84-492: " Darksaber " may refer to: The Darksaber (fictional weapon) , a unique fictional weapon in the Star Wars franchise Darksaber (novel) , a 1995 Star Wars novel by Kevin J. Anderson Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Darksaber . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
168-651: A Jedi's or Sith's training regimen. Each lightsaber is unique, though some may bear resemblance to others, especially if there is a connection between the builders. The hilt of most lightsabers are straight and predominantly cylindrical, though there are other lightsaber hilt types. The first film appearance of a dual-bladed lightsaber (first depicted in the comic series Tales of the Jedi ) was in The Phantom Menace , wielded by Darth Maul ; it consists of two regular lightsabers joined at their butt ends each producing
252-599: A blade independently. Count Dooku , beginning with the character's first appearance in Attack of the Clones , is shown to have a lightsaber with a curved hilt. The video game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed introduced two other variants: a lightsaber pike (a lightsaber with a shorter blade but a long handle, resembling a spear) and a Tonfa -style lightsaber with right-angle hilt. Additionally, in several spin-off series such as The Clone Wars and Rebels , special variants of
336-626: A cantina to recruit them in their mission to rescue Grogu (The Child) from Moff Gideon. Bo-Katan is initially hostile to Boba and calls him a disgrace to his Mandalorian armor, since he is a clone. Nevertheless, she breaks a scuffle between Boba and Koska and agrees to help the Mandalorian under the condition that she will get Gideon's cruiser and the Darksaber from him, and the Mandalorian considers helping her to liberate Mandalore. The Mandalorian bests Gideon in combat, spoiling her plan to win back
420-603: A flaming mechanical katana wielded by Kyosuke Munakata . With the advent of motion-controlled video games , players were given the opportunity to wield an in-game lightsaber with their own hands. In the seventh generation of video game consoles , there were several Star Wars video games available on the Wii ( Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga , Star Wars: The Force Unleashed , Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Lightsaber Duels , Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Republic Heroes and Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars ) and one on
504-399: A leader. On November 16, 2019, Sackhoff confirmed that she would portray Bo-Katan in live-action in the then-upcoming second season of The Mandalorian , appearing in " Chapter 11: The Heiress ", released on November 13, 2020. Costume designer Shawna Trpcic commissioned sculptor Jose Fernandez and his Ironhead Studios to build Mandalorian armor for Bo-Katan. Sackhoff had hoped to play
588-527: A lightsaber hilt. In the book Star Wars: Ahsoka and the comic series Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith , it is shown that dark side users remove the crystal from a defeated Jedi's lightsaber and concentrate Force energy on it to break its connection to the light side, a process known as "bleeding" to create a red crystal. The process can also be reversed, as shown in Ahsoka , when the titular character does so to
672-546: A lightsaber that features two crosshilt blades, giving it the appearance of a greatsword . His blade also has an unstable, fiery appearance, explained in canon reference books as stemming from a cracked kyber crystal. The Inquisitors of the Galactic Empire are depicted as wielding a unique variation of a double-bladed saber, mounted on a rotating ring enabling the blades 360 degrees of rotation and short-term flight capability. More obscure lightsaber variations, such as
756-470: A lightsaber upon accepting him as its owner. In Yuya Sato 's Danganronpa: Togami light novel trilogy, main antagonist Orvin Elevator / Kazuya Togami wields a lightsaber built into their prosthetic arm, to which they are berated for copyright infringement by Genocider Syo / Genocide Jack ; in the anime Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School , this same lightsaber is instead depicted as
840-547: A location underground known as the Great Forge, but instead discover Moff Gideon's hidden base. Gideon wears an enhanced Dark Trooper suit of armor and his stormtroopers are equipped with beskar armor and jetpacks. They are trapped, the Mandalorian is captured but the rest barely manage to escape. In " Chapter 24: The Return ", Bo-Katan leads the Mandalorians against Moff Gideon's forces, but with his new armor he gains
