10 Bizarre Star Wars Moments You Just Accepted

10. C-3PO Is Barred From Speaking Sith - Episode IX: The Rise Of Skywalker

Midway through J. J. Abrams' return to the galaxy far, far away, Rey, Finn, and Poe find a Sith dagger that will help lead them to the Sith wayfinder.

But before they can properly move onto the next stage of their quest, the group need to translate the ancient Sith language found on said dagger. Luckily for them, they just so happened to have a protocol droid pal capable of translating millions of different languages.

Oh, except Sith. Because that is bizarrely not possible due to C-3PO's programming restrictions.

During your first watch of Episode IX, the fact the aforementioned Palps had somehow made a comeback and other baffling developments largely overshadowed just how strange this reveal was in the moment.

Think about it. Threepio was created by a young Anakin Skywalker all those years ago. Meaning that this youngster apparently went out of his way to restrict his droid from speaking the language of a religion that was thought to be extinct around the time of Episode I.

That programming restriction then somehow remained after Threepio's memory was wiped after the Prequels? Also, wouldn't being able to translate Sith be useful for the likes of the Jedi and Rebels during the rise of the Sith and Age of the Empire?

In the end, the entire thing ended up being little more than a way to add some emotional weight to the team's mission, with Threepio having to sacrifice his memory in order to successfully translate the "forbidden" language.