9 Most Brutal Acts Of Revenge In Star Wars

9. Vader Strikes Obi-Wan Down - A New Hope

For those who watched the original Star Wars trilogy before any prequel or sequel offerings came to be, the death of Obi-Wan Kenobi had a slightly different context to it in comparison to how we look at that death nowadays.

Back then, Kenobi and Darth Vader were old rivals who became entwined in one final battle to the death - a battle to the death in which Vader was the victor.

It was still an emotional moment to see Obi-Wan struck down in George Lucas' 1977 picture, but later years saw that demise have several new layers added to it. More specifically, the death of old Ben was, at least in part, something driven by revenge.

That revenge would be for Vader viewing his former Master as having unjustly left him to die a fiery death on Mustafar in Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. On Mustafar, we saw how Anakin felt that Kenobi had betrayed him, and that sense of betrayal was finally done justice - at least from Anakin's slightly skewed perspective - when Darth Vader got to turn his brother-turned-rival into a Force Ghost.