10 Most Disconcerting Star Wars Characters
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00:00So, we all know that Star Wars is a world full of black and white, good versus evil,
00:05dark versus light, and so on and so forth, and if we're talking evil Star Wars characters,
00:11then there is no one more evil-el-el-el-er than the Emperor himself, right?
00:16Well, yes, true, he is very very evil from a traditional standpoint, but the question is,
00:20do we see him do anything really disturbing? I mean, sure, he kills Jedis, and he tortures
00:26Luke Skywalker a little bit on the Death Star, but that's not truly disturbing, especially
00:30when you compare it to some of the actions that others in the galaxy have gotten up to,
00:35which we're covering today. So brace yourself, as things are going to get very dark very
00:39quickly.
00:40As I'm Jules, this is WhatCulture.com, and these are the 10 Most Disturbing Star Wars
00:44Characters.
00:4510. EV-9D9
00:46EV-9D9 was a hard-working moisture-vaporator mechanic. But like so many other characters
00:53on this list, 9D9 developed a love for torture. Apparently in the Star Wars galaxy, you'll
00:58never be in want of a good torturer. For 9D9, this love stemmed from a programming malfunction.
01:04This malfunction manifested in 9D9's desire to torment her fellow droids. After the malfunction,
01:10the Hutt crime syndicate bought 9D9, and they made her the Chief of Cyborg Operations. She
01:16converted the basement of the Hutt's palace into a dark and dank torture chamber, which
01:20is very medieval. And from there, with the help of her sadistic smelting droid, 9D9 instilled
01:26terror in the Hutt's droid pool. 9D9 was so enthralled with torturing droids that she
01:31had a speciality photoreceptor fitted so that she could read droids' pain levels. Yikes.
01:379. V'Ney
01:38You may not know this character by name, but rest assured that V'Ney is a snivelling
01:43little creep. V'Ney lived as Darth Vader's only attendant within the Dark Lord's palace
01:48on Mustafar. As one of the few people allowed into Vader's inner sanctum, V'Ney is witness
01:53to Vader's most disturbing acts. And V'Ney loves every minute of it. He worships the
01:59ground that his Dark Master walks on. Early in the construction of the Mustafar Palace,
02:04a band of people living on the planet attacked Vader and his guests. This is obviously a
02:09terrible move on their behalf. With his mastery of the dark side, Vader gets the upper hand.
02:15From there, he forced all the attackers to drown themselves in a nearby river of lava.
02:19How you drown yourself with lava before burning to death is anyone's guess, but he managed
02:23it somehow. V'Ney rushed right out of the palace to witness this gruesome act. And as
02:29each member of the party burned alive, V'Ney cackled with delight.
02:33Other duties of V'Ney's included electrocuting captured rebels to ensure that his master's
02:38torture web was in order. This was a deed that brought V'Ney a sadistic pleasure, and
02:43it definitely earned him a spot on this list.
02:458. Khardusai Malak
02:47You may not remember Khardusai Malak's name, or even be able to say it. I probably have
02:52mispronounced it myself. But if you've seen A New Hope, you'll know his face. As he
02:57shows up in the background of the famous cantina scene, the camera briefly pans to a character
03:01who resembles the bloody devil, with a fiendish smile on his face. And that is Malak. And
03:07if you always thought he was up to no good, well, you'd be right. While Disney has watered
03:11down his character's backstory, in Legends, he is quite the literal devil.
03:16In Legends, Malak is known to the galaxy as the Butcher of the Montelian Serat. He earned
03:21this nickname as an army captain on his home planet of Davaron. Malak's unit was deployed
03:25to quell a rebellion, and he captured the city of Montelian Serat, imprisoning 700 men,
03:30women, and children. When his commanding officer ordered him to move on without the prisoners,
03:35he interpreted this as an order of execution. So he shelled the entire city, and killed
03:40all 700 inhabitants. Afterwards, he fled to Mos Eisley as a wanted war criminal. Eventually,
03:46he was captured and returned to Davaron by the infamous bounty hunter Boba Fett. There,
03:50he was thrown into a pit of starving animals to be eaten alive, much to the delight of
03:54the cheering crowds.
