Luke Skywalker

Luke is born along with his twin sister, Leia, at the end of the Clone Wars. Their mother, Padmé Amidala, dies in childbirth, and their father, Anakin Skywalker, has just become Darth Vader. To protect the children, the surviving Jedi split them up: Leia goes to Alderaan, and Obi-Wan Kenobi takes the boy to Tatooine, where he grows up with his aunt and uncle, Owen and Beru Lars.

As a child, Luke is watched from a distance by Obi-Wan, who lives in hiding on Tatooine. Owen wants his nephew kept far from anything Jedi, but the Inquisitor Reva finds out about the boy and goes after him at the Lars farm. Owen and Beru try to protect him, Luke runs off into the desert and Reva catches up, but she can't bring herself to kill him. Obi-Wan arrives and the boy goes back home.

As a young man, Luke buys two droids, R2-D2 and C-3PO, and finds a hologram of a princess begging Obi-Wan for help. The search leads him to 'Ben' Kenobi, who tells him his father was a Jedi and gives him Anakin's lightsaber. Soon after, Imperial troops kill Owen and Beru, and Luke has nothing left tying him to the planet.

In Mos Eisley he hires Han Solo and Chewbacca, helps rescue Princess Leia from the Death Star and watches Obi-Wan fall to Vader. At the Battle of Yavin, guided by his mentor's voice, he switches off his targeting computer and makes the shot that destroys the station.

Lost in the snow on Hoth, Luke sees Obi-Wan's spirit, who tells him to find Yoda on Dagobah. The training is tough and full of patience tests, and in a cave he faces an illusion of Vader that has his own face under the mask.

Luke cuts his training short to save his friends in Cloud City. In the duel with Vader he loses his right hand and hears the reveal that changes everything: Vader is his father. He'd rather throw himself into the abyss than join the Sith and is rescued by Leia.

Luke returns to Tatooine calmer and more dangerous, and leads Han's rescue at Jabba's palace. On Dagobah, Yoda confirms the family tie before dying, and Obi-Wan's spirit reveals that Leia is his sister.

Convinced there's still good in his father, Luke turns himself in on Endor. In front of the Emperor, he almost gives in to anger, but tosses his saber away and refuses to kill Vader. When Palpatine tortures him with lightning, Anakin comes back: he throws his master down the reactor shaft and dies in his son's arms. Luke burns his father's armor on a pyre and sees the spirits of Anakin, Obi-Wan and Yoda at the victory celebration.

Years later, Grogu sends out a call through the Force from a seeing stone on Tython. The one who answers is Luke. He arrives in an X-wing at Moff Gideon's cruiser, cuts through the corridor alone and destroys the dark troopers with his green saber. He promises to give his life to protect the child, and Din Djarin takes off his helmet to say goodbye before letting him leave with Luke and R2-D2.

On a forest planet, Luke builds a temple and trains Grogu, who slowly remembers old lessons and the day he escaped the Jedi Temple during Order 66. Ahsoka Tano visits and notices the little one misses the Mandalorian.

Luke then offers a choice: the beskar chainmail sent by Din or Yoda's lightsaber. Choosing the saber means going on as a Jedi; choosing the armor means going back to his adoptive father and leaving the training. Grogu picks the armor and returns to Din.

Luke builds a new generation of Jedi and trains his nephew, Ben Solo. When the young man turns to the dark side, the students are killed and Luke disappears. Decades later, the Resistance and the First Order fight over a map that leads to him. Rey follows the coordinates and finds him on a cliff on Ahch-To, where she holds out Anakin's old saber.

Luke tosses the saber over his shoulder and says he came to the island to die. Cut off from the Force, he lives in isolation, but agrees to give Rey three lessons. She ends up uncovering what he hid: one night, sensing the darkness in Ben, Luke actually ignited his saber for an instant. His nephew woke up, saw the blade and brought down the temple.

Yoda's spirit appears, burns the tree holding the Jedi texts and reminds him that failure teaches too. At the Battle of Crait, Luke projects his own image across the galaxy, says goodbye to Leia and faces Kylo Ren alone. The time he buys is enough for the Resistance to escape. Spent, he looks at Ahch-To's two suns and becomes one with the Force.

When Rey flees to Ahch-To determined not to face the Emperor, Luke's spirit catches the saber she tries to throw into the fire. He tells her Leia also trained as a Jedi, gives her his sister's saber and raises his own X-wing from the bottom of the sea so Rey can head to Exegol. At the end, he and Leia watch Rey on Tatooine, at the farm where he grew up.

In the current canon comics and books, Marvel follows Luke between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back, searching on his own for the Jedi knowledge he lost with Obi-Wan.