The Best Star Wars Characters, Ranked

It actually took a team of scientists to calculate how many characters there are in all of Star Wars. The answer: 21,647. But that was as of 2016, so there are probably at least 1,000 more today. And over more than four decades we've grown to love or hate them all. We grew up with them. We cried over their deaths. Laughed at their jokes. Turned them into memes. Idolized them. Despised them. There's a Star Wars character for all of us, and they mean something different to every fan. But they're not all created equal. Here we rank the 40 best Star Wars characters throughout every live action film, TV show, comic, video game and more—from silly little trashcan droids to our iconic heroes and villains.