924-636: A pair of crystals taken from an Inquisitor. She uses them in the pair of white-bladed lightsabers she builds at the end of the novel. Other colors have appeared in various expanded media projects, including many video games where the player can select their character's lightsaber color. The Darksaber is a unique lightsaber that has a distinct black blade with a white halo, introduced in Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) and subsequently appearing in Star Wars Rebels , where it
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#17327728741041008-612: A training droid (which appears on the phone's rear camera), similar to the deflection training exercises featured aboard the Millennium Falcon in A New Hope , while progressing through the ranks of the Jedi or Sith order. Another is in Star Wars: Jedi Challenges , which works with a Lenovo Mirage AR headset, a tracking sensor and a dedicated lightsaber controller that launched in December 2017. One of
1092-495: Is a mnemonic riff on the words "boogie-cat-Anne" pronounced together, referring to the name of the cat belonging to Filoni's wife, herself named Anne. Bo-Katan is a warrior at her core, and left the politics of leadership to the diplomats like her sister Duchess Satine Kryze. She has her faults, and a strong sense of her own self importance, but she understands the Mandalorian warrior culture and over time grows into her role as
1176-701: Is a three-sided rod which was coated with a Scotchlite retroreflector array, the same sort used for highway signs . A lamp was positioned to the side of the taking camera and reflected towards the subject through 45-degree angled glass so that the sword would appear to glow from the camera's point of view. Set decorator Roger Christian found the handles for the Graflex Flash Gun in a photography shop in Great Marlborough Street , in London's West End . He then added cabinet T-track to
1260-486: Is also reflected in the film's re-release posters. Mace Windu 's purple-bladed lightsaber, as first seen in Attack of the Clones , was requested by the actor Samuel L. Jackson , who believed the color, which is his personal favorite, would make his character be easily recognized among other Jedi. Jackson is known to frequently request that the characters he plays use an item that is purple in color. The Clone Wars showed
1344-415: Is an amalgamation of all the great swordfighting styles. Melding them together is the difficult part—to move from a Kendo style to, say, rapier requires a complete change in body and feet movement, and this must look effortless. The style moves seamlessly between the different disciplines, but remains technically correct throughout. For The Phantom Menace , Gillard set out certain styles and faults for
1428-567: Is another custom lightsaber experience. The Star Trader at Disneyland offers guests a chance to build their own lightsabers, without first paying 200 dollars for the experience. The Jedi Training: Trials of the Temple is a live show where children are selected to learn the teachings of the Jedi Knights, the Force , and the basics of Lightsaber combat to become Padawan learners . The show
1512-536: Is capable of destroying Beskar armor. Governor Tiber Saxon captures Sabine and Bo-Katan, threatening to kill Kryze if Wren does not upgrade the weapon. Sabine reprograms the weapon to target stormtrooper armor and kill Saxon, but Bo-Katan warns her against sinking to the Empire's level. Heeding Bo-Katan, Sabine destroys the weapon and allows the Rebels to free Mandalore from the Empire's control. Bo-Katan eventually accepts
1596-561: Is credited as starring alongside Pedro Pascal (who was previously the only actor credited as starring in the show). In "Chapter 11", Bo-Katan, Koska Reeves , and Axe Woves rescue Din Djarin "the Mandalorian" and the Child from a group of Quarren . They remove their helmets and Bo-Katan explains her history, also revealing to the Mandalorian that his sect of Mandalorians, the Children of
1680-484: Is described as an ancient lightsaber created by Tarre Vizla, the first Mandalorian to become a Jedi, and later serves as a symbol of Mandalorian authority in the hands of Bo-Katan Kryze . It subsequently appears briefly in the hands of Moff Gideon in the season one finale of The Mandalorian , to whom Kryze had previously surrendered the weapon. By the end of the second season's finale , it belongs to series protagonist Din Djarin , who has bested Gideon for it. In
