The Red Guards Speak

As everyone knows the Red Guards in the Star Wars movies never speak, but that doesn't mean we can't immagine. If they ever did speak, what do you think they'd sound like? Would they be normal people like the Stormtroopers or would they have a totally different, recognizable voice?

 

"Meesa protect the bom-bad Emperor....Okie-day?"

 

I always assumed that they would sound like a storm trooper or something. I always though that was what they were, only specially trained to protect the emperor.

Now, who were those croonies that was with the Emperor in ROTJ? I doubt that they have any imporance, but where only put in the movie as a cinematic element. To sort of give that "this man is evil and he hangs out with his evil buddies" kind of thing.

 

Political dignitaries of some sort.

 

The Royal Guard don't have any "mouth" on their helmets like stormtroopers do.

Either they can't/don't talk at all, or they only communicate between themselves via internal radio.

That's actually a pretty cool idea. The RG are so elite, so absorbed in their protection duties, that they aren't even equiped to deal with "normal" interpersonal interaction.

 

"Many Imperial Guards are sworn to an oath of silence, used as a weapon of intimidation."

That from Inside the Worlds of Star Wars Trilogy.

 

I love it that someone decided they swore an oath of silence, just because they didn't say anything on-screen

It's a miracle they made the Cantina Devaronian into the Slaughterer of Montellian Serat
and not leader of the Grinning Monks (also vowed to silence, of course)


but okay, it adds to their mystique, I guess. However, I'm glad they were quite chatty in the Crimson Empire comics

 

They might of had their tougnes ripped out, George R R Martin style.

 

I always viewed them like the British Royal Guard. They don't say a word, they don't acknowledge you unless you're a threat.

 

They are Imperial dignitaries - advisors from different planets. (see STAR WARS: The Ultimate Visual Guide pg.65)

 

heh, funny. half an hour after I replied to this thread, I read the RotS novel - in which a Red Guard tells Anakin (at the opera) "You're expected"

I guess it was only after Empire Day that they had to take their oaths

 

They probably would sound just like a stormtrooper.

 

I know this is from ROTS, but I'd swear that just as one hit his head and crumbled to the floor, he shouted, "Wow! I coulda have a V-8!".

 

The Red Guards Speak

Not only do they speak...

...they SING!!!

"It's not that easy bein' red..."

 

Hey, I hear they have really good fish at Dex's restaurant.
Do you want to order out for lunch?
Sure, what't the...huh?
Awe Man something is going on in there again. Lets go stand at the door. I hate when we have to miss our lunch break.

 

Aren't those guys supposed to be serious bad-@$$es?

 

they are

except on-screen

 

I'm pretty sure this I'm worng, since I havent watched ROTS in while, but isnt there a metallic clang when Yoda knocks them into the walls? Just a notion, but maybe theyre left-over Magna-Guards? Just athought of course...

 

Maybe it was one of their force pikes clanging against the wall?

 

I would have loved to have seen that, even as a DVD extra.

 

They were initially told to say "HARK" and then "who goes there"

but when they did the line, the one guard said "who goes there" before the other said "Hark"

 

^^^ Is that supposed to be funny? Because it is!

 

Yep.

 

Must have been their gear, or the wall.
the Visual Dictionary states that the Royal Guards are hand picked from the best non-clone millitary units. So they are all human, or at least humanoid.