History Sandbox / StarWarsNarm

* After the intensity of their conflict, Anakin expresses to Obi-Wan the tragedy of a great Jedi fallen to the deepest darkness with these FamousLastWords:

--> '''Krennic''': You stand here among MY achievement, [[{{Mondegreen}} NACHOS]]!

* The revelation that Zam Wesell is actually a Clawdite shapeshifter, with her randomly morphing her face into her truer [[TheReptilians lizard-like]] form while racing to escape Anakin on Coruscant. This ability is only shown again when Jango Fett kills Zam with a dart that causes her face to distort again as she writhes. In both instances, it comes off as unintentionally funny rather than the JumpScare it was probably intended to be.

''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' has less Narm than the main films, but it still has its moments.
* The infamous ''[[Literature/TheCallistaTrilogy Callista Trilogy]]'' books are full of this. As a sample, ''Planet of Twilight'' (already one of the [[BizarroEpisode oddest]] ''Star Wars'' books) gives us the character of Beldorion, the first Hutt Jedi, who quickly turned to the Dark Side and took over an entire planet on his own years ago. Yes, a Hutt, who are massive, overweight, slug like creatures with stubby arms that move as slow as molasses, wielding the Force and even engaging in ''lightsaber combat''. He unironically engages with Leia in a lightsaber duel, [[CurbStompBattle and it goes about as well as you'd expect it to]]. After the fact, Lucasfilm realized that the concept was so utterly ridiculous, even by the standards of ''Star Wars'', [[ExiledFromContinuity that they put a future embargo on any more Hutt Jedi from then on out and swept the whole incident under the rug.]]
* In the Literature/NewJediOrder, [[https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Quote:Gilad_Pellaeon Supreme Commander Pellaeon]], talking to Leia Organa Solo about his garden, ends up using extremely heavy-handed garden metaphors to demonstrate what looks like the difference between Imperial and New Republic governing styles. Pellaeon is usually not this absurd.
--> "From a garden one learns to [[TheSocialDarwinist cull the weak and unfit and to encourage the strong and vigorous]]. An inferior bud soon feels the strength of my pinch!"
* In Creator/MichaelStackpole's Literature/XWingSeries novels, viewpoint characters have a tendency to go from thinking about something to suddenly talking about it out loud to themselves. Sometimes, this looks awkward.
** The Rogues go to the prison planet Kessel to fetch some criminals that they can turn loose on the Empire. This includes one of Corran's personal enemies, a [[https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Zekka_Thyne crime lord]] who Corran sent to Kessel in the first place, who had been taken down in part because his diamond-shaped HellishPupils gleamed in the dark. Corran tells him that if he blows his chance and turns against the New Republic, he will be tracked down. Corran ruins the moment by how he says it.
---> "No matter where you go, I'll find those double diamonds of yours. Count on it."
** Said villain (Zekka Thyne) is an alien with dark blotches across his skin. This earned him the less than threatening nickname "Patches".
** Stackpole manages to give his BigBad a bit of Narm too. The Rebels call Madam Director Ysanne Isard 'Iceheart'. She expresses interest in turning one of the Rogues to her side ''via'' brainwashing, and her subordinate, who has a history with that Rogue, says that it's a bad idea because playing with Corran Horn is playing with fire. Her response?
---> "I am Iceheart, I do not burn."
** Kirtain Loor, in general, though some of it may be intentional, since it's driven home again and again that he's not as good as he thinks he is. In practically every book that features him, he thinks about how people have said that he looks like a younger, taller Grand Moff Tarkin. In ''The Krytos Trap'', he also puts on a hooded cloak and imagines himself to look like "a pale imitation of Darth Vader" (which ''itself'' is problematic). He's hoping to inspire Vaderian terror in someone. He ''does'' scare the intended person, but it's clear that this happens because his agents just violently broke into the man's house and threatened him.
** Stackpole also gives us a few... gems... with his cheesy romantic dialogue. "[[ThatMakesMeFeelAngry Losing you just ripped the emotional skeleton out of me]]"?
* Many, MANY of the more "introspective" parts of the ''Jedi Apprentice'' and ''Jedi Quest'' series (by Scholastic, naturally) are full of this -- specifically, the parts where Anakin or Obi-Wan {{wangst}} about what their Master thinks of them.
* The constant references to "lube" in ''Literature/ShadowsOfTheEmpire'' get ridiculous.
** Continued in the later works: Ben likes to say "lubed" a lot.
* The early Marvel Comics ''Star Wars'' stories have their fair share of cheesiness. Battle dialogue is especially prone to over-dramatically phrased sentences.
* In the video game adaptation of ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', one of the shopkeepers on Tatooine is... [[LargeHam very enthusiastic]] about his trade.
--> "Better stand back Mister, cause I'm about to slash... ALL MY PRICES!"
** A large amount of the random background characters in that game could also qualify; many sounded like the voice actors weren't taking their roles entirely seriously.

[[folder:Legends (Pre-2014 reboot Expanded Universe)]]

!! {{Narm}} is not about a failed attempt at a joke, something being similar to another work, or a complaint sandbox. {{Narm}} is about dramatic, yet cheesy, moments.


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The galaxy far-far away is not just full of diverse planets, colorful species, creatures and people of all kinds, but also plenty of [[{{Narm}} overly dramatic moments]]. A lot of these examples may be about "unintentionally funny" moments, but {{Narm}} is only about "dramatically cheesy" scenes. If you find any examples that are about being unintentional funny, please remove them.

* Until the Blu-ray release, Darth Vader silently watched as the Emperor electrocuted Luke. Despite his masked facial expressions, Vader was visibly conflicted before deciding to save Luke with a HeroicSacrifice. The Blu-Ray release adds Vader saying a LittleNo followed by a BigNo, distracting from the heavy emotion the scene originally carried through the acting and score.

[[folder: Legends (Pre-2014 reboot Expanded Universe)]]
There's visibly less Narm in the Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse - as far as UnexpectedReactionsToThisIndex go, it much prefers HoYay [[note]] [[HoYay/StarWarsLegends enough to get its own page [[/note]]- but it's there all right.

** [[TheDragon Kirtain Loor]], in general, though some of it may be intentional, since it's driven home again and again that he's not as good as he thinks he is. In practically every book that features him, he thinks about how people have said that he looks like a younger, taller Grand Moff Tarkin. In ''The Krytos Trap'', he also puts on a hooded cloak and imagines himself to look like "a pale imitation of Darth Vader" (which ''itself'' is problematic). He's hoping to inspire Vaderian terror in someone. He ''does'' scare the intended person, but it's clear that this happens because his agents just violently broke into the man's house and threatened him.

* One of the narmiest aspects of the expanded universe is the ''merciless'' PlanetOfCopyhats box-ticking exercise that is applied to any and all members of the various human and alien races expanded upon. Authors will take the one mention a race or species has in the movies and expand it to be true for ''all'' members of that race or species. Leia says Alderaan has no weapons? They're all pacifists. Many Bothans died to get the Death Star plans? All Bothans are spies. Han says to never tell him the odds? All Corellians hate statistical analysis - this one being particularly Narmy and based on ''one line'', said in context, very much in keeping with one character's personality, applied to a whole race of people (and not even consistent with the movies... "Great shot kid, that was ''one in a million''!" anyone?)... Cringe-inducing.

** There's a novel in that series where Pellaeon's Empire has a tremendous victory against the Vong; the Vong commander has a whole rant about retribution which Pellaeon interrupts by saying that the Vong's threats are as empty as their boasts are shallow. How he caps his ShutUpHannibal moment is a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome to most, purest cheese to some.
--> "You may win the occasional battle against us, Vorrik, but the Empire will always strike back."

** The Rogues go to the prison planet Kessel to fetch some criminals that they can turn loose on the Empire. This includes one of Corran's personal enemies, a [[https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Zekka_Thyne crime lord]] who Corran sent to Kessel in the first place, who had been taken down in part because his diamond-shaped HellishPupils gleamed in the dark. Corran tells him that if he blows his chance and turns against the New Republic, he will be tracked down. Again, not Narm. But again, Corran ruins the moment by how he says it.

*** Yet again, a reasonable sentiment is phrased poorly.

** Stackpole also gives us a few... Gems... With his romantic dialogue. "[[ThatMakesMeFeelAngry Losing you just ripped the emotional skeleton out of me]]"?

* The early Marvel Comics ''Star Wars'' stories have their fair share of narm, too. One irritating habit is the ''constant'' use of air quotes whenever anyone says "The Force". For example, the dialogue Obi Wan gives in his duel against Darth Vader. In the movie, awesome. In the Marvel comic adaptation, not so much;
-->'''Vader''': "Your powers are weak, old man! You should ''never'' have come back!"
-->'''Obi Wan''': You... Only... Know... ''Half'' "The Force"... Vader...! You perceive its full '''power'''... As little as a '''spoon'''... Perceives the taste of '''food'''!"
** There's also Han saying "Alright, Chewie! Starting blasting!"
* Open ''Literature/TheGloveOfDarthVader'' on any random page. There ''will'' be Narm there.

