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*** Unlike the other two, Piett didn't actually screw up. He ''did'' disable the hyperdrive, the rebels just fixed it faster than expected, and there wasn't much he could do about that. This may be why Vader spared him.
*** Director Irvin Kirschner, in the DVD commentary, says Vader is too upset that the Falcon escapes, despite the Imperials sabotaging the hyperdrive, that he merely forgets to kill a minion. Accordingly, Piett and the other officers were right to be afraid as he stormed off the bridge.
** The Millenium Falcon trying to jump into hyperspace. First they're being pursued by a Star Destroyer away from Hoth; Han attempts to jump into hyperspace but nothing happens. Then, after leaving the asteroid field and having supposedly repaired the hyperdrive, they try again and again it fails. Later, with Lando now at the controls, and with the hyperdrive supposedly fixed by Lando's mechanics, they try for the THIRD time and it still fails to go into light speed because the Empire had deactivated it! The twist is that
** C-3PO spelling out [[Million-to-One Chance|the ridiculous odds]] against whatever they trying to do. First he says that the odds of Han and Luke surviving a Hoth blizzard are 725 to 1. Then he says the odds of successfully navigating an [[Asteroid Thicket|asteroid field]] are 3720 to 1. (Prompting Han to reply "[[Never Tell Me the Odds]]!") Finally, he tries to tell Han the odds of surviving a direct assault on a Star Destroyer, but Leia interrupts and tells him to shut up.
* The climactic battle in ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'' cuts between three different sets of action and location: the forest battle, the space battle and the duel between Luke and Vader in the Emperor's throne room.
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** There are also three parts to the [[Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story|Miracle Toadley Cure]].
** In ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'', World 7 contains many mythological references, many of which invoke the Rule of Three.
** Each world in ''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]'' has three levels, except the last world (which only has two).
** ''[[Super Mario Bros.]] 3'' has threes hidden in various maps. One is three threes of coins in World 5-1. Also, the king of World 3 lives in Kyoto (where Nintendo's headquarters are).
* The Three Trials in ''[[Monkey Island]]''.
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