Obi-Wan Kenobi

"Obi-Wan is a great mentor; as wise as Master Yoda, and as powerful as Master Windu."

- Anakin Skywalker

Obi-Wan Kenobi, later known as Ben Kenobi was a Human Male Jedi Master who served the Galactic Republic.

Early Life
Obi-Wan Kenobi was born on the planet Stewjon where he was then taken to the Jedi temple on Coruscant to be trained as a Jedi. As a Youngling, Kenobi underwent training with Grand Master Yoda.

Qui-Gon's Apprentice
"You still have much to learn, my young apprentice."

- Qui-Gon Jinn

When Kenobi was in his teens, Kenobi was taken as Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn's Padawan learner. Prior to the Invasion of Naboo, Kenobi and Jinn spent a year on Mandalore protecting Duchess Satine Kryze from Insurgents who were threatening her world. Bounty hunters were sent after them, forcing them to be on the run and living hand to mouth, never knowing what the next day would bring them.

Invasion of Naboo
Obi-Wan and his master Qui-Gon Jinn were sent by Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum to negotiate with the Trade Federation, which had set up a blockade around the planet of Naboo. Negotiations did not take place, and instead Viceroy Nute Gunray sent battle droids and droidekas to kill the Jedi Knights. Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan escaped by stowing away on separate landing crafts down to Naboo's surface. There, Obi-Wan found Qui-Gon who had just saved the life of the Gungan Jar Jar Binks. Jar Jar led the two Jedi to the underwater city of Otoh Gunga, where they met with the Gungan leader Boss Nass. The Jedi were unable to convince the Gungans to help the humans of Naboo, but Nass, under the influence of Qui-Gon's Jedi Mind trick, gave the two Jedi a Transport to get them to reach Theed, Naboo's capital city. Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, and Jar Jar took the transport through the planet's core to reach Theed, however, when they arrived they discovered that the Trade Federation had already taken control of the city. After rescuing Queen Amidala and several others, the Jedi took Amidala off of Naboo on her starship in an attempt to reach Coruscant with news of the invasion. During the escape, the queen's hyperdrive was damaged, which prevented them from going straight to Coruscant. Instead, they landed on Tatooine.

After landing, Qui-Gon, Padmé (the queen in disguise as a handmaiden), Jar Jar, and the astromech droid R2-D2 went to look for a new hyperdrive unit, while Obi-Wan stayed behind on the ship. While looking for parts, Qui-Gon Jinn discovered a force-sensitive young slave named Anakin Skywalker. Qui-Gon retrieved a sample of Anakin's blood and had the data sent to Obi-Wan on the ship. Obi-Wan found that Anakin's midichlorian counts were the highest of any Jedi. Qui-Gon and the others returned to the ship after getting the necessary parts, accompanied by Anakin Skywalker. When Qui-Gon arrived, however, he was attacked by a cloaked man with a red lightsaber. Qui-Gon instructed Anakin to tell the ship to take off, and he jumped on board to escape his attacker.

With a repaired hyperdrive, the ship took off for Coruscant. When they arrived on the planet, Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi went directly to the Jedi Council to report on the mysterious attacker, whom Qui-Gon believed to be a Sith. After Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan were briefed on what to do about their mysterious attacker, Qui-Gon discussed Anakin with the Council, believing him to be the Chosen One. The Council instructed Qui-Gon to bring Anakin before them. When Anakin went to the Council, he was questioned and discovered to be very strong with the Force. Nevertheless, to Qui-Gon's dismay, the Council determined that Anakin was not to be trained. Qui-Gon suggested that he take on Anakin as his Padawan, but Master Yoda objected since Obi-Wan was already Qui-Gon's Padawan. Obi-Wan insisted he was ready to take the trials, and his master agreed, adding that he is a little headstrong but there nothing more that Qui-Gon could teach Kenobi. Instead of discussing the matter futher, Mace Windu ordered Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan back to Naboo to protect the Queen and lure out the mysterious assailant.

