10 Dumbest Decisions Made By Star Wars Characters

If Star Wars does anything well - apart from sublime alien landscapes, monolithic ships and space wizards, of course - it is sage and crafty characters. After all, Yoda is wisdom incarnate and Darth Sidious is the embodiment of evil and cunning. Nonetheless, it is a series that often focuses on the bullheadedness and fundamental flaws of these individuals, whether they are too short-sighted to see the error of their ways, or too driven by passion to care.

The guardians of our beloved saga - George Lucas, JJ Abrams and Kathleen Kennedy, to name but three - are often lambasted for its inconsistencies, but they simply cannot be held accountable for the actions of the characters in this article who, for better or worse (almost always worse), play to type and either go down with the sinking spaceship or steer it right into the proverbial iceberg.

Each character has their own motivations, leading them down dark and misguided paths, and rarely if ever making these decisions for the sake of buffoonery, though this unfortunately doesn't change the sometimes galaxy-changing consequences their choices invoke. But what is Star Wars about if not redemption and forgiveness?

Porgs, you say?

This entry is actually a collection of dumb decisions, all centring around Obi-Wan's apparent lack of inductive reasoning.

At the conclusion of Revenge of the Sith, Anakin Skywalker has gone full Darth Vader, the galaxy is controlled by the evil Galactic Empire, and Anakin's twin children are born orphans. Leia goes to Bail Organa, her name is changed and she grows up none the wiser; job done.

This seems like an opportune moment for Obi-Wan to get the other child, Luke, out of dodge with a similar plan. So, naturally, he takes him to Anakin Skywalker's home planet of Tatooine and leaves the boy in the care of Anakin's own relatives.

For reasons best known to Owen and Beru (Luke's aunt and uncle), they then let the boy keep the Skywalker family name, rather than christening him with their own: Lars.

But that's not where the surname-based shenanigans end, oh no. Obi-Wan also keeps most of his own name in-tact - you're fooling no-one with 'Ben Kenobi', Obi.

Having said all that, it is to Vader's discredit as much as it is Obi-Wan's that neither him nor the Empire found Luke with these myriad clues pointing directly to him.