Star Wars question re : Stormtroopers

dd972

Probably be a while before I get the answer but are the Stormtroopers in Star Wars meant to be robots or are blokes in costume?

Btw, I know that they're really blokes in costume in real life.

HamsterFace

They're a crowd of ****

gramar

They are blokes in costume with a crap shot.

s4uv3

They're meant to be stormtroopers. You've had enough joints for tonight now.

Winterlong

They are meant to be real people in armour. Thats why Luke was able to dress up as one of them when he mugged one.

Beyondgone

It's a Nazi reference - designed to reinforce the "badness" of Darth Vader. Who oddly, is everyone's favourite character. Go figure.

namloc1980

They're basically human conscripts in white armour.

Alf Stewart.

Only a bloke in a suit could carry off a blooper like this, and act like it never even happened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja4v-qiFvBg

Ted111

The plastic/armour didn't seem to protect them against lazer guns.
Maybe they were providing for the contingency of rebel scum pulling a
stanley blade or a broken pint glass on them.

MilesMorales1

It's not good armour is it? In ROTJ the ewoks have ****ing arrows that take em out.

alchemist33

Ted111 wrote: »

The plastic/armour didn't seem to protect them against lazer guns.
Maybe they were providing for the contingency of rebel scum pulling a
stanley blade or a broken pint glass on them.

They repel 100% of the kinetic energy of nerf darts.

PTH2009

They were good at one point but I think in episode 2 they turned into villians

Your Face

dd972 wrote: »

Btw, I know that they're really blokes in costume in real life.

I think they're actors in real life.

Venom

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

It's not good armour is it? In ROTJ the ewoks have ****ing arrows that take em out.

Arrows!

In Rogue One they got taken out by blind guy with a wooden stick!

Gunmonkey

Ted111 wrote: »

The plastic/armour didn't seem to protect them against lazer guns.
Maybe they were providing for the contingency of rebel scum pulling a
stanley blade or a broken pint glass on them.

Well what armour could you give that blocks high density plasma rays? Portable shields are pricey and not worth the outlay for the millions of Troopers in the Empire.

Best to just melt down some old bottles and fashion some eye-catching armour that both announces "The Empire is here!" to instill some fear into the populace and as a uniform to also reduce individuality of the Troopers themselves.

Winterlong

Gunmonkey wrote: »

Well what armour could you give that blocks high density plasma rays? Portable shields are pricey and not worth the outlay for the millions of Troopers in the Empire.

Best to just melt down some old bottles and fashion some eye-catching armour that both announces "The Empire is here!" to instill some fear into the populace and as a uniform to also reduce individuality of the Troopers themselves.

In fairness the money required to build a death star would limit the money spent on soldiers armour. Eye catching over effectiveness was the order of the day.
Eh- in fictional movie of course.

ZeroThreat

Gunmonkey wrote: »

Well what armour could you give that blocks high density plasma rays? Portable shields are pricey and not worth the outlay for the millions of Troopers in the Empire.

Best to just melt down some old bottles and fashion some eye-catching armour that both announces "The Empire is here!" to instill some fear into the populace and as a uniform to also reduce individuality of the Troopers themselves.

The emperor should have changed his personal appearance to something more like the Monty Burns God from that episode of the simpsons in order to get more respect

jamesbere

They made stormtroopers out to be idiots even though there supposed to be elite trained troops

Beyondgone

jamesbere wrote: »

They made stormtroopers out to be idiots even though there supposed to be elite trained troops

They should have fired the person who taught them to aim anyway.

soups05

this whole stormtroopers are a bad shot is taken out of context. in the first film a new hope, obi wan clearly praises the aim of stormtroopers. But they keeping missing when the heroes are trying to escape the death star. then leia comments on how they were allowed to escape, thus showing the troopers are acting under orders.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u14GRxt3PPo&ab_channel=cyborgcommando0

yes, am a nerd :P

Victor

Luke, Leia and Han are all force capable (Han interprets this as being lucky, but luck doesn't exist, it's what you make for yourself).

The average stormtrooper isn't force capable.

Luke, Leia and Han know where to be and not to be.

