10 Most Messed Up Deaths In Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

Whether it was the harrowing death of a beloved original trilogy icon

a sudden execution of a figure who hadn't exactly been a saint up to that point

or the disrespectful way a few cult-favorite faces were dispatched, the latest set of Skywalker saga movies certainly was not afraid to get a little bit messed up

when it came to killing off its characters, just like the trilogies that came before them

So after already looking at those prequel and original trilogy kills that were undeniably dark

surreal or deranged, it's time to remember the times when the sequel trilogy unleashed

some quite effed up ends too. So I'm Gareth, this is WhatCultureStarWars and here are the 10 most messed up deaths

in the Star Wars sequel trilogy. Number 10, General Hooks is Brutally Terminated

Getting the messed up ends of some of the more villainous personalities within the sequel

trilogy out of the way early, the murder of General Hooks during episode 9, The Rise of

Skywalker likely didn't lead to anyone shedding a tear. This was an often ruthless and irritating bloke who'd helped the First Order kill millions of people

We will get there. He was also someone who was willing to turn his back on his own people to take down his rival Kylo Ren

But despite all that, it must be said that the way he was ultimately dispatched was still undeniably brutal

Not long after helping Finn, Poe and Chewbacca escape by killing the First Order's own stormtroopers

and telling them that he was the spy who'd been feeding information to the resistance

The man who wanted Wren to lose above all else met up with Allegiant General Enric Pride

Here, Hooks attempts to fool Pride into thinking he was overpowered by the gang

but the latter saw through his wounded leg, given to him by Finn to make the lie seem more believable

In the blink of an eye, Pride coldly and savagely blasts a hole through the traitor

Even though Hooks definitely had it coming and wasn't exactly the nicest of human beings

Watching him be so viciously taken out before he even knew what hit him was still a pretty disturbing moment

9. Supreme Leader Snoke is shockingly halved Now again, this is definitely a case of a sequel villain very much earning the grisly demise they received

That didn't make it any less effed up to watch. Throughout episodes 7 and 8, the cruel Supreme Leader Snoke had been both leading the awful First Order and manipulating Kylo Ren in the shadows

In other words, he was the big bad of the trilogy so far. So it was certainly satisfying to watch him be surprisingly fooled and bested by his people towards the end of The Last Jedi

Seeing someone's body be split in two and roll across the room will never not be a distressing sight though

Believing that Ren was about to cure his true enemy, Rey, within his throne room, Snoke's senses betrayed him

Instead, Ren was actually planning on doing exactly that to his powerful master

Using the Force to turn the Skywalker family lightsaber and bisect the Strandcast where he sat

Snoke's stunned mug, his torso flopping to the ground like a sack of potatoes in the background

and the embers from his singed lower half flickering in the air all combine to create a death that is barbarous, shocking, and, well, pleasing all at once

What a messed up combination. Number 8 Nia Numb Lame Lightning Demise In the wake of Snoke being split in half in Episode 8 the position of Big Bad of the trilogy was now vacant Not for long though as Emperor Palpatine soon somehow returned

revealing that he'd actually been pulling the Snoke strings all this time

I know, who knew? Fast forward to the end of Episode 9, The Rise of Skywalker, and it was that all-powerful returning Sith Lord's tried-and-tested lightning

that sadly resulted in one of the most unceremonious deaths in the entire saga

After spending years fighting the good fight for the Rebel Alliance and Resistance

and even helping bring down the second Death Star, you'd think fan-favorite Nien Numb would have been given a somewhat moving or even epic end

Instead though, J.J. Abrams decided to simply have the pancake-faced legend just get caught in the middle of Palpatine's lightning storm and blown up inside of the Tantive 4-ship

That was it. His death didn't really add any emotional weight to the underwhelming climactic battle of Exegol either

as it happened too quickly for anyone to really register what had actually gone down. It's just a throwaway, shocking in more than one way

and quite disrespectful end for one of the original trilogy's most recognisable alien faces

