Dual Wielding / Star Wars

• The Star Wars prequels added this to the film series. Since lightsabers are weightless beyond their hilts and effortlessly cleave through anything, it shouldn't take much strength to dual-wield them, except against other lightsabers. Of course, we almost always only see multi-lightsaber styles being used against other lightsaber users, even though it could be useful in other contexts as well.
  • Attack of the Clones:
    • Anakin fights with two lightsabers at once for a brief moment against Count Dooku. It's not shown to be particularly effective though (probably because he wasn't specifically trained in it), as Dooku quickly destroys one of them and forces him to switch back to one. Originally Dooku was planned to take Anakin's lightsaber after defeating him and then use both to fight Yoda, but this idea was dropped as it was decided Dooku, as a Master Swordsman, would be too proud of his skills to resort to such gimmicks. In the Revenge of the Sith novelization, he is in fact especially contemptuous of the time Anakin dual wielded.
    • A couple of Jedi also dual-wield lightsabers in the arena battle on Geonosis, including one who does so with dual Reverse Grip! However, both of these Jedi presumably get shot since they aren't seen among the survivors during the Gunship Rescue at the end of the battle.
  • Revenge of the Sith:
    • General Grievous fights with four lightsabers for a brief period, but quickly gets cut back down to two. In the Legends continuity, Grievous had repulsorlifts in his feet that could let him float so his feet could be used as hands and allowing Grievous to theoretically wield six lightsabers at once.
    • Anakin takes Dooku's lightsaber after defeating him and uses both weapons to kill him.
• Star Wars Legends:
  • Luke Skywalker dual-wields on special occasions. Given that it's Expanded Universe Luke (the Grand Master), he's by definition good at it. This is, in fact, an established technique called Jar'Kai. It's typically associated with Form VI combat (Niman) and the user typically wields a smaller lightsaber called a shoto in their off-hand.
  • In Darth Bane, Bane's lightsaber instructor in the Brotherhood of Darkness mentions all of the downsides of dual wielding to discourage his students from learning it, while being a master of dual-wielding himself. This isn't hypocrisy; he just wants to have an advantage in case he ever has to fight his students to the death, a reasonable concern given that they are all Sith. Bane is quickly overwhelmed during their duel because he doesn't know how to handle a dual-wielding opponent so he uses the Force to bring the ceiling down on his former instructor.
• The Mandalorian:
  • IG-11 is often shown wielding two blaster rifles in tandem with his Abnormal Limb Rotation Range.
  • Mayfeld takes this up a notch in chapter six, wherein he uses a mechanical arm to fire a third blaster pistol.
  • Greef Carga dual wields blaster pistols when seen in combat, such as in chapters seven and eight.
  • Bo-Katan and her Nite Owls dual wield blaster pistols in the episodes in which they appear, as they were known to do in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels.
  • Similar to the above, Ahsoka Tano returns in Chapter 13 with her twin white lightsabers. She even utilizes her trademark Reverse Grip with the offhand saber when disarmed of her main one.
• Used in Star Wars: Clone Wars with General Grievous, who in his introduction fought with two lightsabers, one in each hand, then added a third partway through the fight, wielding it with his foot, then in the series finisher, dividing his arms into a total of four to fight with four sabers, one in each hand. Asajj Ventress also fights exclusively with a pair of lightsabers. They can also attach at the hilt to form a double-bladed saber with a curvy handle. During the battle of Coruscant, Captain Fordo starts fighting using a pistol and rifle at the same time and just rolls with it for the rest of the battle.
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars
  • Asajj Ventress specializes in this style of fighting.
  • As of "Heroes on Both Sides", Ahsoka Tano now wields another lightsaber with a shorter blade alongside her normal one.
  • Jedi General Ripper Pong Krell uses not one but two double-ended lightsabers in battle. Being Multi-Armed and Dangerous as well as a legitimate brute in combat makes him a nightmare to fight, as Captain Rex and his men find out the hard way when Krell turns out to be a traitor aiming to join Dooku as his apprentice.
