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This article is about mistakes in Star Wars movies, books, TV shows, comics, and fan films. The suggested explanations offered here are not considered canon unless otherwise stated.

The Phantom Menace

 * Obi-Wan's braided hair keeps changing sides, and getting longer and shorter, most noticeably in the scenes around the underwater city of Otoh Gunga.
 * When Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon ignite their lightsabers in the Trade Federation meeting room four lightsabers can be heard igniting when only two appear.
 * Explanation: The lightsabers' sound was echoed in the room.


 * As Qui-Gon introduces himself to Shmi Skywalker just after arriving in her hovel, Padmé simultaneously mouths the words "I'm Qui-Gonn Jinn". This is due to Natalie Portman following the timing of Liam Neeson's line in this scene, the perspective of which was later changed. The actress thus believed at the time that she would not be seen on screen at this point.
 * When Anakin attaches 3PO's right eye, one shot has the eye in his left hand, then the angle changes and the eye is being applied with the right hand.
 * Explanation: Anakin places the eye in position with his left hand first (off-screen) and then presses it into the socket with his right hand.


 * After the race, Anakin's face is dirty. When his mother kisses him, his face cleans itself between shots.
 * During one scene in the podrace when Sebulba's pod is behind Anakin's, Sebulba is not in the cockpit.
 * After Anakin has won the Podrace, he yells, "Mom, I did it! Yeah!" but his mouth does not move.
 * When Amidala and some other guards use the ascension guns from the palace windows seven of them go up, when they are running along the corridor after coming off the window-ledge, there are about 13 or 14 of them. Then finally when they are surrounded by the droids, there are about 10 or 11 of them and Padmé and Captain Panaka are not there.
 * In a scene when Qui-Gon is coming back from Mos Espa, during conversation with him Obi-Wan has a trees on his left side.

Attack of the Clones

 * The Neimoidian seen with Nute Gunray on Geonosis was originally intended to be Rune Haako. However, Rune's mask was lost shortly after the first film completed shooting. The production crew gave uncredited actor David Healey the mask of Daultay Dofine instead. Although the "new" Neimoidian had no official name during filming (the character was only referred to by the crew as "Nute's friend"), he was eventually named Gilramos Libkath, after costume supervisor Gillian Libbert and production controller Kathryn Ramos. Unfortunately a mix-up in the end credits not only erroneously lists Alan Ruscoe in the part, but also says the Neimoidian is Lott Dod.
 * Explanation: An attempt to resolve the discrepancy in-universe was made by saying Lott Dod was disfigured in a speeder accident between Episodes I and II, resulting in his new appearance and voice, but many fans remain unsatisfied with this explanation, and the official Holocron explanation is that it is, in fact, Rune Haako after all. Libkath has since been established as a separate individual, though.


 * While Anakin faces away from Padmé in the Lars family workshop, just before he whips around and confesses to wiping out the whole camp of Tusken Raiders, his image rocks back and forth for a second in a blatant repetition of the same recording, probably made for timing purposes.
 * As Padmé falls out of the LAAT/i gunship while pursuing Dooku with Anakin and Obi-Wan, she screams without opening her mouth.
 * Explanation: Padmé screamed in her throat.


 * When Padmé wakes up in the sands of Geonosis after being knocked out of the Clone gunship, she says "No, no. Gather what troops you can, we have to get to that hangar." She could not have known where Anakin and Obi-Wan were as she woke up, having been dislodged from the gunship prior to it coming within sight of the hangar.
 * Explanation: Padmé identified Dooku's speeder as a short-range craft, and correctly guessed that he would try to get off-planet as soon as possible. This would almost certainly necessitate Dooku making use of a hangar.


