lightsaber colours

saber colours signify pride in the jedi order. somebody please fill in the blanks!

Guardian- Blue
Consular- Green
Sentinel- Yellow
Defender- Purple
Orange- ????????
Red- predomitly sith

 

That's EU - there's no basis in the SW movies for your statement and I think this kinda belongs in the SW Community board.

 

Although colours meaning things are slightly EU they do have some relevance in the OT such as, Mace Windu, Excellent fighter..fits the purple lightsaber, Yoda, Very good in the defending role..saved anikan.

And I am sorry but I dont know if orange means something although it could mean sought of a heavy handed sentinel bringing that tinge from the (red) sith

 

There is no Yellow or Orange in the SW movies. Only green, blue, red, and now purple.

If you want to go EU, then Hasbro says the orange blade is for Padawans.

 

As far as I can tell it's persomal preference. And red isn't necisarily Sith, there are Jedi who have red lightsabers.

 

Back in the old days, before the dark times, before the prequels...J/K. I used to believe that Blue was for Knight, and Green was for Master. But, now I decide to believe that the only reasons Jedi's have the colors they do was because of the crystals that they found for them, which would explain why Windu has a purple one, he must have searched hard for it.

 

really there is no rule about them so anyone can have any colour but some chose to use the colour of there type of jedi

 

I saw a yellow lightsaber in AOTC.

 

I don't think it means anything. It's just the color they like. The only exception to that is red, which is used predominately by the sith, as Quigonnjonn stated.

Green: Yoda, Luke Skywalker, Jacen Colo

Blue: Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi

Purple: Mace Windu, Anakin Solo, Jaina Solo.

 

I saw a yellow lightsaber in AOTC.

No you didn't. Give me a screenshot and I'll give you $100.

There is no significance in lightsaber colors.

 

as far as i have heard ii belive that Orange colored lightsabers mean rogue jedi who have fallen from the order but havent become sith

 

I never heard that they meant anything, and I'm VERY much an EU supporter.

I have heard that yellow and orange don't show up very well on film. I figure they went with just two or three colors because it's simply more practical-can you imagine how much more work it would be for the graphics guys to pick out each individual Jedi and give them different colors?


Still, I have to wonder: do gay Jedi get to have rainbow lightsabers?

 

I have heard that yellow and orange don't show up very well on film

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Looks ok to me. I can do a better example if someone can find me a better pic.

 

Give me a screenshot and I'll give you $100.

*cough*

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You got a Paypal account, Guff?


I have to wonder: do gay Jedi get to have rainbow lightsabers?

Nah, they get a kind of wishy-washy pink one...

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...yeah, like that

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...sadly, the second image wasn't altered at all

 

I thought I remember reading somewhere that the only reason Luke's saber went from blue to green in ROTJ was because the blue didn't contrast well with the bright sky and light dunes of the Tatooine set. I'm not sure where I heard that, or how credible it was, but I'll thow it out there anyway.

The only time I think of that any kind of significance is placed on saber color is in the Knights of the Old Republic video game, where the blue, gree and yellow colors are assigned to 'classes' of Jedi. Even then you could change your color but keep your class.

I don't think there is any significance at all.

Brian

 

there is no real significance cept red which is Sith and im not sure that even a rule

 

There was a kind of rainbow light saber in the EU books, I think it belonged to Corran Horn or someone else, it was sort of silvery rainbow

 

rainbow lightsaber is what a gay jedi would use.

 

LOL, so funny...

i would like to se a black lightsaber...

 

I would like to use Anakin Solo's lightsaber. It's Obi-Wan Kenobi's lightaber (from ANH0, but the crystal has been replaced with a Yuuzhon Vong crystal, whcih emits a purple blade.

 

i would like to se a black lightsaber...



So would I, but wouldn't that make it a Darksaber? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

 

Actually, the colors mean alot of things in the movies... Here it is, let me brake it down.

According to George Lucas, the only lightsaber colors that exist are green, blue, red, and by special request of Samuel L. Jackson, purple.

Obviously, Sith and red are practically synonymous. Red is an angry, aggressive, and color. There?s a reason Sith dress in black and have red lightsabers ? they are unconscious cues to the audience about their personalities and mindsets.

On the color wheel, green is the complement to red. As such, the strongest opponents to a Sith Lord are often shown wielding a green lightsaber. It is also a more vibrant, one might say ?wild? color than blue. It lends a feeling of unpredictability as well: notice that Anakin in Episode II changed from a blue lightsaber to wielding a green one when he got more out on his own. While not his own decision, the filmmakers helped highlight his slide to uncontrollability.

There u have it... I always wondered y Anakin got a green lightsaber later in the movie, but now i no...

 

as far as i have heard ii belive that Orange colored lightsabers mean rogue jedi who have fallen from the order but havent become sith

Orange is an EU color and in the EU Yaddle (a Jedi Master in the Jedi Order) had an orange saber.

 

I've occasionally thought that purple might well signifty the leader of the whole Jedi Order. High-ranking offices usually has something distinguishing about them; a purple blade is obviously unusual..thought it made sense at least.

 

Actually, the colors mean alot of things in the movies... Here it is, let me brake it down.

ACTUALLY, they mean nothing.


On the color wheel, green is the complement to red. As such, the strongest opponents to a Sith Lord are often shown wielding a green lightsaber. It is also a more vibrant, one might say ?wild? color than blue. It lends a feeling of unpredictability as well: notice that Anakin in Episode II changed from a blue lightsaber to wielding a green one when he got more out on his own. While not his own decision, the filmmakers helped highlight his slide to uncontrollability.

Don't assume that just because it makes sense to you that this is how GL thought about it. Originally the only colors were to be blue and red. Blue because it was associated with good, blue and white are generally associated with heavenly colors. While red and black are more associated with hell. Green came to be, as I hear it, just because blue didn't show up well in the sail barge scene in ROTJ. "Anakin's" green saber was destroyed in the duel with Dooku and Anakin kept the blue saber. Also the saber Anakin passes on to Luke is blue. Meaning he wasn't using the "wild" color. There isn't any meaning behind the colors of the sabers aside from:

-blue is associated with good
-red is associated with evil
-green shows up better against a blue sky
-Samuel L. Jackson likes purple

If you want to try and work the colors into the movie's story then anyone's guess is as good as anyone elses as the topic hasn't been touched. Green and blue crystals may be all that occur on Illum, while Mace's purple lightsaber may have contained a synthetic (breaking away from jedi tradition) crystal (and I'd assume one could use whatever dye they wanted to color the crystal). However this assumption is treading into EU territory (not even) and has no authority.