At the age of 19 Padme Amidala was the queen of a planet and had already saved her people from total crisis

At the age of 19 Anakin Skywalker was married and a general in a galaxy wide war and was considered to be one of the most powerful Jedi in history 

At the age of 19 Leia Organa was a senator in the imperial senate as well as a leader and spy for the Rebellion

At the age of 19 Luke was making vroom vroom noises with his toy planes 

I love him so much

Luke Skywalker: The only Star Wars protagonist allowed a relatively healthy childhood.

… Except Luke grew up having to fear for his life and defend his home and family from Tusken Raiders who would capture and torture farmers for weeks on end just because they could, and womp rats who carried an incurable necrotic disease that would rot you from the inside out, and slavers who would take people from their homes and sell them to hutts. Then there were Jabba’s goons who would bully and kill people if they couldn’t pay their taxes. And I should also mention Uncle Owen who emotionally manipulated Luke for years into staying home for way longer than he needed to, keeping him from following his dream, because of his own mostly irrational fears. Luke had nothing like a healthy childhood. Also, your timeline is wrong. Luke was close to his nineteenth birthday when ANH took place but he wasn’t quite that age. He was doing those things at eighteen and younger. By nineteen he was the savior of Princess Leia while managing to step foot on the Death Star, escape, and live to tell about it, one of the sole survivors of the Battle of Yavin along with Wedge Antilles and one pilot from Gold Squadron, and the one who made the “impossible” shot that destroyed the Death Star, essentially saving the Alliance and the galaxy, giving him the title of the Hero of Yavin, and earning him the top honor the Alliance could give. Shortly after that he became a commander and founded Rogue Squadron, the Alliance’s most elite fighter squadron after he had absolutely no training or experience whatsoever. He was just that good. Luke was already a hardened badass before he ever left home so I don’t know what the crap these people are talking about.

My dear friend it’s called a joke feel free to relax :)

I’m right about the timeline him and Leia were both 19 at the time of the death star incident and tbh Anakin probably wasn’t a general at 19 since thats how old he was when the war broke out and he was likely promoted to the rank of master after some time but for the sake of the joke…. 

However I am going to call you on your view of Luke’s uncle Owen because wow. The view that Owen was an abusive figure in Luke’s life is heinous to me. What did unlce owen do to Luke? Not let Luke join institutions that would put his life in danger or go places where he would very likely be a target just because of who his parents were? Refuse to use him as a weapon or a political tool? Keep him out of the hands of people who wanted to use him for his power thus potentially protecting the entire galaxy? Keep him safe and share his home and love with the son of a man he met just once? Give him a home and go out of his way to ensure that Luke had a relatively normal and happy childhood? Literally DIE for him? Wow what an absolute monster. There is nothing in Luke’s actions or behaviors to suggest that he hates the people who raised him. It’s just not canon. 

First of all: jokes can be harmful and when I see people repeatedly infantilizing Luke because of a harmful stereotype I’m going to call it out. That is no longer a harmless joke as it translates to something very bad that exists in our culture.