 * During Anakin's fight in the Geonosian foundry, there is a scene where you can clearly see Hayden Christensen trying to take his robe off of the tip of his lightsaber.
 * In the arena scene, Anakin's pillar already has a chain hanging from the top before he is led to it, however, when he is led to the pillar, the chain is no longer there, and a new one is hoisted to the top by the flying Geonosian guard.
 * During the sequence where Obi-Wan goes to meet Yoda regarding the absence of Kamino from the Jedi Archives, look closely at the collection of Younglings Yoda is training. While most are Human, there is one that is alien, with a reptilian face of dark skin. He sure moves fast, because at first he is at the back in the center of the group of trainees, in the next shot he is at the front of the group of trainees, and by the end of the scene, he is on the far left, yet we never see him, or any of the other children, move.
 * Also during the Youngling scene, if you look out the window, the peak of a Council tower can be seen. The Youngling Veranda is clearly part of the Temple ziggurat. There is also a strange wooden barrel structure that does not coincide with the stone look of the temple.
 * Right after Zam's speeder crashes near the bar and Anakin is chasing her through a crowd it shows a shot of him running through the crowd. Then it cuts to her and back to him. When it cuts back to Anakin it is the exact same shot as the previous one. (You can tell because he passes a bright yellow light and then he puts his left hand on someone's shoulder as he passes them. All this repeats on the second shot.)
 * When Anakin, Obi-Wan and Padmé are surrounded by droidekas in the arena, they are near the broken pillar, but when Mace Windu jumps into the arena, they and the droidekas are nowhere to be seen in the area around that pillar.
 * When the Republic Gunships land in the Petranaki Arena, Ki-Adi's lightsaber is blue, then when Padmé is seen close-up, Ki-Adi is behind her with a green lightsaber, then when he gets on the gunship, it is blue again.
 * Explanation: In the confusion of the battle, Ki-Adi-Mundi exchanged lightsabers for a brief period of time, before changing again.


 * The aliens that populate the planet of Geonosis have an extremely peculiar method of speech&mdash;consisting of clicks and weird ringing sounds. However, despite the fact that they make up 99.9% of the crowd in the arena, the cheering of the crowd sounds Human.
 * When Obi-Wan talks to Lama Su at the clone facility at Kamino, he is wearing his lightsaber at the right side of his waist, but in the next scene, it's on the left side.

Revenge of the Sith

 * While Obi-Wan Kenobi's Jedi interceptor is swarmed with buzz droids, Anakin Skywalker shoots the droids off the left wing. In the next shot there are several droids on the right wing, and none on the left wing. However, Anakin then tries to scrape the remaining droids off the left wing using the wing of his own interceptor.
 * Explanation: These buzz droids are firstly on Obi-Wan's right wing, but move to the left wing off-screen before Anakin tries to scrape them off.


 * On the way to rescue Chancellor Palpatine, to escape from elevator 31174 aboard the Invisible Hand, Anakin cuts a hole in its ceiling. Later, after he and Obi-Wan rescue Palpatine, they three almost get crushed by another elevator 3224. These are different elevators with different numbers. However, when a shot of elevator 3224 is shown, it has the same hole that elevator 31174 has. This is best viewed in slow motion.
 * After Obi-Wan regains conciousness, Anakin calls R2D2, then clearly puts his comlink on his belt. Yet in the next scene, you see Artoo and hear Anakin speaking after he put his comlink away
 * Explanation: Anakin left his comlink on when he put it on his belt due to the fact they were on an enemy vessel and wanted his hands free for use of his lightsaber.


 * As Anakin and Obi-Wan come in to land at the Republic Executive Building docking bay on Coruscant, we see the landing platform from afar, shaded among the pillars suspending the level above. However, in the next shot, the pillars are placed much farther back, and the landing area appears a lot less shaded.
 * Explanation: There is some kind of retractable canopy (or similar) which provides the shade before being retracted as the vehicle approaches.


 * On Utapau, when Obi-Wan faces off with General Grievous, Grievous sends four IG-100 MagnaGuards at Obi-Wan, and Obi-Wan uses the Force to dislodge a hanging cargo container from the ceiling, crushing the droids. But in the ensuing fight between Obi-Wan and Grievous, the ceiling structure and crushed droids are gone.
 * On Utapau Obi-Wan cuts of a MagnaGaurds head and it "dies" but earlier on the Invisable Hand when he cuts off a head it is still functional
 * During the fight between Darth Sidious and the four Jedi Masters, just after Sidious kills Saesee Tiin, something that looks like the head of a crew man crosses from left to right in the bottom of the shot.
 * During this same fight, the hilt of Sidious's lightsaber changes a number of times from shot to shot. This is the residue of a change made to the scripting for this fight.
 * Again, during this same fight, Sidious kills Kit Fisto. A little later, the body of Fisto has disappeared.
 * During the duel between Mace Windu and Sidious in Palpatine's office, the window is destroyed by their lightsabers. However, when Anakin comes in and looks at Windu, the window is still present (and displays Anakin's reflection).
 * When Vader enters the Council chambers, there is an adjacent room and then an elevator. This conflicts with the established layout of the towertop.
 * Many halls in the Jedi Temple have windows on all sides, despite there being very few rooms on the uppermost level of the Temple.
 * Explanation: These are false, backlit 'windows' similar to the ones used in the Imperial Palace.


