How painful is Force lightning?

Force lightning was an offensive technique which involved a discharge of electrical energy from the practitioner's hands and was capable of killing or inflicting severe pain on the target, as well as possible disfigurement or even disintegration.
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Does Force lightning hurt the user?

Intense enough doses of Force lightning will also have the victim having his or her skeletal system being seen through the body, as demonstrated with Darth Vader and Mace Windu. However, this does not impact the user if it is redirected at him or her.
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What does it feel like to use Force lightning?

almost like a slow but focused burn. Luke's cries of pain seemed to be more from high-voltage electrical shock, but that's a given with lightning.
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How strong is Force lightning?

A lethal Force lightning strike is at least as dangerous as a fatal household electrical accident, and possibly as dangerous as a typical terrestrial lightning strike. So how strong are the bolts? It doesn't take that much electricity to kill a human. Applied properly, 100 to 200 milliamps will kill you.
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What is Red Force lightning?

Red Lightning was a rare Force Power created by Darth Rayze during New Jedi Order Era. It was thought to be a powerful variation of Force Lightning and was sometimes known to leave the victim devoid of the Force. Darth Rayze is the only confirmed user of Red Lightning.
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Which Sith can use lightning?

In Revenge of the Sith, after having been bested by Mace Windu, Darth Sidious uses Force lightning against the Jedi Master, who repels it with his lightsaber, deflecting it onto Sidious and disfiguring and scarring the Sith Lord's body.
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Why can't Vader use Force lightning?

Darth Vader can not use force lighting, because of his severed arms. Robotic hands can't summon the force lighting. However Darth Vader can still use other forms of the force, such as force choke.
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Can Darth Maul use Force lightning?

Despite being a powerful user of the dark side of the Force, Darth Maul never used Force lightning in any of the Star Wars films or shows. Despite so many dark side characters using Force lightning in Star Wars, Maul never used it any of his appearances on the small or big screens.
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Why is Anakin so whiny?

As to Anakin, he got really whiny in the middle of his arc. It's more due to frustration with the Jedi Order because of Palpatine's manipulations and Anakin being old enough to have preconceptions about what Jedi should be vs what they really are.
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How do Sith use lightning?

Force lightning is a dark side ability used to torture, disfigure, and even kill one's victims. Blue in color, Sith shoot Force lightning from their hands by calling on their hatred and aggressive feelings. However, while a deadly weapon, it is not unstoppable.
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Why does Force lightning age Palpatine?

It's the intensity of reflected lightning and the channelling of such raw dark side power that are the catalysts for Palpatine's transformation. Perhaps the face that boils up to the surface is shaped by his dark side corruption, but the lightning is definitely the cause.”
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Could Kylo Ren use Force lightning?

From what we learned from the Marvel Comics story on Kylo Ren and his upbringing, along with the information explained and even alluded to in the sequel trilogy — it's entirely likely that Kylo never completely learned how to harness Force lightning.
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Can Jedi have kids?

Although the 2002 film Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones established that the Jedi Order members couldn't marry or have children, Star Wars creator George Lucas explained that despite their monastic regime, the Jedi were permitted to have sexual intercourse as long they didn't form attachments or possessive ...
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Can Jedi use red lightsabers?

In both canon and Legends, Jedi will sometimes use red-bladed lightsabers in emergencies where they're missing their lightsabers and a Sith weapon is the only one available. Some Jedi are explicitly shown using red lightsabers in Legends, however.
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Can Jedi Force choke?

So, all Force users had the inherent ability to use the power. Yes, that meant that Jedi could use the Force choke too. In fact, it only took two movies for that very thing to happen. At the beginning of Return of the Jedi, Luke Skywalker Force choked Jabba the Hutt's Gamorrean guards.
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Can Plo Koon use Force lightning?

Plo Koon was one of the few Jedi to use Force lightning in Star Wars Legends, which could impact the dark side power rules in canon. Plo Koon was a skilled Jedi Master and respected General during the Clone Wars.
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Are all Sith lightsabers red?

The synthetic crystals, favored by users of the dark side for their offensive properties, were filled with the negative energies of their creators, which gave the crystals their red color; the majority of the Sith and Dark Jedi wielded crimson-bladed lightsabers, though colors similar in hue to red, such as orange and ...
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Can Luke use Force lightning?

Luke was the only other Jedi aside from Yoda, that was able to repulse force lightning. Until that time, it was considerd to be impossible for any light side user to deflect force lightning using just the force itself. THis also shows Lukes power level.
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Why does Vader not recognize c3po?

Perhaps, Darth Vader just figures that this is another protocol droid and not C-3PO. Obviously, C-3PO does not recognize Vader because his memory was wiped at the end of Revenge of the Sith. What are your possible explanations for this hole in the Star Wars plot?
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Who was most powerful Sith?

Truly, the most powerful Sith Lord was Darth Sidious, better known in his public persona of Chancellor (later Emperor) Palpatine. Through cunning and manipulation, Sidious killed his master to claim the mantle of Dark Lord of the Sith.
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How did Emperor Palpatine hide his Sith eyes?

Description. Palpatine utilizing Force clouding while speaking with members of the Jedi Council Force clouding was a cloaking technique employed by the Sith to conceal their true nature from the Jedi and other users of the Force.
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Did Yoda ever use Force lightning?

Of note is the fact Sith lightning erupts from the user, Yoda never had any contact with the lightning, he simply summoned it forth from the environment. Also, its probably not possible for Yoda to "have contact" with anything in his current incorporeal form.
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Can Sith do mind tricks?

He claims that it only works on weak-minded individuals, and he refers to the ability as a "Jedi mind trick," which suggests it's only available to the Jedi. However, that is only partly true because the power can be used by any Force-wielder, and unsurprisingly, the Sith version is far more aggressive.
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Who can force choke?

Generally, Force choke was used by the Sith and other dark side users like Sixth Brother, Snoke, or Quinlan Vos after he became apprenticed to Dooku.
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