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I know this sounds nerdy, but I was just thinking of something random that I could put up that doesn't invovle politics. So post your favorite Star Wars character from any of the 6 movies.

Mine are:
1. Viceroy (Episode one)
2. Admiral Ackbar (Episode 6)

That old rebel soldier at the start of "A new hope" who gets killed by Stormtroopers.

I know this sounds nerdy, but I was just thinking of something random that I could put up that doesn't invovle politics. So post your favorite Star Wars character from any of the 6 movies.

Mine are:
1. Viceroy (Episode one)
2. Admiral Ackbar (Episode 6)
You deserve to be mocked simply because you chose someone, anyone, from Episode One. The only way you could be mocked any more would be if you chose someone from Episodes 2 or 3. :D

Mara Jade.
Talon Karrde.
Corran Horn.
Wedge Antilles.

Almost any character created by Timothy Zahn. I even started liking Luke a little bit when I was reading his books. :p

Gotta go for Wedge. He's the bomb. Also have to go for the B-Wing. Not a character, but the coolest ship EVER.

Mara Jade.
Talon Karrde.
Corran Horn.
Wedge Antilles.

Almost any character created by Timothy Zahn. I even started liking Luke a little bit when I was reading his books. :p
Thrawn is the best character in the entire Star Wars universe.

Definitely Jar Jar. He showed everyone just how capable Lucas was of resurrecting his science fiction epic with the taste and strong writing that made the original trilogy such a success…

OK now that I’ve finished with slurring Lucas crappy management of the last three movies he made, I’d have to say Yoda in the Empire Strikes Back was best. Yoda in the new movies was a joke (little green guys shouldn’t be bouncing off the walls with a light sabre).

Definitely Jar Jar. He showed everyone just how capable Lucas was of resurrecting his science fiction epic with the taste and strong writing that made the original trilogy such a success…

OK now that I’ve finished with slurring Lucas crappy management of the last three movies he made, I’d have to say Yoda in the Empire Strikes Back was best. Yoda in the new movies was a joke (little green guys shouldn’t be bouncing off the walls with a light sabre).Yoda would have been so much cooler if he'd been standing there, serenely, while his light saber danced around him fighting whoever the hell it was he was fighting.

The Fett man, definately the Fett man.

Without a doubt, Jar Jar Binks

The bald dude with the wraparound computerized headgear from The Empire Strikes Back. Lobor or... something.

Tie Between Boba Fett and Yoda

Lando "Space Pimp" Calrissian.

Or Jek "Space Blimp" Porkins.

R2-D2. Never before has a perky little suppository-shaped robot kicked so much ass. :)

Mara Jade.
Talon Karrde.
Corran Horn.
Wedge Antilles.

Almost any character created by Timothy Zahn. I even started liking Luke a little bit when I was reading his books. :p

I have to agree there, Zahn is definately the best of the best in writing star-wars

Personal favorite is Thrawn

Vader in a New Hope and Empire Strikes Back. Return of the Jedi was ok, but not as good. And he spent Ep I-III just whining.

spock

Princess Leia. Not so much for anything she said or did but rather for the way she filled a bronze bikini for the time that Jabba the Hut had hold of her. :)

Mine are...

1. The Stormtrooper who does the girlie scream in episode IV (the 1974 movie)

2. Boba Fett. I mean who else can have such a rep without actually doing anything in any of the movies.

3. Kyle Katarn. I know he's from the video games, but, quantifiably speaking, he's gotten more "screen time" than any other single character in the entire Star Wars universe.

Well obviously Anakin/Vader is mine.. I don't care what anyone stands..He is kinda like me...in a way ie im a sexy stud in my youth but eventually my sexahness will catch up to me...and ill end up old and grey...like the rolling stones

How has no one said Hans Solo?!?!?!?!?

What a badass.

"I love you."
"I know."

Awesome.

Han Solo, Boba Fett, and all the people that do the Wilhelm Scream in all the movies.

How has no one said Hans Solo?!?!?!?!?

What a badass.

"I love you."
"I know."

Awesome.

Oh yes... the one line that always makes me wish Leia would just shove him into the carbonite pit and push the freeze button...

