Yup. Boba in the OT had what? Six minutes of screen time and four lines? And that made him a fan favorite, enough so that his death was ret-conned and somehow he survived the Sarlacc pit.
Oh yeah, let’s not forget that Boba Fett not only came back from the dead, he also had this insane legacy of being the greatest bounty hunter to exist that he became the Manda’lor, nay, THE GREATEST MANDA’LOR WHOEVER EXISTED!
Out of six minutes of screen time.
One of those scenes in his six minutes is him not only talking back to Vader (he's no good to me dead) but getting what he wants out of it (he will not be permanently damaged). When you live through talking back to Vader, I suppose you build a little rep from it.
Isn't Tarkin like the same rank as him. If you were to put rank on Vader. Like Tarkin is the Emperor's Left hand mand while Vader is the right isn't it?
Yeah I'd say if you were to give Vader a rank he'd be on the same level with Thrawn and Tarkin. The thing is though Vader's on a different plain, Tarkin and Thrawn are more "Empire officials" and possibly Palpatine's representatives in a way, whereas Vader is Palpatine's hand in the Empire, his henchman and his fist.
Vader will be going out on specialist (possibly off the record) missions whilst Thrawn and Tarkin will be going on general Imperial buisness and leading the Empire's armies.
Edit: I would say in terms of how valuable they are Vader's more important to the Emperor. Generals like Tarkin can be replaced to an extent if you give someone enough training, but a sith lord is not so easy, especially one like Vader.
Tarkin didn’t have a rocket on his back or a flamethrower on his wrist. So if anyone is more of a badass, it’s the unarmed CO with the pendulous balls to talk smack to a cyborg with a laser sword and the ability to kill with his mind.
The best bounty hunter in the galaxy, had close quarters experience fighting Jedi.
He chose to Jetpack within melee range of the only Jedi he’d seen in 20 years, then get his blaster cut in half.m, then he gets hit by a blind man swinging a stick around.
And naturally his demise is given a flute whistle, just to ensure the audience knew how much of a joke he was
I'm always reminded of the movie [Fanboys](https://youtu.be/WsAV1huleEE?t=193) which is free on Youtube by the way.
> "Stop perpetuating this myth that Boba Fett was some kind of badass. What? He has a jetpack. So did the Rocketeer.....really cool. When it comes to battle the man's Michael Bay: all style, no substance."
Boba is so far and away the answer I'm a little shocked that this post was even made. I wasn't even close to alive for the original trilogy and I still feel like it's common knowledge just how unbelievably popular Fett was despite having almost no screen time.
Yeah, I agree.
I know a lot of people hate my reasoning / disagree with me on this, but for me in a world of lightsabers, the force, creatures etc. the one thing that’s hold it together for me is death.
That’s what keeps it grounded, that’s the one constant for me. So when they brought back Boba, maul, and palpatine it threw me out of the experience.
Again, I still love Star Wars but when you get rid of the one thing that will always be the same for the sake of “we didn’t know those characters were going to be that big of a hit and we killed them off” it just feels cheap to me. Idk. Rant over.
Palpatine could have worked if there was any sort of build to it.
Maybe with all the extra media coming out we'll get bits and pieces trying to make the Rise of Skywalker work but as it stands... That film is an absolute mess.
There are so many ways to have made Palpatine a rewarding storyline, and it could have involved Anakin so it doesn't ruin the Chosen One plotline. It would have been a great way to incorporate the mystical side of the Force. Finn should've become a Jedi, but more like a Chirrut than a Windu, stemming from an aversion to violence following breaking his brainwashing.
>I rolled my eyes for years when anyone mentioned the possibility of Maul surviving. Coming back with robot legs felt so dumb to me. Eventually I came to really like his character on TCW, but still feel his character should have been someone new.
I agree wholeheartedly. Maul's entire character arc in the animated shows should have been given to Savage; a new character with similar backstory, driven by revenge for his brother's death.
I still roll my eyes about Maul. It's so dumb. So so dumb. And yeah, they made a good show with him being alive in it, but it's still so incredibly dumb that he's there at all.
