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lol at all you scrubs who don't know that guys called bo shekk. s
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 14:11 |
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some of the funnier people to have fleshed out back stories: the 6 breasted lady in jabbas palace, the guy that cries after the rancor dies i mean literally everybody that you see in star wars pretty much has a name in backstory, its loving insane. for example, this guy is an assassin that drinks peoples brains through straws that comes out of his head. he really wanted to drink obi wans and han solos but it never really worked out for him. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Dannik_Jerriko
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 14:12 |
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Also this suave motherfucker and this fine little piece of tail have one where they gently caress (sadly no pictures) and then she kills him Otisburg posted:lol at all you scrubs who don't know that guys called bo shekk. s I like how he's from the same planet and ostensibly same ethnic group as Han Solo but his name is BoShek, one word
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 14:24 |
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is that a picture of a gotal
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 14:40 |
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Those stories were kinda cool if you didn't read them as some kind of addition to the canon but just as weird little stories inspired by weird looking aliens in a cool movie scene.
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 15:37 |
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Fetus Tree posted:some of the funnier people to have fleshed out back stories: the 6 breasted lady in jabbas palace, the guy that cries after the rancor dies "URoRRuR'R'R was played by stunt coordinator Peter Diamond, who was the only stunt person on location in Tunisia. As shown in the documentary Empire of Dreams, Diamond actually only held aloft his Gaffi stick once. Editors Paul Hirsch and Richard Chew rewound and repeated this shot several times to make it seem as if he rocked it back and forth in triumph. The famous bellow was then added by Ben Burtt, fashioned from donkey brays. " URoRRuR'R'R's backstory http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/URoRRuR%27R%27R
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 15:42 |
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Isn't the backstory of the "you'll be DEAD" guy that he's some kind of evil doctor?
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 15:45 |
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:"URoRRuR'R'R was played by stunt coordinator Peter Diamond, who was the only stunt person on location in Tunisia. As shown in the documentary Empire of Dreams, Diamond actually only held aloft his Gaffi stick once. Editors Paul Hirsch and Richard Chew rewound and repeated this shot several times to make it seem as if he rocked it back and forth in triumph. The famous bellow was then added by Ben Burtt, fashioned from donkey brays. " muscles like this? posted:Isn't the backstory of the "you'll be DEAD" guy that he's some kind of evil doctor? correct
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 15:46 |
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:"URoRRuR'R'R was played by stunt coordinator Peter Diamond, who was the only stunt person on location in Tunisia. As shown in the documentary Empire of Dreams, Diamond actually only held aloft his Gaffi stick once. Editors Paul Hirsch and Richard Chew rewound and repeated this shot several times to make it seem as if he rocked it back and forth in triumph. The famous bellow was then added by Ben Burtt, fashioned from donkey brays. " I'm pretty sure he was given his "name" by the Decipher card game, which featured a LOT of tongue in cheek names/descriptions, probably because they had to make cards for loving everything. It's probably the source of a lot of Wookieepedia garbage, a one-off joke by a bored intern becoming enshrined as a Star Wars Fact. There was a random imperial soldier whose flavor text ended with "hasn't had a date in years", and I'm sure if I could find his Wookieepedia entry it would contain that information and also a detailed description of why. Probably he was too busy trying to steal the death star plans.
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 15:48 |
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Do people not seem to get that the reason why everyone has a backstory is peak, "We gotta sell some fuckin' toys!" Instead of just making space assault Luke Skywalker with dinosaur friend, they made a figure of everybody because the demand was that high for Star Wars figures back in the day. Merchandising was so primitive back then the only thing they could think of was to add more characters.
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 17:54 |
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:Do people not seem to get that the reason why everyone has a backstory is peak, "We gotta sell some fuckin' toys!" Instead of just making space assault Luke Skywalker with dinosaur friend, they made a figure of everybody because the demand was that high for Star Wars figures back in the day. Merchandising was so primitive back then the only thing they could think of was to add more characters. if half the people we were talking about actually had toys you might be right
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 18:01 |
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:Do people not seem to get that the reason why everyone has a backstory is peak, "We gotta sell some fuckin' toys!" Instead of just making space assault Luke Skywalker with dinosaur friend, they made a figure of everybody because the demand was that high for Star Wars figures back in the day. Merchandising was so primitive back then the only thing they could think of was to add more characters. I don't think this is true at all. The reason they have so many characters is the merchandising, yes, but I think the "everyone has a backstory" came much later. Timothy Zahn's Heir to the Empire was almost ten years after the original trilogy, and most of the EU crap came out after Zahn's books.
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 18:04 |
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I wonder what Timothy Zahn's reaction was when that rebel pilot hosed a space weasel. Like, he came up with this unsexy alien race, and then another author things "Ah yes, my Mary Sure self insert character must totally gently caress this Bothan babe".
