After Anakin Skywalker completed his fall to the dark side and became Darth Vader, his
master, Palpatine sent him to slaughter every remaining Jedi inside of the temple, including
the younglings.
So why did Anakin not have his yellow Sith eyes when he committed this dark deed?
I’ll get into exactly why Anakin’s eyes did not turn yellow when he slaughtered the
younglings inside of the Jedi temple.
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When Anakin killed the leaders of the separatist council on Mustafar, and after his fight with
Obi-Wan, his eyes changed to the distinctive yellow, Sith eyes.
So why did Anakin have these Yellow Sith eyes during those events, but not when he slaughtered
the younglings in the Jedi temple?
We know from the Revenge of the Sith novelisation that Dark Side users will often have their
eyes turned to a deep yellow and red colour when they call upon the darkside to assist
their actions.
We also know that a force user will only gain these Yellow Sith eyes when they commit actions
out of hate or anger, allowing the darkness to flow through them.
For this reason, Count Dooku was able to hide his own Sith eyes from everyone around him
and conceal this true identity as Darth Tyrannus.
Dooku was a very calm and composed man, much more than any of the other Sith of the time.
Because he was a former member of the Jedi High council and was trained by Grand Master
Yoda himself, Dooku was much more balanced in the force than Palpatine, using some aspects
of the lightside to conceal his true Sith nature.
You could even call him a Grey Sith.
Dooku rarely ever attacked his opponents out of hate, but instead out of strategy, meaning
his Yellow Sith eyes would never appear.
In the Revenge of the Sith Novelisation we learn that Anakin was not fully committed
to his actions inside of the Jedi temple, as many memories of his former life as a Jedi
flooded back to him.
Everything he was promised all the way from Qui-Gon Jinn, through his life in the jedi
temple up to his current Master, Obi-Wan.
As Anakin marched through the halls of the once great Jedi temple, doubts began to cloud
his already very cloudy mind.
Anakin didn’t know whether or not he could really kill his friends, mentors and teachers.
He thought to himself “Could I really kill the entire future of the Jedi Order?”.
The dark side of the force was very new to Anakin, he had only ever experienced its power
in very rare moments of anger throughout the Clones wars.
So for this reason, he wasn’t fully sure if he was ready to embrace it to the fullest
extent.
As Anakin began to plunge his blue blade into the younglings of the Jedi temple, tears rolled
down his angered face.
He was initially disgusted at what he was doing, but the dark side quickly took over
and comforted his anger.
The darkness assured Anakin that he was doing the right thing for these children and that
he was ending the treasonous reign of the Jedi order once and for all.
Despite the dark side calming his emotions, he never fully embraced it and never swung
his blade with anger or hatred.
Instead, he was doing it out of blind obedience to his master.
This is a massive contrast to when Anakin killed the separatist leaders on Mustafar,
where his Sith eyes finally appeared.
This is because Anakin absolutely hated the separatists, and was completely loyal to the
Republic, even before Order 66.
He was a war hero for the republic, and opposed everything that the sepratist council stood
for.
We can even see in the deleted scenes of Revenge of the Sith that Anakin even gets angry at
Padme for suggesting that the Republic is corrupt and evil for entering the war.
Anakin angrily tells her “you’re sounding like a separatist”.
So when it came time to kill the separatist council members, he was fully committed and
used all of his hatred and anger to shred through every single one of them.
So that is why Anakin didn’t have his yellow Sith eyes when he killed the younglings in
the Jedi temple.
He fully wasn’t committed to the dark side while doing this dark deed and was only taking
part because it was the command of his master.
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