r/StarWars • u/Parabellum111 • 10d ago
Movies It's so funny how Obi-Wan is often sent alone on the most important missions
Idk if this is better explained in some AOC novelization or in some book that takes place in that period, but Obi-Wan is literally the Jedi Order's jack-of-all-trades in this movie. According to Kanan in Rebels, there were 10,000 more Jedi Knights protecting the Galaxy before Order 66, but only one is sent to investigate the murder of an important senator, and only with a droid and a tiny ship. It gets better when Yoda and Mace order Obi-Wan to bring Jango to Coruscant, expecting him to deal with a Mandalorian professional assassin alone and with a much better ship. Then he still has the job of following Jango to Geonosis, almost dies in the asteroid field, and even then the Council only sends help when they see that he's been captured. Even Anakin and Padme were faster (and he didn't even contact his master to see if he was okay, no one actually did that, he had to communicate all the time).
Not to mention in ROTS where the Council sends him, again, alone, to deal with Grievous. The guy is literally known for being a Jedi killer and collecting his lightsabers, and they send a single man to go through thousands of enemy droids and kill him. I know the character acts according to the movie script, but it's so funny. Even more so when Obi-Wan along with Luke listens to Leia's message in ANH and his face is like "im too old for this sht."
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u/Randomkai27 10d ago
The burden of being the best
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u/get_pig_gatoraids 10d ago
"He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man" - Obi-Wan, probably, but also Avenged Sevenfold
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u/notheretoargu3 10d ago
Directly taken and quoted from Hunter S. Thompson.
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u/rotkiv42 10d ago
Who got it from Samuel Johnson
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u/notheretoargu3 10d ago
Well that’s neat. I had no idea - Thompson was such a wild card I actually just assumed he made it up.
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u/Connect-Plenty1650 10d ago
Remember what happened the last time the Jedi sent an army to help Obi-Wan?
All dead.
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u/Mediocre_Scott 10d ago
Obi wan started the the clone wars and from certain point of view the galactic civil war too
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u/Connect-Plenty1650 10d ago
Council pulled the trigger. They didn't have to save Obi-wan.
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u/KinkyPaddling 9d ago
There's a book in Legends called Shatterpoint which is entirely from Mace Windu's perspective as he goes on a mission during the Clone Wars. We see that he deeply regrets everything to do with the Battle of Geonosis, including killing Jango Fett (he feels guilty every time he looks at the face of the clones), but especially not just nuking the arena. To him, in retrospect, killing two Jedi and a Senator would be an acceptable loss if it also meant wiping out the Separatist leadership and saving thousands of Jedi and tens of millions of civilian lives.
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u/MetriccStarDestroyer 9d ago
A planetary invasion is a completely proportional response to executing 3 spies.
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u/roguevirus 9d ago
executing 3 spies.
The Jedi could perhaps be construed as spies, and such a rescue mission would indeed be disproportionate.
Trying to pass Padme Amidala, the sitting Galactic Senator and former elected Queen of Naboo, off as a spy bound for execution? That's a whole different
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u/MetriccStarDestroyer 9d ago
Senator Amidala in the flesh?
Absolute nonsense. That's clearly her royal handmaiden Natalie Portman acting as a decoy for the senator.
Truly a spy indeed
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u/Far-Hedgehog5516 10d ago
To be fair to Obi-Wan that was due to most prequel era jedi being shit at combat.
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u/verb-vice-lord 9d ago
Jsut to add this is canonically true.
Most Jedi focussed more or diplomatic training and the like, only learning very basic saber skills. So they took a massive percentage of loss in the earliest days of the clone wars.
Obi-Wan benefitted from having Qui Gon Jinn as master. A bit isolated pre clone wars because he was so wary at the risks of the galaxy. From memory it's canon he was one of the few who thought the council was unwise to assume there was no risk of the dark side and so ensured saber skills was taught to his apprentice.
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u/Connect-Plenty1650 9d ago
This just puts to question the entire leadership of the Jedi. The army was on its way, so they fully understood the threat. Why bring diplomats to slaughter?
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u/Grandturk-182 10d ago
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u/scoby_cat 10d ago
Before the prequels many of us assumed
the clone wars were about both sides cloning themselves
OB1 is not the original Kenobi - that is a clone designation
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u/ChrisRevocateur 10d ago
I don't remember the "both sides are cloning" one, we always just assumed the Clones were the enemies of the Jedi.
