Deleted Scene From Empire Strikes Back

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a shiny: that’s a cool name sir! how’d you get it? fives: i fought off five super battle droids with my bare hands one time :) shiny: wow that’s amazing sir!!! echo: go ahead fives. why don’t you tell him your CT number fives: uh fives: it’s not important

Lmao get Grievous’d.

after watching all the Cyberpunk 2077 trailers I’m endlessly amused at how Jackie will always spread out as much as possible when sitting down, so I like to imagine V follows suit in trying to be Wide™

NIK’S FOLLOWER PARTY ★ Maul + A Study of Zabraks for @obiewan​ 💌 

Star Wars: The Clone Wars — 7.12: “Victory and Death”

Okay so it was definitely time for another clone trooper round-up.

Here's every clone trooper I have as earrings in my shop! Let me know if your fave isn't here, and I'll see what I can do! Shop is here.

a shiny: that’s a cool name sir! how’d you get it? fives: i fought off five super battle droids with my bare hands one time :) shiny: wow that’s amazing sir!!! echo: go ahead fives. why don’t you tell him your CT number fives: uh fives: it’s not important

The clones really are a fascinating contrast to stormtroopers. And I don’t mean Finn and the First Order because they follow in the wake of The Clone Wars; I mean Imperial stormtroopers who dominated the Star Wars imagination first and the longest.

For decades, stormtroopers basically functioned like clones: they looked and sounded the same, even though we knew there were different people underneath the helmets they never took off; different faces, same personality.

Then actual clones basically inverted the model: genetically identical men used every opportunity to differentiate themselves, from their armor to their body modifications to their behavior; same face, different personalities.

The one place where the Venn diagram intersected was loyalty, but even then, they still inverted each other’s models. Clones designed to be unwaveringly loyal and obedient consistently questioned orders and their place in the galaxy. Meanwhile, stormtroopers from disparate planets and cultures unfailingly followed the orders of an impersonal Empire.

For all of Star Wars’s faults, for all the ways in which they dumb down or gloss over traditional scifi modes and themes, I can’t think of a more thorough exploration of cloning, the attendant questions of identity and free will, and the sociopolitical and metaphysical implications of a race of genetically identical men, of sameness in difference and difference in sameness, than the clone troopers.