# 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:  [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2009, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/21 "2009-07-23T16:29:14Z")
> [@ProfessorX](#):
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> Dude, he was like 300 stories about the earth. Definitely he’s dead.
My take on it - he likely fell thru the roof of a cab and was taken off to the priests to be healed.
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### Author:  [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2009, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/22 "2009-07-23T16:32:17Z")
> [@simster](#):
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> My take on it - he likely fell thru the roof of a cab and was taken off to the priests to be healed.
There’s footage of the [impact](http://robotchicken.org/index.php?title=The_Janitor_on_Coruscant), actually. Just a large thud and a pissed off janitor.
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### Author:  [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2009, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/23 "2009-07-23T23:43:19Z")
> [@Morbo](#):
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> Well he fell a really really long way, while screaming. If that doesn’t do it, then The Emperor is still alive.
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> Assuming the Death Star explosion didn’t kill him.
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> You know, let’s not give Lucas any ideas.
The EU already did it. See the Dark Empire comic series.
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2009, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/24 "2009-07-24T00:10:44Z")
> [@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.
What **is it** with Lucas & lopping off peoples’ hands, just prior to chucking them down a pit, anyway.:dubious:
It’s getting repetative.
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### Author:  [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/26 "2012-08-01T18:01:58Z")
> [@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.
It’s basically a big taser. Only deadly to those with pre-existing conditions.
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### Author:  [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2012, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/27 "2012-08-01T18:14:03Z")
Well, Darth Maul is apparently still alive despite being cut in half and tossed down one of the ubiquitous infinite pits of doom that are a staple of Star Wars architecture. Apparently Star Wars characters can survive just about anything,
But IIRC, Jackson made his character dying a precondition for his being in the movies. That probably ensures his staying dead more then if the movie had shown him being chopped in a hundred pieces and then set on fire.
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### Author:  [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2012, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/28 "2012-08-01T18:21:36Z")
> [@Simplicio](#):
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> But IIRC, Jackson made his character dying a precondition for his being in the movies.
Correction: he agreed to be in the movies on the condition that his character “doesn’t die like some punk”. Presumably he knew that, as a Jedi (and a supporting one at that), his character was going to die eventually since that’s the premise of Ep. IV - but he didn’t want it to happen in a mass battle, during a montage of Vader hunting Jedis, that sort of thing.
Consequently he got a big dramatic send-off, fighting the Emperor himself. Like a bad incestuous son, I believe is the vernacular.
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2012, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/29 "2012-08-01T18:25:40Z")
This thread is three years old and was bumped today by a spammer. The first 24 posts are from 2009.
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2012, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/30 "2012-08-01T18:35:14Z")
I guess I shouldn’t bother replying “that’s what _she_ said!” to post 16, then.
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### Author:  [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2012, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/31 "2012-08-01T18:39:05Z")
The Force kept him alive in zombie form.
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### Author:  [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2012, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/32 "2012-08-01T19:15:59Z")
> [@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.
I believe thats called the Star Wars live action series.
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### Author:  [@JMH125](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JMH125)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2012, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/33 "2012-08-01T19:22:09Z")
> [@ProfessorX](#):
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> Dude, he was like 300 stories about the earth. Definitely he’s dead.
And he fell like, through a dozen awnings to slow his fall and landed in a passing garbage truck. He’s FINE.
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### Author:  [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2012, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/34 "2012-08-01T19:29:06Z")
> [@Simplicio](#):
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> But IIRC, Jackson made his character dying a precondition for his being in the movies.
I think that’s a precondition for Samuel L Jackson being in most of the movies he’s in.
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### Author:  [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2012, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/35 "2012-08-01T19:30:41Z")
> [@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’m tired of all these M-F-in’ Siths on this M-F-in’ spaceship!!”
How are you defining “slow down”? They could appear to Luke; they could talk to Luke. And … that was it. They couldn’t interact with the physical world.
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### Author:  [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2012, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/36 "2012-08-01T19:43:34Z")
> [@ProfessorX](#):
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> Dude, he was like 300 stories about the earth. Definitely he’s dead.
> [@simster](#):
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> My take on it - he likely fell thru the roof of a cab and was taken off to the priests to be healed.
Ananikan pulled it off when he jumped out into traffic and fell just right to land on a passing flying car. I like to believe Windu did the same and then thought, “Holy Fuck! Oh man, that was so bad-ass! I don’t think I could ever top that so I’m just going to retire and leave my career on a high with that bad-ass move.”
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2012, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/37 "2012-08-03T00:28:02Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#):
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> What **is it** with Lucas & lopping off peoples’ hands, just prior to chucking them down a pit, anyway.:dubious:
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> It’s getting repetative.
There used to be a website called “The Hacked Off Limbs of _Star Wars_”. I don’t know if it’s still around, but it was pretty funny.
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### Author:  [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2012, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/38 "2012-08-03T00:56:59Z")
“HELL YEA HE’S DEAD, AND I HOPE HE BURNS IN HELL!”
or something.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2012, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/39 "2012-08-03T03:58:42Z")
> [@](#):
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> Quoth **Kobal2** :
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> Like a bad incestuous son, I believe is the vernacular.
Like a bad _donkey_ incestuous son.
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2012, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/40 "2012-08-05T00:36:23Z")
Didn’t I read somewhere that there was some odd gravitational field in Star Wars that keeps people from dying when they hit the ground?
Okay, I know I read it somewhere, but was it anything to do with the movies? I haven’t watched a whole one yet–mostly because it’s fun to be the only person I know who hasn’t–despite having tons of merch as a kid.
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2012, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mace-windu-die/503936/41 "2012-08-06T01:48:21Z")
[Found it!](http://www.runleiarun.com/choppedoffhands/index.html)
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