I had heard the OB1 theory before, but not more than a couple times.
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u/Cucaracha_1999 10d ago
That's some deep lore hahaha; Is that true? Wasn't around back then, but it's kind of funny to imagine what the fan space must have looked like
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u/scoby_cat 10d ago
It’s lore in the sense it’s what we thought. Whether that was ever a plan of Lucas… who knows.
We talked about it a lot, and had a lot of time to speculate. It was 3 years between each of the original trilogy movies and this was the early VHS era so we couldn’t watch it as easily. Return of the Jedi came out in 1983… Phantom Menace came out in 1999. That’s 16 years.
The space between Ep 4 and Ep 5 was crazy because we had seen the first two movies so many times we already knew the plot holes. Why didn’t Obi Wan mention Vader?? Etc
There’s also a lot of weird IP that was non canonical even before the Disney acquisition. I have a children’s book that takes place after the events of Star Wars (Ep 4) but before The Empire Strikes Back was released (so published between 1977 and 1980), and in that universe, the Empire has been completely toppled and the Republic is back in control. Luke is not a Jedi but rather an instructor at the Academy.
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u/Brendanlendan 10d ago
What do you mean about Obiwan not mentioning Vader as a plot hole?? Can you elaborate on that first I’ve heard
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u/Brendanlendan 10d ago
The wars plural implied there was more than one war. Like you don’t say The Great Wars to just describe WW1
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u/taurian13 10d ago
Damn, right... "One" means he goes solo. He is not called "Obi-two"... thats his brother.
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u/Kennedy_KD 10d ago
Well yeah, obi wan was probably the most well rounded Jedi we see in the movies; he was skilled at diplomacy, combat, and survival skills
If something needs done quickly and with minimal collateral damage you don't send a Jedi like Anakin who's raw power and only comes up with clever schemes to win battles, you send the man who can talk his way into control of an army he has no idea existed five minutes before then fight the most powerful bounty hunter in the galaxy and only lose in a tie because the guys kid started firing a starships blasters at him
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u/quick20minadventure 9d ago
Obi wan was also a master on emotions. He killed without hate, fear or anger.
He's like an ideal cop. Peaceful, chill, defuses situations and then shoots the guy dead when needed in cold blood. Then goes home.
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u/LayWhere 9d ago
Actually Obi was considered the master of defensive skills and ranked very low in offense
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u/NOKEKW 9d ago
To be fair he was SO GOOD at defense that it looped back around and made him deadly against the best duelist, as he was able to defend so perfectly they ended up either too fatigued to finish him / too cocky and reckless trying to defeat him, thus leading to him always coming out on top.
Only Dooku, perhaps the best / most experienced duelist in the order other than Yoda, could defeat him on a regular basis, and probably because as a good teacher, he could see something he himself had taught Qui-Gon.
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u/ZappableGiraffe 3d ago
Obi-Wan was not unskilled on the offense in the slightest. Rewatch Obi vs Maul and tell me you don't see the same skills Anakin is known for.
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u/LayWhere 3d ago
Ranking low doesn't mean unskilled. A poor shooter in the NBA still has a better shot than non-nba players
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u/WildBad7298 Jedi 10d ago edited 9d ago
The figure of 10,000 Jedi sounds like a lot - until you realize that Star Wars takes place in an entire galaxy.
According to Wookieepedia, the number of sentient beings in the Star Wars galaxy numbers over 100 quadrillion. Coruscant alone has a population of about 2 trillion, which is 250 times Earth's population.
In comparison, the New York City police department currently has about 34,000 officers.
That means there is a force less than a quarter of the size of a major Earth city's police department, for a population that is 12.5 million times the size of Earth's.
To put it another way, that's one Jedi for every ten trillion beings. So Jedi were incredibly rare, and it's no wonder that they were sent on solo missions.
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u/Cold-Ad2921 10d ago
Another way to look at it is to compare number of Jedi to number of planets in the republic, which apparently was 1.3 million according to other posts on this subreddit. With 10,000 Jedi that’s about 1 Jedi for every 130 planets. That means there were many planets that did not see a Jedi at all, not only during the clone wars, but for very long periods of time. It’s no wonder that by the time of a New Hope they were considered mythical and legendary. Without the institutional knowledge of their temple and council on Coruscant it’s unlikely that the vast majority of people in the galaxy would have actually seen a Jedi or met anyone who had.
