With Disney’s purchase of Lucasfilm in 2012, the “Star Wars” Legends banner was created. Everything outside of a few select projects, such as the main “Star Wars” films and the “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” animated series, was deemed non-canon and placed under this label. The events of the “Force Unleashed” games were put into this category, along with Starkiller himself. As the new “Star Wars” canon has expanded, Legends elements have made their way into it, and Starkiller nearly made the leap himself.
According to the man behind Starkiller, Sam Witwer, “Star Wars” creative Dave Filoni once toyed with the idea of making the character canon. “I know that Dave, at one point, when he was doing ‘Star Wars Rebels,’ thought about including him as an Inquisitor,” Witwer shared in a Cameo video (via Colonel Useless on YouTube). Sadly, for one reason or another, Filoni decided against bringing the character into the new canon on the animated series as a Jedi-hunting Imperial agent. Thus, fans are left to speculate on how he could hypothetically fit within the current “Star Wars” framework if he’s to be introduced.
Starkiller may be an overpowered video game protagonist with an edgy attitude, but to so many “Star Wars” fans, he’s one of the franchise’s greatest creations. Time will tell if he’ll ever return to the forefront of the galaxy far, far away and what his canon story will entail.
