--- description: Lasers and lightsabers galore title: Star Wars Onscreen Deaths Supercut: Watch image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbcf95e856add84b0/698762a7f887dc0736e87b5d/star-wars.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch a Supercut of Every Onscreen Death in the _Star Wars_ Trilogy  by [Eliza Berman](/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Oct 24, 2014 3:03 PM CUT  Lucasfilm  by [Eliza Berman](/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Oct 24, 2014 3:03 PM CUT A lot of people die in the original _Star Wars_ trilogy — and not just _people_, but also droids, tauntauns, twi’leks, and hutts. This supercut from Digg of every onscreen death in _A New Hope_, _The Emperor Strikes Back,_ and _Return of the Jedi_ estimates the toll at just over 2 billion. That said, slayings are refreshingly free of gore; rather than oozing blood, sparks fly and clouds of white smoke billow. Lightsabers swoop and planets explode. Backed by Girl Talk, the bursts of fire and neon light make for a borderline psychedelic viewing experience. We’ve still got more than a year to wait for _Star Wars: Episode VII_, for which filming is currently underway. But hopefully this will tide fans over — for three minutes, at least. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3536665/star-wars-supercut-onscreen-deaths/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3536665/star-wars-supercut-onscreen-deaths/"},"headline":"Watch a Supercut of Every Onscreen Death in the Star Wars Trilogy","datePublished":"2014-10-24T15:03:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:59:54.058Z","description":"Lasers and lightsabers galore!","url":"https://time.com/3536665/star-wars-supercut-onscreen-deaths/","keywords":["movies","Star Wars topic","Science fiction"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbcf95e856add84b0/698762a7f887dc0736e87b5d/star-wars.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Berman","jobTitle":"Berman is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbcf95e856add84b0/698762a7f887dc0736e87b5d/star-wars.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Star Wars","caption":"Star Wars","creditText":"Lucasfilm","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3536665/star-wars-supercut-onscreen-deaths/","name":"Watch a Supercut of Every Onscreen Death in the Star Wars Trilogy"}}]}] ```