The Star Wars franchise might also be known as the Skywalker Saga — and thus very, very focused on the eponymous family — but the Skywalkers aren’t actually the most visible characters in that galaxy far away. Sure, everybody knows Luke, Leia, Anakin, or Rey, but even if you combined their collective facetime in the franchise, it still wouldn’t match up to that of Ahsoka Tano. While a relatively newer character, created just before George Lucas stepped down as the shepherd of Lucasfilm, Ahsoka’s journey and impact has more than surpassed his original characters. She’s essentially a retcon forced to exist on the margins of the canon prequel films, but as Lucas and his protege, Dave Filoni, found more creative ways to fold her into the larger universe, the more instrumental a figure she became, even becoming part of the very fabric of the Force.
Ahsoka has cheated death more than any Star Wars character created before or since, and with her jump to live-action in Ahsoka, her story shows no signs of slowing down. Ahsoka’s second season is finally poised to continue her adventures, so there’s no better time to look back on Ahsoka’s journey from upstart Jedi Padawan to unstoppable force.
