Warning: There are spoilers ahead for "Star Wars: The Last Jedi."
"Star Wars: The Last Jedi" has plenty of big celebrity cameos and features the return of one iconic character.
While fans were happy to see a fan favorite, there's one character some fans were hoping to see in "The Last Jedi" who didn't get any screen time.
This is your last chance to head back before spoilers.
When Luke decides to burn down a sacred Jedi tree on Ahch-To, Master Jedi Yoda appears as a Force Ghost to his former student.
The two catch up and watch the tree burn to the ground as Yoda reassures Luke that Rey has all the tools she needs to move forward.
Though fans were excited to see Yoda back on screen — there were numerous cheers elicited in theaters each time we've seen the movie, some were hoping we may see the return of another iconic character: Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Any "Star Wars" fan knows Ben Kenobi went to live on Tatooine to watch over the young Skywalker, even if it was from afar. Kenobi was the first Jedi Master to reveal himself to Luke and helped show him how to wield a lightsaber.
(Let's be honest, Kenobi probably felt he owed it to train Luke a bit in the Force since he screwed up with Anakin.)
Kenobi's voice — both young and old — can be heard in "The Force Awakens" as well. As of August, a standalone movie for the Jedi is in early stages, too. Ewan McGregor, who played a younger version of Kenobi in the prequel trilogy, told our sister site Business Insider "it would be fun" to reprise his character in a future movie.
All of the signs were there to have Kenobi pop up again. It would be a great way to set up a future spin-off movie.
Why Obi-Wan didn't appear in "The Last Jedi"
During a post-screening Q&A of the movie Friday, director Rian Johnson summed up why Luke didn't see Kenobi pretty succinctly.
"If we had brought Ewan in, it would have been fun, but Mark as Luke has never had a relationship with the Ewan version of Obi-Wan," said Johnson, according to Entertainment Weekly.
Alec Guinness, who played Kenobi in the original trilogy, died in 2000.
Since Kenobi's voice was heard several times over in "The Force Awakens" during Rey's Force vision, it probably would have made more sense for his spirit to communicate with Rey. Honestly, we're still waiting for that pay-off.
Hopefully, we'll get some sort of answer and closure to that mystery in "Episode IX."
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