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This is also true of Luke in Return of the Jedi. Luke does nothing to help destroy the death star and Vader and the emperor would have probably been killed when it was destroyed without Luke being there (okay, maybe they would have escaped but it doesn’t feel like Luke was super impactful)

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This is true, but neither of these things are what Luke is after.

Luke's motivations in RoTJ are a) becoming a full Jedi Knight; and b) his father's redemption - not his death. He achieves both of these, and Vader would not have turned from the dark side without him there.

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