How can Obi-Wan not remember his wingman in battle against Jango Fett? The mouse droid was a puny little rolly bot that had the droid poop scared out of it by Chewbacca.
It seems like the Empire relied on mouse droids for many mundane tasks. These little droids can be seen all over both Death Stars and aboard many Star Destroyers leading squadrons of stormtroopers to their assigned positions. It just made the Star Wars galaxy seem more functional and lived in. Plus, mouse droids are really cute. How many mouse droids do you think blew up along with the two Death Stars?
Tens of thousands probably. Poor things! Do you think the Rebels had cat droids to counter the Imperial mouse droids? Like some intergalactic Tom and Jerry action? What were we talking about again? At last, a bounty hunter — we DO need their scum. For real, is there a more intimidating designed droid in the Star Wars saga?
You have a 3PO unit body combined with a bug-eyed alien head and a big honking blaster rifle that looks like it could fillet a Dewback in a single shot. In the Expanded Universe, 4-LOM has often been paired up with his fellow bug-eyed bounty hunter Zuckuss, and the duo have become quite an infamous pair of scoundrels across novels, video games, and comics.
Sadly, we never got to see 4-LOM in action on the big screen, but now that every inch of the Star Wars saga is going to be explored by Disney, we may yet see this most fearsome droid killing machines collect some bounties in the most violent ways possible. This loyal droid used his unimposing appearance to get close to his targets and eliminate them. Besides being an agent of the Sith, he also worked for the Mandalorians, the Hutts, and later even commanded his own army of assassin droids.
You know what, with the rate that hands get severed in Star Wars , B must be sewing on bionic hands day and night. Yeah, we know that these dopey clankers make your typical stormtrooper look like Jason Bourne, but the battle droids of the Trade Federation were pretty vital to Star Wars history. The battle droids made up the bulk of the Separatist army that fought the Republic in the Clone Wars. They were the constant cannon fodder used by Darth Sidious in his secret bid to take over the Republic.
They may not have been able to hit the broad side of a Super Destroyer, but without them, Palpatine would never have had the pawns he needed to build his Empire. And even though they kind of sucked, battle droids have a really cool design and they used some pretty boss war tech.
From the flying STAPs, to those sick tanks, to the rolling fortresses and personal carriers, the battle droids were certainly well-equipped losers. Roger, roger. The stormtroopers would have found R2 after slaughtering the Jawas and the Death Star would have taken out the Rebel Base on Yavin easy-peasy. But thankfully, R5-D4 had a bad motivator and broke down just as Uncle Owen was ready to lay down his hard-earned space dollars on the little red and white astromech.
R5-D4 may have been faulty or lazy , but his little droid nervous breakdown saved the galaxy. The hell with Ultron, IG is an assassin droid to truly fear. All sharp edges and stabby bits, IG is made for killing. One memorable short story in the Tales of the Bounty Hunters anthology saw multiple copies of IG try to bring about a droid rebellion.
One of the IGs even downloaded himself into the second Death Star right before it was destroyed by the Rebellion. That could have gone very badly for organics. Beetee is equipped with rockets, blasters, explosives, and pretty much everything else you can think of. Triple Zero is C-3PO if he were keen on murdering humans and then draining them of blood to power his makeshift battle droid army which he planned to use to overthrow his Imperial masters.
Chopper is just that darn special. This little astromech is like the pissed off old man of the Star Wars universe. Chopper gets the job done every single time but grumbles the entire way there. In Attack of the Clones, he is a police officer on Coruscant. In Solo , the Han Solo movie, he has a blink and you miss it scene on Kessel.
As part of the sell that George Lucas did to movie executive were drawings of how Star Wars might look. Some of the pictures featured the two robots.
C-3PO is like a bureaucrat and will stick rigidly to his programming despite knowing what is best. Although he is programmed to interprete over six million languages, he is programmed to not interpret The Sith forcing Poe Dameron to visit the planet Kijimi to get Babu Frik to override the programming and reveal the message.
Their friendship wasn't that strong in the prequels, they took a while for the friendship to take off. The two robots first meet in Phantom Menace but its only a brief encouner between the two.