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 18:16 |
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p sure it was a selonian and that zahn had nothing to do with that race, nor the character there is a rebel pilot that bangs a bothan tho, but again its not zahns character
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 18:29 |
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:Do people not seem to get that the reason why everyone has a backstory is peak, "We gotta sell some fuckin' toys!" Instead of just making space assault Luke Skywalker with dinosaur friend, they made a figure of everybody because the demand was that high for Star Wars figures back in the day. Merchandising was so primitive back then the only thing they could think of was to add more characters. Originally I typed up a joke about a BoShek action figure and how stupid that would be but then I checked Google and they exist Nah though, the reason all the cantina aliens have backstories is because EU writers are basically fanfiction authors, and they developed headcanons. For example an extremely bitter lady looked at those two aliens from that picture and said "I bet he's planning on loving her and never calling her again, just like that rear end in a top hat Danny, but the joke's on him because she's totally gonna murder him right after, with her razor-sharp tongue" and then she made it happen with her words. And a manchild looked at BoShek and went "His sideburns are cool. I bet he could do the Kessel Run in even fewer parsecs than Han, and I bet he's Force-sensitive too and Obi-Wan was just telling him to beware the seductive power of the Dark Side. "
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 18:29 |
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Gavin Darklighter hosed a Bothan but he wasn't Stackpole's Mary-Sue self-insert, Corran Horn was e: can't blame him either, check out this fine lady
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 18:30 |
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Just for reference. I could be wrong on this but the whole reason half those characters have names is because of trading cards and action figures.
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 18:44 |
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yeah star wars would have been a lot cooler with fewer interesting looking aliens i think
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 18:50 |
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I forgot about good ol' Trash Can Robot
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 18:54 |
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loquacius posted:And a manchild looked at BoShek and went "His sideburns are cool. I bet he could do the Kessel Run in even fewer parsecs than Han, and I bet he's Force-sensitive too and Obi-Wan was just telling him to beware the seductive power of the Dark Side. " The most cringeworthy EU moment for me now is that until I read this post, when people were posting about BoShek I thought they were talking about Wuher.
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 18:55 |
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gonk i've put this together via context clues ITT, but is BoShek the guy that was wearing a green flight suit in the cantina?
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 18:55 |
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:
You're right. But the "everyone has a Force-sensitive backstory" EU is 10+ years after any of the figures in the top two rows.
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 18:56 |
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HAN SOLO (in TRENCH COAT) When did that happen in the movies?
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 18:56 |
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RALF posted:HAN SOLO return of the jedi you noob
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 18:57 |
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Fetus Tree posted:gonk He's this 70s-looking motherfucker, not sure if his suit is green
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 19:00 |
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oh, that is who i meant anyway, i thought he was wearin green. but yeah, that guy
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 19:05 |
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:
Yes, such names like "Hammerhead", "Walrus Man", "Snaggletooth" and "Squid-Head". Fake edit: Oh poo poo, I never knew that Jabba's guards are named "Klaatu" , "Barada", and "Nikto".
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 19:06 |
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Why does Vader have a popped collar?
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 19:09 |
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5er posted:As this thread gravitates back towards the defense of the wholesale creativity black hole that is the SWEU, I am delighted again with (Disney necrotized) Lucasfilms stating the old EU is non-canon. So long, thanks for all the masturbatory self-inserts and moronic interpretations of magic bacteria power limitations! Star wars isn't marvel. they wont just hire a bunch of really bad tumblr/sjw writers. they will probably just hire mediocre and on occasion good sci-fi writers.
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 19:09 |
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:
Darth Vader (in Grace Jones outfit) e: R2-D2 and the c3po whose arms you could pull off were the best
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 19:22 |
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playing the old decipher ccg game made you know the deets and motivations for each alien dude that's ever been shown on screen
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 19:27 |
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dannik jeriko was cool and my bro used to use boba fett and capture some dudes and feed it to him. my fave was braniac, who could do the calculations for hyperspace nav in his head and you had to calculate his power and defense every turn
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 19:28 |
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muscles like this? posted:Isn't the backstory of the "you'll be DEAD" guy that he's some kind of evil doctor? A doctor? I think you mean a bounty hunter-pirate-smuggler. There's no such thing as doctors or lawyers or teachers in the EU.
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# ? Apr 30, 2015 11:21 |
PostNouveau posted:A doctor? I think you mean a bounty hunter-pirate-smuggler. There's no such thing as doctors or lawyers or teachers in the EU. I will point you to Nawara Ven to disprove your statement. And Piggy, he's a math teacher!!
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# ? Apr 30, 2015 11:24 |
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loquacius posted:I forgot about good ol' Trash Can Robot did you know there's a religious following of the
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# ? Apr 30, 2015 11:43 |
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ah page 3, we were all so innocent then
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# ? Apr 30, 2015 11:49 |
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What's the epic backstory behind that little roomba droid Chewbacca roared at and scared away? Did Luke build it or something?
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# ? Apr 30, 2015 13:28 |
loquacius posted:Gavin Darklighter hosed a Bothan but he wasn't Stackpole's Mary-Sue self-insert, Corran Horn was bothans are weird because the EU kept changing what they looked like depending on the author's whims until galaxies came out zahn basically made them sound like humans with extra fur and claws stackpole made them into similar to zahn's idea but also kind of cat-like and then galaxies comes along and they're full on goat people for some reason
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# ? Apr 30, 2015 13:31 |
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The Bible posted:What's the epic backstory behind that little roomba droid Chewbacca roared at and scared away? Did Luke build it or something? http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/MSE-6-series_repair_droid Who is the character from the original trilogy with the craziest screentime-to-wookipedia ratio. Basically, whoever has the least screentime with the longest Wookipedia article. Bonus points if their wookipedia article is longer than a real-life equivalent Sort of like how the USS Enterprise from Star Trek has a longer Wikipedia article than the USS Enterprise in the US Navy. Example: IG-88 the droid bounty hunter gets ~4 seconds of screen time, but has a wookipedia page with 2,840 words. Dog the Bounty hunter has a show spanning 7 years, but has a wikipedia page with only 1,600 words. Blistex fucked around with this message at 14:19 on Apr 30, 2015 |
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http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Davin_Felth Davin Felth said "Look sir, droids!" and has a ridiculous amount of poo poo
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