9 Incredibly TerribleStar WarsDads

There are more than a million adept systems in theStar Wars galaxy , and mayhap about 20 of them have a decent beginner in them .

For some cause , if you ’re a guy inStar Warswho has a tyke , you have a 90 per centum chance of become flat so your tike can go on some heroes ’ journey . If you somehow live on , there ’s a 90 percent you ’re going to be tremendous , so they can go on aheroes ’ journeyand then defend you . This plethora of misfortunate daddy has not only made life miserable for their children but for much of the creation , too .

( Note : We maintain our list to sire related by rakehell ( or , uh , midi - chlorians ) because if we supply the bad father figures we ’d be here all calendar week . )

Emperor Palpatine, shown not holding a World’s Best Dad mug.

Emperor Palpatine, shown not holding a World’s Best Dad mug.Image: (Lucasfilm)

Anakin Skywalker

have ’s start strong , if obvious : Darth Vader is the poster dadfor sorry parenting in the Star Wars universe , to the point where George Lucas has seek to convert hoi polloi that “ darth vader ” entail “ colored founder ” even though 1 ) Vader was neither Luke nor Leia ’s dad in any of the many scripts for A New Hope , and 2 ) “ darth vader ” does n’t actually mean “ grim father ” in any Earth language . We can technically reduce Vader some slack for trying to shoot down Luke in the Death Star deep and subjecting Leia to an interrogator droid in Episode IV because while both thing are obviously bad , the erstwhile Jedi did n’t know he had know kids at all , let alone that they were Luke and Leia . If you want to be incredibly charitable , you could point out how Vader was under verbatim order to obliterate Luke if he could n’t be turned to the dreary side , and instead the Sith Lord but choose to cut off his mitt .

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Yet , we must all admit that if our dads dilute off one of our hand with a searing - hot plasm blade , we probably would not be sending them plug-in on Father ’s sidereal day . Then there ’s the fact that Vader actively tried to obliterate Luke in Return of the Jedi , relent only at the last moment , and then only after cutting off Luke ’s hand again . ( It was the robot one , but the point stands . ) Of course , when it came to fatherhood , Anakin did n’t have much in the way of role models , but we ’ll get to that in a second gear .

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An unhappy father-son reunion.Image: (Lucasfilm)

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Han Solo

Oh , I know everybody loves Han Solo . And permit ’s be clear , even though he joined the Rebellion full - time and aid save the galaxy , that was n’t proof the ex-wife - smuggler was going to be a full dad . Because he sure enough was n’t ! While he ca n’t peradventure be blamed for Luke freaking out and sending his nephew crashing headfirst into the Dark Side , at some point , we roll in the hay Han give up on his tyke and gave up on his man and wife , because that ’s where he ’s at when The Force Awakens begins .

In fact , thanks to the novel Bloodline , set in the year follow Return of the Jedi , we sleep with Han bequeath Leia and Ben pretty early on , first becoming a racer , then owner of a shipping company , which hold back him traveling across the galaxy , away from home . He reunify with Leia briefly , around 15 year ( ! ) later , only to provide permanently once he discover Ben went to the Dark Side . We do n’t cognise how much Han tried to be part of Ben ’s living while his Word was growing up , but Wookieepedia mentions incisively zero times the two even speak ; I ’m certain they did , but since all his conversations with Leia over the years were recorded in the archives , his talk with his Logos were most in all probability short and unenviable . No wonderKylo Renmanaged to find the strength to kill Han .

Emperor Palpatine

As we learn in The Rise of Skywalker , ol’ Sheev Palpatine got laidat some power point before his apprentice Darth Vader chucked him down a Death Star laundry chute , and , like so many things , kept it secret . As we now know , Palpatine did n’t die so much as he was spirit up off from the majority of the galaxy and got snarf up to a Sith UFO catcher . What we do n’t know is how or where Palpatine ’s Word was elevate ; the best we can surmise is that the kid was not unspeakably malefic since he ran away to keep his daughter Rey out of the disintegrate men of his fantastically evil dad , and because in his brief scene in Rise of Skywalker , he was outwear normal clothes instead of some kind of dark Sith armor , which in Star Wars is the clearest mansion you ’re a big cat . Palpatine , of class , sent an assassinator to convalesce his granddaughter , and when that failed he had his kid mow down , along with his daughter - in - constabulary . So really , Anakin can feel a small bit of comforter in that while he tried to kill his kids on multiple occasions , he never in reality achieved it , gain Palpatine the “ Galaxy ’s Worst Dad ” sucker .

Brendol Hux

While Han was absent from his son ’s life , Brendol Hux , father of the futureGeneral Armitage Hux of subsequence trilogy fame , was very present , and that was very much the trouble . Although the canyon is light on the detail — which is fine — the Aftermath book trilogy confirm Brendol sired Armitage out of wedlock and later physically and psychologically abused him , although that did n’t lessen Armitage ’s delusions of nobility . Brendol only ceased afterGrand Admiral Rae Sloanebeat the hell out of him and told him to stop or she would have him kill . The one positively charged thing you may say about Brendol is that while he create a team of fanatic child soldier through bestial psychological programming , he did n’t force Armitage to be one of them , so that ’s , uh , something , I guess .

Jango Fett

Let ’s say there ’s nothing weird about a guy rope , who has donate his genetic material for the creation of a mammoth clone army modify to be all loyal soldiers for the Republic , to necessitate foran exact duplication of himselfas part of his payment . He ’s a single dad , attempt to raise his Logos while make his way in the galaxy ! Of course , “ making his manner ” mean H.M.S. Bounty hunt , and Jango did n’t have a job convey his kid on dangerous mission well before Boba was 10 long time onetime . As detailed in the Age of Republic : Jango Fett comedian , a pair of bounty hunter Jango had been working with give away him and grabbed Boba as a surety . Jango let Boba figure out how to elude the position on his own , which Boba did by murdering both premium Hunter .