The friendship is really strong between the two in the originals. They act like squabbling friends at the start of the film, each wanting to go their way which they do but soon join back up with one another when they are caught by Jawa scavengers.
Both robots are sent together to barter for Han Solo's life as he is frozen in carbonite by Jabba, the Hutt. C-3PO and R2-D2 have appeared in nearly every film in the franchise. Anthony Daniels had a blink and you miss it scene whilst the group was on Kessel. At that time, C-3PO was just a mass of wires and components, although he could talk, he didn't amount to much.
As he didn't have his outer skin on yet, he has been referred to as being naked in jest. When Anakin gets to leave the planet, C-3PO is left behind on the planet. If you have something to share that would enrich our knowledge about this object, use the form below.
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See our privacy statement. Skip to main content. C-3PO, from Return of the Jedi. Usage conditions apply. International Media Interoperability Framework. IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Bane hatched a plan to rescue Ziro. Cad Bane and several other mercenaries infiltrated the Senate Building and took Amidala, Threepio, Skywalker and several senators hostage in a bid to force a pardon for the imprisoned Ziro.
These senators had been meeting to discussed the proposed Enhanced Privacy Invasion Bill. Despite the Republic honoring Bane's demands, Bane planted several explosives in the hall with the aim of killing the senators.
Skywalker saved the day by using his lightsaber to cut a hole around the group, moments before the explosives went off. The Jedi Council suspected that Clovis was secretly spying for the Separatists and sent Skywalker and Amidala to spy on him. During the journey, C-3PO noticed Skywalker's hostile behavior towards Clovis, who was trying to flirt with his secret wife Amidala.
Upon arriving on Cato Neimoidia, the delegation was greeted by the Trade Federation's Senator Lott Dod , who tried unsuccessfully to force Clovis to lend more money for the Separatist cause. When Dod deduced that Clovis was infatuated with Senator Amidala, he arranged for her to be poisoned during a formal dinner. Despite this, Amidala succeeded in stealing a hologram disc which confirmed that Clovis was indeed working for the Separatists.
After Amidala began to succumb to the effects of the poisoning, C-3PO and a B-series medical droid attended to the Senator in her quarters. Meanwhile, Clovis learned that Amidala was spying on him and went to confront her only to be cornered by Skywalker. Realizing that Skywalker loved Amidala, Clovis offered to get the antidote in return for receiving back the holodisk.
C-3PO and his companions brought Amidala back to their ship but were cornered by Dod and his aides. Clovis attempted to bluff his way out, but Dod refused to let them leave. After Clovis pulled a blaster and forced Dod to hand over the antidote, C-3PO and his companions fled aboard Amidala's ship. They fled into space but left Clovis behind to face Dod alone.
As the Clone Wars dragged on, C-3PO continued serving Senator Amidala, who was becoming an active member of a group of Senators that supported diplomacy and opposed the expansion of the Grand Army of the Republic. As a result, the Senate rescinded an earlier vote calling for a military occupation of Mandalore.
Later, Senator Amidala and her supporters including the Alderaanian Senator Bail Organa and the Rodian Senator Onaconda Farr proposed a bill calling for the reduction of military spending. C-3PO attended several meetings of this informal peace coalition in Senator Amidala's office. On one such occasion, C-3PO was serving drinks when Senator Farr suffered an apparent heart attack and died. Threepio and Amidala attended the funeral of Senator Farr. Later, Amidala and Organa discovered that Farr had been poisoned by his aide Lolo Purrs , who blamed the late Senator for bringing the war to Rodia.
Following the Republic's victory at Malastare , Chancellor Palpatine ordered the Jedi Generals Windu and Skywalker to transport the Zillo Beast , a gargantuan monster that had been captured and sedated during the fighting. After learning that a lightsaber could not harm the beast, Palpatine enlisted the services of the scientist Sionver Boll to study the beast's scales in order to develop a new type of armor for the Grand Army.
