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06th Nov 2013

Star Wars fans rejoice – Jar Jar Binks has died… sort of

Are you watching George Lucas? (Probably not).

Eoghan Doherty

Film fans everywhere rejoice – the moment you’ve all been waiting for is here at last.

No silly, you haven’t finally been cast as the lead love interest opposite the terrific triple whammy of Scarlett Johansson, Rachel Weisz and Helen Mirren.

It’s something even better than that. Jar Jar Binks has died.

Or rather, someone’s tweaked some Star Wars: Episode I footage to make it look like the insufferable creature has passed on to all nine Corellian hells.

One YouTuber and Star Wars fan, withmorten2, decided to show George Lucas how it’s really done, and so took matters into his own murderous hands by offing the ghastly Gungan and sent him spiralling off one of Naboo’s tallest waterfalls.

“But Gungans can breathe underwater so he’ll be fine”, we hear you argue.

“NOT IF HIS SILLY GUNGAN HEAD IS SMASHED ALL OVER THE ROCKS BELOW HE CAN’T”, we calmly reply.

By simply deleting a part of a deleted scene from the cinematic cesspit that is The Phantom Menace, the YouTuber has made the day of Star Wars fans the world over and, to paraphrase a certain Obi-Wan Kenobi, “I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in joy and were suddenly happy. I fear something amazing has happened.”

Check it out:

And the original terrible clip where Jar Jar unfortunately lives…

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