Editing Lightsaber (section)

===Colors===
Lightsabers in the first two released films, ''A New Hope'' and ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]'', had blades that were either blue (for the Jedi) or red (for the Sith). [[Luke Skywalker]]'s new lightsaber in ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'' was colored blue during the initial editing of the film, and appears so in both an early movie trailer and the official theatrical posters; it was later changed to green in the film's final edit after initial viewings and screen tests by the filmmakers, who felt that it would better stand out against the blue sky of [[Tatooine]] in outdoor scenes, and this color change is also reflected in the film's re-release posters. [[Mace Windu]]'s purple-bladed lightsaber, as first seen in ''Attack of the Clones'', was requested by the actor [[Samuel L. Jackson]], who believed the color, which is his personal favorite, would make his character be easily recognized among other Jedi.{{Efn|[[Ki-Adi-Mundi]] and [[Saesee Tiin]] had previously been depicted in {{nowrap|spin-off}} works with purple lightsabers.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Harrison|first=Paul|date=August 22, 2015|title=Ki-Adi-Mundi - EI - Basic Research Droids Reviews|url=https://www.jeditemplearchives.com/content/modules.php?name=JReviews&rop=showcontent&id=2282|access-date=2020-06-06|website=JediTempleArchives.com|archive-date=June 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606231404/https://www.jeditemplearchives.com/content/modules.php?name=JReviews&rop=showcontent&id=2282|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Saesee Tiin (Power Of The Jedi)|url=https://jedibusiness.com/figureDetails.aspx?id=761|access-date=2020-06-14|website=JediBusiness.com|archive-date=June 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200614071510/https://jedibusiness.com/figureDetails.aspx?id=761|url-status=dead}}</ref>}} Jackson is known to frequently request that the characters he plays use an item that is purple in color.<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/ubyo5eZz_Jc Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130630062201/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubyo5eZz_Jc&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubyo5eZz_Jc|title=Samuel L. Jackson's Purple Light Sabre - ''The Graham Norton Show'': Series 13 Episode 13|last=BBC|date=June 28, 2013|publisher=[[BBC One]]|via=[[YouTube]]|access-date=May 10, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref> [[Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 TV series)|''The Clone Wars'']] showed the guardians of the Jedi Temple wielding yellow-bladed lightsabers, and, at the end of ''[[Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker|The Rise of Skywalker]]'', Rey is shown to have built a yellow-bladed lightsaber using part of her staff as the hilt.

As depicted in ''The Clone Wars'' and ''Rebels'', the builder of a lightsaber finds a kyber crystal and meditates with it until the crystal acquires a color. The color of this crystal becomes the blade's color when installed into a lightsaber hilt. In the book ''[[Ahsoka (novel)|Star Wars: Ahsoka]]'' and the comic series ''Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith'', it is shown that dark side users remove the crystal from a defeated Jedi's lightsaber and concentrate Force energy on it to break its connection to the light side, a process known as "bleeding" to create a red crystal. The process can also be reversed, as shown in ''Ahsoka'', when the titular character does so to a pair of crystals taken from an Inquisitor. She uses them in the pair of white-bladed lightsabers she builds at the end of the novel.

Other colors have appeared in various [[Star Wars expanded to other media|expanded media]] projects, including many video games where the player can select their character's lightsaber color.

==== Darksaber ====
The Darksaber is a unique lightsaber that has a distinct black blade with a white halo, introduced in ''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 TV series)|Star Wars: The Clone Wars]]'' (2008) and subsequently appearing in ''[[Star Wars Rebels]]'', where it is described as an ancient lightsaber created by Tarre Vizla, the first [[Mandalorian]] to become a Jedi, and later serves as a symbol of Mandalorian authority in the hands of [[Bo-Katan Kryze]]. It subsequently appears briefly in the hands of [[Moff Gideon]] in the [[Chapter 8: Redemption|season one finale]] of ''[[The Mandalorian]]'', to whom Kryze had previously surrendered the weapon.<ref>{{cite web|title=Darksaber|url=https://www.starwars.com/databank/darksaber|website=StarWars.com|access-date=January 1, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=What is the Darksaber?|url=https://www.starwars.com/news/what-is-the-darksaber|date=February 11, 2020|last=Knox|first=Kelly|access-date=February 17, 2020|archive-date=February 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200221195525/https://www.starwars.com/news/what-is-the-darksaber|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = https://io9.gizmodo.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-darksaber-the-bl-1840779738 | title = Everything You Need to Know About the Darksaber, the Black Blade That Freed Mandalore | first = James | last= Whitbrook | date = January 3, 2020 | access-date = January 3, 2020 | work = [[io9]] }}</ref> By the end of [[Chapter 16: The Rescue|the second season's finale]], it belongs to series protagonist [[The Mandalorian (character)|Din Djarin]], who has bested Gideon for it. In [[Chapter 18: The Mines of Mandalore|the second episode]] of the [[The Mandalorian (season 3)|third season]] of the show, the weapon (nominally) returns to Kryze's ownership, after she defeats a cyborg creature that captures Djarin (it remains in Din Djarin's possession, however), and she officially reclaims the blade in the season's [[Chapter 22: Guns for Hire|sixth episode]]. It is destroyed by Gideon in the [[Chapter 24: The Return|third season finale]].