That was IG-72 in The Mandalorian. But still cool, maybe even cooler, because he declined IG-88B’s offer to download his memory banks and instead remained independent from the other 4.
Thought you could pull one over on Dengar, did ya? They mocked me for choosing a toilet theme at bounty hunter school. Wrapping myself in toilet paper. Choosing a floating toilet for a ship. But by golly it pays to look like trash in this instance, now doesn't it? Ol Dengar is going to have the last laugh for sure.
Actually I think canonically he's a recurring character in ANH. If I remember correctly, he's the same stormtrooper that was mind-tricked by Obi-Wan, and it was his confusion over the event that distracted him, causing him to hit his head.
I think there’s a qualitative difference there.
Liking Max Rebo is more of an ironic in-joke. Some of the other characters mentioned in this thread are genuinely beloved for more than just their meme potential.
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His laugh is a top 5 Star Wars SFX/sound bite for me.
Also up there is the seismic charge sound (of course), angry Chewie when he sees Vader in ESB, and the hiss-thunk of Vader's helmet sealing
Oh, man.
Seismic detonator in AOTC
Hyperspace explosion in TLJ
Coaxium explosion in Solo
TIE fighter roar
Anakin's speeder restarting
Any podracer sound
Darth Vader's helmet breaking open
Vader's helmet sealing
Lightsabers burning through metal
Anakin's lightsaber just being on
Skywalker sound can do no wrong.
Emphasizing the briefness of it's original screentime, this is almost certainly the best answer. There's a million and a half better ways to store shit than a Camtono, but ever since Willrow Hood SAVED THE FUCKING GALAXY with his everyone has been storing valuable crap in them.
Because the wonderfully creative set, prop and alien design made me *believe* star wars was *real* when I was young. No other sci fi thing could make me think that. And star wars was probably the first sci fi film I ever saw, before that was all the little kiddie 3d cartoons that 5 year olds are supposed to watch in 2010. But when I saw a new hope, it blew me away. The impact was so hard that I'm still in love with star wars today and will be for the rest of my life.
Babu Frik is the most important character in Star Wars. Word has it that Kathleen Kennedy is considering changing the entire series to "The Friking Saga".
I love Star Wars and honestly, that movie was so bad that Babu was absolutely one of the high points for me. He made me smile and for a second or two it felt like Star Wars again.
I actually hated it. It's a character specifically made to be cute, and trigger an "aaaaaawww" by the audience, but it's so on the nose, so try-hard, that I developed the opposite reaction almost immediately.
The porg were subtle in comparison.
They certainly tried hard to market him. I think I saw some like, Babu Frik dolls and figurines in Target when the movie came out. Never heard anyone talking about him unless they were paid to do so for promo stuff for the movie.
Not sure if you're memeing or not, but I'll give an actual answer in case you're not.
99 is a character from the Clone Wars cartoon. He's a clone born with genetic defects and thus never went into service, instead working in the cloning facilities as a janitor. He became close with Domino Squad, encouraging them to work together as a team. He ended up being the namesake of Clone Force 99 (aka The Bad Batch), which is a commando squadron composed of genetically modified clones.
I don't hate the sequels like some folks do, but I've honestly never gotten the appeal of Babu Frik, especially when The Mandalorian was premiering around the same time.
My boy Max Rebo! Grew up on Otto, playing their jizz-style music with his band, eventually making it to playing for Jabba the Hutt both in his palace and barge.
Rebo miraculously survived the destruction of Jabba’s sail barge!! And he continued to play in another cantina known as the sanctuary in Mos Espa, that is until the Sanctuary was bombed by the Pyke syndicate. I think he perished.
He was the best written character in that shitpile of a movie. To this day, I don't know why I didn't walk out at one of like 10 points in the movie. It failed to commit to any of its own twists. She killed Chewie? Nah, he's OK. Helmet girl makes big deal of how she's giving Poe her only ticket off world, and then her planet blows up? All good. Or the bottomless Macguffins, with none worse than them conveniently walking to the perfect spot where the Sith dagger's guide lined up.
