{"id":230297,"date":"2025-10-21T21:40:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T21:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/230297\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T21:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T21:40:12","slug":"a-list-of-ways-you-can-cheat-death-in-star-wars-that-someone-should-show-bob-iger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/230297\/","title":{"rendered":"A List of Ways You Can Cheat Death in ‘Star Wars’ That Someone Should Show Bob Iger"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week, we learned that we came shockingly close<\/a> to the return of Adam Driver to\u00a0Star Wars in a project called\u00a0The Hunt for Ben Solo, which would\u2019ve seen the actor (working with director Steven Soderbergh) revive Ben Solo after the events of Rise of Skywalker and navigate his redemptive arc. That is, until apparently Disney head honcho Bob Iger poo-pooed the idea after an eager Lucasfilm presented it to him, with a simple retort: he and other Disney executives just couldn\u2019t possibly understand how a Star Wars character could come back from the dead<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how, Bob. And anyone else curious!<\/p>\n

12) Essence Transfer \"Star\u00a9 Lucasfilm <\/p>\n

Ah, a classic. Somehow, Palpatine Returned<\/a>, and the somehow is this! A staple of Sith techniques, Essence Transfer, occasionally simply referred to as \u201cTransference,\u201d has been a staple of Star Wars for generations in the Expanded Universe and current continuities, with people either taking over host bodies created for the exact purpose or hoping to possess other living beings to harness their power and vitality. Of course, Palpatine famously did this in both contemporary canon and very early on in the old EU in Dark Empire\u2014speaking of which\u2026<\/p>\n

11) Cloning \"Star\u00a9 Dark Horse Comics <\/p>\n

This one and Essence Transfer go hand in hand\u2014Star Wars has definitely played up retroactively laying the path<\/a> to Palpatine\u2019s resurrection with a series of specially created clones stored for the express purpose of his revival upon death, as he did in Dark Empire as well. Might be a bit harder in the case of Ben, given his body has already entirely dissipated, but there\u2019s got to be some genetic material lying around that could be recovered.<\/p>\n

10) The Rings of Vaale \"Star\u00a9 Marvel Comics <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go for one that\u2019s not necessarily Force-connected: the\u00a0Darth Aphra comics introduced two dangerous rings, the Ring of Immortality and the Ring of Fortune, but there was a catch: the first ring would grant you immortal life but drive you mad. The second ring could counteract that downside if also worn, and on its own could grant great fortune at the cost of quickening your death. Just think of the lucrative tie-in jewelry range you could make.<\/p>\n

9) Life Force Transfusion \"Star\u00a9 Lucasfilm <\/p>\n

Either willingly\u2014as we saw with Ahsoka Tano and the Daughter on Mortis in\u00a0The Clone Wars, or, literally, Ben with Rey in Rise of Skywalker!\u2014or through violence\u2014Sith Emperor Vitiate in\u00a0The Old Republic when he sucked the juice out of the planetary population of Ziost, or Darth Nihilus\u2019 eternal hunger in Knights of the Old Republic II\u2014draining the life force of one being has been shown to have the capacity to not just sustain a living being for inordinate amounts of time but bring them back from the dead (albeit at the expense of another person\u2019s life).<\/p>\n

8) Midi-chlorian Manipulation \"Star\u00a9 Lucasfilm <\/p>\n

Okay, this one is more about\u00a0creating life<\/a>\u2014and in ways the manifestation of life from the Living Force as a response to that manipulation\u2014but someone should at least inform Disney executives about the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise. It\u2019s not a story the Jedi would tell you, but at least\u00a0several Lucasfilm executives could.<\/p>\n

