Obi-Wan Kenobi

 ( Characters Created By George Lucas ) 

The second film of the trilogy, Attack of the Clones (2002), takes place ten years later. Anakin has grown powerful but arrogant, and believes that Obi-Wan is holding him back. After they save Padmé from an assassination attempt, Obi-Wan traces the assassins to the planet Kamino. He learns of a massive Clone trooper that is being created for the Republic. The clones are derived from the bounty hunter Jango Fett, and Obi-Wan deduces that he was responsible for the attempt on Padmé's life. Fett escapes to the planet Geonosis with his clone son Boba Fett, unaware that Obi-Wan is pursuing them. On Geonosis, Obi-Wan discovers that a confederacy of star systems is planning to revolt against the Republic. The confederacy is led by the Sith Lord Count Dooku, the former Jedi Master of . Obi-Wan is captured and sentenced to death by Dooku, but Yoda and Mace Windu arrive with an army and prevent the execution. Obi-Wan and Anakin confront Dooku, but he overpowers them both. Yoda saves their lives, but Dooku escapes.

Revenge of the Sith (2005) is set three years later. Obi-Wan is now a Jedi Master, a member of the Jedi Council, and a general. Obi-Wan and Anakin embark on a rescue mission to save the kidnapped Palpatine from the cyborg Separatist commander General Grievous. Dooku duels the Jedi once again, knocking Obi-Wan unconscious. Anakin then defeats Dooku and executes him on Palpatine's orders. After locating Grievous on the planet Utapau, Obi-Wan kills him. The Sith Lord Darth Sidious— who is revealed to be Palpatine—issues Order 66, which compels the clone troopers to betray and kill the Jedi. Obi-Wan and Yoda find that all the Jedi in the Jedi Temple have been slaughtered, including the children. After Obi-Wan warns all surviving Jedi to go into exile, he discovers it was Anakin, now Sidious' apprentice Darth Vader, who led the massacre.

Obi-Wan visits Padmé to ascertain Anakin's whereabouts, and realizes that Anakin is her husband and the father of her unborn child. When Padmé travels to the volcanic planet Mustafar to confront her husband herself, Obi-Wan stows away aboard her ship. Once on Mustafar, Obi-Wan confronts Vader, who accuses him and Padmé of conspiring against him. After Vader uses the Force to strangle Padmé into unconsciousness, Obi-Wan engages him in a ferocious lightsaber duel, which ends with severing several of his limbs. Obi-Wan leaves Vader burning to death, unaware that he will be rescued by Sidious moments later and eventually turned into a cyborg. Obi-Wan takes Padmé to the asteroid Polis Massa, where she dies after giving birth to the twins Luke and Leia. He assists in hiding the children from the newly created Empire: Leia is adopted by Senator Bail Organa of Alderaan, while Obi-Wan delivers Luke to Anakin's stepbrother Owen Lars and his wife Beru Lars on Tatooine. Obi-Wan then goes into exile on Tatooine, where he can watch over Luke.

In Rebels, Obi-Wan was voiced by Stephen Stanton, who replaced James Arnold Taylor. Rebels creator Dave Filoni, who worked with the character during the full duration of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, said he considered asking McGregor to reprise and voice the role. However, a voice recording of the late Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan Kenobi was used in a 2018 episode.

After tracking Leia's kidnappers to the planet Daiyu, encounters the con artist Haja Estree, who directs to Leia's location. liberates the young princess, but is unable to flee the planet before the Inquisitors detect his presence. Reva locates him and Leia, and reveals that Anakin is still alive as Vader. When Reva's superior, the Grand Inquisitor, arrives to arrest , Reva stabs him with her lightsaber. and Leia then escape to the mining planet Mapuzo, where they are discovered by Imperial troops. They elude their enemies with help from Tala, an Imperial officer who is secretly a member of the Path, an organization that aids those hunted by the Empire. As she escorts them to a hidden passageway, Vader arrives and begins harming innocent bystanders, hoping to bait into revealing himself. duels with Vader, who overpowers him. Tala saves , but Leia is captured again by Reva.

and Tala rescue Leia from the Inquisitors' stronghold, escaping with the help of Tala's Path allies. Reva leads a siege on the Path facility, and  speaks with her to stall for time. He deduces that she was a Jedi youngling who survived Vader's massacre at the Jedi Temple, and now wants to kill him for revenge. He suggests that she can attack him when he arrives. As the Path members evacuate, Reva tries to assault Vader but is quickly overpowered and left for dead. She manages to survive, however, and finds a message on 's transmitter that reveals Luke's location on Tatooine. Vader pursues the ship carrying the Path members and , who decides to lure Vader away and confront him on a nearby planet. As they duel,  regains his connection to the Force and realizes Anakin has completely embraced his identity as Vader.  wounds his former apprentice and leaves him incapacitated. On Tatooine, Reva pursues Luke into the desert. Remembering the massacre at the Temple, she is unable to kill the boy, and returns him to his family.  arrives and congratulates her for overcoming her trauma and liberating herself. In the final moments of the series,  finally manages to converse with .
     

appears briefly in the 2015 novel ''[[Star Wars: Dark Disciple|Dark Disciple]]'', which is based on unfinished episodes from ''The Clone Wars''. It provides details about the friendship between  and the rogue Jedi [[Quinlan Vos]]. In the 2015 ''Star Wars'' comic series, Luke goes to Obi-Wan's abandoned house on Tatooine and finds his diary, in which  has written stories from his past. The 2016 [[Marvel Comics]] mini-series ''Obi-Wan and Anakin'' focuses on the two Jedi between ''The Phantom Menace'' and ''Attack of the Clones''.
     

appears in the 2019 novel ''Master and Apprentice'', which explores his relationship with  prior to the events of ''The Phantom Menace''. He is also featured in two 2022 novels: ''Brotherhood'', which is set at the beginning of the Clone Wars, and ''Star Wars Padawan'', which recounts his early years as an apprentice.
     

Obi-Wan appears in the final chapter of , which takes place just after Revenge of the Sith. He learns with alarm that Vader survived their duel on Mustafar, but Qui-Gon assures him that Vader will not set foot on Tatooine for fear of reawakening Anakin Skywalker. Qui-Gon advises him not to reveal to Luke his true parentage until the time is right. In various novels set after Return of the Jedi, Obi-Wan appears as a Force spirit. In The Truce at Bakura, he warns Luke about the ; in The Lost City of the Jedi, he guides him to the eponymous city on Yavin IV; in Heir to the Empire, he bids farewell to Luke, explaining that he must abandon his spiritual form and ascend to a higher plane of consciousness. Before parting, Luke says that Obi-Wan was like a father to him, and Obi-Wan replies that he loved Luke like a son. The novel Kenobi (2013) tells the story of Obi-Wan's first days of exile on Tatooine.

In 2004, the Council of the Commune Lubicz in Poland passed a resolution giving the name "Obi-Wan Kenobi" to one of the streets in Grabowiec, a small village near Toruń. The street was named in 2005. The name of the street, Obi-Wana Kenobiego, translates from Polish as "the street of Obi-Wan Kenobi".

His line from the 1977 movie, "These Aren't The Droids You're Looking For", has been called catchy, familiar, used in everyday conversations, famous and iconic.

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