* After Anakin buries his mother, he goes on a [[{{Wangst}} tirade]] to Padmé about Obi-Wan:

* Raddus identifying himself not only as Admiral Raddus, but Admiral Raddus of the Rebel Alliance when the Rebel Fleet arrives at Scarif. It seems being a CaptainObvious is a cultural thing among Mon Calamari.
* Chirrut's absolute invincibility, while it looks awesome, can break the suspension of disbelief, especially next to the comparatively lackluster achievements of trained Force users throughout the franchise. Jedi Masters and experienced Knights can only accomplish feats such as piloting a ship without seeing, making huge leaps and moving objects through space with either great concentration or a lot of training. Yet, a blind monk who's only mildly implied to be an IncompletelyTrained Force sensitive can walk in a straight line toward an object he doesn't know the appearance of, evade every shot fired at him and also score a hit on a fighter craft flying by within a split second. To say nothing about how seemingly light taps from his wooden staff can even hurt, let alone cripple, armored stormtroopers.
** The perky quote below makes it far worse, and the whole scene is either cool, or camp, contrived (look kids, it's Creator/DonnieYen!) and cringe-inducing.
--->''Is your foot alright?''
** His mantra, "I am one with the Force, and the Force is with me" is slightly cringy when repeated ad-nauseam, as it is several times throughout the movie. Okay, we get it, he's Force-sensitive. (And then there's the fact that for a long time after the film's release, supplementary materials insisted that no, he was '''not''' a Force-sensitive.)

* Saw Gerrera's quote "''Save the rebellion! Save the dream!''" is unintentionally hilarious due to the drowned way he delivers it.
* The Bor Gullet scene can cause unintended laughter in some audiences due to Creator/ForestWhitaker's hammy performance, and the fact that it comes [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment straight out of nowhere, and is never mentioned again.]]
* Krennic's pathetic tantrum when Tarkin takes command of the Death Star project.

* Darth Vader has a volcano lair castle tower. That bears repeating, for emphasis: Darth Vader lives in a jet black spire castle straddling a live volcano with a lava-fall flowing out of the front gate. For some, it comes across as... cliche at best, hilarious at worst. Comparisons to everything from [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Mount Doom]] to [[Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice Ernst Blofeld]] to [[Film/AustinPowers a certain laser-shark obsessed doctor]] are inevitable. It gets worse when you know it's based on an early idea for ''Empire Strikes Back'' which was discarded as too silly.

* "The rebellions are built on hope!" is such a cheesy and hopelessly naive line it's surprising Jyn wasn't laughed away. It also happens to be an IronicEcho, only one of a witty, half-serious said by Cassian in the heat of the moment to ''dismiss'' Jyn.
* Just the fact that Jyn has suddenly become so with the Rebel cause that she doesn't even tell the council off for having ordered to kill Galen.

* The European Spanish ''Star Wars'' dubs are famous for having some excellent acting and making a good job of covering bad performances and plot holes in the franchise, but the one for ''Rogue One'', while having a lot of good points too, seems to be the inevitable occasional exception (which was followed by some similar weak points in ''The Rise of Skywalker'' as said above).
** Felicity Jones's voice actress, Lourdes Fabrés, generally does it well, but every time Jyn speaks in the Rebel council, it gets botched by suddenly sounding incredibly childish in key moments.
** Saw Gerrera's VA Rafael Calvo is clearly doing his best to imitate Forest Whitaker's already weird acting, but at the end he sounds as if he was seriously drunk and constipated at the same time. At some points of his talk with Jyn it's too difficult to keep a straight face.
** Dani Albiac in his role as Chirrut is both a huge miscast (he had admittedly voiced Creator/DonnieYen once in his career, but his voice is just too different from Yen's to be believable) and a badly directed one (for some reason, Albiac gives Yen a bizarre accent that just kills all seriousness - he almost sounds like he is channeling [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Apu Nahasapeemapetilon]]).
** Just as Peter Cushing had to be recreated by CGI, the voice actor had to be recast in Spain, as the original, José Luis Sansalvador, died in 2006. The problem here is that his replacement, Jordi Ribes, doesn't sound ''at all'' like Sansalvador. Not only he sounds way too young to be the voice of an old gentleman like Tarkin, he also gives the character a hilariously foppish tone the original didn't have.

There's visibly less Narm in the Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse - as far as UnexpectedReactionsToThisIndex go, it much prefers [[HoYay/StarWarsExpandedUniverse Ho Yay]] - but it's there all right.

[[folder: Palpatine]]
* The way he says this line is rather funny:
--> "I have waited a long time for this moment, myyyy lllittle greeeeen friennnd!"
* Palpatine telling Anakin to "DEW IT" (execute Dooku). It sounds like his evil voice inhibitor malfunctioned. That was probably the point, anyway, but it's still narmy.
* Palpatine is blasting Mace Windu with Sith lightning, and calls him a "traitor". Mace Windu replies with "he... Is the traitor... AAAAHH-aaahhh-ahh!", which is supposed to sound like he's using all his effort to repel the lightning, but it just sounds more like he was constipated.
** "Don't... Listen to him Anakin AAAAAAAAAAUUUHHHHH"
* The following, said in the most ridiculous throaty voice ''ever'': "No. Nooo. '''NOOOOOOOO YOU WILL DIE!'''"
** [[http://imgur.com/QEd0ifN The faces Palpatine makes]] during the whole scene.
* The bit in Episode Three where Palpatine claims to ''be'' the Senate might be a little too UsefulNotes/LouisXIV.
* The entire dialogue Palpatine spouted during Mace Windu's "assassination" attempt is hilariously delivered at times.
-->[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9aPta_LajU "No... No..."]]\\
[[DrunkOnTheDarkSide "POWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! UN! LIM-I-TED! POWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!"]]
** His intonation of "I'm too weak" (which sounds like "I'm ''tweak''") makes him sound mildly annoyed rather than afraid for his life. Honestly, he sounds like he's struggling to move furniture or something.
* While Palpatine is leering over Anakin while knighting him a Sith in Episode 3, [=McDiarmid=] grunts out his lines like he came in his pants mid-line. He even ''rolls his eyes'' to the back of his head while delivering it.
--> "THE FORCE IS STR-R-R-RONGG WITH YOU!!!"
** The amount of times he creepily says "Gooooooood" doesn't much help either. Was it an issue in ''Return of the Jedi''? Yes, [[FranchiseOriginalSin and it gets much, much more Narm-y from there]].
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* In Creator/MichaelStackpole's Comicbook/XWingSeries novels, viewpoint characters have a tendency to go from thinking about something to suddenly talking about it out loud to themselves. Sometimes, this looks awkward.

* Lady Proxima being a giant grub-like alien with a grandmotherly voice can be jarring, especially if we have to believe she is a menacing crime lord (at least Jabba didn't speak so funny...). Even more because she is advertised to the point of being in the OpeningScroll, yet she has under a minute of screentime and almost zero effect on the plot of the film.
* Han's last name came from an Imperial officer... because he happened to be alone when applying to join the Imperial military. In case you were wondering if there was a more unnecessary explanation than the origin of his pants stripe.
* When attempting to persuade Beckett to allow him to join his crew, Han refers to himself as "a driver and a '''flyer'''". [[SarcasmMode Hmm... If only there was a far more commonly used, and far more natural-sounding word for someone who flies a starship...]] The awkward line and the forced delivery combine to make it sound less like a confident assertion of his skill and more like Han has no earthly idea what he's talking about.
* L3-37's entire character. Not only because she behaves more human than any other droid in the entire film franchise (and more than many organic characters, by the way), actually to an extent that had never been established as possible in the first place, but also because her [[SoapboxSadie personality]] is heavily out of tone even at the most lighthearted moments of the film and can be incredibly grating after a time.
** Its name being [[LeetLingo L3-37]]. And this seems to be ''after'' there were massive creative overhauls to keep the film from being too silly.
* There's a background Nephran (lobster-like alien) criminal named Therm Scissorpunch. '''Scissorpunch.''' Like some Sith names, this also overlaps with NarmCharm on the grounds of it also being an AwesomeMcCoolName after a series of relatively mundane names in the Disney-era films.
** Even worse, the name could make viewers remember of a guy who called himself [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 Taserface...]]
* Apparently even Han calling Chewbacca "Chewie" needs some kind of backstory rather than just being a simple affectionate nickname, so we get him bizarrely declaring the name is too much of a mouthful so he goes with something that has ''one'' less syllable. It even makes him look kind of racist.
* The singer at Dryden Voss' yacht, Luleo Primoc. If you don't know what we are talking about, it is the weird green creature in the formaldehyde flask who sings through the liquid like a drunk uncle.
* Enfys Nest does a DramaticUnmask, and it turns out the person underneath is... someone we've never seen or heard of before! It seems the idea is for the viewers to be shocked that Enfys is [[SamusIsAGirl a young woman instead of an older guy]], but the ''Star Wars'' universe has played this card before to better success such as with Leia disguised as a bounty hunter in ''Return of the Jedi'' and the [[SamusIsAGirl trope]] isn't as effective in a day where [[ActionGirl Action Girls]] are far more common, so it's understandable if the viewer is baffled that this is treated as some kind of a dramatic revelation.
* Surely more than a few eyes were rolled when Qi'Ra told Han: "I might be the only person in the whole galaxy who knows what you really are... You're the good guy." Not only is it an incredibly lazy meta joke ([[ViewersAreMorons HAHA 'CAUSE HE'S THE PROTAGONIST, GET IT?]]), the film's central message that Han's conscience will never let him walk away from a situation without doing the right thing cheapens the character arc he went through in the original trilogy from amoral smuggler to committed rebel. If Han was always "the good guy," then where's the emotional impact of his [[Film/ANewHope sudden decision]] to return to Yavin IV to save Luke and the Alliance? Or his [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack decision]] to forgo a chance to pay off his debts and save himself from Jabba in order to personally evacuate Leia from Hoth? Even more cringe-worthy is Han whining about what a terrible person he is in response, sounding about as convincing as a toddler bragging about how "bad" he is for staying up past his bedtime.
* Maul activating his double-bladed lightsaber at the end of his holographic conversation with Qi'ra. He's supposed to look threatening but ''he's just a hologram''.
** There's no apparent InUniverse reason for him to do so, and he only seems to do it to completely confirm to the audience that, yes, he's Maul in case the black robes, tattoos, horns, and robotic legs weren't enough to convince them. According to [[WordOfGod Ron Howard]], this was apparently done because Maul's face was rather hard to see during their first, lightsaber-less attempt at the scene.
** Maul appearing at all can be a source of narm for many. Viewers who haven't kept up with nearly 20 years of non-film ''Star Wars'' lore will know him only as the guy who got chopped in half in ''The Phantom Menace'', and viewers who have and know he isn't dead will just be confused as to what he's doing there. It seems as if the writers needed an established character to be the mastermind behind Crimson Dawn and pulled a ''Star Wars'' character at random out of a hat.