 * In the duel between Yoda and Darth Sidious, Sidious's hood comes off, in the next shot it is back in place.
 * When Vader dropkicks Kenobi on the tabletop, his feet do not connect with Kenobi: an instance of the infamous force kick.
 * While Kenobi and Vader struggle against each other on the tabletop, Obi-Wan momentarily and inexplicably appears to be using Vader's lightsaber instead of his own. This is the residue of a scene which was cut from the movie, which involved him disarming his opponent, snatching up his 'saber and briefly wielding both weapons. George Lucas states this on the DVD audio commentary for the movie.
 * As Vader's face-mask is being lowered into place, Vader is not yet wearing the neck section that the mask connects to. In the next shot, however, the neck section is already in place.
 * Explanation: Off-screen, the neck section was very swiftly fitted by one of the attendant medical droids.


 * When Darth Vader detaches himself from the (now vertical) operating table, he wears a cloak. If he is kept lying on the table during the fitting of his suit, this cloak could not have been put on as it would be mostly beneath his body.
 * Explanation: Between scenes, the table is tilted upright and the cloak is put on Vader. Then the table is returned to its horizontal position until, on-screen once more, Vader is ready to take to his feet.

A New Hope

 * After Vader kills Captain Raymus Antilles and throws him against a wall, Antilles' arms can be seen reaching up to protect his face as he collides with the wall.
 * Explanation: Antilles' arms, devoid of life, are either flung forward by the force of Vader hurling him against the wall, or as the result of a posthumous spasm.


 * After R5-D4's motivator has blown, and we flip back to R2-D2 for his reaction, the red droid momentarily appears to revert to his previous position beside Artoo. This occurs right after Luke says, "What about that one?"
 * During Darth Vader and Obi-Wan's last duel, as Vader says "You should not have come back", his chestplate is on backwards.
 * Towards the end of the film, the Death Star rounds the planet towards the moon in order to destroy it. The movie continually reverts back to the Death Star where a commander informs us of the time until the Death Star is in range of the rebel base. It will then show the panel with the Death Star's co-ordinates and how long until contact. However, it does not count down in minutes, it counts down in seconds. E.g. the commander will say "40 minutes till contact" yet the screen will start at 40 seconds and count down, 39, 38, 37. Regardless of whether or not they use the same time system as us, the time would have run out far too quickly.
 * Explanation: This graphic represents a sped-up simulation of events as they are expected to unfold.


 * After the attack on the Death Star, when the pilots return to the base, the camera crew is visible on C-3PO's body.
 * When Luke is confronted by a thug in the bar at Mos Eisley in A New Hope, Obi-Wan strikes the thug down with his lightsaber. As the camera shows down to the severed arm, blood is clearly visible at the site of the wound. This is inconsistent with other lightsaber-inflicted wounds, as the lightsaber cauterizes the wound instantly, giving the appearance of a terrible burn.
 * Explanation: Either this is a result of difference(s) between Aqualish and Human physiologies, or the thug's clothing shielded his body enough for there to be bleeding, as shown in MedStar II: Jedi Healer (it is unknown if the impact of the arm on the floor could have reopened the wound, but since bleeding is not observed in similar cases in the Jedi Knight series of video games, this is unlikely.)