After returning to Naboo, Jar Jar located the Gungans, and Padmé, revealing herself to be Queen Amidala, begged to Boss Nass to provide assistance in fighting the droid armies of the Trade Federation. Boss Nass agreed and the Queen explained her plan. The Gungans were to fight the droid army on the plains as a diversion so that she could slip into Theed and capture Viceroy Gunray. Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, and Anakin joined the Queen in her attack on Theed. Soon after entering the hangar, Anakin got into the cockpit of a Naboo starfighter, Queen Amidala and her guards made their way to the throne room, and Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan encountered Darth Maul. During the duel with Maul, Obi-Wan got separated from his master, and he was forced to watch as Maul impaled Qui-Gon with his double-bladed lightsaber. When the opportunity arose, Obi-Wan lunged at Maul and in the ensuing fight managed to cut Maul's lightsaber in half. Maul retaliated, knocking Obi-Wan down a shaft. Obi-Wan managed to grab hold of something, but he watched hopelessly as Maul kicked his lightsaber down into the shaft. Despite his predicament, Obi-Wan was able to use the Force to pull Qui-Gon's lightsaber into his hands at the same moment he jumped up to where Maul was standing. In one move, he cut the Sith in half, and Maul's body fell down the shaft in two pieces, presumably dead.

Obi-Wan then ran to Qui-Gon's side and promised to train Anakin in agreement with his master's dying wish. Following the end of the battle, Obi-Wan was promoted to the rank of Jedi Knight by Master Yoda and Qui-Gon's body was burnt on a funeral pyre, where Obi-Wan informed Anakin that Anakin would become a Jedi. Later on, Obi-Wan, along with new Padawan, Anakin and several members of the Jedi Council were present during a victory celebration in Theed.

Protecting Senator Amidala
Following an attempt to kill Senator Padmé Amidala on Coruscant, the Jedi Council sent Obi-Wan Kenobi and his Padawan Anakin Skywalker to protect her from future attacks as they had just return from a border dispute on the planet Ansion and at the behest of Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine. Anakin and Obi-Wan had already been on several missions, but Anakin had not seen Padmé in ten years and felt uncomfortable around her because of his feelings for her. Padmé told the Jedi that she didn't need protection, but rather, she wanted answers. Against Obi-Wan's recommendation, Anakin promised Padmé that they would find out who was trying to kill her. Anakin and Padmé worked out a plan to use the Senator as bait, but without Obi-Wan's knowledge. The bounty hunter Zam Wesell did attempt to kill the Senator that night with venomous kouhun arthropods, but her plot was foiled and Obi-Wan used her own probe to find her. Anakin found a speeder, and together he and Obi-Wan pursued the bounty hunter through Coruscant until her speeder crashed outside a nightclub. The Jedi followed her in, realizing she was a changeling, and soon Obi-Wan found her and cut off her arm with his lightsaber before she could shoot him. However, before she could tell the Jedi who she was working for, she was shot and killed by a toxic dart fired by Jango Fett.

The Council decided that Anakin should accompany Padmé as she visits her home planet of Naboo, whereas Obi-Wan should continue the investigation on Padmé's attackers. Obi-Wan took the toxic dart to his friend Dexter Jettster, who told Obi-Wan that it was a Kamino saberdart. Using Dex's information about Kamino, Obi-Wan visited the Jedi Temple Archives, but he was unable to locate the system. Librarian Jocasta Nu informed Kenobi that the system must not exist since it is not in the archives. Obi-Wan wasn't convinced, so he visited Master Yoda who was teaching Younglings. Yoda and Obi-Wan agreed that someone had erased the files on Kamino from the Archives, and that Obi-Wan needed to go and visit the location of the gravity silhouette to find the lost planet.

