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TOPIC: Canon Colors
Canon Colors 1 year 6 months ago #13901
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If you aren't caught up on the movies or shows, there are mild spoilers ahead!
In the Expanded Universe, blade colours were available in the entire spectrum, but since those stories aren't considered canon anymore, due to the splitting of the movie/TV series and EU continuities into official "Canon" and "Legends", I was wondering what the canon colours for lightsaber blades have become. The colours of blades were originally intended to be blue for good guys and red for bad guys, and that was it. 
Luke's lightsaber was changed to green in Return of the Jedi so fight scenes against a desert sky would be visible to audiences. 
For Attack of the Clones, purple became a blade colour because Samuel L. Jackson insisted on it when Lucas said Jedi lightsabers were only blue or green. 
In Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Ahsoka Tano's lightsaber shoto is a yellowish-green colour, likely to differentiate it from her primary lightsaber, while the Jedi Temple Guards had yellow blades for their lightsaber pikes. 
Pre Vizsla also wielded the black-bladed Darksaber. 
Finally, in Star Wars: Rebels, Ahsoka Tano's lightsaber blades are now white. According to a producer, the white blades represent her allegiance to neither Jedi, nor the Sith. 
So, in Star Wars canon, we have blue, red, green, purple, yellow-green, yellow, black, and white as colours for saber blades. Does anyone know if there are instances of any more colours? I've only seen the films and the TV series, so I don't know if any of the novels or comics cover any more of the variety of colours that the EU features. |
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"I'm no Jedi. I'm just a guy with a lightsaber and a few questions."
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Canon Colors 1 year 6 months ago #13904
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I have not read every piece of Star Wars literature, but the only things I can recall were shade variations on the colors you listed.
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Imagine what you will know tomorrow....
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Canon Colors 1 year 6 months ago #13908
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In "ye olde canon" there was a rainbow of shades in the comics and novels. In the NuCanon there are only the instances you've noted.
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Canon Colors 1 year 6 months ago #14145
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In the Heir to the Jedi novel which is considered canon, Luke gets a lightsaber with an amethyst crystal. Technically it would be a dark purple, much darker than Mace Windu's which according to wookiepedia is violet. However with that being said, they may just not wanted to have been as non descriptive as saying purple lol and called it amethyst instead, but I believe they would have called it purple or violet if they meant for it to be the same color!
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Canon Colors 1 year 6 months ago #14146
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HotelFourSix wrote:
If you aren't caught up on the movies or shows, there are mild spoilers ahead!
In the Expanded Universe, blade colours were available in the entire spectrum, but since those stories aren't considered canon anymore, due to the splitting of the movie/TV series and EU continuities into official "Canon" and "Legends", I was wondering what the canon colours for lightsaber blades have become. The colours of blades were originally intended to be blue for good guys and red for bad guys, and that was it.
Luke's lightsaber was changed to green in Return of the Jedi so fight scenes against a desert sky would be visible to audiences.
For Attack of the Clones, purple became a blade colour because Samuel L. Jackson insisted on it when Lucas said Jedi lightsabers were only blue or green.
In Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Ahsoka Tano's lightsaber shoto is a yellowish-green colour, likely to differentiate it from her primary lightsaber, while the Jedi Temple Guards had yellow blades for their lightsaber pikes.
Pre Vizsla also wielded the black-bladed Darksaber.
Finally, in Star Wars: Rebels, Ahsoka Tano's lightsaber blades are now white. According to a producer, the white blades represent her allegiance to neither Jedi, nor the Sith.
So, in Star Wars canon, we have blue, red, green, purple, yellow-green, yellow, black, and white as colours for saber blades. Does anyone know if there are instances of any more colours? I've only seen the films and the TV series, so I don't know if any of the novels or comics cover any more of the variety of colours that the EU features. alow me to correct your words we have white,cyan,blue,green,lime green,yellow,red,purple and white represent life man i believe in rebels it represent their alliance with the rebellion |
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sabers own: prodigal son,classic epouch vers 2
sabers i want ? Guardian,Count,exalted, legacy 1 and protector,archon and fallen |
Canon Colors 1 year 6 months ago #14148
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sorry but i dont accept black as a saber colour in my headset yet
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sabers own: prodigal son,classic epouch vers 2
sabers i want ? Guardian,Count,exalted, legacy 1 and protector,archon and fallen |
Canon Colors 1 year 6 months ago #14157
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Jedikindzero wrote:
alow me to correct your words
we have white,cyan,blue,green,lime green,yellow,red,purple and white represent life man i believe in rebels it represent their alliance with the rebellion What's the difference between cyan and blue in the context of the films? Original vs Prequel Trilogy's shades of blue for Skywalker and Kenobi? |
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"I'm no Jedi. I'm just a guy with a lightsaber and a few questions."
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Canon Colors 1 year 6 months ago #14159
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Original vs Prequel Trilogy's shades of blue for Skywalker and Kenobi?
Yah. The shades of blue change several times in the animated Clone Wars and those are a deeper blue than the main films which also have different shades of blue. I saw comparison pics about this ages ago but didn't save them.
In the Heir to the Jedi novel which is considered canon, Luke gets a lightsaber with an amethyst crystal. Technically it would be a dark purple, much darker than Mace Windu's which according to wookiepedia is violet. However with that being said, they may just not wanted to have been as non descriptive as saying purple lol and called it amethyst instead, but I believe they would have called it purple or violet if they meant for it to be the same color!
Wuuuuuuuut? I haven't read the new novels because I've heard.... mixed... things about them.
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Canon Colors 1 year 6 months ago #14322
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The novels don't reveal any awesome previously unknown information or anything, but I've read all of them and they are at least worth reading if you are a Star Wars fan. They provide some insight into the characters and at the very least are a fun read in my opinion. I'm very much looking forward to the upcoming Dark Disciple novel.
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