C3PX said:

miker71 said:

having found a bunch of the Marvel comics, I see what you mean about Marvel having disregard for clone status. I guess the clone army is augmented by regular guys, but is that canon?

There wouldn't be much point in augmenting a clone army with regular guys, might as well just make a few more batches. I think the real issue here is that vast numbers of us, myself included, never got the memo on the whole silly clone thing, and for years have been thrown by things like Luke's conversation with Biggs stating that he wasn't going to wait around to be drafted into the Imperial Navy.

No where in the films or any the absolute mass quantity of EU I consumed while growing up did I ever come across anything that suggested to me that Stormtroopers were all clones. On the contrary, things like Luke talking about not wanting to be drafted and comics featuring Stormtroopers without their helmets and in other ways expressing individual personalities have always lead me far far away from ever even considering these guys could merely be clones. I also think it adds more of a hard edge to the Empire if they were all conscripts.

Is the idea of all Stormtoopers being clones actually true 1977 canon? I guess there were things to suggest it in early drafts, but there was a whole freakin' deleted scene from the actual movie to suggest they were conscripts.

The imperial navy being conscripts doesn't necessarily mean the stormtroopers were. Remember, in the OT we saw all these guys on the ships without stormtrooper gear and with revealed faces and they weren't clones. Stormtroopers would be more equivalent to marines or army than actual navy. Stormtroopers being clones appears at least as early as the 4th issue of Star Wars Poster Monthly in 1978.

As for the clone armies being expanded with non-clones, that's what the EU goes by these days.