Anakin's Dad (Probably) Isn't The Force | Star Wars LOREBREAKER

[@MikolajNieswiety]

Actually, as it is shown in the movie "Jingle All the Way", Anakin's father was the Terminator. That's why later he became more machine than man.

[@JohnPrepuce]

I always assumed Phil Hartman was the father.

[@Mecceldorf]

Which would add more context to critically acclaimed episode 8, when Kylo Ren told Rey she came from nothing and by proxy was nothing. Anakin came from a onesie, he is the one. _IT'S LIKE POETRY_

[@Spartahhh]

I guess that explains why he whacked the kids before they could grow up the terminator does the same thing in T3

[@tetrasphere8165]

Tis true

[@Rowebot15]

Put the cookie down!!!!!

[@NeidalRuekk]

As was said by Obi-Wan in the Revenge of the Sith novel; "The prophecy says a Chosen One will bring balance to the Force; NOWHERE does it say he MUST be a Jedi."

[@rjshadow4321]

on one side there is the Jedi with hundreds if not thousands of members who have massive power in the government on the other we have two or three Sith hiding in the shadows so the balance is heavily in favor of the Jedi.

[@SeptemberManHey]

I'd wager this is a belief (or a type of thinking at minimum) inherited from Qui Gon.

[@viktorkolaric4156]

@@rjshadow4321 Balance to the force, not balance between light and dark side. I know it can be confusing, especially with Disney leaning into the more Ying/Yang interpretation but Lucas was very clear on this. Dark side is the imbalance. Bringing balance to the force means getting rid of the sith. Dark side is like cancer. Healing the body does not mean make the body equal parts cancer and healthy cells, it means removing cancer.

[@papapalps2415]

​@@rjshadow4321Stop. This line of logic is bankrupt.

[@spookiepookie3731]

​@@rjshadow4321 balance ≠ equal light and dark. Balance is the absence of the dark side. It is a cancer. There is no balance with the dark side

[@markcochrane9523]

You know, while in retrospect the no father thing was clearly to make Anakin more comparable to Jesus, when I first heard it my internal response was "who was Shmi so ashamed of having slept with that she tried to convince a Jedi of all people that Anakin was an immaculate conception?"

[@kindlingking]

Exactly my reaction too

[@havok6280]

Immaculate conception is not the same as virgin birth.

[@youknowho4439]

Ever wonder what happened to Revan when he disappeared from Republic Space, and returned as a dark lord?

[@winterrain1947]

Maybe what happened to Shmi that caused her to have a son was a traumatic experience. She blocked out the event of the conception and invented a different story in order to maintain her own sanity.

[@djkiltech]

I mean, the Jedi Prophecy isn't exactly something Shmi would know about, and the midichlorian count being so unprecedentedly high in Anakin connects to the prophecy. It's a pretty big coincidence that the child she 'lies' about ends up having a scientific and physically observable/measurable connection to the very prophecy she couldn't have known anything about.

[@jims.2274]

There's a line in the Episode 3 novel that adds an entirely darker possibility: when revealing himself as a Sith to Anakin and entreating Anakin to join him, Palpatine has one single response when Anakin responds that he's, supposed to be the Jedi Chosen one: "you ARE the chosen one, my boy. Chosen by ME." Now there was a very sinister thriller movie that came out in 78 called The Boys from Brazil. And in that movie, we find a secret plot hatched by "rhymes-with-yahtzee" scientists to artificially inseminate 94 homeless women with genetically engineered clones of Adolph himself. Now how would this work for a Sith Lord? What if Plaguis had developed the perfect force user zygote? Saturated with midichlorians? What if he had agents on multiple worlds assigned to find potential mothers with no social standing, like, say, slaves? And what if he had the children observed and their circumstances manipulated to produce the optimum candidate for seduction to the Dark Side? I submit that Anakin was genetically engineered by Plaguis and Sidious and implanted in Shmi, along with untold others.

[@thebreadcircus]

That works well, I particularly like the idea of it being a larger project instead of a single miraculous individual. It all lines up with established behaviour: meddling with Force-sensitive clones tends to go badly, hence the need for multiple attempts to get even one viable candidate. A slave's life is perfect for creating a future apprentice of the dark side, and this is a very subtle approach. The perfect way to handle things when the Sith are still in hiding. -DZ

[@facilegoose9347]

_Well within a banker from Muunilist's means._ And a good missed reveal for Palpatine by killing Plagueis-- he did have more up his sleeve, and he was going to show how extensively their sith alchemical interventions required finessing with brute force and material scale of experimentation. In the EU Palps does succeed in making suitable force sensitive clones for essence transfer, but they decay far to quickly. Had he been less impatient and prideful, that could have changed. *Surrogate Mothers* as a requirement for midichlorian transfer to viable clones that wouldn't otherwise be force sensitive might even have justified Rey Mysterio in Rat Wars.