 * When Darth Vader flies out of the Death Star, you see the light falling on the back of the ship change as he clears the bay. Later, when he regains control of his spinning fighter the same shot with the falling shadow is used to show him flying away.
 * When the droids head towards Tatooine in their escape pod, a rotating Imperial ship is shown in the pod's window, getting smaller as the pod moves away. Regrettably, the star field gets smaller at the same rate as the ship, something that would only happen if you were moving away from a photograph, painting, etc.
 * In the original and first Special Edition versions, when Obi-Wan deactivates the Death Star's force field, there is an electronic gauge going down and a sign in clear English with the word POWER&mdash;as we've seen in shuttles and other places, the Empire doesn't use English. The studio decided it was better to show "power" and "tractor beam" in English so that the audience would know what Obi-Wan was doing. This was changed in the DVD release to read in Aurebesh.
 * Denis Lawson's name is misspelled "Dennis" in the ending credits. The filmmakers later made the same mistake in The Empire Strikes Back.
 * Han Solo boasts that the Millennium Falcon made the "Kessel Run" in twelve parsecs as evidence that it is a "fast ship." The parsec is a unit of distance, not time.
 * Explanation: According to George Lucas, in the Star Wars universe, speed is a test of maneuverability and navigation abilities, which have more applicability to speed in hyperspace flight than the raw output of the engines. The run is depicted in Rebel Dawn, where Chewbacca suggests that the Falcon's distance gauge was thrown out of alignment by Han's reckless flying. Furthermore, characters in the prequel trilogy mention parsecs when talking about distance (Padmé reveals that "Geonosis is less than a parsec away" in Attack of the Clones) so Han's line may merely have been an ill-worded boast. The Kessel Run is through a system of closely spaced black holes. Physics dictates that the faster an object is traveling, the closer it can get to another object with high gravity and still escape orbit. Thus, the faster Han's ship flies, the closer he can get to the black holes, and the shorter his run would be. He means that the Millennium Falcon made the run in only 12 parsecs. In the audio commentary for the DVD edition of A New Hope, George Lucas explains that the speed of the Falcon is less attributed to the actual time it takes to cross a distance and more to the effectiveness of its navigational systems to calculate shorter courses around gravity wells (stars, black holes, etc.) without crashing into them.


 * Hyperspace is shown in the first portion of the movie as a bluish-white blur of sorts. Later, just after the heroes escape the Death Star, Lord Vader informs Grand Moff Tarkin that they have just made the jump into hyperspace. Yet, in the following scenes inside the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon, you can clearly see out into space where there is only the usual array of slowly shifting stars rather than the depiction of hyperspace shown earlier.
 * Explanation:The Millennium Falcon have already entered realspace and was on the final approach for Yavin IV, as seen in the next sequence.


 * Luke Skywalker's and Wedge Antilles' helmet microphones switch sides once during the Battle of Yavin.
 * Garven Dreis's helmet microphone switches sides several times before he is shot down.
 * Red 6 (Jek Porkins) is the first Rebel pilot killed in the Battle of Yavin. Yet when Red Leader asks, "Red 6, can you see Red 5?" a voice answers, leading to the impression that he (Red 6) "returned from the dead."
 * Explanation: The novelization states that Red Leader was confused and quite upset at the loss of Red 6, and mistakenly called Wedge Red 6. Also it is possible that Porkins was an important member of the squadron, and they didn't want the Empire to know they shot him down.


 * As Princess Leia is shown the interrogation/torture droid, the needle used to inject drugs bears the words "Made in England".
 * Explanation: Fans see a small detail and their imaginations run wild. The actual print, which is on the syringe and not the needle itself, is never in focus and cannot be read.


 * When leaving Yavin base, many of the Rebel pilots are wearing brand-new helmets. However, in later scenes, the same helmets are old and battered.
 * Stormtroopers invade the Death Star control room. The door doesn't open all the way, and the stormtrooper on the right hits his head on the door. The 2004 DVD release included an audible bumping noise to acknowledge this classic blooper (as an in-joke, in Episode II, Jango Fett hits his head on the door of the Slave I as he enters it on Kamino).
 * Mark Hamill sounds like he accidentally yells out "Carrie!" (Carrie Fisher is the actress that plays Princess Leia in the films) instead of "Leia!" after he gets out of his X-wing on Yavin after destroying the Death Star.
 * Explanation: Luke yells, "Hey!", not "Carrie!"


 * While Owen Lars is saying "He died about the same time as your father," Luke is taking a sip of blue milk and lowers his cup. In the very next shot, he is still taking a sip when he says "He knew my father?".
 * Explanation: Luke is pretending to take another sip in order to hide how nervous or excited he feels, or how much the conversation means to him.


 * In the scene where Luke, Obi-Wan, Artoo, and Threepio are entering Docking Bay 94, Artoo can be seen having difficulty getting down the stairs. When the camera pans away, he's about halfway down. Only seconds later, his dome-head is visible at the bottom of the screen. This can only be seen in the widescreen version.
 * In the Mos Eisley Cantina, you see Kabe, the Chadra-Fan being handed a drink. When she turns her head, you can see in one eye and out the other, right through her head.
 * Explanation: It's simply a reflection from an off-camera light source that appears as she's turning her head.


 * When the stormtroopers enter the cantina, Kabe is taking a drink at the bar. As she does so, she touches her chin with her cup but it does not reach her mouth.
 * Explanation: Kabe is either merely sniffing her drink or has had a few too many drinks already!


