10 Unbelievable Star Wars Facts That Are Somehow True

[@kuoh13]

Someone else already mentioned Cortosis metal being an alloy resistant to light sabers. But I'll go one further. Cortosis was actually able to short out the blade of a lightsaber when coming into contact with the blade. In the darth krayt time period, the empire wasnt replaced by the first order and they had empire knights which were basically jedi who would use the dark side at times. Like they were encouraged to stay in balance and not fall too far to either side. Anyways, the empire knights wore cortosis weave gauntlets that covered their off hands up to the elbow and they would use them to block lightsaber attacks shorting out the blade and leaving the opposing sith or jedi near defenseless.

[@ilsingr5750]

There is also mention of Cortosis in one of Timothy Zhan's Thrawn trilogy books. (the newer cannon ones) and without spoiling it also is shown to stop any energy weapon except a constant stream which can get through. I don't recall the title and I don't really feel like skimming through the books to find out which one it is but if I remember correctly most of these scenes occur as flashbacks for Thrawn (and maybe Vader?)

[@JUVI9596]

No Mace Windu is NOT Leia’s brother. Please don’t do that

[@_Pauper_]

😆

[@joedwyer3297]

Considering hes older than Leia's parents I dont think anyone's buying the thumbnail😅

[@emperorxander666]

​@@joedwyer3297you under estimate how dumb people are. There people who believe cleopatra is black when it clearly recorded she Greek.

[@antimatta8714]

.....And he's black?

[@joedwyer3297]

@@antimatta8714 that too🤔

[@YoghurtKiss]

Lightsabers can be blocked by a variety of materials Amphistaff - "Snake skin" that resists Cortosis Ore - Corrosive/Toxic material used mainly for battle droids Felucian Skullblade - Creature bones resistance to lightsabers. Mandalorian Iron (Beskar) - Well Beskar Neuranium - Super dense material, Palpatine lightsaber constructed in this, can block lightsabers (somewhat) Orbalisk - Darkside creature skin, essentially "leather" armor resistant to Lightsabers but not elecriticty. Phrik - This is what electrostaffs are made out of and the Dark Troopers armor Songsteel - Super light shining material, blocks lightsabers. Ultrachrome - Superconductive material used during Great Sith Wars, can temporarily block lightsabers.

[@fakename2212]

Han and Chewie using the same bathroom doesn't seem strange. They're two people living in a double wide space Winnebago.

[@glennhouston5686]

Leia also took wookie dck in hurr access ports 🤣🤣🤣

[@nomercyinc6783]

aliens arent people. having sentience doesnt make something not human people

[@SirDoug77]

"you have allowed this dark lord to twist your mind until now, you have become the very thing you swore to destroy"

[@hannahlarocco4699]

Really?

[@Captain327]

If you look up the original design for the Neimoidians you can see that the battle droids were designed to look like them - skinny limbs and long heads. When the decision was taken to not do the Neimoidians in CGI their look was redesigned so they could be played by actors in costumes and they no longer looked similar to their droids. Subsequently the idea of the BDs resembling their creators was resurrected with the similar looking Geonosians in Ep 2 - their look bears a resemblance to the original skinny Neimoidian concepts.

[@DrFranklynAnderson]

If I remember right, at one point it was stated that they resembled dessicated Neimoidian corpses.

[@HawkJedilord]

Yes. This is exactly what the visual dictionary states. @@DrFranklynAnderson

[@filmaru8556]

Obi Wan was almost apart of the Agricultural Corps as we learned in the Jedi Apprentice books.

[@lsu1992]

"Beskar is saber-resistant" Boba: "Hold my Dad's head."

[@hungnguyenquang7247]

Mace slice jango in the neck of course dead

[@andrewdean3533]

Ya his neck isn't saber resistant though🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@lsu1992]

If Beskar armor doesn't have a collar, then that's just lazy writing.

[@AppalachianCascadian]

@@lsu1992 If you look at Jango's (and most Mandalorian) armor, it has a chest plate, but not neck armor. They tend to have a body suit of some kind under it. Same for Clone and Stormtroopers.

[@KippinCollars]

The padawans that didn't make the cut were fed into a meat grinder and the remains were fed to the Jedi to increase their midichlorian count.

