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Disabled characters have appeared in Star Wars since the original film.
List of Disabled Characters[]
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Name | Disability type(s) and assistive device(s) | Cause(s) | Occupation(s) / Vocation(s) | First era |
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Arcann |
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injury: battle[1] | Old Republic | |
Aubin Kleej | head-cone–related disability[2] | no other Gotals around to help him with processing sensory information[2] after his mother died and his father's head-cones were amputated[3] | Child[2] | Old Republic |
Bao-Dur | amputation: arm (cybernetic prosthetic, self-designed)[4] | injury: "souvenir from Malachor"[4] | Tech Specialist[4] | Old Republic |
Darth Lachris | dark side corruption[1] | Sith[1] | Old Republic | |
Darth Malak |
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injury: lightsaber battle | Sith[5] | Old Republic |
Darth Malgus |
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tampering with the Force | Sith[1] | Old Republic |
Felix Iresso | Traumatic Brain Injury | tampering with the Force | Republic Trooper[1] | Old Republic |
Gault Rennow (aka Tyresius Lokai) | amputation: horn | con artist [1] | Old Republic | |
Goethar Kleej | amputation: head-cones (wears non-functional pair;[3] author stated they're prosthetic horns)[6] | injury: horns severed on enslaver's orders[3] | Swoop-duelist[2] | Old Republic |
Imperial Agent (player character) |
|
Castellan restraints | Imperial spy[1] | Old Republic |
Jace Malcom |
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injury: explosion close to skull | Republic trooper[1] | Old Republic |
Oric Traless | ambulatory hoverchair user[1] | Jedi[1] | Old Republic | |
Revan | amnesia | intentional alteration by others using the Force | Savior, conqueror, Jedi, Sith[5] | Old Republic |
Sa'har Kateen | one lek is a stub[1][note 1] | Jedi[1] | Old Republic | |
Scourge | no emotions | tampering with the Force | Sith[1] | Old Republic |
Watcher X | chronic migraines | Imperial eugenics program | Spy[1] | Old Republic |
Alak | amputation: leg (cybernetic spider legs)[7][note 2] | Pirate[7] | High Republic | |
Cincey | hoverchair user[8] | Cult member[8] | High Republic | |
Lourna Dee | amputation: hand[9] (cybernetic prosthetic)[10] | Battle with Avar Kriss[9] | Nihil[9] | High Republic |
Dagan Gera | amputation: arm[11] | cut off in a duel[11] | Jedi[11] | High Republic |
Govena | amputation: arm[12] | Jedi[12] | High Republic | |
Lina Soh | amputation: leg[13] (cybernetic prosthetic)[14] | injury: crushed in bombing[13] | Politician (Supreme Chancellor of the Republic)[13] | High Republic |
Ruu | dyslexia[15] | Jedi[15] | High Republic | |
Sskeer | Jedi[16] | High Republic | ||
Werth Plouth | severed head tresses[8] | An incident in his youth[8] | Cult leader[8] | High Republic |
Yoda | cane and hoverchair usage likely due to age? (presumed) | Jedi[19] | High Republic | |
Darth Plagueis / Hego Damask[note 4] |
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injury: assassination attempt with decapitator disks[22] | Sith; financial holdings[22] | Late Republic |
Anakin Skywalker / Darth Vader |
|
|
Jedi, later Sith[23] | Prequels / Clone Wars |
Breha Organa |
|
Queen;[23] Rebel[31] | Prequels / Clone Wars | |
Cliegg Lars | amputation: leg (hoverchair user)[20] | injury: battle[20] (Legends · jumped up from moving speeder bike to avoid decapitation by wire)[32] | Farmer[20] | Prequels / Clone Wars |
Darth Sidious / Palpatine (Sheev Palpatine in New Canon) |
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Sith; Politician (Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic, then Emperor)[23] | Prequels / Clone Wars | |
Echo[note 6] | Clone trooper[35] | Prequels / Clone Wars | ||
