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== Listed Trivia: ==
* [[Author Existence Failure]]: George Lucas hired SF pulp novel author and Hollywood screenwriter Leigh Brackett to write the script for ''The Empire Strikes Back''. She wrote a first draft but died of cancer before she could revise it. Lucas wrote subsequent drafts himself, and later turned the script over to Lawrence Kasdan (writer of ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'') for polishing. (Lucas's revisions after Brackett's death notably included the creation of the [[Luke, I Am Your Father]] moment. In Brackett's draft, Vader and Anakin were two separate characters, and Luke sees Anakin's Force ghost before heading off to duel Vader.)
* [[Cash Cow Franchise]]: With 20th Century Fox famously signing away the merchandising rights to George Lucas as a way to save money on the original film.
* [[Dawson Casting]]: Inverted by Ian McDiarmid, who was 35 when he was first cast as the Emperor in ''[[Return of the Jedi]]''... then played straight by the same actor nineteen years later in ''[[The Phantom Menace]]''.
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* [[Fan Nickname]]: Luke's nickname amongst the fans is "Farmboy" or "Wormie". For Palpatine, Sid, Palpy, Palps, or Palpidious. "Vaderkin" to refer to Vader between taking the name Darth Vader and the Mustafar incident. AT-STs are commonly referred to as "chicken walkers".
** [[Ascended Fanon]]: The Rebels in ''[[Star Wars Battlefront]] 2'' will call the AT-STs chicken walkers on occasion.
* [[Flip-Flop of God]]: Over the years, George Lucas has made many contradictory claims about the development, conceptual background, and future plans of the series, always claiming that whatever his current plans are are what he had in mind all along. Of special note is the prospect of a sequel trilogy. Lucas made statements claiming that he both had and did not have plans to create
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Also overlaps with [[The Other Darrin]]: Many countries has dubbed the whole original trilogy in the respective languages more than once: The worst offender are the Japanese versions, since only just the first movie was dubbed about '''six times, and excluding the upcoming Blu-Ray version''' (and with different voice actors) since the original trilogy was broadcasted by many Japanese networks in the past. This is adverted with the prequels, since George Lucas wanted a consistent voice cast between all the movies, regardless the network or media format.
* [[I Am Not Spock]]: Nearly the entire cast has suffered this to some degree. Most of them [[Adam Westing|have embraced it]], while others were left resentful of being typecast (most notably Alec Guinness). Averted by [[Harrison Ford]], though, who launched a successful acting career outside of the ''[[Star Wars]]'' films.
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* [[What Could Have Been]]:
** [[Word of God]] stated that Obi Wan Kenobi was originally written for [[Toshiro Mifune]], veteran of [[Akira Kurosawa]] classics like ''[[Yojimbo]]'' and ''[[The Seven Samurai]]''; this was a reverent way to directly pay tribute to the Samurai films that ''[[Star Wars]]'' was adapted from.
** Many things were considered over the years, considering the vastness of the franchise. A major thing to consider is that [[George Lucas]] originally wanted to serve as a mere supervisor as ''nine'' films were made under different directors, and looking forward to seeing how the franchise evolved with different people [[Running the Asylum]]. As things continued on (possibly due to a [[The Star Wars Holiday Special|disasterous incident]] of "leaving it in someone elses hand"), he took more direct control of [[The Verse]]. The more recent ''Star Wars'' television productions seem to be him trying to salvage what was left of that original intent.
** In the Leigh Brackett first draft script of ''The Empire Strikes Back'', Vader and Anakin were two separate people; Anakin showed up to Luke as a kindly Force Ghost. Also, Luke's twin sister was not Leia but someone else, a girl called Nellith who was mentioned but never seen, in an obvious [[Sequel Hook]].
** The basic story of the original trilogy was intended as a single movie, beginning with the hero's journey to become a Jedi and ending with the defeat of the Empire with the destruction of the Death Star. Realizing how immense that project would be, Lucas opted to not tell the defeat of the Empire in a single movie but keep the destruction of the Death Star (which is why the Death Star II came into play as well as another forest planet being involved). Lucas also coalesced the backstory notes into what became the foundation for the prequel trilogy, deciding that an entire trilogy happened before the original films. In each trilogy, the story grew far beyond the original intention.
