Obi-Wan Kenobi (Jedi Knight) — Star Wars The Black Series #111
The Black Series Obi-Wan Kenobi in AOTC Jedi Knight configuration — Red Line #111, 2020. The full-bearded Ewan McGregor with blue lightsaber. Anakin's master. The penultimate figure of the Red Line sequence.
Overview
Red Line #111 is Obi-Wan Kenobi in his AOTC Jedi Knight configuration — the full beard, the Jedi Knight robes that distinguish him from the shorter-robe Padawan at #85, Ewan McGregor at approximately 35, the specific face of a man who has taken on the most difficult Padawan in the Order’s history and is doing his best. This is the middle Obi-Wan in the Red Line’s three-configuration arc: TPM Padawan (#85), AOTC Jedi Knight (#111), and the eventual ROTS and ANH figures elsewhere in the line.
Blue lightsaber. The 17th Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Black Series catalogue. The penultimate figure of the entire Red Line numbered sequence. MSRP $19.99.
The Jedi Knight Configuration
The AOTC Obi-Wan is the configuration that covers the middle period of the prequel trilogy — the Jedi Knight who has been training Anakin for ten years, who has developed from the uncertain new Master of the post-TPM interlude into the established, confident teacher who nonetheless cannot quite manage his student. The full beard is the visual signal of that decade: this is not the young Padawan of #85 but the experienced Knight who knows what he’s doing and is beginning to understand that knowing what you’re doing doesn’t mean you can control outcomes.
His specific AOTC arc — the mystery investigation (Kamino, the clone army, Jango Fett), the capture on Geonosis, the arena fight, the first confrontation with Count Dooku — is the most procedural of his prequel appearances and the one that establishes his specific quality as an investigator and tactician alongside his established quality as a combatant.
The Anakin and Obi-Wan Partnership at #110 and #111
The Red Line places Anakin Padawan (#110) and Obi-Wan Jedi Knight (#111) in consecutive numbered slots — master and apprentice in adjacent positions, available at consistent 2020 production quality. The specific relationship between these two configurations: the teacher and the student who exceeds the teacher, in the specific AOTC period where the dynamic between them is simultaneously warmest and most charged.
Displayed together, #110 and #111 create the prequel trilogy’s central relationship in its AOTC configuration. Adding Padmé (#81) and Count Dooku (#107) completes the four named principals of the Geonosis arena at consistent 2019-2020 production quality.
The Penultimate Figure
Obi-Wan Kenobi at #111 is the second-to-last numbered figure in the Red Line sequence — the penultimate position in a 112-figure run that began with TFA’s Finn at #01 in 2015. That the sequence’s second-to-last slot goes to Obi-Wan Kenobi — the franchise’s most consistently present character, across nine films and across the whole of its history — is not precisely planned but is precisely correct. Kit Fisto closes the sequence at #112; Obi-Wan arrives one figure before the end.
Secondary Market
Above-retail secondary market prices for this Obi-Wan configuration — the AOTC Jedi Knight fills the specific gap between the TPM Padawan and the ROTS Master. Verify the lightsaber on secondary market purchases. No production variants documented.
Verdict
The AOTC Jedi Knight, Anakin’s master, and the penultimate figure of the Red Line. Buy for the prequel partnership display with Anakin (#110), or Red Line sequence completion.
The Three Obi-Wan Red Line Configurations
The Red Line numbered sequence covers three distinct Obi-Wan configurations at three career stages: TPM Padawan (#85) at approximately 25, AOTC Jedi Knight (#111) at approximately 35, and the sequence’s ANH Old Ben (#32) at approximately 57. Three figures, three eras, the franchise’s most complete numbered single-character arc across the sequence.
The ten years between #85 and #111 are the years Obi-Wan spent training Anakin — the period covered in the Clone Wars animated series and implied in AOTC. The Jedi Knight configuration at #111 represents the teacher who knows his student is extraordinary and is beginning to understand that extraordinary students are not always gifts.
Obi-Wan’s AOTC Investigation
The AOTC plot structure uses Obi-Wan specifically as investigator — the detective who traces the assassination attempts on Padmé back to Jango Fett, to Kamino, to the clone army, and ultimately to Dooku and the Separatist conspiracy. This is a different Obi-Wan role than the combat-first configurations — the figure captures the Jedi Knight who is as effective in a tracking mission as in a fight, which is the specific AOTC characterisation that distinguishes him from Anakin’s combat-forward approach.
The Seventeenth Obi-Wan
Seventeen Black Series Obi-Wan releases make him the most-produced character in the line’s history — more than Luke, more than Darth Vader, more than Han Solo. The AOTC Jedi Knight at #111 is the seventeenth and the one that fills the specific middle slot in the three-era Red Line arc. The position as penultimate Red Line figure is coincidence; the rightness of it is not.
Obi-Wan Kenobi at #111 is the penultimate figure of the Red Line sequence and the seventeenth Obi-Wan in the Black Series catalogue. The sequence that began with TFA characters closes with the prequel Jedi Knight who trained the man who becomes Vader, one figure before the end. Above-retail secondary market. Verify lightsaber. No production variants documented.
Display Obi-Wan Jedi Knight (#111) alongside Anakin Padawan (#110) for the Red Line’s definitive AOTC teacher-and-student pairing. The two figures at consistent 2020 production quality, in adjacent numbered slots, covering the specific period where their relationship is simultaneously its warmest and most charged.
Obi-Wan Kenobi at #111 is two figures before the sequence’s end and one figure before Kit Fisto closes it. The Red Line’s penultimate slot belongs to the character who is present at more pivotal franchise moments than any other: the prequel Jedi Knight here, the Clone Wars Master in later Phase 4 releases, the ROTS heartbreak, the Tatooine exile, the ANH sacrifice. #111 catches him in the middle — competent, bearded, doing his best.
Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Red Line. Related: Anakin Skywalker P3-110 | Kit Fisto P3-112 | All Obi-Wan figures | Attack of the Clones.