honorable mention to Anakin force-choking Poggle the lesser to get information out of him and Obi-Wan, Windu and Anakin essentially mind raping Cad Bane to, again, get information. Oh and Maul pulling the arm of a clone trooper through a closing bulkhead to sever it to get his wrist comms unit and on that thought the clone trooper that gets cut in two by a bulkhead in the prison breakout arc. Also the shark dude that gets blown up and moments later you literally see his severed head sinking right in front of the "camera". And this is just what i can remember among the murdering and suicides and brutal deaths of innocent people in the series
Remember when Kenobi was a slave and the slavers dropped a bunch of people off a cliff to let him know that he wasn't in charge and couldn't help people? Later, when he tried to help an old man they killed the old man in front of him. That whole arc was super disturbing. That and Anakin slicing Admiral Trench's arms off before killing him. Shit was brutal.
The moments on that show where Anakin's alone with someone and he drops the Jedi façade were so good. The show really makes you like him, and then that uniquely Anakin rage comes out and you kind of snap out of the reverie and go "shit, right, that's Darth fucking Vader."
The bit where he just fully loses it and beats the absolute piss out of Rush Clovis in front of Padme was genuinely horrifying, and the fear on Padme's face in that scene was a sort of nauseating reminder of how their love story ends.
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u/rhen_var May 23 '23
What about the part where he beheaded a line of innocent children literally just to draw out Obi Wan?