10 Most Messed Up Deaths In Star Wars: Prequel Trilogy

The Star Wars franchise may be one that is generally quite family-friendly, but it's also a series that has contained some quite jaw-dropping, cruel, and horrific endings for a whole host of characters within it.

Gore levels are obviously at a low throughout the Skywalker Saga, though many of the minds who have helped bring these fantastical stories to the big screen have still found ways to deliver some quite messed up moments of violence, with these often harrowing deaths somehow being suitable for pretty much all ages.

Many of those brutal or bizarre fatalities can be found in the trilogy created by the mind behind this galaxy far, far away himself, George Lucas.

His prequel films are generally remembered for their often unrealistic dialogue, athletic duels, and stunning visuals. But most tend to overlook the fact that they also exhibit some pretty savage and sometimes quite unnecessarily barbaric kills, too - and a disturbing amount of sudden decapitations for a PG/12-rated set of movies.

So, from the callous end for loyal soldiers, to a brave racer who just wanted to impress his dear family - and inspired by the Star Trek versions of this very list that you should definitely check out, too - here are all of those prequel trilogy deaths that are completely messed up.

By the time Episode III - Revenge of the Sith reached its end, the once-Jedi pals known as the clones had obviously turned their back on the one-time generals. But that still didn't change the fact that the deaths of many of these poor, brainwashed clones post-Order 66 were all kinds of messed up. That's something we'll cover in another entry, though.

Even before Palpatine gave that galaxy-changing order, these clones were often killed off in the most brutal of ways. However, perhaps more cruel than their actual deaths was the reaction to them.

Just look at the way Obi-Wan Kenobi reacted to the sound of a couple of his loyal troops being shot down during the opening space battle above Coruscant in Episode III.

Anakin Skywalker attempts to help out his clone mates in his starfighter as they're attacked by droids in space, only for Obi-Wan Cold-nobi to stop him by saying, "they are doing their jobs, so we can do ours."

They weren't just fixing a lightbulb, Obi-Wan! These were living beings fighting for the Galactic Republic. But in a quite horribly detached moment amidst the madness, Kenobi just treated the clones as merely objects designed to help them achieve their goal.

So uncivilised.