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12 Unique Force Powers From Star Wars

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Star Wars fans often dream of wielding the Force. Some have even tried to use it. But there's more to the Force than just moving objects. The Jedi Mind Trick and Force Choke are well-known, but many other abilities exist. Some Jedi can produce a variant of Force Lightning, while powerful Sith can create massive hyperspace wormholes. The Star Wars universe is vast, with many unusual ways to use the Force. Only the most powerful characters can wield the greatest skills. Test your knowledge and vote up the most awesome, unknown Force powers you've encountered in your galactic travels.

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    Shatterpoint

    Shatterpoint lets a Force user sense an object or person's weak points. This lets the user easily exploit that weakness. This is from the novel.Shatterpoint.Mace Windu describes the power: "I sometimes can see the weak places in an opponent - shatterpoints where the unbreakable can be broken. They can occur in individuals… and in events."

    Mace sensed Count Dooku was a shatterpoint during the Republic and Separatist war. Killing Dooku might have ended the war and stopped the Empire's rise. However, his bond with his old friend stopped him.

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    Electric Judgement

    Electric Judgement is mostly a Light Side power, similar to Force Lightning. Unlike Force Lightning, Electric Judgement often shows as green or yellow lightning. Some users do not need to tap into the Dark Side.LightSome Force users, like Darth Plagueis, think Electric Judgment is a weak version of Force Lightning.

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    Force Cloak

    The Force Cloak manipulates light and sound waves around the user, making them unseen. It affects space, not minds, unlike the Jedi Mind Trick. This illusion works well, but keeping a Force Cloak costs energy. Thus, it remains rarely used. Maris Brood, Jedi Master Tholme, and Sith Lord Darth Traya are known for skill in creating Force Cloaks.

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    Force Wormhole

    Force Wormholes is a powerful Dark Side power. It lets the user make hyperspace wormholes spanning several kilometers. These wormholes transport people and objects across space and time. They can also cause havoc on planet surfaces. This skill needs huge concentration. Losing control risks being consumed by the wormhole. Palpatine once used this power to abduct Luke Skywalker.Luke SkywalkerCoruscant.

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    Crucitorn

    Crucitorn is a Light Side ability. It lets the Force user change a target's pain threshold. Jedi can lower a victim's pain tolerance, making a scratch feel like a huge wound. They can also do the opposite for allies, making severe or fatal injury pain vanish. Jedi Master Eeth Koth is the only known user of Crucitorn in the TV series.Clone Wars..

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    Dark Transfer

    Dark Transfer started as a power thought only accessible through the Dark Side. It lets the user resurrect the dead, but it can also kill. Cade Skywalker is the most notable user; he used it to kill Sith Lady Darth Talon (then resurrected her). Cade later found he accesses the power through the Light Side, resurrecting Deliah Blue and his Morrigan Corde with love and compassion.

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    Battle Meditation

    Battle Meditation is more common than other powers on this list, though users rarely show it. It lets the user boost allies' coordination, morale, stamina, and fighting skills while lowering the enemy's will. Battle Meditation can change any war.

    Yoda, Palpatine, and other skilled Jedi and Sith use this ability often. Bastila Shan is a user who uses Battle Meditation effectively in the Knights of the Old RepublicGames show Jedi Civil War and the Battle of Rakata Prime.

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    Psychometry

    This ability lets the user gain insight and info by touching objects. The Force user picks up impressions, memories, and emotions from the object's past and those who touched it.

    Quinlan Vos uses Psychometry during the Clone Wars to find Ziro the Hutt's location. He also uses it in the novel Dark DiscipleCount Dooku tells him to touch his dead master’s lightsaber. Touching the saber, he learns his master was killed by his current lover and former Sith assassin, Asajj Ventress.

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    Wall Of Light

    The book states:Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force, within a Jedi’s abilities is Wall of Light, the strongest attack power. Several Jedi powers combine for this ability. They form a Wall of Light that can trap a Dark Side user or cut off a being's link to the Dark Side. In the Tales of the Jedi: The Sith WarIn the comic, thousands of Jedi make a huge Wall of Light to defeat Exar Kun, a Dark Lord of the Sith.

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    Deadly Sight

    Deadly Sight is a rare Dark Side power that appears in the Star Wars Card Game. It focuses the user’s hatred into energy, letting the Force wielder dissolve targets just by looking. This skill is strong, but the user's deadly gaze burns friends and foes. The only known user is the Force-sensitive Prophetess, Sariss.

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    Memory Walk

    This power lets the user enter a target’s mind and make them re-experience their worst memories repeatedly. Sometimes the pain from these memories causes physical pain. Victims of Memory Walk gain more intelligence and efficiency despite the torture.

    Rokur Gepta, a Force sensitive being, created the skill and used it on his enemy, Lando Calrissian. In the novel Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon, Gepta plans to use the power to torture Lando to death, but Lando finds a way to escape.

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    Force Scream

    A Force Scream is a Dark Side power. It triggers without the user's control when the Force user feels intense pain or frustration. The Scream creates shock waves that travel through the Force. Darth Vader used this power when he learned his wife, Padme Amidala, had died. His Scream destroyed equipment and droids inside his medical chamber, shaking the whole facility.

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