* The first sentence of the crawl ("The dead speak!") can come off as a bit melodramatic and flowery, especially compared to the first lines of the opening crawls of previous movies, which tend to be fairly straightforward explanations of the current military/political situation (e.g. "It is a period of civil war.").
* Crossing over with FightSceneFailure, when Kylo is fighting a group of warriors in the Mustafar forest, he performs this hilariously bizarre attack where he appears to reverse grip his lightsaber, ''moonwalk'', and then stab a guy who was behind him.
* We see Kylo's helmet getting put back together by a blacksmith in an appropiately solemn, quiet moment... Except the blacksmith in question is a Symeong, a type of [[ApesInSpace chimpanzee-like alien]] with oversized ears and a distractingly comical appeareance. While [[AllThereInTheManual the Visual Dictionary sheds some more info on the guy]], whose name is Albrekh, the whole scene can feel [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment pretty bizarre nonetheless.]]
** The rebuilt helmet still carrying red marks of the pieces it was broken into. While hopefully deliberate ([[FashionVictimVillain which is still narmy by itself]]), probably in the vein of the ancient Japanese art of repairing pottery named ''kintsugi'', it only makes it look like a disastrous repair work, just like a badly fixed broken vase. Kylo being visibly proud of having his helmet back, despite how ugly it looks now, just sells it.
** According to insiders, there was an extended version of this scene where the Knights of Ren performed a sort of [[DancingIsSeriousBusiness bizarre ritual dance]] to accompany the moment of Kylo putting his helmet back on. Good thing it was cut, because chances are that this would have been simply too much for an already questionable scene.
** Later, after Kylo Ren asks Hux what he thinks of the rebuilt mask, the general ([[SarcasmMode very reluctantly]]) compliments him on his work. However, another officer suddenly blurts out "I like it!" Whether she's [[ProfessionalButtKisser sucking up to her Supreme Leader]], or being genuine, it's way out of line in terms of military decorum.
* On a similar note to the "I like it!" line, as Kylo and his Knights of Ren march down the hallway, you see two stormtroopers' reactions. Now, them looking at their imposing and frightening appearance and knowing of their reputation in the First Order, it would make sense for the stormtroopers to react with awe or admiration. However, rather than saying something like "Impressive" or even "Amazing", the fact that one of the stormtroopers says "Cool" just makes it feel laughably immature and ridiculous, like how a little kid would react to them instead of a grown adult.
** The moment was probably intended to serve as a very un-subtle [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] on the [[ScareQuotes "mystery"]] surrounding the Knights of Ren, who have been TheGhost so far in the sequel trilogy. But that only makes things sillier, really...
* When Rey and Kylo Ren have their dyad-induced duel despite being in two different locations, it's shown that Rey is actually swinging her lightsaber around fighting nothing from the perspective of any outsiders. As Kylo was in the middle of raiding Kijimi when this occurred, this implies that he was likewise swinging his lightsaber randomly in an empty marketplace while stormtroopers looked on in confusion.
* The sole concept of Rey being Palpatine's granddaughter. Not only for how out of nowhere it comes, given the absolute lack of foreshadowing even in this very film, but also because, being Palpatine we are talking about, it only brings to mind a variety of [[BrainBleach unpleasant images]]. In a last touch, part of its unintentional hilarity comes as well from it looking like the creators were trying too hard to come up with a shocking lineage revelation and went for the most improbable, unexplained and creepy of all.
* After the [[GondorCallsForAid arrival of]] [[BigDamnHeroes Resistance reinforcements]] in the climax, a First Order officer says the inexplicable line: "it's not a navy... It's people!" While a nice sentiment, it feels like such a random and unnatural thing for that character to say in that moment.
** Again, the European Spanish dub makes it even worse, as for some reason, "people" is whimsically translated there as the Spanish word for "individuals." Thus the quote becomes "they don't have a navy... They are individuals!", which could have mercifully passed as an abstract reference to the [[IndividualityIsIllegal Final Order's fascism]] had it made some contextual sense.
* Palpatine raising his arms and shooting his Force lightning at the Resistance ships in the sky is meant to be a terrifying display of his power, but it's started off by what sounds like a bass drop as if Palpatine is giving a show at a huge rave. Creator/IanMcDiarmid's hammy acting doesn't help nor the fact that Palpatine just disables most of the Resistance ships instead of blowing them up.
* Rey replying to Palpatine's boast that he is "all the Sith" by retorting that she is "all the Jedi." Metaphorically and literally true as it might be, it doesn't compensate the fact that this is a '''''massive''''' LameComeback, especially for a climactic scene that is meant to encapsulate all the conflict in the saga. Hilariously, her dramatic pause between words even makes it sound like she was genuinely trying to come up with a fancy reply, only for her to give up and go for the easy method of mirroring his line.
* While undeniably tragic, the death of Ben Solo is acted in a way hard to take seriously. After sharing a passionate kiss with Rey, he quite literally just drops dead, without uttering a sound and no preamble, like Vizzini in ''Film/ThePrincessBride''. The fact that Rey just looks [[DullSurprise mildly confused]] at the death of her soulmate doesn't help. Entire theatre audiences have been known to erupt into laughter at this scene.
* The scene where Rey buries Anakin and Leia’s lightsabers on Tatooine is supposed to be a heartwarming way for her to honor the Skywalker legacy, but instead becomes chuckle-worthy when one remembers that Anakin ''hated'' Tatooine on the counts of living his childhood there as a slave and witnessing his mother's death in a Tusken Raider camp before slaughtering everyone there, that one of the last things Luke saw before he set off to become a Jedi were the charred remains of his Aunt Beru and Uncle Owen, and that Leia went to Tatooine only once in the movies to rescue Han and was briefly [[GoGoEnslavement enslaved]] there for her efforts. To add insult to injury, their lightsabers are both buried under the sand ''and'' right outside Uncle Owen’s moisture farm. Many memes were made about how all the Skywalkers are rolling in their graves over this revelation.
* In the ending shot the camera shows Rey watching the rising sun at such an angle that the sun looks like a halo around her head. That alone might be enough to push the shot into either Narm or FauxSymbolism territory, if you interpret this as an attempt to imply that Rey is a literal saint now, but then BB8 rolls in... and gets his own halo from the second sun! [[/folder]]

[[folder:''A New Hope'']]
* The movie had the first appearance (by film release) of the now-infamous Skywalker Whining Gene.
--> "Biggs is right, I'm NEVER gonna get out of here!"
** "I was going to go to the Tosche Station to pick up some power converterrrrs!" is Narm of the whiny variety.
---> "I thought you said this thing was fast!"
** "What's that flashing?!" *POINT*
* Luke's BigNo when Obi-Wan gets cut down. It sounds more annoyed than angry. How about some [[http://xanykaos.deviantart.com/art/Star-Wars-Continuity-14934514 fanart]] illustrating the Narm theory?
[[/folder]]

* The Blu-ray release includes a rather infamous change that is considered one of the worst ones since the advent of the Special Editions. Originally, when Palpatine was electrocuting Luke, Darth Vader silently watched as he was, despite being masked and thus covering any facial expressions, visibly conflicted before overthrowing Palpatine in a HeroicSacrifice and sparing his son's life. The Blu-Ray release adds a LittleNo followed by a BigNo, destroying quite a heavy amount of the emotion the scene had originally carried. The BigNo deserves special mention for how corny and over-the-top it is in one of the most serious moments of the entire trilogy.