Even Piell | loss of one eye[29] | Jedi[29] | Prequels / Clone Wars | |
Gregar Typho | loss of one eye[32][36] | Injured in the Battle of Naboo[32][36] | Security officer[20] | Prequels / Clone Wars |
Grievous |
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Legends · injury: shuttle crash engineered by Dooku,[37] worsened by crushing with the Force[38] | Separatist General[23] | Prequels / Clone Wars |
Hardcase | hyperactive | congenital: leak in growth acceleration chamber | Clone trooper[39] | Prequels / Clone Wars |
Maul | Sith[29] | Prequels / Clone Wars | ||
Obi-Wan Kenobi | survivor of traumatic experiences,[23] followed by living in survival mode[44] | Jedi,[29] ex-Jedi,[44] Jedi again[45] | Prequels / Clone Wars | |
Weazel | dwarfism[29] | congenital (can be presumed) | Scoundrel, later Rebel[46] | Prequels / Clone Wars |
Wolffe | loss of one eye (cybernetic prosthetic)[47] | injury: battle on Khorm with Asajj Ventress[48][49] (Legends · her lightsaber)[48] | Clone trooper (Commander)[48][49] | Prequels / Clone Wars |
B2EMO | stutter (droid speech)[50] | Rebel[50] | Imperial / Rebellion | |
Beezer Fortuna | dessicated lekku[51][note 1] | Rebel[52] | Imperial / Rebellion | |
Cal Kestis | psychological trauma, including flashbacks | adverse childhood experiences:[note 5] witnessed multiple murders, escaped attempts to murder him, then lived in survival mode for years | Jedi; Rebel[53] | Imperial / Rebellion |
Cere Junda | psychological trauma[note 8] | survivor of traumatic experiences[53] | Jedi; Rebel[53] | Imperial / Rebellion |
Chirrut Îmwe | blind | acquired and/or progressive[55] | Rebel[52] | Imperial / Rebellion |
Cornelius Evazan | Outlawed surgeon[56][57] | Imperial / Rebellion | ||
Fennro Drogan | phocomelia[59] | congenital[59] | Rebel[60] | Imperial / Rebellion |
Greez Dritus | Pilot; Rebel[53] | Imperial / Rebellion | ||
Kanan Jarrus (formerly: Caleb Dume) | Jedi; Rebel[62] | Imperial / Rebellion | ||
Luke Skywalker | amputation: hand | injury: lightsaber battle | Former farmer; Jedi; Rebel[19] | Imperial / Rebellion |
Tanith | Pilot[65] | Imperial / Rebellion | ||
Tseebo | Traumatic Brain Injury | cybernetics overload[66] | Imperial / Rebellion | |
Reva Sevander / Third Sister | psychological trauma, including flashbacks[67][45] | adverse childhood experiences:[note 5] witnessed multiple murders,[44][67] survived by hiding under friends' corpses after attempt to murder her[67] | Inquisitor[44] | Imperial / Rebellion |
Sarlim Gastess | head-cone–related disability[68] | non-functioning;[68] implied congenital | Ruthless Business Executive[68] | Imperial / Rebellion |
Saw Gerrera |
based upon on-screen/on-page progression of aid use, but exact circumstances unconfirmed |
Rebel[51] | Imperial / Rebellion | |
Yosh Calfor | Deaf or Hard of Hearing | demolitions work | Rebel[70] | Imperial / Rebellion |
Boba Fett[note 6] | skin condition | injury: partial digestion by Sarlacc | Bounty Hunter-turned-Scoundrel[71] | New Republic |
Greer Sonnel | bloodburn[72] | likely due to racing career? (presumed)[72] | Leia Organa's assistant[72] | New Republic |
Lando Calrissian[note 6] | cane user[73] | likely due to age? (presumed) | Rebel[33] / Resistance[73] | New Republic |
Leia Organa[note 6] | spacing[74] | Rebel[33] / Resistance[74] | New Republic | |
Nawara Ven | amputation: leg (prosthetic)[75] | an engagement as a New Republic pilot[75] | Lawyer[76] | New Republic |
Shara Bey | bloodburn[77] | likely due to piloting career? (presumed) | Rebel / Resistance[78] | New Republic |
Wedge Antilles[note 6] | chronic pain[78] | Rebel[19] / Resistance[78] | New Republic |
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Since lekku are sensory organs for Twi'leks, a Twi'lek who has a disease/injury/loss of one lek or both lekku has a sensory disability.
- ↑ The amputation may extend to his lower torso, given how high the metal goes, but it's not entirely clear.
