# So who is Anakin's father? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 13, 2005, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-is-anakins-father/303700 "2005-05-13T16:38:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-is-anakins-father/303700/41 "2005-05-15T20:55:37Z")
> [@C K Dexter Haven](#): > > I personally like the idea that Luke’s sperm got shot through the force to impregnate Shmi Or he could go back in time himself, like Fry from ‘Futurama’, and “do the nasty in the past-y”. Hey, Luke was hot for his twin sister, going back in time to boink grandma isn’t much of a stretch. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-is-anakins-father/303700/42 "2005-05-15T20:58:10Z")
I would have found it more interesting if Anakin had a father, and the father told Qui-Gon, “There was no mother…” ---
**Author:** ![dare\_devil007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@dare\_devil007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dare_devil007)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-is-anakins-father/303700/43 "2005-05-15T20:59:31Z")
I’ve always wondered the same question. After reading this thread, I’m even more confused about how we got from Anakin’s father to a “trilogy of trilogies” rather than who Anakin’s actual father is… :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-is-anakins-father/303700/44 "2005-05-15T22:18:10Z")
> [@Wendell Wagner](#): > > The reason that Anakin is born from a virgin birth is that Lucas is making the Star Wars films fit into the Monomyth (the universal myth of the hero) in Joseph Campbell’s _The Hero with a Thousand Faces_. Lucas decided at some point that what he was doing in the Star Wars movies was following the mythic structure given in Campbell. So that’s what Lucas was thinking, eh? Drawing a parallel between Anakin and Jesus Christ was probably the stupidest thing Lucas could have done. Is Anakin supposed to be some sort of fallen messiah? I like my story of Anakin’s origins better 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2005, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-is-anakins-father/303700/45 "2005-05-16T01:48:12Z")
My personal theory is that Anakin’s father is Captain Kirk. After all, we know that Kirk got it on with any number of alien babes, and given Lucas’ obsession with heredity, having Kirk as a parent would explain Anakin’s inability to deliver his lines effectively. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2005, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-is-anakins-father/303700/46 "2005-05-16T03:01:22Z")
Diceman writes: \> Drawing a parallel between Anakin and Jesus Christ was probably the stupidest \> thing Lucas could have done. Lucas didn’t think of it as drawing a parallel between Anakin and Jesus. He probably thought very little about the fact that Jesus’s story could be fit into the Monomyth. Campbell doubtlessly knew that he was turning the life of Jesus into just another variation of the Monomyth, but Lucas apparently didn’t think about that. As I said, probably the worst thing that ever happened to Lucas was that he read Campbell and tried to fit the Star Wars movies into the Monomyth. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2005, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-is-anakins-father/303700/47 "2005-05-16T17:36:12Z")
So it is all just Campbell soup really. ---
**Author:** ![Soapbox\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Soapbox\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soapbox_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2005, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-is-anakins-father/303700/48 "2005-05-16T18:00:11Z")
> [@Antigen](#): > > No, no, the music went all mystical and mysterious and dramatic right there. In case we’re too stupid to catch the wild metaphysical implications, they beat it into our heads using an orchestra. Well apparently it wasn’t beat in hard enough seeing as how this thread even exists. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2005, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-is-anakins-father/303700/49 "2005-05-16T20:10:40Z")
Ok, guys. I’m spilling the beans here. Anakin’s real father is Jabba the Hut ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2005, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-is-anakins-father/303700/50 "2005-05-16T20:24:35Z")
I think it’s pretty fair to assume that Anakin’s father is the same species, or at least sub-species. Maybe the midichlorians did it. ---
**Author:** ![Rusalka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecd19e/32.png) [@Rusalka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rusalka)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-is-anakins-father/303700/51 "2005-05-17T16:53:52Z")
Could Anakin’s father have been Palapatine (sp)? ---
