Obi-Wan Kenobi's Parents & Brother: Everything We Know
Warning: Spoilers for Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 3!
The third episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi explores uncharted territory for the canon version of its titular hero and describes his biological family members. Obi-Wan, as with most Star Wars prequel-era Jedi, joined the Jedi Order as an infant and trained towards Knighthood throughout his formative years. As such, Kenobi wouldn’t have many memories of his birth family, but he holds onto a few notable details, which he recalls in the Obi-Wan series, referencing his mother, father, and brother. Interestingly, Obi-Wan was going to be revealed as the brother of Luke’s Uncle Owen, and this detail made it into one Legends-era book but was eventually reconciled with the rest of the Star Wars franchise in later works.
One of the old Jedi Order’s key flaws is its disconnection from the common people of the galaxy it’s sworn to protect. From an almost literal ivory tower in the Galactic Republic’s capital world of Coruscant, the Jedi Order, unfortunately, was part of a corrupt system that made the Sith Order’s fascist coup easier for its Dark Lords. In the Legends continuity, Luke Skywalker’s New Jedi Order corrected the flaws of its predecessor, keeping a degree of distance from political entities and allowing its Knights to both join voluntarily at any age and live normal lives alongside their service. Luke, having lived a relatively normal life as a farmer before becoming a Jedi, understood the merits of life in addition to Jedi Knighthood.
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Obi-Wan, who never truly knew his parents, connects with a young Princess Leia over a similar sentiment in “Part III” of the Obi-Wan Kenobi series. Leia never knew her
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