1764-637: Is outvoted. Once the Death Watch conquers Mandalore, they betray Maul, but he challenges Vizsla to a duel for the right to rule Mandalore. Maul defeats Vizsla and kills him with his own Darksaber, but Bo-Katan refuses to accept an outsider as a ruler and flees with the Death Watch members loyal to her. They later save Satine, but the former Duchess is recaptured. Soon after, Obi-Wan Kenobi arrives on Mandalore to rescue her as well. Maul murders Satine and has Obi-Wan taken to prison; however, Bo-Katan and her forces free him. She helps him escape so that he may bring
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#17327728741041848-591: Is present at the Rebels stage next to Star Tours – The Adventures Continue attraction at Disney's Hollywood Studios and at the Tomorrowland Terrace at Disneyland. Additionally, Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser has incorporated lightsaber training for each guest aboard the spacecraft during their stay. The training is led by the Saja cast members and teaches the fourth form of lightsaber combat, Ataru, to
1932-412: Is shown as a luminous laser sword about 3 feet (0.91 m) in length emitted from a metal hilt around 10.5 inches (27 cm) in length. First introduced in the original Star Wars film , it has since appeared in most Star Wars films, with at least one lightsaber duel occurring in each installment of the " Skywalker saga ". The lightsaber's distinct appearance was created using rotoscoping for
2016-555: The Darksaber . The Mandalorian Din Djarin, then retells the events of " Chapter 18: The Mines of Mandalore " where he had been captured and disarmed of the Darksaber, and that Bo-Katan slayed his captor using it. He deems her the rightful ruler through rule of combat because of this and returns the Darksaber to her. They return to Nevarro to unite the two Mandalorian factions and In " Chapter 23: The Spies ", they move to reclaim their homeworld of Mandalore. The combined group searches for
2100-476: The Galactic Empire 's occupation of Mandalore, Bo-Katan refused to serve the Empire and was forced to abdicate, being replaced by Clan Saxon. Seeing herself as unworthy to lead, she initially refuses the Darksaber from Sabine Wren , who recovered it from Maul. In "Heroes of Mandalore", Bo-Katan and her Mandalorian allies combine efforts with the Ghost crew in destroying "The Duchess", a weapon created by Sabine that
2184-527: The Obi-Wan Kenobi / Darth Vader duel, they could clearly be seen as rods. Because of this, the glow would be added in post-production through rotoscoping, which also allowed for diffusion to be employed to enhance the glow. While original trilogy hilts were typically constructed using found parts, during the prequel and sequel trilogies a different process was sometimes used. Hilts were first machined out of metal materials. Then casts would be made using
2268-538: The Xbox 360 ( Kinect Star Wars ) that utilized motion controls to wield a lightsaber through arm gestures. Unleashed and Duels , both developed by Krome Studios , have more precise control of the lightsaber, allowing players to swing it in any of five different directions (up, down, left, right or forward) with the Wii Remote , while Kinect takes advantage of the eponymous, camera-based motion controller to grant
2352-610: The original films , and with digital effects for the prequel and sequel trilogies. In the Star Wars universe , the lightsaber is the signature weapon of the light-side -wielding Jedi Order and the dark-side -wielding Sith Order . However, the lightsaber can also be wielded by non- Force-sensitive characters as an ordinary weapon or tool. The Jedi use different colored lightsabers. The most common lightsaber colors are blue and green, but other colors also exist, those being purple, white, black, and yellow. The Sith wield exclusively red-bladed sabers to distinguish themselves from
2436-452: The "lightwhip", an elongated flexible blade used in a matter akin to a whip , the "lightclub", an enlarged standard lightsaber, and the "shoto", a dramatically smaller variation often paired with a standard sized saber have also made appearances. Lightsabers in the first two released films, A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back , had blades that were either blue (for the Jedi) or red (for
2520-517: The Darksaber from Sabine, becoming the ruler of Mandalore once more as the surviving Mandalorians pledge loyalty to her. Sackhoff reprises her role in the second season of The Mandalorian , appearing in " Chapter 11: The Heiress " for the character's first live-action appearance. Caitlin Dechelle and Caitlin Hutson served as her stunt doubles. In the third season of The Mandalorian, Sackhoff