Discovery of the Clone Army
Upon arriving on Kamino, Obi-Wan was greeted by the Kaminoan Taun We who told the Jedi that they had been expecting him. She took Obi-Wan to Prime Minister Lama Su, who mistook Obi-Wan for Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas. Obi-Wan informed Lama Su that Sifo-Diyas had been killed almost ten years prior. Lama Su replied that Sifo-Diyas would have been proud of the army they had created according to his request. He explained to the surprised Jedi that they had been under orders to create a clone army for the Republic. Lama Su took Obi-Wan to see the clones and explained their growth process and training. Obi-Wan also learned from the prime minister that the original template for the clone army was a bounty hunter named Jango Fett. Obi-Wan asked to meet Jango Fett, and Taun We took him to Jango's quarters. Obi-Wan met Jango and asked him intrusive questions concerning any recent visits to Coruscant. After their meeting, Jango and his clone son Boba Fett attempted to flee Kamino on his ship Slave I. Obi-Wan confronted Jango, and the two fought on the landing platform. At the end of the battle, Obi-Wan fell off the platform, and Jango believed he had fallen into the sea. However, Obi-Wan managed to catch hold of a bridge, and he returned to the platform to see Slave I taking off with just enough time for Obi-Wan to attach a homing beacon to Jango's ship.

First Battle of Geonosis
Obi-Wan pursued Slave I in his Jedi Starfighter to the planet of Geonosis. While still in the rings of Geonosis, Jango Fett realized Obi-Wan had followed him, and he tried to destroy him. Thinking that he had destroyed Obi-Wan with a seismic charge, Jango continued to the planet's surface. Obi-Wan followed and discovered Trade Federation ships on the surface. After landing, Obi-Wan snuck into a room where he heard Count Dooku addressing the Separatist Council and mentioning the attempts at Senator Amidala's life at the request of Nute Gunray. Realizing the importance of what he had discovered, Obi-Wan attempted to transmit a message to Coruscant, but found he was unable to. Instead, he sent the message to Anakin on Tatooine for him to pass on to Coruscant. While delivering the message, Obi-Wan was captured and held prisoner. While detained, Dooku visited Obi-Wan and attempted to convince the Jedi to join him. Obi-Wan refused, and Dooku went on to explain to him that the Republic was under the influence of a Sith Lord named Darth Sidious. Obi Wan had suspected that there could be a Sith Lord in the Senate, however Obi-Wan refused to believe Dooku, and Obi-Wan was sentenced to execution in the Petranaki Arena. He was joined in the arena by Anakin and Padmé who had come to rescue him. All three were chained to large stone pillars, while three beasts - an Reek, an Acklay, and a Nexu - were unleashed upon them. Thankfully, a huge Jedi task force led by Mace Windu soon arrived to rescue the prisoners. The Jedi fought back against the overwhelming droid armies, but soon only a few survivors were left in the center of the arena, surrounded by droids. Just as they were about to be executed, the clone army arrived led by Master Yoda. The clones fought back against the droids and rescued the Jedi and Padmé. Obi-Wan, Padmé, and Anakin boarded the same Republic LAAT transports. They soon caught sight of Dooku who was fleeing on his speeder. Anakin and Obi-Wan caught up with Dooku and dueled with the Sith Lord. Dooku wounded Obi-Wan, and he cut off Anakin's hand. Yoda then arrived, and Dooku escaped by using the Force to cause the ceiling to cave in, forcing Yoda to focus on protecting Anakin and Obi-Wan from the collapsing ceiling instead of on the Sith.

After the Jedi returned to Coruscant, Obi-Wan met with Mace Windu and Yoda in the Jedi Council room to discuss the Battle of Geonosis that had just taken place. Obi-Wan noted that it would not have been a victory without the clones, but Yoda countered by saying it was not a victory at all because it meant the beginning of the Clone Wars.

