A Record of Methods You Can Cheat Loss of life in ‘Star Wars’ That Somebody Ought to Present Bob Iger

This week, we discovered that we came shockingly close to the return of Adam Driver to Star Wars in a venture known as The Hunt for Ben Solo, which might’ve seen the actor (working with director Steven Soderbergh) revive Ben Solo after the occasions of Rise of Skywalker and navigate his redemptive arc. That’s, till apparently Disney head honcho Bob Iger poo-pooed the thought after an keen Lucasfilm offered it to him, with a easy retort: he and different Disney executives simply couldn’t presumably perceive how a Star Wars character may come back from the dead.

Right here’s how, Bob. And anybody else curious!

12) Essence Switch

Ah, a basic. Somehow, Palpatine Returned, and the one way or the other is that this! A staple of Sith methods, Essence Switch, sometimes merely known as “Transference,” has been a staple of Star Wars for generations within the Expanded Universe and present continuities, with individuals both taking up host our bodies created for the precise objective or hoping to own different residing beings to harness their energy and vitality. In fact, Palpatine famously did this in each modern canon and really early on within the outdated EU in Darkish Empire—talking of which…

11) Cloning

This one and Essence Switch go hand in hand—Star Wars has undoubtedly performed up retroactively laying the path to Palpatine’s resurrection with a collection of specifically created clones saved for the categorical objective of his revival upon loss of life, as he did in Darkish Empire as properly. May be a bit more durable within the case of Ben, given his physique has already fully dissipated, however there’s obtained to be some genetic materials mendacity round that could possibly be recovered.

10) The Rings of Vaale

Let’s go for one which’s not essentially Power-connected: the Darth Aphra comics launched two harmful rings, the Ring of Immortality and the Ring of Fortune, however there was a catch: the primary ring would grant you immortal life however drive you mad. The second ring may counteract that draw back if additionally worn, and by itself may grant nice fortune at the price of quickening your loss of life. Simply consider the profitable tie-in jewellery vary you possibly can make.

9) Life Power Transfusion

Both willingly—as we noticed with Ahsoka Tano and the Daughter on Mortis in The Clone Wars, or, actually, Ben with Rey in Rise of Skywalker!—or by means of violence—Sith Emperor Vitiate in The Previous Republic when he sucked the juice out of the planetary inhabitants of Ziost, or Darth Nihilus’ everlasting starvation in Knights of the Previous Republic II—draining the life power of 1 being has been proven to have the capability to not simply maintain a residing being for inordinate quantities of time however deliver them again from the useless (albeit on the expense of one other particular person’s life).

8) Midi-chlorian Manipulation

Okay, this one is extra about creating life—and in methods the manifestation of life from the Residing Power as a response to that manipulation—however somebody ought to at the very least inform Disney executives in regards to the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Sensible. It’s not a narrative the Jedi would let you know, however at the very least a number of Lucasfilm executives may.

7) Conscience Preservation

A way of alternative for the Sith, who’ve managed a number of occasions to do the entire “flip into some form of spirit entity upon loss of life” factor, however not the “be a chillaxed translucent blue particular person about it” bit. The Sith Lord Momin from the Darth Vader comics famously saved his spirit inside his masks with a purpose to possess anybody who wore it, utilizing it to resurrect his unique kind on Mustafar, for instance, and the Sith temple on Malachor in Rebels additionally housed an historical holocron the place an unknown feminine Sith had saved some sliver of her presence in it for generations.

And it’s not like Ben Solo has a historical past with one very particular artifact close to and pricey to some facet of his persona or something…

6) Being Actually, Actually Mad

In case you can come again okay—properly, “okay” is possibly pushing it—from being chopped in half simply due to the sheer hatred you could have for the goal of your would-be-enemies-to-lovers desires, then you are able to do something.

5) The World Between Worlds

Certain, we will get a bit Physician Who and argue about what’s a hard and fast cut-off date or not, however we very particularly noticed the World Between Worlds used as an idea for each a solution to save somebody from the second of their seeming loss of life (as with Ahsoka in Rebels) and a form of non secular purgatory that somebody can come again rebirthed from (once more, with Ahsoka in Ahsoka. Except we’re simply going to resolve that entire idea is off-limits to anybody however one particular Togruta).

4) Utilizing the Power Actually, Actually Laborious

That is in all probability extra useful for beings who’re nonetheless alive, however within the outdated EU, the Jedi Grasp Fay apparently had developed her connection to the Power with such depth that it extended her life for hundreds of years—and if she had not sacrificed her life power on the planet Queyta to save lots of Obi-Wan Kenobi, fairly than get better from the mortal lightsaber wound she suffered from an assault from Asajj Ventress—she may’ve lived and healed herself probably without end. Typically you simply should be constructed totally different.

3) Turning Into Both a) an Animal or b) a Gross Monster Factor

There are methods you may switch a will to a different sentient creature, however it will get sophisticated. In Rebels, for instance, it’s closely implied that Kanan Jarrus’ will was perceived by means of the enormous Loth-Wolf Dume (sharing Kanan’s start identify, as well), however that was not essentially Kanan being reincarnated because the wolf.

However the fable anthology Darkish Legends additionally gave us the story of Darth Sanguis and Darth Noctyss, two historical Sith who visited Exegol and thought they found a ritual to grant them immortality—as an alternative, the ritual, which required killing a residing being, reworked them into emaciated, deformed creatures, with Noctyss not realizing that the being she killed for her personal ritual was actually the husk of the previous Sanguis. Grim!

2) Simply Hanging Round as a Power Ghost

We all know that Power Ghosts can, with time, have a capability to manifest significantly enough that they will seem virtually bodily and work together with tangible objects. And that’s shut sufficient, if we would like it to be!

Plus, I imply, proper now you could have Hayden Christensen in Ahsoka season two simply chilling in a pleasant shade of blue. Rise of Skywalker had sufficient blue tones throughout these Exegol scenes that we all know Driver can look good in that lighting. So what’s the difficulty, Bob?

1) Magickal Zombification

Okay, possibly don’t inform Iger about this one. Nobody needs a gaunt Adam Driver wandering across the galaxy.

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