So... Lightsabers can't kill anymore?

Not only do they NOT kill you, apparently they are just a temporary setback when you get ran through...

Discuss

 

No it can. Great!
It killed two stormtroopers in this show.
Fallen Order it killed countless people


So the answer is yes it can kill people. This thread will definitely spawn great discussion. I can tell.

 

Lightsabers cauterize wounds upon impact, so as not to kill immediately and allow for a good cybernetic replacement. They are the Jedi's "less-lethal" weapons, kind of like how cops have tazers.

 

I um still think most force users can't save themselves after being stabbed, even on the dark side . . . we just see the few special ones

PS surely a blaster would cauterize as well...

 

Lightsabers are lame.

 

It isn't just laser swords, it is lasers too apparently, look at Shand, Hunter and Rex.

 

This is really just another death thread.

 

Uhh, isn't this being discussed at the "death problem" thread?

 

In the real world people survive getting shot and stabbed all the time. In fact, people have even survived getting shot point blank in the head. Clearly they cannot kill anyone and reality has terrible writing.

 

Lightsabers are able to cut through nearly any hard substance. If such a weapon were stabbed into a body, it would destroy organs and soft tissue like they were nothing.

It's an absolute joke that human characters can so easily survive such a wound.

And we're not even talking about merely surviving, but barely having such a wound affect you at all!

It's absolutely some of the worst writing any of us will ever see. Pure nonsense!

 

That isn't how anything works.

It can cut through anything? So what, a normal blade can cut flesh fine. It doesn't matter, if the blade doesn't pass through a vital organ one can live through it.

In fact, a lightsaber wound is, if anything, easier to live through than a normal cut, because there is little risk of bleeding to death or getting an infection, due to the wound being cauterized.* Most lightsaber wounds that do not instantly kill should be survivable.

And gut wounds in particular are things that kill through bleeding. Like, that is what makes them so horrible - a gut wound is guaranteed to be a long and horrible death by bleeding as a opposed to a quick death by brain or heart, or even a quicker bleeding out from an artery. With a lightsaber though and much less chance of bleeding out, that does seem pretty survivable.

And "barely having such a wound affect you at all" - did you even watch the episode? The character in question was barely limping along, almost losing a fight to moisture farmers.

*Well, I suppose if you wanted to really get into it, something as hot as a lightsaber should cause a steam explosion in your blood and blow you to gory chunks, but since star wars has never, ever worked like that and always gone with the cauterized cut approach, I think that is the best basis for analysis.

 

Of course it would hit a vital organ.

Let me impale you through the gut with a lightsaber.

Twice.

 

This thread is indeed redundant.
But talking about sabers specifically, I believe that it took way too many hits for OW to kill Stormtroopers. In most instances it looks like a saber can cut people like butter, whereas in this show it did look less lethal, at least vs Stormtroopers.

 

Don't remind me! What was the point of bringing back Maul other than balant fan service again?
They had Savage Oppess!
Kenobi stuck him down in anger..even with the explanation given? It doesn't make sense to me canonically and it only serves to validate S.T.U.P.I.D; like Reva surviving Vader not once, but TWICE! #MakeITMakeSense

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It might. Sometimes, it doesn't.

 

It also doesn't make sense for Obi Wan and Anakin to be training with live lightsabers...one false move! Loved the scene though...

 

Especially since OW wanted to go ahead even after he had lost his saber, begging the question of what Anakin was supposed to do in order to be proclaimed the winner.

 

Lightsabers in general have kind of outlived their usefulness. If jedi can move mountains and entire spaceships mid-fight, and WITHSTAND having mountains and spaceships thrown at them mid-fight, then it doesn't really make sense to arm yourself with a pointy light sword.

I don't think Lucas ever intended for jedi to be that strong when he came up with the idea for the original movie.

 

Why? Just because you say so? Then which instant death organ is in fact being hit exactly?

And honestly, does twice matter? He deliberately stabbed her in the same spot - if she lived through it once it wouldn't be more lethal the second time.

 

Indeed. Vader's goal wasn't to kill her, just to break her by showing her that nothing had changed in the last ten years; that she was still an insignificant youngling.
Then they left her there, not caring whether she lived or died, because she wasn't a threat to them. She never had been. She was, as Kylo might have put it, nothing.

 

If you close the "Death Threads" they will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine

 

Neimoidians crack me up every time!!!!