* The blaster bolt and Poe being held in place while two stormtroopers run into frame and beat him up, all in one static shot, resembles a [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Monty Python]] skit instead of ''Star Wars''.
* Poe and Finn's great escape being stopped suddenly... Because they ''forgot to unplug the damn fuel line''. The moment is so absurd that it can easily kill all the tension of the escape to the spectator's eyes.
* Snoke's face being severely deformed is not a narmy thing per se, but the fact that his ears are separated from the horizontal plane by a good chunk makes his deformity unintentionally tongue-in-cheek.
** His impassioned delivery of the line "GENERAL!"
** While his real model is pretty well made and achieves a genuinely creepy effect, his hologram image blurs his textures and makes him look almost puffy and with his eyes completely black. He resembles more an Orc plushie than any other thing.
* The tense scene where Rey goes inside Maz Kanata's basement, followed by [[FunnyBackgroundEvent BB-8 rolling down the stairs.]]
* One word: "TRAITOR!" Just the idea of a Stormtrooper, originally one of the most incompetent Mooks in film history, attempting to do something badass is beyond hilarious, but the idea of a Stormtrooper MANAGING to do something badass (in this case, effectively beating down a lightsaber-wielding main character) is downright out of the line.
* The Kanjiklub mobsters. Not only are their hairdos ''seriously'' ridiculous, their gang name sounds more like a highschool anime convention than a menacing galactic crime faction. Even worse, the fact that they basically go down without putting a fight, considering who [[Film/TheRaidRedemption the guys who play them are]], only makes their apparition harder to watch without laughters or ill feelings.
** Then there's The Guavian Death Gang. The name sounds like they are a bunch of tropical fruit lovers who kill people by drowning them in Guava juice.
** Many also chuckle at Bala-Tik's Scottish accent and opening line, "'an Solo! Yew'r eh DED MAHN!" (the last three words [[https://youtu.be/qavTHC4TcYM?t=3s delivered with a disapproving]] head-shake). His accent and delivery is also the reason "Tell that to Kanjiklub" became a meme.
* The Rathtars. They're these horrifying beasts but the way they move about makes them so unbelievably GOOFY!
* When Kylo Ren confronts Rey and Finn during the climax, he screeches "''TRRAAIITTOORRR!!!''" at Finn in the most whiny, petulant, over the top fashion imaginable, like a spoiled brat throwing a tantrum that he didn't get his way.
* After [[spoiler: Chewbacca]] shoots him in the stomach, Kylo Ren spends the rest of the movie [[IAintGotTimeToBleed running around bleeding]]. It's actually pretty threatening, as it really shows [[{{Determinator}} how determined he is to stop the heroes]]. But that feeling's somewhat lessened when he [[KickingMyOwnButt starts punching himself in the wounded area]] every few minutes.
** The scene has a meaning in-universe: Kylo is trying to accentuate his pain and anger, and therefore, [[ThePowerOfHate his darkside power]]. However, viewers who aren't very familiar with the ''Star Wars'' lore might probably not catch this, so many of them may even end up believing this action is [[WorstAid an exceptionally poor portrayal of an attempt to stop the bleeding]]. Rey and Finn's own visibly confused reactions to the wound-punching only make it worse.
** Aside from the fact that [[{{Understatement}} punching your wounds isn't a good idea]] in ''any'' galaxy, Creator/AdamDriver decided to depict his pain with hilariously loud grunts and [[DullSurprise an emotionless face]]. For many who thought Kylo was an {{Emo}} stereotype, the focus on self-harm made it even harder to take him seriously.
* The last shot in the film: [[spoiler:Rey and Luke Skywalker meet, face-to-face, for the first time. Luke turns to look at her. Rey wordlessly offers him his old lightsaber. The two stare at each other motionlessly for a long while... And then ''keep'' staring... And ''don't stop staring at each other'' until the credits start rolling. One wonders how awkward the scene would be without the dramatic swelling music.]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIVpbS18oJQ Wonder no longer.]] The narm scales up exponentially when you realize that this is how the characters, in-universe, are perceiving this scene.
* General Hux gets ''[[EvilIsHammy very]]'' [[EvilIsHammy expressive]] during his big speech, the intensity of which can be seen as... Debatable as he ramps up about the rise of the "first ordah." Creator/DomhnallGleeson's clearly trying to invoke [[PuttingOnTheReich Hitler]] during his speeches, but many would say that he often came across as ridiculous-looking too.

* The bandage Kylo Ren is wearing on his face. It looks silly enough on its own but it's compounded by the fact that it's ''black'', as if Kylo made sure it went with his outfit before he put it on.
* Leia [[spoiler:flying through space with the Force after being blown out of a spaceship.]] It looks exceedingly goofy, like something out of a superhero movie or from ''Film/MaryPoppins''.
* Vice-Admiral Holdo's hair color. Next to nonhuman Resistance members like Admiral Ackbar, she is basically a human with purple hair, which looks like someone out of a B-movie SpaceOpera flick or [[Literature/TheHungerGames the Capitol]]. Even worse, she's not exactly as young as the common type of people who dye their hair those colors, which helps it to make her look less like a military commander and more like an eccentric hippie aunt. Her jarring fashion sense is better explained in outside material, but her character displays none of her informed quirky personality in the film proper (rather the opposite, actually).
** Also, the fact that Holdo is wearing a pink dress while commanding military troops. It doesn't look aesthetically pleasing or practical in any way, and if you know and appreciate military etiquette, you can also argue it is extremely disrespectful to her underlings.
* Kylo Ren's ShirtlessScene is somewhat undercut by the fact that he is either wearing yet another black bandage on his belly (presumably for the wound he sustained from Chewbacca's bowcaster in the previous film) or his pants above his navel.
** When Rey reaches out her hand to Kylo Ren through their Force bond (while Kylo is light years away, mind you), we get a close-up of her hand, and Kylo's hand slowly pokes its way into the shot before we even see the rest of him. Such a ridiculous image in a very tense and emotional scene can cause stifled snickers.
* Kylo Ren killing Snoke? Dramatic and unexpected. Snoke's ridiculous tongue-tied expression as the upper half of his corpse lies on the floor? Not so much. Snoke's bottom half falling off the chair for no apparent reason minutes after his death? ''Hilarious.'' Also, this happens right after Snoke boasts about how he can ''never'' be betrayed. His look of shock at being betrayed is now extra hilarious.
* While the fight scene between Rey and Kylo against the Praetorian guard looks awesome, some [[FreezeFrameBonus keen-eyed viewers]] can take notice to a few flaws:
** The [[FightSceneFailure Force kick]] makes a comeback when Rey kicks [[https://78.media.tumblr.com/7a65faa0038787cec09c943b0097f530/tumblr_p14qxrRSFu1v4f9e8o1_500.gif one guard, but the one besides him also gets knocked down]].
** In another moment Kylo slams his sword to the ground and [[https://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/14/148983/6193096-1334066752-15135.gif one Praetorian hits his blade instead of his exposed torso]]. Also in the same shot, one guard runs ''spinning'' for some reason after Rey deflects his blow.
** One of the extras playing a Praetorian looks off-screen for his cue, realises he is still in frame, does a DoubleTake, and hobbles back into the action.
* There's no getting around the fact that a major part of the film is Rose and Finn getting arrested, and then escaping from prison and missing out on the Master Codebreaker, because ''they had parked illegally''. Made worse by Slowen Lo, Creator/JosephGordonLevitt's character, later referring to them as the "shuttle parkers" in what seems to be an impression of Disney's Goofy, as if explicitly calling attention to the blatant ridiculousness of it. His suddenly startled reaction at the guards tasing Finn and Rose only completes it.
* Holdo lightspeed-ramming the ''Raddus'' through the entire First Order fleet is undercut by the moment directly after it happens, when Poe, Leia and the rest of the remaining Resistance members look on in shock... ''except'' for two pilots standing directly behind Poe (and fully in-frame), who are nonchalantly having a casual conversation and couldn't care less about what just happened in front of them.
* Finn's duel with Phasma, in the cavernous Mega Star Destroyer hangar bay which is [[BattleAmongstTheFlames engulfed in flames and wreckage]]? Awesome. Their duel backdropped by BB-8, in a hijacked AT-ST walker, wantonly laying waste to hordes of Stormtroopers and generally wreaking havoc? ''[[MoodWhiplash Hilarious]]''.
* ''Super'' Star Destroyer somehow wasn't so bad, but ''[[UpToEleven Mega]]'' Star Destroyer just sounds kind of corny.
* Rose coming to long enough to give Finn a moving little speech and a quick kiss, before dramatically fainting again the next moment. Finn's utterly confused reaction, which likely echoes that of the audience, doesn't help.
** The line itself, "That's how we'll win - not fighting what we hate, but saving what we love" is also this for many, especially since in this case fighting what you hate is done ''in order to'' save what you love.

** "Help me! I am ''weak''!" Delivered by a guy who just used a dark side power that proves he's the dark lord.

** When he is begging for Mace Windu not to kill him, it sounds like he is yawning.
** Not to mention the face Palpatine pulls after killing Mace Windu, which makes him look like he just [[{{Squick}} climaxed]]. Given his habit of being DrunkOnTheDarkSide, he possibly ''did''.
** Palpatine's face post-disfiguration is like this for the rest of the movie. Everytime they cut to his face during the Yoda face-off, he makes a leering crazy old man face and it is hilarious every time.

** The amount of times he creepily says "Gooooooood" doesn't much help either.
* The ease with which Palpatine manipulates Anakin is a verbal equivalent to TheWorfEffect, laughably so. Palpatine is ''supposed'' to be a charismatic master manipulator, but his [[ObviouslyEvil complete lack of subtlety]] to how evil he is makes Anakin come off as a kid falling for candy in a white van. Case in point, when Palpatine reveals that he's the Sith Lord, the conversation goes like "Learn the Dark Side. Only through me will you save Padme!" - "I'll tell the Jedi." - "You don't trust them because they don't trust you." - "Uhhh...", and then Palps convinces Anakin with the words "You have great wisdom, Anakin". Anakin must be mentally challenged to fall for this.
* Palpatine's use of InTheHood. He often uses it even in well-lit areas where wearing a hood normally wouldn't do much to conceal your face... so he pulls the hood down far enough to block his eyes. He might think he looks intimidating, but he ends up looking ridiculous since he shouldn't be able to see. You half expect him to walk into something every time he does it.

* The Blu-Ray release includes a rather infamous change that is considered one of the worst ones since the advent of the Special Editions. Originally, when Palpatine was electrocuting Luke, Darth Vader silently watched as he was, despite being masked and thus covering any facial expressions, visibly conflicted before overthrowing Palpatine in a HeroicSacrifice and sparing his son's life. The Blu-Ray release adds a LittleNo followed by a BigNo, destroying quite a heavy amount of the emotion the scene had originally carried. The BigNo deserves special mention for how corny and over-the-top it is in one of the most serious moments of the entire trilogy.

-->"I hate sand. It's so... ''[[ShapedLikeItself Sandy]]''. But you, Padmé. You're not sandy. ''And that is why I love you''."
* When Anakin and Padmé are frolicking at the lake country on Naboo, Anakin tumbles off one of the animals he was riding and plays dead. Padmé's has a naively perplexed reaction as if she honestly believes that Anakin had just died or knocked himself out, despite it being obvious he hadn't done either. This also resulted in jokes along the lines of "Oops! Anakin's dead, the whole original trilogy has now been butterflied out of existence!"

