While Star Wars remains a film franchise at its core, the movies have several moments that aren't fully explained onscreen, leaving it up to the books, comics, and video games to fill in the gaps. Ever since the end of the Star Wars sequel trilogy and the premiere of The Mandalorian on Disney+, the franchise has rapidly expanded through multiple TV shows, giving more supporting characters time in the spotlight while continuing plotlines from the movies. In this way, new Star Wars TV shows follow the same model that the Expanded Universe had embodied for almost 50 years.

However, even with the TV shows continuing where the films left off, several details about moments from the Star Wars movies are still exclusive to other mediums. Whether exploring the history of previously unnamed characters, addressing bizarre plot holes, or adding greater depth to preexisting storylines, the books, comics, and games have always helped to enhance the experience of revisiting Star Wars movies. From the beginning of the prequels to the end of the sequels. 10 Star Wars stories are the most memorable for how they explain various moments in the movies.


Mos Eisley Spaceport may have been a "...wretched hive of scum and villainy," but viewers were introduced to the wider Star Wars galaxy through the patrons of the Mos Eisley Cantina. Packed with bounty hunters, smugglers, and aliens from every corner of the universe, it was a brilliant moment of worldbuilding, and it also raised questions about each character and their history. Almost every person featured in this scene received their own short story in Star Wars: Tales from the Most Eisley Cantina, edited by Kevin J. Anderson with entries from several prolific science fiction authors.

These tales revealed how Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes ended up playing in the cantina, explored the aspirations of Wuher the bartender, unveiled the history of Greedo's life, and more. This anthology approach expands on the Mos Eisley scenes in A New Hope by showing the same scenes from the perspective of multiple characters while making Luke Skywalker's story a piece of several other adventures. While Tales from the Most Eisley Cantina is now branded as "Legends," these characters were given a canon equivalent for the franchise's 40th anniversary.