i love padme so much like she’s a fair and successful queen at fourteen and (even more incredible than the people of naboo’s readiness to put an eigth grader in charge of like, everything) she shows no apparent hesitation at leading a charge to retake her planet and like, actually puts herself in the middle of the fight and personally fires a blaster alongside real military troops and ten years after this she gives the middle finger to the jedi council, verbally kicks anakin’s ass, and goes to rescue obi wan AND ALSO has the physical capabilities to beat the living shit out of a nexu with the same chains that held her captive and ONCE AGAIN picks up a blaster like she’s not a galactic fucking senator and holds her own in a real life battle alongside jedi masters and GOD i mean could you imagine bill clinton or smth firing a gun on a rescue mission????? no but padme did because she is honest to god one of the best star wars characters