Palpatine also planned to kill the monster with Malastarian fuel after it had outlived its usefulness. Senator Amidala learned about Palpatine's plan and arranged a meeting with Skywalker and Kenobi. However, the Zillo Beast escaped Boll's laboratory at the same time and proceeded to wreak havoc on the streets of Coruscant.
C-3PO assisted in the evacuation of staff from the building and guided them to an executive ship that was piloted by a Senate Commando. Before they could flee to safety, the ship was grabbed by the Zillo Beast, but Skywalker used his lightsaber to cleave the vessel in half, sending the bow along with C-3PO and the other passengers plummeting into the Senate Building. C-3PO hitched a ride aboard R2-D2, who had used a tow cable to attach himself to the other side of the building.
The protocol droid lost hold of the cable and fell to the floor of the Senate building. Threepio told R2-D2 not to get "uppity" about commanding new battle droids before parting company. C-3PO and R2-D2 later took part in a mercy mission to the Mid Rim planet of Aleen , which was experiencing a series of catastrophic global earthquakes.
C-3PO served as the translator for the Republic mission led by Clone Commander Wolffe while his astromech counterpart Artoo-Detoo was tasked with interfacing with the equipment.
Threepio's arrival coincided with a brief aftershock during which he tried to calm the local villages. When the aftershock stopped, the Aleena thought that the golden droid was some sort of divine messenger and asked the Republic soldiers to put the earth to rest, a request that Wolffe reluctantly had to acquiesce to. Later, C-3PO accompanied R2-D2 and several clone troopers as they entered the local Republic communications station to survey and repair the damage caused by the earthquakes.
There, the Aleena villagers led C-3PO and R2-D2 into a collapsed structure, which contained a huge golden seal embedded into the ground. The seal turned out to be the entrance to a tunnel that led to the subterranean regions of Aleen.
When another earthquake struck the area, C-3PO and R2-D2 fell into the tunnel and were separated from the clone troopers.
While exploring the underground tunnels, C-3PO and R2-D2 encountered a species of sentient, tree -like beings called the Kindalo , who demanded that they leave since the surface dwellers "destroyed the peace.
Orphne told the two droids that a mutual balance had previously existed between the Aleena and the subterranean world. Since Aleena's atmosphere was toxic to them, the underground dwellers depended on a filtering process of the planet's soil that made the air breathable for them.
The underground dwellers had set off this earthquake as a means of sealing the breach. When C-3PO agreed to help fix the damage, Orphne gave the droids a parting riddle.
R2-D2 quickly deduced that Orphne was referring to a river and used the water seal to activate a water spout that sent the two droids and the chamber's central floor plate back to the surface. The two droids landed at the opening where they were greeted by a chanting crowd of Aleena. Recalling the riddle, Threepio quickly realized that only he and R2-D2 were able to seal the breach, which was in fact the unsettled seal. Together, the two droids closed the seal and brought an end to Aleena's earthquakes.
While Wolffe and his clone troopers were skeptical of their story, the two droids' efforts were greatly appreciated by the Aleena. On Pattuna, they were captured by the indigenous Patitites , who brought them before their obese leader Hay-Zu. During their meeting, R2-D2 accidentally toppled the tyrannical overlord much to the joy of the Patitites, who released their prisoners and allowed the two droids to leave on their Y-wing.
The indigenous Balnabs captured the two droids and brought them before their leader, who turned out to be a holo-projection created by a group of rogue pit droids. These pit droids had enslaved the Balnabs. After R2-D2 exposed the scam, the Balnabs rebelled against their droid overlords. C-3PO and R2-D2 took the opportunity to escape and resume their search for a replacement power unit for their Y-wing starfighter. Low on power, the two droids were captured by a band of Weequay pirates, who wanted to use them as gladiators.
However, the Weequay's pirate ship Marauder was attacked by General Grievous' cruiser. Grievous ordered the two droids to be melted down in his incinerator but they were rescued by a Republic fleet led by Master Plo Koon , who had come to rescue Master Gallia.
He also accompanied his master to Mustafar and piloted the skiff, allowing some reprieve for Amidala, who was distraught at her husband's turn to the dark side of the Force and his role in the murder of Jedi younglings at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant.