 * While Darth Vader is chasing the Rebel fighters during the attack on the Death Star, the shots inside his cockpit are lit by a red light which allows you to see David Prowse's eyes through his helmet.
 * Explanation: Since the eyes of David Prowse are indistinguishable in this scene from those of Sebastian Shaw (who played the unmasked Anakin in Return of the Jedi), it is arguable as to whether this constitutes a mistake at all.


 * When Luke is practicing with his lightsaber after Alderaan is blown up, his lightsaber is green, then turquoise, instead of blue.
 * Explanation: Either the lights on the Millennium Falcon affected what the lightsaber looked like, or, because the lightsaber is so old, it was displaying some technical quirk after being unused for nineteen years.


 * After the two stormtroopers board the Millennium Falcon in response to Han's call, five blaster shots are heard. However, in the scenes following, the stolen suits of stormtrooper armor worn by Luke and Han bear no blast marks.
 * Explanation: These shots were all fired by the stormtroopers before they were incapacitated.


 * In Mos Eisley Bar, we see Han kill Greedo. Later on whenever we see Luke walkinng alongside Obi-Wan Kenobi, we can see Greedo walking around without any wounds. Later on we can see Greedo very clearly whenever Han talks with Jabba the Hutt beside the Falcon.
 * Explanation:These were different Rodians, who all look the same to the humans.

The Empire Strikes Back

 * When Luke cuts One-Arm's arm off at the shoulder using his lightsaber, we see the limb hit the cavern floor. When compared to the very next shot (seen in the Special Edition) of the wampa crying out in anguish, this severed limb appears to be much too short to be the entire arm.
 * Explanation: Luke sliced the Wampa's arm twice, coming back around through the shoulder in a single arc. We only see the severed part from the first cut.


 * After slaying the wampa, Luke hits the switch on his lightsaber, and the sound is heard. However, the blade is still present.
 * Despite being attached loosely to Luke's belt, the lightsaber was not lost when he was flopping around in the snow.
 * After Captain Needa is killed by Darth Vader, if you watch in the background, two guards come to take him away, you can clearly see the dead captain get up almost by himself.
 * Just before Darth Vader reveals his true identity, Luke yells, "I'll never join you." and his right hand, the one that got cut off, can be seen tucked under his shirt. This can also be seen when he says, "He told me you killed him."
 * When the Falcon gets hit by an asteroid, Leia falls and is caught by Han. She tells him that "being held by you isn't quite enough to get me excited". As she is saying this, you can clearly see Han mouthing her exact words.
 * Explanation: Han was simply mocking her, knowing that she would say something like that due to their constant banter over the previous three years.


 * When Leia shoots a stormtrooper, you can see a flash pack on the trooper's armor.
 * When Han punches Lando, his hand never makes any contact with Lando's face, and the sound effect is heard after his hand goes past it.
 * When Lando's men surround the two stormtroopers and the officer, Lando is shown taking the two rifles of the stormtroopers. In the next shot, Lando is shown taking two more rifles from the stormtroopers, so he now has four rifles and he hands Lobot two and Leia two.
 * When Chewbacca shoots a stormtrooper on Cloud City, the beam is seen disappearing into the trooper's body, yet no explosion is seen causing the fall of the trooper.
 * When Luke and Vader are fighting in the carbon freezing room, at one point Luke forces Vader off the side, looks around, then jump down himself to look for Vader. Listen to the sound that is supposed to be the sound of Luke's feet hitting the ground; you can see Luke stand back up after jumping over the side in the bottom left corner of the screen, but Luke has almost fully stood back up when we hear the sound of his feet hitting the ground.
 * Explanation: Luke jumped to a different platform than where Vader fell.


 * On Bespin, when C-3PO's head is on the conveyor belt, reflections of the film crew can be seen in his head.
 * As Luke and Vader emerge from the doorway and onto the bridge at the end of their duel, Vader makes two powerful attacks, first against a wall, and later against a railing, while attempting to hit Luke. Neither object show any sign of damage afterwards, despite the cutting power demonstrated by the lightsaber in other movies.
 * When R2-D2 opens the door to the landing platform, he exits it twice - he's the first to go through it after opening it, but then he's back inside after Leia, Lando and Chewbacca have left. He sprays gas at the Stormtroopers before leaving for a second time.
 * Explanation: R2-D2 doubled back to spray his extinguisher.

