Yoda

Grandmaster Yoda is one of the main protagonists of the franchise. 
He is an extremely wise, experienced, skillful, and powerful yet eccentric Jedi. He was the most knowledgeable and trained Jedi Master and was the wisest, strongest, and most powerful Jedi of his time, immensely powerful with the use of the light side of the Force and exceptionally skilled in lightsaber combat with centuries worth of training, experience, and knowledge in. 
For his surpassing wisdom, skill, and power, Yoda was the Grand Master of the Jedi Order who helped train Luke Skywalker and many other Jedi as well as facing off against and nearly defeating the most formidable of villains, such as Count Dooku and even Palpatine himself - he is a gentle teacher, but like all Jedi will fight fiercely to defend the galaxy from the dark side of the Force.
He was portrayed through motion-capture and voiced by in the saga films, and in the Clone Wars media, who also voiced Professor Utonium in The Powerpuff Girls series, Takeo Masaki in Call of Duty zombies ,and James Gordon in Batman: Arkham Asylum. In the Japanese dub, he was voiced by the late Ichirō Nagai.
==Career Accomplishments==
Apart from helping to win a few battles, such as the Battle of Geonosis, Yoda has helped bring hundreds of Jedi to Knighthood.
==Personality==
Yoda is an immensely wise and compassionate being who had spent eight centuries training and tutoring generations of Jedi. He was reluctant to accept Anakin Skywalker or Luke Skywalker for Jedi training, considering them unfit during his first encounter with them. In both cases, however, he allowed Obi-Wan Kenobi to persuade him into accepting them as apprentices.
To his students, Yoda could be very strict one moment, testing them to their mental and physical limits, and grandfatherly the next.
When Dooku triggered a partial room collapse during his duel with Yoda on Geonosis, the Jedi, confronted with the choice of pursuing the fleeing Sith or protecting the hurt Obi-Wan Kenobi and unconscious Anakin Skywalker from the falling debris, opted to save his comrades instead of going after Dooku. However, when fellow Master Plo Koon's fleet was destroyed by the Confederate super-weapon Malevolence, Yoda forbade Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano to conduct a search for Koon, citing the danger posed by the Separatist vessel. 
This shows that Yoda values the lives of his fellow Jedi enough that he would choose saving them over defeating a Sith Lord, but his value does not cloud his judgement. His value for the other Jedi is shown when he fell to his knees after sensing many of their deaths, showing that Yoda deeply cared for them.
Yoda is devoted to the light side of the Force and has no fear of death, and he would often advise others questioning about death to not fear it and instead rejoice that they would become one with the Force. Even as he neared his death before the Battle of Endor commenced, Yoda fully accepted his own mortality and imminent demise, died peacefully and became one with the Force.
Yoda's ears were expressive and would sometimes curl when he was expressing strong emotions like surprise.
==Powers and Abilities==
Despite his small size, Yoda was the greatest Jedi Master of his era and even in his advanced age, possessed exceptional abilities in both the Force and Lightsaber Combat. Before being surpassed by his apprentice, Grandmaster Luke Skywalker, Yoda was universally regarded as the most powerful Jedi to ever exist. 
A tremendously proficient lightsaber duelist with decades of experience, Yoda was considered to be the only Jedi who surpassed Mace Windu and Count Dooku in skill. He wielded a short green bladed lightsaber with impeccable skill, capable of not only easily holding his own against Dooku, now Darth Tyranus, despite the latter having previously easily outclassed Anakin and Kenobi, both remarkably skilled duelists, but he also had a noticeable advantage and he would have defeated Dooku had he not fled, as well as fighting on par with and overwhelming Sidious in lightsaber combat, forcing Sidious to use the Force to stalemate Yoda. In addition to one-on-one lightsaber duels, Yoda also displayed the ability to defeat several blaster wielding foes with ease, deflecting their fire without sustaining any injury, showing he had considerable skill in the Shien variant of Form V.
Tremendously powerful and highly knowledgeable, in the Force, Yoda also exceptionally skilled in applying the Light Side in combat. He was highly proficient in Force Deflection and Absorption and was able to absorb Force Lightning attack from the considerably skilled and powerful Dooku with his bare hands and deflect said attack with ease. He was even able to ultimately fully absorb and deflect Sidious's Force Lightning, though not without considerable effort and completely. Yoda displayed extraordinary telekenetic prowess on several occasions. Using telekinesis, he could effortlessly toy with the likes of Asajj Ventress, disarming her of her lightsabers with a single gesture and even halting her lightsaber strike aimed at King Katuunko in mid air without any effort and swiftly sending her flying.
Yoda was also shown to be considerably better in telekinesis than the likes of Dooku, as he effortlessly deflected all of Dooku's telekinetic assault. He was even powerful enough to keep levitating Anakin while simultaneously using his lightsaber to ground Sidious's Force Lightning in the illusion Sidious conjured and was able to cast a Force Push strong enough to send Sidious flying through the air and later stop a Senate Hoverpod hurled at him by Sidious in mid-air and throw it back at the dark lord. 
One of Yoda's most impressive displays occurred during the Battle of Coruscant. When faced with thousands of destroyer droids and an incoming fleet of hundreds of droid starfighters, Yoda lifted the entire destroyer droid force into the air and used them to destroy the starfighters. When a Trade Federation C-9979 landing craft landed and began deploying troops and tanks, Yoda pushed all of the soldiers and tanks back into the ship, closed its doors, and even began to push the ship itself back. Another landing craft was about to land, when Yoda used the Force to crash it into the ship he had already pushed back. He then clapped his hands to cause two additional landing crafts to collide while they were in the air. 
In addition to Yoda's exemplary proficiency in the combative aspects of the Force, Yoda's incredibly strong connection to the Force coupled with centuries worth of study in the Force also allowed Yoda to gain many powerful supplementary abilities. His knowledge and understanding of the Force was perhaps the most valuable in the entire franchise, and his famous speech when teaching Luke about the Force when Luke fails to lift the ship is often viewed as the best description of the Force ever. He was able to see the future with great precision rivaling even Darth Sidious's as well as actively experience Force Visions without being limited to spontaneous visions. His visions led him to foresee the fall of the Jedi and even his own death. Yoda was also capable of reading the history of a person's soul and could thus uncover the force alignment of a Force User even if said user powerfully protected him or herself from detection with a single touch, evidenced when Yoda deduced Quinlan fell to the Dark Side whereas most Jedi could not. 
Though only shown once as Yoda usually lets his soldiers handle the piloting, Yoda was shown to surprisingly be a quite proficient pilot, as he was able to handle Anakin's personal interceptor by himself and he was not shown to have any problem in landing the ship and did not cause any damage to the Interceptor when he used it to go on a journey to learn immortality.
==Quotes==
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==Trivia==
*Yoda returns in the Angry Birds Star Wars franchise, where he is portrayed by an unknown bird. He retains his lightsaber and force skills from before. He is only playable in the prequel game, being a background element in the game centering on the original trilogy. In the prequel game, he can bounce around, spinning his lightsaber and damaging objects. He is introduced in stage 11 on the bird side of the first chapter, the Naboo Invasion, and he appears in every boss fight except the boss stage of Rise of the Clones.
**The Droideka from the prequel game possesses a similar ability, though it does not deal as much damage, and it self-destructs afterward and is only seen in bonus areas.
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