10 Wasted Star Wars Characters That Deserved Better

He's a highly sophisticated alien cyborg. He's got a total of six mechanical limbs. Four of these limbs can wield a lightsaber, with which he's been trained by a Lord of the Sith. How in the name of Han Solo does this guy get beaten so easily?!

In Revenge of the Sith, Separatist leader General Grievous establishes a secret base in the subterranean craters of Utapau. Obi-Wan is despatched to deal with him, and is quickly embroiled in the lightsaber duel to end all duels.

Or, at least, it would have been, had the general put even an ounce of effort into it. Somehow, despite having three more lightsabers than his opponent and being able to rotate his hands like propellers, Obi-Wan manages to cut off Grievous's two extra limbs, at which point the two-armed Separatist seemingly gets bored of fighting with laser swords and initiates a speeder chase.

At the end of this sequence, Obi-Wan, having pried open the cyborg's organic innards, finishes him off with a few well-aimed blaster shots. It's incredibly anticlimactic, and not even halfway through the film either. And the level of threat the character posed in the 2003 animated series, Star Wars: Clone Wars, only makes his big screen debut that much more disappointing.

General Grievous may not have had the benefit of the force to guide him, but surely he could have made up for that with some out-of-this-world lightsaber skills, right?

Apparently not.