Saga The most laugh-out-loud thing you've ever read in a book, paper, or essay on Star Wars?

Sort of what it says on the tin. Meant to be a fun thread above all else. I haven't made one in a while, and while I have plenty of ideas, I thought I'd do something light and fluffy for now.

What is the most laugh-out-loud, or among the most ridiculous, thing you have ever read, or perhaps heard said, about the series, or one of the movies, or a character, or whatever?

I am sure most of us have a few candidates. My own vote is for the following. I shared it with someone a little while ago. I read this yesterday and it literally caused me to burst into hysterical laughter:


"Vader's phallic appearance as a giant black dildo is compensation for his inability to sexually possess his dead white mother and wife."

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id...sess his dead white mother and wife."&f=false

 

That the criminal low-life punk threatening Luke in the cantina is supposedly an M.D. specialized in plastic surgery and goes by the name of "Dr. Evazan"

 

What. The. ****
Good find, Cryo

As for my answer.... I'd say this one thing that began with the three words "A long time"

 

Well there's this very... enlightening little bit from Melissa Harris Perry on the news just before TFA was getting set to release. Apparently we all failed to realize just how racist Darth Vader really was.

“I know why I have feelings — good, bad and otherwise — about Star Wars,” Perry explained. “…I spent the whole day talking about the Darth Vader situation.”
“The part where he was totally a black guy, whose name was basically James Earl Jones,” she said. “While he was black he was terrible and bad, awful and used to cut off white men’s hand, and didn’t actually claim his son. But as soon as he claims his son, goes over to the good, takes off his mask and he is white — yes, I have many feelings about that.”

 

It takes some serious skill to go looking for phallic imagery in Star Wars and somehow get it wrong.

 

...which goes hand in hand with what someone - forgot who - wrote about the message put forth by Star Wars; that deep down, all black guys are white.

 

Lulu Mars

Are you referring to Hooper X Star Wars rant in Chasing Amy and the Jason Lee character reaction to it?

 

Yeah, maybe someone was inspired by that!

 

Curtis Saxton's Endor Holocaust theory got me shaking my head a bit, at least.

 

Wookieepedia extremism.

 

How so?

 

If it isn't obvious to you, it's not my explanation that will change that.

 

Two characters from stories getting pages? Really? I've seen far more obscure things getting pages on the Wook.
One interacted with movie characters. Try pulling up a character from a WEG story from the 90's or something.
Zeta1127 from the Lit board could pull out some obscure characters that most of us have never heard of.
A character from ROTJ and a popular arc from TCW is extreme? Not really.
Or come up with some random object.

 

But they aren't characters. They have about 2 lines each, and have no names or distinguishing features. They don't need a wiki page for that.

 

So you understood the obvious after all.

 

But they probably get mentioned on Han and Leia's page and Krell's page.
And on the ROTJ page. Since they had someone play the character.

So they shouldn't have a page for all of the aliens in the Cantina, Jabba's Palace, Maz's Palace, Dex's Diner etc, etc?

Who knows, they might get more stories in the future?
EU fan so random characters in the movies don't bother me. Expand on them elsewhere.
Feels like what a encyclopedia is supposed to do.

 

If the characters have a name, or some expanded story in the EU, then that would be grounds for a wiki page.

But there's no point making an article about, say, 'The Aleena who ate lunch at Dex's Diner that one time', or, 'That one Gong player in Jabba's palace band'.

 

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Umpass-stay

 

Even if it is only to learn what species they were, and so I could go on to read about that species, good enough for me.
If it was a character, planet, alien species, ship, group, technology only mentioned in some sourcebook from the 90's and not anywhere else, that would be extreme but something we see on screen? Not so much. Sorry.

 

If 'being seen on screen' is your requirement for a dedicated article, then you agree that there should be an article for every battle droid and stormtrooper seen in the movies.

Like I said, extremism. I find it laughable.

 

When did I say 'being seen on screen' is your requirement for a dedicated article? Something from the main source of SW for most people is extreme?

Something getting mentioned in a sourcebook that we never see again getting an article is fine and even more extreme imo.

Click the random button. I got a drink only mentioned once in a book with no impact on the plot and the next time got a ship mentioned in one of the Adventure Journals that you've probably not even heard of.
Both are a lot more random in my eyes than the stormtrooper and clone trooper.
Well since the movies are probably what people know about most, that honestly doesn't seem extreme to me to include everything in it.
You and others like to nitpick each scene to death and tie them into scenes from the other movies, Extreme no?
Others like to debate specs from ships to death,
Others do timelines,
So others doing every single character doesn't bother me.

 

The source is not the issue. Apparently you don't understand what the problem is even though it has been explained already.

The fact that I consider X extreme doesn't Y is not extreme as well.

Nobody is talking about what bothers you.

 

Alexrd wrote

If 'being seen on screen' is your requirement for a dedicated article, then you agree that there should be an article for every battle droid and stormtrooper seen in the movies.

I concur. When Luke entered the Mos Eisley cantina he experienced all the aliens in there just as the audience as an compilation of exotic creatures but with most of these being literally "alien" to him (and the audience). And when the action figures came out, all George Lucas sanctioned were colloquial descriptions and not species designations.

In the ANH radio drama Brian Daley limited Luke's knowledge to a "Meerian Hammerhead" and the Wolfman species.

Now, we have all kinds of conjectural in-depth backgrounds, and the current custodian of canon and continuity apparently seems more concerned about proper pronunciation of conjectural names than other things that IMHO should matter more (based on an article I read).

And as a result we have ridiculous conjectures like the one I featured above in post # 3.