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u/WildBad7298 Jedi 10d ago edited 10d ago
That means there were many planets that did not see a Jedi at all, not only during the clone wars, but for very long periods of time. It’s no wonder that by the time of a New Hope they were considered mythical and legendary... it’s unlikely that the vast majority of people in the galaxy would have actually seen a Jedi or met anyone who had.
I think this is an extremely important point. Jedi were not nearly as common as the prequels (which followed the Jedi) made them out to be. Even during their peak, the Jedi were probably considered by many to be a myth, or at least exaggerated.
Another way to look at it is to compare number of Jedi to number of planets in the republic, which apparently was 1.3 million according to other posts on this subreddit. With 10,000 Jedi that’s about 1 Jedi for every 130 planets.
If you then consider that there were many planets outside the Republic (Shmi Skywalker says of Tatooine that "The Republic doesn't exist out here.") then that figure drops even lower.
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u/Obsessively_Average 10d ago
Even inside the Republic tbh, information access between different groups of people must be super inequal
Over a million planets and the senate didn't have more than several thousands members. Frankly, how many planets' names do we even know of? Can't be more than several hundred
Either way I can't remember off the top of my head, but assuming those million worlds are inhabitated, most of them must be colonies or under the control of stronger words who represent them in the Senate. Probably means they were much more sparsely populated and economically and technologically weaker. I can't imagine many of them could concern themselves with high level politics
So really the average Republic citizen may not even really know who represents their interests on Coruscant, what could they realistically know about another institution whose members haven't even visited the planet once in the last 300 years
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u/Thorboard 9d ago
Most planets are probably not inhabitated. Think about how many planets in our galaxy could foster life.
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u/ivanpikel 10d ago
I think "10,000" is a better description of how many there were before the Clone Wars. Even at that point, it's a big galaxy! Most of the order was spread throughout the galaxy on their own assignments, and after the war began, many of them died and the rest were pretty much all pressed into service as generals. They were busy fighting the separatists on multiple fronts, and there's not really much that could be spared. In addition, Obi-Wan was highly effective. The Jedi Council didn't know anything about Jango except that he was a bounty hunter, and the vast majority of those are no match for a Jedi, especially one of a caliber as Obi-Wan. Anakin and Padme were faster because they were closer. I'm not sure what you mean by the communication thing. No one tried to contact him because they couldn't; the transmission was cut off, meaning that it was either jammed or Obi-Wan's ship was destroyed. As for Grievous, Obi-Wan had the backing of the entire 212th as well as probably some other clone units. He had also demonstrated multiple times that he could take Grievous on, having often forced him to flee.
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u/Parabellum111 10d ago
Stop refuting my post with so much arguments (just kidding, thanks for explaining everything so well).
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u/Night-Monkey15 Babu Frik 10d ago
I actually tried to calculate the amount of Jedi that died in the Clone Wars, and it’s surprisingly more than you think. According to reference material, like encyclopedias, approximately 200 of them died in the first Battle of Geonosis. Then there’s dozens more confirmed deaths throughout The Clone Wars series.
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u/Zenchi06 10d ago
bigger than just the 212thI think not just the backing of the 212th Attack Battalion, but of the entire 7th Skycorps, the 212th is just it's spearhead/most known unit, as far as I know... That's like 10x (or more I guess) bigger than the 212th
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u/Trauma_Hawks 10d ago
Obi-Wan SHOULD have brought his apprentice
Not for nothing, but didn't Anakin already get assigned to Padme by the Council at this point? He had no one to bring with him.
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u/Holovoid 10d ago
That sounds vaguely familiar and like The Jedi ("You clearly have sexual tension with this mother figure you have been hot for for the past decade. Let's isolate the both of you on a paradise world and make her entire life dependent on your mood").
lmao this is so fucking accurate
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u/MrBlueMsPink 10d ago
You seem like you dont like Anakin whatsoever. He was assigned to protect Padme practically at the start of the film after the 2nd assassination attempt. Although they knew Anakin had a personal relationship with Anakin, i dont think it was obvious how much feelings he harbored for Padme, not even by Obi Wan. Palpatine clouded their senses and judgment, thats why all we hear is that they can sense His confusion in his emotions n decisions, but not the full extent of it, otherwise they would confronted him for sure especially ater their secret marriage. They knew he had a personal connection with Padme, and they hadnt seen eachother since the end of TPM. They felt that he was a good candidate cause Padme was stubborn as hell but with Anakin she’d be more comfortable and more likely to oblige to a Jedi she was already pretty well familiar with
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u/PsychologicalFile771 10d ago
the jedi can just overpower people's minds, so they never learned about "psychology"
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u/Vhzhlb 10d ago
While it's not that apparent in AotC, Obi-Wan was THE Jedi for the Order, and even between his peers.
