when it comes to lightsaber Star Wars, Jedi and Sith all use many different color variations. While the most famous colors are green, blue, and red, the heroes and villains wield purple, orange, white, and yellow lightsabers in the series’ extended universe. However, instead of blue or green, Luke Skywalker’s original lightsaber is pink.
front Star Wars: New Hope George Lucas hits theaters, Marvel publishes two Star Wars Before the comic was released. Ongoing series, appropriately titled Star Wars Roy Thomas and Howard Chaikin seemed to have to fill in some gaps in the film, leading to one of the strangest decisions in the entire movie. Star Wars Comic Universe: Give Luke Skywalker a pink lightsaber at the start of his journey.
Strange things start on the cover Star Wars #2, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke are surrounded by aliens wielding pink lightsabers. It is worth noting that on the cover the lightsaber is called “Lightsaber”. In the comics, the art doesn’t take away from the fact that Luke’s lightsaber is pink. When Luke first received his father’s lightsaber from Obi-Wan, it was clearly pink.
If you’re thinking, “Hey, maybe the colorist just made a mistake,” you’re doing it wrong. Luke’s lightsaber is pink in the next Jedi training, it’s pink on other covers, and even during Obi-Wan Kenobi’s battle with Darth Vader, both are pink. Their The lightsaber is also pink.
Presumably, artists and colorists used pink to indicate that the lightsaber was illuminated or glowing. However, this doesn’t make much sense because of how important the color of the lightsaber is to the overall Star Wars series. It’s not uncommon to require lightsaber colors to exactly match the film, or at least try to make them accurate. Instead, the original Star Wars Comic full of pink lightsabers with no explanation.
Our research was unable to find any particular reason for the lightsaber’s pink color. This seemed like the best way to stylize them at the time. Artists and colorists can be pressed for time and don’t have enough time to place every colored lightsaber. It’s a big problem, can’t be overstated, will fix it later Star Wars comic. But for fans who revisit the series, for a rather significant part of it, it’s a baffling sight. Star Wars history.