The Boba Fett Critique
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Skyball Paint
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Does a competent thing on screen actually.
He uses the Star Destroyer's space trash as camoflage. Allowing him to observe and track the Falcon unnoticed. It's a small but neat detail not often remembered.
No, I watched him when the movie debuted, and thought, "This is the character everyone is excited about? WTF?" Turns out the toy was cooler than the guy. Which is where I suspect his legend originated anyway.
And then Jedi came out and he got downgraded from being a Goon who lived in the trash like Oscar the Grouch, to a chump who gets bodied by Blind Solo and subsequently eaten by a space vagine.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Y'all watch, The Boba Fett flick will blow everyone away.
It'll be the John Wick of the Star Wars universe.
It'll be the John Wick of the Star Wars universe.
BannedEpisode
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Not only does he look cool, his space ship is easily my favorite in any form of media.
Slave-1 also is a baddass name.
Slave-1 also is a baddass name.
dapperbandit
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Lame! IG-88 is the best bounty hunter / assassin for hire!
I like IG-88 as well but I've always wondered what an assassin droid does with credits
Buy upgrades, and maintenance I'd assume.
Oil change?
Delivers them to his Master, Sy Snootles, the Kayser Soze of Star Wars.
Mr Fahrenheit
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I like Boba because he's the absolute perfect example of Star Wars fans filling in the blanks with their own ideas and treating it as part of the continuity. Once you get into EU stuff he's cool but in the movies he ranges from completely unimportant to laughably ineffective.
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Professor Renegade
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His head was originally part of the distillery in the Mos Eisley cantina after its previous life as a combustion assembly in a Rolls Royce Derwent jet engine.
I thought one of the reasons he died originally in RotJ was that Lucas hated how much of a fanbase he generated and that he himself thought he was a chump?
shira
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This is another Lucas quote that works so well letting your imagination run wild with Bobba, a bounty, and a flame thrower. I'm glad he never expanded on it or added in a specialized scene.
Kadayi
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All I could think when I looked at that image was 'did they not have handrails on the Star Destroyers?'
Dudes below are probably thinking 'OMG lets hope we don't hit any asteroids because if Vader falls on top of us, you know we're going to be blamed'.
Lonewolf_92
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Going by that reasoning, how great of a smuggler is Solo? He can't avoid being followed by (not one, but two!) Bounty hunters, even crap ones like Greedo.
Zeyphersan
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I always thought that he WASN'T a great smuggler, he just talked a lot of game
TFA expands on this somewhat, without going into detail
I've never credited Han Solo for being a great smuggler really, but at least we have seen him in action conducting business with Jabba, smuggling himself and a crew onboard the Death Star, sneak around as a stormtrooper and escape. You know, do some shit in the movie?
And he has actual personality to like, because he is a character. Boba is a figure that stands around.
AgentOtaku
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lol
KittenMaster
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Yeah. Ep. 4 pretty much establishes him right away as in the act of trying to weasel his way out of a failed job and making excuses for it. I'd say he's better known for being a good pilot than a good smuggler.
Jango Fett was much more badass than Boba.
Jango was beheaded by Mace Windu though, it was anti-climatic but way better than how Boba was killed.
Jango was beheaded by Mace Windu though, it was anti-climatic but way better than how Boba was killed.
Professor Beef
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OrlanisWorks
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The way he's put on screen, he appears clumsy and generally weak. But his legend tells us that he's one of the most feared and sure bounty hunters in the galaxy.
It's kinda hard to claim someone to a huge badass and then have him, in a very silly way, get ejected into the sarlaac pit. He can track Han, but he can't actually capture him solo (harharhar), going by what the film tells us.
He's cool, but I think the OT absolutely fail to show us how awesome he really is.
It's kinda hard to claim someone to a huge badass and then have him, in a very silly way, get ejected into the sarlaac pit. He can track Han, but he can't actually capture him solo (harharhar), going by what the film tells us.
He's cool, but I think the OT absolutely fail to show us how awesome he really is.
0.1.1.2.3.5.8.13.21.34.55
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What do hipsters have to do with this?
ARE YOU STILL ON THIS SHIT, JABBA. EVERYONE GETS BOARDED, BRO
Big Bossk
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Jango did get trampled like a spring roll by a Rhinoalien first.
Add horrible luck to the Fett family trait.
Mighty Chin
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Jesus fucking Christ! How old are you?
Grevious is a cooler character than Boba Fett. He actually had some story relevance along with a cool design and got the death that would make most villains proud.
Take off the nostalgia glasses.
Are you under the impression hipster bs means truth? Because that statement you made is true.
Take off the nostalgia glasses.
Are you under the impression hipster bs means truth? Because that statement you made is true.
I mean I like Grievous (He was better in both Clone Wars series than in RotS), but let's be honest, his death wasn't too impressive.
The One and Done
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Monocle
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This needs to be canon.
Hellwarden
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Pretty much.
The villains in the main line Star Wars movies have always gone out in incredibly lame ways.
Snowblindvictim
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Boba Fett for life
ffejeromdiks
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It's kinda messed up too, I always thought it was kinda fucked up that Obi Wan just gives up trying to properly subdue Grevious, so he just pulls a blaster on him and guns him down (even makes his eyeballs shoot fire!) and then makes a joke about it.
Obi Wan cold blooded yo.
So while Boba Fett only had a minimal appearance in the OT (with sigificant impact), it was the Christmas special that propelled him to fame (infamy?). There was an animated short about him (the only redeeming part of the special) that got everyine buzzing. I remember all my friends talking about him at school after it aired.
he drops han off and sticks around awhile to check out the scenery. doesn't seem unreasonable.
Etrian Oddity
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I'm down with this being an official redesign.
I mean it in the context of "this cool thing isn't actually cool because I'm above it and liking cool things is lame bro" kind of mentality
I always loved Mandalorians in KOTOR so insofar as he helped that happen he's alright.
His Wookiepedia page is hilarious though. Dude must've been in every single EU book? Seems he's involved in literally everything after Endor in The EU. Boy definitely had his fanboys.
Ohh shit I forgot about that. And Han thinks he's so clever for hiding in the trash, too.
His Wookiepedia page is hilarious though. Dude must've been in every single EU book? Seems he's involved in literally everything after Endor in The EU. Boy definitely had his fanboys.
Ohh shit I forgot about that. And Han thinks he's so clever for hiding in the trash, too.
DrForester
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Lame! IG-88 is the best bounty hunter / assassin for hire!
So I went and looked this guy up on Wookieepedia, and there's almost nothing. How on earth was there not a ton of EU stuff written about him?
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