[@jeffsorrows]

Lol low standing woman trying to make the perfect individual, sounds like Compound V and Homelander haha

[@shinyrayquaza9]

and we even see palp try and make sith armys with clones in eu material

[@cpt.dr.hawkeye1740]

That would mean Rey and Kylo committed incest

[@lukestarkiller1470]

There’s also an interpretation I’ve heard that Plagueis tried to manipulate the midichlorians to create something evil, and instead the Force itself retaliated and created Anakin to counter Plagueis’s meddling. There’s really no basis for this in canon that I’ve heard but it’s a cool interpretation nonetheless. It kind of makes Anakin’s creation be both by the will of the Force and more indirectly by the actions of Plagueis so that both are true depending on your point of view

[@timewarpdrive77]

That's not an interpretation, that's something directly implied by an old EU novel where he and palps try to influence the force. I think it's also indirectly implied in the new canon, but not confirmed

[@ericsantana1184]

The only thing I know about Darth Plagueis was according to quote unquote Chancellor Palpatine whose real Sith name is really Darth Sidious once described that he had such a knowledge of the dark side he would even keep the ones he cares about from dying but he also said the dark side is a pathway to many abilities some would consider to be unnatural. But he also taught his Apprentice everything I know Darth Sidious was his Apprentice and he also killed him in his sleep. The truth is Sidious was too powermadd because he viewed it as he can save others from death but not himself that's the nonsensical ravings of a narcissist because when it came to the emperor he didn't care how many apprentices he lost he just wanted to make sure he ruled the Galaxy forever. He didn't care about Anakin Skywalker when he was afraid that he would lose Padme he just wanted to make sure he lost everything to ensure that his Apprentice doesn't feel anything it almost feels like taking away everything from him and leaving him without hope but even such a powerful Sith as Sidious was he was mostly a full because he was defeated by his Apprentice who saved his son Luke Skywalker and then eventually he was defeated by his granddaughter which means the Galactic Empire and the First and "Final" Order we're destroyed. In layman's terms to all this his narcissistic Empire never came to be almost like Adolf Hitler in World War II has 1,000 year Reich never existed we rebelled against him his own soldiers turn against him at least the ones with a conscience like the guys in the July 20th plot we all rebelled against him to ensure that he'll never see his new world order come to Full Blossom

[@facilegoose9347]

Per _Cosmic Force_ it's will doesn't take cues from one or the other; its response to Plagueis is as necessary as laws of nature, just as the Jedi's moral failures bring about their downfall. It could have gone many different ways, all compatible with Anakin being the balancer.

[@ridethelapras]

You should know, Mr Starkiller, Sir.

[@_nenju]

i think anakin got balanced out, because he is far far from a "good" person

[@lba_e_ross2152]

I personally enjoy what the Plagueis novel set up as the answer to the question, having Anakin be the reaction to the Dark Sides growing power and attempts to directly control the force and reality. But to each their own on this, worse things could have been said regarding this but it was a reasonable interpretation solely using the films. Cant wait for the next video!

[@bloemundude]

When I first saw the "no father" scene in the theater, I had the first impression that Qui-Gon was testing whether Shmi remembered him from their one-night stand and whether she had made the connection between Qui-Gon and Anikin. This is, of course ridiculous, as Liam Neeson is 6'4" and Darth was 6'5" in metal "heels". I think it's clear that Sidious learned the midichlorian thing from Plagueis and then created his own intended follower, Ani.

[@mousermind]

*Anakin.

[@RemnantCult]

Personally and for the longest time, I've always accepted Anakin's origins to be almost biblical in some way. I figured that, somehow through some miracle, Anakin was conceived without a father through the will of the Force. It was decided through will alone that the chosen one would be born as Anakin at that time and place. After all, the Skywalker story takes in a lot of cues from Earthian myth, legend, and religious stories. With that in mind, you folks brought up some really neat points about Anakin's father. Palpatine using the force to manipulate Anakin's birth is also a strong case as well.

[@BanazirGalpsi1968]

But Darth Vader is a bad guy and Anakin murders children and other Jedi and sleeps with amidalla. So he's no messiah. To have him be virgin born is a insult to the Bible.

[@JonCrs10]

Even Palpatine manipulating it is mythically sound. He thought he had mastery over the divine and could make it serve him, but his ultimate project in Sith magics was his undoing when Anakin turned back and threw him down a hole. What Palpatine sought for Evil, the Force used for Good.

[@tetrasphere8165]

They were trying and so the force reacted and sent anakin to restart the light and dark. Rebooted the computer

[@Liquiddna89blaa]

If she is embarrassed or ashamed by her ex, I don’t see her using the immaculate conception as a way to dodge the topic. Most people just say his father isn’t with us anymore or I don’t like to talk about him.

[@nestorsifuentesaguirre2722]

Not even when we wanna make them talk to find out if they are cowards?

[@Sovereign-kh4ng]

I think his father was Qui-Gon, he had a fling with Shimi years before and then went "Oh crap... yeah... the force did it" when they got stranded on Tatooine.

