Lit Unintentionally funny Star Wars lore

Sometimes in regular history; really silly weird things happen in an otherwise serious setting OR people in power do things that are so pathetic and silly that they are hilarious. Like Trump getting McDonalds or that Brazilian presidential candidate wielding a chainsaw

In Star Wars, this happens sometimes as well.
Examples: The surgery droids were revealed to have polished Vader’s helmet to be as shiny as possible so that Palpatine wouldn’t notice the shoddy work and one droid even told Palpatine that it wasn’t his fault. I can only imagine Palpatine’s expression when they told him that. This was in the Darth Vader 3D Reconstruction Book

In Canon, a band made a song called Vaders Many Prosthetic Parts. Vader got pissed and sent them all to a Kessel work camp. The end result is not funny but Vader getting offended sure is.

Do you remember any more of incidents like this throughout the mythos. I find them to be an interesting part of philosophy of history and noticing it sadly happening more often in real world history and politics.

 

Darth Rivan basing his name off of damaged manuscripts about Darth Revan gets pretty funny when the Bane books later made Revan absurdly(and probably unreasonably tbh) well known and well respected among the Sith, with Bane basing the Rule of Two on him(despite him and Malak being the perfect example of the Rule of Two not working).

Brakiss is over 30 by the time of YJK, where he acts like a teenager and essentially fails to make a single smart decision in his life, actually kinda similar to Kylo Ren.

Han's classmate was expelled from the Carida Academy after accidentally blowing up the moon with anti-matter, that one might have been intentional but its worth bringing up i feel.

 

Making it even funnier is that out-of-universe, Rivan predates Revan. Rivan was introduced in 2001 and was the first pre-Bane Darth to be introduced.

 

Hard to say whether the author(s) intended it to be funny or not, but first thing to come to mind is Palpatine speeding around in airspeeders during his youth. There's even a scene in Darth Plagueis where he takes Plagueis out for a joyride and Plagueis complains about him going too fast.

I remember coming across a funny piece of fan art someone did based on this moment, although I can't find it after a cursory google search.

 

I remember him snarking about it in The Clone Wars: Wild Space:


"You're going to fly us?" said Bail, comically surprised. "Sir, I can-"

"No, no, that won't be necessary," said Palpatine, waving aside his concern. Actually, I'm quite an accomplished pilot. And every so often I enjoy carting myself about the place. Not that this is a pleasure trip, obviously. But I'd like you both to concentrate on the results of the Separatists' attack." Taking in their continued hesitation, he added, "Did you want to see my licence? It is current, I promise. You'll be perfectly safe."

Padme grinned. She couldn't help it. Here was the Palpatine she remembered of old. Energetic, unexpected, with a sly sense of the ridiculous. She turned to Bail. "The Chancellor's right, Senator. You'll be quite safe. He won several cups for airspeeder racing back on Naboo."

"He did?" said Bail, relaxing. "I don't recall that being mentioned in the Senate."

"Oh yes," said Palpatine drily. "What a useful recommendation for my candidacy. Likes to drive dangerous machines very fast."

"Well, if you do, Supreme Chancellor, you're not alone," said Bail. "I've been known to break a speed limit myself, once or twice."

Palpatine's smile was conspiratorial. "And it shall remain our secret, my friend. Now, Senators, if you'd care to join me?"

 

Yeah, it is really amusing to think of an alternate timeline where he was just a jerkarse racer instead of a sith lord responsible for multiple genocides. Though if anyone can find ways to commit genocide as a racer, it would be him.

 

Thrawn perfectly predicting when the guns of Grand Admiral Savits ship shoot based off of studying his music performances, hours in advance from prison.

This implies that Savit every battle personally tells his gunners when to fire, a level of micro management that accomplishes nothing, you would think he would just tell his gunners to fire on a ship, music performer or not.

Also

This entire quote is hilarious, from the implications that a Marg Sabl is a revolutionary tactic, when it's just turning 90 degrees, to "useful against certain species" to the fact that it's essentially doubling down on one of the more questionable bits from the original thrawn trilogy. I know Thrawn is the fandom darling, but this is beyond goofy.