7) Conscience Preservation \"Star\u00a9 Marvel Comics <\/p>\n

A method of choice for the Sith, who have managed multiple times to do the whole \u201cturn into some kind of spirit entity upon death\u201d thing, but not the \u201cbe a chillaxed translucent blue person about it\u201d bit. The Sith Lord Momin<\/a> from the\u00a0Darth Vader comics famously stored his spirit inside his mask in order to possess anyone who wore it, using it to resurrect his original form on Mustafar, for example, and the Sith temple on Malachor in\u00a0Rebels also housed an ancient holocron where an unknown female Sith had stored some sliver of her presence in it for generations.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s not like Ben Solo has a history with one very specific artifact near and dear to some aspect of his persona or anything\u2026<\/p>\n

6) Being Really, Really Mad \"Star\u00a9 Lucasfilm <\/p>\n

If you can come back okay\u2014well, \u201cokay\u201d is maybe pushing it\u2014from being\u00a0chopped in half just because of the sheer hatred you have for the target of your would-be-enemies-to-lovers desires<\/a>, then you can do anything.<\/p>\n

5) The World Between Worlds \"Star\u00a9 Lucasfilm <\/p>\n

Sure, we can get a bit\u00a0Doctor Who and argue about what\u2019s a fixed point in time or not, but we very specifically saw the World Between Worlds<\/a> used as a concept for both a way to save someone from the moment of their seeming death (as with Ahsoka in Rebels) and a kind of spiritual purgatory that someone can come back rebirthed from (again, with Ahsoka in\u00a0Ahsoka. Unless we\u2019re just going to decide that whole concept is off-limits to anyone but one specific Togruta).<\/p>\n

4) Using the Force Really, Really Hard \"Star\u00a9 Dark Horse Comics <\/p>\n

This is probably more helpful for beings who are still alive, but in the old EU, the Jedi Master Fay apparently had developed her connection to the Force with such intensity that it prolonged her life for centuries\u2014and if she had not sacrificed her life force on the planet Queyta to save Obi-Wan Kenobi, rather than recover from the mortal lightsaber wound she suffered from an attack from Asajj Ventress\u2014she could\u2019ve lived and healed herself potentially forever. Sometimes you just have to be built different.<\/p>\n

3) Turning Into Either a) an Animal or b) a Gross Monster Thing \"Star\u00a9 Lucasfilm <\/p>\n

There are ways you can transfer a will to another sentient creature, but it gets complicated. In\u00a0Rebels, for example, it\u2019s heavily implied that Kanan Jarrus\u2019 will<\/a> was perceived through the giant Loth-Wolf Dume (sharing Kanan\u2019s birth name, to boot), but that was not necessarily Kanan being reincarnated as the wolf.<\/p>\n

But the fable anthology\u00a0Dark Legends also gave us the story of Darth Sanguis and Darth Noctyss, two ancient Sith who visited Exegol and thought they discovered a ritual to grant them immortality\u2014instead, the ritual, which required killing a living being, transformed them into emaciated, deformed creatures, with Noctyss not realizing that the being she killed for her own ritual was in fact the husk of the former Sanguis. Grim!<\/p>\n

2) Just Hanging Around as a Force Ghost \"Star\u00a9 Lucasfilm <\/p>\n

We know that Force Ghosts can, with time, have an ability to manifest significantly enough<\/a> that they can appear almost physical and interact with tangible objects. And that\u2019s close enough, if we want it to be!<\/p>\n

Plus, I mean, right now you have Hayden Christensen in\u00a0Ahsoka season two just chilling in a nice shade of blue. Rise of Skywalker had enough blue tones all over those Exegol scenes that we know Driver can look good in that lighting. So what\u2019s the issue, Bob?<\/p>\n

1) Magickal Zombification \"Star\u00a9 Lucasfilm <\/p>\n

Okay, maybe don\u2019t tell Iger about this one. No one wants a gaunt Adam Driver<\/a> wandering around the galaxy.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week, we learned that we came shockingly close to the return of Adam Driver to\u00a0Star Wars in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[53882,49,48,75,337,21883,57299,109365],"class_list":["post-230297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bob-iger","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-star-wars","tag-superlist","tag-the-hunt-for-ben-solo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}