10 Best Lightsabers In Star Wars History

5. Mace Windu's Lightsaber

Mace Windu Revenge of the Sith
Lucasfilm

Mace Windu was, along with Dooku and Qui-Gon Jinn, highly regarded as a masterful lightsaber duelist. We saw as much when he disarmed Darth Sidious midway through Episode III, and while he did end up dying in that confrontation, it's important to remember just how prominent Mace was within the Jedi Council.

It was this prominence that led the master to fashion a blade with a purple kyber crystal, contained within the casing of a silver and gold hilt. Not only did it denote Windu's position on the council, but

his proficiency with a blade too, with the Jedi having led the opening battle of the Clone Wars on the back of his victory over Jango Fett.

The real life origins behind the sabre might be even better than the canonical one, however. Appearing on the Graham Norton Show in 2013, Samuel L. Jackson said that he was so enthused by the action sequence on Geonosis that he was desperate to see where Windu was in the melee. Speaking to Lucas, Jackson asked that Windu be given a purple lightsaber as - fair enough to him - he'd be difficult to spot in the carnage of the clone's attack.

Lucas relented, and hey-presto! We now have a purple lightsaber. Another reason to be thankful for Jackson's role in the franchise.

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