering lake. To his knowledge --and until the next scene-- his mother, who he had to leave behind, is still alive in Tatooine, the planet where both of them were slaves during his early childhood years. For Anakin, sand represents the endless grind under the twin suns, and he would like nothing more than to take his mother away from Tatooine.

On the other hand, Luke is not even a Jedi yet, has lost his master, has no romantic prospects and is pursuing a fugitive Jedi who would like to see him gone for good. Luke also had a relatively good childhood in Tatooine, if a little boring -- even if it ended violently and abruptly. For Luke, sand is the element that surrounded the comfort and predictability of his home, and even in his later years, he would dream of the life he could have had in Tatooine, as seen in The Last Jedi novelization.

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During Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, Anakin kneels by his mother's gravestone

Charles Soule, the writer behind this Star Wars run, has always had a talent for in-universe parallels, and this is not the first time that he crafts a scene for Luke or for Darth Vader that shines under metatextual references. For instance, Soule's Darth Vader run sent the Lord of the Sith to Jabba's palace in Tatooine, putting him in the same situation as Luke, his son, would be in Return of the Jedi. In addition to referencing the Prequel Trilogy with the sand comment, Star Wars #5 also recalls the sequels, as Luke's s cave journey feels like a failed version of Rey's cave dive in The Last Jedi, which in turn referenced Dagobah vision of The Empire Strikes Back).

As inverse images of each other, Anakin and Luke experience their lowest, most challenging points in the sand and in the water, respectively. For Anakin, that means his childhood as a slave in Tatooine, the separation from his mother and her death in Tatooine, which prompted his first killing spree and his close defeat in Geonosis, the place where the Clone Wars started. At his lowest point, he even retires to Mustafar, a volcanic planet with no water whatsoever, and fuels his dark side from it.

Meanwhile, Luke does pretty okay in the desert -- it's water in all its forms that bothers him. For instance, in A New Hope, he gets dragged by a mysterious aquatic creature in the dank trash compactor, in The Empire Strikes Back he almost dies in the snow, he struggles --and fails-- in swampy Dagobah and gets his hand cut in Cloud City. This stands in contrast to the ease with which he saves Han when he's back in Tatooine, and how self-possessed he is. At his low point in his old age, Luke hides in Ahch-To, a rainy water planet that is the exact opposite of his father's Mustafar.

Despite Anakin's comments, the final moments of The Rise of Skywalker made something abundantly clear is that anyone calling themselves a Skywalker will go back to Tatooine, which suggests that liking sand just comes with the family.

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