Why didn't Jango Fett kill Windu when he had the chance?

In the Geonosian arena, Mace gets his saber knocked loose and Jango tries to grab it. Why not just shoot Windu when he was saber-less? It looked like he had a pretty clean shot.

 

I guess Jango figured that it would be better to try to grab Mace's saber first and then shoot him afterward.

 

Yep, that was stupid of him, especially considering his fancy gun moves against Coleman Trebor minutes before.

I guess thats to show Jango Fett wasnt that strong minded.


So the Jedi mind trick could work against him as well as his clones. (and in retrospect, Luke could have used the mind trick against Boba Fett)

 

I wouldn't exactly call Jango's decision to try and grab the lightsaber weak-minded. He tried to tip the balance of the duel in his favor by stealing his opponents only weapon, not including the Force. Besides, it was a combat arena with hundreds of Jedi and battle droids battling for supremacy. Your life depended on making the right split-second decision. In this case, Jango was wrong and it cost him his life. Trying to ensure your opponents defeat by unarming them hardly seems evidence of a weak mind though.

 

Clones are genetically altered, and by the OT, there were also human recruits and clone sources other than Jango dna. Jango and Boba were anything but weak-minded, in my opinion.

 

I agree that it was a foolish move on Jango's part but I assume he felt he could get to the weapon and deprive his enemy of any hope of survival. That said, it seemed clear to me that he could have finished Mace off with a few shots from his blasters.

 

Who is to say that Mace would not have used the Force to take Jango's guns away from him if he had tried to shoot him as Vader did to Solo in ESB?

In either case Jango would have been killed by Mace. he may could have the mind trick on him and have had him shoot himself for all we know.

Darth Sin!

 

I think that Mace would have no trouble snatching Jango's blaster away from him. Jango might have had a little better chance if his Jetpack didn't get busted when he was trampled by the reek, but I think he would have still been killed by Mace.

 

The 'electrum' lightsaber was a high value collector's item but it still doesn't make sense for Jango to refrain from blasting at Mace. A lot was happening all around the fight to make one disoriented. Maybe it can just be chalked up to just a stupid decision made in the heat of a battle.

 

I think Jango just freaked out for a second, and his first thought was to get Mace away from his weapon.

 

Jango was a skilled assassin. He knew that Windu was a Jedi and surgical with his lightsaber. When he saw the lightsaber there, he reacted to what he saw without thinking. He must have looked at the lightsaber in being the biggest obsticle in fighting Mace. It wouldn't have made a difference either way because Mace had the Force. Mace simply would have called Jango's blaster to him the same way Vader called Han's blaster to him. Either way Jango would have lost his life.

 

What I want to know is why Mace was the one to kill Jango? The whole movie up until that point had Obiwan and Jango fighting it out wether it was phycholgically or physically. Then all the sudden Mace gets to steal the thunder.

 

Perhaps to show it takes a "better" jedi to kill Jango?

 

Sorry to disagree but it made for a bad storyline and IMO Obiwan would PWN Mace in a duel anyday.

 

If that's the case then Mace could've used the Force to take back his lightsaber, Jango's guns, his flamethrower, rocket launcher, and armor as well =D

 

BobaFrank, I wholeheartedly agree with you on this. The film built up all this tension between Jango and Obi-Wan in the beginning of the film and so it would served well had Obi-Wan killed Jango instead of Mace.

My thoughts are that Dooku and Mace should have squared off a little bit in the arena, then they have to disengage their battle as Dooku in order to get away calls in several battle droids. Dooku then has his big match with Yoda. Then we could have seen Mace use the Force to take out several battle droids at once. I think him doing this would have been better than killing Jango which belonged to Obi-Wan instead of killing that monster/creature.

Darth Sin!

 

He tried to grab it first, because theres only so many shots a Jedi can block without a lightsaber. If he stopped to make the shot, Mace could've easily force grabbed his saber back into his hand, turned it on and blocked the shot. We've seen crazier things the Jedi can do.

If he did grab the saber, he'd unleash a good 10 shots at Windu head on, and he wouldn't be able to dodge each one. I mean, do Jedi have the blaster reflection that Vader uses in ESB?

 

Some of them can.

 

i think he was intimidated by the lightsaber, it is a symbol of Jedi power and to jango if he took the lightsaber perhaps in his eyes he would see it as relinquishing mace of his power.

 

A Jedi without his lightsaber is far from defenseless. Look, once they actually initiated combat against each other, Mace had Jango's head off in less than 6 seconds. Don't believe me? Throw in your AOTC DVD, get to the right chapter, and see how long it takes from Jango's first shot to the time Mace Windu's lightsaber removes his head. Jango Fett versus a competent Jedi Master like Mace Windu is no competition at all. Mace has him outclassed in every single way. As Master sin points out, there would have been little to prevent Mace from taking Jango's blasters, and I am sure that Mace can shoot Jango with those blasters much more effectively than Jango can defend against them with Mace's saber. Further, what would have stopped Mace from using the Force to ignite the saber while it is in Jango's hands, and grab it back, conveniently lopping off Jango's hands at the wrists while he is at it? Jango Fett had no real chance of killing Mace Windu. Perhaps if he had had the advantage of surprise, and tried sniping him from a distance or something. But, against a Jedi Master, in an open area, in broad daylight, who knows you are coming? NO CHANCE AT ALL. Jango Fett was an idiot to try to engage Mace Windu in combat in the first place. A Chihuahua has a better chance of defeating an alligator than Jango had against Windu.

 

I always saw it as Mace force pulling Jango along with the lightsaber. :/

 

Haha, I think I'm gonna look at it from that perspective from now on.

"Jango, meet ground. Ground, meet Jango."

 

That was text book execution right there. Lock the topic. Nuff said.

 

I think either there was too much going on & Jango didn't think he had a clear shot. Or he wanted to move in for the kill. I think it's the second because he started to charge Mace.