10 Most Brutal Star Wars Movie Deaths

6. Mace Windu (Revenge Of The Sith)

Cause Of Death: Hand chopped off, electrocuted, thrown from a great height.

Samuel L. Jackson is known for playing tough, badass characters, and his turn as Mace Windu in the prequel trilogy proved no different; the Jedi Master was strong and powerful, so it was rather saddening, and rather shocking, to see him meet his end in such a horrifying way.

After confronting and successfully overpowering Emperor Palpatine, Windu attempts to land the killing blow with his lightsaber - only to have his hand chopped off by Anakin, who wants the Emperor to live. Windu is then quickly attacked by Palpatine's Force lightning before being blasted out a nearby window, falling to his death in the city below.

Of course, Windu will have had a rather painful few seconds of contemplation before he splatted against the ground, time which we can only imagine was filled with the emotional trauma of being betrayed, the physical agony of the severed hand and electro-blast and the pure, unbridled fear as the ground quickly came up to meet him.

Poor guy.

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