Emperor Palpatine. Vader is a pansy at heart, but Palpatine is an evil motherfucker beyond redemption. And he has that lightning bolt thingy going for him.

I know it's from the games but I've always had a soft spot for HK-47..

HK-47 is in some of the books too I think.

Mara Jade
Han Solo
Anakin Solo
Jacen Solo
Jagged Fel
Tenel Ka
Jaina Solo
Jacen's Girlfriend cannot remember her name. The Vong expert.
Talon Karrde

Princess Leia. Not so much for anything she said or did but rather for the way she filled a bronze bikini for the time that Jabba the Hut had hold of her. :)

Seconded :D

Obi-wan.

I know it's from the games but I've always had a soft spot for HK-47..

"There is a 2% chance that the miniature meatbag is being insolent and needs to be exterminated, although that just might be wishful thinking on my part"

"Translation: The chief says he will release the hostages. May I kill him now?"

Best robot ever.

I have to agree there, Zahn is definately the best of the best in writing star-wars

Personal favorite is Thrawn

And now we get him back. After the somewhat distressing revelation of 'There is no-one left in these books that I like' following Joiner King/Unseen Queen (by the end of UQ, the only character I had /any/ sympathy left for was Ben Skywalker. Jacen was up there for about half the book, but then he blew it with his 'vision') I'm now looking forward to Outbound Flight as a break from all the moral-relativism-gone-bad ('Oh, there's no good or evil, so I can rip people's minds to pieces with no qualms whatsoever!' Jacen, Jacen, did you learn nothing?) and the outbreaks of Must Show More Of The Past. Oh, and for Thrawn. Because nothing beats Mitth'raw'nurudo.

-- hmm, Amazon tell me it's already out. Where's that bookshop gone?

Grand Moff Tarkin. Come on, how cool was he?

Vader was his bitch, and he LOOKED like such a great bad guy, without any sinister cloak or force lightning or big black armour.



And also Admiral Ackbar for his amazingness at stating the bloody obvious:

"Its a trap"
"Our cruisers cannot stand up to firepower of that magnitude"

And quite possibly "Shit is brown" as well.

Best robot ever.Heretic. Gonk is.

Mara Jade
Karrde
Chewie
Han Solo before the rewrite of episode IV
Wedge
Biggs, most heroic fucker is the entire star wars universe.
R2, second most heroic except in episodes I-III
Ben Kenobi ie. Sir Alec Guiness.


edit- How could I forget Thrawn

Mara Jade.
Talon Karrde.
Corran Horn.
Wedge Antilles.

Almost any character created by Timothy Zahn. I even started liking Luke a little bit when I was reading his books. :pagree with Wedge. The only bit character to survive all three Star Wars movies.

How has no one said Hans Solo?!?!?!?!?

What a badass.

"I love you."
"I know."

Awesome.you do know the trivia fact about that line right?

Yoda
Bikini Leya
R2
Vada

agree with Wedge. The only bit character to survive all three Star Wars movies.
...not to mention two direct attacks on the Death Star...

Always liked Wedge, Thrawn and Solo myself.

you do know the trivia fact about that line right?

Please tell those that don´t (i.e. me).

In the "old" parts (IV-VI), Darth Vader and the Empire were certainly a lot more stylish than wussy Luke, bedside rug wookie, wrinkly runt Yoda and annoying crap like the Ewoks. Only person who didn't suck on the side of the Rebels was Han Solo.
A good point of how they royally messed up in their portrayal of the "Good" and "Evil" sides. No even remotely sane person would root for a wuss, a bedside rug and a wrikly runt :rolleyes:

In the "new" parts (I-III), this was already better, and they actually had likeable persons on the "Good" side, but still lots of annoying crap there (JarJar Binks annoyed the hell outta me).

Please tell those that don´t (i.e. me).
when they were filming that part, they had to do many, MANY reshoots. The original line was

Lea: "I love You"
Han: "I Love you too" (or some sappy line)

but they spent so much time trying to get the scene right, everyone was tired and everyone was sweaty... that when Carrie said her line, Harrison replied "I know."

and it was such a perfect "Han" line that they (to everyone's relief) decided to use it.

