10 Star Wars Movie "Mistakes" That Were Totally Intentional
George Lucas knew what he was doing, believe it or not.
When it comes to a franchise as impossibly gargantuan as Star Wars, it's only inevitable that mistakes are going to abound, and with the series' fanbase being as passionate as they are, they're of course going to love pointing them out.
And while Star Wars certainly has its fair share of honest-to-God mistakes, from the iconic stormtrooper head bump to more basic continuity errors and lore inconsistencies, what at first appears to be a mistake isn't always the case.
Sometimes supposed "mistakes" are actually completely intentional on the part of George Lucas, other directors, and various cast and crew members working on the movies. But try telling fans that.
Yet that's absolutely the case with these 10 apparent Star Wars mistakes, each of which was included deliberately, either as a joke to poke fun at over-eager fans, or to cut some corners technically or narratively.
Either way, if you think you're a smart cookie who's uncovered a major "gotcha!" against George Lucas by noticing these mistakes, don't be so hasty - they were actually designed and intended to be included in each film...
10. Jango Fett Hits His Head - Star Wars: Episode II - Attack Of The Clones
Let's kick things off with a bit of a softball entry. In Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones, when Jango Fett (Temuera Morrison) flees Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) and boards his ship Slave I, look closely and you can see the ship's door smack him in the head as he enters.
Was this a case of Temuera Morrison simply clumsily hitting his head on an on-set prop? Of course not - it was an intentional gaffe included in the film by director George Lucas a nod to the infamous stormtrooper mistake from 1977's Star Wars.
In Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, a stormtrooper memorably hits their head when entering a control room - a mistake that George Lucas and his army of editors seemingly missed during production.
The mistake took on a life of its own in the years and decades that followed as it became widely known among even casual Star Wars fans, enough that Lucas evidently decided to pay tongue-in-cheek homage to it in Attack of the Clones.
If you're somehow still not convinced the "mistake" was deliberate, look closely at Jango Fett during the Battle of Geonosis later in the film, and you'll see a small dent in the top of his helmet.