- Mild
- There are some mild perilous scenes, but mild compared to subsequent sequels. This one is a movie about teamwork and the good jedis, such as Obi-Wan and Luke.
- (At around 50 min) Han Solo's fight scene in the bar leaves a smoking husk of alien on a table.
- In the final battle's trench run, Luke's wingmen are killed or forced to disengage one by one by Darth Vader pursuing and shooting them.
- Darth Vader kills Obi Wan Kenobi. However, it is mitigated by the fact that Kenobi becomes a Force Ghost as suggested in his fight with Vader, and speaks to Luke at critical moments to help him.
- Luke, Princess Lia, Han, and Chewie get trapped in a garbage room. The walls close in on them to crush the garbage. But luckily, none of them get crushed with the help of C-3P0.
- In the garbage room scene, Luke is dragged into filthy water by a creature. He is saved by Han and Leia.
- (At around 45 min) In the bar an alien's arm is removed with a light saber. Instead of cauderizing the wound, the arm is shown bloody and detached. This has been retconned and is because of the species of alien