 

Oh man, I can think of so many things here, but TBH I feel like they could very easily slide into complaining.

So instead I'm just going to note that the "Palpatine is a maniac for high-speed racing" thing inspired one of my favorite joke theories on this forum: Qui-Gon screwed everything up because Anakin's actual destiny was to become a legendary podracer and destroy the Sith by accidentally running him down at a race.

 

Kalevala is in the Mandalorian System, meaning that for about a decade bo-katan didn't know that the planet next door was fine, and that was where Gideon with his darksaber was, and Gideon either knew she was there but didn't think she was worth any effort or he somehow knew more about the Nevarro Enclave than his direct solar neighbor.

It's sort of like how Pantora is a moon of Ord Plutonia, and despite at least 200+ years of space travel the pantorans were completely unaware there was a tribe of Talz down there.

 

I love the fact that this wasn't a one off lore addition and something that Plagious referenced.

 

Hot chocolate was frowned upon as a "plebian" drink in the Imperial Court and became a rarity because the Yuuzhan Vong bioformed 7 of the 8 planets where chocolate was made.

I wish I was kidding.

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Hot_chocolate/Legends

 

Oh, like that one Greek hero whose destiny to kill his own grandfather turned out to be accidentally hitting him with a discus at the Olympics, not knowing who he was.

 

Despoilers of an Empire implies that Delvardus named his Executor "Night Hammer" after the hammer he used to put his mistress to sleep.

Essential Guide to Warfare named the 18th Sector Army in charge of Greater Seswanna, Night Hammer Command, which implies he named it after them, potentially without realizing how this would look.

 

I thought we're supposed to mention unintentionally funny things.

 

From Stock Ships. In the EU, even ships got better character development than characters in the DisnEU.

 

The swipe at canon was mean-spirited and unnecessary, but "DisnEU" is still such a goofy nickname (pun intended) that I just can't get too upset about it.

Back on-topic, it is incredibly funny to read the classic Marvel comic books and see characters taking the EU version of Crimson Jack even a little bit seriously. I'm sure at the time he was intended to be quite intimidating and villainous, but time wasn't kind to the short-shorts.

On the canon side, fan speculation that Ben Solo based his Kylo Ren alias on Kybo Ren, infamous pirate of the Outer Rim best known for referring to himself in the third person and wearing a tank top a size or two too small, would be hilarious if true. (Yes, I am dunking hard on questionable space pirate fashion choices today.)

 

It really has that complex backstory of the EU

 

Those examples you gave seem intentionally funny though!

 

The Force Unleashed comic adaptation had starkiller realize that not only did Palpatine always know about him, but that all of his training was directly supervised by Palpatine, making palpatine his "real master"

This means that Vader has been grooming his own replacement, under orders of palpatine, for over a decade, and did so with seemingly no issues. This does somewhat fit his ROTJ characterization of blind loyalty to Palpatine, but takes to an unbelievable extreme.

There is also some implications that "gathering the rebels together" was a plan several years in the making, a plan that itself relied on Kotas survival, among other factors.

There are many more points that can be pointed out about TFU, but I feel those were probably done to death.

 

TFU was always one of those stories that I wish the EU lasted longer for it to get integrated with more. Rom Kota was still the coolest character in it

 

Is it lore that one of the most popular musical styles is called jizz?

Because that's my answer. Jizz music. Jizz wailers.

 

TBH time had already been quite unkind to them in the 70s. "In the future we will all wear Speedos" never made sense from the very first day of Flash Gordon.

This probably wins the thread, though.

 

Wasn’t there a jizz band called Evar Orbus’s Galactic Jizz Wailers or something?

 

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Evar_Orbus_and_His_Galactic_Jizz-Wailers

This is such a wild back story to the 2 jizz bands seen in he OT!

 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C53SVotr4s9/?igsh=MTdmYzd2NjlxbnV3Mg==

Just to reiterate