2604-453: The Darksaber in combat herself. He attempts to surrender the weapon to her, but is told by Gideon that it must be won in combat. Bo-Katan does not accept the Darksaber from the Mandalorian. In " Chapter 17: The Apostate ", the Mandalorian and Grogu visit Bo-Katan at her castle on Kalevala. Having failed to win the Darksaber, she has abandoned her plans to retake Mandalore, and her forces have gone. The Mandalorian seeks redemption by bathing in
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2688-478: The Death Watch ally themselves with Darth Maul and several crime syndicates (in an alliance known as the Shadow Collective) with the intent of performing false flag operations against the Mandalorian people in order to stage a coup against Duchess Satine Kryze, the pacifist ruler of Mandalore and Bo-Katan's sister. Bo-Katan believes that Sith are no better than Jedi and distrusts the gangsters, but
2772-475: The Death Watch. Bo-Katan and the Death Watch later burn down the village and murder the innocent villagers. Ahsoka reveals herself as a Jedi and fights off the Death Watch before being taken prisoner, but is freed shortly after. While Ahsoka, R2-D2 and Lux escape towards their ship, Bo-Katan pursues them and tries to kill Ahsoka, but is defeated. Bo-Katan reappears in the fifth season episodes "Eminence", "Shades of Reason" and "The Lawless". In this story arc,
2856-616: The Force-user's tool, described in A New Hope by Obi-Wan Kenobi as "not as clumsy or random as a blaster. An elegant weapon, from a more civilized age". The source of a lightsaber's power is a kyber crystal . These crystals are also the power source of the Death Star 's superlaser. In films such as Revenge of the Sith and The Last Jedi , melee weapons such as the electrostaff and plasma-lined blades deflect lightsabers. Lightsabers are depicted as hand-built as part of
2940-517: The Great Purge of Mandalore, she seeks to recover the Darksaber from Moff Gideon and retake her homeworld. On January 13, 2012, Bo-Katan Kryze first appeared in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars fourth season episode "A Friend in Need," voiced by Katee Sackhoff . Although not originally included in the script for the episode, director Dave Filoni added the character to set up a greater role in
3024-433: The Jedi by pushing a joystick in one of eight directions to follow on-screen offensive and defensive cues, and a TV game released around the time Revenge of the Sith came to theaters, titled Star Wars: Saga Edition – Lightsaber Battle Game , in which the player swings a lightsaber-shaped controller to deflect blaster bolts from infantry (such as battle droids and clone troopers ) and duel against characters from across
3108-509: The Jedi. The color of a lightsaber's blade is given by kyber crystals. A kyber crystal has no color until it is approached by a Jedi. It then turns into a color determined by the wielder's connection to the Force . A lightsaber's hilt is built by its wielder and is, therefore, unique in design. There are several variations outside of the traditional single-bladed lightsaber, such as the double-bladed lightsaber (most famously wielded by Darth Maul ),
3192-544: The Living Waters and has not removed her helmet since, she too is accepted into the covert. In " Chapter 20: The Foundling ", Bo-Katan leads a rescue party when the foundling Ragnar Vizsla is abducted by a large winged raptor. Bo-Katan successfully rescues Ragnar and brings the raptor's chicks back to the enclave, which earns her the respect of the tribe. When the Armorer forges Bo-Katan a new pauldron , Bo-Katan reveals
3276-471: The Living Waters in the Mines of Mandalore, and she reluctantly tells him where to go. In " Chapter 18: The Mines of Mandalore ", after the Mandalorian is caught in a trap, Grogu convinces Bo-Katan to travel to Mandalore and rescue him. Although she is cynical about the legends surrounding the Living Waters and wishes to leave the ruined planet, she agrees to continue and lead them to the mines herself. Bathing in
3360-459: The Living Waters, the Mandalorian is dragged underwater, and while rescuing him Bo-Katan witnesses a living mythosaur, an ancient creature of Mandalorian legend thought to be extinct. In " Chapter 19: The Convert ", upon returning to Kalevala, they are attacked by Imperial ships, and bombers destroy her castle. The Mandalorian brings her to the covert's hidden base. The Armorer declares that the Mandalorian has been redeemed. As Bo-Katan also bathed in
3444-533: The Republic assist them in reclaiming Mandalore from Maul. Though reluctant at first, the Jedi decide to send a division of the 501st Legion under Commander Rex to stage an invasion that becomes known as the Siege of Mandalore. They succeed in overthrowing Maul and Bo-Katan is declared regent . Bo-Katan returns in the Star Wars Rebels fourth-season premiere and television film Heroes of Mandalore . During
