Star Wars: 10 Hilarious Anakin Skywalker Memes That Will Leave You Cry-Laughing

By now, you’ve probably already heard of the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the wise… it’s not a story the Jedi would tell you. Okay, we’re not going down that rabbit hole, but one man was fortunate enough to have been told such an ironic story: Anakin Skywalker. He’s was a central character of the Star Wars saga — at least for the first six movies.

While Anakin was a tragic character in the film, the Star Wars fandom just can’t help but make his lines a reference for plenty of inside jokes, which ruin the dramatic storytelling of the prequels. The best part is that they come in the form of memes, the most popular way of communication. To prove that Anakin isn’t all that angst king he’s cracked up to be, these are the 10 funniest memes about him.

10 STARTING YOUNG EH?

Young Anakin might not have been as dark or as whiny as his older counterpart — or even his son, Luke — but he was already a troublemaker from the start. He seems to get by through the skin of his teeth, but that’s a given when your Midichlorian power level is over 9000 or something. Anyway, we got to see just how much of a Marty Stu this kid is when he joined a racing tournament.

Later after that, Anakin leveled up immensely by trying his hand at a Republic fighter vessel and by pretty much winning the Battle for Naboo. His best trick? Spinning. Too bad he never outgrew that tendency even throughout all this Jedi training, otherwise he would have countered Obi-Wan’s high ground. This isn’t podracing anymore.

9 Padmé WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREES, DESPITE THE AGE GAP

In hindsight, it’s really weird and creepy when you consider the age gap between Padmé Amidala and Anakin Skywalker, especially since she stated that he was still that “little kid in Tatooine” during the start of the Clone Wars.

Anyway, you could say that you can’t blame Padmé; Anakin grew up to be a tall and handsome young man. His hotness reached a fever pitch, and eventually became too literal by the end of the movie, up to the point where Anakin became a wheezing cyborg because he’s become too hot for his physical body.

8 “I DON’T LIKE S_ND”

Okay, here we are with the sand stuff. Anakin doesn’t like sand, but can you blame him? He grew up in a hostile desert planet ruled by Hutts through a criminal underworld where he and his mom were slaves. So of course he hates sand and doesn’t want anything to do with it…unless it’s for a romantic line with someone older than him.

That’s right, the cheesy “I don’t like sand” line is something Anakin notably delivers when flirting with Padmé. But hey, it worked for him; perhaps it would work for you? Lots of guys are trying it as an opening line on Tinder.

7 *SITHING INTENSIFIES*

Okay, the exact line was “I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth…”

The meme pokes fun at the infamous Anakin line even more by turning it into a Who Wants to be a Millionaire? question where all the answers are more or less correct. He won’t be needing Palpatine’s lifeline for this one, that’s for sure.

6 IRONIC…

So, you’ve just rewatched the polarizing Rise of Skywalker. Whether you liked it or didn’t, either way is fair. However, one person sure doesn’t like it — at least the ending part — and that would be Anakin Skywalker’s Force ghost.

That’s because the ending of the said Star Wars movie portrays Rey “Skywalker” burying her lightsaber collection in the sand, of all places. One of these includes Anakin’s famed original blue lightsaber which was used to kill Jedi younglings and Sith alike. You can imagine Anakin’s Force ghost writhing in hatred and anger at his lightsaber’s ironic fate.

5 IT’S OUTRAGEOUS! IT’S UNFAIR!

By far, the biggest salting of Anakin’s wounds was when the Jedi Council invited him to their meetings as a junior, not a Jedi Master. It was outrageous and unfair — how can you be on the Jedi Council and not be a Master? It’s probably a first in the Jedi Order, and Anakin was a special case because of his relationship with Sheev Palpatine.

This certainly made for some interesting memes poking fun at Anakin’s sole desire to be granted the rank of Master. After all, he did single-handedly defeat Count Dooku and rescued a Sith Lord.

4 TAKE A SEAT YOUNG SKYWALKER

You have to hand it to the Jedi Masters and the members of the Jedi Council; they’re the most badass Jedi to ever exist. Now, as for Anakin, despite his frustration at the Council for including him but not as a Master, he was actually pretty close to being granted that rank.

It has been surmised that Mace Windu was poised to promote Anakin to the rank of Master after taking part in the arrest of Palpatine, but we all know how that went. Jokes on the Jedi Council — now they’re dissolved.

3 MASTER SKYWALKER, THERE ARE TOO MANY OF THEM

The point of no return for Anakin Skywalker is when he made lightsaber kebab out of Jedi trainees, or the so-called younglings. It was certainly Anakin’s darkest moment, but as expected, the fandom knows exactly how to make light of it.

Take for example how that YouTube comment makes Anakin’s massacre sort of justified by making it so that the kids were imitating Fortnite dance moves. This day and age, that’s probably unforgivable for the edgiest of the edges and the doomiest of the doomers, and Anakin just rallied their cause.

2 GONE. REDUCED TO ATOMS — OH, WRONG FANDOM

You do have to imagine what Anakin was thinking when he slaughtered all the helpless younglings. Even weirder is how he immediately changed after that and became a dark side idealist as if he didn’t just kill children a few hours ago.

We’ll just chalk it up to the dark side of the Force being a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. After all, no one can recover from guilt and overbearing remorse that quickly and then casually have a debate and a fight with Obi-Wan.

1 INTO EXILE HE MUST GO

No words or flavor text or captions needed for this one. It was 2019’s most popular meme which was transformed by a brilliant Redditor with excellent artistic skills. Now it’s all over the web, and is the best representation of Anakin being refused the rank of Master by the council.

We would have replaced Yoda with Windu, but the former is still the head of the Council. As for the image overall? You can practically hear Anakin’s tearful voice crying that it’s outrageous and unfair and that he hates them.

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