[@UniqueGeekFreak]

Legend has it Qui Gon went out to buy blue milk

[@willowparker-ct3pq]

My initial assumption was that she was saying there was never a father *present* in Anakin’s life. When she says “I carried him, I gave birth, I raised him,” it sounds like a straightforward explanation that, because the man who impregnated her was not there at any point during pregnancy, delivery, or upbringing, she doesn’t consider him the boy’s father in any meaningful sense. And “I can’t explain what happened” sounds like she either doesn’t know who the man was, or that she doesn’t understand why he left. If she had actually become pregnant without intercourse, I would expect a very different explanation, something like “I know it seems impossible; I wouldn’t believe it if it hadn’t happened to me, but there really wasn’t anyone else.” I also would have expected Qui-Gon to be much more skeptical, and to have a much stronger reaction to the midi-chlorian reading, realizing it could explain the otherwise unbelievable thing Shmi had told him. As it stands, it just looks like Shmi is being tactful about saying she isn’t willing or able to talk about the absent sperm donor, and QuiGon is respectful enough not to push. I also got the impression, when he told the council he thought Anakin was the chosen one, that he suspected it solely because of the high midi-chlorian count and the raw force talent Anakin had displayed. He brings up the possibility that the midi-chlorians could have conceived him seemingly as an after-thought, like “his count is absurdly high and his mother was evasive about the father’s identity. It’s conceivable the force just created him asexually.”

[@subtledemisefox]

Great explanation! I just sort of pretend the Virgin Birth and Midichlorians stuff doesn't actually exist usually lol, but this is a good way to rationalize it with the rest of the series.

[@TheFuri0uswc]

There is a certain poetry in the fact sith meddling with the force caused there downfall.

[@gabethebabe3337]

They spent 1000 years in hiding and building their power. Then they got a little to comfortable with their plot to take advantage of a corrupt senate and tried to gain immortality only to create their destroyer. The Sith are never satisfied with their power, and Anakin was the Force’s answer for their arrogance.

[@Chris_Thorndyke]

@@gabethebabe3337Until Acolyte….

[@PickleRick65]

As far as I'm concerned, if Lucas said it's Plagueis, it's Plagueis

[@Aivottaja]

This.

[@WizzdummHeadley]

Yes but why didn't Plagueis just manipulate the midichlorians to create an ultimate/obedient apprentice as opposed to Palpatine???!!!

[@mystify7478]

@@WizzdummHeadley because that would weaken the dark side/Sith, the point is that it can't stagnate, that the apprentice has to eventually succeed over their master

[@WizzdummHeadley]

@@mystify7478 Weaken the darkside!? It would strengthen it also the great/wise/powerful Plagueis should have taken Palps out not the other way around!?

[@WizzdummHeadley]

@@mystify7478 Well they planned their revenge over the course of 1000 years!!!???

[@matthewJ142]

Funny that the actress that played Anakins mother had played Mary in Mary, the mother of Jesus with Christian Bale as Jesus

[@5PYZ3R]

probably not a coincidence

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Hot take: Anakain brought balance to the force. After he was done, there were two Jedi: Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda, and two Sith: Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader. That the republic fell to the empire and he himself was said Darth Vader is besides the point.

[@t1m3f0x]

Another reason for Shmi to lie would be to make Qui Gon believe Anakin is special, and that he needs to take him back to the Jedi temple, because she want's Qui Gon to free Anakin.

[@chaoslord8918]

Qui-Gon Jinn: "Who was his father?" Shmi: (remembering that meme image of Yoda falling off Luke's back) "...There was no father."

[@djkiltech]

If there's an actual father, he wouldn't have had anything to do with Tatooine. Shmi and Anakin were brought to Tatooine alone. I'm trying to remember which book it was that has the whole sequence where they're together on a transport ship that lands on Tatooine. He was already a small child when they arrived. So if there's a traditional father it would have been prior to the slavery, or even potentially *due* to the slavery. She may have been sexually assaulted early in her slavery, and given birth to Anakin before being taken to Tatooine. But she would have had to be a slave for several years before reaching Tatooine for that to be the case, as it would have to be at least 3 years and 9 months before being transferred to Tatooine with Anakin because IIRC he was 3 years old in the book that covered the transport ship ride to Tatooine. I really wish I could remember which audiobook it was.

[@gabethebabe3337]

The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader talks about Anakin and Shmi being brought to Tatooine under Gardula the Hutt’s ownership. I know that book strings together many other stories, but that’s where I personally saw what you are talking about. It’s Anakin’s whole life from before TPM up until he becomes a Force ghost.

[@1000g2g3g4g800999]

"Skywalker" is a spacer name, like Sunrider, Starkiller, or Darklighter.

[@Amoschp524]

In the EU you had two aspects to the Force to meditate on, the Unifying Force and the Living Force. One theory put out in a fanfiction was that a chosen one would be born to bring balance when the Jedi focus on one aspect/knowledge and neglected the other. Anakin was clearly aligned with the Living Force in the prequels which seems neglected by the Jedi; Qui-Jon appears to be one of the few aligned with it and Luke was trained in it. Yoda would have know about this swing back and forth and how the chosen ones would bring change to the order. The whole Yuzhann Vong invasion arc was partly a rediscovering of the tenants of the Unifying Force by Luke's order since that knowledge was lost under the Empire.

[@firestarter6488]

Quite honestly, with Star Wars having it's roots as a modern Mythology, I really don't mind a chosen one being born from the force.

[@alexanderrahl7034]

The Plagueis Novel hints at Anakin's conception. When Plagueis and Palpatine are performing a sith ritual to empower the dark side and tip the balance of the force while hiding them from the jedi, the ritual ends with both being physically and mentally rocked and its described that in retaliation, the force itself lashed back at them for their meddling. With both realizing the force had responded to create a life capable of destroying them. This is how Palpatine ultimately knew of Anakin's existence. And that if he was to survive, he needed to do something about him.

