Threepio's girlfriend?

In the beginning of ANH,there is another protocol droid walking behind C3PO and R2 aboard Leia's ship,but ends up going in a different direction. Then in ESB,Threepio sees what looks like the same protocol droid on Cloud city. He says "Oh,nice to see a familiar face." But the other droid says "E-chu-ta" which Threepio responds with "How rude!" Were they both the same droid? The voice of the Cloud city droid sounded female. Could she have been Threepio's old flame who was angry at him for leaving her behind on Tantive IV while he and R2 escaped in the pod?

 

lol!! i'd never thought about that!!! although that could be because i've always had sneaking suspicions about Threepio's sexuality lol

 

They're not the same droid. The one on the Tantive IV is U-3PO, who got shipped off to Kessel. The one on Cloud City is E-3PO, who helped the Ugnaughts program the carbon-freezing chamber to work on humans.

 

ohhh i get it.. maybe Threepio was cheating on E-3PO with U-3PO and thats why E-3PO was so rude? .. there's some underlying story here.. i can feel it

 

You are actually right. This picture was taken just after he met her:

[image=http://www.art.net/Studios/Hackers/Hopkins/Don/images/c3po.gif]

 

The voice of the Cloud city droid sounded female. Could she have been Threepio's old flame who was angry at him for leaving her behind on Tantive IV while he and R2 escaped in the pod?

Perhaps she's TC-14, who we see in the beginning of TPM?

 

Perhaps she's TC-14, who we see in the beginning of TPM?

Nope, it was E-3PO, as was said in a previous post. I'm pretty sure TC-14 was destroyed along with the Droid Control Ship in TPM.

 

C-3PO.. U-3PO.. E-3PO.. TC-14

Why is that last one so drastically different? Shouldn't it be called *insert letter here*-3PO?

 

Nice one, Darth Burns!

I thought R2 was his 'girlfriend'.
Well according to the Simpsons they're gay.

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There's countless millions of protocol droids in the galaxy and the people who made their names for the CCG game were just uncreative I guess.

 

Well according to the Simpsons they're gay.

Hahaha

"And in robot wrestling we have the mighty robots from TV's Battlestar Gallactica, versus the gay robots of Star Wars"

I couldn't stop laughing at that scene, same episode as the "Luke be a Jedi tonight" song they make Mark Hammil sing

 

At first I thought this thread was going to be about the robot from Metropolis...

3PO was designed to be a male version of that robot after all

 

I think you're on to something here guys!!
Great thread, nice pick Darth Burns

 

Thats right R2!

 

Man. I always thought it was a nice touch on Lucas' part for including the Droid from the begining of ANH in ESB and having it reprogrammed.

There goes that nice thought.

 

Maybe C3PO thought that E3PO was U3PO as they look awfully similar, and I'm sure that C3PO's photoreceptors aren't the best quality!

I prefer to think that E3PO was at some stage propositioned by C3PO and turned him down. Hence the obvious sexual tension and animosity in that scene in ESB.

Perhaps this was shown in the Droids cartoon, although naturally the PG13 version!