10 Most Disturbing Star Wars Moments

2. Darth Vader Is Fried Alive

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It was always going to take some seriously horrific battle wounds to leave one of the most powerful Jedi ever to walk the galaxy relying on an excessively loud mechanical suit for the rest of his days.

And sure enough, the fiery conclusion of Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi's Mustafar clash for the ages left little doubt in anyone's mind that this Chosen One was in need of some serious TLC post-high-ground cock-up.

Refusing to shy away from the gory reality Hayden Christensen's once-handsome-as-all-hell Jedi Knight now found himself in as he lay in defeat, the uncompromising flames engulfing Skywalker as his blistered body flails in anguish on the ground makes for one of the most affecting visuals George Lucas has even brought into being - and this came from the same mind who charred up Uncle Owen and Aunt Buru!

The uncomfortable times only kept on coming, too, as the mind behind the galaxy then committed to an extended shot of a scorched Vader squirming in agony on a surgical table as the various cyborg elements of his eventual masked alter-ego were coldly lodged into permanent position by medical bots.

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