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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
* [[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.
* [[Refitted for Sequel]]: Considering the immensity of the ''[[Star Wars]]'' universe, a lot of ideas get recycled. ''[[A New Hope]]'' was to feature a ground battle at the Rebel base on Yavin, which was later adapted to the Battle of Endor (a similar forested planetoid) in ''[[Return of the Jedi]]''.
* [[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 ''[http://drbeat.li/album/Bücher/The_Secret_History_of_Star_Wars.pdf The Secret History of Star Wars]'', which painstakingly goes over documentation from the very earliest days of the project to show how Lucas developed and transformed his original vision, especially the idea that Luke's father and Darth Vader were two different people.
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