CrunchyFrog
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Most rididulous Star Wars Expanded Universe content
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Gabriel_Logan
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This may be one of my favorite threads ever. I actually admire the dedication of the Star Wars fanbase, holy shit.
Jawmuncher
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You just can't do much with that sort of face.
This guy gets it.
The whole Cadeus arc' was such dogshit that I never picked up a Star Wars anything again until The Clone Wars hit Netflix. It killed my inner fanboy. Episode 1 couldnt do that. Jar Jar couldnt do that. The Holiday Special couldnt do that. Horse aliens and try-hard over engineered lightsabers couldnt do that. The special editions of the OT couldnt do that. But Cadeus. Fuck that guy. With a lightsaber.
Assorted ridiculous images from the Star Wars EU. These are all real.
I didn't know BoJack Horseman was in Star Wars!
Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!
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is horse pilot really that much more ridiculous than ackbar? I mean really?
This is hilarious
I think what people were really angry about there was that it was shocking death for no other reason than to have a shocking death. They were tying to set up the whole Vong series as this whole ‘plot armor is gone! No one is safe! That includes your favorite!’ and killed Chewie to prove it.
Then proceeded to keep all the rest of the main OT characters alive. So he basically died for nothing.
googleplex
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HOLY SHIT! I read that while I was in the hospital with appendicitis. It was from tales of the bounty hunters or something like that right?
Yep. I got a ton of used Star Wars books as a kid, and that was one of them.
It's from the Corellian Trilogy novels. The otter creature is a Selonian named Dracmus, who promised Han Solo's evil cousin she wouldn't let anyone escape from his prisons. Han's cousin turns on him and makes the otter attack him in the prisons, but Han convinces the otter to be his friend and they escape together.
If someone could avatar-ize this BoJack Darklighter and I would be eternally grateful.
Recently I was wondering if there are any mildly cool looking background characters that aren't actually super important to the war between the rebellion and the empire in the EU. The stuff about IG-88 just takes the cake considering how much of a nothing character he is. Also this thread is great
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AbsolutBro
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/golfclap
Fun fact: Despite being literal space otters, they are also space otter ants that are smarter than humanity. The Selonians had hyper drives before the humans on Correllia (of which Han Solo is one) but never left because they didn't want to leave their planet. They are like ants in that there is one fertile queen per colony, a handful of perpetually oppressed males for breeding, and a plethora of sterile females to do everything around the colony. Space otter bees.
I'm a nerd that's playing one in a star wars RPG campaign with my friends.
John Rabbit
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Kyle and Dash would be bros.
smh that is a class action lawsuit waiting to happen.
foxuzamaki
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How the hell did he fight off Luke aswell as multiple other JEDI at the same time, Luke Is OP as fuck.
Pyccko
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Whose third eye was on the back of his head, if I recall correctly, under his hair. So, y'know, really useful. I think I still have those books. God, they're so bad.
Cymbal Head
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I am letting myself marinate in some of these names.
Davin Felth.
Hohass Ekwesh.
So good.
Davin Felth.
Hohass Ekwesh.
So good.
I will never understand the Kyle Katarn love. The full extent of his character is "When Alex Trebek was younger he was a part-time Jedi."
PeskyToaster
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As soon as I saw that horse I had to.
Limited Edition
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When you can activate any of a dozen or so lightsabers built into you armor to fend off attacking jedi almost at will, it becomes a lot easier. In the end he still got got though.
That, and a real quote from the New Jedi Order books was like "Luke wields one lighsaber as if it were twenty!" So I guess he's really OP
Reading this combined with the dragon con stuff has made me so confused. There is a harassment campaign to defend THIS!? I read a lot of this stuff when I was 10-12 and finally realized how awful it all was. So glad we are getting what we are getting instead. Darksaber finally broke me. A hutt built death star gun dressed up like a lightsaber for reasons?
Affeinvasion
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It's because it isn't all awful and even the stupid stuff is kind of fun. Star Wars wasn't always such serious business.
spookyfish
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The only thing awesome about Rebels and the ... Inquisitor ... is that Jason Isaacs did the voice.
That's from the Galaxy of Fear books which were basically an attempt to cash in on Goosebumps. They were bad. There was also a planet called D'vouran that ate people.
The vast, vast majority of it was awful, and much of it specifically because it was so self-serious about trying to cram Star Wars into the science fiction box, where it does not belong. Almost none of the EU feels like Star Wars to me, especially the novels.
And it didnt even work because the space-bees that they got to build it were easily distracted by bright lights. In space. Which is full of bright lights. Theyre called stars.
I dont think they were tying to make it look like a lightsabreer though. They were just trying to create the Death Star super laser without the bulky space station around it. For some reason, that meant it had to look like a giant cylinder to hold the power generator
I have honestly read better Star Wars stories of fanfiction.net.
And what harassment campaign?
ThankYouDaletech
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Naming Star Wars characters must be almost as fun as naming marijuana strains.
Limited Edition
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Well, the only reason they put so much science fiction into the EU is because you can only read about Jedi so much before it gets old.
The X-Wing series is great reading and almost pure SciFi with just a touch of Jedi speckled throughout. Same with the Han Solo trilogy, most of the Bounty Hunter stories, and part of the Lando trilogy. Heir to the Empire trilogy had a decent mixture of both.
Hilariously, the books that deal more with the force than anything else are easily some of the worst. White Current? Planets that amplify the force? Creatures from other dimensions that survive by eating force sensitives.... ugh.
Although anyone that says the Dark Empire comics are bad is my mortal enemy. If anything they get a pass just based on the coloring alone. Not to mention it's an amazing story overall.
Seductivpancakes
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And its as bad as a lot of the EU content.
this is too much, it is all just too much, help
That sideburns dude saved the galaxy.
Seductivpancakes
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he has a nice one shot story in the Star Wars Empires series.
I agree, second coolest smuggler.
Still salty about this.
I did like the X-Wing books, but that's about where I draw the line. Zahn's stuff is the least terrible, but I still wouldn't call it good.
The art's good, and at the time it was great to just see new Star Wars content, but it's a terrible story idea. Anything that robs the heroes of their victory in RotJ like that is bullshit. The conflict continuing on between the Rebels and the Imperials is fine, but Palpatine is dead and should stay that way. The heroes fought and sacrificed to make that happen, and a story that takes that away from them deserves to be struck from canon.
FO-totality
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You gotta go deeper, brah
How about some of Luke's childhood friends that mentioned like once in the first movie and appear only in rare deleted scenes?
Or how about all those Red Squadron guys that reported in before the Battle of Yavin? Did you know they had names?
Darth Karja
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This killed post Return of the Jedi for me.
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