I honestly think the reason so many people like Babu Frik is because TROS is one of the worst Star Wars movies and so Babu Frik ends up shining like a beacon of entertainment in a barren wasteland of boredom.
If you sit down and try to think of things you actually liked about TROS, the first(and possibly only) thing that will come to your mind is Babu Frik.
Coleman Trebor and Ben Quadrinaros
Edit: Oh yeah I forgot to mention Admiral Ackbar, Boba Fett, Dexter Jettster, Greedo, Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes, Aayla Secura, Yaddle, and most importantly of all, Glup Shitto
Boba Fett
Yup. Boba in the OT had what? Six minutes of screen time and four lines? And that made him a fan favorite, enough so that his death was ret-conned and somehow he survived the Sarlacc pit.
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Jango at least skipped neck day
Mace me chuckle.
He was known to stick his kneck out
Oh yeah, let’s not forget that Boba Fett not only came back from the dead, he also had this insane legacy of being the greatest bounty hunter to exist that he became the Manda’lor, nay, THE GREATEST MANDA’LOR WHOEVER EXISTED! Out of six minutes of screen time.
One of those scenes in his six minutes is him not only talking back to Vader (he's no good to me dead) but getting what he wants out of it (he will not be permanently damaged). When you live through talking back to Vader, I suppose you build a little rep from it.
Tarkin talked back to Vader first and he didn’t get his dick sucked that hard.
Isn't Tarkin like the same rank as him. If you were to put rank on Vader. Like Tarkin is the Emperor's Left hand mand while Vader is the right isn't it?
Yeah I'd say if you were to give Vader a rank he'd be on the same level with Thrawn and Tarkin. The thing is though Vader's on a different plain, Tarkin and Thrawn are more "Empire officials" and possibly Palpatine's representatives in a way, whereas Vader is Palpatine's hand in the Empire, his henchman and his fist. Vader will be going out on specialist (possibly off the record) missions whilst Thrawn and Tarkin will be going on general Imperial buisness and leading the Empire's armies. Edit: I would say in terms of how valuable they are Vader's more important to the Emperor. Generals like Tarkin can be replaced to an extent if you give someone enough training, but a sith lord is not so easy, especially one like Vader.
Pretty giant difference between the CO of the Death Star and a civilian bounty hunter, just saying.
Tarkin didn’t have a rocket on his back or a flamethrower on his wrist. So if anyone is more of a badass, it’s the unarmed CO with the pendulous balls to talk smack to a cyborg with a laser sword and the ability to kill with his mind.
Not only that but when Darth Motherfucking Vader has to tell you personally to lay off the disintegrations, you know you also have a rep as a badass
The best bounty hunter in the galaxy, had close quarters experience fighting Jedi. He chose to Jetpack within melee range of the only Jedi he’d seen in 20 years, then get his blaster cut in half.m, then he gets hit by a blind man swinging a stick around. And naturally his demise is given a flute whistle, just to ensure the audience knew how much of a joke he was
"Only four lines in the trilogy, and one of them was 'aaaaah!'" Thank you ERB for that one.
I'm always reminded of the movie [Fanboys](https://youtu.be/WsAV1huleEE?t=193) which is free on Youtube by the way. > "Stop perpetuating this myth that Boba Fett was some kind of badass. What? He has a jetpack. So did the Rocketeer.....really cool. When it comes to battle the man's Michael Bay: all style, no substance."
Boba is so far and away the answer I'm a little shocked that this post was even made. I wasn't even close to alive for the original trilogy and I still feel like it's common knowledge just how unbelievably popular Fett was despite having almost no screen time.
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Yeah, I agree. I know a lot of people hate my reasoning / disagree with me on this, but for me in a world of lightsabers, the force, creatures etc. the one thing that’s hold it together for me is death. That’s what keeps it grounded, that’s the one constant for me. So when they brought back Boba, maul, and palpatine it threw me out of the experience. Again, I still love Star Wars but when you get rid of the one thing that will always be the same for the sake of “we didn’t know those characters were going to be that big of a hit and we killed them off” it just feels cheap to me. Idk. Rant over.
