The Best Skywalker Stories You'll Never See In The Movies

The Skywalker storyline comes to an end with Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, and that’s too bad because there are plenty of stories about the most famous family in the galaxy far, far away. From pirate adventures to clone craziness, here are the best Skywalker stories we'll never see in the movies.

Though there were rumors of a turn to the Dark Side for Luke Skywalker leading up to The Last Jedi, such a turn never took place. Luke remained, even in his disillusioned state, a bastion for good. He got to save the day with his Force projection duel against Kylo Ren, which allowed the Resistance fighters to escape and proved that Luke remained a true hero to his core. But fans of the Expanded Universe know that Luke was previously tempted by the Dark Side, going so far as to become the apprentice to the Emperor himself.

The storyline occurred in one of the first Expanded Universe stories, the aptly named Dark Empire. This 1991 comic book from Dark Horse Comics takes place just a handful of years after Return of the Jedi, and it sees the Emperor return from his presumed death at the end of that film, with the explanation being that he transferred his consciousness to a cloned body at the moment of his death. Luke, shocked to see him alive, agrees to become his apprentice, with his plan being to bring down the resurgent Empire from the inside. But the Dark Side corrupts Luke, and he loses sight of his goal. It takes a lightsaber fight against Leia for him to snap out of it, and at that point, he's finally able to defeat Palpatine. Dark Luke would've been cool to see on the big screen, but the window for this story closed long ago.

In the official Star Wars sequel films, Luke is not shown to have settled down. As far as we know, he never had a serious relationship, never married, and never had children. But in the Expanded Universe, Luke did all of those things with a woman named Mara Jade.

Mara Jade was introduced in the 1991 novel Heir to the Empire, the first installment in Timothy Zahn's wildly popular Thrawn trilogy. Mara is introduced as a smuggler who was previously employed as the Emperor's Hand. She's an extremely skilled user of the Dark Side of the Force, and prior to the Emperor's death, Mara was given the command to kill Luke Skywalker. She manages to kidnap Luke, but the two subsequently become stranded in a harsh environment and must work together to escape. Keep watching the video to see the best Skywalker stories you'll never see in the movies!

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In time, you will call me master | 0:16
Here comes the bride | 1:28
Luuke, I am your clone | 2:38
Full of hot air | 3:46
Skywalk the plank | 4:54