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3528-546: The Schwartz-rings, rather than a hilt. The cartoon series Futurama features many lightsaber-style weapons, notably expanding batons used by police. The batons glow and "whoosh" with a lightsaber's distinctive hum, but are used to beat people. In Jim Butcher's Dresden Files novel series, medical examiner and Star Wars fan Waldo Butters wields one of the three holy Swords of the Cross, which re-fashions itself into
3612-542: The Sith). Luke Skywalker 's new lightsaber in Return of the Jedi was colored blue during the initial editing of the film, and appears so in both an early movie trailer and the official theatrical posters; it was later changed to green in the film's final edit after initial viewings and screen tests by the filmmakers, who felt that it would better stand out against the blue sky of Tatooine in outdoor scenes, and this color change
3696-525: The Watch, who follow the strict ancient rules known as "the Way", are not the only sect Mandalorians, many of whom do not follow "the Way". Distrusting Bo-Katan because of this, the Mandalorian rejects their help. After they save him a second time, he agrees to help them seize weapons from an Imperial freighter, and Bo-Katan agrees to tell the Mandalorian where he can find a Jedi. During the raid, Bo-Katan interrogates
3780-408: The action for The Phantom Menace was to create stunts that flow from the story; "You can't just think, 'I'm a stunt coordinator , I'm going to make a big stunt happen'," Gillard said. "It's all about making it tie in nicely with the film so that you don't notice the stunts." In writing the prequel trilogy, George Lucas said he wanted the lightsaber combat to be "reminiscent of what had been done in
3864-486: The ancient warrior ways of their planet, Mandalore. She is also the sister of Duchess Satine Kryze , the pacifist ruler of Mandalore, from whom she is estranged due to differences in their politics. She later allies herself with former Jedi Ahsoka Tano and the Galactic Republic in liberating Mandalore from Darth Maul . In Rebels , Bo-Katan is declared the new ruler of Mandalore. In The Mandalorian , after
3948-434: The basic lightsaber tone on a loudspeaker and recording it on a moving microphone, generating Doppler shift to mimic a moving sound source. Lightsabers were present in the earliest drafts as mundane plasma weapons that were used alongside laser guns. The introduction of the Force in a later revision made the Jedi and the Sith supernaturally skilled; initially, they were only portrayed as swordsmen. The lightsaber became
4032-404: The blade is moved rapidly through the air. Bringing the blade into contact with another lightsaber's blade produces a loud crackle. The lightsaber has become one of the most widely recognized elements of the Star Wars franchise. In 2008, a survey of approximately 2,000 film fans found it to be the most popular weapon in film history. Covered with millions of tiny glass beads, [Scotchlite] has
4116-410: The captain, wanting to know the whereabouts of Moff Gideon and if he has the Darksaber. Afterwards, she offers the Mandalorian the chance to join them despite their differences but he chooses to continue his quest. Bo-Katan tells him that he will find Ahsoka Tano in the city of Calodan on the planet of Corvus. In " Chapter 16: The Rescue ", the Mandalorian and Boba Fett approach Bo-Katan and Koska at
4200-436: The character in live action but expected that it would be recast with someone more famous such as Scarlett Johansson . When she finally wore the armor for the first time she was overwhelmed and cried with joy. Bo-Katan Kryze (voiced by Katee Sackhoff ) first appeared in the fourth season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars , in the episode "A Friend in Need" as the lieutenant of Death Watch, a terrorist group seeking to overthrow
4284-434: The characters, and gave each of them a flaw or a bonus. So with Obi-Wan Kenobi, for instance, he's got a very business-like style—when he was younger he could border on the flashy and might twirl his lightsaber a bit, because he was taught by Qui-Gon. Qui-Gon was brash, that rubbed off on Obi-Wan and Obi-Wan then taught Anakin, who was way too old to learn anyway... I think the style really worked well. The Jedi style of fighting
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#17327728741044368-465: The choreography similarly to how it was done in the original trilogy. Abrams stated that the prequel trilogy choreography was "increasingly spectacular and stylized, almost like dance choreography", but that was not what they really wanted to go for in the new films. He told Empire magazine, "When you look at Star Wars and Empire , they are very different lightsaber battles, but for me they felt more powerful because they were not quite as slick. I