[@tonywilliamson8219]

The REAL reason Mace Windu has a Purple Light Sabre is because Samuel L. Jackson is a Toronto Raptors Fan and has been since day one. In 1999 The Raptos wore Purple.

[@Hotaru99]

I think there are four metals that can resist a lightsaber: Beskar, Phrik, Cortosis and Quandanium.

[@Gabriel_Cook]

If I remember correctly, Cortosis ore causes a lightsaber blade to deactivate upon contact.

[@joedwyer3297]

I think 6, weren't Metallica and A7X irresistible metal?

[@right_hand_power7960]

​@@joedwyer3297*Master Of Jedi* starts playing in the background

[@danryder3865]

Quantum crystalline is also another . It was the metal used to make the sun crusher if it can handle a super nova I'm pretty sure its literally impervious to lightsabers.!!!!

[@Hotaru99]

@@danryder3865 I think Quandanium is the same thing. IIRC, Luke had a stolen prototype shuttle that he used as grandmaster of his Jedi Academy with a hull made of the same material that was virtually impervious to blaster fire and lightsabers.

[@chefdean7257]

WhatCulture, dont do misleading Thumbnails. You're better than that.

[@Will_U_Read_4_U]

3:41 Thrawn alliances mentioned another metal I believe to withstand lightsabers I think.

[@adamnipper123]

Zillo beast scales/skin can resist it too I believe! :)

[@kameyutsamsiyu7759]

Well I don’t think anyone would argue that Mace Windu is not a “Brotha.” 😂 But maybe not Leia’s brother.

[@dinogoldie9716]

9:50 Darth Rees-Mogg was outraged to hear that the Galactic Republic had passed a law forcing all light and dark sabre manufacturers to comply with the USB-C charging port standard. "Sith USBs for Sith lightsabres" he could be heard impotently wailing.

[@michaeldrake798]

They share a bathroom? Yeah no kidding. What an odd addition to an otherwise good list

[@peterbergvall7752]

It would have been so much more interesting if only (highly) force sensitives could operate lightsabers, that you would have to use the force to activate and operate the saber. Now any numbnuts can wield it.

[@joshuagorski9452]

Cortosis is another lightsaber resistant metal

[@davidkanengieter]

I wouldn't want to use the bathroom after a wookie just took a dump.

[@riedevilsizr]

It’s simple. Mace WINDI was a completely different character that never came to fruition. Mace WINDU was a completely new character that simply recycled 88% of the name George thought of decades earlier. Had he and his writers explained it correctly then the thumbnail may have been justified. The whatculture crew tends to explain a lot incorrectly. They kinda suck.

[@pwpresents5660]

Projectile weapons exist in Star Wars, because it makes sense. And it’s been seen already. Republic Commando showed Transdosians use these weapons. And more famously, Mandalorians adopted projectile shotguns to answer the Jedi's lightsabers. Literally "deflect this".

[@NormalChannel95]

the thumbnail was actually pretty hilarious

[@eddmario]

Not only was the purple lightsaber Samuel L. Jackson's idea, but it was the first time the color was used for lightsabers as a whole, so he inadvertantly changed Star Wars history. Additionally, Tupac was originally cast to play Mace and not Jackson.

[@jasonlauritsen5587]

I bought the Ki Adi Mundi toy in 99 specifically because of the purple lightsaber included... almost had the Maul toy too, but some prick beat me to it and said Yoink as i was reaching for it.

[@glennhouston5686]

Trauma

[@jasonlauritsen5587]

@@glennhouston5686 i definitely was pissed off for a week lol

[@happyslapsgiving5421]

Well, *cortosis* was, in a way, much better than beskar and this "frick" material. While more brittle, it would temporarily shortcut lightsabers upon contact.

[@allenmartin5057]

I thought that was just in its raw 'ore' form, that when it was processed into metal or alloy it could just be normally resistant. (Maybe I'm wrong but I seem to recall this showing up in the original KOTOR games?)

[@UTU1O]

It's actually spelled "phrik".

[@lookingforwookiecopilot]

Since TPM came out before AOTC, wouldn't that actually make Geonosians created to look like battle droids?

[@jamarigreen674]

No cuz the Separatists started making their moves to build an army way before TPM

[@iainkilcar7463]

Out of universe? Yes, in universe? No

[@lookingforwookiecopilot]

@@jamarigreen674 Well, I don't recall seeing a Geonosian before 2002.

