10 More Movies That Killed Completely The Wrong Character
9. Luke Skywalker: The Last Jedi
The Death: Luke Skywalker perishes after fooling Kylo (and cinema-goers) by transmitting an image of himself across the galaxy with his body vanishing in a similar fashion to that of Obi-Wan Kenobi’s back in A New Hope, allowing the Resistance to escape the clutches of the First Order in the process.
Who Should Have Died Instead: General Leia Organa
Fans had extremely high expectations when it came to seeing Luke in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. People had waited two years to await the outcome of his meeting with Rey, what his reaction would be to seeing his old lightsaber and how he would plot to overthrow the villainous Kylo Ren and his First Order army.
If you had said before the movie that you would see Mark Hamill’s character train Rey, interact with Yoda, face down the First Order and Kylo Ren with his trademark blue lightsaber in his hand and have one final, emotional conversation with sister Leia then fans would have snapped your arm off. Hell yeah, who doesn’t want to see that?
Yet the Last Jedi’s adventurous nature appears to have been its undoing with Star Wars fans young and old having mixed feelings about Rian Johnson’s work. And the sight of Luke dying had many up in arms - particularly as it was not the ending many envisaged for the hero of the Original trilogy and, arguably, face of the entire saga.
Star Wars missed a trick with Hamill still capable of doing a third film while Carrie Fisher, who plays Leia, having passed away in December 2016. It would have made more sense to give Fisher and Leia the send-off she deserves rather than kill off Luke.