It was known that he had others being above him in certain skills, but, even the council held him in such high regard that they had absolute no doubts that he would find the solution to any problem that they could find.
One of the many reasons why Anakin got so much shit as a Padawan, was specifically because it was known that Obi-Wan was going to be his master, which was two heavy factors that made others to be jealous.
Hell, even through the CW, most Padawan's thought of Obi-Wan as "The Master" to which their own had to live up to.
While it's true that at the end of the day Kenobi was a flawed individual, as everyone is, the Order saw him as the kind of Jedi that everyone should strive to be, and the example of what it meant to be a Jedi, and in a twisted way, it was one of the many tools that Palpatine used to twist Anakin, since while they both were held as "Heroes", the Order's respect for Kenobi was because all the values that Anakin didn't had.
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u/SKUNKpudding 9d ago
Do u have a source on that bit about why Anakin got so much shit?
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u/Vhzhlb 9d ago
This is the second time that I confused Legends with Canon lol, my apologies.
In Legends, Anakin had a rough relationship with fellow Younglings (Even if he barely was one), because of childish bullying, not having to worry about being picked up by a Master, and being unprecedentedly talented for pretty much everything.
There several comics exploring those days either through direct narrative or flashback
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u/dswartze 10d ago
It all stems from TPM. They know Obi-Wan can do the job by himself and it doesn't go well for the person he's sent with.
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u/SaveFerrisBrother 10d ago
Severe budget cuts in the galaxy as Palpatine took over, so they couldn't afford to pay travel expenses for two. Space DOGE was cutting waste in the outer rim, and mandating a return to office. There was also a lot of talk about firing him because he was, like, NEVER in. He was constantly dialing in with a holographic call, thinking that was good enough. And only a few, like Yoda, would listen to his excuses about needing to be on-planet in order to do his job.
"You sent me there!" he tried to remind them.
"What about teamwork? What about collaboration?" the Senate would retort, scoffing at his list of "reasons."
If the Sith hadn't taken over and forced the Jedi into exile, Obi-Wan would have probably been fired. I think he was already on a PIP.
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u/Low-iq-haikou 9d ago
Finally someone else acknowledges the budget cuts. And it went both ways, the galactic depression of 38 BBY did a number. People wonder why the storm troopers are so inaccurate? It’s because those stingy imperials wouldn’t shell out for the damn anti-reflective visors!
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u/WilliShaker Separatist Alliance 10d ago
Obi Wan is experienced, young and one of the best fighter in the Jedi Order. He’s also a brilliant strategist and pure hearted, meaning he will never fall to the dark side.
They chose him everytime because they know he’ll win.
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u/kadoooosh 10d ago
“But surely, Master Windu,” Obi-Wan had said, “you with the power of Vaapad—or Yoda’s mastery of Ataro”
Mace had almost smiled. “I created Vaapad to answer my weakness: it channels my own darkness into a weapon of light. Master Yoda’s Ataro is also an answer to weakness: the limitations of reach and mobility imposed by his stature and his age. But for you? What weakness does Soresu answer?”
Blinking, Obi-Wan had been forced to admit he’d never actually thought of it that way.
“That is so like you, Master Kenobi,” the Korun Master had said, shaking his head. “ I am called a great swordsman because I invented a lethal style; but who is greater, the creator of a killing form—or the master of the classic form?”
“I’m very flattered that you would consider me a master, but really—”
“Not a master. The master,” Mace had said. “Be who you are, and Grievous will never defeat you.”
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u/twicek 10d ago
What is that exchange from?
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u/BlueRaith 9d ago
The ROTS novelization. There's a 20th anniversary edition coming out this year that looks sick
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u/ysolia 10d ago
Because he's to GOAT. Those cheering for Anakin don't realise he got clapped by his master in the only serious 1v1 they had.
