# Did Mace Windu Die?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [July 22, 2009, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936 "2009-07-22T23:58:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2009, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/1 "2009-07-22T23:58:51Z")
Did Mace Windu in Star Wars Episode III actually die or is it somewhat ambiguous?
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### Author:  [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2009, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/2 "2009-07-23T00:03:08Z")
[Wikipedia says yes:](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mace_Windu)
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> "Windu remarks that Palpatine is too dangerous and that he must die. As Windu prepares to strike, Anakin intervenes and severs Windu’s lightsaber hand. Palpatine, now no longer seeming weakened, continues to hit him with another torrent of lightning and forces Windu out of the chamber window to his death.
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### Author:  [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2009, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/3 "2009-07-23T00:03:34Z")
Well he fell a really really long way, while screaming. If that doesn’t do it, then The Emperor is still alive.
Assuming the Death Star explosion didn’t kill him.
You know, let’s not give Lucas any ideas.
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### Author:  [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2009, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/4 "2009-07-23T00:07:22Z")
They aren’t officially dead until you see them crap themselves.
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### Author:  [@The\_Falling\_Reverend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Falling_Reverend)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2009, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/5 "2009-07-23T00:08:41Z")
SPOILER
I don’t know what you saw but getting his hands cut off and thrown out of a skyscraper window while being shot by lightning bolts pretty much says to me “dead guy”. Jedi or not.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2009, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/6 "2009-07-23T00:10:23Z")
I fully expect to see him appear in _Star Wars: Episode VII: “I’m Back, and I’m Pissed, Motherfuckers!”_, as soon as Lucas either needs to buy another yacht, or get that neck-reduction surgery he’s needed for so long.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2009, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/7 "2009-07-23T00:16:09Z")
He’s dead, all right, but since he’s such a bad motherfucker, he’s only partially dead. Doesn’t do him much good though, because any extent of death is beyond the programming of the medical droids.
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### Author:  [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2009, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/8 "2009-07-23T00:23:50Z")
> [@The\_Falling\_Reverend](#):
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> I don’t know what you saw but getting his hands cut off and thrown out of a skyscraper window while being shot by lightning bolts pretty much says to me “dead guy”. Jedi or not.
Luke had his hand cut off and tossed into that big bottomless Bespin reactor pit and managed to pull through. And he took a pretty big lightning beating later on.
Force lightning seems like it actually kind of sucks. I think the only reason Vadar died was his suit got all shorted out.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2009, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/9 "2009-07-23T00:26:38Z")
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> …or get that neck-reduction surgery he’s needed for so long.
The weight of his ego hasn’t compressed it?
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### Author:  [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2009, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/10 "2009-07-23T00:30:03Z")
> [@Johnny\_Q](#):
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> He’s dead, all right, but since he’s such a bad motherfucker, he’s only partially dead. Doesn’t do him much good though, because any extent of death is beyond the programming of the medical droids.
Sounds like he’d need a miracle to… wait, is that a bell I hear ringing?
[Deja vu all over again.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=54123)
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### Author:  [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2009, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/11 "2009-07-23T01:26:41Z")
Not that being dead is all that much of a drawback for a Jedi. I remember Quai-Gon (or WTF his name was) and Yoda and Obi-Wan didn’t let it slow them down much…TRM
“I’m tired of all these M-F-in’ Siths on this M-F-in’ spaceship!!”
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### Author:  [@The\_Falling\_Reverend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Falling_Reverend)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2009, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/12 "2009-07-23T02:17:53Z")
> [@msmith537](#):
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> Luke had his hand cut off and tossed into that big bottomless Bespin reactor pit and managed to pull through. And he took a pretty big lightning beating later on.
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> Force lightning seems like it actually kind of sucks. I think the only reason Vadar died was his suit got all shorted out.
Yeah but it didn’t happen all at the same time though. Besides, Luke had the powers of bitch&whine to protect him.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2009, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/13 "2009-07-23T07:52:16Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#):
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> Not that being dead is all that much of a drawback for a Jedi. I remember Quai-Gon (or WTF his name was) and Yoda and Obi-Wan didn’t let it slow them down much…TRM
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I hear that dead Twilek Jedi does weather on Channel 27.
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### Author:  [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2009, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/14 "2009-07-23T08:40:55Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> I fully expect to see him appear in _Star Wars: Episode VII: “I’m Back, and I’m Pissed, Motherfuckers!”_, as soon as Lucas either needs to buy another yacht, or get that neck-reduction surgery he’s needed for so long.
Reduction? If his neck going to get any more reducted it’s going to be fucking mounted on his sternum.
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### Author:  [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2009, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/15 "2009-07-23T08:49:03Z")
> [@msmith537](#):
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> Force lightning seems like it actually kind of sucks. I think the only reason Vadar died was his suit got all shorted out.
The Emperor, as far as he knew, had a single paralyzed enemy and no worries about being interrupted. As a Dark Side user, it’s in character for him to pick entertainment over efficiency in that situation. Then when Vader turns he switches from “slow grill” to “burn” to try to fight off his attacker, but the combined effects of him being a fellow Dark Side user and a cyborg killing machine make it less effective.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2009, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/16 "2009-07-23T13:33:10Z")
> [@Omniscient](#):
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> Reduction? If his neck going to get any more reducted it’s going to be fucking mounted on his sternum.
It’s too thick, not too long.
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### Author:  [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2009, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/17 "2009-07-23T13:45:12Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> It’s too thick, not too long.
But his exceptionally big head needs all the support it can get 😛
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### Author:  [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2009, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/18 "2009-07-23T15:07:10Z")
Scenes that will be added in future DVD releases of Star Wars
\*Anakin and Padme kissing at the end of ROTJ
\*Darth Vader’s face at his unmasking being changed to the face of the burnt Hayden Christensen
\*Mace Windu being a dancer at Jabbas Palace
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### Author:  [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2009, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/19 "2009-07-23T16:15:05Z")
> [@AK84](#):
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> \*Darth Vader’s face at his unmasking being changed to the face of the burnt Hayden Christensen
Don’t you even fucking joke about that shit. 'Cause it could so happen.
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### Author:  [@ProfessorX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ProfessorX)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2009, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/20 "2009-07-23T16:22:14Z")
Dude, he was like 300 stories about the earth. Definitely he’s dead.
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