Lets see...
Luke:
- Is half trained with but 4 years of training, most of that time he was without a mentor
- Rescued Leia from Black Sun HQ with the aid of Lando, Dash and Chewbacca.
- Defeated Guri in unarmed combat (pretty impressive, actually)
- Defeated all of Jabba's goons (minis Boba Fett, who Han took care of)
- Defeated Darth Vader when using his rage and when Vader wasn't trying to hurt Luke.
Pretty impressive...
Anakin:
- Survived the Battle of Geonosis as a Padawan
- Only surviver (besides Kenobi) or the Battle of Jabiim
- Defeated Asajj Ventress twice
- Killed Durge
- Killed Trinoxx
- Killed Saato
- Fought Karoc and Vinoc at the same time and kileld them both
- Defeated a Clone of Count Dooku
- Survived the Clone Wars
- Was the hero of the Clone Wars
- Killed Count Dooku
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If you were trying to be witty, that made no sense, seeing as how I put a time frame.
Luke beat Vader, and that counts for a lot.
He also, for a short period of time, deflected Palpatines lightning without his saber (This is in both the novelization and the comic, and, despite us not seeing it on screen, it could have happened off screen, or, when Luke is behind a large metal object, and we just see Palpatine zapping at him and lightning flying in all directions).
He was able to easily subdue a pair of Jabbas guards and continue to walk casually.
He had Boba Fett beat.
We see impressive stuns such as Luke jumping, kicking a swoop rider off his bike, landing on the bike, all while deflecting fire behind his back in SOTE.
Luke shouldn't be underestimated, seeing as how Sidious saw him as an imminent and not simply potential threat.
Luke had some crazy speed training from Yoda to take down Vader, and, he became very powerful, in a shorter time than would seem imaginable.
Yeah! But Anakin was just as talented if not more, and only lost to a prime Obi Wan. By 23 Anakin was probably as powerful as Luke by the end of vision of the future .
Yes, when he was using Force Rage and Vader wasn't trying to harm Luke. Point is, defeating Dooku when Dooku's trying his hardest is a lot more impressive.
Sorry, didn't happen in the movie, doesn't count. When the movie contradicts the script and/or the novel the movie wins. And no, it couldn't have happened off screen, we saw the entire lightning attack in the movie. It clearly didn't happen in the movie.
He was a threat because he could join Vader and together they'd destroy Sidious. Luke's a LOT more likely to join Vader, his dad, than Sidious.
Which speaks of his potential, not his strength in ROTJ.
This is ROTS ANAKIN. WTF are you talking about. This is anakin at his peak, at his anger peak.
Lemme see... Luke had a hard time beating Anakin without 4 limbs and crippled.
ROTS Anakin? Almost beat the crap out of Obi Wan if it wasn't for the high ground, purged a whole temple of jedi, killed Count Dooku(One of the greatest sith duelist and force users) started jedi training at a very young age, has MUCH more experience after the clone wars.
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Although I'm not arguing with the fact that Anakin wins this with little difficulty, I think that you wrote out Luke's accomplishments to make them seem less significant.
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