[@adonian]

I always thought it was palps. She was his concubine, he impregnated her, erased her memories and left her as a slave to watch from a distance. He had a vision that his son would be accepted into the Jedi order. And boom.

[@Baby_Valentine]

I've heard more than one single mother say, "there is no father." Getting abandoned after getting pregnant isn't exactly a rare thing.

[@laisphinto6372]

Also shmi was a slave

[@youknowho4439]

Four thousand years before Luke Skywalker would learn the ways of the Force, the Old Republic governed much of the known galaxy. From its birth to its destruction, the Republic and its defenders the Jedi Knights waged war against their enemy, the Sith Empire. Two of the most powerful Jedi, Revan and Malak, were turned to the dark side of the Force by the evil Sith Emperor during the Jedi Civil War. Malak eventually betrayed Revan, nearly killing him, when a Jedi named Bastila Shan rescued him and partially erased his memories. The Jedi Order took this opportunity to give Revan a new identity, who would later help the Republic defeat Malak and bring a new era of peace to the galaxy. They named him Skywalker. - Jedi Grand Master K'Kruhk

[@3mi3mi]

Hear me out: how we interpret media heavily depends on our own realities. I’m a woman, and I also grew up in a Christian culture. On the one hand, I could sympathize with Shmi and maybe see her response as a way to cope with trauma (she’s a slave, maybe she was r*ped by a previous master, and would rather say he has no father than say he was a product of that). On the other hand, it feels like George wrote this with Anakin being Jesus (being born to a virgin, sacrificing himself to save the universe). I’m heavily leaning towards Anakin being Space Jesus, however.

[@matthewsawyer4864]

Shmi Skywalker + Death Sticks = Darth Vader. Don't do drugs.

[@theapostate2735]

When i was a kid i thought that she just meant his father was a deadbeat that wasn't worth mentioning.

[@GeoFry3]

Anakin did bring balance to the Force. He wiped out the Jedi, balancing the number of light side users to dark side.

[@flammamancer]

I would think that even using the force that Plagueis would need a father of some sort to pull it all off. I mean where is he going to get all that DNA? remember if he weaves the DNA himself it has to at the very least be compatible with the human genome and produce someone that at least looks human. The easiest route would be to have a normal father and manipulate the existing DNA. Of course the next problem I have always had is if Plagueis made Anakin to be then why didn't he put the new force prodigy within easy reach? If it were not for Obi-Wan and friends its quite possible Anakin never would have been found. We must also remember regarding this prophecy that most prophecies are fulfilled simply because people believed them and made them happen or an event happened by chance that people believed met the requirements close enough.

[@ciennaquidd6486]

for reference, the new canon prophecy is "Only through sacrifice of many Jedi will the order cleanse the sin done to the nameless. The danger of the past is not past, but sleeps in an egg. When the egg cracks, it will threaten the galaxy entire. When the Force itself sickens, past and future must split and combine. A chosen one shall come, born of no father, and through him will ultimate balance in the Force be restored."

[@AiyahuntaCheimumbi]

Interesting perspective. Perhaps Qui Gon felt the council would see through Schmi's lie about Anakin's conception if she were freed and accompanied them to Coruscant.

[@Gabiman66]

I dont agree with you but when your video has so high quality i cannot do anything else but like it

[@redfive8486]

I don't necessarily agree 100% with the premise you presented but this is the exact kind of discussion we need more of in Star Wars.

[@thebreadcircus]

That's good! The point here is less about convincing people of this exact (mis)interpretation, rather it's the thinking behind it that can be applied everywhere. -DZ

[@octagram2955]

14:37 hahaha, y'all really wanted to fit that joke in there X D Great video as always!

[@arrun5125]

I know this definitely will not sway you but in the new Canon novel, Master and Apprentice, they reveal the wording of the Chosen One prophecy as: "A Chosen One shall come, born of no father, and through him will ultimate balance in the Force be restored." The book also reveals lots of other prophecies, such as "The danger of the past is not past, but sleeps in an egg. When the egg cracks, it will threaten the galaxy entire." - which I assume refers to the Sith.

[@IgnoreMeImWrong]

In the latest retcon. I fixed it for you.

[@rocketraccoon1976]

Anakin's dad was Yoda. He got drunk and horny one day and knocked up Shmi, then used the Force to erase her memory. This explains Anakin's high midichlorian count and why Yoda didn't want to train Anakin for fear of being discovered.

[@RobertPlatinum]

When She Said, "There is no father." I Knew That I'd Heard It Before. A LOT of Women In My Community Say That. 🤣🤣🤣

[@attackofthecopyrightbots]

I honestly think its more ridiculous that someone who was so powerful he could use the force to create life was killed by 20 yr old unlimited powaaaa

[@attackofthecopyrightbots]

sure he snuck up on him but you would think someone that powerful would do the whole "I'm always on guard even when im sleeping" cliche

[@Crow_Rising]

The whole "Chosen one" thing is a pretty big matter of controversy within the fanbase. Some find ways to justify Anakin as the chosen one, others find ways to say that Luke is the chosen one, and others still say that there never was a chosen one, or that it's someone else, or etc. Taking this theory into consideration, it makes a lot of sense that Anakin is just another nobody special who was raised by people who gaslit him into believing he was far more special than he really was for their own (usually selfish) reasons. He is a slave to the ambitions of others, a victim of the power struggle between the Jedi and Sith, and never truly breaks free of this until his choice to turn against Palpatine to rescue his own son. Up until that point, he was never truly able to make choices for himself, he was always commanded and manipulated by others.