4452-502: The curved-hilted lightsaber (wielded by Asajj Ventress and most famously by Count Dooku ), crossguard lightsabers (used by Kylo Ren and occasionally by Jedi), and the Darksaber , forged by the Mandalorian Jedi Tarre Vizsla , but primarily wielded by the non-Force-sensitive Mandalorian rulers of Mandalore (including Pre Vizsla , Maul, Bo-Katan Kryze , Moff Gideon , and Din Djarin ). As presented in
4536-401: The early films, a lightsaber's energy blade can cut, burn, and melt through most substances with little resistance. It leaves cauterized wounds in flesh, but can be deflected by another lightsaber blade, by energy shields , or by the metal beskar (found in Mandalorian armor ) and phrik (the metal used to create electrostaffs). The blade has even been used as a tool to weld metal. Other times,
4620-512: The existence of the mythosaur she saw on Mandalore, but the Armorer is dismissive. Following the events of " Chapter 21: The Pirate ", the Armorer summons Bo-Katan and orders her to take off her helmet - the Armorer believes that Bo-Katan can walk in both worlds, and reunite all Mandalorians. In " Chapter 22: Guns for Hire ", Bo-Katan reunites with her former group of Mandalorians and challenges Axe Woves in combat. After forcing Woves to yield, he claims that they can not follow her as she does not hold
4704-444: The film on an optical printer , making the light seem to vibrate. Shin also recommended adding a degausser sound on top of the other sounds for the weapon since the sound would be reminiscent of a magnetic field. The whole process took one week, surprising his company. Lucasfilm showed Shin the finished product, having followed his suggestions to use an X-Acto knife to give the lightsaber a very sharp look, and to have sound accompany
4788-552: The forces of the Galactic Republic upon Mandalore to remove Maul from power. In the seventh and final season, Bo-Katan and the Nite Owls continue to fight against Maul. While on a mission on Oba Diah, Bo-Katan, Ursa Wren and another Nite Owl spot Ahsoka and follow her back to Coruscant , where Kryze puts aside her differences and recruits her. Ahsoka and Bo-Katan contact Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker , requesting that
4872-556: The guardians of the Jedi Temple wielding yellow-bladed lightsabers, and, at the end of The Rise of Skywalker , Rey is shown to have built a yellow-bladed lightsaber using part of her staff as the hilt. As depicted in The Clone Wars and Rebels , the builder of a lightsaber finds a kyber crystal and meditates with it until the crystal acquires a color. The color of this crystal becomes the blade's color when installed into
4956-432: The guests. Both lightsabers and shields are used during training since the guests learn to use Ataru to deflect incoming projectiles. There is no lightsaber-to-lightsaber combat in this attraction and guests must be at least seven years old to participate. The virtual reality rhythm game Beat Saber involves the player using two lightsabers in order to slash a series of oncoming cubes. In Kamen Rider Black RX ,
5040-413: The handles, securely attaching them with cyanoacrylate glue . Adding a few " greebles " (surface details), Christian managed to hand-make the first prototype of a lightsaber prop for Luke Skywalker before production began. George Lucas decided he wanted to add a clip to the handle, so that Luke could hang it on his belt. Once Lucas felt the handle was up to his standards, it went to John Stears to create
5124-502: The lightsaber has been shown to cause bleeding wounds in the flesh, sometimes accompanied by burns. Some exotic saber-proof melee weapons have been introduced in the Expanded Universe as well as later episodic films. Lightsabers can also deflect blaster bolts , allowing a wielder with Jedi reflexes to turn an enemy's own gunfire against them. An active lightsaber gives off a distinctive hum, which rises in pitch and volume as
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#17327728741045208-489: The lightsaber have been depicted - such as the lightsaber-blaster wielded by Ezra Bridger . The Star Wars expanded universe adds several lightsaber types, including short and dual-phase (adjustable length) weapons. In Star Wars Rebels , Ezra Bridger's original lightsaber is a hybrid that features a fully functional blaster pistol built into the handle. Kylo Ren , introduced in The Force Awakens , uses
