![]() C-3PO says it, too, has barely legible memories ("Rocks. Omri discusses how its memory and character have been rewritten in the past, and how it is troubled by flashes of its previous lives. The First Order bot bemoans what it calls the "curse of protocol droids" - burdened by the extra sentience needed to carry out their duties. During their journey, Omri and C-3PO chat about the nature of droid existence and about whether their fellows died simply because they were programmed to. One droid is ripped apart by spice spiders, a second sucked into a inky-black river, a third carried away by a swarm of winged insects, and C-3PO itself has its arm ripped off by some sort of tentacled beast. (Image credit: Disney / Lucasfilm)Īs they move across the planet, the droids are picked off one by one, each of them sacrificing themselves to save the others. The humans are all dead, but Omri knows the whereabouts of the kidnapped Admiral Ackbar, and the droids need to make their way to a nearby distress beacon to relay this information.Ĭ-3PO loses a limb. ![]() It explains how C-3PO and a group of Resistance droids crash land on a planet along with their captive, an RA-7 protocol droid named Omri that belongs to the First Order. The comic, though, offers much more detail. In the film itself, C-3PO just explains the incongruous paint job with a single, typically feeble one-liner. The comic is ostensibly about why C-3PO shows up with a red arm in The Force Awakens. But the recently-released one-shot comic Star Wars: C-3PO #1 has made me rethink my idea conception of Star Wars' droids. And on-screen they're portrayed either as mindless bots (see: battle droids, astromechs, etc.), comic foils (R2D2 and C-3PO), or menacing inhuman terrors (General Grievous was technically a cyborg I guess, but there's IG-88, too). They're incredibly sophisticated machines: sentient, self-aware, and capable of displaying the whole gamut of human emotions. And, yes, kids, it's going to tell you exactly how C-3PO got his red arm.Droids in Star Wars films have always seemed to me to be an underused concept. Marvel is going to release a one-shot comic called C-3PO 1that'll fill in the blanks about what's happened to the Great Golden Nag during the past 30 years. But, since it doesn't look like C-3PO is a Knight of Ren any more than Jar-Jar is a Sith Lord, I'm gonna go with "nah" on that one.īeyond that, the secret is kept under wraps. After all, red has traditionally been the go-to color of any and all Star Wars baddies. There was a brief, playful theory that C-3PO got his red arm to signify his commitment to the dark side of the force. But that doesn't exactly answer how he got it within the Star Wars universe. So since C-3PO doesn't age like his human counterparts (although maybe he rusts, I don't know), a red arm was injected to signify the passing of time has affected him, too. It lets you know it’s not two minutes later. Abrams about Threepio's arm, and it turns out that, aesthetically, it was to actually to keep up with everyone else's aging: Moments like Threepio’s arm came from the desire to, well, mark time.You know the moment when you reconnect with someone after years apart? You see the lines on their face, you think, oh, they’ve lived 10 years! Or when you see someone has a scar they didn’t have-physical or emotional-you recognize it. although nothing that'll help me sleep at night.įirst of all, let's look at the arm outside of the context of the film. Well, after some poking around the Internet like a dedicated Star Wars fan, I'm getting a bit of an inkling. Regardless, I'm sure you're as curious as I am about how C-3PO got his red arm. He was totes afraid that Han Solo wouldn't be able to recognize him without it - like there are a bunch of other naggy, golden droids in roaming around the galaxy. Yup, when C-3PO burst onto the scene, breaking up a romantic Han-and-Leia moment as he does, he was quick to point out his new appendage. wait why was C-3PO's arm red in The Force Awakens? You saw the ever-dashing Han with crow's feet, you saw Leia embrace gray braids (like a queen) and you saw. And it wasn't just the new generation of characters that brought in the change, it was seeing out old favorites age. As predicted, the universe is no longer the same after the new Star Wars film hit theaters on December 18, and we watched a wave of change flood in. Without a doubt, the biggest Christmas gift you could get this year, bigger than anything Santa could put under your tree, was the gift of The Force Awakens.
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