[@nickgennady]

There’s literally a canon comic that confirms that the force made Anikian after Palpatine manipulated the force.

[@whoknowsnotme]

If you mean the Darth Vader comic then they confirmed in a later issue that that was actually just a vision Vader had (or something similar) and not reality

[@Chuck_EL]

​@@whoknowsnotme people forgot he also saw Obi wan in the same vision as a father Yet the ones obsessed with trying to force Palpatine as his biological father completely miss it intentionally or not

[@godsofwar1186]

6:26 The virgin birth "It seems rather silly and it doesn't add anything to the movie" It ads a corelation between Anakin the chosen one and JESUS the chosen one.

[@rudyness2338]

Just a small point on freeing Shmi - Wotto regarded a podracer to roughly be equal to a slave (he wagered Anakin against it). When Anakin sold the podracer Shmi could have used the money to purchase her own freedom (or give it to Qui-Gon to purchase her freedom on her behalf). Then Shmi could have come along and settled somewhere in the Republic.

[@Invalidcookie-bv4cx]

But Anakin did not bring balance. "Anakin" was the catalyst for the destruction of the light side. In my own Head canon, Anakin was never the chosen one. The Sith were all but gone from the world. Plagus was working in secret. I see it as, The Force users would be allowed to study all of the arts, light and dark. that is balance. This has not yet happened in the Disney Canon. baylan is the closest thing we have.

[@quasar8898]

Shmi Skywalker was a Sex Slave who worked for the Pimp Watto. She serviced space crews, traders and travelers on Tatooine for years. Qui Gon had visited the planet years before and enjoyed the "Spacer's Special" with her- though neither remembered the other, at first. During their conversation, they both recognized each other, but chose to not talk about it. So- Qui Gon is actually Anakin's real Father. This explains why he felt for the boy and wanted to train him.

[@lanferno229]

Qui Gon Pimp.

[@marielysdiane3342]

I know you're being cheeky but then why would Qui Gon, in a private conversation with Shmi and no one to witness, ask her "who is his father?"

[@doom5895]

​@marielysdiane3342 lol right? Why would he randomly ask that question. 😂

[@Chris_Thorndyke]

@@doom5895Because he wanted to confirm whether that was the woman he knocked up all those years before.

[@aperezdeal]

I like to interpret the look shared between Qui-Gon and Shmi when asked who the father is as QUI-Gon being the father and he’s making sure she plays her part. Qui-Gon wanted to force this “prophecy” to come to fruition.

[@uncleblaine1433]

Anakin biological father is Palpatine

[@adonian]

💯. She was his fling, he erased her memory, he found out and had a vision of the future and manipulated the events to get him accepted into the Jedi order.

[@RoyalKnightVIII]

Anakin Watto, search your feelings Ani, chupadenalia

[@TheEmpressPalpatine]

Since Force ability was hereditary in that galaxy, I always wondered if Shmi was originally from Naboo. She has that noble bearing as is typical with upper crust Naboo people. She had an affair with a certain Senator. To avoid being caught in a scandal, the senator sold her into slavery. The senator was a younger Palpatine, hence the high midiclorian count.

[@blitzkrieg2928]

Darth Plagueis : I messed up

[@Chris_Thorndyke]

Big time

[@SurprisedFireflies-ik4kt]

The father is most likely palpatine, not only was he present the night Darth plagues did experiments on shimi but in a deleted scene from revenge of the sith he said "go now my child" to Anakin after giving him the title of Darth Vader . Also keep in mind that shimi said she couldn't explain what happened meaning she wasn't awake when palpatine and plagues did weird things to her . They must have knocked her out or drugged her . Either way she woke up one morning realizing she was pregnant, so she told the truth she truly doesn't know what happened it's not something she can explain . If the father was some nobody I think Anakin would have searched for him, but even he knows there's no way

[@SexycuteStudios]

Yeah, I don't know how anyone can take from Shmi's statement that "she lied", the way she phrased it and her emotions certainly don't project a lie at all. Sure she was uncomfortable about it. Who would be, when they find one day that they're pregnant with no explanation? It's awkward and embarassing at best, and that's exactly how she looked when answering Qui Gon.

[@nestorsifuentesaguirre2722]

​@@SexycuteStudiosBecause you have no idea how many hoes lied to their children and for understandable reasons I see why many compared Shmi to many dishonest hoes

[@curtisbryce5096]

Boy, his mother's explanation sounds like every single mother out there. Are you sure this is fiction???

[@denifnaf5874]

It's not fiction It just happened a long time ago in a galaxy far far away

[@_olli_9485]

"there was no father" followed by listing what Shmi did - giving life to Anakin and raising him - tells me that the father was absent in caring for her and the boy.

[@OrangeColt]

There was no father as in no father figure.

