10 Times Star Wars Broke Its Own Rules (And You Didn't Notice)

In addition to the many other ways The Rise of Skywalker left fans bitterly disappointed, it introduced a Force power never seen in the Star Wars movies before - Force healing.

In the film's climax, Rey and Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) Force heal one another, despite the fact that they seemingly haven't been trained to do so, and more to the point, we've never seen any Force users do it before.

Well in fairness, Grogu did perform a Force heal in an episode of The Mandalorian's first season aired mere days before The Rise of Skywalker, but that aside, it's staggering that such a useful Force skill hasn't been extensively used in canon Star Wars media prior to this.

If this was a possibility, why didn't Obi-Wan use it to heal Qui-Gon, or Anakin (Hayden Christensen) to heal Padme (Natalie Portman)?

Sure, you can just hand-wave it by declaring that certain Jedi get certain abilities and Force heal just happens to be incredibly rare among them, or even that Rey learned it from the ancient Jedi texts.

All the same, it strains credibility that the movies went more than 40 years without featuring Force healing at all.