After easily batting away the biker scout’s blaster bolts, Luke makes a precision lightsaber strike to the trooper’s speeder bike, sending it spiraling out of control. Later on, Luke demonstrates his incredible Force-enhanced reflexes when fighting an Imperial Scout Trooper on Endor. Luke even fights the legendary bounty hunter Boba Fett during this battle, with Luke disarming Fett and briefly knocking him unconscious with a deflected blaster bolt. Luke’s prowess with a lightsaber is seen most spectacularly when he later fights against a small army of Jabba the Hutt’s enforcers, defeating nearly all of them single-handedly. In his very first scene, Luke casually uses the Force to choke two Gamorrean guards and successfully entrances Bib Fortuna with a Jedi mind trick, proving that his strength in the Force has grown significantly since his defeat in Cloud City. Roughly a year after his duel with Vader on Bespin, Luke Skywalker is nearly a true Jedi Knight. Luke’s greatest feats in the original trilogy are found in Return of the Jedi. Though Vader defeats him, Luke held his own in a one-on-one fight against one of the most powerful beings in the galaxy, something only that only an astoundingly strong being could do. Towards the end of their duel, Luke surprises Vader with a glancing blow to his arm. Luke uses the Force to jump out of a carbon freezing chamber so quickly, his movement is blurred, impressing Vader. Luke is clearly outmatched in his fight against the Sith Lord, but he still manages to display his increased strength. Luke makes numerous mistakes and struggles with many of his lessons, but nevertheless becomes a powerful Force user by the time he pauses his training prematurely to rescue his friends from Darth Vader. Once Luke finally begins his formal Jedi training under the tutelage of Yoda, he starts to realize how much he has left to learn. Later, during the Battle of Hoth, Luke makes use of a grappling hook, explosives, and the lightsaber to destroy a gargantuan Imperial AT-AT. While dazed, injured, and hanging upside down in a Wampa’s lair, the still minimally-trained Luke manages to summon his father’s lightsaber in the nick of time to escape captivity. Having now fought in the Rebellion for three years (while further honing his lightsaber skills and Force abilities, as shown in non-movie material in both Star Wars canon and Legends), Luke is seen at the beginning of The Empire Strikes Back to have grown bolder and more resourceful. Perhaps Luke’s greatest feat in Star Wars, however, was his Force-guided volley of proton torpedoes, which landed a precise hit on the Death Star’s main reactor, something that even the Rebels’ targeting computers couldn’t manage. In his very first lesson in lightsaber use and blaster deflection, Luke manages, through trial and error, to block several training blaster bolts in quick succession with his vision obscured. Luke is one of only three Rebel pilots to survive the battle, having evaded Darth Vader (one of the galaxy’s greatest pilots) for a time.ĭespite minimal training, Luke shows astounding aptitude in the Force in Star Wars. Luke is also built up to be an incredible pilot throughout the film, finally getting his chance to prove it in the third act, where he flies among the Rebellion’s Red Squadron in the Battle of Yavin. Though, as Leia notes, he forgot to plan an exit strategy, Luke makes up for this later with inventive use of a grappling hook to allow him and Leia to swing across a chasm and out of danger. It was Luke’s idea to sneak into the Death Star’s detention area, using Chewbacca as a fake prisoner. On more than once occasion, Luke is shown to be skilled at improvising plans and means of survival. Luke’s prowess in Star Wars goes beyond his fighting skills.
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