[@laisphinto6372]

People also seems to forget that shmi was a Slave and Probably wouldnt want to Talk about that she was used for a particular Slave Work in Front of her child

[@jamesstewart3771]

In one of the Qui Gon , Obi Wan books talk all about the prophecy. He had Obi wan studying them . Dooku had Qui Gon studying them . After the events of that book , they go to Naboo.

[@kevinvassago]

If Palpatine made Anakin and Rey is a daughter of a clone of Palpatine, that would make Reylo an incest couple. #Disney

[@Unpopular_Duality.]

I personally believe that shimi had a passionate fling with Anakin's father but afterwards regretted it kept the baby and still raised him but kept the father details from him because she was embarrassed about how he was born. That is something that would be very common among slave labor having mutually puesdo romantic flings given their mutual oppression and finding something good out of an abysmal situation. Even if it was only just mutual physical pleasure between the two.

[@andrewhaddad6376]

Obsurd take

[@alexanderkidonakis9185]

I just want to see the unedited prophecy And not agreeing with the creator is bawlsy. “Nope that isn’t what you meant when you wrote that”

[@thebreadcircus]

With how central it is to the character motivations, it really is strange that we know so little about the prophecy. Still, if George hadn't meant for there to be multiple interpretations, I think he would've phrased Anakin's parentage with a lot less ambiguity. -DZ

[@Napper323]

In the book he actually says "It seems we have been had"

[@Jshaw71]

I have heard it said by using the Force to prolong his life, and save others, the force created Anakin not Pleagius

[@changer_of_ways_999]

It'd be cool is Palageus did cause Anakin to be born knowing that it'd eventually achieve vengeance against Palpatine from beyond the grave, either inacted as he died or beforehand knowing that Palpatine was going to betray him and couldn't do anything to prevent it. That's beautiful. Something glorious about the Sith destroying itself out of internal spite.

[@calebmetcalfe6998]

The full version of the chosen one prophecy as been revealed by Disney in some new book or something. " Only through sacrifice of many Jedi will the Order cleanse the sin done to the nameless. The danger of the past is not the past but sleeps in an egg. When that egg cracks will threaten the Galaxy entire. When the force itself sickens past and future must split and combine a Chosen One shall come born of no father and through him will ultimate balance of the force be achieved." So Anakin is now either the chosen one or not.

[@justinchoate7458]

There's actually a lot of cut dialog/script in RoTS. Really good stuff that they should have left in. (Extended edition when???) One such line of dialog was Palpatine revealing that HE used what he learned from Plagueis to conceive Anakin. So, that was almost canon. It would have seemed to contradict a few other things, though, so it's probably best that they cut it.

[@larrypowers2515]

Anakin's father is...Obi-Wan. He was on shore leave and visited a Hutt brothel.

[@Arcadia_warlic]

For reference, even in the Plagueis, Plagueis is not actually the father. The Force created Anakin essentially to spite Plagueis for his manipulations, he did not create Anakin himself or influence it in a direct manner.

[@attackofthecopyrightbots]

i honestly dont think lucas thought this much about it(despite putting much more thought into many other things) and wanted the birth without sex(why else would he put that scene in III) but i do think this theory is very convincing. I really like the idea that palpatine is further manipulating him and lying

[@attackofthecopyrightbots]

also shmi being a r*pe victim and using subtle language to indicate that because its a pg movie is pretty clever and plausible but again, this is a space wizards movie so lore wise, thats probably not what happened

[@attackofthecopyrightbots]

also dont forget that the original script for rots when palps is outed as sith lord he literally says he created anakin with the force. I know beta scripts are iffy canonwise but i do think that was always the intention

[@ryanrockers]

I think Watto is the father

[@8_Bit]

Funny coincidence that Pernilla August portrayed both Shmi Skywalker and Virgin Mary (in "Mary, Mother of Jesus"), both released in 1999.

[@Yompers]

Omg is that what the last Jedi and stuff was about? Saying that Anakin’s father was Palpatine? That skywalkers are Palpatines? Was Shimi sold as as a slave to either Plagueis or Sidious? Then sent off to Tatoonie since it’s so remote?

[@EvilSnips]

My person theory is that the Father from The Clone Wars is Anakin's father, and both the Son and the Daughter were created in the same way (albeit from different, non-human species.) It's still technically 'The Force' but has a physical being attached to it.

[@TheReaverOfDarkness]

I can think of at least three times that an enigmatic nomad made a child with a powerful wizard and that child became a monster of a sorcerer who couldn't control their powers nor could anyone else control them, either: 1.) Medivh 2.) Ben Solo 3.) Anakin Skywalker

[@TheMoneypresident]

It was Bill Cosby.

[@anotherboat]

I feel like your earlier videos were better, but damn, we straight up writing fan fiction now

[@alecjackman2655]

The prophecy plotline was really underdeveloped. At this point I personally like to headcanon that the prophecy was made up but from a certain point of view it was still true, where Anakin only became "The Chosen One" when he decided to throw Palpatine down the shaft. In a way everyone is "Chosen one" in their own respected stories, since It took the galaxy to all come together to fight off the empire instead of it just falling under one person. Even in the TPM there's the message that only when people are united they can they be able to overcome adversity with Anakin claiming that the biggest problem in the universe is that no one helps each other out. This whole idea about the true chosen one kinda like in the Lego movie, blade runner 2049, The Matrix, or even the first kung fu panda movie, where the protagonists becomes special not because of some ancient scroll says they are but rather through their own choices and the type of people they chose to be.