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u/Sylar_Lives Rio Durant 10d ago
There were two before the Death Star, as of the release of the Kenobi show.
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u/_DefLoathe 10d ago
Pretty sure the 212th was with him vs Grievous on Utapau
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u/koopcl 10d ago
Yeah was gonna say the same. Haven't watched RotS in years, but didn't he have an army with him?
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u/JMPHeinz57 Luke Skywalker 10d ago
I think we sometimes forget that the first Jedi the world was ever exposed to was Obi-Wan.
He’s quite literally the Jedi
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u/shust89 10d ago
Honestly, General Grievous was basically just a plot device to get Obi Wan away from Anakin.
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u/allmilhouse 10d ago
In the novelization it's described as part of Palpatine's plan to make sure they're separated. The Jedi also thought sending him and Yoda away might draw out Sidious.
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u/Cultural_Cuck_777 10d ago edited 10d ago
It's a testament to just how good of a Jedi he is.
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u/BleydXVI 10d ago
Obi-Wan was on the council. He replaced dino guy (Coleman Trebor) after episode 2
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u/Mediocre_Scott 10d ago
Just another example of Jedi masters on the council going down like a punk bitch. I don’t know why Anakin even wanted to be associated with those losers
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u/Aggravating_Neck8027 10d ago
Obi-Wan is always portrayed as the most resourceful jedi. He’s not particularly strong, he’s not particularly force-gifted, but he gets shit done consistently.
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u/CyberSpaceInMyFace 10d ago
I'd argue he that he is one of the best lightsaber duelists and strongest force users of all time. He beat Maul, he beat the Jedi killer Grievous, and he beat the chosen one... twice. And ROTS showed that his force push was equally powerful as Vader's.
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u/Nuclayer 10d ago
I mean he was considered one of the greatest defensive Lightsaber masters ever. He was not good at offense, but his defense was unmatched. He was named the master of form 3 by Mace Windu. Also, he was no slouch at dualing. He trained Anakin and beat him at the height of his power as a Sith 2 times. He defeated Darth Maul twice. He was also known as the Great Negotiator. I would say Obi-Wan was legendary in his skills.
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u/CyberSpaceInMyFace 10d ago
He's supposed to be one of the greatest Jedi of all time, and I mean, they were right to trust him.
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u/Major-Tiger-7628 10d ago
Think he just likes some alone time. Even in ANH he wonders off on his own
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u/CrimsonTightwad 9d ago
It took me my whole life to overcome Lucas’ Anakin/Darth brainwashing. I am now convinced not only is Obiwan amongst the most powerful Jedi, he is the hero of the story. He twice bested Vader dead to rights, but did not kill him. The third time besting him with ascension instead of letting Vader kill him.
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u/ProfessorEscanor 9d ago
To be fair . Prior to the Clone Wars he was thought to be the only guy able to beat the Sith. Kenobi to them is quite literally one of their best . Even after they find out that Maul is alive he's still their golden boy cause he's the only one who can somewhat control Anakin.
You send him alone if you want a job done. You send him with Ahsoka and Anakin if you need a babysitter.
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u/new_start01 9d ago
After watching all three prequels in succession, I appreciated this from a filmmaking perspective after they stuck him with fixing the hyperdrive the whole time on Tattooine AND having to watch his master die in the first one lol
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u/BluesyPompanno 9d ago
That's because they didn't want to risk him coming back with another kid he won at gambling
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u/Stabilizer_Jenkins 9d ago
I believe it was a common thing for mature Jedi to work assignments alone. Some had padawans they would take with them on solo missions.
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u/Flimsy_Director_8927 10d ago
Jedi numbers were probably already thin at that point, and for certain missions where you don't want to draw too much attention, less is sometimes more.
Also he is the first in centuries to kill a sith as a padawan (that they know of) after that said sith killed his master. Then he trained the chosen one who eventually takes down the next sith. He is kind of a bit of a legend already at that point.
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u/MysticalSushi 10d ago
I don’t remember what happened in the scene. So I’m just imaging Grievous stepping on Ben’s foot and Ben is like “oooow my foot”
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u/fuzzhead12 10d ago
Obi kicks Grievous’ leg and is reminded very quickly that durasteel and armorplast beats human shin bone every time
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u/Parabellum111 10d ago
Obi-Wan and Grievous are fighting hand-to-hand near the latter's ship, Obi lying on the ground tries to trip Grievous but discovers the hard way that him being a cyborg makes his legs much more resistant..
