SilverWook said:

Anchorhead said:

ZkinandBonez said:

...but it's a tad better than making a blatant reference to Don Quixote.

Don Quixote and Don Juan aren't the same person. Different stories and very different characters.

*edit*

I missed the Kahotay reference. Lame on both counts.

The comics could get away with that sort of thing to a degree the movies can't. The whole of that particular storyline is completely lifted from Seven Samurai/Magnificent Seven.

And I'll take Don-Wan Kihotay over Elan Sleazebaggano any day of the week. ;)

Well, at least it's an original name, sort of. I'm not really defending the PT names, all I'm saying is that I'm at least glad that the PT didn't have references to classical literature all over them.
I mean could you imagine if Lucas' PT characters started making blatant references to Shakespeare? Like you said it was funny in the comic books as a joke, but it could never have worked in the films.
Although pointing out that the Eight for Aduba-3 storyline was taken from Seven Samurai is kind of funny, since ANH is more or less Akira Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress in space. Some of the early drafts was quite literally just that. So who knows, maybe Kihotay would have made sense as a canon character back in the pre-PT days.
I think it's practically impossible to define what makes REAL SW stories anymore. There's just to much of it, and to many contradictions to make any sense of it.

(Also it's not like Sleazanbaggano was named in the film, plus we already had Porkins (named) and Droopy McCool (not named) in the OT.)