*** Much of this is covered in Michael Kaminski's ''[
** According to George Lucas, the whole series was supposed to have a [[Framing Story]] with R2-D2, the last surviving member of the main cast, telling an advanced future race about the fall of the Republic and the rise and defeat of the Empire.
*** This explains why R2's part in the saga is so large and sympathetically told.
** ''[[A New Hope]]'' was originally going to be released around Christmas 1976 (much like how ''Episode VII'' is going to be released in December of 2015), but was pushed to May of 1977.
* [[Word of God]]:
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** The books also feature Triclops, the emperor's crazy three-eyed son, versus Trioculus, the evil three-eyed impostor. And that's not even touching the mofference, or the line "I bid you Dark Greetings!" Or the [[Narm|unintentionally hilarious]] [[Written Sound Effect|comic-book sound effects]] used in lieu of description. Even the dullest read could be sent into laugh-out-loud territory with this. When a scene is set up to [[Kick the Dog|prove how cruel and ruthless the BBEG is]] by [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|shooting one of his lieutenants]], "ZAP!" kind of detracts.
* They've done some industrial-strength [[Retcon]] to fit it in. Notably the events don't take place over the five years the authors originally proposed, but over a single year, and are described as being of little importance. [[The Empire]] of ''Jedi Prince'', the Moffs having their Mofference on the Moffship and all, were just another faction of many trying to overthrow Isard.
* [[The Wiki Rule|Wookieepedia]] really adopted the name "Mofferences" for its periodic IRC meetings, exactly because it was found to be [[So Bad It's Good]]. It's even customary to begin the meeting with "I bid you all Dark Greetings!", which is itself spoofed, like [http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/06/fan_fiction_friday_star_wars_episode_viii_a_nude_h.php here] or [https://web.archive.org/web/20140322002340/http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/03/fan_fiction_friday_princess_leia_in_sexual_situati.php here].
* There are two major fan organizations of cosplayers - the [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/501st_Legion_(organization) 501st Legion], aka "Vader's Fist", is composed of people who make and wear the various "villain" costumes. They take [[You Are Number Six|letter-number designations]], the letters reflecting their costumes - someone who wore a stormtrooper costume would take the prefix "TK", for example. In reaction to the 501st, the [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Rebel_Legion Rebel Legion] was formed. There is significant overlap between the two, and they're the next thing to professional in keeping standards.
** The [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] has reverse-[[Defictionalization|Defictionalized]] the [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/501st_Legion 501st]. [[Timothy Zahn]], whose Imperials are basically a [[Badass Army]], has used them in ''[[Survivors Quest|Survivor's Quest]]'' and ''[[Star Wars/Allegiance|Allegiance]]'', where they are Vader's personal legion, the best of the best, possibly the only suboordinates he values. [[Revenge of the Sith|The clones who invaded the Jedi Temple with pre-Mustafar Darth Vader]] were in the 501st. Perhaps most flattering of all, ''Star Wars Battlefront II'' reveals that almost every Clone Trooper and Stormtrooper in the Star Wars movies, from Geonosis to Hoth, is a member of the 501st.
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*** They are also mentioned in ''The Force Unleashed''.
** The infamous "Hello Kitty Vader" is actually a photoshop of a 501st member's [http://www.thedentedhelmet.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13343 white Vader].
* In ''[[Outbound Flight]]'', there is a female Chiss admiral in white whose name is [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Ar%27alani Ar'alani]. A few years before the book was written, Zahn [https://web.archive.org/web/20130716053217/http://public.fotki.com/Kait/star_wars/tim_zahn_booksigning/thrawntim.html met] and eventually became friends with a fangirl named [[Promoted Fanboy|Ari Roselani]]. When they met, Roselani was cosplaying as Mitth'raw'nuruodo (better known as [[Magnificent Bastard|Thrawn]]), a male Chiss admiral in white.
* [[Noriyoshi Ohrai]]'s poster designs for the promotion of the movies in Japan are so popular that other countries have adopted the same design.
* Animator Nelson Shin (who would later become the executive producer of the original [[Transformers Generation 1|''Transformers'' cartoon]] and found [[AKOM]]) was the creator of the famous Lightsaber effect for the first film. Later films have it done in-house at [[ILM]].
* [[The Wiki Rule]]: [http://swholonet.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page The HoloNet] is a Star Wars wiki that focuses primarily on the canon before [[Disney]] bought the Lucasfilms company.
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