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

The original Star Wars trilogy plainly established that lightsabers come in three colours - blue and green for Jedi, and red for the Sith - a scheme which remained consistent for decades.

But in the prequels, Mace Windu (Samuel L. Jackson) suddenly rocked a purple lightsaber totally out of nowhere - simply because he wanted to stand out from other actors in the Battle of Geonosis.

Since then, we've seen other canonical shades of lightsaber - Rey's (Daisy Ridley) yellow lightsaber in The Rise of Skywalker, Ahsoka Tano's white lightsabers, and of course the Darksaber.

Though the now-extinct Legends canon attempted to ascribe specific meaning to the colours, most of this has since been wiped out, ensuring the colours assigned to sabers outside of the primary Jedi/Sith template are more-or-less a crapshoot.

Ultimately it really comes down to creatives wanting to explore the colour spectrum, and honestly it's tough to blame them for that, even if adventurous colours are conspicuously absent in the original trilogy.