10 Minor Character Deaths That Changed Star Wars FOREVER

While Count Dooku was the face of the Separatists and the Galactic Republic was being led by Chancellor Sheev Palpatine, the latter was actually in control of both sides all along.

And it's during Episode II - Attack of the Clones when the eventual Emperor begins executing the next phase of his brilliant plan to control the galaxy, a plan which also involves the attempted assassination of Senator Padme Amidala.

But the more you analyse this part of the plot, the more you realise that had one part of it not gone the precise way it did in the movie, then things may have turned out quite differently indeed.

After failing once again to kill Amidala on Coruscant, bounty hunter Zam Wesell is herself hunted down by Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi. She's then suddenly killed by her employer, Jango Fett, before she could rat on him. 

And were it not for that murder and how it occurred - Jango firing his Kamino saberdart at this minor character - then Kenobi wouldn't have ended up conveniently finding Kamino and the secret clone army. This clone army who would eventually fight for the Republic, just as Palps planned.

So, would the Jedi have eventually found the army ordered by Sifo-Dyas without Wesell's passing? Perhaps they'd have stumbled on it some other way or Zam could have even given them the information they needed. 

Either way, it definitely feels like Palpatine's secret plan to rule the galaxy would have unfolded differently without this death in Coruscant's underworld, with the secret Sith perhaps having to think of a new cunning way to eventually lead the Jedi to their eventual means of destruction.