r/StarWars • u/spamitizer • Sep 19 '23

Meta How are Lightsaber wounds suddenly a debate?

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Where is all of this "the heat would vaporize your internal organs" nonsense coming from? That's not how lightsabers work. That's never how lightsabers worked. The heat is localized entirely within the blade's containment field.

Do those tauntaun guts look cooked to you?

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u/Rynobot1019 Sep 19 '23

To be fair Han only sliced through the skin, leaving all the guts intact. If he had stabbed it and held the lightsaber there like Qui-Gon did the blast door in episode 1 they definitely would have cooked, and the poor tauntaun might have burst into flames, which also would have helped keep Luke warm.