10 Most Paused Star Wars Moments
1. What Is Going On With Vader's Skull?! - Return Of The Jedi
If your first thought is what the f**k is going on with Darth Vader's skull here, you'd be absolutely correct in being completely and utterly baffled by this image.
For the story of Anakin Skywalker, his tale came to a close at the end of Return of the Jedi with the redemption of ridding the galaxy of the Emperor and by making peace with his son. To get to that point though, Vader had to take a few select shots of Palpatine's patented electric lightning to his form.
As the Emperor turns his most vengeful, chilling attention towards his protégé, the lightning blasts conjured up by this all-powerful Sith Lord give audiences an extremely brief glimpse of an electrocuted Darth Vader. More specifically, it gives audiences a glimpse at what Vader's skull looks like under the iconic black helmet he'd adorned since being rescued from the fiery pits of Mustafar in Revenge of the Sith.
You have to ask what exactly has happened to Anakin Skywalker's skull for it to take such a deformed shape. We'd come to see in the aforementioned Episode III how Anakin was missing limbs after his battle with Obi-Wan Kenobi, but his head, whilst badly scarred, was in tact and shaped normally.
What a pause of this Return of the Jedi scene shows, however, is that Anakin's skull had become shockingly misshapen in the years since the events of Revenge of the Sith.