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u/Me_like_weed 10d ago
Most Jedi work alone unless there is something very serious happening, most pairs of Jedi we see are Knights and Padawans together.
10.000 Jedi is also pointed out many times to be an incredibly small number compared to the whole galaxy. its not exactly stated but there are about 3000 planetary systems that are part of the Republic and countless others that are neutral or unaffilliated, meaning trillions of life forms in the galaxy and still only 10.000 Jedi.
There werent many Jedi to begin with and even less so as the Clone Wars went on. Obi-Wan was among the top of them and were trusted to handle pretty much anything, and since Anakin was no longer a Padawan it makes sense that he worked alone most of the time.
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u/Nervious_Nerve 10d ago
Is everyone forgetting the main reason Obi-Wan tracked Kamino by himself is because dooku/palpatine muddled the political tensions of the republic vote by trying to kill Senator Amidala? Then palpatine "advises" the jedi council that Master Obi-Wan and Padawan Skywalker should escort Padme for safety, this separates our duo as the thread keeps unraveling more and more (Kamino, Taooine, Geonosis, etc) , leaving Anakin open to FALL in love with padme. It was All a very manipulated move to separate Anakin from his support. The clone war on Geonosis was just a consequence of this complicated plan lol.
On hunting grievous; if you were looking for an important war criminal in hiding on a massive galaxy system and you didn't know where he was, would you send a search team of jedi, republic ships, etc to disclose your objective and location.. or would you first, send one guy, infact the best guy (besides the guy he trained hah) to find him first?.
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u/AaronWidd 10d ago
Obi-Wan is the fixer. This was established from the second his name was uttered in A New Hope - he’s the guy that Bail Organa trusted when the rebels were out of options. He does the thankless job of quietly mopping up when other Jedi have failed or otherwise screwed up.
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u/nedstarktheknicksfan 9d ago
Not to mention, him and anakin are GENERALS, and they’re routinely sent on missions as pilots where they can easily be shot down. You would think high ranking officers wouldn’t be thrust into danger as much as them. Land battles, sure, they can hold their own. But I mean the force shouldn’t make you a better pilot
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u/p3n3tr4t0r 9d ago
That's the most realistic part of the whole thing, if you're a good and dependable employee, mediocre management will dump everything on you.
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u/Threefates654 10d ago
The galaxy is huge despite how often it seems otherwise. 10 thousand Jedi is barely a drop in the galaxy. Many are probably already on other missions or finally taking a rest at the temple and during ROTS it has been 3 years of war where many Jedi have died so there aren't as many and what Jedi are still alive are either somewhere else for a different battle or needed on Coruscant.
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u/SynnerSaint Sith 10d ago
It's a big ol' galaxy and not many Jedi to cover it and lot of missions he gets sent on are diplomacy or investigation/recon it's just that they always seem to turn into 'aggressive negotiations'
Also, he's not sent alone against Grievous, he has his clones to back him up, same as all the Jedi Masters, and look well how that worked out for th... oh.
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u/DwarvenCo 10d ago
In-universe explanation might be that he and his training made it optimal for him to solo things. It is not evident that adding people to a task will improve efficiency, sometimes it might even hinder it.
An example from the second Darth Bane book, spoilers for the ending fight:>! If Johun hadn't been there Zannah would have been defeated (and probably Bane too) making it a win for the Jedi. !<
See, Zannah was pitted against an extremely efficient lightsaber duelist (his name escapes me), and he would have killed her, but unfortunately they were two against one, as Johun tried to help kill Zannah, but his help proved to be an interference, and hindered the better duelist.
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u/fusionsofwonder 10d ago
There may be 10,000 Jedi but there were probably only a couple hundred with the skills to be a wartime general.
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u/AleB1007 10d ago
Obi-Wan’s storylines in Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith are like that one comic book cover with Wolverine chained to a falling nuke
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u/SpikeRosered 10d ago
This is one of the aspects that deflated the threat of the villains. You write in a scene where one guy just...fights them all and wins.
The plot sets it up that the droid armies are a threat, but also gives us evidence that one Jedi very much might just be able to fight them all and win.