[@AlMcpherson79]

The movie: The Force Did It The fans/comments here: But Did It Really? Me: Wait what does ANAKIN think of all that? He who dreamed of being free, becoming a jedi, marrying Padme, freeing all of the slaves... when he was just a little slave boy on a above-boiling-hot planet covered in sand. No one except some fanfic writers even dare explore what being nine years of age when he was freed, and being a slave from BIRTH, and that he had (at least) two owners, the last of which was only for the last like, three years or so, what all of that MEANS. He likely DOES remember being one of Gardulla's slaves. And what he doesn't? He was a Slave, who greeted WATTO pleasantly enough when they were reunited ten years later. If Watto had been The Worst that the young Anakin had known... and still greeted that way (bearing in mind he's looking for his mom, and the first thing he did was 'hey watto youre fixing this pit droid wrong let me do this...' and Watto himself was PLEASED TO SEE HIM)... Think about that. Watto really couldn't have been anywhere NEAR the worst. Or even 'Terrible', for that matter (its part of lore that Watto gave a rather large quarters for just the two of them, they had separate bedrooms, and actually had a kitchen and dining room even!) No. I've always had the headcanon that as far as Anakin is concerned, the Jedi are idiots for falling for the 'there was no father' line because they simply can't understand how terrible other people can be to the point of slavery, and therefore how bad the treatment of slaves can be... and therefore, in his head... he's a rape baby.

[@WickedPrince3D]

IMHO Shmi didn't purposely lie, she just didn't realize the truth. Anakin's father was Darth Plagueis; This is why it's so entertaining when Palpatine is telling Anakin about "Plagueis the wise." He's both telling Anakin about his own Master, and telling Anakin who his "father" was. Although Plaguis was a Muun, they are basically just human offshoots; so creating a human Force Clone would work to create a body that Plagueis could possess if his original died. He'd figured out why countless Sith failed to possess new bodies when they died. Palpatine borrowed the idea with the tech clones; but didn't have the skills to create a Force Clone. Palpatine always knew about Anakin and always planned to make him his true apprentice. The rest were just throw-aways that were useful for temporary purposes. It is an interesting idea though.

[@prickly10000]

It's opinions like this video that directly lead to ideas that create the sequel trilogy or the rings of power. Having the idea that a writer of a story is somehow wrong about the story they wrote has got to be the greatest example of absolute narcissism and frankly makes me think this entire video is transference about opinions he has about Christianity

[@Danny_Delano]

I think each character point of view is correct. Shmi has no idea what happened, something traumatic may’ve happened she won’t share. Qui Gon believes the midiclorians created Anakin by the will of the Force. Palpatine believes Plagueis by influencing the midiclorians. Meaning Plagueis knew Shmi, might have pretended to be someone who loved her and did something traumatic where she fell under his Force spell or sleep (an assault memory). Plagueis influenced the midiclorians on this random woman on a planet no one cares about who is a slave. Yet what happened was the Force itself caused the midiclorians to create Anakin in Shmi, and Plagueis took credit. What really happened, the Force pushed back and it was Plagueis meddling that caused the force to create Anakin. Anakin comes from the light side. Plagueis returned to coruscant to tell Palpatine that he has created a new apprentice. In HIS sleep, Palpatine backstabs Plagueis not to be replaced. All this happening 9 years prior to TPM (Anakin is 9)

[@docsavage4921]

Watto is the father.

[@SyphusBatterus]

What Shmi said is exactly what a single Mother that was abandoned would say. I thought it was a bit ridiculous when they leaned into the whole "There was no Father" thing literally.

[@MrShrog]

How's K-Dam the Kakapo doing, still working out?

[@MobyTheMerpup1852]

Ok wow I make lots of assumptions sometimes but yeah to make an assumption about A dead woman well that is just so uncivilised

[@midshipman8654]

Im fine with Anikan’s parentage being a mystery. fits well with the whole mystic element of the force. Mysterious virgin births kind of go part and parcel with that kind of stuff. Jesus, Hercules, Alexander, etc. “Fate works in mysterious ways” kind of stuff.

[@goldy24t]

If Leia was the real Chosen One as Lucas planned for the sequels, Leia could be the one conceived by the Force while Luke was naturally concieved

[@matthewJ142]

Would it be strange if Dooku was the father?

[@StupidMarioBros1Fan]

Hmm I missed this video somehow, anyways: I find it funny how you acknowledge what is not only canon but what George Lucas himself states is how we're supposed to interpret the story, and choose to go with your own version. It's an interesting interpretation to say the least, particularly regarding Qui-Gon, but I still go with the official story. Unlike other stuff like the previous video regarding the TC Droids, the official story regarding Anakin's birth doesn't contradict anything & is written well enough to not have plotholes. Still a good video and fun to hear the different possible interpretations.

[@thebreadcircus]

DZ may respond to this himself, but as editor I'd like you to know you didn't 'miss' this video. We intentionally blocked the notifications because it's a clip from a video we published earlier in the year. Don't worry. -ED-1TA

[@americansoccerunited]

"Its not possible that Anakin's father is the force" "Why isn't it possible?" "Its just not" "Why you stupid bastard!?"

