10 Most Traumatic Events In Star Wars

1. Luke Drinking Green Milk

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With all the atrocities committed by the Empire and the Sith - including the killing of innocent children and the destructions of entire planets - NOTHING was as traumatic as seeing the one time hope for the galaxy, milk an alien sea-cow and chug down on its bodily fluids.

It's fair to say the final trilogy did the dirty when it came to Luke's character arc. Once the most loved figure of the movies, he become a bitter old man, who resembled little of the character we once knew. What Rian Johnson did to Luke was as egregious as what David Benioff and D. B. Weiss did to the entire Game of Thrones cast. The notion of subverting expectations was taken for a ride with this one.

Seeing this character destroyed will leave a mark on longtime Star Wars fans for years to come, and the true severity of such trauma has not yet been fully realised. Luke's unsatisfactory death aside, though, this scene alone would have been troubling regardless of how the story played out.

Everyone from Rey to the audience and even Mark Hamill himself was blindsided and confused by this. We know Luke loved his blue milk back on his home world of Tatooine but this just seemed perverse.

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