CT Star Wars Misconceptions You Had as a Kid. (RE-MADE)

In TPM whenever Boss Nass says something along the lines of "....Go through the planet core....now go." All the way up until yesterday, after probably 200 viewings, I thought he said "This is the plan they call....now go." I've always been so confused because obviously it makes no sense, but I have so much trouble understanding what he says for some reason that I couldn't put two and two together.

Up until a couple of years ago, I though that proton torpedoes alone had enough capacity to destroy something the size of the Death Star, and I had always wondered why they didn't just use those during space battles on the capital ships, considering no shields on a ship could tank a moon busting explosion.

 

Years late with the reply, but there is a scene in The Princess Bride where Wesley/Roberts saves Buttercup from the quicksand.

 

It took me a long time to realize that Vader tortured Han to create a disturbance in the Force. I just thought he was being sadistic, not that he was doing it on purpose.

 

When I was a kid, I always thought that the Mandalorians never took their armour off.

 

First couple of viewings, I had the Devastator and Tantive IV switched in my mind - I thought all the action was taking inside the big triangular ship. Likely because to this day, the Tantive IV just looks too darned small to contain all the stuff we see in that opening sequence. The movie leaves one with the impression of miles of white corridors, a labyrinth of side passages for droids and dissident princesses to hide in and a large crew who have to have bunks, barracks and messes.

 

Nice question

As a kid, I encountered the toys years before I saw the first movie. One of the action figures, even one of the first twelve, was Death Squad Commander. I somehow did realize this was a generic figure (otherwise he'd have a name instead of a job title) but I had expected them to be far more prominent in the movie.


(After all those years, it still bugs me they released the Death Squad Commander but never a Grand Moff Tarkin figure (well I suppose they eventually did but certainly not up until after Return of the Jedi. We -my buddy and I- used a RotJ Luke's head, with the hair painted gray with model kit paint, on the body of an Imp Commander, for when we needed an high ranking commander. Thinking of it, we also had an Imp Commander with an Aqualish head, years before Zahn came up with Grand Admiral Thrawn, as a rare alien within the xenophobe human military.)

 

I used to think that that all Stormtroopers with orange pauldrons were Sandtroopers.

It wasn't until Rogue One came out and they had some troopers wearing them on Jedha that I realised the pauldrons are actually to show that the troopers are Commanders.

 

That's funny. There's a book where Boba Fett's daughter gets married and they all have their armor and helmets on like ****** at the wedding.

 

I never realised the unmasked Vader in ROTJ and Anakin's Force-ghost at the end were the same actor (in the earlier editions, obviously). I also didn't realise unmasked Vader wasn't the same actor as the guy who normally wore the suit.

That's nothing. My brother's friend's older brother had seen the movie. No, not ROTS; this was long before that. The secret movie, in which Anakin got badly burned- I think by Force-lightning, not lava- so he put on a robot suit but it didn't work, forcing him to don the Vader suit, which turned him evil. (He wasn't evil before that).

 

Circa 1985, i thought lightsabers were "life savers".

 

It's funny, I thought he died too lol. I remember arguing with my brother about that. I said he died, my brother said he didn't and that his ship is seen flying off at the end. Of course, as HighWiredSith mentioned, we didn't really have the luxury of a rewatch so it years before we saw it again. It wasn't until ESB trailers started coming out that I had to admit my brother was right. NOW when I watch it its obvious lol.

 

I had thought that the Millennium Falcon was the ship that made the CASTLE run....because you know, it was so fast that it could generate electricity for a giant castle where people live.

 

I thought Rey said "the Jedi war wheel" (the Jedi were real) due to her thick accent and found myself wondering what that was.

 

I didn't get that either until I listened to the audio commentary. I also though for the longest time (obviously when I'd only seen half of the movie from behind my dad's chair as an eight-year-old) that stormtroopers were like "good Darth Vaders" and that there was an army of both. And (this is my brother's fault, not mine. He told me this) the first time I was actually interested and watched the entire movie of ANH, I thought the Rebels in the opening scene were Ghetti (Jedi, before I saw the word written. I don't even know how I came up with that one) Even now I still vaguely think "Ghetti" in my head when I see it

 

This! I just never heard it correctly. Just then I saw the line printed somewhere and said... "Ahhh, so that's what he said" LOL.

 

When I was a kid I thought that the lightsaber Luke uses in TESB was the same one Obi Wan used in ANH. I gues I seemed to have blocked out the scene when Obi Wan gives Luke his father's lightsaber

 

I thought the same thing! I think it's because the shade of blue was different between the two sabers in the last movie. And in Empire, the blue sometimes looks closer to Obi-Wan's lightsaber. At least on home releases. In theaters, I think it looked closer to how it should.

 

I thought Star Wars was real.

 

Also the hilt of Luke's lightsaber on the box art is actually Obi Wan's

 

Ah the good old SNES

 

Seriously?

 

Well almost

 

...That's what I thought