After a ferocious battle with his former master, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin is left for dead beside a lava flow on Mustafar, and is outfitted with an artificial life support system as well as robotic arms and legs.

Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn ( right ) and Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi, as portrayed by Liam Neeson and Ewan McGregor in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

Obi-Wan Kenobi ( Alec Guinness ) explains that the Galactic Empire had all but exterminated the Jedi some twenty years before the events of the film, and seeks to train Luke Skywalker ( Mark Hamill ) to be the Order's last hope.

In Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace ( 1999 ), Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn ( Liam Neeson ) discovers nine year old Anakin Skywalker ( Jake Lloyd ), whom he believes to be the " Chosen One " of Jedi prophecy who is destined to bring balance to the Force ; the boy is eventually paired with Qui-Gon's apprentice, the young Obi-Wan Kenobi ( Ewan McGregor ), who promises to train him.

The sequel, Attack of the Clones, establishes that the Jedi forswear all emotional attachments, including romantic love, which proves problematic when Anakin, now a young adult ( Hayden Christensen ), falls in love with Padmé Amidala ( Natalie Portman ), whom Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi had served ten years before.

Occasionally, performing an extraordinary ( usually heroic ) act can earn a Padawan learner Jedi status, such as when Obi-Wan Kenobi defeats the Sith Lord Darth Maul.

McGregor previously starred as Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi in the prequel trilogy.

Qui-Gon and his padawan, Obi-Wan Kenobi ( Ewan McGregor ), persuade Jar Jar's tribe to release him to their custody as a guide.

Coincidentally, Lawson is the maternal uncle of Ewan McGregor, who played Obi-Wan Kenobi in the prequel trilogy.

Unknown to Vader, the young senator has hidden the plans inside the Astromech droid R2-D2 and has sent it to find Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi on the nearby planet of Tatooine.

She is finally rescued by Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Han Solo, the Wookiee Chewbacca, and the two droids, R2-D2 and C-3PO.

After Padmé dies in childbirth, Jedi Masters Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda decide that they must hide the Skywalker children from their father, former Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, who has recently turned to the dark side of the Force and become the Sith Lord Darth Vader.

Frustrated, Luke contacts master slicer Ghent, who manages to recover one other holoclip from R2, this time featuring a scene in which Padmé is talking to Obi-Wan Kenobi about Anakin, which is displayed to both Luke and Leia.

Later, it plays as R2-D2 plays her holographic message to Obi-Wan Kenobi.

The theme plays when Obi-Wan Kenobi is killed by Vader.

It appears in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, when Bail Organa has a conversation with Obi-Wan Kenobi about adopting her.

Boba helps the bounty hunter escape from Obi-Wan Kenobi ( Ewan McGregor ), but later witnesses Jango's decapitation by Mace Windu ( Samuel L. Jackson ).

He is introduced in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, in which he is forced to leave home, and finds himself apprenticed to the Jedi master Obi-Wan Kenobi.

When Padmé dies in childbirth, Jedi Masters Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi hide the children from their father and Emperor Palpatine, the ruler of the newly-declared Galactic Empire.

He takes his first steps toward his destiny when he finds two droids, C-3PO and R2-D2, the latter of whom is carrying a message for Obi-Wan Kenobi, known to Luke as the hermit old Ben Kenobi.

Later, in Edge of Victory: Rebirth, they have a son whom they name Ben after Obi-Wan Kenobi, who used Ben as a pseudonym.

This was because in Attack of the Clones, Anakin's lightsaber was built to be reminiscent of the lightsaber in the original trilogy, while in Revenge of the Sith, Vader's lightsaber was designed to match the lightsaber that Obi-Wan Kenobi gives to Luke Skywalker, in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.

Michael Kaminski argues in his book that it is unlikely that the plot point had ever seriously been considered or even conceived of before 1978, and that the first film was clearly operating under an alternate storyline where Vader was a separate character from Luke's father ; there is not a single reference to this plot point before 1978 ( further reinforcing this is Obi-Wan Kenobi calling Vader " Darth ", as if it is his true name rather than his new Sith name ).

Obi-Wan Kenobi is a character in the Star Wars universe.

Obi-Wan offers to take Luke to Alderaan and train him in the ways of The Force, but Luke rejects his offer.

Obi-Wan would then go into exile on Tatooine to keep an eye on Luke during his formative years.

Obi-Wan tells Luke that his father was a Jedi and presents him with his father's lightsaber.

During the Rebel Alliance's victory celebrations on Endor, Luke sees the smiling spirits of Obi-Wan, Yoda, and his father, Anakin Skywalker.