  • Obi-Wan wields his saber and that of Adi Gallia after the latter is killed by Darth Maul and Savage Oppress, before taking both of them on at once. Unlike Anakin, he seems to have comprehensively mastered it, because he takes them both - one a Master Swordsman who'd been preparing specifically to kill him, the other an absolute brute capable of smashing through most Jedi or Sith through raw power, and both significantly bigger than him - in close quarters and ends up beating the pants off them, catching them both in a blade-lock, kicking Savage's knee in and hacking his arm off. Wisely, they run for their lives.
  • In "The Lawless", Darth Maul dual-wields his ordinary lightsaber and the Darksaber against Darth Sidious (who is also dual-wielding lightsabers) after his brother is killed. He is quickly overpowered, but only after forcing Sidious back and getting the upperhand, forcing the latter to actually take him seriously and resort to bullying him with his overwhelming strength in the Force.
  • Anakin uses two lightsabers against the Jedi Temple bomber, Barriss Offee.
• Star Wars Rebels:
  • In "Fire Across the Galaxy", Kanan briefly dual-wields his and Ezra's lightsabers against the Inquisitor.
  • In Season 2, Ahsoka Tano wields two matching lightsabers.
• Star Wars: Visions:
  • In "The Twins", Am puts even General Grievous to shame by wielding not two, not four, but seven lightsabers: two in her hands, four more attached to the extra mechanical arms of her armor, and one built into the stiletto heel of her boot, each of which can additionally be converted at will from relatively standard lightsabers into lightwhips.
  • The titular character of "The Elder" fights with a pair of katana-shaped lightsabers.
  • In "Lop and Ochō", during her duel with Ochō, Lop uses the Force to pull one of her father's fallen sai into her hand, subsequently wielding it in conjunction with the family lightsaber to overwhelm her opponent.
• It's very common in the video games.
  • Star Wars: Battlefront II: Aayla Secura fights with two lightsabers, one blue and one green, simultaneously. General Grievous does the same, and will periodically break out two more during an attack combo. A number of Jedi mooks also wield two lightsabers.
  • The mad Twi'lek Dark Jedi Boc, from Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II, uses a single unusually thick lightsaber — which, when he feels particularly threatened, he splits into two slender ones.
  • Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy:
    • After the second story mission, Jaden loses his lightsaber and needs to build a new one, with one of the options available being to build two and use them in this style, with the option to quench one saber and keep using it on its own if you wish. You can even make each one a different color. Hypnotic?
    • Alora has two lightsabers during your second fight with her.
  • In Knights of the Old Republic and its sequel, any character (except Kreia after she gets her hand chopped off) can dual wield one-handed weapons. While the game doesn't allow for Sword and Gun, you can bring Guns Akimbo (even T3-M4, the game's Shout-Out to R2-D2, can do this) with dual pistols or dual wield two full-sized melee weapons. However, you take a penalty unless you invest in character perks, and an additional penalty unless you use a "balanced weapon" (generally a "short" variant of the lightsaber or vibroblade, or a smaller pistol) in your off-hand - and, if you combine a lightsaber and a vibroblade, the blade will use the same sounds as the lightsaber rather than its normal sounds.
  • Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption example: Urai Fen, Zann Consortium Hero Unit, who dual-wields two BFS's. That can kill a light vehicle in one hit.
  • The Force Unleashed II lets you dual wield lightsabers in Reverse Grip, this being the schtick of our protagonist, the clone of Starkiller. This is emphasized in promotional imagery, with the two lightsabers together making up the Roman numeral "II", and lampshaded by the Emperor in Robot Chicken.
    Palpatine: Guy sounds like a machine! Two lightsabers at the same time!? Good thing he's on our team, huh?
  • In Star Wars: The Old Republic, the force classes can dual-wield lightsabers if they take the Sentinel or Marauder specializations, which focus on melee DPS. Similarly, tech classes can go Guns Akimbo if they choose the Mercenary or Gunslinger specializations, which focus on ranged DPS (with a bit of Combat Medic in the case of the Mercenary).
  • Late into Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Cal obtains a split saber, allowing him to seamlessly switch from standard single-blade combat, to a saberstaff, to dual wielding at the player's discretion.

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