10 Greatest "I'm Dead And I Know It" Star Wars Moments
These Star Wars characters were toast... and they unfortunately knew it.
Apologies for kicking things off with a rather sobering and depressingly obvious statement, but only a few things in life are certain. Taxes, death, and if you're a part of the galaxy far, far away, losing a vital limb out of the blue.
Focusing more on the second of those inevitabilities, though, and it's within this inescapable fate that some of Star Wars' mightiest and most moving beats have been realised on the big and small screen over the years. However, it isn't the act of one's eyes closing for the final time or the taking of a last breath that lives long in many a Force-sensitive supporter's minds. It's in those precious moments just before saying goodbye to the land of the living where iconic one-liners arise, heartbreaking revelations are unleashed, and games can sometimes be changed forever.
From iconic gunslingers going down with one last cutting line of dialogue, to a beloved but still very much helpless character's fate being sealed in front of their very eyes, this bunch of Star Wars faces all knew their stint among Jedi and Sith was over but went out with an almighty bang all the same.
10. Han Solo Gives His Son The Strength To Do It - The Force Awakens
Harrison Ford finally got his long-awaited wish in the closing stages of J.J. Abrams' reigniting of the Star Wars hyperdrive that was The Force Awakens.
And while the actual visual of the iconic smuggler-turned-general plummeting to his death on the back of sharing one last touching moment with his boy Ben as the two reconnected on Starkiller Base was certainly shocking to behold, the second Han Solo stepped out onto that dizzying walkway fans were already bracing themselves for the seemingly inevitable.
So too was Solo, as it goes, with the quick-witted commander of the Millennium Falcon having the look of a man on borrowed time throughout his desperate conversation with his fallen son. Even when a clearly conflicted Kylo Ren seems to hint at leaving his dark days behind, Solo's face as the grandson of Darth Vader offers his lightsaber to his paps before the room ominously fades into darkness tells the story of a father who knew a tragic and definitive conclusion was likely right around the corner.
But instead of struggling against his son, Solo accepted his boy's wishes and left his life with one solitary stroke of his cheek.