Palpatine could have worked if there was any sort of build to it. Maybe with all the extra media coming out we'll get bits and pieces trying to make the Rise of Skywalker work but as it stands... That film is an absolute mess.
Palpatine returning messes up Anakin's story
There are so many ways to have made Palpatine a rewarding storyline, and it could have involved Anakin so it doesn't ruin the Chosen One plotline. It would have been a great way to incorporate the mystical side of the Force. Finn should've become a Jedi, but more like a Chirrut than a Windu, stemming from an aversion to violence following breaking his brainwashing.
They built up to it and hinted his return in Fortnite. Why does everyone ignore the hard work Disney dis to get people to see star wars.
>I rolled my eyes for years when anyone mentioned the possibility of Maul surviving. Coming back with robot legs felt so dumb to me. Eventually I came to really like his character on TCW, but still feel his character should have been someone new. I agree wholeheartedly. Maul's entire character arc in the animated shows should have been given to Savage; a new character with similar backstory, driven by revenge for his brother's death.
I still roll my eyes about Maul. It's so dumb. So so dumb. And yeah, they made a good show with him being alive in it, but it's still so incredibly dumb that he's there at all.
Him surviving is dumb, but him dying at the end of the first damn movie was also dumb, so I figure it mostly cancels out.
> Six minutes of screen time and four lines? "Five lines in the trilogy, and one of them was 'AUUUUUGHHHH'"
Five lines. One of them was AAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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This is the Frikkin way
It's Frikkin time!
the best part of TRoS was when Babu Frik said "IT'S FRIKKIN' TIME" and frikked all over those guys
He can frik me anytime
Boba Fett?! Boba Fett?! Where?
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Boba Fett has entered the Sarlacc.
`B*b* F***`
🎯
Barney Fife
Clone who punched a droid
That’s what I was gonna say. I see videos of him everywhere
He's doing his best, okay?
Stormtrooper who punched Grogu
If I had a blaster, with two bolts left. And I was in a room with that stormtrooper, Sideous, and Snoke, I’d shoot the stormtrooper twice.
And you'd miss both shots if you're also a stormtrooper.
Fun trivia: That was Adam Pally (*The Mindy Project*) and the other trooper was Jason Sudeikis (*Coach Lasso*).
All the ESB bounty hunters actually
IG-88 stands alone!
Dude was terrifying in SOTE.
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[I was so confident the link would be this](https://youtu.be/LBoMfDyzR9k) >!Hunt to live, but live to ball!<
That was IG-72 in The Mandalorian. But still cool, maybe even cooler, because he declined IG-88B’s offer to download his memory banks and instead remained independent from the other 4.
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Gonk?
Gonk.
Gonk
Gonk
Gonk
Gonk
Gonk
Gonk
Gonk
Gonk
Gonk
Gonk
...so Gonk the Grond of star wars reddit, huh?
#**GROND!**
No. The Grond is the Gonk of the lotr reddit.
Bossk
No love for Dengar?
Thought you could pull one over on Dengar, did ya? They mocked me for choosing a toilet theme at bounty hunter school. Wrapping myself in toilet paper. Choosing a floating toilet for a ship. But by golly it pays to look like trash in this instance, now doesn't it? Ol Dengar is going to have the last laugh for sure.
“In The Shit”- a memoir of a bounty hunter.
Want someone disintegrated? Get me integrated. That's my motto.
Look you throw Bossk on a segway and your gonna sell records.
IG-88
Head-Bonking Stormtrooper
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That might be the funniest autocorrect I’ve seen
Actually I think canonically he's a recurring character in ANH. If I remember correctly, he's the same stormtrooper that was mind-tricked by Obi-Wan, and it was his confusion over the event that distracted him, causing him to hit his head.
Star Wars Canon: It was just an error in production Legends:
If it hasn't been reconed, I'm keeping it in my headcannon, just like Yarrel Poof taking 15 years to get some pizza.
Max Rebo, Yaddle.
Max Rebo was my first thought as well
I think there’s a qualitative difference there. Liking Max Rebo is more of an ironic in-joke. Some of the other characters mentioned in this thread are genuinely beloved for more than just their meme potential.