He deserved better. Now who's your favourite alien in all of Star Wars? You let me know in the comments section down below and it better be the end number

Number 7, Poe disobeys a direct order, gets many killed, and the First Order still follow the Resistance

Before the great Nia Noom was taken away too soon on Exegol

a number of other brave Resistance fighters were also suddenly killed in action

during the opening stages of Episode 8, The Last Jedi. Now, these skilled pilots obviously knew the risks before they strapped into their cockpits

However, you could definitely argue that some of them may have lived to see the Resistance

ultimately conquer the First Order were it not for one man's stupidity

Poe Dameron is ordered to leave the First Order's Dreadnaught alone and join the rest of the Resistance after their successful evacuation of the planet Dakar

But did he listen? Not a chance. Instead, Dameron refused to let the chance to take out the fleet killer pass him by

ignoring General Leia Organa's aforementioned order and subsequently causing the deaths of many a pilot

Sure, they did destroy the Dreadnaught in the end and bought the Resistance enough time to get away

But that small win cost the good guys a ton of their fighters, bombers and loyal personnel

Making that dumb decision even more messed up, the Resistance were then soon found by the First Order thanks to their hyperspace tracking technology

Had Poe obeyed Leia's order, many of those ships may have still been picked off by the enemy

as they slowly chipped away at our heroes. But it's also likely that at least a few more Resistance members would have made it out of The Last Jedi alive

if one cocky X-Wing pilot actually listened to his boss. Nice one, Poe

Number 6, The Villagers Who Were Coldly Executed on Jakku One of the most despicable and horrific acts of the entire sequel trilogy actually occurred less than 10 minutes into it

During the intense Episode 7 The Force Awakens opening sequence involving Poe Dameron trying to keep the map to Luke Skywalker out of the First Order's hands

the latter were introduced as a truly merciless foe. After launching an attack on a small village on Jakku one that eventually resulted in Law San Tekka being murdered by Kylo Ren the First Order Stormtroopers were ordered to do something quite appalling Once he captured Poe Ren commanded his metal ally Captain Phasma to get the troopers to coldly execute each and every one of the remaining villagers who dared to oppose his forces

It is some seriously harrowing stuff. Killing those who are firing their own blasters at you is one thing

but watching a group of defenseless, unarmed prisoners all be gunned down once Ren had already gotten his hands on Poe

immediately showed the viewer that the First Order were not to be messed with. Horrifying acts of violence early on and nothing new in a Star Wars trilogy

but this was still a particularly vicious way to kick off the latest collection of family-friendly adventures

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Number 5, Jill Ackbar is blown out of a ship and barely mentioned again

Another fan-favorite original trilogy alien who was given a quite underwhelming and rather disrespectful demise

the sequel trilogy did the legendary G.L. Ackbar dirty too, without doubt one of the most respected military figures in the galaxy

This Mon Calamari Admiral ultimately racked up a whopping 60 years of service

before his time in the Star Wars universe reached its end, rather than ultimately sacrificing himself to save his fellow Resistance fighters

and then being respectfully mourned as one of the good guys' bravest and most important leaders, though

Akbar's death was a bit of a disappointment. When First Order TIE fighters fired on the raddest cruiser during Episode 8, The Last Jedi

Akbar was one of the people sucked out into space along with General Leia Organa

Unlike Leia, though, the It's-A-Trap icon wasn't able to save himself via the Force

If watching him be abruptly shot out into space wasn't already painful enough for long-time fans of the rebel leader

who helped bring down the second Death Star, Ackbar's death is then barely even acknowledged

It's mentioned in a throwaway line, sure, but the much-loved character is pretty much forgotten about after that

What a terrible way to treat a legend of the galaxy, eh? No one was expecting Ackbar to die in the middle of a dramatic showdown with Snoke or anything

but he surely deserved a more memorable end than just being blown out of a window in the background

Number 4. Ochi kills Rey's parents The Sith dagger was an incredibly silly addition to the Skywalker saga

