Skywalker family
![Shmi Skywalker, as seen in The Phantom Menace and mentioned in later installments, as in the Expanded Universe and Attack of the Clones.](/Images/godic/202502/10/Shmi_skywalker0908.jpg")
The Skywalker family is a fictional family in the Star Wars series. Within the series' fictional universe, the Skywalkers are a bloodline with strong inherent capabilities related to the Force. The Skywalkers are the central characters of the saga: Luke Skywalker is the protagonist of the original trilogy and his father Anakin is the protagonist of the prequel trilogy and the antagonist in the original trilogy, as Darth Vader.