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Why hasn't Anakin Skywalker's Force Ghost advised Kylo Ren?
I'm afraid the answer is something unanticipatingly simple and banal: there was no point.
Assuming that you meant Anakin the Good Guy's Force Ghost from ROTJ Special Edition:
Anakin's Force Ghost ...
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Why did Obi-Wan have to sneak around the Death Star?
The goal is stealth. Even if he somehow manages to use force-persuasion on everyone he encounters, this still doesn't factor in the possibility of his being seen by a droid, a security monitor or ...
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Why was Vader surprised that Obi-Wan's body disappeared?
At the end of Revenge of the Sith (2005), Yoda talks to Obi-Wan Kenobi about meeting an old friend, his old master, Qui-Gon Jinn, who we know became a force ghost.
02:04:50 - Yoda: One who has ...
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How can Jedi learn to use tutaminis without hurting themselves?
Blasters have stun settings, and the Jedi use training droids and training lightsabers which have limited power. Presumably Jedi practice tutaminis with these before attempting to block blaster bolts ...
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How did Anakin think the power to cheat death would be helpful?
Anakin is desperate and gullible
In universe, Anakin is not very bright, and he trusts Sidious implicitly. He describes Sidious to Obi-Wan as "a mentor and a friend". Sidious has had more than ten ...
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Has Yoda ever turned to the dark side, even for just a moment?
In the EU novel Yoda: Dark Rendezvous, we see Yoda trying to turn Dooku back to the light side of the Force. During this verbal interplay, Dooku also tries (futilely) to turn Yoda to the dark side of ...
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Why was Vader surprised that Obi-Wan's body disappeared?
He didn’t understand what had happened
The knowledge of how to become a Force ghost was known to very few. Anakin certainly did not know it back during the Clone Wars era:
ANAKIN: Everything that ...
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What is the speed of the Force?
The same as the propagation delay for hologram transmissions; presumably instantaneous
As mentioned in a related question, Darth Sidious once Force-choked Dooku from "light-years" away; the ...
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To what extent can Emperor Palpatine actually see into the future?
What the Emperor tells Luke is actually:
Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design.
The difference may seem irrelevant (especially since the Emperor does tell Vader, ...
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Is The Force binary or on a spectrum?
Depends who you ask
There are a lot of different views between the Force, some which have a Light and Dark side, some which don't, and some which have some other view.
The Jedi Order's view
In ...
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Is Kylo Ren talented with the Force or not?
According to the expert (Snoke), he is talented. But he has a major weakness (he has the pull of the Light side he's combatting).
When next Snoke spoke there was an intimacy in his voice, a ...
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Why didn't Luke just Force choke the rancor?
There are a few reasons;
Luke isn't very powerful at this point. He lacks the ability to perform a Force choke and certainly can't do it while fighting for his life. Although he originally was ...
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What is the smallest object(s) that a Force user has manipulated?
Legends
There are depictions in Legends of Force users manipulating microscopic objects.
One example is Darth Plagueis' manipulation of midi-chlorians in order to resurrect a person:
On the same day [...
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Is there any story reason for Force users being less acrobatic?
Just considering the films, I think a possible explanation could be that the Jedi Order in its final years had become just as out of touch and corrupted by power as the Galactic Senate. They'd lost ...
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Have Kylo Ren's Force abilities been shown before?
1. Mind-reading: Yes
Darth Vader was also able to use the Force to perceive thoughts:
VADER: Give yourself to the Dark Side. It is the only way you can save your friends. Yes, your thoughts betray ...
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Is there any story reason for Force users being less acrobatic?
The general response to this question that I've seen from fans of the Prequel Trilogy is that the Jedi were in their prime during the events of the Prequels. They had their Temple, scores of ...
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How does taking-a-Force-sensitive-youngling-to-the-Jedi-Temple go down?
According to the (alas, no longer strictly canon but still excellent) 'The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force' factbook, the answer is that it often did not go well, especially when the ...
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Jedi: Force-controlled clothing?
Most lightsaber fighters have their sleeves cut above the hand, and/or tuck them into their gloves, bracers or other hand/wristwear.
But notice how during lightsaber battles (such as in the videos ...
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Would fewer Jedi be more powerful?
That's not how the force works! or why the Rule of Two works. The Rule of two was created by Darth Bane to allow the Sith Order to operate in secret, because greed and fighting amongst many Sith Lords ...
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Extreme use of the Force by Vader in Obi-Wan Kenobi TV series
Rey performs a similar feat in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
She’d been here before, standing helplessly as sand blasted her skin, watching a ship carry away someone she loved.
Where there had ...
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Why don't all Jedi stick around as force ghosts?
Before his death, Qui-Gon Jinn discovered how to "preserve your mind through the living Force" (or something like that) after death. He only managed to stick around as a voice. That's why we ...
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Can the Sith become Force Ghosts?
I suppose you only want answers from the One True Canon (i.e. Disney's), but if you accept Legends (i.e. discontinued Extended Universe non-canon), then Sith Lords can become spirits of some kind.
One ...
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Why did Obi-Wan have to sneak around the Death Star?
The first movie Star Wars came out before there were any books so you can't count the books which expanded on the movie. You can only consider evidence in the movie itself. That's my starting ...
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Can the Force be used to fly?
Yes
Perhaps most directly, Mother Talzin is shown to be able to use the Force to levitate:
Another notable example of Force flight occurs in Lords of the Sith:
Using the Force, Vader stopped his ...
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Out of universe, what's the origin of the name "The Force"?
Lucas has attributed the origins of "The Force" to a 1964 abstract film called "21-87" by Arthur Lipsett.
The rabbit hole goes even deeper: One of the audio sources Lipsett ...
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Have we ever seen an untrained Force-sensitive using Force powers?
Best example I can think of is in Star Wars Rebels, Season 1 Episode 1 (Droids in Distress), a barely trained (virtually untrained?) Ezra does a Force push on Agent Kallus to save Zeb at the very end ...
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Were Luke and Kylo Ren thought to be the only Force users left in The Force Awakens?
UPDATE 12/2017
There's not yet canon proof, but there's a strong implication in TLJ that "a handful" of the Luke's Academy Jedi trainee students who left with Ben Solo after his tiff with Luke (and ...
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Why hasn't Anakin Skywalker's Force Ghost advised Kylo Ren?
Not too sure about an in-universe explanation, but Star Wars concept artist Iain McCaig in Art of Star Wars: The Force Awakens presented some ideas that played around with the concept of what Anakin’s ...
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How does taking-a-Force-sensitive-youngling-to-the-Jedi-Temple go down?
First of all, let's not hold any illusions that this practice isn't problematic. While the Jedi never forced it on anyone, it was indeed institutionalised by the Galactic Republic, and on hindsight to ...
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When did the phrase "the Force" become a stand-in for the word "God"?
There are a few cases in which the Force is personified in such a way that one could substitute "God".
The earliest example is probably Obi-Wan from Episode IV:
You must learn the ways of the ...
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