Crossguard lightsaber

Disney has retarded idea

someone else fixes it later

Even though it makes no sense for a sword made of hard light to get heavier, it's cool how they turned the cross guards into exhaust ports for the bigger blade

I hate nuwars but this is 100% true

Like Star Trek, JJ probably doesn't like Star Wars and just did whatever because he had never actually watched the movies.

I'm still waiting for the "ballistic knife" lightsaber that can fire its blade as a bolt of energy at the target

It's called a blaster. Literally everyone in Star Wars has one.

Nice job anon

I think he liked the old movies fine, he's just a bad director the studios like because hes cheap and will do anything the studio says while delivering a pale imitation of Spielberg on a bad day.

Muh laser sword makes no sense

Get a life.

Go defend a better movie

Uh, maybe it just looks really fucking cool, nerd

My oringinal character has a lightsaber where the beam can seperate from the handle and fly out and come back and it can change shape and size and color so it can look like anything or even be invisible and it can cut through anything.

They really weren't thinking at all when they made these movies

Ya think?

This shit was so dumb. It's well established that jumping into lightspeed like that would result in your immediate death.

They should have made his lightsaber a katana. That would have been way edgier

Lmao this. Its star wars

There is also the whole turn off/turn on move that apparently is so "dishonorable" not even pure evil sith use
Star wars is just full of inconsistencies, as someone mentioned above - rule of cool

Apart from the double bladed lightsaber is there any other variants that actually make the weapon interesting without being stupid?

There is also the whole turn off/turn on move that apparently is so "dishonorable" not even pure evil sith use

That's retard fanfiction.

Are you retarded? There's metal protecting your fingers from touching the crossguard blade

It's never used in the movies even though it would be an insta-win suggesting lights aber duels indeed have a honor component

Wonder what would happen to that metal if got by a lightsaber

Pretty much this.
But also it's a testament to the fact that the writers can't do anything except some up with a light saber variant.
It's a visual representation of their incompetence.

There's no metal on the top of the crossguard, so it's blade-to-blade contact.

The lightsaber is checkovs gun.
Its the force which makes it look like it works

The people who would have thought of that were fired from Disney for making dongle jokes.

No there's not

Looks like it in the pic, guess it's reflection. Even so, do you think if the metal gets hit the entire thing falls off? It would still function and protect your fingers underneath

A lightsaber will slice trough the metal and kylo rens fingers like butter.

i said this when the first teaser for force awakens dropped over a decade ago - lightsabre crossguards are retarded and make no sense but i think it looks fucking cool as fuck so i love it. literally the only good thing that came from the sequel trilogy

Again, are you retarded? The Lightsaber will slice through the top of the crossguard metal and then hit the crossguard blade and stop.

That's only if there's a lightsaber inside metal and if it's just a cover which we don't know.

insta-win

Post the webm, i fucking dare you.
If you turned off your lightsaber, your opponent lightsaber will slash you before you have the chance to turn on your lightsaber.

cool how they turned the cross guards into exhaust ports

that makes it even more stupid. these melt blast doors.

stars wars writers

kek. those movies were made without THE star wars writer. can't you tell?

is this the winner of the gayest jedi design 2025 contest

Nta, but the nerd explanation is that the crystal is cracked and release unstable powerful energy, the cross guard is actually is needed to release the extra energy so the main blade can form.
Yeah, it's fucking stupid.
Then again, this is the same universe where crystal can cry.

So what are you arguing then? If it's not a crossguard and just an exhaust why are you attacking its design as if it's a crossguard used for defense?

There's a clip floating around somewhere from The Daily Show interview he did for his Star Trek reboots where he specifically mentions hating both Star Trek and Star Wars as a kid because he didn't understand them and thought they were nerd stuff. He looks like a dweeb, but JJ Abrams was apparently just an asshole rich kid growing up.

I miss when the EU just stated colors occurred naturally and the so Jedi and Sith just picked what was available.

A lightsaber crossguard can't do either without cutting your fingers

Why can't it protect your fingers from attacks?

Extra Short variant for dual wielders and Extra Long variant for Wookie Jedi. That's it.
Even the fact that his blade was unstable would have been enough of a gimmick for Kylo Ren, but subtlety is dead.

Red crystals being synthetic was also fine. Jedi being in tune with stuff and Sith just taking the practical, soulless approach makes sense.

AKSHUALLY that lightsaber actually further detailed the narrative and is a literal extension of Kylo Ren's character instead of just being an empty visual prop.

Primitive design, highly unstable, crudely assembled but powerful, a true reflection of his character.
He built the crossguard not because "I'm a special snowflake and it's protection lmao" but because he couldn't build it any other way to work, the crystal inside the hilt is cracked and therefore unstable so the lightsaber can't go in one beam so he made 2 vents to the side so it can function properly.
It's not like there are lightsaber shops in the galaxy where everyone buys their saber of liking in their favorite color.
The new design actually has some purpose and meaning unlike Darth Maul's double lightsaber just for the hell of it.

If only the rest of nustarshit had at least a quarter of the same thought put in

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Prequelfags will post shit like this and then turn around and unironically defend double bladed lightsabers

That's still retarded though. Sith use synthetic kyber crystals. If his was cracked then he could have made another one, and if his was cracked then it should have been weaker, not so strong it needed two "vents".

"how can we make this less retarded?"

(rare instance during combat where you diggie into a shoulder)

That’s not canon anymore. Disney Sith have to “bleed” the natural crystal via the force to make it red now. It’s actually pretty cool

Disney isn't canon, argument discarded