[@jamarigreen674]

@@lookingforwookiecopilot The race exists before the movies in certain novels before the prequel trilogy. So while you didn’t see them before 2002, that doesn’t mean that they came out of nowhere.

[@lookingforwookiecopilot]

@@jamarigreen674 What they looked like did though, lol.

[@matthewdreier3282]

Cortosis is a lightsaber resistant material that also shuts them off

[@captainfach]

Somehow, all these facts are true

[@Eivor85]

Swords made from durasteel could also be used against lightsabers in the old republic

[@CosmicGoku529]

They had a cortosis weave in them. That is what made them resistant to lightsabers.

[@kevin-2.1]

Looks like B1 battles droids do look like Geonosians and I’m glad Mace isn’t Leila’s brother. Also I feel bad that Han has to share a bathroom with chewie 😂.

[@sw-gs]

Mace Window's "Galaxy's best windows you can buy. Now with lightsaber-proof surface."

[@frankharr9466]

People have put a lot of thought into this. It's cool.

[@carlwallace2860]

The Zillow beast scales block light sabra strikes infact it done no damage not even a burn so there you go another material why blocks light sabras 👍

[@thepotatoguy0046]

Fun fact in the original Star Wars script obiwan referred to Owen as his brother but this never happened in the movie

[@roryotoole3279]

I'm not sure if that's true. In the book adaption of Return of the Jedi it stated that Owen and Obi-Wan were brothers but it wasn't presented in the movie.

[@christoebell]

In Legends, Cortosis was resistant to lightsabers

[@Mwuhahaha]

Wow. How have I never noticed the droids looking like Geonosians? I mean it makes complete sense why they look like that. I love how, after all these years, I am still finding out about all these details.

[@CoGames_]

1. Holy damn. Now I see it… that’s deep. 2. Cool! 3. I have thought about it once or twice. 4. Hahaha what. 5. 4 throats?! Jeez. I have 4 fingers… + 6. 6. Ayo, kinda interesting. 7. YOOO WHAT?!! I need to look this up. I want see the story. 8. What? 😂 9. I knew this! 10. Hmmm nice

[@joshslater2426]

Bro the thumbnail is ridiculous.

[@jasonjones7461]

I think the predecessor to lightsabers had a backpack sized energy source and a cable that has to plug into the hilt. protosaber I think is what they were called. I never played it but there's apparently a game set in that era

[@sirducksworthythe3rd842]

Fun fact in the ps1 game jedi power battles, wich came way before episode 2 movie, mace had purple lightsaber on their, so the tiy was mis packaged

[@beaucarroll17]

3:00 also Cortosis is blaster/saber resistant

[@archangel2015]

Beaver whiskers can stop lightsabers

[@CloneScavengerVulpin8389]

Shaak ti: "ithorians four throats, quite powerful."

[@joebaker478]

In legends Cortosis was lightsaber resistant.

[@darklordlarc8960]

So battle droids and droidekas are essentially Terminators of their respective creator races. Horrifying

[@EricJohnson1989]

Vibroblades made of durasteel were lightsaber resistant. Via KotOR.

[@ShaOrna]

Here's one fans won't want to believe; IF you believe Palpatine manipulated the force to create Anikin then Rey is his sister and Luke's aunt giving her as much right to the name Skywalker. P.S. If Leia was an Organa why wasn't Luke a Lars instead of leaving him with the last name Skywalker?

[@toddnolastname4485]

I'm pretty sure someone with telekinesis and reflexes that can block a blaster bolt also have the power to stop or deflect bullets. Mind you, that's one guy with an Uzi. Get a half dozen guys with Uzis, and you probably want to be somewhere else.

[@theschwabmob8363]

Not too sure the actual capabilities of a force user when it comes to speed of objects, but blaster fire always seemed slower to me, than the ballistic weapons. Not by *too* much, but prolly enough to make a difference? Though I'm also unsure how many a normal force user could actually stop if its being unloaded as full-automatic fire, compared to deflecting blaster fire repeatedly with their lightsaber least. But you're prolly right, its probably possible.

[@BrenLynch-ru2jh]

The three light saber resistant metals are beskar, frik and kortosis

[@TheCastellan]

1:30 Kinda like that god making his/her/its/their creations in their own image thing.

