Lit Droids and their Names

So speaking of droid names for, well basically forever and longest time the nickname was broken up at the hyphen in the droid designation. R2-D2 is Artoo. C-3PO is Threepio. That carries through, as far as I know, for all of Star Wars until the new canon reboot and we get K-2SO. Kaytwo. Which is fine but the nickname include the hyphen! Like I'm still convinced this is a mean trick and he's K2-SO but, nope, K-2SO! I don't think there's more or less droids now with nicknames that include the part of the hyphen (Chopper, as demonstrated above is also one now). Shouldn't nickname be KayHyphenTwo? Argh.

 

BLX-5. Another non-nickname.

I always figured that Artoo was a pretty common, even default, nickname for R2 units, especially as Luke can refer to an R5 as an "R2 unit". The fact that we only meet the one Artoo in the stories is largely a matter of narrative convenience, but also probably because the other characters - Rogues, Sky-Solos, Jedi X-wing pilots - don't want to use a name that's already taken.

- The Imperial Ewok

 

IIRC...Bollux came first in the book because the techs had so much trouble with the work they did on him...then the reference material came up with the model ID.

So out of universe they named the series after his nickname.

 

It's also been a very odd but consistent tic that when written out, the numeral "two" is misspelled as "too". Something I noticed as a kid but just take at face value now -- I've never heard the reason for that, though.

 

I think it's a phonetic thing. you can't hear the "W" when you say "Two". So I haven't seen K-2SO's nickname written much but I'm assuming it's actually "Kaytoo".

 

Yeah, I looked it up and most sources it is. And indeed "Deetwo" doesn't scan well. It probably stuck out to me because I happened to learn to read and spell pretty much in 1977, as it turns out.

 

When Panaka tells Sabe R2's name in TPM, I always imagine he already knows his name and is briefly searching his memory for the designation. He just touches R2's head as a little gesture to help him remember.

 

another twist in droid names, CB-23 on Resistance. Which is an astromech BB-unit. So maybe? Probably. But it seems BB-units can have different letters. Or maybe Rey calling BB-8 a BB-unit only means him. Or it's a Luke calling R5 and "Artoo unit". I'm slightly confused and scared again.

 

Per the episode's "Bucket's List", it seems the droid's name was originally BB-something, but was changed because it would have made for "confusing dialogue" to have two BB's. That's the same logic that led to the R-series names that didn't start with R on the D-Squad episodes of TCW.

SW Animation: where consistent droid designation systems go to die.

I want names for the other aces' astromechs already, though! They're really holding off on doing much with those characters in general. Which is probably a good move.

 

Well that droid from the Clone Trooper arc of the Lost Missions Rebel season had a LONG name. Droids probably have ridiculously long names shortened for the audience if thats the example

 

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/AZI-345211896246498721347

Saw him in the first episode of Bad Batch, and immediately thought of this thread.

 

Star Wars Adventure Journal #7 has a cover date of August 1995 (so came out a month or two before that), while Premiere Limited (which had the R1-G4 card in it) came out in December of that year.

EDIT: Didn't notice the dates. Hope you don't mind a ping for over a point you raised half a decade ago ...