Star Wars: 10 Massive Plot Holes The Sequels Stupidly Created

Although Force Healing has been a staple in Star Wars video games for what seems like forever, the ability has only actually been used five times within the canonical series: twice in The Mandalorian, and a whopping three times in The Rise Of Skywalker.

It's a neat ability, one which allows a Force User to transfer some of their life energy to another living being, even able to (as Ben Solo demonstrates at the end of Episode IX) bring others back from death: the very power Palpatine seemed so desperate to find in Episode III.

Of course, Rey used it twice earlier in the movie, once on a weird big remember-this-is-a-Star-Wars-movie! snake thing and the other time on Kylo Ren himself. Presumably, Rey and Ben would have learnt the ability from somewhere, but where? Most likely from Leia or Luke, but they could have only learnt the power from Yoda or Obi-Wan, two characters who have never been seen to use the ability before.

If Obi-Wan knew how to use Force Healing, it was pretty selfish of him to just watch his old master Qui-Gon Jinn die at the hands of Darth Maul, rather than trying to revive him at the end of The Phantom Menace. Admittedly, Obi-Wan was still young in that movie, and hadn't developed all of his powers, but surely the ancient and almost all-powerful Yoda would have found a use for it when he found himself surrounded by dozens of dead Padawans at the end of Revenge Of The Sith?

On the subject of Revenge Of The Sith, wasn't Anakin's fall to the Dark Side largely predicated on his premonitions of Padmé's death? If only there had been someone to teach him this ability...