Star Wars Black Series Mustafar Duel

The Mustafar Duel is where Revenge of the Sith pays off everything the prequel trilogy spent three films building. Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi — master and student, brothers, the closest friendship the Jedi Order produced in its final generation — fight on a volcanic planet above rivers of lava, and by the end of it one of them is barely alive and the other is the Emperor’s servant. It’s the duel that creates Darth Vader, and the Black Series figures for this scene cover both the fight itself and the broader Order 66 context that makes Mustafar possible.

The Scene in Star Wars

Mustafar is a mining planet — entirely volcanic, run by the Techno Union, and the location where the Separatist Council retreated after Coruscant fell. It’s where Darth Sidious sends Anakin to complete his transformation: kill the Separatist leaders, sever the last connection to the old war, and prove that Vader exists where Anakin used to.

Padmé arrives hoping to reach Anakin before it’s too late. Obi-Wan has stowed away on her ship. The confrontation that follows is the scene the entire saga has been building toward — not just the prequel trilogy but the Original Trilogy’s retroactive understanding of Vader’s history. Obi-Wan trained Anakin. He believes he failed him. This is the moment that failure becomes irreversible.

The choreography of the Mustafar duel is deliberately different to the Duel of the Fates — less acrobatic, more desperate. These aren’t opponents who barely know each other. They know every technique the other has. The fight goes everywhere on the facility because neither can simply outmaneuver the other, and it ends not with a decisive blow but with a position: Obi-Wan on the high ground, Anakin attempting the one move that his training tells him not to attempt. The move fails. The consequences are total.

Obi-Wan’s “I loved you, Anakin” is the scene’s emotional climax — spoken to someone who is past hearing it, or at least past responding to it in any way that matters. He leaves rather than deliver the killing blow, which is either mercy or an error whose cost is paid across the next twenty years. The films don’t resolve that question.

The ROTS Galaxy Collection Sub-Line

The Revenge of the Sith Galaxy Collection releases gave the Mustafar display its definitive modern coverage. The 2025 ROTS sub-line produced Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker in their specific Revenge of the Sith configurations — the costumes of the film’s final act, at modern Black Series production quality with Photo Real face printing.

The ROTS Obi-Wan is the display recommendation for the duel’s Kenobi side — the specific look of the character in his final confrontation with his former apprentice, distinct from his later exile configuration and from his A New Hope presence. The ROTS Anakin covers the pre-suit Vader — the dark Jedi before the armour, at the moment of his deepest commitment to the wrong choice.

Anakin Skywalker Across the Line

The Mustafar display has the unusual distinction of containing multiple Anakin Skywalker releases from different sources — the 2014 Orange Wave figure, the 2025 ROTS mainline, and the 2025 Ahsoka release. Each represents a different version of the character and a different production era.

The 2025 ROTS Anakin is the Mustafar-specific recommendation — the correct costume and production quality for the duel itself. The Ahsoka Anakin reflects the character’s appearance in the Ahsoka series’ World Between Worlds sequences, where an older Anakin — Force manifestation, not quite ghost, not quite real — encounters Ahsoka in a space outside time. His presence in the Mustafar scene tag connects that series’ exploration of his legacy to the moment that legacy began. The 2014 Orange Wave figure is the line’s original Anakin, pre-Photo Real, included here for completeness and for collectors who began their Black Series journey in that era.

Order 66 and Mustafar’s Context

The Mustafar Duel display includes Clone Commander Bacara and Clone Lieutenant Galle — Order 66 figures whose scenes overlap with Mustafar’s broader context. Order 66 and the Mustafar duel happen simultaneously: while Anakin fights Obi-Wan, clone commanders across the galaxy are turning on their Jedi generals. Bacara kills Ki-Adi-Mundi. Galle serves in the same operation. These are not figures present at Mustafar itself, but they’re part of the same moment — the Republic’s military executing the Jedi Order while its greatest practitioner is being consumed by lava.

Darth Sidious is similarly contextual — he’s on Coruscant during the Mustafar duel, not on the planet itself, but his connection to the scene is total. Mustafar is his plan executing. The display without Sidious loses the architect of everything that’s happening.

The Display’s Visual Argument

The Mustafar Duel display makes its best argument through juxtaposition. Anakin and Obi-Wan in their ROTS configurations on opposite sides of a shelf — master and student, brothers, adversaries — tell the prequel trilogy’s story without any additional context. Add Darth Sidious behind them and the power dynamic becomes explicit. The clone commanders on the flanks place the duel within the galaxy-wide event it belongs to.

This is one of the displays where the choice of which version of each figure to use most directly affects the story the shelf tells. The ROTS-specific configurations are important here precisely because Mustafar is a specific moment — not a general Anakin and Obi-Wan display but the final confrontation of their relationship, and the figures should reflect that specificity.

All Figures for This Display

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Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Scenes. Related: Order 66 | Duel of the Fates | Death Star Corridors | Collector Guide.