Obi-Wan Kenobi & Anakin Skywalker Almost Left The Jedi Order Together
Despite the very different paths each ended up taking in Star Wars, Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi originally came close to leaving the Jedi Order together. "Wars do not make one great," Master Yoda famously told Luke Skywalker in The Empire Strikes Back. It's quite possible that, as he uttered those words, the aged Jedi Master was casting his mind back through the decades and remembering the greatest heroes of the Clone Wars. In an age of heroic warriors, Anakin and Obi-Wan were the most renowned heroes of them all.
The two started out as an unlikely pair, with Obi-Wan only taking Anakin on as his apprentice out of a sense of duty to his own Master, Qui-Gon Jinn, who believed Anakin to be the Chosen One but died before he could train the boy. At first Anakin and Obi-Wan's different temperaments meant they clashed, but the two gradually connected and became an almost unbeatable team. And yet, for all that's the case, things could have played out very differently — as revealed in Marvel's Obi-Wan & Anakin miniseries, by Charles Soule and Marco Checchetto.
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The series emphasizes how Anakin never really felt he fitted in with the Jedi. He is well aware the Jedi Council initially rejected him, and as he grows up, he senses the wariness and even disapproval of some of the Masters. He may be powerful, but he is also shown to be far behind his fellow Padawans in terms of mastering his emotions, and they can't resist taking every opportunity to get a rise from him. A conversation with Chancellor Palpatine convinces Anakin he doesn't belong with the Jedi at all, and he resolves to leave, even handing his lightsaber over to Obi-Wan. Though
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