-->'''Padmé:''' "You're not all-powerful!"\\
'''Anakin''': [[{{Wangst}} "Well I should be!"]] And someday I will be... I will be... ''The most powerful Jedi ever!'' IT'S ALL OBI-WAN'S FAULT! HE'S ''JEALOUS''! ''HE'S HOLDING ME '''BACK'''!!!''

--> "I have seen... A... Security hologram... Of him... Killing ''younglings''..."

--> "I HATE YOU!"

* The scene where they're frolicking at the lake country on Naboo seems like a whole sequence of this, as Padmé runs through the fields, her arms extended to the sides, prompting numerous [[MemeticMutation jokes]] that she looked like she was going to start spinning around and singing "The hills are alive with ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic''/Gungans/Jar-Jar/[insert something Naboo-related here]!" Anakin--moments later--tumbling off one of the animals he was riding and playing dead, followed by Padmé's naively perplexed reaction (she seemed to honestly believe that Anakin had just died or gone into a coma, despite it being obvious he hadn't done either) also resulted in jokes along the lines of "Oops! Anakin's dead, the whole original trilogy has now been butterflied out of existence!"
* After Anakin buries his mother, he goes on a [[{{Wangst}} tirade]] to Padmé about Obi-Wan.

* When Vader learns that Padé has died despite turning to the dark side to save her, he expresses his pain with a [[BigNo Big "NOOooOOOoooOOOooo!"]] The official Star Wars website once had a soundboard to play with this line in recognition of how unintentionally funny people found it.

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* The lofty, faux-poetic "I don’t like sand" speech in ''Attack of the Clones''. As [=StickWars=] puts it:
-->"I hate sand. It's so... ''[[ShapedLikeItself Sandy]]''. But you, Padmé. You're not sandy. ''And that is why I love you''."
* The scene where they're frolicking at the lake country on Naboo seems like a whole sequence of this, as Padmé runs through the fields, her arms extended to the sides, prompting numerous [[MemeticMutation jokes]] that she looked like she was going to start spinning around and singing "The hills are alive with ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic''/Gungans/Jar-Jar/[insert something Naboo-related here]!" Anakin--moments later--tumbling off one of the animals he was riding and playing dead, followed by Padmé's naively perplexed reaction (she seemed to honestly believe that Anakin had just died or gone into a coma, despite it being obvious he hadn't done either) also resulted in jokes along the lines of "Oops! Anakin's dead, the whole original trilogy has now been butterflied out of existence!"
* While Anakin is {{Wangst}}ing about his problems regarding his dead mother to Padmé, Padmé herself has a spaced-out and slightly slack-jawed expression that makes her look like she wasn't actually listening to his tirades the entire time.
* The clearest moment when George Lucas could have used some help with the script dialogue again, Padmé: "[[ThatMakesMeFeelAngry You're breaking my heart!]]" Natalie Portman is a good actor, but nothing she could do could make that climatic line be anything but pathetically and amateurishly clumsy.
* "Love won't save you Padmé. Only my new powers can do that." The line is rather cheesy and almost too dramatic.
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* The revelation that Zam Wesell is actually a Clawdite shapeshifter, with her randomly morphing her face into her truer [[TheReptilians lizard-like]] form while racing to escape Anakin on Coruscant. This ability is not brought into any relevance during the following sequence, except when Jango Fett kills Zam with a dart that causes her face to distort again as she writhes. In both instances, it comes off as unintentionally funny rather than the JumpScare it was probably intended to be.
* At Shmi's funeral, Anakin says "I miss you, Mom", which is tragic, but then he has to add "so m-much" in a hilarious way, like he's been pushing boulders.
* Any time Anakin {{Wangst}}s like a whiny teenager who couldn't handle getting stood up on his first date.
-->"''They're like ANIMALS! And I SLAUGHTERED them like animals! I HATE THEM!!!''"
* Earlier, in the same scene:
--->'''Padmé:''' "You're not all-powerful!"\\

* During the famous "not just the men" scene, Anakin is flipping out and going on a tirade about how he'll become the most powerful Jedi ever, who "will even learn to stop people from dying." A monotone Padme just asks "what's wrong, Annie?". ''His mother died the day before they had this conversation. He brought her corpse to Padme's house.''
* Shortly before that, Poggle the Lesser (good thing the name itself wasn't mentioned in the film, that would have been bonus {{Narm}}) apparently sentences Anakin, Padmé and Obi-wan to death. The [[StarfishLanguage Geonosian hivemind]] may sound menacing at times with all the insectoid chittering, but Poggle opening his speech with an elephant-like trumpet ruins everything.
* Creator/EwanMcGregor has since admitted that he was just reading his lines off the script for his performance throughout the prequels. No other scene exemplifies this more than the one where Count Dooku tells a bound Obi-Wan the truth about the Sith having control of the Senate. While Creator/ChristopherLee is trying to add some class to his performance, [=McGregor=] is obviously phoning it in to the point where it looks like Obi-Wan is treating the entire revelation as if [[DullSurprise he actually doesn't care]].
* Dooku throwing gear from the walls and pieces of the ceiling towards Yoda might convey some sense of threat if not for the sheer ''slowness'' of his telekinesis. Yoda could have avoided all of them by calmly stepping to the side if he hadn't felt like entering a little Force contest.
** Generally, Yoda's lightsaber skill gets three types of reactions from people: some think it's extremely badass, some think it's extremely ridiculous, and some think it's a mix of "Holy shit, that's awesome!" and "Holy shit, that's funny!" It need not even be both simultaneously; the first time through the sheer fanboy glee at the badassitude of Yoda wielding a lightsaber might distract you from the enormity of it.
** Part of the hilarity of the scene is provided by Yoda screaming like Shemp from ''The Three Stooges'' throughout the fight. Screw Jedi reserve, restraint, calm, you have to yell louder than Mel Gibson in ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'' to fight a lightsaber duel!

* Palpatine's scenes of him activating his lightsaber and yelling out a scream that really has to be heard to be believed.
** After Palpatine unveils his lightsaber, he does an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve1889zS030 incredibly fancy corkscrew jump]] over his desk and lands in front of the Jedi, who just step backwards warily. Following the moment, Sidious stabs Agen Kolar in an incredibly slow, grimacing and telegraphied thrust, and Saesee Tiin, who was inexplicably looking at another direction, does nothing to stop it, keeping his weapon held high behind his head all the time. Then Sidious turns aside and slashes Tiin, and this time the victim looks shocked that Palpatine was there in first place. Kit Fisto finally manages to just react to what’s happening and trade a few shots with Palpatine, but he is killed with ease anyways and in doing so he yells out a ridiculous squeal.
** During Palpatine and Windu's singles duel, they lock blades and bring close their faces, and then, presumably out of sheer will in the struggle, they both pull such a purse-lipped expression (or a crazy grimace, in Palpatine's case) that they just look constipated.
* Ki-Adi-Mundi's stunned expression upon turning back and seeing the clones pointing their guns to him makes the scene difficult to take seriously altogether.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nOm3i0iRPw Aayla Secura's death]] loses its effect when you realize that the actress puts ''no'' effort into making her drop to the ground look convincing; you could almost swear she was trying to feign death.[[note]]Happens at the 1:34 mark.[[/note]]
** The clones' ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill reaction in the same scene almost plunges into BlackComedy. Presumably in order to check out she is dead, they decided to keep shooting her lifeless body after downing her, and they are still pouring plasma nonstop at the poor girl's body when the camera zooms away. It makes you wonder if they were also going to make one of the AT-OT walking carriers stomp on the corpse for good measure.
* Plo Koon being shot down in his starfighter by his own escorts is sad and shocking. His starfighter crashing against an immense city structure and somehow [[MadeOfExplodium creating a fireball which engulfs it entirely]] is not, unless he was carrying nukes in his tiny vehicle.
* "I have seen... A... ''Security hologram''... Of him... Killing younglings..." delivered in an almost completely deadpan way. And it doesn't help that it looks like Ewan [=McGregor=] is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SqTR0DorSw trying not to laugh at the line.]]
* When Anakin calls Padmé a "LLLIIAAARRRR!!!!", the way he shouts it makes him sound like a child whose parents just taught him that lying is bad, and he's just looking for a chance to call out a fibbing adult and sound like a goody-two-shoes.
* "YOU TURNED HER AGAINST ME!!!" The line is so... loud. It really feels like Hayden Christianson was just leaning into the mic for that one.
* Then when Anakin yells "YOUWILLNOTTAKEHERFROMME!!!", he puffs his cheeks like he's five and thinks Obi-Wan is trying to take his ice cream from him, not Padmé.
* "From my point of view, the Jedi are evil!" When your Dark Lord of the Sith sounds like the slow member of the debate team, you've got problems.
* "Only a Sith deals in absolutes!" Take a close look at that statement. Doesn't it look a little like an absolute?
* The Force-Push duel between Anakin and Obi-Wan during their climactic battle: it basically had them holding their palms toward each other and glaring daggers at each other while Obi-Wan made silly faces in exertion while the music swells in the background. What's worse is that it had the potential to be an impressive show of their use of the Force: walls buckling, lights flickering, [[ExplosiveInstrumentation exploding monitors]] could have driven home just how much power the two of them were using. Instead it just looks ridiculous.
* Shortly after Obi-Wan reveals he has the high ground, Anakin proceeds to take his chances and has his good arm and BOTH his legs (somehow) cut off clean in one strike, and it feels like the only reason for this is the higher ground...
*** Anakin's warcry: "UWAAAA-AAAAAAAAAAA!"
** Anakin's stilted "You underestimate my '''POWAH!"''' becomes hilarious when he then proceeds to attempt a stupid manuever Obi-Wan just ''warned'' him not to try and then gets both his legs abruptly cleaved off for his trouble. Such power to make the galaxy tremble!
* Anakin's FamousLastWords to Obi-Wan. After the intensity of their conflict... And the apparent sense of tragedy Lucas was supposedly trying to reach, of a great Jedi fallen... Ladies and gentlemen:
--> "'''''I HATE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!'''''"
** It also doesn't help that the line ends up sounding like "I HATE CHEW!"
* At the end of the film, where Amidala is about to give birth to the twins. A droid doctor approaches Bail and Obi-Wan, saying that although she's healthy, ''she has lost the will to live and is inexplicably dying.'' [[labelnote:*]]Unless you're one of those who think she died [[EpilecticTrees due to Anakin likely draining her life force with his powers earlier]][[/labelnote]] "Medically, there's nothing wrong with her. For some reason, we're losing her." "She's dying?!" The tone of the entire scene is just so overly dramatic, which is what Narm is about.
* Say it with us now... '''[[BigNo "NOOooOOOoooOOOooo!"]]'''[=/=]"[[BlindIdiotTranslation Do ]]'''[[TranslationTrainWreck not]]''' [[RecursiveTranslation WANT!]]" at the end of ''Revenge of the Sith''. See [[http://starwars.com/play/online-activities/soundboards/index.html#/?theme=14 the official soundboard]].
* The scene in the film where Vader brutally murders all of the Separatists is genuinely chilling, thanks in part to the fact that Vader doesn't utter a single word while doing it. The novelization, on the other hand, decided it was better for Vader to [[HurricaneOfPuns engage in wordplay with them]] before he killed them.
** "We were promised a reward,” she gasped. “A h-h-handsome reward.“ "I am your reward,” the Sith Lord said. “You don’t find me handsome?”
** “You fought a war to destroy the Jedi.” Vader stood above the shivering Neimoidian, smiling down upon him, then fed him half a meter of plasma. “Congratulations on your success.”
** The head of the Techno Union turned at his approach, cringing, arms lifted to shield his faceplate from the flames in the dragon’s eyes. “Please, I’ll give you anything. Anything you want!” The blade flashed twice; Tambor’s arms fell to the floor, followed by his head. “Thank you.”
** But the absolute worst of them is the painfully bad pun Vader quips before he kills Nute Gunray;
-->'''Gunray''': “The war is over-Lord Sidious promised-he promised we would be left in peace...”
-->'''Vader''': “His transmission was garbled.” The blade came up. “He promised you would be left in pieces.”