- ↑ As Sskeer is a Trandoshan, he regrows amputated limbs. Within two years of having it amputated, he regrows his arm with no apparent deficits.[17]
- ↑ Only portrayed as disabled in Legends, not in New Canon.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) is a real-life term, not an IU term. Using it anyway! What's traumatic for one individual isn't necessarily traumatic for another (even children), but we can go "ah, that was traumatic for this character" based on showing trauma symptoms, and how their known history matches up against things known to be ACEs.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Only portrayed as disabled in New Canon, not in Legends.
- ↑ Echo is "dead" in Legends because the episodes that would have shown his survival were unproduced due to the cancellation of The Clone Wars and printed sources state he died. Then the continuity split, TCW was renewed, and in New Canon, he lives! He lives!... But not in Legends.
- ↑ Cere Junda was originally planned to be a cane user with who'd had "a debilitating [...] wound" from her captivity on Nur.
In the initial design phase, she even had a cane and some physical scars.
[...]
Her torture at the hands of the Empire was initially represented by a debilitating physical wound before we settled on Cere struggling with a crisis of faith.
— About the concept for Cere Junda[54] - ↑ While Star Wars doesn't draw an explicit connection between trauma symptoms and characters who were teenage Jedi Padawans serving in the Clone Wars, it does know that war and trauma are connected, and being a child soldier is very much a traumatic thing/ACE in reality.
References[]
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 Legends · Star Wars: The Old Republic. Developed by BioWare and released in 2011.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Legends · Knights of the Old Republic, issue #39, "Dueling Ambitions", Part 1 of 3, by John Jackson Miller. Published 2009 by Dark Horse Comics.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Legends · Knights of the Old Republic, issue #40, "Dueling Ambitions", Part 2 of 3, by John Jackson Miller. Published 2009 by Dark Horse Comics.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Legends · Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords. Developed by Obsidian Entertainment and released in 2004.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Legends · Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Developed by BioWare and released in 2003.
- ↑ Real World · "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic #40" by John Jackson Miller on Faraway Press. (Archived on 2023-12-03)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 New Canon · The High Republic Adventures (Phase II/2022), issue #1 by Daniel José Older. Published 2022.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 New Canon · The Path of Deceit, Chapter 3, by Tessa Gratton & Justina Ireland in the series The High Republic. Published 2023 by Random House Worlds.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 New Canon · The High Republic Adventures (Phase I/2021), issue #13, "Jedi's End: Chapter III, The Battle of No-Space".
- ↑ New Canon · The High Republic Adventures (Phase III/2023), issue #1, "Children of the Storm, Chapter 1: Now and Forever".
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 New Canon · Jedi: Survivor. Developed by Respawn Entertainment and released in 2023.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 New Canon · The High Republic: Shadows of Starlight, issue #1 by Charles Soule. Published 2023 by Marvel Comics.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 New Canon · The Rising Storm, Chapter 60, by Cavan Scott in the series The High Republic. Published 2021 by Del Rey.
- ↑ New Canon · The Eye of Darkness, Chapter 3, by George Mann in the series The High Republic. Published 2023 by Random House Worlds.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 New Canon · Tales of Light and Life, "Rogue Element", by Alyssa Wong in the series The High Republic.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 New Canon · The Light of the Jedi, Chapter 38, by Charles Soule in the series The High Republic. Published 2021 by Del Rey.
- ↑ New Canon · The High Republic (2023/Phase III), issue #4, "Children of the Storm, Chapter 4: Into the Occlusion Zone", by Cavan Scott. Published 2024 by Marvel Comics.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 New Canon · The High Republic (2021/Phase I), issue #12, "Jedi's End: Chapter 2: The Spirit of Disunity".
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 19.4 Legends & New Canon · Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 20.6 Legends & New Canon · Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 Legends · Darth Plagueis, Part Three: Mastery - 34–32 BBY, "23: Under the Midnight Sun", by James Luceno. Published 2012 by Del Rey.
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 Legends · Darth Plagueis, Part Two: Apprenticed to Power - 54–52 BBY, "20: The Canted Circle", by James Luceno. Published 2012 by Del Rey.
