Every Wilhelm Scream In The Star Wars Saga

If Phantom and Clones were the prequel trilogy's fall, Revenge of the Sith was... well, its revenge. Anakin and Obi-Wan dispatch Count Dooku within the first act and the path towards the original trilogy comes into focus, with Padmé falling pregnant (with twins), The Emperor (Ian MacDiarmid) revealing his master plan and Obi-Wan taking the moral and literal high ground over Anakin once and for all.

Darth Vader is created, the Jedi are destroyed and hope seems lost from the galaxy by the arrival of an overwhelmingly melancholy conclusion.

Like the antagonist's demise, the Wilhelm scream is offered up early in Sith, during an epic space battle above Coruscant, between Separatist forces and the Republic, in which Anakin and Obi-Wan race to save the Chancellor (and future Emperor) from the clutches of Dooku and asthmatic cyborg warlord, General Grievous. In this sequence, a sidelong, pirate ship-style battle claims its share of casualties, and a clone soldier is thrown from an inner-ship cannon, Wilhelm screaming as he hits the deck.

Another bonus for the eagle-eyed viewer can be found around 23 minutes into the film, as what was previously assumed to be the Millennium Falcon is seen landing on a Coruscant docking platform.

However, 2018's Solo brings this moment into dispute, which is set around eight years after this film, and features the Falcon with a solid 'nose' section containing a detachable pod, which is missing from the ship in Sith. As the Falcon is a YT-1300f Corellian light freighter, it can be assumed that this intentional Easter egg has been retconned into just another ship from the same production line (looking at you, Ron Howard).