Star Wars: 10 Insane Force Powers That Literally Make No Sense

10. Force Bellow

Perhaps one of the strangest Force powers Star Wars has to offer is Force Bellow. The ability is strangely specific, and offers no tangible use, other than allowing the user to significantly amplify their voice. Force Bellow has only been seen in legends, such as in the 2003 micro-series, Star Wars: Clone Wars, where an Ithorian Jedi utilises the power to crush building walls onto General Grievous during the Separatist invasion of Coruscant. The power was also used by Jedi Master Saba Sebatyne when reading their eulogy at Mara Jade Skywalker's funeral.

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Basically, the ability is the Force's equivalent of a microphone, even though microphones have been seen frequently in Star Wars, making Force Bellow even more useless than it initially seems to be. Since this bafflingly pointless ability found its way into the then Star Wars Expanded Universe (EU), George Lucas has made it very clear that, to him, Star Wars canon does not consider the EU at all.

In an interview with Starlog in 2005, Lucas said, "that’s [the EU] a different world than my world. When I said [other people] could make their own Star Wars stories, we decided that, like Star Trek, we would have two universes: My universe and then this other one. They try to make their universe as consistent with mine as possible, but obviously they get enthusiastic and want to go off in other directions."

So, at least to Star Wars' creator, stories and powers added in the EU do not belong in the main Star Wars continuity, with Force Bellow surely not being missed that much by fans.

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