Your boss's boss

The Scene: Darth Vader gets to his knees as he address a hologram projection outside his medication chamber. There, shimmering꧋ in blue light, is a shadowy figure who Vader chillingly refers to as master. Before the prequels, this was the first time we met the Emperor.

The Awesome: When you see the mighty Darth Vader kneeling in front of somebody, you know youre in deep do-do👍.

Mace Windu

The Scene: In Attack Of The Clones, Jango Fetts on the war path, offing Reek with a single shot in the Geonosis arena. Hes too busy doing that to notice Mace Windu wielding his purple lightsaber, which the Jedi Master uses to beh♉ead Fett in one smooth motion.

The Awesome: It gives Samuel L Jackson a chance to go badass.

The walls are moving in

The Scene: In A New Hope, Luke, Leia, Chewie and Han are caught in the Death Star's trash compactor as the walls move in to c✤rush them. Don't you just ha🔥te it when that happens?

The Awesome: Its old school sci-🔯fi a simple idea flexed for maximum impact. A great tens💧ion-cranker.

A new birth

The Scene: After his fight with Obi-Wan on Mustafar (in Revenge Of The Sith), Anakin is horribly disfigured. Luckily, 🐲he has space technology at his⛄ hands, and emerges as Darth Vader in full black with a newly-installed breathing apparatus.

The Awesome: Ignore the mood-killing Noooooooo! and this is a shiver-indu🦩cing moment in which a villain is born, and a hero dies.

Guess who's coming to dinner...

The Scene: Too late in Empire Strikes Back, Han and Leia realise that theyve been set up by Lando. Led down a corridor in Cloud City, they're tไaken to a room containing a very nasty surprise - Darth Vader himself.

The Awesome: Han🅰 doesnt hesitate in firing a♋t the Sith lord. Ever ready, Vader deflects the blasts with nothing more than the palm of his hand.

Emotional eruptions

The Scene: In the most complicated lightsaber battle ever, Anakin and Obi-Wan finally clash at the climax of Revenge Of The Sith. On Mustafar, they fight 🌟through molten lava in a bit♑ter duel that can only end badly.

The Awesome: Its a mite drawn-out, but its the clash weve all been waiting for and a bit of backward foreboding for when these two fight again in A New Hope.

Redemption

The Scene: Just when you think Lukes a goner at the end of Return Of the Jedi, it all takes a very sudden about turn. How? Well, Darth Vader saves his estranged son by chucking a manically-gurning Palpatine down a s🎃haft. Nice one.

The Awesome: Vader redeems himself, and balance is restored to the universe. We do like a good ha💝ppy end🔥ing.

Operatics

The Scene: At the Blitzball Opera in Episode III, Sena🃏tor Palpatine talks with Anakin, dialling his charms up to 11 in order to seduce the young Jedi over to the darkside.

The Awesome: Hell, if we were Anakin wed probably fall under Palpatines spell as well. The😼 combination o♛f his slippery words with the dreamy operatics of the performance they're watching weaves a seductive kind of magic.

Yoda vs the world

The Scene: Yoda gets saber-happy in Episode III, slinging his weapon about like its nobodys business. Having shown off in Attack Of The Clones, here Yoda throws h𝓰is lightsaber right into a clones chest and t🦂hen leaps onto him to pull it out again.

The Awesome: Yoda may be old, but he definitely knows his way around🦋 a battlefield. Impressive.

Rancorous Rancor

The Scene: At the beginning of Return Of The Jedi, Luke goes 10 rounds with Jabba the Hutts favourite pet the toweri♒ng and fea🍸rsome Rancor.

The Awesome: The old-school stop-motion effects of the Rancor are still seamless t𝓡o this day, and its a fun throwback to🧜 stop-motion classics.