On Mustafar, Kenobi's presence enraged Skywalker, who Force choked his wife. Due to Threepio's talkative nature, Senator Organa made arrangements for the protocol droid to receive a memory wipe in order to keep Leia's true parentage a secret. Following the evacuation of Raada , Ahsoka Tano subsequently joined Senator Organa's rebel movement and became the spymaster known as " Fulcrum. Minister Tua wanted to obtain a shipment of T-7 ion disruptor rifles , illicit weapons which had been banned by the Imperial Senate following the brutal pacification of Lasan.
She intended to mass-produce the weapons on Lothal , a formerly backwater Outer Rim world that had become a manufacturing base for the Empire. Since Tua could not speak the Aqualish language , C-3PO was assigned the job of acting as her translator. Unknown to C-3PO, members of a Lothalian rebel cell were also traveling on the shuttle. Two of rebels, the human teenager Ezra Bridger and the astromech droid Chopper created a noisy ruckus.
Another rebel, the former Jedi Kanan Jarrus pretended to be irate and demanded that the petulant Chopper be sent to the back of the shuttle. The pilot complied, but in retaliation Bridger demanded that Tua's droids be sent to the back as well. Despite Tua's and C-3PO's protests, the protocol droid and his astromech counterpart were forced to move to the rear compartment.
Bereft of a translator, Tua was forced to turn to the Mandalorian girl Sabine Wren , who posed as an Imperial Academy student fluent in Aqualish. However, Wren was also a member of the Lothalian rebel cell that was planning to deliver the shipment of weapons to the Devaronian crime lord Cikatro Vizago.
Sabine learned that the weapons were stored in Garel's Bay 7 but misled Minister Tua into believing that they were in Bay Chopper rammed himself right into R2-D2, then shook his arm in apparent anger. In response, R2-D2 whipped out his electroshock prod, but did not use it as C-3PO ordered him to apologize. But Minister Tua recognized Chopper from the shuttle ride to Garel and ordered her stormtrooper guards to hurry to Bay 7.
By the time they arrived at Bay 7, the Lothalian rebels were already loading the T-7 ion disruptors onto the Ghost , a VCX light freighter which served as their headquarters. A blaster fight broke out, and in the ensuing confusion C-3PO and R2-D2 fled aboard the Ghost , which fled into hyperspace.
The two droids were then taken prisoner by the Lothalian rebels, who placed restraining bolts on both of them. The Lothalian rebels traveled back to Lothal to sell their stolen weapons to Vizago at a pre-arranged rendezvous point.
Despite his restraining bolts, C-3PO managed to used the ship's intercom to contact the Imperial authorities, telling that he and his astromech counterpart had been kidnapped by "criminals. Mistaking the Imperials for "friends," C-3PO approached them but was fired upon and narrowly escaped disintegration. Meanwhile, R2-D2 helped the Lothalian rebels to overload and destroy the T-7 disruptors. Following the brief skirmish, both droids and the rebels managed to escape their Imperial pursuers.
The rebels also returned C-3PO and R2-D2 to their rightful owner, Senator Organa, who paid them some credits for destroying the weapons.
Due to the stress of his adventures at Garel and Lothal, C-3PO requested that he be allowed to rest for a while, which the Senator obliged. Senator Organa then questioned R2-D2 about the Lothalian rebels. C-3PO remarked how nobody told him anything. The Alliance succeeded in stealing the plans for the superweapon.
The Tantive IV was crippled by a laser blast from Vader's ship, and Imperial stormtroopers boarded the vessel. After Princess Leia managed to insert these secret plans and a holographic message for Master Kenobi into R2-D2, the two droids fled in an escape pod to the desert planet of Tatooine. After quarreling in the Jundland Wastes, the two droids separated. During his walk, C-3PO walked beside the skeleton of a Krayt dragon.
Both were reunited onboard a Sandcrawler , after being captured by Jawas , who sold them to a family of moisture farmers; C-3PO was chosen as a moisture vaporator programmer and for having Bocce among his languages, and recommended buying R2-D2 after the first chosen R5-D4 had a motivator malfunction.
