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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.

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?"

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."

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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

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

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.

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.

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

The scene between Shmi and Qui-Gon always stood out to me when I watched Episode I. The skirting around of very adult realities was well done and the ambiguity in the wording plus the implications made it look better when I re-watched as an adult. This kind of writing and acting is gone from today's films. I wish could get more subtle story-telling like this again.

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.

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.

What I find disconcerting is that the planet Nabu elects a 14 year old girl as the queen of the planet.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

When I first watched this in 1999, I assumed that when she said there was no father, that she did everything herself, she meant some guy knocked her up and never came back, and that it wasn't something she really wanted to talk about. He was irrelevant. I was very surprised that people, including the "wise" QGJ, took it literally.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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”

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.

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.

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.

"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.

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

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

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."

1:15 there's another version (I think it's a special edition but I had it) that also had notes from Anakin, Obi Wan, Luke, and some of the villains too

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

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.

I see Shmi's line that she says that there was a producer, a man who did the act that made Anakain, but he wasn't a father, that helped raising the boy. And Qui-Gon is clearly a smart guy. Not a blind follower of Jedi teachings, but someone who looks deeper. In some part of EU canon he was described as a "gray Jedi", somewhere between the light and the dark side. A bit like how Mace Windu tapped into the dark sight when fighting. But his form of lightsaber combat was dangerous and he was banned from teaching it. Which is a bit like when Anakain slaughtered them like animals. Not just the men, but the women and the children too. That was clearly a dark side act, but it made him a lot more powerful.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Darth Plagueis : I messed up

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

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

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.

One of the Tatooien sur-naming conventions was generally a two part system. SKY-Walker, Dark-Lighter, etc. This system did not seem to be used anywhere else in the Star Wars galaxy that I am aware of. So Ankin Skywalker was born on Tatooine. There is also the possibility that Shmi was 'used' as a slave and sold for a night to someone and that individual was a sith lord... Personally I don't like the no father birth either. It also does not say Shmi was a virgin either.

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

Of course there is a misunderstanding with the prophecy. It was, in fact, the jedi order that has put the force out of balance. Yoda knew this. He understood the only way to bring balance to the force was to destroy the jedi order. This is what Anikin did, fulfilling the prophecy and bringing balance to the force. The prophecy didn't say that there wouldn't be chaos and destruction in its wake.

In Darth Plagueis the novel, Darth Plagueis is fuckin around with midiclorians, tryna manipulate them. This sends ripples through the force, and the force answers back via the conception of Anakin. I like the idea that Shmi was having fun with a lad on Tatooine and then The Force just arbitrarily selected this child. But virgin-birth fits the plot better...there's really no room for a dad in the picture, Qui-Gon was supposed to fill that role. It all worked out lol

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.

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

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.

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

All I know is that, around the time of Anakins Conception, there was at least one Jedi and a hand full of dark Jedi/fallen Jedi on tattooine doong their thing. Also, i believe their are skywalker ancestors mentioned in like, the army of light, back when it became a ttile and Jedi could have families in the Main Order, or they could be Corellian whose own splinter group of jedi didnt really care if you went off to a brothel or had kids. Thay makes a lot of sense for a socitey that just had to more or less accept that slavery was a part of life in the galaxy, especially in hutt space

Rewatching the scene, I felt too that Qui Gon being a little too earnest to know the truth put Shmi in a tough position when he asked her who the father was, so after she responds in the most tactful way she could, it dawned on Qui Gon mid her reply, and he knew just to drop it. Because, surely wouldn't he have more questions if he believed in the miraculous birth. Furthermore, wouldn't it have been more crucial to secure her freedom as well and present them both to the council to further prove the whole chosen one theory. The question is, why does it matter to Qui Gon so much?

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.

It has been said that Lucas' outline for episodes 7, 8 and 9 (which he delivered to Disney but were rejected) delved heavily in the lore of the Midichlorians and how the FORCE manipulates people and matter in the galaxy. I assume that if the midichlorians (another microscopic raceof beings?) decide to manifest themselves as Anakin Slywalker, then they will do so throuh whatever means they choose.

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

10:48 what the heck man...why? Never ONCE crossed my mind such a thing would exist

Who else came knowing Watto was Anakin's father all along?

I've always thought the whole immaculate conception angle was pure laziness and kind of a slap in the face to fans. I, like you and Qui gon simply did not believe Shmi when she said there was no father. I knew then that she just didn't want to talk about him. But I don't think Anakin's father was someone unremarkable. Someone with such a high "midichlrorian" count - at least within the context of this story - would have to be someone relatively important. I'd always thought he was someone who wasn't either a Jedi or a Sith but someone with great Force potential. And if he's going to somehow be tied to Plaugeius then he was somehow discovered or detected by him and shenanigans ensued in trying to get him to embrace the dark side. He somehow had some ties or connection to Shmi as his lover and similar to Anakin had got it on with her and got her pregnant. Only by that time he'd fallen and made some horrible decisions and or ended up in a duel with Plagueus and having been inexperienced or something lost that battle and Shmi ran for the hills. In the midst of trying to escape she ran afoul of the Hutts and she and her child ended up as slaves. But that's just me and one out of countless possibilities. But, no, I never beleived for one second that there wasn't a father. That's so lame and like I said purely lazy writing.