Thankee!

In the "old" parts (IV-VI), Darth Vader and the Empire were certainly a lot more stylish than wussy Luke, bedside rug wookie, wrinkly runt Yoda and annoying crap like the Ewoks. Only person who didn't suck on the side of the Rebels was Han Solo.
A good point of how they royally messed up in their portrayal of the "Good" and "Evil" sides. No even remotely sane person would root for a wuss, a bedside rug and a wrikly runt :rolleyes:

In the "new" parts (I-III), this was already better, and they actually had likeable persons on the "Good" side, but still lots of annoying crap there (JarJar Binks annoyed the hell outta me).

But Luke ceases to be a Wuss in RotJ. He forsook the road to Wussdom during the events of Shadows of the Empire.

why did it take friggin 28 posts to get an Obi-wan... he was the shit in Episode IV...

I don't consider Episodes 1-3 as star wars... just "brokeback"

EDIT: Then again brokeback destrys all three as a movie... maybe I give them too much credit... nevertheless they are a stain on human existance

when they were filming that part, they had to do many, MANY reshoots. The original line was

Lea: "I love You"
Han: "I Love you too" (or some sappy line)

but they spent so much time trying to get the scene right, everyone was tired and everyone was sweaty... that when Carrie said her line, Harrison replied "I know."

and it was such a perfect "Han" line that they (to everyone's relief) decided to use it.

*lol
Well, it does take the emotional trauma out of the whole freezing business. After that line, he deserved no better. :D

I hated the entire series...*prepares flame shield*

Chewie was bar none the coolest though.

*lol
Well, it does take the emotional trauma out of the whole freezing business. After that line, he deserved no better. :D
at least it wasn't Leia who gave him the "Cold Shoulder."

[rim shot]

Boba Fett. Then HK-47, then Thrawn, then General Grievous (clone wars FTW), then OOM-9. Oh, and IG-88 is pretty cool too.

EDIT: and Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin, and Asaaj Ventress.

at least it wasn't Leia who gave him the "Cold Shoulder."

[rim shot]

After that line, it might as well have been.
I know I would have frozen him for a couple of years for that, and I used to have a major crush on Han Solo... when I was 9 :p

Han Solo

Asajj Ventress.

Emperor Palpatine.

Darth Vader (Episodes 3-5 ... I just like watching a 'hero' fall; and for that, I can put up with the bad acting)

Someone mentioned a favorite ship before... so, I have to put in The Lambda Class Imperial Shuttle.

oh yeah, on favourite ship, mine is the Providence Class carrier-destroyer. Dunno why I like it, but I do. (Invisible hand for the less nerdy :P)


that or the TIE fighter. Classic.

A character highly popular but rarely a favorite.... is mine:

Obi-Wan

In all 6 episodes.

Boba Fett

After that line, it might as well have been.
I know I would have frozen him for a couple of years for that, and I used to have a major crush on Han Solo... when I was 9 :p
I think there are two words you hate ;)

I think there are two words you hate ;)

From the bottom of my heart....

From the bottom of my heart....

I know !!!!

I know !!!!

You are SO frozen right now... :p

That giant space worm thingy in the asteroid hole.

I always felt tons of sympathy for him, since I've had my fair share of involuntary food expulsions myself, and always, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and homosexual robots are to blame.

Qui-Gon Jinn. Probably the single greatest "Jedi" in the entire series.

HK-47.

And Darth Nihilus, if only because of his kickass adornment.

General Grievous before he became a cyborg. Qymaen jai Sheelal I think they called him.

http://starwars.wikicities.com/images/thumb/e/e0/Grievous_original.jpg/250px-Grievous_original.jpg

That's just so awesome!

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/GermanNightmare/Yoda2.gif

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/GermanNightmare/Grand_Admiral_Thrawn_1.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/GermanNightmare/dv5.jpg

In that order. Although, except for YarYar I believe StarWars needs every character to make it complete. I actually don't want to pick a single favorite character... But I did. See what you made me do? Don't make me destroy you!