10 Exact Moments Fans Turned On Their Favourite Movie Characters

Obi Wan Kenobi famously declared that his warped take on the fate of Anakin Skywalker was true "from a certain point of view". After watching Revenge of the Sith, our only certain point of view was that Obi Wan was far more morally complex than we'd been led to believe.

The Original Trilogy depicted Kenobi as a gentle lion - noble, self-sacrificing and an invaluable mentor to the impressionable Luke Skywalker. The prequels backed up this portrayal as Obi Wan spent three movies acting as the galaxy's moral compass and a steadfast, stalwart bastion of morality and ethical decency.

Then Mustafar happened.

Obi Wan's decision to leave Anakin Skywalker to burn to death in the fires of Mustafar is still as shocking today as it was fifteen years ago. The original trilogy framed Anakin's immolation as an unintended consequence of his and Obi Wan's duel - to learn that Kenobi actually left his former protege to burn to death was one of the Prequel's most distressing revelations. No longer could we see Obi Wan Kenobi as the noble mentor betrayed by an ungrateful student. He was instead a broken man who had to live with the fact that his one moral lapse led to the creation of a monster, as Anakin vented his fury on the rest of the galaxy as Darth Vader.

We may have made fun of the Prequels in the intro to this article (and with good reason) but when they hit, they hit hard.