Depp

Could compose a few paragraphs tbh but wont dive to deep, Basically the ''stormtroopers'' are first introduced in Episode II as a clone army that is adopted as the armed forces of the galactic republic, in episode III the republic is taken over under totalitarian rule and becomes the galactic empire, during the time between episodes III and IV the clones are phased out and it becomes a regular conscripted army, so no they are not robots.

Also darth vader is not actually the main baddie the emperor is, hes an arsehole in parts but hes good in the first 2 films and he has a change of heart in the 6th, and is the one who actually kills the emperor, this is why hes so popular, that and he looks cool.

LordSutch

I found the Cybermen (1970s variety) to be much much frightening than Storm troopers, so how about Storm Troopers Vs Cybermen? now that would make a great intergalactic battle :-)

Hannibal_Smith

They're Clones. Those funny robots on the rainy planet made them. IIRC they cloned them from Boba Fets dad, they were incubated and raised from babies into highly skilled soldiers. Boba Fet's dad got to keep him as a reward and when he got killed that kicked off his hated of the rebels. I think they were initially meant to be soldiers for good. But the emperor (can't remember his real name) struck a side deal and they were all turned bad.

What I'm always amazed about is that R2D2 and C3P0 actually had people in them - they were people in costumes too. I'm not sure how they managed to fit someone in the BB8 costume, but it does seem to be a technical marvel that they did!

dd972

So in Star Wars are they robots then?...

Winterlong

dd972 wrote: »

So in Star Wars are they robots then?...

Look you within. There the answer be will.

Atoms for Peace

dd972 wrote: »

So in Star Wars are they robots then?...

The robots have humans inside them, while the humans are actually played by cats taped together with duck tape.

ScumLord

Beyondgone wrote: »

It's a Nazi reference - designed to reinforce the "badness" of Darth Vader. Who oddly, is everyone's favourite character. Go figure.

I always thought they had more of a feel of the British empire about them. As much as the Nazi's make great bad guys they never made it to empire status.

soups05 wrote: »

this whole stormtroopers are a bad shot is taken out of context. in the first film a new hope, obi wan clearly praises the aim of stormtroopers. But they keeping missing when the heroes are trying to escape the death star. then leia comments on how they were allowed to escape, thus showing the troopers are acting under orders.

Ya but, what about all the other times. Maybe its like the American civil war when people didn't want to shot anybody on the other side so kept pretending to fire their muskets?

Hannibal_Smith wrote: »

I think they were initially meant to be soldiers for good. But the emperor (can't remember his real name) struck a side deal and they were all turned bad.

They put all the stormtroopers on time and a half to sweeten the deal. Bus Eireann could learn a thing or two from the empire.

entropi

They're meant to represent a faceless, unstoppable empire that just rolls over planets and conquers them, then you (the conquered people) are either loyal subjects, or rebels to be suppressed. A clone army from the start (as alluded to in The Force Awakens), they're grown in vats to be soldiers, that's it.

Depp wrote: »

Also darth vader is not actually the main baddie the emperor is, hes an arsehole in parts but hes good in the first 2 films and he has a change of heart in the 6th, and is the one who actually kills the emperor, this is why hes so popular, that and he looks cool.

True, sure he's even outranked in the Empire by Tarkin and has to take his orders from him or the Emperor.

lmimmfn

Depp wrote: »

Could compose a few paragraphs tbh but wont dive to deep, Basically the ''stormtroopers'' are first introduced in Episode II as a clone army that is adopted as the armed forces of the galactic republic, in episode III the republic is taken over under totalitarian rule and becomes the galactic empire, during the time between episodes III and IV the clones are phased out and it becomes a regular conscripted army, so no they are not robots.

Also darth vader is not actually the main baddie the emperor is, hes an arsehole in parts but hes good in the first 2 films and he has a change of heart in the 6th, and is the one who actually kills the emperor, this is why hes so popular, that and he looks cool.

He hates sand

Capt'n Midnight

During World War I the Germans used stormtroopers

Other armies have also used the term "assault troops", "shock troops" or fireteams for specialist soldiers who perform the infiltration tasks of stormtroopers.

Capt'n Midnight

and these blast points, too accurate for sand people. Only Imperial stormtroopers are so precise.