Return of the Jedi

 * As R2D2 and C-3PO attempt to enter Jabba's palace, C-3PO's clear and discreet footprints are seen in the sand behind him, but as he enters, his shuffling style of walking merely kicks up the sand. C3PO could not have made those footprints.
 * When Oola is pulling on Jabba's chain, her right breast is clearly visible.
 * The "Force kick" sequence: While Boba Fett's pack is out of control in the background, you can see Luke kick a guard in the foreground. Not only is it obvious his foot makes no contact with his head, his reaction to the "kick" is rather delayed.
 * Explanation: Luke used the Force combined with his kick, so that although his leg never touched the guard, the Force power hit the latter.


 * When Lando says "Go on, you pirate" his entire outfit is reversed&mdash;his shoulder holster strap goes the other way, and his rank insignia changes side, too.
 * In the shot of Leia's hip/hand next to Jabba's twitching tail, she shows no 'panty lines'. However, in the scene with her running to the gun on the Sail Barge&mdash;her skirt blows back, revealing a pair of dark panties underneath.
 * Explanation: Leia finds some panties somewhere in the intervening time and dons them to protect her modesty.


 * On the forest moon of Endor when Princess Leia first meets the Ewok, she takes her helmet off and is holding it in her hand (which frightens the Ewok) in the very next shot she is removing it again to show it to him.
 * Explanation: Off screen, Leia briefly put the helmet back on and took it off again, to demonstrate to Wicket that it posed him no threat.


 * When Leia offers Wicket the Ewok food, she holds it out in her left hand, but from a different angle it's in her right.
 * Explanation: Leia passes the food from her left hand to the right hand before she hands it to Wicket.


 * Also in the same scene, Wicket seems to be eating the food Leia has handed him, but no change occurs to the food (such as bits disappearing after being bitten off and eaten).
 * Explanation: Wicket is just smelling the food.


 * In the duel between Luke and Vader, just a few moments before Vader was beaten, the shadow of the blades of their lightsabers can be clearly seen on the ground.
 * Explanation: Lightsabers do make shadows just like a weak lamp makes a shadow with a stronger light. The actual mistake of the scene is that the shadows are not as broad as the white parts of the sabers causing the shadows.


 * After Luke cuts Vader's hand, there's a shot of the Emperor walking downstairs. The shadow of the crew is visible on the lower left corner of the image. It can't be the shadow of Luke.
 * After Luke severs Vader's hand, a protracted series of shots clearly displays Vader's truncated forearm bent approximately four inches back as if at the wrist. For the scenes following the dismemberment, the actor, David Prowse, hid his hand within a lengthened arm Vader costume. Clearly the actor (and director) failed to recognize that Prowse should have kept his wrist rigid.
 * Explanation: Luke severed Vader's hand with such ferocity and strength that he damaged the wrists internal support structure.


 * As Leia jumps off of the dais after strangling Jabba she lands in a crouch and quickly stands up. As she does so she loses her top. It happens right before a cut and is hard to see. On the DVD the cut happens sooner and the exposure is no longer there.
 * Explanation: The original version and 2004 DVD both cut in the same place and no flashing happens. This is another example of fan imagination running wild.


 * When Lando moves to watch Chewbacca being led to his prison cell, he hits his head on the low ceiling.
 * As Luke yells out to Leia, "Come on!" on the Sail barge, his mouth doesn't move at all.
 * When Luke picks up the bone in the Rancor pit, he looks as though he is trying to shove it down its throat, but it then quickly goes to a second shot where you see the bone inside its mouth at an angle keeping it from shutting it.
 * Explanation: Luke had to thrust the bone into the Rancor's maw horizontally in order to avoid it simply hitting the creatures teeth, before swiftly turning it vertical so that the mouth could not snap shut.


 * When Yoda dies, his clothes disappear along with his body, unlike Obi-Wan's clothes, which remained after his death in A New Hope.
 * Explanation: Yoda was so enlightened and/or powerful that his outfit (which may have been the only clothes he had available to wear on Dagobah) became one with the Force along with his body. Closer inspection of Obi-Wan's clothing after his disappearance in Episode IV reveals it to be only his cloak that is left behind as opposed to his entire costume.


