10 MASSIVE Star Wars Moments You Didn't Even See!

You'd think, with there being a whopping 12 movies and a never-ending stream of live-action and animated shows, that Star Wars fans would have seen just about every single monumental event in the galaxy's history on a screen at some stage. But as this list is about to show you, some properly important moments in this franchise actually surprisingly never found themselves soaring into theatres or your living rooms.

Now sure, some of these happenings were realised in comic books, novels, and even video games in some cases. However, due to none of the following entries ever popping up on the big or small screen over the years, the vast majority of Star Wars lovers out there will have never seen some honestly quite massive deaths, showdowns, and other game-changing occurrences.

You've seen both Battles of Geonosis, but never the event that changed that planet forever. Viewers have watched Anakin Skywalker grow from young slave to terrifying Sith Lord, though they did miss a rather vital part of his journey. And while you may have rolled your eyes at his big-screen comeback, you didn't actually see how a certain wrinkly baddy really made his return...

While it definitely had something of a starring role in the middle chapter of the prequel trilogy, Geonosis and its bug-like inhabitants oddly disappeared by the time of the original trilogy.

They still had a major part to play in the wake of the Clone Wars coming to an end, though, with the Geonosians actually initially designing the superweapon that would become the Death Star and eventually being forced to help build the terrifying space station for the Empire over their homeworld during the early days of the Galactic Empire.

Things then took a turn for the worst for the species.

Once the Death Star's hyperdrive was fully operational, the call was made by Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin to completely sterilise the desert planet via Imperial gas canisters. And that act right there almost resulted in the complete extinction of the species, with only little Klik-Klak and a queen egg surviving the massacre, as seen in the Rebels animated series. Though said queen would eventually hatch and actually be sterile - she'd go on to connect herself to a droid factory and produce her own battle droid offspring instead.

However, that horrifying extermination of sorts has only ever been mentioned and discussed in shows and comic books, with viewers never actually seeing the shocking events that led to the Geonosians eventually being pretty much wiped out completely by the time of Episode IV - A New Hope.