Another animated addition to the Star Wars canon, Ashley Eckstein's Ahsoka Tano proved to be one of the 2008 Clone Wars cartoon's best loved characters, forming a partnership with Obi-Wan and Anakin as renowned as that of the one shared between those two Jedi themselves.
Originally using a green lightsaber, Tano shifted to two sabres during the tail-end of the series, with one emitting a shorter blade than the other. While those two swords were green in colour, by the time Star Wars: Rebels came around - a series set during the burgeoning moments of the Galactic Civil War - Ahsoka, now a fugitive and not a Jedi, shifted to two white blades.
They look fantastic, and she even went toe-to-toe with Darth Vader with them during Rebels' earlier stage, although we're yet to discover if she emerged from the contest quite the same way her former master did.
Lightsabers that aren't blue, green or red are something of a rarity in this new canon, so it was great to see Ahsoka brandish them in the Clone Wars sequel.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