 * When Anakin dies, the final shot of the scene is Luke lowering his head. As it tilts down, it is obvious that the chin piece on Vader's armor is missing. Interestingly, a similar mistake would apparently be repeated in Episode III.
 * When C-3PO is telling the Ewoks to let Han, Luke, Chewbacca, and R2-D2 go, R2-D2 appears twice without his bonds. This could be due to the fact that in the novel, R2-D2 is released prior to this scene.
 * In the Special Edition release, Sy Snootles (the lead singer of Jabba's band) is computer-generated, but in the original version, she was a puppet, slightly different in appearance. In the first shot of the band sequence, you can see the original Sy puppet singing on the stage.
 * If Vader's armor was really made with Sith Alchemy techniques, then lightsabers would not be able to cut through it, yet Luke Skywalker cut through Vader's armor.
 * Explanation: Only Vader's helmet and shoulder/chest plate are made out of the armor.


 * Anakin's Jedi robes were dark brown and black, but as he is seen as a Force Ghost, he is wearing robes nearly identical to Obi-wan's, with a tan tunic and brown robe.
 * Explanation: Anakin's robes were dark, signifying his dark tendencies; he shunned these in favor of light side-esque Master's robes, signifying that he was granted the rank of Master posthumously by destroying the Emperor.

Volume One

 * Captain Fordo, the red-marked leader of the ARC Troopers seems to go through a rapid succession of field promotions and demotions. In Chapter 3, he is addressed by Obi-Wan as a Sergeant; when Obi-Wan arrives at the Banking Clan's HQ in Chapter 4, he calls him Commander; and when Anakin returns from his duel with Asajj Ventress in Chapter 20, he is suddenly a Captain (and this actually is his rank because he has red armor).
 * Explanation: Since a "commander" can actually be any officer from O-1 to O-10, he most likely was promoted from Sergeant (an enlisted rank about E-5) to Captain (an officer rank of about O-3) between scenes. Being addressed as "Commander" could have been for the fact that he was already a Captain then, and he was in command of the squad.


 * When Anakin prepares for take-off, C-3PO and R2-D2 can be seen standing right by his fighter. But as he takes off, they can be seen standing by Padmé – several floors above ground. If sufficient time is meant to have passed between these two shots, it is not made apparent.
 * When the ARC Trooper gunship is hit and goes down, there is a brief shot of the Troopers standing in the compartment. None of them rock or fall to the side as they should, especially when not seated.
 * Explanation: Artificial gravity generators are built in the floor of the cargo compartment . This is also seen in Episode II; there is a shot with Yoda and some clones standing in a gunship that is flying in a 45° angle to the ground without falling out.


 * In the scene when Obi-Wan is telling Anakin that he is the Commander of the space fleet, only Obi-Wan is walking near Anakin's fighter, yet in the next shot clone troopers are marching right past the fighter.
 * After Obi-Wan has finished Durge, Fordo steps up to Obi-Wan. Although he approaches from and stands somewhat behind Obi-Wan, he turns his head to the side as if they were standing side by side.
 * Explanation: In the novel Republic Commando: Triple Zero, there are several scenes where a Trooper, including an ARC, is observing something happening in one direction (using his helmet displays) while his head is turned in another direction. It is implied this is fairly common.  However, most beings assume that a helmeted trooper is looking at whatever he is facing.


 * When the Clone Troopers dispatched to protect Anakin arrive on Yavin 4, Anakin addresses their leader as Sergeant. As stated in several sources, Clone Sergeants have green markings on their helmet and arm armor, but this one has the plain white armor of a regular Trooper.
 * The ARC Trooper's gunship gets a sudden paint job, changing from blue when Obi-Wan deploys them to red when they crash in the city.

Volume Two

 * When the Jedi Council is discussing Anakin's promotion to Jedi Knight, in a wide shot, we hear the voice of Adi Gallia saying, "Yes. We need more knights." But her mouth is closed as she says this, and the male Jedi Even Piell (the Jedi talking in the previous shot) is moving his mouth as if he's the one talking.
 * When the ARC Troopers exit the Gunship, there are 11 troopers. When General Grievous is running along the ceiling, there are suddenly 19 of them.
 * After Palpatine and Mace Windu have informed them about Grievous' possible location on Nelvaan, Obi-Wan and Anakin discuss the new mission. At first, the two sit quite close together, but in the next shot they sit much further apart.
 * After Padmé drags Threepio away as the attack on the city begins, Mace Windu's fighter swoops across the screen from left to right, and it rolls onto its side to show us the top of the cockpit. We see his canopy is similar to the design found in the Revenge of the Sith film, being composed of three large panels of transparisteel. Unlike the film version (which has a small porthole behind the pilot's head), there is no transparisteel behind Windu. But when the shot cuts to show him inside, there are three windows behind him. Seconds later, another interior view shows the three 'windows' are now solid panels.
 * General Grievous's hands are presented as five-fingered while in Revenge of the Sith they are six-fingered.
 * Explanation: Grievous's components were redesigned or replaced before his appearance in the movie.