After writing the second and third drafts of Empire Strikes Back in which the point was introduced, Lucas reviewed the new backstory he had created: Anakin Skywalker had been Obi-Wan Kenobi's brilliant student and had a child named Luke, but was swayed to the dark side by Emperor Palpatine ( who became a Sith and not simply a politician ).

Obi-Wan Kenobi is first introduced in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope ( 1977 ), where he is played by Alec Guinness and is first seen rescuing Luke Skywalker ( Mark Hamill ) from a group of Tusken Raiders.

Obi-Wan Kenobi takes Luke to his hut, where he reveals that he knew Luke's father, Anakin Skywalker, and served with him in the Clone Wars.

Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke buy passage to Alderaan on the spaceship Millennium Falcon, piloted by smuggler Han Solo ( Harrison Ford ) and his partner Chewbacca ( Peter Mayhew ); but before they reach Alderaan, the planet is destroyed by the Death Star on the orders of Grand Moff Tarkin ( Peter Cushing ).

While that is going on, Obi-Wan Kenobi disables the tractor beam so that the Falcon can escape and confronts his old apprentice, Darth Vader, in a lightsaber duel, eventually sacrificing himself so that Luke and the others can escape.

In Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back ( 1980 ), set three years after A New Hope, Obi-Wan Kenobi appears as a Force ghost and instructs Luke to visit the Dagobah system for further training under Jedi Master Yoda ( Frank Oz ).

After Luke has been further trained in the teachings of the Jedi, Obi-Wan Kenobi appears in the Dagobah swamp to dissuade him from going to Cloud City, where Vader holds Han Solo and Princess Leia hostage.

In Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi ( 1983 ), set six months after The Empire Strikes Back ( in the novelization ), Obi-Wan Kenobi appears on Dagobah to talk with Luke, who has learned from a dying Yoda that Vader is indeed his father.

At the end of the film, Obi-Wan Kenobi's ghost appears alongside the ghosts of Yoda and a redeemed Anakin Skywalker on the forest moon of Endor, watching Luke and his comrades as they celebrate the destruction of the second Death Star.

Luke is put on Tatooine with Owen Lars ( Joel Edgerton ), Anakin's stepbrother, and Obi-Wan agrees to look after him in secret ; Luke's twin sister Leia, meanwhile, is adopted by Bail Organa.

Having nearly fallen to his death, Obi-Wan uses the Force to seize his master's abandoned lightsaber, and defeats Maul.

Obi-Wan and Anakin confront Dooku in a duel, wherein Dooku strikes Anakin with Force lightning, then turns to Obi-Wan.

With Obi-Wan on the opposite end of the galaxy, Palpatine — who is in reality Darth Sidious — eventually corrupts Anakin to the dark side of the Force and takes him as his Sith apprentice, Darth Vader.

When Obi-Wan emerges from Padmé's ship, an enraged Vader immediately suspects that Padmé has betrayed him, and uses the dark side of the Force to choke her into unconsciousness.

Yoda, unsuccessful in his confrontation with Palpatine, then tells Obi-Wan that he has more training for him: Qui-Gon's spirit will teach him how to retain his identity through the Force and commune with the living after death.

Through the Force, Obi-Wan reassures Luke that he will be there for him when needed.

In Revenge of the Sith, Master Yoda reveals to Obi-Wan that Qui-Gon's spirit has learned the secret of becoming one with the Force, which he teaches to both Yoda and Obi-Wan.

Later during a three-part episode, Qui-Gon appears as a Force ghost twice ; first to Obi-Wan and later to Anakin when they, along with Anakin's Padawan Ahsoka Tano, are trapped on the mysterious planet Mortis.

Taylor voiced Obi-Wan ( Ben Kenobi ) in the Force Unleashed downloadable content level " A Fragile Hope ".

He will reprise his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in live-action form along with Catherine Taber reprising her role as Padme Amidala in the fan film Hughes the Force.

" The Force, the Jedi knights, Darth Vader, Obi-Wan, Princess Leia, Yoda, lightsabers, and the Death Star hold a place in the collective imagination of countless Americans that can only be described as mythic.

For example, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Emperor Palpatine, and Darth Vader can use The Force.

Obi-Wan uses the Force to dismantle his ship into individual LEGO pieces, and reassembles it after the missiles pass, which instead hits two other enemy ships, destroying them.

Later, Obi-Wan is captured and nearly brainwashed by the Syndicat, though he uses the Force to endure it along with the Force-sensitive rock.