Star Wars: 10 Exact Moments We Knew These Characters Were Doomed

In another instance of a vital character being introduced in a spin-off series set before the events fans had already seen come to pass in the likes of Revenge of the Sith and the subsequent features that would ultimately unfold, the arrival of Satine Kryze in The Clone Wars was always destined to be a bittersweet one.

While it was a captivating development to see the world of Mandalore realised on an animated stage and ruled by the Duchess determined to move the people of her planet on from their largely violent ways of the past, the powerful figure, who also acted as the unexpected love interest of a certain Obi-Wan Kenobi, was pretty much doomed from the second it became clear that she and Kenobi had a romantic past of sorts.

Simply put, Satine isn't mentioned in the slightest in the time following on from The Clone Wars, so fans were rather morbidly anticipating her demise from the get-go. And in the end, it was none other than Kenobi's great adversary Maul who dealt the fatal blow, murdering Satine in front of him as he was helpless to save her.