13. Mace Windu Confronts Palpatine Without Bringing Serious Backup - Revenge Of The Sith
Part of the perks of living on Coruscant (apart from the spectacular views) is you always have access to some handy Jedi backup. Unfortunately Mace Windu's communicator is clearly broken when he decides to neglect to inform anyone else that he's just discovered the identity of the Sith Lord who has been causing so much havoc for the past twenty-odd years. After confronting Palpatine, now revealed by Anakin to be Darth Sidious, Mace and three chums go to confront the crazy old coot and administer justice. This decision is clearly idiotic as if you were capturing one of the most dangerous people in the galaxy we're sure that you'd make sure that you had all the backup you needed to succeed. But no - Mace and co are far too cocky and three of the Jedi are defeated within seconds by Sidious. Mace is successful in subduing the Sith Lord, but he is unfortunately betrayed by Anakin when he goes all Darth Vader. Thousands of Jedi at your disposal Mace, and all you take is three of them? Well done.
12. Anakin Attacks Padme For No Good Reason - Revenge Of The Sith
Although Darth Vader and his evil antics are much more to blame for Padme's death, her trip to Mustafar to try and convince Anakin back to the light ends up becoming the holiday from hell. Not only does Anakin completely spout a load of craziness about why he's gone evil and stuff, but he also decides to try out his brand new force power, the famous Force Choke, for the first time on his pregnant wife. This would result in Padme's heart being utterly broken, her giving birth to Luke and Leia and her simply giving up on life after Anakin joined the dark side and there's no hope of him coming back anytime soon. There's no particular reason for Anakin attacking Padme at this point other than a lot of bad writing. It's particularly idiotic because everything Anakin has done so far has been to protect Padme and his unborn child, but this is simply forgotten about because he needs to be evil and stuffs.
Dan Curtis is approximately one-half videogame knowledge, and the other half inexplicable Geordie accent. He's also one quarter of the Factory Sealed Retro Gaming podcast.