- ↑ 23.00 23.01 23.02 23.03 23.04 23.05 23.06 23.07 23.08 23.09 23.10 23.11 23.12 23.13 23.14 Legends & New Canon · Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 24.3 Legends · Dark Lord: The Rise of Dark Vader, Chapter 10, by James Luceno. Published 2005 by Del Rey.
- ↑ Legends & New Canon · The Clone Wars, Season 4, Episode 11: "Kidnapped"
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 New Canon · Age of Republic — Anakin Skywalker by Jody Houser. Published 2019 by Marvel Comics. One-shot in series Star Wars: Age of Republic and in maxi-series Age of Star Wars.
- ↑ New Canon · Age of Rebellion — Darth Vader by Greg Pak. Published 2019 by Marvel Comics. One-shot in series Star Wars: Age of Rebellion and in maxi-series Age of Star Wars.
- ↑ New Canon · Darth Vader (2017), issue #1, "The Chosen One", by Charles Soule. Published 2017 by Marvel Comics.
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 29.2 29.3 29.4 29.5 29.6 29.7 Legends & New Canon · Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace
- ↑ Legends · Star Wars: Republic, issue #61 by John Ostrander. Published 2004 by Dark Horse Comics.
- ↑ 31.0 31.1 31.2 New Canon · Leia, Princess of Alderaan by Claudia Gray. Published 2017 by Disney • Lucasfilm Press.
- ↑ 32.0 32.1 32.2 Legends · Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones, chapter 3, by R. A. Salvatore. Published 2002 by Del Rey. Film novelization.
- ↑ 33.0 33.1 33.2 Legends & New Canon · Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi
- ↑ 34.0 34.1 34.2 New Canon · The Clone Wars, Season 7, Episode 2: "A Distant Echo"
- ↑ 35.0 35.1 Legends & New Canon · The Clone Wars, Season 3, Episode 19: "Counterattack"
- ↑ 36.0 36.1 New Canon · Queen's Shadow, Chapter 4, by E. K. Johnston. Published 2019 by Disney • Lucasfilm Press.
- ↑ Legends · Star Wars: Visionaries, "The Eyes of Revolution", by Warren Fu. Published 2005 by Dark Horse Comics.
- ↑ Legends · Clone Wars (2003), Season 3, Episode 5: "Chapter 25"
- ↑ Legends & New Canon · The Clone Wars, Season 4, Episode 8: "The General"
- ↑ 40.0 40.1 40.2 Legends & New Canon · The Clone Wars, Season 4, Episode 21: "Brothers"
- ↑ 41.0 41.1 Legends & New Canon · The Clone Wars, Season 4, Episode 22: "Revenge"
- ↑ Legends & New Canon · The Clone Wars, Season 5, Episode 14: "Eminence"
- ↑ Padawan, Chapter 1, by Kiersten White. Published 2022 by Disney • Lucasfilm Press.
- ↑ 44.0 44.1 44.2 44.3 44.4 New Canon · Obi-Wan Kenobi, Episode 1: "Part I"
- ↑ 45.0 45.1 45.2 New Canon · Obi-Wan Kenobi, Episode 6: "Part VI"
- ↑ New Canon · Solo: A Star Wars Story
- ↑ Legends & New Canon · The Clone Wars, Season 2, Episode 1: "Holocron Heist"
- ↑ 48.0 48.1 48.2 Legends · The Clone Wars, issue #9, "In Service of the Republic, Part 3", by Henry Gilroy and Steven Melching. Published 2009 by Dark Horse Comics. Comic book series
- ↑ 49.0 49.1 New Canon · Ultimate Star Wars, "Characters and Creatures", by Patricia Barr, Adam Bray, Daniel Wallace, and Ryder Windham. Published 2015 by DK.
- ↑ 50.0 50.1 New Canon · Andor, Season 1
- ↑ 51.0 51.1 New Canon · Star Wars: Rogue One: The Ultimate Visual Guide by Pablo Hidalgo. Published 2016.
- ↑ 52.0 52.1 New Canon · Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
- ↑ 53.0 53.1 53.2 53.3 53.4 53.5 New Canon · Jedi: Fallen Order. Developed by Respawn Entertainment and released in 2019.
- ↑ Real World · The Art of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order by Aaron Contreras. Published 2019 by Dark Horse Books.