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* Almost all the films have some. The dramatic tone of certain scenes can come off as completely cheesy and [[StealthPun force]]d.
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* Almost all the films have some. The dramatic tone of certain scenes can come off as completely cheesy and forced.

* This romantic little gem:
-->"You're so beautiful!"\\
"That's only because I'm so in love."\\
"No. No, it's because I'm so in love with ''you.''"\\
"So love has blinded you?"\\
"Well, that's not exactly what I meant."\\
"But it's probably true."
* The clearest moment when George Lucas could have used Creator/LawrenceKasdan's help with the script dialogue again, Padmé: "[[ThatMakesMeFeelAngry You're breaking my heart!]]" Natalie Portman is a good actor, but nothing she could do could make that climatic line be anything but pathetically and amateurishly clumsy.
* "Love won't save you Padmé. Only my new powers can do that." Aside from being a cheesy line on its own, Anakin has been Darth Vader for a few ''days'' at the absolute most, and hasn't even attempted to learn the secret to cheating death through the Force yet.

** When Obi-Wan slashes the battle droids, Palpatine inexplicably yells "Yeah!" Which really just makes it look like he's rooting for a sports team.

* Palpatine's habit of drawing his lower jaw back and leaving his face with a slack-jawed toothless grimace. When he proclaims the creation of the "FIRST! GALLLLACTIC! EMPIYAAAAAH! FOR A SAFE! AND SECUAAAAAAAAAH! SOCIETY!", that together with his bulging eyes gives him the appearance of a gaping toad.
* Palpatine's use of the InTheHood trope. He often uses it even in well-lit areas where wearing a hood normally wouldn't do much to conceal your face... so he pulls the hood down far enough to block his eyes. He might think he looks intimidating, but he ends up looking ridiculous since he shouldn't be able to see. You half expect him to walk into something every time he does it.

* When General Grievous enters the bridge of ''The Invisible Hand'', he has to make the viewers realize how angry he is with "[[IncomingHam WAAAAAAT'S DA SITUATIAN, CAPTAIN?]]"
** His ridiculous order to his Magnaguards : "'''KEEL HEEM'''"
* Grievous ''skittering'' on all six like a panicked cockroach. It's meant to be creepy, but might be a little overboard.

** Furthermore, '''everything''' the Jedi do is absolute. "Do or do not, there is no try" is absolute. Even speaking about a Light side and a Dark side is freaking absolute! Anakin's problem with them in the first place is precisely that they have a ton of absolute rules, particularly those against marriage and love.

* Both the prequel trilogy and the original trilogy fall prey to this. The fun, exciting adventure can come across as utterly camp or hokey, depending on the audience. Some members may also find the dialogue corny. A good rule of thumb is that your mileage will definitely vary.

* Snoke's line "The droid we seek is onboard the Millennium Falcon... in the hands of your father: ''Han... Solo!"'' is meant as a WhamLine to the audience, but is awkward in-universe, as that's something Ren blatantly knows already.
** Snoke telling Kylo that BB-8 is onboard the ''Falcon'' "along with your father... *dramatic pause*... [[TheReveal Han Solo]]." While it's presumably put there because ViewersAreMorons, the fact is that the ''Falcon's'' passengers are: Chewbacca, who's [[{{Squick}} almost certainly not Ren's father]]; Finn, who's far too young to be his father; Rey, who's not only the same age but also couldn't possibly be a [[ExactWords father]] anyway; and Han. Who else could it possibly be?

** [[FridgeLogic HOW DOES HE GET BACK UP THE STAIRS?!?!?!]] Kind of brings into question why anyone would build a droid with a ball instead of, you know, useful appendages, like legs or a tread.

* Rey's utterly flabbergasted reaction at hearing about Luke Skywalker. "Luke Skywalker? But... I thought he was a ''myth''!" Considering that Luke went missing just some years earlier and that he was a pretty known public figure up to the point, her reaction is the equivalent of a real life person from present day being shocked at hearing that Pope Benedict XVI actually existed.
** This actually mirrors a line in ''A New Hope'' where Han scoffs at the existence of the Jedi Order and the Force, which was turned into an EarlyInstallmentWeirdness when the Prequels's timeline established Han was alive when the Jedi Order was still around. The thing is that in ''The Force Awakens'', he '''again''' gives a variation of the same line, only even more superlatively this time.
* Kylo Ren's tendency to only refer to Han as "Han Solo" gets a little awkward during emotional moments, such as [[spoiler:his duel with Rey]].

** In the proceeding scene, Kylo Ren is caught in an exploding facility, several floors below Rey and Finn. Rey and Finn flee the facility into the forest, where they encounter... Kylo Ren, who has somehow escaped the explosion, and gone around them in order to ambush them in the forest, covering more ground than them in the same amount of time, uphill, and while wounded and heavily bleeding. "[[Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove By all accounts, it doesn't make sense.]]"
* Leia's reaction when [[spoiler: Han dies]]. She looks less grief-stricken and more like someone who lost her poker bet. Finn's face is not much better.

** [[spoiler:Rey, as well as several other characters in the film, offers the lightsaber with the saber end first, rather than the safer handle end. One wonders if Luke's refusal to accept it might be to avoid the inevitable accident.]]
** A number of viewers thought '''how''' it was shot (shaky camera from a circling helicopter) to be cheesy. Someone on a podcast said the final shot looked like it was from an 80s show like ''Series/MiamiVice''.
** This scene (and many others in ''The Force Awakens'') relies on nostalgia in order to have an emotional impact. The film got mixed to negative reactions in China particularly in part because ''Star Wars'' was not seen much in post-Cultural Revolution China at the time of its original release, and as such did not embed in the popular cultural consciousness, causing many Chinese viewers to leave the theater not happy to see a beloved character again, but instead wondering, "who's that old hobo?"

* And right after the speech is done, all the stormtroopers and officers make a [[PuttingOnTheReich naziesque]] salute, like the producers are assuring us that we can see the connection, as if Hux's speech wasn't obvious enough already.

* Kylo Ren throws his ship into a seemingly pointless spin during the opening space battle. Because [[Film/ThePhantomMenace it's a good trick.
* The ActionPrologue is so ''dense'' that it can be hard to get a lot of emotional impact out of most of it before it's all gone past.
** The Resistance's usage of large, cumbersome bombers clearly based on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-17_Flying_Fortress B-17 bomber]] that need [[TwoDSpace to be above their target to drop their payload]] is already quite silly, but it gets especially ridiculous when a [[DisasterDominoes single TIE fighter crashing into one of the bombers causes a disastrous chain reaction that destroys almost every bomber in the fleet but one]]. The design of the bombers is corny enough, but their destruction almost looks like a scene from ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuyPresentsLaughItUpFuzzball''.
** Poe's urgent claim that the First Order Dreadnoughts are "fleet-killers". Even when having in consideration their respectable auto-cannons, it's [[InformedAbility hard to believe that those Dreadnoughts can be a terrible threat to an entire fleet]] when a single X-Wing can completely ravage its deck and destroy all of its defense turrets, which is exactly which Poe proceeds to do.

* Poe's overexcitement and lack of DangerDeadpan throughout any dogfight since the previous movie can sometimes ruin a moment, but his yelling "Uaaghh!" when landing his X-Wing inside ''Raddus'' after the disastrous bombing run sounds really ridiculous and ruins the tension, making him sound like too emotional/excited after finishing a particularly difficult ([[MilitaryMaverick and an unauthorized one]], for that matter) task.