03:567. Darth Venomous
03:58Now we've all heard the story of Darth Plagueis the Wise, right? Well, Darth Venomous definitely
04:02knows it, because he had the unfortunate pleasure of knowing the Sith Lord who trained Palpatine.
04:07In fact, they were rivals, and Venomous found himself on the losing end of that rivalry,
04:12and becoming a victim of a rather disturbing fate. You see, Venomous was the secret apprentice
04:17of Darth Plagueis' master. That same master ordered him to hunt down and kill Plagueis.
04:22And so Venomous confronted him, but unfortunately for Venomous, he was bested in combat. But
04:27not content to just murder Venomous, the other Dark Lord forced this Sith Lord into a coma.
04:33Over the next several years, Venomous' body was experimented on in a quest to discover
04:37dark secrets of the Force. When Venomous' body was no longer useful, he was finally
04:42allowed to die. But he wasn't quite done with Venomous yet, as he was then resurrected
04:47over and over, killing him each time again and again, with the purpose being to kill
04:53Venomous until even his organs completely broke down. Yeah, pretty grim, right?
04:586. Bib Fortuna
05:00Bib Fortuna was a male Twi'lek who served as Jabba the Hutt's major domo, or chief
05:05of staff. Working for Jabba the Hutt is disturbing enough for most people, but Fortuna witnessed
05:10and even organised countless executions at the whim of his master. Fortuna more than
05:14likely had his chief rival for Jabba's favour eaten by Jabba's rancor. In fact, the skull
05:20that Luke Skywalker throws at the rancor is that of Fortuna's slain rival. So yeah,
05:24you can use that on your next trivia night next time.
05:26But the really disturbing aspects of Fortuna's life take place after his master dies at the
05:31hands of rebel scum. In canon, Fortuna is shot dead by Boba Fett at the end of Season
05:362 of The Mandalorian, but in Legends, his story goes well beyond this untimely end.
05:41But truthfully, Fortuna may have been better off dead. You see, in Legends, Fortuna returns
05:45to Jabba's palace with the aim of taking over his former master's lucrative business.
05:49However, there are other inhabitants of the palace. These are the Bomar monks, and they
05:54had other plans for Fortuna. The monks are of a strange religious sect that lives in
05:59the cellars of Jabba's palace. Here they capture Fortuna upon his return, and here's
06:04the disturbing part, the monks removed his brain from his skull and placed it into a
06:08spider droid. Cursed forever, Fortuna now roams the palace, a disembodied brain trapped
06:13in a mechanical spider. That really is disturbing.
06:175. Dr. Cornelius Evazan
06:20Would you believe that this guy was once a promising cosmetic surgeon? Obviously, things
06:24kind of went off the rails at some point in time, and it was probably when Cornelius here
06:28started practising creative surgery on his patients. His work earned him the moniker
06:33The Mutilator of Milvane, a nickname that he more than deserved. And if his morbid surgical
06:38experiments weren't bad enough for you, there's the other matter of his slaves.
06:42At some point, he started transforming his victims into mindless cyborgs. He dubbed these
06:46creations the Decraniated. He planned to sell these zombified servants to the Crimson Dawn
06:51crime syndicate, and Cornelius made a bundle of money at the expense of his enslaved former
06:56patients.
06:57But justice finally came his way when he decided to hassle a naive farm boy on Tatooine, seeing
07:02as this particular moisture farmer was in the care of the legendary Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi.
07:07And if you've seen A New Hope, you know how this story ends. Cornelius' companion's
07:12arm is severed, and despite all of his years as a surgeon, he fails to reattach it.
07:164. Grand Moff Tarkin
07:18In the later years of the Galactic Empire, power had become concentrated in a small cadre
07:23of men. Vader and Palpatine were at the top of the food chain, and this was in no small
07:27part due to their dark knowledge of the Force. However, a man who commanded equal parts fear
07:32and power was that of Grand Moff Tarkin, and Tarkin achieved his infamy without any ability
07:37in the Force. He was just a really bad dude.
07:40Tarkin was so respected that he could order Darth Vader around like a lapdog, and you
07:44need to be pretty intimidating to bully a Sith Lord. So how did he earn this respect?
07:49Well, Tarkin believed that the only way to achieve peace in the galaxy was through fear.
