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Who is Anakin's father?

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Who is Anakin’s father? I think Darth Plagueis might have created Anakin. I am not sure though. There was a comic book that showed Palpatine supposedly creating Anakin that was released during the Disney era, but it was deemed non canon. I think it could be both Darth Plagueis and Palpatine maybe. Ian was being interviewed on the Sidious Episode 3 documentary that while Palpatine may not be Anakin’s natural father, he was a father figure. Was he hinting that Palpatine was Anakin’s father along with Plagueis? Anakin’s fathers could be implied in episode 3 to be both Palpatine and Plagueis.

If this is the case, then it makes sense why the Jedi were reluctant to train Anakin. I wonder if Yoda realized that Anakin was fathered by the dark side of the force and that is why Yoda did not want to train Anakin.

I get why Leia still trained Rey now too with this logic. Leia realized Rey was a good person and not a dictator Antichrist like Palpatine was. The nine Star Wars episodes actually make sense from this perspective. Luke was afraid to train Rey because he thought she would go down the dark side path that Anakin and Ben Solo went down.

Dark science of the dark side of the force created Anakin in my opinion. Palpatine and Plagueis took part in this dark science.

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There was no father.

In the Darth Plagueis novel it’s said that Anakin was created by the Force itself. Darth Plagueis was experimenting with the midiclorians and with the Force to uncover the secret of immortality, but the Force wasn’t willing to be manipulated, so it reacted creating Anakin in Shmi’s womb for the purpose of destroying the Sith who were manipulating the Force, violating the laws of nature. Personally I was never bothered by the virgin birth of Anakin, indeed I always found it a very interesting idea, and to be honest I would have liked much less the idea of Anakin having a father like everyone else. The fact that he was created directly by the Force makes the character much more interesting in my opinion.

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I think Palpatine created Anakin by manipulating Midichlorians. At least that was Lucas intention in an earlier draft of Revenge of the Sith.

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It’s not that the comic is non-canon, it’s that the sequence with the imagery of Palpatine influencing Shmi’s womb is just part of a vision Vader has, so it’s not a faithful depiction of events but rather just a reflection of what Anakin/Vader might have suspected, or something.

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According to George:

“Early on, it was that Anakin had been more or less created by the midi-chlorians, and that the midi-chlorians had a very powerful relationship to the Whills [from the first draft of Star Wars], and the power of the Whills, and all that. I never really got a chance to explain the Whills part.”

https://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-episode-i-the-phantom-menace-oral-history

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Stardust1138 said:

According to George:

“Early on, it was that Anakin had been more or less created by the midi-chlorians, and that the midi-chlorians had a very powerful relationship to the Whills [from the first draft of Star Wars], and the power of the Whills, and all that. I never really got a chance to explain the Whills part.”

https://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-episode-i-the-phantom-menace-oral-history

George did the have the chance to explain the Whills. He simply chose not to.

As others have said, George had three whole Prequel films to explain this, but he stopped at a bad and ham-fisted explanation of “midichlorian XP counts” in TPM instead.
 

Who is Anakin’s father?

I prefer the earlier ROTS script from George that had with Palpatine being Anakin’s father:

 
a link to the above Rolling Stone piece from 2005:

https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/george-lucas-and-the-cult-of-darth-vader-247142/

 

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“In an early draft of Revenge of the Sith, Darth Sidious reveals the truth about Anakin’s father”:

https://twitter.com/mikeklimo/status/613108641663709184

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Darth Vader, haven’t you watched Star Wars

Reading R + L ≠ J theories

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It was Jar Jar wasn’t it? We were told by George that he was “the key to all this”! It has has to be Jar Jar 😉

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Anakin’s father was a random alcoholic homeless man who spent most of his days wandering around Mos Espa aimlessly, scraping by via begging, scamming moisture farmers, and gambling on pod-races, only to usually pass out drunk in an alley behind Watto’s junkyard where all his earnings would be stolen by Jawas.

