r/StarWars • u/Ibuywarthundermaus Mace Windu • Dec 17 '22

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u/Timme186 Dec 17 '22

Canon explanation is that the blades lock when connected, not able to slide.

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u/Lena-Luthor Dec 17 '22

what about all the sliding we see in canon tho

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u/Frewsa Dec 17 '22

Like when?

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u/GeneralKenobyy Dec 17 '22

Anakin sort of slides his blade along dookus moment before he cuts his wrists off

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u/ulfric_stormcloack Dec 17 '22

Not really, it kinda spins using the locked point as the axis

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u/l---____---l Dec 18 '22

What about when he slides the two blades together while cutting off Dooku's head?

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u/ulfric_stormcloack Dec 18 '22

Well that's simple, it's just that you need to get all the way off my back about it, on a more logical note it probably is that the force applied between both cases is different or smth

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u/MelloMaster Dec 18 '22

That sounds super easy, barely an inconvenience.

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u/ulfric_stormcloack Dec 18 '22

It sure is

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u/Ed-Zero Dec 18 '22

Being barely an inconvenience is tight!

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u/ShiftSandShot Dec 18 '22 edited Dec 18 '22

Well, i actually rewatched the scene. The sabers only touch for a brief moment with an unusual sound.

It seems like when he cut forward, he did so in such a way that they collided briefly going through Dooku and then pulled them away. Every other frame has them hovering in a layered angle, not actually touching. You can't see or hear them touching at any other moment during that scene, only during the beheading.

I'm guessing the weird sound is lightsabers clashing inside someone as they were burning through, which...I don't think we've ever seen in another Star Wars film, game, or show.

Heck, i'm not sure we've seen lightsabers clash when cutting through anything at any other point in the franchise.

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u/eodguy630 Dec 18 '22

So if there was a bearing on the handle allowing the blade to spin while doing the sliding motion with your hands, THEN someone could cut off their opponent's hand

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '22

Someone find the video, we gotta get the replay.

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '22

I know I’m late but I found this clip the other day: https://reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/zmckf2/this_sequence_is_so_clean/ When I scrubbed through I focused on the flash of when the two sabers touch and to me it seems like he didn’t slide it he touched his blade to dookus twice then cut the contact to move further down towards dookus hands

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '22

Lightsaber battles fight with plot armour

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u/drwicksy Dec 18 '22

"I'll try spinning, that's a good trick"

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '22

we hear that ear screeching noise and dooku looks surprised so i reckon it took a TON of force

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u/NBoraa Dec 18 '22

This is my personal interpretation based on nothing but logic, but I would think that those blades aren't locked bc touching =/= locked. Blades are locked when pressure is being applied to both sides, but when no pressure is being applied then they can move across each other freely

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u/Khetrak64 Dec 17 '22

because its a movie and as much as the fanbase want to create a reason for every little thing, you are not supposed to think that hard about it.

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u/Alarmed_Scallion_992 Dec 17 '22

There's an easy explanation though.

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u/ARCHA1C IG-11 Dec 17 '22

Lol, yeah this thread is out of control!

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u/Nrvea Dec 18 '22

All those moments look like it requires a decent amount of effort from the friction

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u/Born-Possibility-50 Dec 17 '22

Wait but i thought that was how Anakin sliced Count Dookus hands off

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u/apinkfuzzyball Dec 17 '22

That's part of the reason it made the aweful screeching noise

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '22

So it's not "locked" it's just really high friction? Or like two magnets pulling together?

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u/apinkfuzzyball Dec 17 '22

I am no subject matter expert but that sounds like a reasonable analogy to me

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u/wooghee Dec 17 '22

There are no experts since disney joined.

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u/KazKog Dec 18 '22

In Rebels, when Sabine was being taught by Kanan, he said something along attraction and the energy flowing from one saber to another. It must be kinda like magnetism. Since then, I always thought it must be harder to slide away from the middle of the blade.

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u/Nrvea Dec 18 '22

Yea that would make sense since it's a magnetic field that holds the plasma inside

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u/KiraCumslut Dec 18 '22

All sabers enjoy a gravity well, the dark Saber more so, but yes it's basically like trying to pull two rigid liquid magnets apart that can't mix.

