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Post #721827

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Tyrphanax
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What do you HATE about the EU?
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Date created
14-Aug-2014, 5:13 AM

DuracellEnergizer said:

To put things more succinctly:

  • In the continuity of the Marvel comics, Boba Fett was a Mandalorian who fought in the Clone Wars alongside Fenn Shysa and other Mandalorians under the banner of the Empire before going rogue and becoming a bounty hunter.
  • In the post-Marvel, pre-AOTC EU, Boba Fett was a Journeyman Protector-turned-bounty hunter whose real name was Jaster Mereel. He had no known ties to the Mandalorians beyond wearing a suit of their armour he found some time after adopting his new identify.
  • In the post-AOTC EU, Boba Fett was once again a Mandalorian. It wasn't said so in AOTC, but the EU writers ran with the idea because -- well -- just because.
  • In the post-TCW continuity, Boba Fett is back to being just a bounty hunter who wears Mandalorian armour without having any ties to them.

Crap, I forgot about this thread and was going to post a rundown similar to this.

I've always felt Boba was always Boba and a Mandalorian, mostly down to the Marvel interpretation, but I also love the Moran-written Fett stories. I always chose to believe that the Jaster Mereel identity was one Boba invented after the Clone Wars and the enslavement of Mandalore by the Empire in order to rewrite his own story.

darklordoftech said:

Traviss's Mando worship. Wearing cool armor doesn't make you the good guy.

This. She successfully turned an interesting and diverse group into a homogenous slop of "really-awesome-never-wrong-always-cool-'badass'-fanservice" mush.