I've always liked ol' Porkins.

The taller guy is pretty cool as well.

At the age of 15 - and to this very day - this is the only Stormtrooper that ever stood out to me.  He changed the course of the entire story.  He overlooks that tiny piece - they leave the planet.  He found it - so our story began.

I love the way the shot is framed - the desolation, the sound, the voice, all of it.  A really fantastic scene that has moved me for 34 years.

Anchorhead said:

At the age of 15 - and to this very day - this is the only Stormtrooper that ever stood out to me.  He changed the course of the entire story.  He overlooks that tiny piece - they leave the planet.  He found it - so our story began.

I love the way the shot is framed - the desolation, the sound, the voice, all of it.  A really fantastic scene that has moved me for 34 years.

 

Good choice. Tatooine Stormtroopers are tough. That one is tough and has good eyes.

TheBoost said:

Anchorhead said:

At the age of 15 - and to this very day - this is the only Stormtrooper that ever stood out to me.  He changed the course of the entire story.  He overlooks that tiny piece - they leave the planet.  He found it - so our story began.

I love the way the shot is framed - the desolation, the sound, the voice, all of it.  A really fantastic scene that has moved me for 34 years.

 

His name is Waggo Borathyon. According to the EU he was the lost prince of a planet of sky-surfing hunters of giant flying fish. He returned to the Star Destroyer after saying "look sir, Droids" and eventually became enthralled in a conspiracy with an undercover rebel operative and the brain of an ancient Sithlord in a jar. He died 50 years later single handedly holding off part of an extra-galactic invasion by biological sadist aliens. His son is now a Jedi master working the reformed Empire.

See, doesn't the EU make everything cooler!

You should go and correct Wookiepedia. They have it all wrong.

The guys in that Zahn novel.  The Rogue stormtroopers.

I too have a fondness for "Waggo", in the Radio version he identifies the small object he picked up as a plating ring from a droid but the movie version has such a hilarious economy of language.

I can imagine him pointing out some youths with unconventional haircuts and starting an accidental firefight with the line "Look Sir Rebels!".

I would love to read TheBoostiepdia entry on the head bonk Stormtrooper.

TheBoost said:

Anchorhead said:

At the age of 15 - and to this very day - this is the only Stormtrooper that ever stood out to me.  He changed the course of the entire story.  He overlooks that tiny piece - they leave the planet.  He found it - so our story began.

I love the way the shot is framed - the desolation, the sound, the voice, all of it.  A really fantastic scene that has moved me for 34 years.

 

His name is Waggo Borathyon. According to the EU he was the lost prince of a planet of sky-surfing hunters of giant flying fish. He returned to the Star Destroyer after saying "look sir, Droids" and eventually became enthralled in a conspiracy with an undercover rebel operative and the brain of an ancient Sithlord in a jar. He died 50 years later single handedly holding off part of an extra-galactic invasion by biological sadist aliens. His son is now a Jedi master working the reformed Empire.

See, doesn't the EU make everything cooler!

I laughed.

I like Davin Felth. According to the EU, he was in the stormtrooper armor corps until he started publicizing weaknesses in the AT-AT and got reassigned to the infantry. I kind of sympathize with his conundrum. You don't want to tell a superior officer that his multi-million dollar system is rendered useless by poor doctrine which said officer probably spent years studying or preaching, but if you don't you're putting your unit and your mission at risk. He's also the "look sir, droids," guy.

TK-421 is also pretty cool.

My fave is the Stormtrooper 4th from the left, bottom first row!!

He always stood out to me!!

TK-421, the only canon stormtrooper named in the OT.

doubleofive said:

TK-421, the only canon stormtrooper named in the OT.

Even though we don't see it in the film - I bet he shot first too. Han was just defending himself.

;-)

Anchorhead said:

doubleofive said:

TK-421, the only canon stormtrooper named in the OT.

Even though we don't see it in the film - I bet he shot first too. Han was just defending himself.

;-)

doubleofive said:

 

Anchorhead said:

doubleofive said:

TK-421, the only canon stormtrooper named in the OT.

Even though we don't see it in the film - I bet he shot first too. Han was just defending himself.

;-)

*applause*

Nice one, Anchor.

 

Wasn't there a stormtrooper blaster sound in one mix and then Han's blaster on another? So maybe he did shoot first. ;)

Quackula said:

I like the one that wonders if it's another drill.

Funny you should mention it, that was once translated here as the machine which drills holes in subtitles. LOL

The EU hasn't written a biog on Wilf yet but it's just a matter of time if Daleks can get on Wookiepedia so can Wilf (it's ok it non-canonical).