[@MikolajNieswiety]

The Force has many abilities some consider to be unnatural.

[@Masteroogway40]

You do know that this isn't true right? You do know that Darth sideous was lying to Anakin to get him to turn. Plagues never learned to create or control life. He never taught it to sideous because he didn't know it himself. And sideous wouldn't be so stupid as to kill his master before he taught him his most powerful ability. He never had it. It doesn't exist and never did. The Sith did not create Anakin.

[@iNsOmNiAcAnDrEw]

You have some interesting points. I always wonder what would have happened in Episodes 2 and 3 if Jar Jar was allowed to be what George wanted to turn him into: a Dark Side antagonist of some sort. Instead he went with the safe Dooku pick. Still, the trilogy was fine while Disney's wasn't even a fraction of the story telling success that Episodes 1-6 were.

[@pawbgles]

"I have never believed in the Virgin birth" followed by a shot of Watto is wild ⚰️

[@andrewwinslow9315]

here are my two theories. 1. Qui Gon is Anakin's Dad because of the enthusiasm he had towards Training the Boy. 2. Anakin's father is someone we haven't met yet, and Filoni will retcon someone in. If option 2 is taken, it would be funny if the actor playing the Father was Canadian and is allowed to be Canadian, thus explaining Anakin's Accent change in Ahsoka and Kenobi

[@GnohmPolaeon.B.OniShartz]

But you didn't make the obvious jump to Palpatine? The mastermind and whisperer of the will of the force? Your first theory was a jedi? Dudes who have to go to great lengths to hide their affairs and you think they just sleep around with random women? Yoda can smell that shit. Of course he was obsessed with, "Train the boy". He thought the boy was the Jedi Jesus and Galactic Savior.

[@LilacSreya]

@@GnohmPolaeon.B.OniShartz .

[@andrewgates8158]

Amakin should have been Orlando Bloom

[@Sidragrosm]

One aspect that was NEVER touched upon..? Was Shmi herself - her "tale" of Anakin's birth could very easily have been her attempt at making Anakin appear more ~appealing ~ to someone that promised to take him from Tatooine. Whatever else one could say, about Shmi, she CERTAINLY was no fool. (and prophecies are plentiful in ANY slave culture!) Considering she lived as long as she did..? No. She knew EXACTLY what she was doing, telling Qui-gonn that story.

[@cheesydanishgaming3333]

Here’s my idea Tattooine is a rough place we all know that Perhaps Anakin did have a father and perhaps he was respectable or perhaps not She was only concerned with getting Anakin off tattooine and was willing to format a lie and this mysticism to attempt to appeal to the Jedi master But I also agree with your viewpoint, Qui Gon was perceptive and he absolutely caught on

[@joeyhiggins2057]

I don't think so. Anakin was indeed created by the force itself. Scroll through KZbin and you will find that coming out of George Lucas himself. As much as people don't like comparing him to the Messiah. It's just Cinema people. I believe you are looking too much into this. It is what it is.

[@voltinator]

Anakin is a product of genetics. His turn to the Dark Side was almost instinct kind of like when a Mogwi turns into a Gremlin. Just like a Gremlin the Sith in Anakin just needed the right trigger... sand.

[@poopooman-q7r]

Anakin's dad is the cosmic force, who created the chosen one as a form of retaliation against plagueis and him playing around with midicholorians aka the living force's source of energy, and he was disrupting the flow between the cosmic and living force.

[@MEMEYeeto]

lucas had actually planned for jango to be anakins father, but changed his mind. Jango would be the best candidate

[@OverdriveGaming-plays]

The dark side of a force is a pathway to many abilities some would call …. unnatural.

[@greevar]

I think Darth Plagueis created Anakin as a Sith experiment. However Palpatine killed his master before he could finish it. As a result Shmii was left to fend for herself while pregnant with Anakin. She knew Plagueis created Anakin. She knew he was a Sith. She was just a vessel for his experiment in creating the "perfect" apprentice, which Palpatine couldn't allow. So he killed his master and waited for the child to reemerge. Then, manipulate him into his own perfect apprentice, even a vessel for his soul to occupy when his own body failed him. However, Vader had damaged his body too extensively for Palpatine to consider Vader a valid vessel for his soul. That's my hypothesis, at least.

[@nickbooze9766]

Anakin has a deadbeat father, he's literally me.

[@laisphinto6372]

Or shmi was raped remember she was a slave

[@andyghkfilm2287]

“Well of course I know him; he’s me!”

[@thunderdogproductions]

anyone ever think that anakin DID bring balance to the force in episode 3 when order 66 happened? i mean the force was loaded with tons of good jedi, and only 2 opposing sith. anakin wiped out most of the jedi, thus bringing "balance" to the force by evening the numbers

[@mrsamaritan6881]

Keep in mind that, in the movies, Darth Plagueis was an ancient Sith legend and not Sidious' master. That Disney-level retcon happned AFTER the movies.

[@ridethelapras]

CGI Yoda in Ep. 1 still seems weird to me, Sorry.

[@oaschloch-reuploads4423]

Thx

[@robertf7610]

I just wrote a comment so good, im going to turn it into a fanfiction novel. 😂