10 Times Star Wars Gave Fans EXACTLY What They Wanted

Throughout the massively embraced Clone Wars animated series, one character alone stood as the undoubted MVP of these Prequel tales: Ahsoka Tano.

But with the fierce figure acting as Anakin Skywalker's padawan in her time before leaving the Jedi Order behind, fans were always somewhat curious as to what would've gone down if the former master and apprentice crossed paths once again in the wake of the former's tragic fall to the Dark Side.

Well, March 2016's Twilight of the Apprentice Rebel's hour-long special finale to season two finally provided "Skyguy" supporters with that exact scenario. And, boy, did it deliver on the emotional gut-punch front.

Matching each other blow for blow during their instantly-immortalised showdown on Malachor, Tano's slashing of Vader's helmet stunningly mirrors the moment Obi-Wan Kenobi does something similar to his one-time ally in the recent live action series. And just like that emotionally-charged beat, a flicker of the Skywalker within is enough to fool Ahsoka into thinking there's still hope for her former master as she confesses that she "won't leave (him), not this time".

It may have been something fans were fantasising about for an age, but that still doesn't mean they were ready for Vader's attempts to murder another piece of his past.