Star Wars: 10 Awkward Prequel Moments Fans Will Never Forget

10. Now THIS Is Pod-racing

When old Obi-Wan Kenobi remorsefully reflected on Luke Skywalker's father in A New Hope, he talked about how Anakin was one of the greatest star pilots in the galaxy. However, he failed to mention just how Anakin started his career as an ace starfighter pilot.

In Episode 1, fans had to watch a very young Darth Vader basically get forced into a Naboo starfighter with R2D2 somehow ending up as his astromech assistant. After being told by Qui-gon Jin to stay inside the cockpit no matter what, the auto navigation kicks in and sends Anakin right into a massive space battle against a trade federation droid control ship.

Anakin, who has never flown a starship, somehow uses his podracing skills and a lot of the force to slip between deadly droid fighters and literally by accident blows the entire destroyer up for the inside. After which he exclaims "Now THIS is podracing!"

The line was intended to show how exciting space warfare was to your Skywalker and how he began his journey as a star pilot, but it does end up feeling strange making Anakin a mass murderer already at the age of 10, due to all the Neimoidian lives lost on that droid destroyer, as well as simply being an awkward line at the beginning of an awkward trilogy.