9 Most Brutal Acts Of Revenge In Star Wars
4. Payback's A Sith - Revenge Of The Sith
That look right there? That's the moment Count Dooku knew he was absolutely f***ed!
Forget the age-old adage of an eye for an eye, this act of revenge saw Anakin Skywalker deliver a decapitation in retaliation for losing a hand.
Episode II: Attack of the Clones saw Dooku indeed lopping off one of Anakin's hands, and this young Jedi Knight brought down a raging thunder of revenge on the good Count when they next did battle in Revenge of the Sith. It was there that, at the behest of an increasingly giddy Palpatine, that the young Skywalker unleashed his fury in the most brutal of ways.
That 'most brutal of ways' saw Anakin beating the snot out of Count Dooku, taking control of his opponent's lightsaber, and then using two lightsabers to clinically decapitate the Jedi-turned-Sith figure of Dooku.
Ominously, this startling act of revenge was part of Anakin's own personal journey from Jedi to Sith, and this was yet another example of how Palpatine merely used people as pawns in his own personal game - with him urging Skywalker to strike down Dooku after the Count had lost his usefulness to the Emperor-in-waiting.