- ↑ New Canon · Star Wars: Rogue One: The Ultimate Visual Guide by Pablo Hidalgo. Published 2016. "Chirrut does not speak of how he came to be blinded, but due to the simplicity of Jedha medicine, the condition is real and irreversible. He has adapted to his new state well."
- ↑ 56.0 56.1 Legends · Galaxy Guide 1: A New Hope, "Chapter Two: Mos Eisley"—"Dr. Evazan (aka Dr. Cornelius, Roofoo)", by Grant S. Boucher in the series Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game. Published 1989 by West End Games.
- ↑ 57.0 57.1 57.2 57.3 57.4 57.5 57.6 New Canon · From a Certain Point of View, "The Kloo Horn Cantina Caper", by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Matt Fraction in the series From a Certain Point of View. Published 2017 by Del Rey.
- ↑ Legends · Galaxy Guide 1: A New Hope, "Chapter Two: Mos Eisley"—"One That Got Away", by Grant S. Boucher in the series Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game. Published 1989 by West End Games.
- ↑ 59.0 59.1 Real World · "Kit Reveal: Captain Drogan" on <ea.com>. (Archived on 2024-02-10)
- ↑ Licensed Non-Canon · Galaxy of Heroes.
- ↑ 61.0 61.1 New Canon · Jedi: Battle Scars, Chapter 15, by Sam Maggs. Published 2023 by Random House Worlds.
- ↑ 62.0 62.1 62.2 New Canon · New Canon · Rebels, Season 2, Episode 21-22: "Twilight of the Apprentice"
- ↑ 63.0 63.1 New Canon · Kanan, issue #2, "Book I, Part II: The Last Padawan"—"Chapter Two: Flight", by Greg Weisman. Published 2015 by Marvel Comics.
- ↑ New Canon · New Canon · Rebels, Season 2, Episode 3: "The Lost Commanders"
- ↑ 65.0 65.1 65.2 65.3 65.4 New Canon · Rebel Rising by Beth Revis. Published 2019 by Disney • Lucasfilm Press. Chapter 27
- ↑ New Canon · Rebels, Season 1, Episode 8: "Empire Day"
- ↑ 67.0 67.1 67.2 New Canon · Obi-Wan Kenobi, Episode 5: "Part V"
- ↑ 68.0 68.1 68.2 Legends · Galaxy Guide 9: Fragments from the Rim, "Chapter Four: Galactic Business and Corporate Families"—"Sarlim Gastess", by Simon Smith and Eric S. Trautmann in the series Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game. Published 1993 by West End Games. "The corporation is run by a 'blind' Gotal named Sarlim Gastess ('blind' in this case meaning with non-functioning head-cones, a serious but extremely rare disability among the Gotal). Gastess functions quite well among members of species other than his own, despite his generally poor eyesight and hearing. Members of his own species are terrified of him; by Gotal standards, he is a clinical psychopath."
- ↑ 69.0 69.1 69.2 New Canon · Star Wars: Rogue One: The Ultimate Visual Guide, "Saw Gerrera", by Pablo Hidalgo. Published 2016.
- ↑ New Canon · Star Wars: Rogue One: The Ultimate Visual Guide by Pablo Hidalgo. Published 2016. "Calfor's electrocochlear implant helps offset hearing loss sustained from working thermal detonators"
- ↑ New Canon · The Book of Boba Fett
- ↑ 72.0 72.1 72.2 New Canon · Bloodline, Chapter Twenty-five, by Claudia Gray. Published 2016 by Del Rey.
- ↑ 73.0 73.1 New Canon · Star Wars: Episode IX The Rise of Skywalker
- ↑ 74.0 74.1 74.2 74.3 New Canon · Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi
- ↑ 75.0 75.1 Legends · X-Wing: The Bacta War, Chapter 46, by Michael A. Stackpole.
- ↑ Legends · Outcast, chapter 3, by Aaron Allston in the series Fate of the Jedi. Published 2009 by Del Rey.
- ↑ New Canon · Star Wars Timelines, "Peace of the New Republic".
- ↑ 78.0 78.1 78.2 New Canon · Resistance Reborn by Rebecca Roanhorse. Published 2019 by Del Rey.