Unable to resolve their differences, R2-D2 escaped into the Jundland Wastes. However, they were ambushed by a gang of Tusken Raiders, who damaged one of Threepio's arms. C-3PO and his companions were rescued by Master Kenobi, who brought them to his dwelling. Kenobi revealed Skywalker's Jedi heritage and passed him his father's lightsaber , telling the boy that Anakin had been murdered by another apprentice named Darth Vader.
Skywalker was initially reluctant until he discovered that Imperial stormtroopers had murdered his relatives and razed their moisture farm. Later, C-3PO and his companions traveled to the spaceport of Mos Eisley with the intention of finding passage to Alderaan. Upon arriving in the settlement, they were stopped by a stormtrooper patrol.
However, Kenobi used a Jedi mind trick to convince the stormtroopers to give them free passage through the town. Upon exiting hyperspace in the Alderaan system , C-3PO and his companions discovered that the Empire's Death Star had already destroyed the planet.
The Millennium Falcon was then trapped in the tractor beam of the Death Star. Hiding under the freighter's cargo compartments, they managed to ambush an Imperial scanning team and two stormtroopers. The rebels then seized control of an Imperial control room. While Threepio and R2-D2 stayed behind to watch the Falcon , the other rebels split into two groups. Meanwhile, Master Kenobi went to disable the tractor-beam projector. Skywalker, Solo, and Chewbacca managed to free the Princess but ended up in a garbage chute.
The Imperials quickly realized that the rebels were trapped in the garbage chute and proceeded to crush the chamber. Meanwhile, Threepio and R2-D2 narrowly escaped an Imperial patrol by claiming that the rebels had thrown them into the storage compartment.
Once the Imperials had gone, the two droids were contacted by Skywalker, who ordered them to shut down the garbage compactor. R2-D2 succeeded in shutting down the garbage compactor just in time. However, amidst the muffled cries of joy over the comlink , Threepio initially believed that they had died. After grappling with more stormtroopers, the other rebels and the Princess managed to return to their hangar bay.
Master Kenobi shut down the tractor-beam projector but was cornered by his former apprentice, Darth Vader, on the way back. After dispatching several pursuing TIE fighters , C-3PO and his companions escaped to the jungle moon of Yavin 4, where the rebels maintained a base. Using the Death Star plans stored in R2-D2's systems, the rebels discovered that the massive superweapon contained a weak point: an unprotected shaft.
Following the destruction of the Death Star, C-3PO was present at the victory parade where Skywalker, Solo, and two other rebel pilots including Wedge Antilles were awarded for their courageous actions. Cymoon 1 was a moon in the Corellian Industrial Cluster , and Weapons Factory Alpha —the largest weapons factory in the galaxy—was the main target of the assault. Chewbacca and 3PO piloted the Millennium Falcon through the debris fields that surrounded Cymoon 1, and landed in the huge refuse fields that fenced in the factory.
Chewbacca left the relative safety of the Falcon and hiked towards the factory, while 3PO stayed behind to wait for the signal to begin the Falcon ' s autopilot when the team had achieved their objective of hacking into the main power core and rigging it to explode. The Falcon would swoop in and pick up Han, Leia, Luke, and R2 while Chewbacca covered their retreat from a large metal structure that overlooked the rendezvous escape point—before he too escaped aboard the freighter.
The team was posing as an envoy from Jabba the Hutt, due to Han's previous ties to the crime lord. Leia who was disguised as one of the Hutt's bodyguards contacted 3PO and Chewbacca via comlink and notified them that they were entering the factory. Han was worried about leaving 3PO alone on his ship, but 3PO assured him all was in working order—but was concerned that the old YT light freighter continued to so easily be mistaken for garbage. About five minutes later Han again contacted the droid.
Han ordered 3PO to take a blaster pistol and go stop them. But 3PO was unsure of himself—he was but a protocol droid programmed for translation and etiquette. She told the droid that they were going to die if the Falcon did not soon reach them. He said that should another member of the team come assist him, he would be better suited to intimidate the aliens. But Leia became angry and ordered the droid to "Do whatever you have to.
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