Star Wars mythology question
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I'm sure this has been covered before, but I was just thinking about it. What is the reason for the life debt that Chewbacca owes Han Solo? I'm sure Han probably saved his life at one point, and that is the reason but I haven't read all the backstories to find out why. Or am I wrong about the life debt and they were just buddies?
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When Han was in the Imperial Navy he rescued Chewbacca from imprisonment and slave labor. Han was court-martialed for the act.
Btw, I didn't know any of that but simply searched on Google just now. Which you could have done
Btw, I didn't know any of that but simply searched on Google just now. Which you could have done
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Originally posted by Groucho
The "life debt" thing isn't in the movies, and as far as I'm concerned it's not canon.
The "life debt" thing isn't in the movies, and as far as I'm concerned it's not canon.
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Actually, anything not on film is not considered Canon.
http://www.starwars.com/databank/cha...ansolo/eu.html
It's Under Expanded Universe on the site so thus, It would fall under the Non-canon files.
http://www.starwars.com/databank/cha...ansolo/eu.html
Despite promising skills, Solo was drummed out of the service when he defied orders and rescued a Wookiee slave, Chewbacca. Solo freed Chewbacca from his captors, and from that day on Chewbacca served as Han's protector and friend.
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Expanding on the question: Why is Chewbacca so cool?
I mean he is a really cool character, but he's just a guy in a suit. He never says anything cool (you can't even understand him). We know nothing about him, he has no backstory, and no arc of development through the trilogy. And yet he is the coolest. I guess less is more. The more you find out about Luke the less you like him, but you never learn a thing about Chewbacca and he's a bad ass from beginning to end.
I mean he is a really cool character, but he's just a guy in a suit. He never says anything cool (you can't even understand him). We know nothing about him, he has no backstory, and no arc of development through the trilogy. And yet he is the coolest. I guess less is more. The more you find out about Luke the less you like him, but you never learn a thing about Chewbacca and he's a bad ass from beginning to end.
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Originally posted by Pants
Expanding on the question: Why is Chewbacca so cool?
I mean he is a really cool character, but he's just a guy in a suit. He never says anything cool (you can't even understand him). We know nothing about him, he has no backstory, and no arc of development through the trilogy. And yet he is the coolest. I guess less is more. The more you find out about Luke the less you like him, but you never learn a thing about Chewbacca and he's a bad ass from beginning to end.
Expanding on the question: Why is Chewbacca so cool?
I mean he is a really cool character, but he's just a guy in a suit. He never says anything cool (you can't even understand him). We know nothing about him, he has no backstory, and no arc of development through the trilogy. And yet he is the coolest. I guess less is more. The more you find out about Luke the less you like him, but you never learn a thing about Chewbacca and he's a bad ass from beginning to end.
Chewie is cooler than Boba?
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The question I've always had is "Why is Boba Fett considered to be so cool?" What does he really do? He catches Han...big deal (besides, he's subsequently rescued). Then he gets unceremoniously eaten by a giant sandgina. What a stud.
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The question I've always had is "Why is Boba Fett considered to be so cool?"
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The question I've always had is "Why is Boba Fett considered to be so cool?"
He freezes a guy in a big block of carbonite...that's pretty cool. Then the Carbonite block "floats" on its own...that's cool.
Expanding on the question: Why is Chewbacca so cool?
you can't even understand him
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Originally posted by Numanoid
The question I've always had is "Why is Boba Fett considered to be so cool?" What does he really do? He catches Han...big deal (besides, he's subsequently rescued). Then he gets unceremoniously eaten by a giant sandgina. What a stud.
The question I've always had is "Why is Boba Fett considered to be so cool?" What does he really do? He catches Han...big deal (besides, he's subsequently rescued). Then he gets unceremoniously eaten by a giant sandgina. What a stud.