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Even if you believe in Take Your Son to make for Even If You ’re a Bounty Hunter Day , when the Jedi attacked Geonosis in Attack of the Clones , Jango was mute enough to jetpack into the middle of a conflict he had no reason for joining , lunge onto his stomach in an absolutely unavailing move to grab Mace Windu ’s fallen lightsaber , and got instantly trampled by a Reek . Jango vote down the Reek by shooting it when it charged him and bound out of the way at the last second . However , when Mace Windu charge him forthwith later on , Jango decide to stay put for some reason and got beheaded as a result . I ’m sure Jango was n’t planning on leave young Boba as an orphan , but this was like purposefully jumping into the Sarlacc and bear to descend out live .

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Dude fucked.Image: (Lucasfilm)

Grand Moff Tarkin’s Dad

We do n’t know the name of Wilhuff Tarkin ’s father ; in fact , we do n’t make love much about him at all . Even though Tarkin get a self - titled biography , there ’s not a lot say about his family , other than that he was raised on the satellite Eriadu into a loaded family that was very into subject field and power . Also , his father once had a servant take young Wilhuff ’s dinner before he could feed it as a lesson on how multitude can take thing from you , I guess . That ’s sort of a footling moral , but it can make us reasonably confident that when Wilhuff ’s grand - uncle Jova threw young Wilhelm into Eriadu ’s severe wild and told the adolescent to figure out how to hold out , Jova did it with his nephew ’s consent .

As detailed in the Age of Rebellion : Tarkin comic , Wilhuff got badly mangle by two drab space - tigers at the very least . He “ trained ” in natural selection for a full six months . There ’s no telling how many more metre he was attack , but the result was his body from the neck down was enshroud in cicatrix for the balance of his lifespan . At least Wilhuff ’s dad shares the incrimination with the full Tarkin folk , although they likely would n’t be pleased to know how theGrand Moffdaydreamed about using the Death Star ’s weapon on his dwelling house planet as a result .

Sheev Palpatine’s Son

We ca n’t allow him off the claw , guys . Palpatine ’s unidentified son obviously mean well when he dropped off his daughter Rey on Jakku to keep his very evil dad from raising Rey to be an acolyte of the Sith . And good for him for successfully get by Palpatine ’s clutch bag and going on the run to protect his family in the first plaza . But then … then the clotheshorse had to go and give his daughter to Unkar Plutt , the ruthless junk boss and brutal food withholder who forced Rey to clean for him .

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Rey finally strike out on her own to live in that fallen AT - AT , but god only do it how uncut those few geezerhood were on her . Hey , Palpatine Jr. ? You could n’t find anyone less frightful to give your kid to than Plutt ? Like , 98 per centum of Jakku ’s inhabitants would in all probability have been in effect guardians to Rey . I get you were running for your life , but all you would need to do is take an extra five minutes and not give her to the first bozo you saw , and your girl would have had a much more pleasant childhood .

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This is not Brendol Hux but actor Brendan Gleeson in In the Heart of the Sea, an inarguably better father to General Hux actor Domhnall Gleeson.Image: (Warner Bros)

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The Father

If you ’ve only ascertain the Star Wars movies , this is go to get a little wild . So the Father — that ’s his name — was a Force wielder who was either some kind of ancient embodiment of the Force or just a really eldritch immortal dude who survive on aplanet named Mortis , it ’s difficult to tell . Either room , as perThe Clone Warscartoon , he had a son he named Son and a daughter he named Daughter and the two kids represented — to the Father , at least — the dark side and the tripping side of the Force , respectively . As their parent , he attempt to maintain balance between them , because that ’s a Good Thing , evidently .

search , I know the original trilogy and the prequels were about Anakin bringing correspondence to the Force , but I need to call bullshit on this . Why is it crucial to have a balance between good and evil ? Why not attempt to hold back evil and keep dear on top ? Because here ’s how the trio end up : Son polish off Daughter and Father had to vote out himself because somehow that take aside Son ’s immortality , allowing Anakin to take out Son . Because Father was so worried about maintaining balance instead of preventing Son from actively committing evil , Father finally allow the entire Family to get kill . Here ’s a good object lesson for everyone in the Star Wars macrocosm : Stop thinking evil is an OK thing for hoi polloi to be .

The Force

And speaking of , I ’m not at all done call out the Force , who was the galaxy ’s ultimate deadbeat pappa — a father so horrific it was n’t only lacking from its son ’s entire life , it never even take bodily form in the first position . Instead , it just create Anakin inside poor Shmi Skywalker to bring balance to , uh , itself , and then peaced out and left Anakin to be raised in bondage and then lease to Coruscant , to be further raised by the dimwitted Jedi and the subtle Palpatine .

Now , either the Force knocked up Shmi and hope Anakin would turn out all right despite the fact the kid was move to be recruit in slavery , or the Force knew exactly how the future was going to play out andAnakin brought residue like he was supposed to — a process that required the immature Skywalker to meet vast strong-arm and emotional pain , including the opinion that he had murdered the sexual love of his life and his unborn tiddler , before sacrifice himself to relieve the galaxy . ( This sounds intimate … ) . Either direction , the Force abandoned its kid and allow him live a aliveness of wretchedness , and a spate of people got kill as a result . Hey , the Force — if you ’re powerful enough to create liveliness , maybe you could have just not allow Palpatine to have full access to infinite Dark Side powers in the first spot ? It would have saved everyone a whole band of grief .

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