[@coppertopv365]

Youngling taken from family and most of time their home planet.. trained.. an then failing a trial. Going in the Service Corp would be an ideal solution, working with others like yourself. You got really nothing to go home or back to..

[@MeSoSoup252]

There is Cortosis which deactivates lightsabers

[@zaturnneo]

The purple blade also shows a balance between light and dark.

[@PavelLieb]

Yeah, Cortosis, from the Thrawn series

[@sirducksworthythe3rd842]

If you think mace is lelas brother, then you have not seen star wars

[@tat2paulie]

Vibroblades are lightsaber resistant too

[@BillyBOB-sm3rl]

What that electric stick thing that Fin fought?

[@donaldwiggins9890]

Critoris. (sp?) Is another metal/substance that thwarts lightsabers.

[@zooropa04]

I mean, firearms would make more sense than lasers from a warfare perspective. Most firearm deaths are from bleeding out; lasers instantly cauterize wounds.

[@johnhernandez6554]

I remember reading that the blasters bolts did cauterize the wounds but the heat from them caused more damage to the tissue

[@aarongonzalez9549]

the thumb nail is crazy gang

[@seymourclarity8702]

3:07 ..I'm sorry what? WHAT THE FRICK WAS THE NAME OF THAT FRICKIN METAL!??! i'm so sorry...

[@riedevilsizr]

It’s called fricken’ Phrick, not frick.👍🏽

[@DansBuddhaBodega]

Was he her brother, or her brotha? Master windu can be either, but never both.

[@sorak185]

You lost me on the first point. B1's don't have wings, and they're taller than Geonosians. They also stand and hold their equipment like typical galactic bipeds. Trying to draw any line between their form and Geonosians is... a stretch longer than the average Geonosian's wingspan. And if you can't be trusted with the obvious details of your very first point... why should I even bother with the rest of the video?

[@chrisbellon3739]

Haft of them on this list, I knew all ready, haha

[@ODISeth]

After watching a lot of WhoCulture it feels kind of embarrassing just how much worse the Star Wars side of WhatCultrue is. What a lump of garbage

[@dkakito]

There was absolutely NO material completely impervious to Lightsabers. different materials had different levels of resistance. I think Cortosis was the Best, as it would short the saber and turn off the blade. But it was stupid rare, and even it didnt last indefinitely. Even regular Durasteel had a lightsaber resistance. Which is why Qui-gon had trouble cutting through the blast doors. I seriously dislike how the Mandalorian series makes it seem like Beskar makes one immune to a lightsaber, as that wasnt the case. They HINTED at it being able to be overcome with the spear. But how many blows did Djinn take on his gauntlets from the Dark Saber (Which is unusually strong for a lightsaber) and had 0 ill effects?

[@dkakito]

@@chickenlittle2206 funny kid. Sorry a 40 year old has done things called read. But hey, its ok, i understand you youngons dont have the attention span for a comic book, let alone something with no pictures.

[@tenimeartstudios]

Why is Chewie's humanoid status necessary for waste expulsion? Dogs & cats poop, lol.

[@KaijuBiologist]

Why would there only be one lavatory on the Falcon? The ship is more than big enough to have two or three. Total nonsense. A number of books ,canon and not (shatterpoints, splinter of the minds eye), mention the process of recharging a lightsabers power cells.

[@maxcardun]

You lost me when you said "Sheev"!

[@smallies7154]

Nick fury is her brother all right 👍 now they can do the crossover. Avengers vs jedi

[@TheCastellan]

Id rather Mace be related to Leia than Luke.

[@ironwolfthegamer7800]

Padme literally gave birth to Luke and Leia making them siblings by default. Adoptive brother maybe but NOT BIOLOGICAL!

[@deanrauhihi2693]

cortosis shorts out lightsabers

[@j.csamson1512]

Coretosis lightsaber resistance metal

[@palaemon1]

Shouldn't the thumbnail read Brotha?

[@Creativeusername617]

Samuel L Jackson aint related to Carrie Fisher and neither are the characters wtf. Leia is Anakin and Padmes kids. We dont know Windu's parents. Windu doesnt even know Anakin has children, cause Darth Vader killed him before he could find out.