5292-495: The lightsaber replica market by utilizing a strip of individually addressable RGB LEDs encased within a durable polycarbonate blade. This design allows for a higher level of control over the lightsaber's appearance and behavior. Disneyland in California sells lightsaber-themed churros outside its Star Tours attraction. Disneyland and Disney World (Hollywood Studios) also sell legacy lightsabers which are replicas of
5376-466: The lightsaber techniques for the three original movies. The lightsaber duels in the Star Wars prequel trilogy were specifically choreographed by stunt-coordinator Nick Gillard to be miniature "stories". For these films, Gillard was the primary sword instructor for Liam Neeson ( Qui-Gon Jinn ), Ewan McGregor (Obi-Wan Kenobi), Ray Park (Darth Maul) and Hayden Christensen (Anakin Skywalker / Darth Vader) among other actors. His goal in choreographing
5460-431: The lightsabers seen used by the Jedi, Sith, and other warriors in the movies and television shows such as Darth Vader, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Rey Skywalker, Count Dooku, and Kylo Ren. Disneyland and Hollywood Studios also offer Savi's Workshop, a place where guests can build their own lightsaber and choose their own kyber crystal, thereby changing the blade color of their own unique lightsaber. Besides Savi's Workshop, there
5544-482: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Darksaber&oldid=1233969998 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Darksaber (fictional weapon) A lightsaber is a fictional energy sword featured throughout Star Wars . A typical lightsaber
5628-413: The live-action footage was given to him. He drew the lightsabers with a rotoscope , an animation which was superimposed onto the footage of the physical lightsaber blade prop. Shin explained to the people from Lucasfilm that since a lightsaber is made of light, the sword should look "a little shaky" like a fluorescent tube. He suggested inserting one frame that was much lighter than the others while printing
5712-561: The main character, Rider RX also known as Kotaro Minami, uses his lightsaber-ish weapon "Revolcane" to fight the Crisis Empire, a terrorist organization. In Saban's Masked Rider, the main character, known as Dex Stewart, uses his lightsaber-ish weapon "Electro Saber" to fight Masked Rider's foes. In the 1987 film Spaceballs by Mel Brooks , "the Schwartz" is a play on " the Force ", from Star Wars . The lightsabers emanate from
5796-403: The metal hilts to create resin copies that were used on screen. The resin was often molded over a metal rod that a dueling blade could be attached to for fight sequences. Korean animator Nelson Shin , who was working for DePatie–Freleng Enterprises at the time, was asked by his manager if he could animate the lightsaber in the live-action scenes of a film. After Shin accepted the assignment,
5880-512: The multiple game modes available in Challenges , which was jointly developed by Disney and Lenovo , enables players to confront Star Wars villains in lightsaber duels, such as Darth Maul and Kylo Ren. Footnotes Citations Bo-Katan Kryze Bo-Katan Kryze (pronounced / b oʊ k ə ˈ t ɑː n k r iː z / ) is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. She
5964-429: The pacifist government of Mandalore, under the leadership of Pre Vizsla (voiced by Jon Favreau ). She leads the Nite Owls, an elite unit within the Death Watch. In this episode, Lux Bonteri meets with Death Watch on Carlac to join forces against Count Dooku . Ahsoka Tano and R2-D2 are forced to accompany him; they encounter Bo-Katan, who puts Ahsoka to work with women from a local village who have been enslaved by
6048-468: The player a more fluid, one-to-one control method of swinging the lightsaber. Prior to the seventh generation, there were also a few earlier Star Wars games that used gesture-based control to simulate lightsaber combat, such as the two bonus levels of the arcade game Star Wars Trilogy , where the player controls Luke Skywalker as he wields his lightsaber against Boba Fett and Darth Vader in Return of
6132-455: The previous films but also something that was more energized. We'd seen old men, young boys, and characters who were half-droid, but we'd never seen a Jedi in his prime. I wanted to do that with a fight that was faster and more dynamic—and we were able to pull that off." According to Gillard, various lightsaber combat styles were devised for the prequels and intended to further characterize their practitioners. I developed different styles for