 * When Mace Windu leaps into a passing gunship and orders the pilot to turn around, the pilot is in the aft gunner position of an ARC-170.
 * The design of the droid tri-fighter lacks the three "arm" mounted laser cannons.
 * In some scenes General Tiin's horns are sticking at the wrong angle.

Star Wars: Droids

 * A B-wing can be seen in the intro and the episode "The New King". Chronologically, they hadn't yet been built.
 * Explanation: It may have been the H-60 Tempest Bomber.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

 * Grievous has three vocoder slits, but in other media he has four.

Star Wars: Incredible Cross Sections

 * Attack of the Clones, The Acclamators in the background of the picture of the Republic gunship are incorrectly depicted as having flat undersides to their hulls.
 * Attack of the Clones, The AT-TE's gunner is captioned as the left tail gunner when he is actually on the right.
 * Revenge of the Sith, the Separatist warships depicted in the background are exact (albeit sized-down) renditions of the dissected vessels depicted on pages 14-15.

Attack of the Clones: The Visual Dictionary and Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary

 * The diagram of the SPHA-T has its turbolaser incorrectly labeled as a troop hatch.

Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide

 * The picture above the description of Brianna, one of the Handmaiden Sisters, is actually of the Jedi Master Atris.

X-wing series

 * Throughout this series, Jesmin Ackbar's first name is spelled 'Jasmin'.
 * In X-wing: Wraith Squadron, Derek "Hobbie" Klivian's last name is spelled 'Klivan'.

Star Wars Encyclopedia

 * [[Image:Encyclo.jpg|thumb|160px|right|Cover of the Star Wars Encyclopedia.]] The graphic on front cover shows Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader using each other's lightsabers. This erroneous graphic, which originated from the Revenge of the Jedi poster, is repeated in several other Star Wars products.

Star Wars: The New Jedi Order

 * In Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream, Corran Horn is described firing a Jedi shadow bomb, despite being incapable of telekinesis.
 * In Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand, It is stated that Booster Terrik was the one who captured the Errant Venture.
 * In Dark Journey, Tenel Ka is stated as holding her mother's hand in "both of hers", despite only having one arm.

Star Wars: Dark Nest

 * In The Joiner King, Tahiri Veila is described as having bare feet, though she began wearing shoes in Force Heretic III: Reunion.

Star Wars: Legacy of the Force

 * In Betrayal, Zekk is stated as being a few years younger than Jaina. However, he is actually a few years older than her.
 * Explanation: Zekk's homeworld's years are longer than a standard year due to an elongated orbit of the planet or other such variation.


 * In Bloodlines, Boba Fett states that he was 13 years old when his father died, when he was actually 10 years old.
 * Explanation: Upon reaching 13 years of age, Mandalorians are considered to have 'come of age'. The death of his father would have forced Boba to 'grow up' quickly and fend for himself. The statement regarding his age is therefore meant only in a metaphorical sense.

Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (junior novelization)

 * In the photo section it says that Eeth Koth was one of the Jedi who went to arrest Palpatine when it was actually Agen Kolar.

Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

 * Oppo Rancisis is depicted alive and well in a scene showing the Jedi Council, despite being killed in the comic series Star Wars: Republic, in a story set months earlier, entitled The Siege of Saleucami.

Star Wars: Legacy

 * Eye colors suddenly change on some characters.
 * Covers are not always representative of the interior of the comic, usually due to different artists' creative freedoms.
 * In Star Wars Legacy 7: Broken, Part 6, Marasiah Fel was shown sleeping in a bed in place of Deliah Blue. This was corrected and reprinted in Star Wars Legacy 9: Trust Issues, Part 1.

Video games

 * Star Wars: Rebellion placed many planets in incorrect sectors.
 * Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast has a scene where Kyle Katarn Force Grips Tavion Axmis over a chasm on Bespin: The scenario doesn't allow Kyle to possess this ability that early in the game. Fans explain it as since Kyle was in the grip of a revengeful rage, he may have been calling on the dark side, granting him temporarily more advanced powers for that instant. This is further supported by the difference between Grip and Telekinesis (which Kyle knew in the form of Push and Pull) being more about game mechanics than actual ability.