Jar Jar Awakens

With Star Wars The Force Awakens on the near horizon, the web is abuzz with Star Wars theories and rumours. But there is a recent one that has been surprisingly popular and is absolutely brilliant – Jar Jar Binks, the most hated Star Wars character of all time, may actually have been a Sith Lord and was behind everything.

The rumour started when a poster on Reddit called Lumpawarroo put forward a theory that Jar Jar Binks was actually a trained Force user and his whole bumbling, annoying idiot persona was just a front. A bit like when we were first introduced to Yoda.

He then goes on to provide a lot of evidence that is actually pretty damn convincing and if true, makes Jar Jar one of the best characters ever. The theory addresses things like the annoying battle scene where Jar Jar seemingly stumbles around but coincidentally only takes out droids – a lot of droids. People got annoyed (myself included) because that level of luck made the whole thing stupid and detracted from the film. But as Lumpawarroo pointed out – Obi Wan said in ‘A New Hope’ that in his experience there is no such thing as luck. Obi Wan wouldn’t lie.

There is a lot more evidence and even film footage to back it up, including some clips of Jar Jar actually doing force powered stuff. Check out the page here, it is genius.

As the internet is a thing of wonder, this theory immediately spawned a website called Darth Jar Jar.

As if that wasn’t enough, someone has taken the ‘Jar Jar Binks is a Sith’ theme and spliced it into the new trailer called Jar Jar Awakens. It too is a work of genius. Have a look and enjoy you will.