Top Ten Most Intelligent Star Wars Characters

He took down the senate, made Anakin turn evil, cause order 66, and cause wars. Honestly there's no surprise that Palpatine is the smartest character

This man almost single - handedly brought down a Government stable for 1,000 years. Manipulated everyone(including Yoda) and made the galaxy destroy itself through a war just to get rid if democracy. If this was who has the most wisdom I think Yoda would definitely be in the top 3, BUT this is a list on who is the smartest.

He is the Creator of all the Evenements from the first movie to the Last movie... and of course the Most intelligent Character, Our Emperor Palpatine is Back to Surprise Us another Time in the Conclusion of The Saga

Orchestrated the demise of the Jedi while also pulling the strings in a huge war on BOTH SIDES, and taking over the Senate!

Love him. Always have. Always will. He is intelligent beyond human possibility and much more sophisticated and aristocratic than any other character in the franchise. Sidious might be the only character more intelligent... but I'm not so sure. I mean he fooled everyone else, except the rebels and Grand Admiral Thrawn into believing that he was the good guy, but since Thrawn chose the "bad" side willingly and fully aware, it's possible that he's smarter than even Sidious. Its possible. NOT definite. Too me it is... but I don't handle criticism very well, so I'll just say that it's possible.

If you had an idea, Thrawn could thwart it. He was masterful, and even though he knew the Empire was evil, he chose it because it was the best choice. Thrawn was so smart that he didn't even need a backup plan (although I'm sure he always had one) because he already knew what you were going to do.

Grand Admiral Thrawn wins almost every time. He is perfect strategist. He knows his enemy, not simply their battle tactics, but their history, philosophy and arts. He rarely fails, because of thing he couldn't possibly know.

When Thrawn appear in "Star Wars Rebels" I thought he was some secondary dumb villain, but then he shown that he was great mastermind who deserved to be smartest character of "Star wars" universe.

I hate Jar Jar. Yoda should be 2nd if not 1st.

He has 900 years of knowledge.

Yoda is wise and smart

Yoda is the smartest character who thinks before he does anything and teaches Luke

Another brilliant commander.

The best military commander.

He is smart enough to not fail and be killed by Darth Vader like pretty much everyone else

Dude snoke's an idiot! He couldn't even predict that Kylo wasn't going to kill him

First one to become a force ghost and the only one who believed Anakin to be the Chosen One from the start! Should be 2nd in my opinion

Without him there was no Anakin and without Anakin nothing would happen

Maul was obviously a very smart person. One thing I think about a lot when people think about smart star wars character they seem to forget Maul. In his final battle with Obi Wan, from just a few minor details he was able to deduce that "Ben" was there to watch over a person. That just shows his attention to detail and just how smart he was before he then died.

He is clearly the most intelligent Character because of his ability to see that neither the sith nor the Jedi could have control. Plus he was struck down by both so many times but was still able to lead his own team (death watch). He also seems to be very persuasive as he teamed with the pirates, death watch, the Jedi, the sith and many more

Obi-Wan below Jar Jar?! What? Okay first of all Obi-Wan is a true hero and second he is proven to be smart.

Obi-Wan was the Jedi Master who trained some of the most powerful Jedi, and also single-handedly defeated Anakin.

Jedi with the metaphors

He could have killed anakin faster is he remembered that the force exists

Jar Jar Binks is above pretty much everybody when it comes to cunning if you believe in the "Darth Jar Jar" theory. He was able to trick even the most adept of tricksters, such as Palpatine, into doing what he wanted and ultimately removing themselves from his path towards whatever his goal may be. He has such knowledge of the force he can mind control powerful Jedi such as Qui-Gon, and even Palpatine himself. He plays the part of the fool skillfully, and in doing so allows himself to slowly eliminate his enemies and seize power from the shadows. He is the ultimate shadowy manipulator of Star Wars...and the REAL phantom menace.

I believe that Jar Jar was a Sith in the shadows, cunningly manipulating all of the events are around. But even someone who doesn't believe he is a force-user should be able to recognize his intelligence. He was quickly able to go from being banished to becoming Senator of Naboo in the Galactic Republic. If Jar Jar had been stupid, Naboo would have been ruined by his Senatorial position, but Naboo remained strong. Jar Jar, while clumsy and a tad annoying, was a pure genius.

I believe George Lucas had planned something sinister for Jar Jar Binks, but ultimately backed out of this idea fearing backlash. If Disney doesn't follow through with this idea, it would be a huge missed opportunity to tie all of the trilogies together and redeem the prequels. All of the pieces are already there to set up the biggest plot twist in film history.

Darth Jar Jar was able to form the Empire by influencing everyone around him, and no character even realized it. He was able to influence people of high status into giving him top positions until he worked his way all the way up to Senator of Naboo. Him being stupid was simply a shenanigan. He was a trickster, and his ultimate plan succeeded.

His only dumb moment was when he stood there practically asking to be killed

Jango Fett knows how and when to fire and can get out of any situation he's in besides his death. Jango also is one of the most respected beings and is the most respected bounty hunter along his is son, Bossk, and Bane.

Underrated, needs more credit for his intellect.

You underestimate him

Jango has skills

Did Padme make plans and fix things? Thought so!

Vader should be higher he built C-3PO and can fly he also exploded the villains base at the age of 10!

Smartest of them all!

Darth Vader is one of the smartest character that should be number 5

Was probably more gifted in intelligence and beauty than any other person maybe except her beautiful daughter but still she was an queen at 14, and an powerful politician who was loved by many simply due to her loving her people of all races which was the reason she made sure everyone had equal rights.

She became an queen as a young adult and helped end the clone wars politically.

Rex is super smart he is a great leader and he can fly well and he has great communication skills plus he has made many good battle plans.

Formulated many successful strategies for the republic with CT-1409 "Echo", strategies only predicted when echo was captured. A smart and caring leader

Despite Being programmed to merely follow and give orders, Rex was a quick and independent thinker

He is smart and it shows

Fives proved himself

Fives is underrated

One of the smartest clones along with Wolfe and Echo who should be on the list

Darth Plagueis THE WISE. If you hear the story that Emperor Palpatine said then you know that he was the smartest sith

Sure, Leia may be one of, if not the smartest Star Wars character. She was more intelligent than her friends which is why she was able to destroy Han easy in conversations. However, even though she was intelligent and especially stubborn at times, she still had great love for her husband Han Solo, and her brother Luke Skywalker and would do her best to help them.

She was the intelligent leader of the Rebels, who stole the Death Star plans. She also led the Resistance against the First Order.

Nope! She is stupid. And secretly an antagonist

His fighting moves are amazing and uses both dark side and light side

One of the most brilliant force users in the entire franchise. His teachings influenced decades of practices and institutions in both Jedi and Sith ideologies.

Ben is smarter then Rey!

He single-handedly led all military operations for the CIS and was known for his unpredictable battle strategies that even strategic geniuses such as Yularen and Obi-Wan had trouble with. Thrawn himself bought Grievous's facemask and put it in his private quarters, which he did only with artwork he respected and admired. He admitted that Grievous would have been a tough opponent even for him due to his seemingly random but well-thought-out battle plans. This is Legends Grievous I am talking about.

Killed so many jedi

He was The Leader of an entire army and had to organize the Clone Wars aside of Count Dooku

According to the animated series, Anakin was the most brilliant general in the Republic.

He killed two sith and wasn't bad at first. He only joined the dark side to protect padmé. And I also can't see why anakin and darth Vader are both on this list. They're the same person!

He was a child prodigy in the field of engineering.

He was even said to be the best speaker in the senate besides Palpatine

He is said to be smart