10:49 _Schmi's Seed & Feed (Formerly Lar's)_ The Jedi sat on mountains and millennia of wealth, but Qui-Gon couldn't secure funding to free a force anomaly (or his mother, so that attachment and age issue was smoothed over instead of gnawing at his conscience for years only to later find her SANDED after his wedding) Qui-Gon graciously didn't press the issue to maintain the justification for the good deed: _free my son._ Yoda at least had the sense to take it in stride that the boy was their responsibility regardless now, and there would be no one better to train a too old & attached but gifted padawan than Qui-Gon. Anakin ultimately goes on to lead an army of clone slaves created by the Order. If that wasn't tempting fate, & the force, what is? The Jedi invited _Nemesis_ upon themselves for making doing the right thing such a pharisaical bureaucratic inconvenience instead of observing Cosmic Order, _Themis,_ as Qui-Gon did. Anakin's midichlorian count _obliged Qui-Gon to try,_ just as the disregard for his warnings of the first Maul encounter that fell on deaf ears in the Council obliged his master Dooku to resign in protest. It was in his power and official remit to free Anakin regardless of prophecy, and he couldn't decline it without ignoring his conscience (as the Council would with the Clone Army and war itself). So much was avoidable at so many _fracture points_ had the Order been the paragons of virtue and moral excellence they were meant to be rather than relying on vague Force intimations and increasingly clouded 'vision' rather than ethical priors. No one _made_ them accept the fait accompli of The Clone Army, or leading them in battle; was negotiation with the CIS or political separation so terrible an outcome in light of what proceeded? The _Plagueis_ novel (and _Clone Commando_ ones) bear out another critical aspect of the film setting: insult is added to clone slave army injury by disposing of too wounded to be useful clones, especially the Sparti Cylinder fast growth ones used for the Battle of Coruscant. _Soylent Green is Jango Fett ..._ A Republic tolerating that was even less worth preserving than the Order, and the Galactic Empire that followed at least dropped the pretenses-- _"Anakin, my allegiance is to the Republic, to Democracy!"_ You can hear it in Hayden Christensen's voice, unlimbed and falling down the lava bank: _he would have come back to the light; he regretted everything._ All Obi-Wan had to do was show him mercy in that moment; a crippled Chosen One was never a threat to him. _That_ was the great betrayal rhyming with Mace Windu's _"He's too dangerous to live!"_ That moment made Darth Vader, a scared orphan slave boy once more at the mercy of galactic politics indifferent to him and his mother's fate. The Force decided the duel in Obi-Wan's favor despite the odds; it was enough to convince Anakin, but the Order's callousness rubbed off on Obi-Wan in ways his master Qui-Gon never acceded to- and that's a tragedy of its own requiring redemption by Luke in the Throne Room, refusing the apparent literal call by Yoda & Obi-Wan to kill Darth Vader. That is why they are beaming with pride at the cannibal Ewok barbeque: _he proved all their assumptions wrong._ Luke was prepared to die on principal where Obi-Wan second guessed himself and the strength of the adoptive brotherhood he had with Anakin. Obi-Wan's shame was he loved a by then extinct Jedi Order harshly judged by Fate more than his brother at his darkest hour. Only one of them could or was worth saving in that moment, and he chose poorly.

The book Master and Apprentice gives a fuller version of hte Phrophecy and talkes about the Chosen One being born without a father- also the Darth Plaguies novel makes it obvious that he *did not* create Anakin. He tried to manipulate the Midichlorians to create life, but kept failing. What Palpatine said in RoTS was undoubtedly a lie, measured to plant a seed in Anakin's mind.

I always liked the "conceived by the Force" thing. Partly it's less tragic than the father disappearing idea, and partially because I like the idea of Plagueis attempting to manipulate the midichlorians, only for them to turn it back around on him and make the Chosen One :D

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.

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)

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.

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

Darth plagueis Novel tells you exactly how he was made. Darth Plagueis tries to create a being from the force. But nothing happens at least they think. This after him bringing back a dead sith again and again. As Plagueis says the force will push back against the dark. Anakin was created by Plagueis.

Part of the issues with the Jedi Order at the time of their last decades and subsequent demise was that they were so blinded by their own doctrines. Their focus on midichlorians as the Force. They are not the Force. The Force is the Force. Midichlorians are microscopic organisms that help people touch the Force. The Force is in everyone and thing. The ability to wield it is connected to M-Count. Anakin was born of the Force… Lucas told us. Disney has reinforced it in the comics. The Jedi Order being destroyed wasn’t part of the balancing of the Force. The Jedi needed reformed to be more about serving and understanding the Force and its balance in the Universe. The Jedi by the time of the Purge acted mostly on the needs of the Senate. This was problematic enough. It was made worse bc the Senate was so corrupt the Republic was on its death bed.

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.

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

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

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.

In what universe, ;), is Anakin a normal kid. Forget the fact he can use the force to levitate stuff without expending energy on it (which even Luke didn't accomplish during the movies), he has foresight, clairvoyance, clairaudience, and he can fly a plane like the devil himself (lifted that from the original Firefox incase the line sticks in your head).

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.

I always interpreted that scene between Anakin and Palpatine as Palpatine telling Anakin that he was his father. Also I vaguely remember a Disney comic showing Palpatine create Anakin using the force. Am I misremembering that comic?

The best thing they could have done would be for them to reveal Sideous was the father and he used the force to wipe her mind like she was a meat droid.

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

When we meet Shmi we've already seen Jedi mind tricks and mind altering drugs used in the series. It would entirely fit that Anakin has a dad but Shmi doesn't remember the encounter. Shmi could even be just one of a number of women who Darth Plagueis tried to have a kid with and imbue with greater force potential. Maybe there were too many women and kids to keep track of or Shmi fell into slavery and so Plagueis lost track of her.

It’s worth considering the out of universe explanation. GL not wanting to have to create the back story of the Skywalker family tree. It could involve generation after generation of SW lore. Yet the etymology of the name eludes to the ‘magic’ of the force.

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?

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

Would it be strange if Dooku was the father?

Shmi was a slave owned by Watto some I'm going with Watto is probably Anakin's father. Little known fact: Anakin had a little malformed set of wings, he just, shamefully, kept them hidden.