The True Meaning Behind Each Lightsaber Color

Purple — it's the universal sign of a hardcore dude. For receipts, please see Prince, Thanos, Grimace, and Mace Windu. And in the Star Wars universe? A purple lightsaber represents a user's connection to both the light side and dark side of the Force, according to a profile on Ultrasabers. A Force user with a violet weapon was generally "aggressive, bold, and daring, leading their comrades fearlessly into battle." It's inspiring stuff, really.

In the real world, which is occasionally even more fun than the one with Jabba the Hutt in it, purple lightsabers apparently exist because the actor playing Mace Windu really, really wanted one since he was going to be in a scene with dozens of other sabers being waved around, and he wanted to be able to clock himself on the big screen, per about a million interviews, including one on the Graham Norton show. 

So if you want to know what a lavender laser sword really, truly means? It means that Samuel L. Jackson asked for a purple lightsaber so he could see himself in crowded fight scenes, and George Lucas folded, the way any of us would if Samuel L. Jackson asked us for something. In other words, in an argument between Sam Jackson and George Lucas' vision for his multi-generational space opera, Jules Winnfield wins every time.