**Author:** ![Soapbox\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Soapbox\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soapbox_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-is-anakins-father/303700/52 "2005-05-17T18:17:21Z")
Ok, seeing as how this is a plot point that was dropped from the script, it’s not really a spoiler: Lucas was toying with the idea of having Palpatine being the one who “manipulated” the midichlorians into creating Anakin. From what I’ve heard, this _is_ in the book, but Lucas decided not to go through with it for the movie. Therefore, Anakin is simply the result of a virgin birth. The will of the Force. It won’t even be discussed in Episode 3, because it was settled in the first one. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-is-anakins-father/303700/53 "2005-05-17T20:30:37Z")
> [@C K Dexter Haven](#): > > I personally like the idea that Luke’s sperm got shot through the force to impregnate Shmi, because I like the confrontation in EMPIRE STRIKES BACK REVISED AGAIN: > Vader: “No, Luke, **I** am your father.” > Luke: “No, Darth, I am **your** father.” > Vader: “No, no, Luke, I am your father, don’t confuse the issue.” > Luke: “It’s true, Darth, I am your father due to a wrinkle in the Force, so I am your farther father.” > Vader: “This is CNN.” A rewrite from a couple of years ago: The Empire Stikes Back - [Extra Special Edition](http://www.fallenjedi.com/hdvdscene.html) ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-is-anakins-father/303700/54 "2005-05-17T20:53:41Z")
> [@Diceman](#): > > I don’t know if they address the issue in Episode III, but I have a theory that Dooku is Anakin’s father. At some point, he was on Tattooine and knocked up Shmi Skywalker, and then he used his Jedi persuasion abilties to make Shmi forget that the encounter ever happened. Nah. He didn’t need to mindwipe her with the force so she would forget. He just wasn’t a very memorable lay! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-is-anakins-father/303700/55 "2005-05-17T22:15:31Z")
As far as I can tell, it was the Nanites (one or more). But maybe Tom Servo is just trying to cover his tracks. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-is-anakins-father/303700/56 "2005-05-18T12:25:39Z")
> [@watsonwil](#): > > Nah. He didn’t need to mindwipe her with the force so she would forget. He just wasn’t a very memorable lay! 😃 Dooku: This was not the lay you were looking for. Schmi: No, no it wasn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-is-anakins-father/303700/57 "2005-05-18T15:12:20Z")
> [@C K Dexter Haven](#): > > Actually, I think it means that he did a 180-degree reversal on his original idea, and changed Darth Vader from the Main Bad Guy to the Protagonist of the series. A horrible idea from the start, which is why Eps 1 and 2 were bound to suck big-time. Milton could get away with making Satan a protagonist, and various writers have made Dracula out to be the poor mis-understood waif, but Lucas ain’t up to it. > > Coming next: Episode 0, where we learn that Palpatine was an abused child, and then we’ll add Episode 7 where Palpatine doesn’t really fall to his death but is caught on a ledge so that he can be sorry for all his past wickedness and die honorably and become the REAL protagonist of the tale. > > I personally like the idea that Luke’s sperm got shot through the force to impregnate Shmi, because I like the confrontation in EMPIRE STRIKES BACK REVISED AGAIN: > Vader: “No, Luke, **I** am your father.” > Luke: “No, Darth, I am **your** father.” > Vader: “No, no, Luke, I am your father, don’t confuse the issue.” > Luke: “It’s true, Darth, I am your father due to a wrinkle in the Force, so I am your farther father.” > Vader: “This is CNN.” It all had to do with an accident with a time machine and a contraceptive. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-is-anakins-father/303700/58 "2005-05-18T15:47:17Z")
> [@Maus Magill](#): > > A rewrite from a couple of years ago: > > The Empire Stikes Back - [Extra Special Edition](http://www.fallenjedi.com/hdvdscene.html) That was brilliant. Sheer brilliance! If only this guy had been writing the prequels. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-is-anakins-father/303700/59 "2005-05-19T14:37:13Z")
So now that everyone’s seen it I guess we know: That it’s Palpatine after all. It played out exactly as Soapbox Monkey said and was still in the script. So now we must all pile on him for spoiling a part of the movie. AHHH! ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-is-anakins-father/303700/60 "2005-05-19T14:49:42Z")
> [@Hunter Hawk](#): > > My personal theory is that Anakin’s father is Captain Kirk. After all, we know that Kirk got it on with any number of alien babes, and given Lucas’ obsession with heredity, having Kirk as a parent would explain Anakin’s inability to deliver his lines effectively. That’s got to be it! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-is-anakins-father/303700.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-is-anakins-father/303700.md?page=4)