07:54People had to fear the Empire so much that they would never dare rebel, and for Tarkin,
07:58this was more than an idea, it was a practice. His ideology was on full display in the Gormon
08:04Massacre. Citizens of that planet gathered to protest imperial taxation, and the protesters
08:09crowded onto a landing pad to prevent Tarkin's ship from landing on the planet. Tarkin ordered
08:13his pilot to land despite the crowd, meaning that his ship crushed a huge group of protesters,
08:19killing most of them and maiming the rest.
08:21There was also the small matter of Tarkin destroying the planet of Alderaan. No real
08:24reason to do this, he just did it because he could, and because it would send a message.
08:29And by the way, in that single act, Tarkin likely killed more people than Vader and Palpatine
08:33combined. So much for Sith Lords, this guy really was the true baddie.
08:373. Triple Zero
08:39So if Star Wars had a mirror universe, then Triple Zero would be C-3PO's doppelganger.
08:44Like C-3PO, Triple Zero is a protocol droid. He's well versed in the skills of translations,
08:49customs, etiquette. But unlike C-3PO, Triple Zero is also proficient in the art of torture.
08:55In fact, Triple Zero is so effective that Darth Vader employed him as a torturer. Vader
09:00tasked him with procuring information from imperial officers and rebel scum alike. Triple
09:05Zero had many former masters, but he had a nasty habit of draining them of their blood.
09:10He was so dangerous that his personality matrix was stowed on a quarantined planet for hundreds
09:15of years.
09:16A minion of Vader discovered Triple Zero and placed his matrix in a protocol droid. From
09:21then on, he was probably the galaxy's most unassuming sadist. Triple Zero often declined
09:26payment for his work because he enjoyed it so bloody much.
09:29And he was also crucial in Vader's hunt for his son Luke Skywalker. The droid forced
09:34a Naboo official to admit that Padme Amidala had given birth before she died. Triple Zero
09:38then electro-shocked the man to death, which wasn't actually part of the orders he'd
09:42received. He just had fun doing it.
09:44But he did face some justice for his terrible deeds. In a failed attempt to kidnap Luke
09:48Skywalker, the droid had both his arms ripped off by Chewbacca. Way to go, Chewie.
09:542. Darth Vader
09:55Unlike the Emperor, Darth Vader is a villain who we certainly see commit some pretty heinous
10:00acts. He routinely terrorises, chokes, and murders his co-workers, for a start. But during
10:05his rise to power within the Empire, Vader once organised a gathering of Imperial officials.
10:10Once they were all together, Vader murdered five of the officers just at random. And this
10:14wasn't an act of malice. The officers hadn't done anything wrong. He just wanted to demonstrate
10:18his power to them.
10:20Even before Vader donned his menacing cape and helmet, he proved to be a pretty messed
10:23up individual. Within hours of converting to the dark side, Vader stormed the Jedi temple,
10:28and there he murdered dozens of Jedi who he probably knew very well. Hell, he was probably
10:32friends with most of them. And of course, he culminates this attack by cutting down
10:36a room full of children. Children who know him and look to him for protection. Vader
10:41just straight up murders them.
10:43Now, weirdly, a lot of people love Vader and believe that chucking Palpatine down an exhaust
10:47shaft was a redeeming act. But let's not forget that Darth Vader is a seriously disturbed
10:51individual. And killing his admittedly evil boss really doesn't make up for slicing
10:56up a bunch of preschoolers, now does it?
10:581. Ewoks
11:00Now don't laugh, let me actually explain here. We all know that Ewoks were a cheap
11:03ploy on the part of George Lucas to sell a boatload of toys. But have you ever actually
11:07sat down and considered the Ewoks' actions throughout Return of the Jedi? I mean, take
11:12for instance how they dealt with Luke, Han, and Chewie when they were first captured.
11:15The Ewoks hogtied the rebels and built a couple of bloody bonfires. It's clear that these
11:20little furry forest dwellers were planning to eat our favourite characters. That is pretty
11:25terrifying. Now also consider what happened to the hundreds of stormtroopers that the
11:29Ewoks capture after their destruction of the Death Star. Those poor bastards definitely
11:34got eaten.
11:35And there we go, my friends. Those were the 10 most disturbing Star Wars characters. I
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