A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

™ Lucasfilm Ltd. On Quora, Jason Lowman asks: Is there such a thing as Grey Jedi? Grey Jedi exist only in the minds of  Star Wars  fans who are enthralled with the idea that a Jedi Knight can use both the dark and light side of the Force without suffering the fate of Darth Vader or Assajj Ventress. Other Quora members, such as Mike Prinke and Eric Lowe, have written extensively on the topic of the  non-existence  of Grey Jedi. They’ve pointed out the same facts about the “Grey Jedi” mythos, which are: There’s no mention of “Grey Jedi” anywhere in the official  Star Wars  canon, especially in the material that most counts: the eight (soon to be nine) Skywalker Saga films, the three existing Lucasfilm Animation TV series, or any of the canonical novels, comic books, or post-2014 Lucasfilm-licensed video games None of the maverick Jedi characters seen or mentioned in the aforementioned canon are Grey Jedi. Not Qui-Gon Jinn. Not Ahso...

What do some Star Wars fans have against Gray Jedi? Grey Jedi do not exist in the  Star Wars  canon. They did not exist in the canon prior to 2012, the year that George Lucas decided to retire and sell his company, Lucasfilm Ltd., and all of its intellectual properties to The Walt Disney Company. They also do not exist in the  Star Wars  canon in the post-Lucas era. There are Force-wielders like Ahsoka Tano and Maul, former members of the Jedi and Sith Orders, respectively. There are also the fugitive Jedi Knight Kanan Jarrus and his Padawan Ezra Bridger, plus the Bendu. And, of course, there are non-Sith Dark Siders such as Kylo Ren, the Inquisitors (which, I believe, were invented for the old Expanded Universe but made canonical by  Star Wars Rebels ), and Supreme Leader Snoke. But there are no Grey Jedi. Grey Jedi are figments of the imagination created by some  Star Wars  fans who write fan-fiction. It’s a hamfisted attempt to create her...