10 More Most Paused Star Wars Moments

Because severed heads apparently aren't bad enough, here's a Star Wars moment so unremittingly bleak there's a good chance you've spent decades denying that you've ever actually seen it.

In A New Hope, Luke returns home and discovers that his uncle Owen (Phil Brown) and aunt Beru (Shelagh Fraser) have been killed by Stormtroopers, and for a few brief moments, we can also see Owen and Beru's charred corpses, melted all the way down to the skeleton after their home was set on fire.

As fans we're left to ponder precisely how Owen and Beru ended their lives, but this haunting final glimpse of the pair certainly makes it clear it wasn't a "good" death.

While it's an utterly traumatic image to include in a film watched by millions of children, it's one just about every card-carrying Star Wars fan has paused at some point, no? 

The morbid curiosity is overpowering, but even a prolonged stare at the burned bodies doesn't clarify whether they were shot and killed before being set afire, or were actually burned alive. 

Fans are still fiercely debating it to this day, and we can only hope for the former.