[@chefdean7257]

Im such a nerd. I actually knew all of these except the Edgerton brother and the hair clogged Falcon 'fresher. 🤓😢😂

[@jodyhannah5931]

Contrary to what this more on thinks, only 1 person on the planet can say something about Star Wars as a "fact". That is George Lucas who stated that Luke and Leia. End of discussion.

[@spencersholden]

3:43 Cortosis

[@Trebor74]

Brother from another mother,and father?

[@Randomclone5464]

1.MACE WINDU IS NOT LEIAS BROTHER GEORGE LUCAS HIMSELF SAID LUKE WAS HER BROTHER 2.anakin killed all the younglings 3.well no crap Sherlock the geonosians made them

[@donweatherwax9318]

5:13 But . . . But . . . But . . . Butt??

[@faisalmemon285]

What kind of British accent do you have?

[@benengle9621]

Cortosis

[@VestigeV47]

Sequel trilogy made it the palatine saga

[@MuppetMayhem]

Downvoted for BS clickbait

[@artobaron399]

cortosis is another

[@yoduh4077]

thumbs down bc false clickbait title, comment for engagement because i love WCSW. :)

[@rKhael53]

You know how to generate clicks, don't you ?

[@nomercyinc6783]

no, windu isnt releated to fuckin leia

[@L1ll1es-garden]

HELP

[@CharlieHepp]

hmm

[@patrickchapman892]

He's not really a star wars fan

[@mr.jackgek54]

cortosis

[@davidmealer1239]

Stop pronouncing an ‘A’ at the end of every other word plz

[@killingragethrowback]

Cortosis ore stops lightsabers cold. Too bad it's crap against everything else. And no, no, no the service corps are not cool. They basically got cheated. They got grabbed from their families, had their entire childhoods swept away into training only to be discarded and used as the equivalent of laborers. If it wasn't for their indoctrination, they might have risen up to rebel against their fate, and I can easily imagine the early Sith having come out of such a thing.

[@theschwabmob8363]

Pretty sure within Star Wars canon, the Jedi didn't kidnap any children, and almost exclusively it was only with parents' permission to take them to the Jedi Temple to become Jedi. Given the option to still help the Republic & Jedi Order over going back to a life you've never known sounds a lot more feasible to me, and easier than learning to become a farmer, or whatever on whatever planet you were born on. As for the early Sith...I think in like super early Legends Canon they were basically a splinter-group, deciding to use their powers and skill for themselves, and thus caused the Force Wars, but this like super early timeline stuff, and long before Service Corps would exist, as for actual Sith? They were a race of aliens from Korriban, where many of the most powerful of Sith were buried. Eventually some Jedi end up on the planet to memory, see the Sith ways, and decide that sounds good, and eventually that lead to the Sith we know now. 0 clue how Disney/Modern Canon tells it, but I don't think the Sith come from anything the Jedi Order specifically did. Could be wrong. But I don't know, to me personally Service Corps definitely sounds better than being kicked out to the curb, or outright leaving the JO entirely to me. Sure the Order has faults, but it is probably a better life than the homeworld & life I never knew and thus have no attachment to, least that's how I imagine it for most. Don't really see what's there to really rebel against. Is it amazing? No, but, better than nothing.

[@killingragethrowback]

@@theschwabmob8363 The Jedi didn't really give the kids' parents much of a choice. There was even one comic story starring Mace about it, but it showed that Mace was a good guy deep down and he let the parents have the kid. Standard procedure though is to scare the parents into giving the kids up by telling them stories about how they can turn into monsters. Classic Gaslight tactics cults use. But my point was that these Jedi trainees were promised knighthood and they used up their childhood working to it, but got far less than that. I can easily some people resenting that kind of placement in life.

[@theschwabmob8363]

@@killingragethrowback Well fair enough then. The stories I always heard was the Jedi didn't strongarm, they did of course highly recommend the children be taken into the Order. Though yeah, I can see the fact they were training their whole life, to get this 2nd rate as a lot less ideal than the promises made growing up. And I can see some maybe having some resentment towards it, that's pretty fair assumption. Admtitedly, hearing some of the stories in Legends/New Canon about Jedi doing so, sort of reminds me of Dragon Age's Mages. But thanks for the learning experience, have a great day!

[@tonydejesus2134]

Lie in the thumbnail, channel blocked.

[@thebipolarbear1]

Jewls mom is lightsaber resistant

[@eskede4733]

🤔

[@ThisIsMeAndNotYou]

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