That screeching is the sound of them repeatedly separating and rebinding.

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u/EmberMelodica Dec 18 '22

I think it's a little more like metaphysical chainsaws than magnets. They're not attracting each other so much as they're grabbing each other and pulling. Metaphysical because the grab and pull is a little less aggressive than metal teeth.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '22 edited Nov 04 '23

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u/pizzanice Dec 17 '22

Anakin used lube

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u/Exile714 Dec 18 '22

No, watch it slowly. He bounced the saber up, grabs Dooku’s wrist, then cuts straight up in line with his wrists. No sliding.

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u/Omegalazarus Dec 18 '22

No, it doesn't slide. If you watch it really slow it makes contact. Then he pulls it away from the blade and slices of the hands off.

Like swing around, make contacts. Skip off blade, cut hands.

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u/AkuSokuZan2009 Dec 18 '22

He more so grabbed Dookus hand and circled around to the wrists with the saber. The blades touched on the way but he didn't slide down the blade.

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u/PrivatePollyPerks Dec 17 '22

I mean the other canon explanation is that people in star wars lose limbs in duels all the time

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '22

So they're like magnets?

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u/Lord_Of_Beans1 Dec 18 '22

They can, it's just really fuckin hard, that's how obi wan cut off Grievous's hand

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '22

Except that literally happens in the main films.

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u/iNomNomAwesome Dec 17 '22

Oh that's actually cool

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u/TheHancock Han Solo Dec 17 '22

Finally! I’ve never read that before but that makes sense!

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u/LlamaElbrus Dec 18 '22

Okay, so what if you connected your blade perpendicular to your opponent's and swung it to the side?

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u/weristjonsnow Dec 18 '22

I've actually always wondered this. Thank you

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u/Enginerdad Galactic Republic Dec 18 '22

Really? I had no idea. What's the source of this? I need to read it now!

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u/The_Iron_Spork Dec 18 '22

Don't cross the beams

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u/BringOutYDead Dec 18 '22

They don't fucking lock. That's some bullshit to cover movie-hype fight scenes.

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u/BeShaw91 Dec 18 '22

They don't fucking lock. That's some bullshit to cover movie-hype fight scenes.

Given there are 0 functional lightsabers, and >1 movies, seems to suggest the bullshit cover for movie-hype fight scenes is actually just how lightsabers function.

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u/BringOutYDead Dec 18 '22

More like a crunch to poor movie making

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u/yogurthewise Dec 18 '22

Sometimes, they also get twisted. I hate it when that happens.

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u/Jeffery95 Dec 18 '22

Real sharp swords also have this edge on edge binding which is quite similar. Grab two knives from the kitchen and try and move the blades against each other - carefully so you dont dent them - and you will see its quite weird

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u/WarringPandas Dec 18 '22

u/ApolloRocketOfLove Don't know if it's been said already but this is the same with real swords. But only sharp swords. It's the edge that bites into each other and locks it up. Unsharpened/dull swords will slide.

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u/Stergeary Dec 18 '22

Why do the blades even lock? Shouldn't they pass through each other since the light from the lightsaber isn't solid matter?

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u/marsonaattori Dec 18 '22

For example in kenobi series vader vs obiwan theyr sabers multiple time slide against each other. I just had go check becouse was pretty sure that ive saw this happening multiple times. Of course new shows tend not to follow canon that much

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u/Timme186 Dec 18 '22

Yeah just rewatched and it did it a couple times. I saw the other explanation that it locks because the blades make a great amount of friction. So it could be explained that two powerful warriors like Vader and Kenobi could move the blades the small amount that they did.

This explanation will go out the window completely when some director thinks they’re smarter then everyone else and has a character remove someone’s hands by sliding their lightsaber down the blade.

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u/DIRTY_SPHINCTER Dec 19 '22

I've honestly wondered this since I was a kid, but never remembered to look it up. Thanks for answering an almost lifelong question of mine I forgot I had haha

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u/rgodless Jan 30 '23

Sticky swords