Boba Fett's mystique comes from the fact he was the first official "new" character introduced when ESB was coming out. You could mail away proof of purchases from the figures and get a free Boba Fett figure. he was faceless, mysterious, and sounded like a real badass.
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By giving him his own unique musical theme, I think he gets singled out as something "more"
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Originally posted by Pants
By giving him his own unique musical theme, I think he gets singled out as something "more"
By giving him his own unique musical theme, I think he gets singled out as something "more"
Like stated above, he was the mail away figure so this was the first taste of ESB that everyone had before it opened thus creating a hype that wasn't fully carried out. He didn't freeze han, he really only told vader where Han was going. Vader captures Han, Hell fett couldn't even kill Luke on two different chances. once in ESB and once in ROTJ. not to mention gets killed by a blind man. Though I'm sure he got his smarts from dear ol' Clone daddy fighting a jedi with a blaster, you figure the kid would remember that Light Saber > Blaster in combat from the horrorific inprint that he had from AOTC.
Add a crap load of "Fan fiction" and expanded universe which was all pretty much proven wrong once Ep 2 came out, Fett is left with nothing. Showing that once the audiance learns more about it, they care far less.
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Boba Fett is cool because:
1) He was leaked early on that dreadful Chirstmas Special and as an early release action figure. That gave him a certain mystique.
2) He's a bounty hunter.
3) Cool-looking costume with a rocket pack and a bunch of gadgets. (This went a long way at being cool when I was a kid.)
4) You knew very little about him -- what he looks like, what he did before.
5) He's cool because of his appearance in ESB, and in spite of his poor handling in ROTJ.
1) He was leaked early on that dreadful Chirstmas Special and as an early release action figure. That gave him a certain mystique.
2) He's a bounty hunter.
3) Cool-looking costume with a rocket pack and a bunch of gadgets. (This went a long way at being cool when I was a kid.)
4) You knew very little about him -- what he looks like, what he did before.
5) He's cool because of his appearance in ESB, and in spite of his poor handling in ROTJ.
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Originally posted by Jackskeleton
Hell fett couldn't even kill Luke on two different chances. once in ESB. . . .
Hell fett couldn't even kill Luke on two different chances. once in ESB. . . .
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Originally posted by Pants
By giving him his own unique musical theme, I think he gets singled out as something "more"
By giving him his own unique musical theme, I think he gets singled out as something "more"
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Come on!!! Chewie blows, and Boba rocks. Take a close look at his costume...you see those hairy strands? Wookie scalps. Chewie would be toast against Fett.
Boba Fett isn't alluded to as being a bad ass in the movies? Bullshizle. When Darth Vader decrees, "No disintegrations," to whom does he point? That's right, kids! Boba Fett, because Vader knows that this is one bad ass motha and you don't fu%$ around with his *****. Hence the command.
Jango cooler than Boba? Another laugh. It's pretty sad when it takes me longer to yank it than it does for Jango to die in a battle against Mace Windu.
Anyway, that's the support for the Fettster.
As far as Chewie goes, what vital part does he EVER play in the movies? He's just a background character at best, and his only real accomplishment is growling like he's pi$$ed all the time and doing nothing about it. Oh, yeah. And putting C3PO back together. That alone should make him subject of my eternal wrath.
But I digress.
Boba Fett isn't alluded to as being a bad ass in the movies? Bullshizle. When Darth Vader decrees, "No disintegrations," to whom does he point? That's right, kids! Boba Fett, because Vader knows that this is one bad ass motha and you don't fu%$ around with his *****. Hence the command.
Jango cooler than Boba? Another laugh. It's pretty sad when it takes me longer to yank it than it does for Jango to die in a battle against Mace Windu.
Anyway, that's the support for the Fettster.
As far as Chewie goes, what vital part does he EVER play in the movies? He's just a background character at best, and his only real accomplishment is growling like he's pi$$ed all the time and doing nothing about it. Oh, yeah. And putting C3PO back together. That alone should make him subject of my eternal wrath.
But I digress.