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Darth-Ghost  5690 posts
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48129_Anakin Skywalker (42109)
Date Posted: 4/21/08 7:18pm Subject: What is the most evil act in all of Star Wars?
I think the destruction of Alderaan would be on the list, but there are so many more choices and events explored in the EU that are far more evil than this. What do you think is the most evil thing ever done in Star Wars?

 

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NelanisGhost  2169 posts
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14535_Yuuzhan Vong High Priestess
Date Posted: 4/21/08 7:21pm Subject: RE: What is the most evil act in all of Star Wars? - Date Edited: 4/21/08 7:40pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Havac
The YV were the most evil. They killed for NO REASON. Saba's whole race, and Ithor and how they trashed and messed up trillions of lives. They should have been destroyed down to bacteria, not rewarded with a fabulous planet to live on. W.T.pants.? That is my reaction to that nonsense.

 

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Charlemagne19  26812 posts
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6408_Jedi Outcast
Date Posted: 4/21/08 7:23pm Subject: RE: What is the most evil act in all of Star Wars? - Date Edited: 4/21/08 7:39pm (2 edits total) Edited By: Havac
Darth-Ghost posted:
I think the destruction of Alderaan would be on the list, but there are so many more choices and events explored in the EU that are far more evil than this. What do you think is the most evil thing ever done in Star Wars?


That depends on how you want to define evil's great.

* General Grevious' destruction of Humbardine is probably the single greatest atrocity in terms of body count that has ever occurred in Star Wars.

* Anakin killing Padme is the only case of spouse abuse in all of the EU.

* Byss is probably the single greatest act of manslaughter ever committed by EU heroes.

* Revelation has the only case of off-screen reported EU Rape with Boba Fett's wife (herself a bounty hunter) being reduced to a "woman in the fridge."

* The Yuuzhan Vong War is undoubtedly the most devastating Star Wars War by far.

NelanisGhost posted:
The YV were the most evil. They killed for NO REASON. Saba's whole race, and Ithor and how they trashed and messed up trillions of lives. They should have been destroyed down to bacteria, not rewarded with a fabulous planet to live on. W.T.pants.? That is my reaction to that nonsense.


Uhhh, didn't they pretty much kill the entirety of the Yuuzhan Vong's leadership so it was mostly Shamed Ones?

Wouldn't this be like rounding up all the German Citizens in Labor Camps and killing them?

 

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masterskywalker  6085 posts
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Date Posted: 4/21/08 7:23pm Subject: RE: What is the most evil act in all of Star Wars?
Ripping someone's mind to pieces with the force, Sith torture style.

I'd put a blaster to my head for SURE if I knew that was coming.

 

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darth_Boba  4990 posts
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Date Posted: 4/21/08 7:28pm Subject: RE: What is the most evil act in all of Star Wars?
I consider Anakin's kid killing to be pretty bad, though I doubt it's the most evil thing anyone in Star Wars has ever done.

 

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MistrX  1520 posts
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14536_Wedge Antilles
Date Posted: 4/21/08 8:02pm Subject: RE: What is the most evil act in all of Star Wars?
On a sheer evil scale, I'm not sure you can top Alderaan in my mind. Though enslaving half of the galaxy and launching the other half into suns for your gods have to rank up there. But that's several acts, rather than one single.

 

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Manisphere  2879 posts
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Date Posted: 4/21/08 8:04pm Subject: RE: What is the most evil act in all of Star Wars?
Anakins killing of the younglings is viscerally the most awful thing I've seen in SW. Alderan is of course worse because it's the death of billions yet because we see none of them it doesn't hit the audience like the destruction of a planet should. But to move the story along we couldn't very well linger in that holocaust. I think even Leia's reaction to Anakin killing the younglings would have been more dramatic than seeing her home planet demolished.

 

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NelanisGhost  2169 posts
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14535_Yuuzhan Vong High Priestess
Date Posted: 4/21/08 8:13pm Subject: RE: What is the most evil act in all of Star Wars? - Date Edited: 4/21/08 8:15pm (1 edits total) Edited By: NelanisGhost
Whoops, sorry, I didn't know we couldn't say that anymore, being nothing really at all, but letters. But I get it.


* Anakin killing Padme is the only case of spouse abuse in all of the EU.


Am I missing something? When did Anakin kill Padme? He didn't kill her. Didn't even hurt her, much, well physically....

 

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Eskimo9000  130 posts
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Date Posted: 4/21/08 8:41pm Subject: RE: What is the most evil act in all of Star Wars?
Darth Zannah butchering Caleb then turning her cousin insane and leaving him to be killed by Jedi so she and bane could escape is probably the most evil act in my opinion.

 

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Charlemagne19  26812 posts
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Date Posted: 4/21/08 8:54pm Subject: RE: What is the most evil act in all of Star Wars?
NelanisGhost posted:


Am I missing something? When did Anakin kill Padme? He didn't kill her. Didn't even hurt her, much, well physically....


I'm pretty sure he choked her to death.

Lost the Will to Live and pregnancy on weird asteroid nonwithstanding.

 

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Master_Keralys  6378 posts
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39907_Obi-Wan Kenobi
Date Posted: 4/21/08 8:57pm Subject: RE: What is the most evil act in all of Star Wars?
Not so much. If he'd choked her to death, she'd have died on the platform. There's no way that choking to death would let her have labor. You can complain about the logic of what actually happened all you want, but the truth is that had he choked her to death, she'd have been dead right then. Trachea collapse leads to death in very short order.

The most evil act in all of SW? That probably has to go to Alderaan, or a similar class of destruction, if we're talking sheer effect of evil. The burning of Ithor, maybe? But for visceral evil, I definitely have to go with either Anakin's killing of the Younglings, or perhaps the murders that open Shatterpoint.

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TogashiAikune  252 posts
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Date Posted: 4/21/08 9:00pm Subject: RE: What is the most evil act in all of Star Wars?
Kyp Durron destroying the Carida star system and as a result all but wiping out an entire sentient species.

 

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CernStormrunner  1378 posts
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Date Posted: 4/21/08 9:04pm Subject: RE: What is the most evil act in all of Star Wars?
This.

 

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Master_Keralys  6378 posts
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Date Posted: 4/21/08 9:10pm Subject: RE: What is the most evil act in all of Star Wars?
Not here, too! tongue

I think a profitable part of this discussion could be looking at the notion of what, precisely, we mean by evil. But perhaps that's another thread entirely. thinking

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rumsmuggler  18279 posts
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Date Posted: 4/21/08 9:17pm Subject: RE: What is the most evil act in all of Star Wars?
Manisphere posted:
Anakins killing of the younglings is viscerally the most awful thing I've seen in SW.


Can you send a copy of that because I didn't see the actual killing in my ROTS dvd. I know it happened but I want to see it for myself tongue

 

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Master_Keralys  6378 posts
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Date Posted: 4/21/08 9:22pm Subject: RE: What is the most evil act in all of Star Wars?
*rolls eyes*

Interestingly, I found that one of the most brutal moments to watch as well, even though it didn't show anything. They got a perfect reaction from that little boy. Heartrending, and literally made me feel ill, as it was no doubt intended to. That was the moment when the extent to which Anakin had fallen came through clearly for the first time (and possibly the only time in RotS).

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