10 Movie Endings With Disturbing Implications You Totally Missed
8. The Ewoks Totally Ate The Stormtroopers - Return Of The Jedi
Return of the Jedi of course introduced the world to the Ewoks, the race of adorable, bear-like critters who help bring down the Empire.
The Ewoks also happen to be carnivorous creatures who, as you might remember, almost end up eating Luke (Mark Hamill), Han (Harrison Ford), and Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew) upon meeting them.
The misunderstanding all gets worked out, and the heroes end up partying with the Ewoks in a rapturous celebration on Endor at the end of the movie.
Amid this happy ending, it's easy to forget a certain grim implication, that while the Ewoks chose to spare the heroes from being spit-roasted, they probably didn't afford the same mercy to the Stormtroopers they captured.
For a brief moment in the closing party sequence, we can even see an Ewok drumming on some Stormtrooper helmets, suggesting they probably ended up chowing down on them during the celebration.
The inference was grim enough that Disney even addressed it in an episode of the animated series Star Wars: Forces of Destiny, where Leia convinces the Ewoks not to eat the Stormtroopers.
Even if you accept that Leia saved the Stormtroopers from being slow-roasted - the short is canon, after all - it doesn't excuse the fact that the Ewoks have presumably barbecued their fair share of enemy combatants over the years.
As cuddly and cute as they might appear on the outside, these creatures are really feral savages.