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5 Reasons Ahsoka Tano Is The Perfect Jedi

A character that you may not have heard about, might just be the best there is.

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5 Reasons Ahsoka Tano Is The Perfect Jedi
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The Star Wars Universe has given us amazing, strong, and determined female roles. We were given Princess Leia, Rey, Padme, and many other smaller roles, but there is one that isn't in the main movies that is (in my opinion) one of the best.

Her name is Ahsoka Tano and she is shown in "The Clone Wars" movie and TV show as the Padawan to Anakin Skywalker. She is again shown in Rebels as a Rebel fighter. Yes, the shows are animated, but they are canon and the story lines and plot are just as great as the movies. There are spoilers ahead if you have not seen either show.

1. She is the first female Jedi lead.

You may think that Rey is the first main character who is a girl and to fight with a saber, but you're wrong. Ahsoka was first shown to us in 2008 as a youngling who was assigned to Anakin as a padawan by Yoda. She was very strong in combat and had a saber for attacking and a small one to deflect blaster shots. She led troops into battle and battled more common known names like General Grievous.

2. She made Anakin the Jedi he was.

Ahsoka was created to show the growth of Anakin between Episode 2 and 3. Yoda thought that Anakin needed to learn responsibility. Ahsoka was sent to Anakin to do just that and I think they both equally learned from one another. Ahsoka learned combat and how to lead while Anakin learned how to be responsible and how to hold back his emotions a little. Ahsoka didn't stop him from becoming Vader, but she did aid him in becoming the Jedi night that he is in Episode 3.

3. She showed the true struggle to be a Jedi.

In the movies, you see Obi Wan act as the perfect Jedi, no attachments and no problem with it and you see Anakin act irrationally and love Padme and his mother too much to the point that he ends up becomes one of the most powerful Sith. You see the two very drastic opposites, but in Ahsoka you see her question Anakin's actions and she even feels distracted when she has feelings for a boy. She knows that being distracted and attached is not the Jedi way, but she also knows how difficult is it. She focuses herself, regroups, and moves on.

4. She wanted to help Anakin even when he was Vader.

After Order 66 (if you don't know what that is, it's from Episode 3 when all the clones turn on the Jedi and kill them one by one) Ahsoka believes that Anakin is dead. She can't feel him in the Force anymore, but she soon reunites with him in a battle where she realizes that he is alive and also Vader. She tells him that she's not leaving him, but Vader says if she stays she dies. She has seen the damage that Vader has done and finds out it's her master and STILL wants to believe in him. If that's not loyalty I don't know what is.

5. She was mentally stronger than Anakin (in my opinion).

Anakin was a very strong Jedi and even the Chosen One, but he was not a strong Jedi in the mind, he was just powerful. He couldn't detach himself from his mother's death and that caused him to spiral into the Dark Side. Ahsoka was framed for murder that she did not do and was removed from the Jedi Order. It was soon found that a Jedi did in fact plan the bombing, but it was not Ahsoka. She was granted back access into the Order, but she denied it. Ahsoka knew that she could not put her heart and soul into the Order like she once could. She knew that her faith had fallen and her next move was to be something else. She was strong enough to pull herself away from the only family she had known and went on to live a life of fear and lonelines because she knew she couldn't go back wholeheartedly like they needed. Anakin let his emotions and feelings turn him into something unrecognizable while his padawan guided her life with grace.

I love Ahsoka. I love her because she was strong, witty, and caring all in one. She was the perfect Jedi, she knew the need for focus and she knew the feeling of distraction and fought against it. She became something even stronger than a Jedi, someone who could have feelings and attachments, but instead directed her life towards the Rebel cause.

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