Shmi Skywalker met him once and took pity on him for some reason. They had a brief fling. He was occasionally charming, if a bit unhygienic. But ultimately Shmi got sick of his antics, and filed a restraining order with Gardulla the Hutt. In order to spare little Anakin the shame of his loser dad, Shmi concocted a ridiculous lie, telling Anakin (and everyone else) he was the unlikely product of parthenogenesis. Anakin’s father was okay with this because (A) it meant he wouldn’t be obligated to pay child support, and (B) he usually had no idea what was going on.

A year before the outbreak of the Clone Wars, Anakin’s father died from acute liver failure at a random outpost a few kilometers southwest of Mos Eisley. He was buried in an unmarked grave, which was later desecrated by Tusken raiders.

Years later, Chancellor Palpatine, knowing Anakin’s father was a random drunk loser, made up some ridiculous story about Darth Plagueis screwing around with the Dark Side to auto-spawn a kid, as part of an elaborate ruse to trick Anakin into spontaneously mass-murdering almost everyone he ever knew. Somehow, it worked - even though creating life is not technically the same as preventing someone from dying.

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Kane Skywalker if the rough draft script of what would be become Star Wars (ANH) is anything to go by.

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darklordoftech said:

Kane Skywalker if the rough draft script of what would be become Star Wars (ANH) is anything to go by.

I see what you did there. And no. 😃

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Kane Skywalker is more canon than midi-chlorian parthogenesis. Fight me.

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Superweapon VII said:

Kane Skywalker is more canon than midi-chlorian parthogenesis. Fight me.

You mean Kane Starkiller? The father of “Annikin Starkiller” 😉

“Kane Skywalker is more canon than midi-chlorian parthogenesis” - I’ve never heard of this man. But I agree 100%. This man is more canon than midichlorians.

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Emre1601 said:

Superweapon VII said:

Kane Skywalker is more canon than midi-chlorian parthogenesis. Fight me.

You mean Kane Starkiller? The father of “Annikin Starkiller” 😉

“Kane Skywalker is more canon than midi-chlorian parthogenesis” - I’ve never heard of this man. But I agree 100%. This man is more canon than midichlorians.

My point exactly. Even Nellith Skywalker is more canon than midi-chlorians.

“The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order and in the assertion that, without Authority there could not be worse violence than that of Authority under existing conditions. They are mistaken only in thinking that anarchy can be instituted by a violent revolution… There can be only one permanent revolution — a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.”

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Wait a minute…

who is Han Solo’s father if he has no surname

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In a way Anakin could be both like Paul in Dune, how the Bene Gisseret were trying to creatw their messiah to manipulate and the Fremen were looking for The Mau’Dib. The Sith have The Sith’ari, and the Jedi have The Chosen One. GL definitely took inspiration from Dune, hence Tatooine and the Dune Sea. It is possible that Anakin could be like Paul, one or the other, one forged by Plagueis and the dark side, the other The Will of the Force.

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Snooker a long time ago created a short edit where Qui-Gon was the father. I thought that was pretty neat.

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Your theory about Anakin’s father(s) is interesting and makes a lot of sense. It’s definitely possible that both Palpatine and Plagueis were involved in his creation, either through the Force or through some kind of dark science.

If this is the case, it would explain why the Jedi were so hesitant to train Anakin. They knew that he was powerful in the Force, but they also knew that he was the product of the dark side. They were worried that he would eventually turn to the dark side himself.

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The Jedi were hesitant to train Anakin, because he was attached to his mother, he missed her. And the Jedi, being against attachment and being used to start training children at a much younger age, just felt hesitant to train Anakin. That’s it. No further explanation is needed, everything is already explained in The Phantom Menace. Furthermore, the fact that Sidious and Plagueis were involved in Anakin’s creation was confirmed in the Legends novel Darth Plagueis. However, in the novel it is explained that it wasn’t something that they did voluntarily. Rather, the Force created Anakin as an automatic reaction to their unnatural experiments with the midi-chlorians. Basically, the Force was “pissed off” at the Sith because they were manipulating the Force itself, so it created Anakin to stop themm.

“Sometimes we must let go of our pride, and do what is requested to us.”
– Anakin Skywalker