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Poll: Are 'Star Wars' films primarily Fantasy or Science Fiction?

It is now commonly accepted that Star Wars films are a mix of Fantasy and Science Fiction genres. Even IMDb lists all current Star Wars films as (in alphabetical genre order):

Action/Adventure/Fantasy/Sci-Fi

However, there is still a lively debate to which of these genres the series belongs more. For example, some would put Star Wars on a Best Sci-Fi Films list, but will omit it from Best Fantasy Films list (and vice versa).

So, if you had to take one side, what would you say - is Star Wars primarily a Fantasy or a Science Fiction franchise?

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Mark Hamill in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)

FANTASY
In its core, Star Wars has many common tropes of a Fantasy story: magic, swordfights, order of knights, giant monsters, strange creatures, Hero's Journey, a princess in peril, evil empire, the Chosen One... Furthermore, it is not set in the future, but ''Long time ago, far, far away'', like many fairy tale stories.

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Mark Hamill in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)

SCIENCE FICTION
Star Wars' Fantasy tropes are ''packaged'' into a technologically advanced appearance. Therefore, it has Sci-Fi things such as starships, lasers, space battles, interplanetary conflicts, light-speed travel... Some of those are even major plot points, such as destructive superweapons and cloning.

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