Can a Lightsaber.....

[All Seeing Eye]

Can a Lightsaber stop bullets??

We always see Jedi using lightsabers to stop energy blasts but what if someone decided to mow them down with a projectile weapon such as a machine gun?

Could a Jedi deflect bullets with a Lightsaber?

 

[cultcross]

Well we've seen them cut through thick metal doors, there shouldn't be any trouble stopping a small metal projectile.

 

[The Badger]

Could a Jedi deflect bullets with a Lightsaber?

It'd probably vaporise incoming bullets, rather than deflect them, but yes, I'd say it could certainly stop them.

Mind you, if the bullets were made from cortosis alloy...

 

[Checkmate]

Lightsabers are just goofy weapons all around. Especially the way they're portrayed on the big screen.

The blade clearly has mass; you can see it every time someone swings, tosses, or does pretty much anything at all with one. Apparently, you have to use your physical strength for it to cut through a metal door (you can see Qui-Gon putting his back into it when he does so in the Phantom Menace). The goofiness of its technobabble is almost as bad; its apparently the forcefield that does all the work as if it opened up at any point, all the plasma inside would come whooshing out. So why even bother with the plasma? And why are other lightsabers utterly immune to them, yet no kind of armor seems to be? (Just place a similar field around your damn armor.)

They're just so completely... lame. Regular swords with some kind of energy augmentation to them would have been infinitely cooler and far more plausible.

That said, if they can mysteriously absorb the output of blasters and stop other weapons dead in their tracks, I don't see why a bullet would be any more difficult. It's a 100% magic weapon, so anything it possible.

 

[Brent]

Can a Lightsaber stop bullets??

We always see Jedi using lightsabers to stop energy blasts but what if someone decided to mow them down with a projectile weapon such as a machine gun?

Could a Jedi deflect bullets with a Lightsaber?

I would think it wouldn't deflect it, but rather melt the bullet upon initial contact. So it would slam into the lightsaber then turn to instant goo, IMO.

 

[nx1701g]

In the games there is a weapon that is supposed to fire metal bullet rounds that the lightsaber has difficulty with (I know that it's very hard to deflect the incoming shots from it at the very least).

 

[T'Baio]

Lightsabers are just goofy weapons all around. Especially the way they're portrayed on the big screen.

The blade clearly has mass; you can see it every time someone swings, tosses, or does pretty much anything at all with one. Apparently, you have to use your physical strength for it to cut through a metal door (you can see Qui-Gon putting his back into it when he does so in the Phantom Menace). The goofiness of its technobabble is almost as bad; its apparently the forcefield that does all the work as if it opened up at any point, all the plasma inside would come whooshing out. So why even bother with the plasma? And why are other lightsabers utterly immune to them, yet no kind of armor seems to be? (Just place a similar field around your damn armor.)

They're just so completely... lame. Regular swords with some kind of energy augmentation to them would have been infinitely cooler and far more plausible.

That said, if they can mysteriously absorb the output of blasters and stop other weapons dead in their tracks, I don't see why a bullet would be any more difficult. It's a 100% magic weapon, so anything it possible.

And then there's the plausibility of...oh, wait...why are you watching Star Wars, again?

 

[RoJoHen]

I bet some of the bullet would make it through the lightsaber just because of how fast it's traveling. So instead of getting shot with a bullet, you'll get splattered with molten metal!

 

[Brent]

I bet some of the bullet would make it through the lightsaber just because of how fast it's traveling. So instead of getting shot with a bullet, you'll get splattered with molten metal!

Unless a lightsaber is so "hot" it vaporizes the bullet on contact

I guess we'll never know

 

[RoJoHen]

I bet some of the bullet would make it through the lightsaber just because of how fast it's traveling. So instead of getting shot with a bullet, you'll get splattered with molten metal!

Unless a lightsaber is so "hot" it vaporizes the bullet on contact

I guess we'll never know

Since the image in my head of a Jedi getting splattered with molten is incredibly hilarious, I will stand by that theory.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

The Force can stop bullets. Possibly.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Yeh but the thing is the Jedi can usually see the energy shots coming at them and they move their light sabers to the energy shot, with bullets how are the Jedi supposed to see the bullets coming? bullets would seem IMO to be far faster than the energy shots.

 

[SeerSGB]

Yeh but the thing is the Jedi can usually see the energy shots coming at them and they move their light sabers to the energy shot, with bullets how are the Jedi supposed to see the bullets coming? bullets would seem IMO to be far faster than the energy shots.

Depends: It's less a skill and more a force awareness, the force guides/tells them where the shot's at. So if a Jedi is letting the force guide their actions, then a bullet or blaster shot would being no different.

 

[Holdfast]

Yeh but the thing is the Jedi can usually see the energy shots coming at them and they move their light sabers to the energy shot, with bullets how are the Jedi supposed to see the bullets coming? bullets would seem IMO to be far faster than the energy shots.

One would assume energy weapons travel at the speed of light, though I agree the movies don't visually depict that....

Anyway, I'm going with the "lightsabres can vaporise bullets" theory.

'cos it would be pretty lame if a jedi could get taken down with a friggin' revolver or whatever....

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Yeh but the thing is the Jedi can usually see the energy shots coming at them and they move their light sabers to the energy shot, with bullets how are the Jedi supposed to see the bullets coming? bullets would seem IMO to be far faster than the energy shots.

One would assume energy weapons travel at the speed of light, though I agree the movies don't visually depict that....

Anyway, I'm going with the "lightsabres can vaporise bullets" theory.

'cos it would be pretty lame if a jedi could get taken down with a friggin' revolver or whatever....

But with the Force.... you wouldn't have to deflect bullets. [That's The Matrix - someone]

 

[FPAlpha]

It depends on the weapon hat fires the bullet..

Single shot or semiautomatic.. no problem. Blade steps in the way of metal bullet, melts the bullet.. case closed.

With machine gun fire it's a different thing.. the fire spreads out a bit and no biological muscle and bone can move so fast to catch all bullets so a few may hit the Jedi.

Of course the 2nd Jedi present would learn from the bloody mess that was his Jedi friend and pull a Neo by using the Force to stop the bullets. After the ammo of the machine gun is exhausted we'd hear the classical hiss of a lightsaber that's been ignited

 

[Skywalker]

If a Jedi is fast enough to get their lightsaber in front of a beam of light, they're definitely fast enough to get it in front of a bullet. The Force gives them that kind of speed and awareness.

And the bullet would vaporize upon contact with the blade.

 

[Gepard]

One would assume energy weapons travel at the speed of light, though I agree the movies don't visually depict that....

I believe somewhere in the EU (which, in the case of Wars, is canon) it's established that the "laser" beams are really some kind of energized matter. It has something to do with spin-coiled Tabana gas, IIRC. So I would assume they're actually plasma beams.

 

[Skywalker]

Eh, yeah, that's true. Forgot about that.

They probably still move faster than bullets, though.

 

[USS Triumphant]

One would assume energy weapons travel at the speed of light, though I agree the movies don't visually depict that....

I believe somewhere in the EU (which, in the case of Wars, is canon) it's established that the "laser" beams are really some kind of energized matter. It has something to do with spin-coiled Tabana gas, IIRC. So I would assume they're actually plasma beams.

Yes. It's a trade-off - the laser in a blaster is used to kick-out a portion of the spin-sealed tibanna gas as a particle beam, which then has much more destructive capacity than the laser, but moves slower.

Yeah, I know it still shouldn't make much difference in the speed.