6216-525: The property of reflecting light directly back to its source. It's the same material used for reflective road signs [and lightsaber props]. —Special Effects: An Introduction to Movie Magic For the original Star Wars film, the film prop hilts were constructed by John Stears from old Graflex press camera flash battery packs and other pieces of hardware. The full-sized sword props were designed to appear ignited onscreen, by later creating an "in-camera" glowing effect in post-production. The blade
6300-459: The saber-wielding characters. He added that the Jedi's use of such "a short-range weapon" meant "they would have to be very good at it"; combining a variety of disciplines from various sword fighting styles to martial arts "with a touch of tennis and tree chopping", he created the style seen in the Episode I lightsaber battles. For The Force Awakens , director J. J. Abrams decided to approach
6384-455: The saga. By the time Disney purchased Lucasfilm, new technological advances made augmented reality possible, leading to the creation of some more notable motion-controlled lightsaber video games that took advantage of that feature. One of them came in the form of a special activity mode in the official Star Wars fan app on iOS and Android in which players use their smartphone's motion sensors to practice and master blaster deflection with
6468-477: The second episode of the third season of the show, the weapon (nominally) returns to Kryze's ownership, after she defeats a cyborg creature that captures Djarin (it remains in Din Djarin's possession, however), and she officially reclaims the blade in the season's sixth episode . It is destroyed by Gideon in the third season finale . The technical lightsaber choreography for the original Star Wars trilogy
6552-424: The series' fifth season . Due to the series' initial cancellation, and renewal years later, Bo-Katan would not reappear in The Clone Wars until the series' seventh and final season in 2020. During the hiatus between the sixth and seventh seasons of The Clone Wars , Bo-Katan appeared in several episodes of Star Wars Rebels , in episodes set fifteen years after the events of The Clone Wars . Bo-Katan's name
6636-405: The upper hand and destroys the Darksaber. Having freed himself, The Mandalorian and Grogu return to help her fight on. Meanwhile, Axe Woves crashes a starship into the base, causing a gigantic explosion that kills Gideon while Grogu uses the Force to shield himself, the Mandalorian, and Bo-Katan, and the trio survive. Later, the Armorer restarts the Great Forge of Mandalore, and Bo-Katan is proclaimed
6720-449: The weapon's movements. The lightsaber sound effect was developed by sound designer Ben Burtt as a combination of the hum of idling interlock motors in aged movie projectors and interference caused by a television set on a shieldless microphone . Burtt discovered the latter accidentally as he was looking for a buzzing, sparking sound to add to the projector-motor hum. The pitch changes of lightsaber movement were produced by playing
6804-467: The wooden dowel rod with front-projection paint so that the animators would have a glow of light to enhance later on in post production. Due to lack of preparation time, Christian's prototype and a second spare were used for the shooting in Tunisia, where filming on Star Wars began. It was discovered, however, that the glowing effect was greatly dependent on the rod's orientation to the camera, and during
6888-537: Was developed by Hollywood sword-master Bob Anderson . Anderson personally trained Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) and, in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi , performed all the stunts as Darth Vader during the lightsaber duels wearing Vader's costume. Anderson's role in the trilogy was highlighted in the film Reclaiming the Blade where he shared his experiences as a fencer developing
6972-429: Was hoping to go for something much more primitive, aggressive and rougher, a throwback to the kind of heart-stopping lightsaber fights I remembered being so enthralled by as a kid." Over the years, advancements in technology have allowed for the creation of increasingly immersive and realistic lightsaber replicas. One notable development in this regard is the introduction of neopixel lightsabers, which have revolutionized
7056-498: Was introduced in the animated television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars , in which she was voiced by Katee Sackhoff . Sackhoff subsequently reprised her role in the sequel series Star Wars Rebels , and made her live-action debut as the character in the second season of the Disney+ series The Mandalorian . In The Clone Wars , Bo-Katan is a member of the Death Watch, a terrorist faction of Mandalorians who wish to restore
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