Second of all: check Wookieepedia. Luke and Leia’s nineteenth birthday happened about a month and a half after the Battle of Yavin. Scroll down to where it states the dates. I know it’s on the Legends page but those dates are referenced by canon sources. I don’t know why the site only put those dates on the Legends pages. Anyway, they were both eighteen in ANH. Your timeline is, in fact, wrong. By nineteen Luke did all the shit I said. Third of all, woah woah woah it looks you’re the one who needs to calm down lmao holy shit. Where did I say that Luke hated Owen or that he was abusive? Or that his fears weren’t well-founded? You’re assuming that I think Owen was a horrible person because of a single phrase I used and that’s on you because your assumption is wrong. I actually think that he was a good parent and loved Luke like a father should and I really love him as a character. What I did say is that he was emotionally manipulative, which he was. He told Luke repeatedly that he couldn’t run the farm without him, which wasn’t true. There was more than enough help to keep things running, as Luke pointed out. Though as Luke comments in later scenes (and a deleted scene), he feels guilty for wanting to leave home and even quotes Owen's words to Obi-Wan, to which Obi-Wan responds that it’s his uncle talking. That is a classic sign of emotional manipulation, especially the guilt. Owen made things up to appeal to Luke’s caring nature in order to keep him from leaving home. We know that Owen has deep-seated fears of the galaxy outside of Tatooine where he’s lived his entire life, and also fears of Luke becoming like his father. Again, not that those fears aren’t founded, and of course he wanted to keep Luke safe from those things which is good, but he allowed them to control him a little too much and wound up stifling Luke and manipulating him into that guilt that we see later. Luke had dreams and, yes of course they were dangerous, but keeping someone locked away just because they might get into trouble isn’t fair to them. Owen was overall a loving father figure but he still shouldn’t have treated Luke the way he did. Again, THAT DOESN’T MEAN HE WAS A BAD PARENT, just that he had some moments of poor judgement like anyone does. Luke was an adult, he was extremely talented and was ready to go off and do great things, and Owen didn’t need him at home anymore. The only thing keeping him there was that guilt. That is exactly what emotional manipulation is. Say it with me: calling a person/character out for one thing (or even several things) doesn’t = hating them or thinking they’re completely terrible. You can criticize something that you love or a person you respect. Also, (and this part is SUPER important so pay attention) doing good things for a person doesn’t magically erase bad things you did to them. Buying someone ice cream and then punching them in the face and then going “but I bought you ice cream” doesn’t mean that you’re not an asshole for punching them, and now you’re probably going to get arrested for assault, which you deserve. Sure, Owen made tons of sacrifices for Luke, but it doesn’t erase the manipulation. It still happened and it’s still a relevant thing to call out no matter what else Owen did for Luke. Please keep that in mind because people use that same argument you just made against people who are in abusive relationships and such a mindset could end up hurting someone in real life.

Once more: A GOOD ACTION DOESN’T ERASE A BAD ACTION. Also, you can be a good person and still do bad things.

I wasn’t even suggesting that Owen was responsible for Luke’s childhood being unhealthy anyway, just that he did cause a little bit of grief as he got older. Mostly Luke’s childhood sucked because of the things I mentioned that weren’t Owen. You know, the Tusken Raiders and slavers and everything else that wanted to do horrible things to him, which was basically most of the living creatures on that hellhole of a planet.

At the age of 19 Padme Amidala was the queen of a planet and had already saved her people from total crisis

At the age of 19 Anakin Skywalker was married and a general in a galaxy wide war and was considered to be one of the most powerful Jedi in history 

At the age of 19 Leia Organa was a senator in the imperial senate as well as a leader and spy for the Rebellion

At the age of 19 Luke was making vroom vroom noises with his toy planes 

I love him so much

Luke Skywalker: The only Star Wars protagonist allowed a relatively healthy childhood.

... Except Luke grew up having to fear for his life and defend his home and family from Tusken Raiders who would capture and torture farmers for weeks on end just because they could, and womp rats who carried an incurable necrotic disease that would rot you from the inside out, and slavers who would take people from their homes and sell them to hutts. Then there were Jabba’s goons who would bully and kill people if they couldn’t pay their taxes. And I should also mention Uncle Owen who emotionally manipulated Luke for years into staying home for way longer than he needed to, keeping him from following his dream, because of his own mostly irrational fears. Luke had nothing like a healthy childhood. Also, your timeline is wrong. Luke was close to his nineteenth birthday when ANH took place but he wasn’t quite that age. He was doing those things at eighteen and younger. By nineteen he was the savior of Princess Leia while managing to step foot on the Death Star, escape, and live to tell about it, one of the sole survivors of the Battle of Yavin along with Wedge Antilles and one pilot from Gold Squadron, and the one who made the “impossible” shot that destroyed the Death Star, essentially saving the Alliance and the galaxy, giving him the title of the Hero of Yavin, and earning him the top honor the Alliance could give. Shortly after that he became a commander and founded Rogue Squadron, the Alliance’s most elite fighter squadron after he had absolutely no training or experience whatsoever. He was just that good. Luke was already a hardened badass before he ever left home so I don’t know what the crap these people are talking about.

bRO

Whoa

The artist made an entire webcomic of the original trilogy and it’s free to read: http://www.webtoons.com/en/sf/starwars/ch-1-an-old-friend/viewer?title_no=544&episode_no=1

This is but a part of the entire thing.

