While fans rejoiced at the latest "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" trailer, they also cannot help but notice the absence of one Luke Skywalker. Even with several news about Mark Hamill joining the filming of the said movie, including a behind-the-scenes clip where he narrates bits and parts of it, fans still cannot help but speculate: Is he dead? Has he gone over to the dark side? Theories go from fairly plausible to really wild.

The question of, "Where's Luke Skywalker?" started when the official poster for "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" dropped on the Internet. Sure, it was beautiful and awe-inspiring with the two huge lightsabers brightening up the screen. But with Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Princess Leia (Carrie) and even Chewbacca, C-3PO, and R2-D2 prominently featuring in the poster, fans were quick to note that Mark Hamill's Luke Skywalker is missing. While this was enough to cause a bit of a panic, the panic only went full-blown when the trailer came out and not a glimpse of the original trilogy's main protagonist was seen.

While it's a known fact Luke is going to make an appearance in the seventh Star Wars film (and even eighth, if rumours prove to be true), some still went overboard and offered various theories about his noticeable absence. Some are downright funny (that Luke has morphed into Jar Jar Binks or that director J.J. Abrams already lost Hamill's number) while some are just pretty much absurd (Hamill - yes, the actor, and not Luke the character — got in between an intergalactic war; or that Disney has no rights to the Luke Skywalker character).

There's also this one mean theory that whoever made the trailer might have thought Luke is not an all-too-important character. But how could that be, given he narrated the very first teaser trailer, right?

Whether some of these speculations are true or not, there has got to be an explanation-- and Esquire may have captured the best reasoning behind it. It can all be just Abrams' way of defusing the hype and keeping a level of secrecy on what Luke's role is going to be in this new-generation of Star Wars films. As the news site pointed out, fans can choose: Skywalker sub-plot in the movie theatres or a 2-minute clip? The answer seems pretty obvious.

Take a glimpse of Mark Hamill's Luke Skywalker once again when "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" comes out this Dec. 18.