6 Star Wars Myths Started By The Actors

One of the biggest disappointments in the prequels is the unceremonious death of Mace Windu (Samuel L. Jackson), the purple lightsaber-wielding Jedi Master ultimately being felled by Palpatine in disappointingly climactic fashion.

Though fans have suggested ever since that Windu could perhaps have survived, the theory picked up steam in 2016 when Jackson himself presented his own head-canon version of events.

Jackson said, "In my mind, I’m not dead! Jedi can fall incredibly high distances and not die," adding that he'd love to reprise the role in an upcoming Star Wars movie.

Jackson also claimed that Lucas gave his thumbs up to the theory, albeit with the asterisk that Lucas only did so after selling the IP to Disney.

And so, while Mace Windu isn't canonically still alive, the man who plays him certainly thinks so.

We never saw his body, and given that the franchise brought Palpatine back as a zombie puppet-thing in The Rise of Skywalker, it wouldn't be nearly the most ridiculous thing the series has tried to get away with.