Them's just the facts. Away from it somehow being used to find the exact part of the Death Star that Rey needed to get to, though

this weapon did actually find itself in the middle of one of the most tragic moments of the trilogy

Before the gang got their hands on it, this weapon had been used by a bounty hunter known as Ochi of Bastoon

It's eventually revealed in Episode 9, The Rise of Skywalker, that Ochi actually took that very same tool that boasted a Death Star-locating tape measure

and altered Rey's life forever with it. You see, Ochi had been ordered by the returning Darth Sidious to bring his granddaughter to him

But after Rey's parents refused to tell him where she was, he responded by brutally plunging the Sith dagger into both of them

After learning of this devastating truth, a no-doubt traumatized Rey then continues walking around holding and using the exact same weapon that robbed her of her own parents

That is pretty messed up whatever way you slice it. That was an accidental dagger joke and I am so ashamed

Number 3. All the people in the Hosnian system. The original trilogy wiping out of Alderaan was an utterly horrifying moment with millions of innocent people having their lives suddenly taken thanks to the Death Star planet laser The sequel trilogy

saw that startling world destruction and decided to multiply it by five. Unleashing the power of

their own terrifying superweapon, the First Order's General Hooks commanded Starkiller Base's laser to

be fired at all of the worlds within the Hosnian system. With the rest of the galaxy unable to

protect these worlds, including the capital of the New Republic that was Hosnian Prime

beautiful but deadly red beams of light shot through space before finally colliding with

these planets. Billions of lives were lost and the New Republic was shattered by just

one use of the phantom energy beam. Most brief moments showing panicking and defenseless

civilians on these worlds, fearing for their lives as the red light of death broke through

the clouds, was seriously distressing stuff. Even if it wasn't quite as heartbreaking or

messed up as watching Leia viewing the destruction of her homeworld in Episode 4 in New Hope

Still, with just one push of a button, the First Order scared the life out of the galaxy

as it watched this Hosnian cataclysm unfold. 2. Han Solo is Murdered by His Baby Boy

After fighting for years to try and add a little emotional weight to a Star Wars story with his

demise, Harrison Ford finally got his Han Solo wish in Episode 7 of Force Awakens in a rather

atrocious way. Finally coming face to mask and then face with his baby boy within Starkiller base

the two Solo men talked about how Snoke was using Ben and would crush him once he got what he wanted

Right when it appeared that there may have still been some good in the Solo sun though

Kylo Ren suddenly ignited his flickering lightsaber and impaled his stunned father

in front of not only his new pals Finn and Rey, but his hairy bestie Chewbacca

That roar from the broken Wookiee will forever haunt Star Wars fans' minds

The last thing the iconic smuggler ever saw was his own kid staring a hole through his head after monstrously sticking a lightsaber in him

It doesn't get much more effed up than that. Sure, he'd eventually return as a Vision a few films later and help bring his son back over to the light side

But these were still some rather horrible final moments amongst the living for everyone's favourite rebel dad

1. All Luke's Students That Died In The Destruction Of His Temple

Everything about this awful event is all kinds of messed up. For starters, the incident that led to Luke Skywalker's Jedi Temple going up in flames

as seen in The Last Jedi, was little more than an awkward and regrettable misunderstanding

Seeing into the mind of his young student, Ben Solo, Luke Skywalker saw the growing darkness

within him and instinctively ignited his lightsaber as the thought of killing him crossed his mind

Said horrible idea soon passed, but the damage was already done, as Ben woke up to see his trusted master stood over him with a weapon

Confused, angered, and hurt by Luke's betrayal, Ren would then head out and ultimately kill many of Skywalker's other students with a lightning storm aimed at the temple, according to Charles Sewell's The Rise of Kylo Ren comic

Though he apparently didn't mean to kill his fellow students, it was already too late

With a number of budding Force users losing their lives in their sleep

all thanks to Luke and Ben's moments of devastating confusion. This is why you should always think before you act, folks