Battle of Christophsis
Sometime after the Battle of Geonosis, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker were sent on a mission to bring relief supplies to Senator Bail Organa and the Republic forces that were trapped on Christophsis because of a Separatist blockade. The Republic provided a stealth ship for Anakin and Obi-Wan, which was equipped with a cloaking device. Instead of sneaking past the blockade to deliver the supplies as he was ordered, Anakin used the ship to attack the flagship of Admiral Trench. Anakin was successful in his attack, and the blockade was broken.

Following this skirmish in space, Obi-Wan, Anakin, and their clone troopers were sent to the planet's surface to fight off the droid army taking control of the planet. After their position is ambushed, Obi-Wan and his troops are forced to retreat, but in the process they take the severed head of a tactical droid with them. After analyzing the data from the droid, Captain Rex and Commander Cody realize that the Separatists knew their position ahead of time. This leads Obi-Wan to suspect there may be a traitor in their midst. Anakin and Obi-Wan decide to go behind enemy lines while Rex and Cody investigate to see who the spy might be. Anakin and Obi-Wan find Asajj Ventress and duel with her. Just when they think they have captured her, Ventress escapes by cutting a hole in the floor, and the Jedi pursue only to discover an enormous Separatist army ready to take over Christophsis. Meanwhile, the traitor clone Slick has been captured by Rex and Cody, but not before he had destroyed the weapons depot, and many of the gunships and AT-TEs.

Duel on Mustafar
Kenobi returned to the Jedi Temple and met up with his old mentor, Yoda, where they learned that Skywalker had turned over to the dark side. Kenobi asked Yoda to let him kill the emperor, but Yoda said he was not as powerful for faces. Yoda said Anakin no more just Darth Vader and Obi Wan should use their feelings to find it.

Obi Wan was behind the Padme and told the atrocities that Anakin had committed. Padme refused to believe and Obi Wan left, but not before saying that he knew of her affair with Anakin. He hid in ship Padme knowing she would behind the Anakin and left for Mustafar. When he left the ship, he saw Anakin strangling padme with the force. Anakin released her but she fainted. Obi Wan and Anakin exchanged words and when Obi Wan saw that Anakin was a Sith, he said he would do the necessary and activated his lightsaber. Anakin said he would try and activated his lightsaber also and began to hit it Obi Wan. During the Duel Obi wan went on the defensive while Anakin attacked. they accidentally turned off the gravity supports the base which made everything sink into the lava. The duel continued in a river of lava where Obi Wan said failed with Anakin and that he had no solution. Anakin said it was the end of Obi Wan but he jumped to the river and told Anakin he was with the advantage. Anakin said he underestimated his power and jumped towards him. Obi Wan took the chance and cut the legs and one arm. Obi Wan said that Anakin was chosen that should destroy the sith, not join them, bring balance strenght, do not play it in darkness. Anakin said that hates he. Obi Wan said that Anakin was his brother and he loved him. The body of Anakin caught fire and Obi Wan left to die. Although Darth Sidious has saved Vader.

A New Hope
"I will take the child and watch over him."

- Obi-Wan Kenobi to Yoda and Bail Organa, referring to Luke

Following the long duel on Mustafar, Kenobi took Amidala to Polis Massa. There, He, along with Bail Organa and Yoda, discovered that not only was Amidala carrying twins but despite being medically healthy, Amidala had somehow lost the will the live. Kenobi was in the operating with Amidala as she gave birth to a baby boy and a baby girl. As she took her final breath, Amidala told Kenobi she knew there was still good in Anakin before she finally died.

After arriving on Naboo, Yoda suggested that the children should be kept hidden and kept safe. Kenobi also suggested that the children should be taken somewhere where the Sith could not sense their presence. That's when Yoda came up with the idea that the children should be split up. Organa would take the Leia to Alderaan as his wife, Breha and him had always talked about adopting a baby girl and that Leia would be loved with them. while Kenobi would take Luke to Tatooine where Luke would live with Anakin's step brother Owen and Beru Lars but Kenobi would also watch over him.

