Time Travel Already Exists In Star Wars – Why It Was Only Used Once
A plot device so common in other sci-fi stories, time travel already exists in Star Wars – but it has only been used once. For one of the most creative and far-flung fantasy universes in pop culture, it's curious that elements like time travel and alternate timelines aren't so common in Star Wars. In a saga where the Force seems to dictate fate, the madness of time travel is still not part of the day-to-day discussions of Star Wars as a franchise.
On the other side of that matter are the superhero movies, in which the idea of time travel and different realities is becoming increasingly common. The reasons for using that plot resource vary but generally involve the need to conclude a story that has become too complex, reverse a controversial decision, or celebrate past moments of a franchise. That’s how movies like Avengers: Endgame and X-Men: Days of Future Past used the concept of time travel, and how films like Spider-Man: No Way Home, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and The Flash are using the Multiverse.
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So far, the Star Wars movies have never come close to utilizing something like time travel. However, the animated series Star Wars Rebels has already brought the concept of time travel into the saga. Among the various elements that Rebels added to the Star Wars canon, the World Between Worlds made Ahsoka able to travel into the future and opened up a Pandora's box that the Star Wars show was quick to close.
Throughout the fourth and final season of Star Wars Rebels, audiences followed the crew of the Ghost trying to find out what the Empire's plans were for Lothal, and why Emperor Sheev Palpatine had a particular interest in the
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