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• Alas Poor Scrappy: The scene where one of the Ewoks tries to get another Ewok to wake up before realizing that he in fact died.
• Alas Poor Villain: Vader's Redemption Equals Death scene.
  • The Rancor's death is rendered unexpectedly moving by its handler weeping over its body.
• Anti Villain: Vader, at least in comparison to Palpatine.
• Badass Decay: Boba Fett. Although strictly speaking he didn't do anything particularly badass in the previous movie, he at least looked cool and imposing. In this one, he's defeated fairly easily (by a blind man, no less) and in the Special Edition he's seeing flirting with some strippers, which annoyed some fans greatly for ruining his mystique.
  • Well, he wasn't really "flirting", just checking her out. The Expanded Universe retcons this into the girl in question being some unfortunate whom he saved and got a job at Jabba's palace as a stripper, and he was actually making sure no harm had come to her. Thats not more Badass Decay, though- he only did all of that because he thought there might be a bounty on her somewhere and he just hasn't confirmed it yet.
• Big Lipped Alien Moment: The band sequence in the special edition, which was really just an extension of the original sequence that was trimmed down to just the part where Jabba threw Oola into the Rancor pen (30 seconds vs about 2 minutes). In the Making Of featurette that preceded the movie, Lucas admitted that he just thought it would be funny to have a random musical number in an otherwise serious movie.
• Chickification: Some reviewers (especially those in feminist media studies) view Leia's Go Go Enslavement as this, even though she's more of an Action Girl in this movie than any other.
  • She even strangles Jabba to death with her own chains.
• Complete Monster:
  • The Emperor, in contrast to Vader as the Tragic Monster. Jabba the Hutt is possibly even worse, since the Emperor at least has some grand ambitions, whereas Jabba is just a greedy scumbag.
  • Remember the droid overseer, EV-9D9? She definitely counts when you take a look at Tales From Jabbas Palace. She started out on Cloud City, where she somehow got started torturing traffic-warden droids, before nearly completely destroying Cloud City while making her escape. She took the position at Jabbas Palace because she knew she could get away with all of her Cold Blooded Torture on droids, and it turns out she considers her work an art, where in her workshop, dozens of different droids have been tortured, mutilated and grafted together in various forms that may seem like something Josef Mengele would deem impressive. Oh, and she intends to move onto organics at some point soon. It makes her ultimate fate very satisfying.
• Director Displacement
• Ear Worm: Both "Lapti Nek" (the song which plays in Jabba's place in the original) and "Jedi Rocks" (in the remastered version.)
• Everybody Remembers the Stripper: This entry in the Star Wars series consists of Leia in a metal bikini and...something about some teddy bears.
• Fight Scene Failure: A funny little mistake left in that fans affectionately call, "The Force Kick."
• Funny Aneurysm Moment: An Expanded Universe version. Remember that little bit in the Special Edition, where a mob on Coruscant is toppling a statue of Emperor Palpatine? Well, in the novel Iron Fist, it's revealed that immediately afterward, a massive number of stormtroopers entered that plaza to "restore order"...massacring a good deal of the people there.
• It Was His Sled: Leia is Luke's sister. Yoda gives the confirmation of the It Was His Sled from The Empire Strikes Back when he tells Luke (and the audience) that Vader is indeed Luke's father as he claimed.
• Magnificent Bastard: Palpatine not only managed to corrupt Vader, he almost succeeded with Luke and set up a pretty nifty trap for the Rebels to fall into.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "It's a trap!"
  • Jabba has become the patron saint of morbid obesityand disgusting eating.
• Misaimed Fandom: This isn't really the case with viewers as whole, but believe-it-or-not, there is a single instance where this happened to Emperor Palpatine, and by a public figure, no less. The Emperor was actually viewed as something of a personal role model by Real Life Serial Killer Jeffrey Dahmer because of the sheer power he was able to wield over others via his Force Lightening. Dahmer also admired the Gemini Killer from The Exorcist III movie for silmilar reasons.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The idea of the Sarlacc digesting you over a thousand years.
  • Palpatine's Electric Torture of Luke, which is creepy both because our hero is crying out in pain and screaming for his father to help him, and because the old geezer seems to derive some sort of perverse enjoyment from doing it.
  • Not seen in the film itself, but some of the methods that the Ewoks disposed of the Imperial Stormtroopers, according to Hume Tarl in The Essential Guide to Warfare, during the battle of Endor reeked of this, including using arrows to shoot out several Stormtroopers throats, or worse, firing the arrows into other parts of the body that causes them unbearable suffering due to them using a neurotoxin, and even utilized punji stake pits for the Imperials to end up being impaled in. All of a sudden, you may view the Ewoks significantly differently than you have before.
• Take That Scrappy: Not in the film itself, but the 2012 guidebook The Essential Guide to Warfare has a section about the Battle of Endor from an Imperial soldier's perspective, and the way he described the Ewoks and their actions during the battle reeked of Nightmare Fuel, almost painting them as being similar to a bunch of Complete Monsters.
• The Scrappy: The Ewoks were obviously an attempt to introduce "cute" aliens into the film, but many fans ended up hating them or at least finding them annoying for their ridiculous Rock Beats Laser victory.
  • Their Scrappy status gets even worse when a later interview has Lucas stating that he based the Ewoks on the Viet Cong.
• Theiss Titillation Theory: Was there any more to Leia's slave girl costume beneath the panels of cloth hanging from front and back of the waistline? According to Carrie Fisher on the commentary, there wasn't, and at times, the cast and crew standing behind her could see "all the way to Florida", as it were. Oola suffers a wardrobe malfunction as she is being dragged towards Jabba the Hutt, and again as she falls through the trap door. You can still see a short bit of the first malfunction in the current special edition. Older editions have longer scenes.
• Ruined FOREVER:
  • George Lucas adding Vader's "No. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" to the scene where Vader kills the Emperor in the 2011 Blu Ray release has provoked this reaction from the fans.
  • For many people, Hayden Christiansen being inserted (very poorly) already ruined the film in 2004, which would make this of very little consequence.
  • A possible case of the creator making Memetic Mutation backfire and getting revenge? Think about it...
• Special Effects Failure: The Max Rebo band in both versions, especially with Sy Snoodles. In the original, she was a very static puppet. In the SE, she became a more detailed and mobile (albeit cartoonish) CG model that didn't blend properly.
• Tear Jerker: Vader's death and funeral.
• Unfortunate Implications: In an interview later on, George Lucas insinuated that the Ewoks were supposed to be based on the Viet Cong (aka, the Communist backed guerilla group within South Vietnam during the Vietnam War), which causes a lot of negative implications about Luca's views on America when the Ewoks were fighting and basically slaughtering the Imperial Stormtroopers.
• Visual Effects of Awesome:
  • Of course this applies to all the films, but this one stands out for the Sarlacc Pit fight, the speeder bike chase, and the battle royale at the end, capped off with the Falcon outrunning a massive fireball, Raiders of the Lost Ark style.
  • The crew involved with the speeder bike chase said in particular that the script just said "They jump on the bikes and take off at 100 miles an hour." They had to make it happen.
• The Woobie / Unintentionally Sympathetic: The Rancor keeper crying over his dead pet.
• Woobie Species: The Ewoks, considering they gladly agree to fight with the Rebels, only to lose badly.