As the trio prepared to go their separate ways, Yoda asked Kenobi for a moment of his time. He revealed that in Kenobi's solitude on Tatooine, he had training for him. Yoda revealed that Kenobi's former master, Qui-Gon Jinn, had learn the path to immortality and had returned from the Netherworld of the Force. Yoda said he would teach Kenobi on how to communicate with Qui-Gon.

Post Death
"The Force will be with you. Always."

- Obi-Wan Kenobi to Luke Skywalker

Kenobi's communion with Qui-Gon was successful as Kenobi did not vanish completely but became a Force spirit. Using his new found abilities, he was able to guide Luke during the Battle of Yavin and Luke was able to successfully destroy the Death Star with proton torpedoes.

Three years later, Kenobi reappeared to Luke on the planet Hoth where he instructed Luke to go to Dagobah system to seek out Kenobi's former master, Yoda for further Jedi training.

Kenobi was also able to convince Yoda to train Luke, who thought that Luke was too old to begin the training and that Luke was too impatient and much anger in him like Anakin did, a fact that Kenobi reminded Yoda that he was similar to Luke when Yoda had taught Kenobi.

When Skywalker received a vision of his friends being in trouble on the Cloud City of Bespin, Skywalker rushed to aid them. Kenobi warned Luke that he was at a crossroads and that his abilities were what the Emperor wanted and that Kenobi didn't want to lose Luke to the Emperor the way he lost Vader. He also told Skywalker if he was to face Darth Vader, that he would do it alone and that he couldn't interfere. Kenobi gave Luke some final advice that he shouldn't give into hate for that led to the dark side. As Luke departed Dagobah, Kenobi was worried that the Jedi may have lost their last hope. However, Yoda reminded him of Luke's sister, Leia Organa.

Satine Kryze
"I've loved you from the moment you came to my aid all those years ago.'' " [ &hellip; ] "''Had you said the word, I would have left the Jedi Order."

- Satine and Kenobi

As Qui-Gon Jinn's Padawan, Kenobi went on a mission to protect Satine Kryze. They were always on the run from bounty hunters and they never knew what would happen next. Kenobi saved Kryze in at least one instance when he was a Padawan. In the Clone Wars, their feelings for each other resurfaced. Their relationship also never developed and they broke off the affair to focus on their mutual responsibilities as peacekeepers.

Anakin Skywalker
"You were the chosen one! It was said that you would destroy the Sith, not join them. You were to bring balance to the force, not leave it in darkness.''" "I hate you!" "You were my brother, Anakin. I loved you."

- Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker

Training
Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi first met on the planet of Tatooine when Kenobi and his Jedi Master, Qui-Gon Jinn, had landed there in search of a T-14 hyperdrive generator to replace the broken one on Padmé Amidala's ship. Though Kenobi worried that the boy, just 9 years old at the time, was another stray of the sort that Jinn seemed to collect, similar to Jar Jar Binks, but when Jinn was slain by Darth Maul, Kenobi vowed to fulfill Jinn's promise to train him as a Jedi Knight, believing him to be the prophesied Chosen One.

Behind the scenes
For A New Hope, Obi-Wan Kenobi was played by Sir Alec Guinness, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (the only acting-related Academy Award nomination for any Star Wars film). Guinness reprised the role as Kenobi's ghost in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.

Obi-Wan Kenobi is played by Ewan McGregor in The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith. James Arnold Taylor voiced Kenobi in the The Clone Wars film and TV series, as well as Star Wars Rebels.

Despite great critical acclaim, Alec Guinness disliked being associated solely with the role of Kenobi. To limit his role in the trilogy, it was reportedly Guinness's own idea that Ben should die on the Death Star.

However, as stated in The Making of Star Wars: The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film, it is Lucas who originally came up with the idea of having Ben die, to which Guinness initially objected. After explaining that Ben would have little to do in the story after the Millennium Falcon escaped from the Death Star, Lucas was able to successfully convince him to allow it.