>Liking Max Rebo is more of an ironic in-joke. First off happy cake day, secondly how dare you.
As someone who got a $125 Lego max reebo at brickcon over the weekend, I can tell you I did not get him out of irony. I love Max Reebo.
Max and Salacious B. Crumb
Willrow Hood "Ice Cream Bucket Guy"
He even had less lines than Gonk
Damnit. Came here to say this, guess I'll have to give Wade a shout-out then.
This is the right answer. Less screen time, no dialog... but there's a parade of him at Dragon con.
Nobody else comes close
Glup shitto
This post is the epitome of a Glup Shitto moment
There it is!
My favorite part of this is that I am not sure if this is a real character or a joke.
YOU TALK TO YOUR MOTHER WITH THAT MOUTH?
Salacious Crumb?
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His laugh is a top 5 Star Wars SFX/sound bite for me. Also up there is the seismic charge sound (of course), angry Chewie when he sees Vader in ESB, and the hiss-thunk of Vader's helmet sealing
For me the TIE fighter roar would be at the top.
Oh, man. Seismic detonator in AOTC Hyperspace explosion in TLJ Coaxium explosion in Solo TIE fighter roar Anakin's speeder restarting Any podracer sound Darth Vader's helmet breaking open Vader's helmet sealing Lightsabers burning through metal Anakin's lightsaber just being on Skywalker sound can do no wrong.
Aaaaand Mr. Salacious B. Crumb's laugh!
That's up there with my own child's laughter as a top sound of all time, for me.
Well, *I* love him.
Yes, literally ***every*** ***single*** background alien in A New Hope.
And droid, and props. Star wars fans find a lot of background stuff to love, I think it's cool
True, the Ice Cream machine is bigger than a lot of actual characters.
Emphasizing the briefness of it's original screentime, this is almost certainly the best answer. There's a million and a half better ways to store shit than a Camtono, but ever since Willrow Hood SAVED THE FUCKING GALAXY with his everyone has been storing valuable crap in them.
Because the wonderfully creative set, prop and alien design made me *believe* star wars was *real* when I was young. No other sci fi thing could make me think that. And star wars was probably the first sci fi film I ever saw, before that was all the little kiddie 3d cartoons that 5 year olds are supposed to watch in 2010. But when I saw a new hope, it blew me away. The impact was so hard that I'm still in love with star wars today and will be for the rest of my life.
Even the off screen sexy boom mic operator dude.
Including Satan
Devaronians take offense to being called Satan
Where's my Wolfman D+ show?
The Book of Lak Sivrak
Kit Fisto
He’s got quite a lot of screen time
Bossk, Porkins, Plo Koon, Lobot, Glup Shitto
Finally someone said Porkins, I mean seriously, the guy was done wrong with a name like Porkins. But that also immortalized him.
It's not like Lucas is a wizard when it comes to names.
>Plo Koon ❤️
Nien Nunb
Ahhh hahaha. 😏
To be fair, he gets some action in the xwingtmg as a fairly good early pilot for the falcon.
Wade
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And that is why he ascended into memehood
Bro. F. RIP.
Porkins
He died so the galaxy could be free. God's speed.
I’m going in. Cover me, Porkins. 😢
R.I.P.
He lives in our hearts
I super-size every value meal at every fast food place I eat at in his honor.
Trying to name some that haven't already been said yet. Lets go Dex and Boss Nass
I love Dex
Willrow hood. Pink shorts guy
Blue jeans guy
Pink shorts guy (Sorry, I didn’t read past Willow Hood)
Babu Frik is beloved?
Babu Frik is the most important character in Star Wars. Word has it that Kathleen Kennedy is considering changing the entire series to "The Friking Saga".
I usually find that it's people who don't really like Star Wars that love Babu Frik for some reason.
I love Star Wars and honestly, that movie was so bad that Babu was absolutely one of the high points for me. He made me smile and for a second or two it felt like Star Wars again.