@actuallukeskywalker

I’ve actually seen this before! It’s really beautifully done.

you’re welcome.

“Luke… the Force runs strong in your family. Pass on what you have learned.”

be someone Luke Skywalker would be proud of

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My contribution to the Star Wars 40th Anniversary variant series

You will know…when you’re calm, at peace. A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense…never for attack.

i cannot believe our lord and savior mark hamill recorded trump’s new years tweet as the joker we are truly blessed

reblogging my own post to add: luke skywalker  can wave his hand and choke you half to death, make you believe whatever he wants you to; he’s killed monsters and gangsters and the greatest weapon the world has ever seen – of course some people will fear him, because every hero is a villain to some, and the sunshiney marshmallow exterior does not mean that he’s not a force of fucking nature

#luke skywalker on the one hand yes cinnamon roll on the other #holy fuck really not #i just love the idea of our heroes being terrors when viewed from just the right angle #star wars

#this is what pretty much everyone in the luke skywalker fandom seems to forget#there’s a lot of emphasis on how pure and good and hardworking and whatever else he is#and he is!#but he is first and foremost and forever#A Fucking Terrifying Creature#people on Jakku (a junkyard planet by even Han Solo’s reckoning) have heard of him#and think he’s a made-up story#and guess what kiddos#made-up stories are not nice#the stories that people tell each other in the desert are about demons and monsters and vicious animals that will kill you with a look#and heroes who are (if you look very carefully in the right light) barely distinguishable from those demons/monsters/animals#Luke Skywalker is the boogeyman on worlds he’s never heard of and the threat billions of parents use on their children#and the worst part is#Luke must know all this#must have heard those stories and learned about these myths#and he cannot argue with a single one because here’s the thing:#he is pure and good and hardworking and whatever else#but he’s killed hundreds of thousands of people and he can invade your mind and move your body and kill you with a look#so he can’t ever argue against those stories and myths#because like Han said: it’s true#all of it (via @leupagus)

Mark believes in you this year.

Thanks to @mhamillpoints for pictures and good mood :)

Needed this today. Thanks, Luke.

see i know that we all like to make fun of luke skywalker, hick farmer from the back of nowhere, thinking that shooting womp rats with the space equivalent of his dad’s old rifle is somehow sufficient preparation for taking down the death star; but i love the idea that actually womp rats are six foot abominations of teeth, spines & poison and bulls-eyeing them is actually excellent preparation for the rebellion. think about it: swarms of six foot rats, and some skinny kid with an outdated weapon taking them out, cool as paint. hardened soldiers whisper scary stories to each other, about the monsters who scavenge in the sands, stripping a camp of everything living in five seconds flat, and luke just saying oh, womp rats? they’re nothing. great with a bit of butter and some toast.  

REMEMBER THAT HE TOLD WEDGE, “THEY’RE NOT MUCH BIGGER THAN TWO METERS” LIKE THAT’S SOME MINOR INCONVENIENCE

BIGGER THAN TWO METERS

Wedge: So, you’ve been to Tatooine

Han: Yeah

Wedge: Womp rats?

Han: Sure. Chewie uses ‘em for bowcaster practice. Kinda gamey tasting. Sandy colored fur, lotsa teeth, little over two meters…

Wedge: Luke wasn’t lying???

Luke (head inside X-wing panel, tinkering): Why would I make THAT up?

Honestly, I’ve always thought that farm work on Tatooine, unintentionally, must have provided a fairly excellent groundwork in establishing Luke’s baby Jedi skills outside of an academy context.

There are of course the aforementioned womp rats, which are both terrifying and a fantastic way to develop shooting skills.

There’s beggar’s canyon for piloting.  And if Phantom Menace brought us nothing else, it actually showed us the living death trap that is beggar’s canyon.  He’s not like zipping around the Grand Canyon, he’s literally goofing off in a place that killed off a shit ton of professional pod racers.  So needless to say, Luke’s had a chance to develop scary good reflexes, information processing, and spacial relation skills.