* Every time the film cuts back to the ''Raddus'' being pursued by several Star Destroyers could be seen as this. The idea is that the ''Raddus'' has just enough fuel to stay out of striking range of the First Order's weapons, but this is depicted by what seems to be a very slow, unimpressive chase, with the Star Destroyers occasionally firing a few stray shots which impact harmlessly on the ''Raddus''' shields. It seems a little too reminiscent of the low-speed white Bronco chase that led to OJ Simpson's arrest.
* Lieutenant Kaydel Ko Connix, played by Carrie Fisher's daughter Billie Lourd, tends to deliver many of her lines with more volume than nuance. Somehow it manages to rob most of the drama from the scene of her transport narrowly escaping the destruction of the Resistance base via OrbitalBombardment in the film's intro.
* The Force bond between Rey and Kylo Ren brings its own load of narm. For starters, the FoeRomanceSubtext between Rey and Kylo Ren could cut down the poignancy of their relationship: the idea is that they're becoming attached and understanding through organic means, but if they're attracted to each other, then ''hormones'' are part of the equation...
** Kylo Ren's ShirtlessScene is somewhat undercut by the fact that he is either wearing yet another black bandage on his belly (presumably for the wound he sustained from Chewbacca's bowcaster in the previous film) or his pants above his navel.

* During a personal talk with Rey, Kylo Ren gives her some super edgy, delusional and unhealthy life advice about dealing with her problems, providing some insight into his villainous motivations while also being hilariously demented. It's even more amusing and over-the-top in the film's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq1ncW-3avY theatrical trailer]], where Kylo's advice was played up for maximum drama.
--> '''Kylo Ren''': Just let the past die. ''Kill it'', if you have to. It's the only way to become what you're meant to be.
* Kylo Ren killing Snoke? Dramatic and unexpected. Snoke's ridiculous tongue-tied expression as the upper half of his corpse lies on the floor? Not so much. Snoke's bottom half falling off the chair for no apparent reason minutes after his death? ''Hilarious.''
** Also, this happens right after Snoke boasts about how he can ''never'' be betrayed. His look of shock at being betrayed is now extra hilarious.
** The reason Snoke is caught off-guard? Apparently his mind-reading ability is just plain bad, since he can only sense a general intent to kill from Kylo, without a clue who the intended victim is. And even worse, it all happens because Snoke had theatrically closed his eyes while clowning about his power and thus couldn't even see that the lightsaber was being slowly rotated towards him. It really makes you wonder how he's lasted this long.
** Snoke being instantly killed by the bisection compares unfavorably to Darth Maul, because while the latter fell to an apparently miles deep pit aside from being cleaved, he actually survived. In contrast, Snoke just dies in the act, looking shocked, without even twitching a bit.

** It was a cool way to dispatch off one guard, but why on earth were there [[NoOSHACompliance enormous shredding blades right in the middle of Snoke's throne room]]? At least it sort of made sense to have a massive pit in the Emperor's throne room, it being on top of an enormous spire, but in this case it is just pointless. Seeing the poor sap getting pulverized may cause viewers of a certain age to say, [[Film/{{Spaceballs}} "What have we got on this ship, a Cuisinart?"]]

** Probably what has become the most infamous error was how a duel-wielding Praetorian guard that was facing off against Rey has one of his blades [[https://media.giphy.com/media/2xPGQWsq5sAvyr5Zlj/giphy.gif magically disappearing]] during the fight. It's as if the editing team realized that the original scene looked stupid showing the guard off with a free left arm not taking the opportunity to stab Rey in the back with his second blade, so they tried to cover it up rather than just completely redo the scene.
* Even though it is deliberately done as a homage to the original films, the [[spoiler:usage of a puppet to portray Yoda for talking to Luke]] looks inevitably underwhelming and shoddy next to the admittedly impressive CGI used in ''Attack of the Clones'' and ''Revenge of the Sith''.
* For some viewers, the entire Canto Bight sequence took them out of the movie, because it came off like a place you would see in the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' or ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' universes rather than being something out of ''Star Wars''.
** There's no getting around the fact that a major part of the film is Rose and Finn getting arrested, and then escaping from prison and missing out on the Master Codebreaker, because ''they had parked illegally''.
** Made worse by Slowen Lo, Creator/JosephGordonLevitt's character, later referring to them as the "shuttle parkers" in what seems to be an impression of Disney's Goofy, as if explicitly calling attention to the blatant ridiculousness of it. His suddenly startled reaction at the guards tasing Finn and Rose only completes it.
** Just how ridiculously over the top and [[{{Anvilicious}} on the nose]] evil all the clientele in Canto Bight is. Just add Hunger Games to the above mix for the complete experience. They cannot just have horse-races - no, a jockey must prod his mount with a shocker right in front of the onlooking heroes! Have droids tending to the animals? Not evil enough! Only slaves, scratch that, ''child slaves'', who have to sleep in the same stalls as the horses. At one point a patron literally [[DastardlyWhiplash twirls]] his... facial tendrils, because he's rich and evil.
* DJ's weird stutter detracts from certain moments where what he's saying is supposed to be taken seriously. The fact that the impediment itself is apparently being played ''for coolness'', however, is ridiculous and even potentially offensive.
** That Finn and Rose decide to bring with them a random stranger they met in prison, who might have told them just what they wanted to hear, instead of ''the guy they had traveled there to find in the first place'', is something hard to find outside of a Creator/LeslieNielsen comedy film. It would have been shocking that such a move didn't end up backfiring on their faces.
** Speaking of which, Finn and Rose becoming shocked that the [[ChaoticNeutral self-serving thief]] [[NoNameGiven "DJ"]] (who they just busted out of prison, clearly works for money rather than any ideals, and has openly emphasized his philosophy that the only way to survive is to not pick a side)... GASP! [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter BETRAYED THEM?!?!?]] is pretty hilarious.
* Leia and Holdo having a grandmotherly laugh over an unconscious Poe about how they like him for his spunk. This despite the fact that, from the points of view of both, Poe has disobeyed several superior orders, caused the death of an entire bomber squad, risked the complete destruction of the ''Raddus'', raised a mutiny, and endangered their final plan to save the Resistance, all while generally behaving disrespectfully and even throwing kicking tantrums - reasons why Leia demoted Poe at the beginning of the film and likely why Holdo didn't trust him. Even if Leia and Holdo are not exactly innocent of military stupidity and have their own part of fault in all of it, the revelation that they suddenly had a good opinion of Poe all along (especially given that he has already proved to have learned absolutely nothing of them through the film) is too incoherent to take seriously.

** ''Super'' Star Destroyer somehow wasn't so bad, but ''[[UpToEleven Mega]]'' Star Destroyer just sounds kind of corny.

* Holdo's and Poe's "We are the spark that will light the fire that will burn the First Order down" line. It's hard to take seriously due to how long and convoluted it is for a statement that's clearly meant to be hopeful and inspirational. It has no less than ''three verbs'' and no commas, which makes Creator/OscarIsaac to sound almost like he's running out of breath while he is saying it.
** It doesn't help that a line like that makes no sense for Poe to repeat anyway, given that his entire arc has been precisely about how the best course of action isn't always to just blow stuff up and burn it down. It makes him look he has learned nothing from the experience.
* Leia proclaiming, at the end of the film, that they have already all they need to rebuild the Resistance. Only minutes after her senior officer made a huge drama out of how their galactic allies have heard their call and ''refused'' to help them. What should be a heartwarming and awesome moment gets turned into a jarring one for how forced it feels.

* The opening crawl states that Kylo Ren is aware of Palpatine's return and is actively seeking him out to destroy him. However, considering that in the previous film, he only managed to kill a powerful Dark Sider through some trickery and then got completely and utterly humiliated by a relatively untrained Light Sider, this supposed showing of badass falls a little flat and can come off as hilarious, like a hiker who thinks that just because they can climb a hill means they can climb Mt. Everest.
** The first sentence of the crawl ("The dead speak!") can come off as a bit melodramatic and flowery, especially compared to the first lines of the opening crawls of previous movies, which tend to be fairly straightforward explanations of the current military/political situation (e.g. "It is a period of civil war.").

* The fact that EVERYONE [[DullSurprise seems rather blasé]] about Palpatine's return, despite him being a defunct power-mad despot who ruled over the entire galaxy, and who is now in possession of an entire fleet of Death Star-caliber weapons. The Resistance members and pretty much all the galaxy citizens shown onscreen handle this revelation remarkably well, despite it would be the equivalent to Hitler resurrecting himself and obtaining ten thousand nuclear weapons in real life. Oscar Isaac's delivery in particular sounds less grave and more like even ''he'' can't believe this script.
* Palpatine apparently kept his armada of Star Destroyers underground for no apparent reason other than it made for a cool shot when they emerged. This becomes even more questionable considering that the Star Destroyers all have a large crew. How did they get recruited, and how long were they waiting for the dramatic reveal?

