When Star Wars first began, nobody could have predicted the millennia-spanning franchise that was to follow that original event. As such, even George Lucas has messed up his own continuity multiple times. As more creators come into the Star Wars universe, it only becomes more and more difficult to avoid having plot holes.

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Unfortunately, there do end up being more than quite a few in the Star Wars franchise, in particular. While some of these have been explained away, others are Star Wars plot holes that everyone just ignores in order to make it easier to enjoy the movies.

10 Leia Claims To Have Memories Of Her Mother —Who Died In Childbirth

Padme dies in childbirth

When Luke and Leia discuss Leia’s mother in Return of the Jedi, Leia reveals something surprising to Luke. She tells Luke that, though she doesn’t remember much about her birth mother, she can remember images of her, and feelings from her.

Later on, when the birth of Luke and Leia is actually depicted on screen, Padmé dies pretty much instantly. Leia would have no way to remember anything about her mother, especially how she looked.

9 Obi-Wan Kenobi Apparently Doesn’t Recognize R2-D2

Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: A New Hope

Quite a few characters interact in A New Hope who should, theoretically, recognize one another from the prequel trilogy, but do not. While it is explained that C-3PO had his memory wiped so he wouldn’t know anyone, Obi-Wan has had no such event happen to him.

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He interacts with R2-D2 and C-3PO and doesn’t recognize them at all. He did actually know them for some time, and the idea that he would somehow forget who they were in less than twenty years is laughable.

8 Luke Occasionally Completely Forgets He Can Use The Force

Luke Skywalker In Return Of The Jedi

While Luke can be a bit of a forgetful person at times, he is also an incredibly skilled Force user. By Return of the Jedi, he’s arguably the most powerful Force user apart from people like Darth Vader or Emperor Palpatine and is leading the Rebels to victory.

At times, though, Luke seems to have no understanding of, or control over, the Force at all. He is caught asking Han to get his lightsaber for him, he throws rocks at the controls on the gate that kills the rancor, and he often just runs or flips out of the way of trouble instead of stopping it with his abilities.

7 Obi-Wan Kenobi Has Had Multiple Masters By His Own Admission

Yoda and Obi-Wan in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

The way that Obi-Wan introduces Yoda to Luke Skywalker in The Empire Strikes Back is as his Jedi Master. Specifically, Obi-Wan says Yoda is “the Jedi Master who instructed me.” Despite the fact that this very obvious and direct quotation was given, Yoda was not Obi-Wan’s Master in the past.

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Instead, Obi-Wan’s Master was Qui-Gon Jinn. Unless Obi-Wan is lying —which, many of these plot holes could be explained away with a weak “Obi-Wan lied, move on,”— then this is yet another plot hole fans just have to choose to ignore.

6 Poe Dameron Survived —Thankfully, But Inexplicably

Poe meets Finn again

It may be obvious just by watching The Force Awakens that Poe Dameron wasn’t supposed to live through the movie. He was meant to die in his first film in the trilogy, but he ended up being so great —and Oscar Isaac’s portrayal so excellent— that he was chosen to remain in the franchise, and even became one of the trilogy’s primary protagonists.

Despite this —or, perhaps, because of this— the way that Poe came back is handled with very little tact. There’s no explanation for how he survived, where he went, or how he got back from wherever he went in the first place after his crash-landing with Finn on Jakku. This makes so little sense it’s almost shocking that Disney let this slip past them in their revival of Star Wars.

5 Han Solo Has Definitely Used Chewbacca’s Bowcaster Before

Han uses Chewbacca's Bowcaster

A stranger element of the Star Wars movies is this inability for creators to realize that characters are capable of living when they’re offscreen. Star Wars feels a strange obligation to show each and every interaction between characters and explain them all. Unfortunately, this leaves relationships like the dynamic between Han and Lando feeling stilted and awkward, in the end.

Han Solo, at one point, also gets to use Chewbacca’s bowcaster in the sequel trilogy, and comments that he never has before and he likes it. This seems absurd when they have spent so long traveling exclusively together, and this has been Chewbacca’s weapon of choice the entire time.

4 Anakin Skywalker Doesn’t Have A Father

shmi skywalker

Perhaps one of the most jarringly humorous —and glaringly obvious— allusions in Star Wars history is Anakin Skywalker’s immaculate conception. Much like Jesus Christ before him (or after him, depending on just how long ago Star Wars really was), Anakin is born to a mother, but has no father.

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Instead, he is a vergence in the Force, and his blood is full of midi-chlorians. As such, this also means that Luke and Leia are part cosmic energy, as they are Anakin’s children —and, by extension, Kylo Ren would be, as well. This doesn’t make logical sense, or really narrative sense, ultimately —though it could be interesting conceptually.

3 Galen Erso Leaves Behind An Unnecessarily Complex Puzzle

Galen Erso in front of Stormtroopers in Rogue One.

For many years, one of the most glaring plot holes in Star Wars history was the inclusion of the exhaust ports that could so easily blow up the Death Star on the weapon’s design plans. The idea that somebody would build the Death Star with such an easily-accessed fatal flaw was laughable, but Rogue One tried to fix this narrative mistake.

This movie explained that Galen Erso specifically built this weakness into the Death Star so it could be destroyed —and he left behind a cryptic message in case anyone wanted to access it, which really defeats the entire purpose and just creates a brand-new plot hole.

2 Luke Was Never Really In Hiding From Darth Vader

Melancholic Luke Skywalker admires the binary sunset of Tatooine
Luke Skywalker admires the binary sunset of Tatooine.

After Padmé gives birth to Luke and Leia, the twins are split up and sent into hiding to keep them safe from anyone who might wish to use them or do them harm —especially Anakin Skywalker. Now Darth Vader, their famous —or infamous— father would do anything to get his hands on his children, if only he knew they were alive.

However, while Leia’s name is changed to Leia Organa and she’s placed with Bail and Breha Organa, Luke is still Luke Skywalker, and he’s given to Anakin’s stepbrother, Owen Lars. He even grows up exactly where Anakin grew up. Luke really isn’t in hiding, nor is anybody really going to great lengths to disguise him.

1 Anakin Can Sense That Luke Is His Child, But Not Leia

Leia and Vader interact in A New Hope

Because Anakin, Luke, and Leia are so strong in the Force, Anakin says that he can sense that Luke Skywalker is his son. He senses their bond and is able to reveal to Luke that they are father and son. However, despite the fact that Luke and Leia can also communicate through the Force, Anakin doesn’t seem to get any related energies off of Leia.

Theoretically, based on what Vader himself says about Luke, he should be able to vibe that Leia is his daughter, but he never says or does anything that indicates he is aware of her true parentage.

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