10 Star Wars Moments That Will Haunt You Forever

1. Burying The Clones - Star Wars: The Clone Wars

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The hugely emotional finale to the seven-season ride that was Star Wars: The Clone Wars didn't just unleash one truly haunting moment, it chucked out many. 

Just when fans had gotten over one traumatic visual, like watching Ahsoka Tano and Captain Rex being fired at by their one-time 332nd Company friends and brothers post-Order 66, Dave Filoni and the gang completely floored them with another.

In the wake of managing to somehow avoid being killed by these brainwashed 501st troopers and escaping the Venator-class Star Destroyer they'd been travelling on before it crashed into a nearby moon, Tano and Rex then opted to bury some of the fallen soldiers. 

That image of Ahsoka looking out at the crowd of helmets, many of them sporting her own facial markings, and remembering the brave clones who had been forced to betray the Jedi is an all-timer Star Wars moment - one that was only enhanced by Kevin Kiner's moving "Burying the Dead" theme.

Not done imprinting hugely powerful shots into the minds of viewers, though, the episode then ends with Darth Vader eventually discovering that same site. Here, the one-time Anakin Skywalker picked up the lightsaber his former Padawan had left behind as a way of faking her own death, clocked Morai flying high above him, and ultimately walked away from one remaining 332nd helmet.

The poignant final shot of Vader moving away from the world he left behind in the reflection of a clone helmet, and all of the above moments, ensured that "Victory and Death" was one of the most overwhelming experiences Star Wars fans had ever gone through - one many never truly recovered from.

 
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