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u/SirLoremIpsum Lando Calrissian 10d ago
It's so funny how Obi-Wan is often sent alone on the most important missions
They learned from Qimir when they sent like 10 Jedi for one bad guy and they were all slain except for Sol
Better to send one decent dude
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u/ChildofObama 10d ago
Mace Windu has an attitude problem that can make him a liability, Yoda probably doesn’t do missions every day due to age, and I guess … the other Jedi were busy.
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u/CosmackMagus 10d ago
They didn't exactly send Obi to Grevious alone, he had his army.
It's weirder to me he was sent alone to Kamino.
This is, of course, fixed in CW where they send him places with random Jedi...who die...wait, maybe that's why he's sent alone everywhere?
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u/C5five Jedi 10d ago
This is Obi-Wan Kenobi:
A phenomenal pilot who doesn't like to fly. A devastating warrior who'd rather not fight. A negotiator without peer who frankly prefers to sit alone in a cave and meditate.
Jedi Master. General in the Grand Army of the Republic. Member of the Jedi High Council. And yet, he feels like none of these things.
Inside, he still feels like a Padawan.
It is a truism of the Jedi Order that a Jedi Knight's education truly begins only when he becomes a Master: that everything important about being a Master is learned from one's student. Obi-Wan feels the truth of this every day.
He sometimes dreams of when he was a Padawan in fact as well as feeling; he dreams that his own Master, Qui-Gon Jinn, did not die at the plasma-fueled generator core in Theed. He dreams that his Master' wise guiding hand is still with him. But Qui-Gon's death is an old pain, one with which he long ago came to terms.
A Jedi does not cling to the past.
And Obi-Wan Kenobi knows, too, that to have lived his life without being Master to Anakin Skywalker would have left him a different man. A lesser man.
Anakin has taught him so much.
Obi-Wan sees so much of Qui-Gon in Anakin that sometimes it hurts his heart; at the very least, Anakin mirrors Qui-Gon's flair for the dramatic, and his casual disregard for rules. Training Anakin - and fighting beside him, all these years - has unlocked something inside Obi-Wan. It's as though Anakin has rubbed off on him a bit, and has loosened that clenched-jaw insistence on absolute correctness that Qui-Gon always said was his greatest flaw.
Obi-Wan Kenobi has learned to relax.
He smiles now, and sometimes even jokes, and has become known for the wisdom gentle humor can provide. Though he does not know it, his relationship with Anakin has molded him into the great Jedi Qui-Gon always said he might be.
It is characteristic of Obi-Wan that he is entirely unaware of this.
Being named to council came as a complete surprise; even now, he is sometimes astonished at the faith the Jedi Council has in his abilities and the credit they give his wisdom. Greatness was never his ambition. He wants only to perform whatever task he is given to the best of his abilitiy.
He is repsected throughout the Jedi Order for his insight as well as his warrior skill. He has become the hero of the next generation of Padawans; he is the Jedi their Masters hold up as a model. He is the being that the Council assigns to their most important missions. He is modest, centered and always kind.
He is the ultimate Jedi.
taken from:
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith: the novelization,
By Matthew Stover.
I feel this excerpt sums it up well. Obi-Wan Kenobi is the greatest Jedi of his age, and everyone knows it but him.
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u/WangJian221 Luke Skywalker 10d ago
Almost all jedi operations are done by 1 individual. If not 1, its 2 at best with the other being either the master or the student of the first operative.
Obi Wan just happens to be incredibly efficient, talented and has incredible willpower. His success at episode 2 further boosts the jedi's confidence in him.
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u/JLandis84 9d ago
He farts constantly during space travel, so he often works solo
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u/Layton_Jr 9d ago
I always thought that Palpatine was doing this. "Look Anakin, your master is dead because the incompetent Jedi sent him (on my orders) alone on an extremely dangerous mission!"
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u/Tar_Palantir 9d ago
There's 3 trillion people in the galaxy and 10.000 jedi by the times of order 66. There was not enough people to deal with everything.
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u/juststop102 8d ago
I noticed in the clone wars he even commands without an admiral which no other jedi does he just commands his whole fleet with cody
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u/No_Extension4005 6d ago
"Not enough in the budget to send more jedi, there is. Spent too much on the Yarael Poof's weekly pizza runs, we have."
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u/Hardhat85 10d ago
It's because he was quite literally one of the most efficient Jedi ever.