The Lars’s economic status means that they had to make do with ancient, crap equipment.  Luke would have learned how to make incredibly fine tuned repairs, and keep shit going forever.  And sure, he never built a C3PO or a pod racer, but honestly, if he found the materials to do it, he probably would have used them in a moisture collector.  

And there’s even combat experience.  From what we know about Tatooine, a farm like the Lars Homestead, would have been at risk for attacks by raiders, Jabba’s goons, and any of the terrifying hellbeasts that populate that planet.  It’s not like Jedi temple training or anything.  But Luke definitely learned to be cool under pressure, even when outnumbered or with really old, shit equipment.

I would just like to note that in The Old Republic MMORPG (set three thousand years before the movies) the womp rats are not only two meters long, covered in spines, with teeth as long as my hand, and sometimes DISEASED

BUT THEY ALSO ATTACK IN PACKS

You think you just pissed off ONE rodent as long as you are tall? Oh no. It’s calling ALL SIXTEEN OF ITS FRIENDS

AND THEY ARE ALL AIMING TO BITE YOUR CROTCH OFF. 

*THAT’S* what Luke grew up sniping to keep them away from the droids and moisture vaporators. *THAT* (and Beggar’s Canyon) is what prepared him to take down the Death Star. 

Womp rats are bad news. 

My favorite thing is that they are just one example of how Luke doesn’t know he’s from a Death Planet until he leaves it.

i’m just going to reblog this so you can all enjoy the excellent commentary about my space son who is equal parts sunshine and tempered death

THIS. Has anyone mentioned yet that the disease those womp rats carry is a necrotic one with no cure that rots you from the inside out? Oh and it’s highly contagious. Also, they breed like rabbits. There’s only two or three of them around? Wait a month, there’ll be a few dozen more. Now remember that each of them are over two meters long. They're super aggressive and aren’t scared of urban areas. Those things were an extremely serious threat and people in Anchorhead would give out cash rewards per head for womp rat carcasses. Guess who was at the top of the leaderboard. Luke was the top womp rat hunter for years. And no one’s even mentioned the Tusken Raiders who liked to take farmers and their families in the night and then spend weeks torturing them just because they could, because they believed that all other sentient life was a blight on the planet. Luke spent his life defending the homestead from them, learning to use a blaster when he was six. And he did all this knowing that those things tortured and killed his grandmother. Then there’s all the slavers who captured citizens and sold them into slavery. If your home wasn’t well enough defended, if you were in the wrong place at the wrong time, bam. You’re now a slave. And how about all of Jabba’s goons who enjoyed collecting “taxes” from those who couldn’t afford it. They’d take the farmers’ water if they didn’t have the money and then people would die of thirst in their own homes. Or they’d just shoot them then and there. Lovely, right? There’s a comic that shows kid!Luke mouthing off to them in some poor man’s defense. He wasn’t even scared. People talk about how Han Solo is the one who had a rough beginning. Okay sure he grew up on the streets, but he grew up in the capital city of Corellia where you can’t even jaywalk without getting ticketed. He had to learn how to take care of himself, but if we’re talking about flat out having to defend your own life on a daily basis from things that want to rip you to shreds or torture you for fun or enslave you, Han would have grown up in blissful ignorance from all of it in an actually rather safe, peaceful city, whereas Luke faced that shit every day from infancy. Corellia was governed by an actual democratic government whereas Tatooine was run by crimelords and a ludicrously sadistic version of mother nature.

On Tatooine there was no police, no military, no ambulances, no firefighters, no public services, or at least none that cared about anybody but the Hutts and their “property”. You have a problem? You take care of it yourself. 

Luke grew up in an utter hellhole, and he not only survived, he thrived. He was the top hunter in all of Anchorhead and the top pilot that side of the galaxy (and then later on the entire galaxy). He was a total badass long before he ever left home and most people would be dead if they ever found themselves opposing him in a fight. In fandom he deserves way more respect than he gets. He is pure death in a baby-faced package.