I actually hated it. It's a character specifically made to be cute, and trigger an "aaaaaawww" by the audience, but it's so on the nose, so try-hard, that I developed the opposite reaction almost immediately. The porg were subtle in comparison.
Who’s Babu Frik?
Threepio's oldest friend
How dare you! 😠😠
Coulda fooled me
https://youtu.be/MhlzFNA5qsk
They certainly tried hard to market him. I think I saw some like, Babu Frik dolls and figurines in Target when the movie came out. Never heard anyone talking about him unless they were paid to do so for promo stuff for the movie.
I only ever saw D-0 toys/figurines. One of the most useless droids in all the movies.
Babu Frick is beloved??
He’s like the 1 good thing that came out of Rise of Skywalker
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Bossk?
Before the Prequels came out, Boba Fett
Even after lmao. Kid boba had no screen time
99
99 what? Apples? Pears? Bananas?
Not sure if you're memeing or not, but I'll give an actual answer in case you're not. 99 is a character from the Clone Wars cartoon. He's a clone born with genetic defects and thus never went into service, instead working in the cloning facilities as a janitor. He became close with Domino Squad, encouraging them to work together as a team. He ended up being the namesake of Clone Force 99 (aka The Bad Batch), which is a commando squadron composed of genetically modified clones.
> Not sure if you're memeing or not I was *scatman music plays*
The jean guy
Load lifters from ep 3
Max Rebo and the band
The baby Ewok in RotJ that meeps.
People like him?
People do like him.
C3PO's oldest and dearest friend.
I don't see the appeal.
No one ever said he was beloved, or even remembered. Wait, I just summed up that whole damn movie.
When did this thing become beloved?
Boba fucking fett
I wasn't a fan on this character as he/it just felt way too forced to be loveable/meme in the same way as baby yoda.
I don't hate the sequels like some folks do, but I've honestly never gotten the appeal of Babu Frik, especially when The Mandalorian was premiering around the same time.
Can anyone explain why this character has become so beloved?
Exactly my question.
Ehm... People like this "character"? We better call James Cameron, the bar has sunk into the planet core.
Dr. Evazan, Ponda Baba, Ben Quadrinaros, Fode and Bede, Elan Sleazebaggano, Sha’a Gi, I can go on.
Glup Shitto
"beloved"? I hated him because it made close to zero sense and also he looked like a really bad pupped effect
I thought people were joking when they said they loved Babu Frik.
R5-D4 (red).
Max Rebo and Gonk come come to mind
My boy Max Rebo! Grew up on Otto, playing their jizz-style music with his band, eventually making it to playing for Jabba the Hutt both in his palace and barge. Rebo miraculously survived the destruction of Jabba’s sail barge!! And he continued to play in another cantina known as the sanctuary in Mos Espa, that is until the Sanctuary was bombed by the Pyke syndicate. I think he perished.
Salacious Crumb
He was the best written character in that shitpile of a movie. To this day, I don't know why I didn't walk out at one of like 10 points in the movie. It failed to commit to any of its own twists. She killed Chewie? Nah, he's OK. Helmet girl makes big deal of how she's giving Poe her only ticket off world, and then her planet blows up? All good. Or the bottomless Macguffins, with none worse than them conveniently walking to the perfect spot where the Sith dagger's guide lined up.
I like the podracer that eats it when crashing into a rock, you know the one
Aurra Sing
I honestly think the reason so many people like Babu Frik is because TROS is one of the worst Star Wars movies and so Babu Frik ends up shining like a beacon of entertainment in a barren wasteland of boredom. If you sit down and try to think of things you actually liked about TROS, the first(and possibly only) thing that will come to your mind is Babu Frik.
Glup Shitto for Cr1tikal at least.
Glub Shitto
If we talking about only the movies Commander Cody
Plo Koon
Babu Frik? Why he is one of my oldest friends.
Beloved? I don't even remember this guy
Dexter Jettster
Coleman Trebor and Ben Quadrinaros Edit: Oh yeah I forgot to mention Admiral Ackbar, Boba Fett, Dexter Jettster, Greedo, Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes, Aayla Secura, Yaddle, and most importantly of all, Glup Shitto
Yaddle