Vaderisnothayden said:I want to ask a number of questions about Mandalorians.
(And I'm talking about expanded universe writers way back like 70s/80s, not Karen Traviss or whatever in recent years.)
When was Boba Fett first made into sort of the toughest dude around? In a New Jedi Order story in the Star Wars Tales comic we have Han Solo saying he wouldn't be able to beat Boba Fett in a fair fight. You don't get that notion from the OT, so I guess Boba Fett being that unbeatably tough is a development of the expanded universe. I'd like to know when the expanded universe made him so invincibly tough. Is it a development of the Boba Fett splurge of the 90s or does it date back to the 80s or 70s?
(Of course, the prequels seem to have picked up the idea of him being so tough a bit, by making Jango Fett a match for Jedi Kenobi, but that's after years of Boba Fett being the big man in 90s expanded universe stuff.)
What about the novelization? Do any of the movie novelizations (OT or prequel) mention anything about Mandalorians other than that bit in the ESB novelization that I mentioned?
The ESB was (I think) the first mention of the name Mandalorians, and their status as somehow the enemy of the Jedi during the past.
The PT, including the novels, doesn't contain any refrence to any such thing. Which is a pity because it would have been so simple to make Kamino into Mandalore, then the clones would be Mandalorians. Or maybe thats a dumb idea.
Where Boba Fett got the 'tough guy' rep I don't know, except to say he sure didn't get it from the movies!