Obi-Wan & Vader's Duel In Kenobi Will Change Star Wars Canon In 4 Ways
Darth Vader will face off against his old Jedi mentor once again in Obi-Wan Kenobi, though their rematch will change the Star Wars canon for a multitude of reasons. For over a decade, theStar Wars franchise and its viewers have assumed that Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader hadn’t encountered each other between their duel on Mustafar in Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith and their rematch in A New Hope, but Obi-Wan appears to be changing this. The upcoming Disney+ show’s sizzle reel included artwork of the titular Jedi-in-hiding dueling his former pupil, which, while an exciting idea, could recontextualize and even retcon elements of the original Star Wars trilogy and canon non-movie material.
The modern, Disney-owned Star Wars canon continuity, despite existing for less than a decade, has had far more continuity errors than the previous official timeline, Legends (originally called the Expanded Universe). While the Legends timeline made efforts to patch up continuity snarls and remain as consistent with the original (and later prequel) trilogy as possible, canon has the unfortunate tendency to prioritize its latest stories over consistency with what came before it. This leads to small issues, like Yoda’s lightsaber being destroyed in Marvel’s 2017 Darth Vader comics and reappearing years later in The Book of Boba Fett, as well as entire works being paved over, such as the 2016 novel Ahsoka and the Star Wars: Kanan comics, which cannot be remedied by a simple retcon.
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Obi-Wan and Darth Vader’s upcoming rematch in Obi-Wan Kenobi could be interpreted as a worrying sign that the continuity of even the very first Star Wars film is no longer
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