Luke: Is the dark side stronger?
Yoda: No, no.
Let’s examine the evidence, shall we? Remember: anger, fear, aggression — the dark side are they.
This chart considers duels only between Force-adept antagonists (which eliminates the battle between Obi-Wan Kenobi and General Grievous).
| Star Wars | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Good guy | Bad guy | Winner | |
| Obi-Wan Kenobi | Darth Vader | The bad guy | |
| The Empire Strikes Back | |||
| Good guy | Bad guy | Winner | |
| Luke Skywalker | Darth Vader | The bad guy | |
| Return of the Jedi | |||
| Good guy | Bad guy | Winner | But |
| Luke Skywalker | Darth Vader | The good guy | In a fit of rage! |
| The Phantom Menace | |||
| Good guy | Bad guy | Winner | But |
| Qui-Gon Jinn | Darth Maul | Stalemate | Darth Maul appeared to have the upper hand before Qui-Gon was whisked away. |
| Qui-Gon Jinn | Darth Maul | The bad guy | |
| Obi-Wan Kenobi | Darth Maul | The good guy | In a fit of rage! |
| Attack of the Clones | |||
| Good guy | Bad guy | Winner | |
| Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, and Yoda | Count Dooku | The bad guy | |
| Revenge of the Sith | |||
| Good guy | Bad guy | Winner | But |
| Mace Windu | Palpatine | The good guy | Not for long |
| Hordes of Jedi “younglings” | Darth Vader | The bad guy | |
| Yoda | Palpatine | The bad guy | Yoda would have won… if he hadn’t simply left. WTF?! |
| Obi-Wan Kenobi | Darth Vader | The good guy | How good is a “good guy” who leaves his mutilated, helpless one-time friend to die in agony? |
The record is not too favorable for the good guys. In fact it looks like the only good guy who wins while acting like a good guy is Mace Windu! You see, this cat Mace is a baaaad mother– Shut yo mouth! But I’m talkin’ ’bout Mace! Then we can dig it.
Happily, my son Jonah bucked the odds recently when he battled Darth Maul to a draw under the guidance of his teacher, Jedi Knight Tiere Kai, when the Sith Lord paid a surprise visit to Jedi Training Academy.
Hah hah hah, geek.