* The heroes are all inexplicably shocked by the First Order Troopers flying after them with jetpacks, as if this kind of technology is completely unheard of. No one told them about Boba Fett, or any other Mandalorians...
* Upon finding the body of Ochi of Bestoon, Poe says: "Bones... I hate bones." [[CaptainObvious Gee, thanks, Poe, we never would have guessed that this was supposed to be creepy without that line.]]
** It doesn't help that it bears a resemblance to another [[Film/AttackOfTheClones infamous line in the Star Wars saga about a character's intense dislike of a relatively mundane and normal thing.]]
* C-3PO's "Taking one last look at my friends, sir" line from the scene before his memory erasure. Heartfelt as it might be, its inclusion overlooks the fact that during that scene, 3PO is looking at Poe, Rey, Finn, BB-8 and a new character, Zorii (who is even wearing a face-obscuring helmet) - none of whom have ever shared more than a couple minutes of screentime with him in any movie, let alone be his friend, and instead have spent more time treating him like a ButtMonkey. What should be an emotive moment feels instead as a heavily forced attempt at giving those characters a weight on the overarching ''Star Wars'' story they don't really have.
** It's even narmier in context. Instead of playing up the drama of Threepio being forced to undergo ''another'' memory wipe for the greater good, it's used for a few silly jokes, nobody even really reacts to it after it happens, and then R2 restores his memory with no fuss, and a flimsy explanation.
* While Dark Rey looks pretty unsettling at first with her serene yet clearly malevolent expression, the fact she has [[FangsAreEvil sharp teeth]] for [[RuleOfScary some reason]] and keeps hissing in the most over-the-top way possible during her confrontation with Rey can feel pretty excessive, almost as if the writers somehow didn't feel the jet-black robe, red lightsaber and SupernaturalGoldEyes were ObviouslyEvil enough.

* Kylo Ren's retcon of his explanation of Rey's parents includes the baffling excuse of "They sold you to protect you!" It's a moment that clearly demonstrates that the reveal about Rey's lineage was a blatant last-minute retcon. If Rey's parents really loved her, there was no reason why they couldn't have given her to a loving family instead of abandoning her to fend for herself on Jakku for years.
* Rey's mother crying [[BlatantLies "She's not on Jakku!"]] seemingly immediately after leaving Jakku, which might be [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial the most suspicious and needlessly specific thing she could say]], yet it is apparently enough to fool Ochi into not checking there.
* Rey's statement that she's seen Ochi's ship before, followed by a repeat of the shot of young Rey watching what we presumed was her parents' ship flying away. As WebVideo/JennyNicholson points out in her review, the confusion as to whether the ship was meant to belong to her parents or Ochi makes it comparable to Rey thinking all blue Honda Civics are the same car.
* The death of Creator/CarrieFisher before she could film any new scenes for ''The Rise of Skywalker'' unfortunately creates some narm in the film. Mostly because Leia is given several big, dramatic scenes, despite Fisher not being able to actually ''act'' in those scenes. There's a moment where Poe gets emotional while speaking to Leia or rather, her body which would be powerful, if not for the fact that ''Leia's face is obscured for the entire scene'' by her funeral shroud.
** As she prepares for her final projection to Ben, Leia's entire body is dramatically shadowed to hide the fact that it's obviously not Carrie Fisher in the scene. The result is ''jarring'' and brings to mind crime shows that obscure interviewees the same way to protect their identities.
* Kylo Ren's hallucinations of Han Solo when he last saw him and pulling a HeelFaceTurn afterwards is supposed to be a sad moment, but it's undercut by Harrison Ford looking inexplicably scruffier than he was in ''The Force Awakens'', with his beard stubble and shoulder-length hair.
* Enric Pryde's rank in the Final Order, "Allegiant General," sounds rather random, especially compared to all the possible alternatives they had (great marshall or supreme commander, for example). Does it mean the rest of FO generals have less allegiance to Palpatine than him?
** It turns even worse in the European Spanish dub, as the rank gets translated there to a prosaic "General Leal" ("Loyal General"). The main problem with this, aside from sounding silly, is that the word order in Spanish language makes it look like "Leal" could be just a bizarre surname (especially given that it ''is'' a real surname in Spain, which brings [[AerithAndBob its own quality]] [[GratuitousSpanish of narm]]). Indeed, being such a odd translation choice, many Spaniard viewers were led to this confusion and wondered why was he referred to as General Pryde at some scenes and General Leal at others.
* In order to cripple Palpatine's Star Destroyers, Finn and Jannah ride along the top of the main Destroyer on space horses, or "orbaks". It's an epic scene...until they disappear without explanation and everyone is suddenly on foot for the gunfight, with the orbaks never seen again.
* The inexplicable crowd of cloaked figures watching the final confrontation between Palpatine and Rey that does nothing besides chanting weirdly and adding window dressing to the ominous setting. You almost expect them to provide backup vocals for an impromptu performance of "[[Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Hellfire]]".
* Palpatine spends most of his appearance in the film attached to some sort of medical device that resembles a crane. While this is apparently supposed to be horrific, it instead makes it impossible to take any scenes featuring him seriously, as the whole thing follows him in every step like a giant puppeteer arm. He just looks like a piñata. [[IncrediblyLamePun A Palpiñata?]] (Alternatively, he looks like he's either attached to [=GLaDOS=] from ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'', a wired-up cyborg straight out of ''Anime/GhostInTheShell'', or he's connecting to the Animus from ''Film/AssassinsCreed2016''.)

** Adding to the absurdity is how comically huge that fleet is, especially taking into account that Lando apparently somehow rallied it alone, in a few hours at most, just a year after the galaxy pretty much wrote the Resistance off and refused to help them against an infinitely less powerful enemy.
* The plotpoint about how the key to stopping the Star Destroyers is to destroy the radio towers since they need a radio tower to tell them which direction to go becomes mind-bogglingly stupid when the only direction they need to go is ''[[WhatAnIdiot up]]''. The fact that they try to justify it by having Poe point that out and say it almost word for word really doesn't help.
* You get some incredibly awkward FightSceneFailure when Ben is fighting the Knights of Ren, as he perfomrs this bizarre move where he bends his spine forward, holds his lightsaber behind him, and just stands there for a solid few seconds as one of the knights goes out of his way to hit the blade instead of his completely exposed legs and waist. The fact that it puts this shot into focus and has it happen slowly so the audience can take it in like this is supposed to be ''cool looking'' and practical is just ridiculous.

* Heck, Palpatine's "I am ALL the Sith!" line is pretty ridiculous in and of itself despite Creator/IanMcDiarmid's valiant attempts at making it work with his tried-and-true Dark Side ham, mainly because it evokes an [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/all-the-things old internet meme]]. If they dropped one word from the line, it might have been good.
* The fact that, in spite of this build up of having the combined power of all Sith and all Jedi, the final battle just consisted of a pretty short sequence of Rey slowly walking towards Palpatine and blocking his Force lightning with her two lightsabers as he just stands there until she's so close to him that they just bounce back and kill him. [[AntiClimax Pretty underwhelming for a final battle with THAT kind of building up.]]
** Also, the fact that Palpatine's lightning was previously so powerful that he could shoot an enormous pillar of it into the air that spread in several different directions and disabled a ton of ships at once, yet it can't make it past [[WeaksauceWeakness TWO LIGHTSABERS]] [[EpicFail THAT ARE RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM]] is pretty hilarious.

* Similarly, while very sad (especially with the RealitySubtext involving Carrie Fisher), the fact that ALL THREE Force wielding members of the Skywalker family (Luke, Leia, and Ben) die from what was basically just ''using the Force too hard'' might come across as unintentionally hilarious. Especially since Palpatine [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat somehow survived getting thrown into an elevator shaft and blown up]], and wasn't even winded by either maintaining a telepathic connection to Ben for ''decades'' or creating a Force Storm powerful enough to cripple thousands of ships.
* The exchange between Lando and Jannah in the end was meant to be heartwarming and maybe tease further adventures, but ends up being awkward, confusing and creepy, since we're clearly supposed to assume that she might be his daughter (backed by the Visual Dictionary which reveals that, by astounding coincidence, Lando had a daughter who was kidnapped by the First Order as an infant), and yet his "let's find out" line sounds like he's making advances at her.
* After the final battle, Maz gives Chewbacca a final gift from Leia: the Rebellion medal that he was denied at the end of ''Film/ANewHope''. A moment that should be poignant just raises a ton of questions, since if Leia had always intended to give it to him, she had DECADES to do so in the time between ''A New Hope'' and his departure with Han before ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', and again between ''Film/TheLastJedi'' and ''The Rise of Skywalker''. The presentation makes it feel more like Leia actively blocked Chewbacca from receiving a medal for years, and now that she's dead, the Resistance can ''finally'' give Chewie the credit he deserves. It also creates a bit of a ContinuitySnarl, since canon sources [[AllThereInTheManual confirm]] that Chewie was given his medal at the same time as Luke and Han, only in a private ceremony instead.

* Rey calling herself "Rey Skywalker" at the very end of the film is supposed to be her choosing their legacies to honour rather than her grandfather's, but she's known Luke for all of two days before he died, had a fairly unpleasant experience with him during those two days, and has spent her entire time with Leia (who's more known as Leia Organa) off-screen.

* The film bringing back Palpatine and turning the "no one is ever really gone" line into a sort of tagline. All after the previous film had hammered down left and right the message of "just letting the past die" with every one of its twists.
* The message of bloodlines not mattering to who a person is falls rather flat considering the movie also goes out of its way to retcon Rey not being related to any important characters. So apparently it does matter if you're the main character.

!!The Films
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* The fact that the chairman of the ArmsDealer MegaCorp is named "Viceroy Nute Gunray". Of course, because he is basically a viceroy who is nuts and sells ray guns. (Good luck trying not to think that every time you hear his name.) It may also bring up "Newts" and "rays" as reptilian and aquatic creatures he bears a certain resemblance to, which is not any less funny.
* Qui-Gon's reaction to Shmi revealing that Anakin was born via a virgin birth is a wonderful nugget of unintentional comedy. He appears to [[AsideGlance glance directly at the camera for a few seconds with a deadpan look]] that says "yup we're really doing [[TheChosenOne this type of story]], audience. Enjoy not getting a refund!"
* Daultay Dofine's indignant retort of "Impossible! Nothing can get through our shield!" when Anakin has just blasted the main reactor to kingdom come inside the Droid Control Ship's hangar.
* Darth Maul's (presumed) death stops being dramatic and becomes hilarious once his two halves begin spinning in a ridiculous manner as he falls to his doom.
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