10 Movie Heroes Forced To Kill For The Greater Good
8. Luke Skywalker Kills Death Star "Slaves" - Star Wars
As Star Wars movies have increasingly tried to educate us over the years, the divide in the Force is not a black and white issue. There are greys in the spectrum and even within individual characters. That's what makes them so interesting: the idea that someone like Kylo Ren could be morally fluid or that evil as pronounced as Darth Vader's could be redeemed in the end.
That means that some acts in the Galaxy Far, Far Away have been dubious at best, but in the majority of cases, even the most nefarious - like killing the younglings - were done for a greater good. Or at least a greater bad. Which is why apparently nobody even blinked an eye when Luke Skywalker and his Rebel chums destroyed a Death Star with lots of innocents on board.
Subsequent Star Wars movies have established that many of those in the Empire's service weren't there willingly and it's safe to assume that Skywalker killed thousands of them while taking out the threat to the galaxy the Death Star represented. And he never even looked back in the honour of the fallen.