boba fett, is now a friendly hero character we are supposed to root for ?
shareIt's been a few years. He might have had a revelation while being in the gut of that desert monster and changed his ways.
shareI think it would make more sense if Han was portrayed as the proper villain he should have been in Solo. Making Han a famous POS galactic thug pirate makes Boba more of a hero for bringing him down and Leia more of a savior for turning him around. Real lost opportunity with that prequel.
shareWell, he was just following a deal, prepared to do whatever to get the deal done.
If killing is necessary, killing is is then.
And to be fair, Han owed Jabba money and dodged out on him every chance he got. Boba was simply hired to return Han to Jabba, alive, for not paying his debt.
In reality, Boba really was the good guy by comparison, much like a U.S. Marshal returning an escaped fugitive to justice for embezzlement.
If Vader could turn back from the darkside then anyone can.
shareI still think that's a bunch of bullshit. Vader kills tons of people, is complicit in the killing of billions, torments his son, then magically turns into a "good guy" in the final minutes. I've never bought it.
shareThat is movie logic rather then a reality logic, but would Vader been considered a good guy or thanked for his help and then locked up for his crimes.
Would Adolf Hitler been a good guy if he turned against the nazi's in his last days, would Joseph Stalin been a good guy if turned on the soviet's in his last days, would Ariel Sharon been a good guy if he turned on the Israeli's in his last days or even Robert Mugabe if he turned to the being a good guy last minute.
plus there's the saying one man's terrorist can be another man's freedom fighter.
If you remember Ariel Sharon did turn into a good guy and because they'd already killed Yasser Arafat they decided to "stroke" out Sharon where he remained in a "permanent vegetative state" until his death. Just checked, it's on Wikipedia. He had a change of heart and "in 2004–05 Sharon orchestrated Israel's unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip. Facing stiff opposition to this policy within the Likud, in November 2005 he left Likud to form a new party, Kadima. "
So yeah if you are surrounded by bad guys and suddenly have the epiphany that there's no sense in being evil, all those around you still steeped in evil will take you out. Not much hope for them. So you bring up a good point with that example. Hitler would have never turned. He's the architect of modern evil (along with Machiavelli). His ideas were passed down to leaders in the US through Op. Paperclip, Kissinger and elsewhere.
I would never put any Israeli in any positive light. Their country has been purely dedicated to the eradication of Palestine and Palestinians since its founding.
shareThe thing is one day if a homeless family came into your area and you offered them your house as a shelter but instead they decided it was there home because there ancestors lived there a thousand years ago and they rob you and beat you up because they were stronger then you and take everything of you and lock you in your basement while they watched you and they only let you move around in the basement when you have queued up for hours, only let you have the bare necessities and even have you beg for those and if you tried to fight back in anyway you would get smacked in your face or shot with a rifle, same with your neighbours if they tried to get rid of the family they would get shot with a rifle or bombs thrown at them, after 50 years one day they decide to give you the whole basement back as a gesture of good will but still with the right to come back to beat you up if you decide to keep fighting back for the house, would you thank them for it?
Who would you consider the bad guys yourself being beaten up for the last 50 years in your own home and the neighbours trying to help or the homeless family?
Well in terms of ariel sharon that wasn't some epiphany to a good guy but a shrewd move by giving something worthless back to keep the bigger prize of the west bank expansion and even then they keep blasting the gaza strip whenever they choose to.
So if vader turning good guy was star wars logic, then you can easily accept bobo fett turning good guy is the same logic.
Uh, no. None of them would be considered as anything but monsters. And, there is no way any of them would have ever magically turned "good" magically in their final moments.
shareI agree, reality is different from Star wars Logic, So bobo can easily be a good guy now.
Only the emperor was the truly evil person in star wars logic, everyone else can be good or bad depending on the situation.
He's a bounty hunter who gets paid to do a job, and he does it.
shareHe “possibly disintegrated lukes aunt and uncle?” Huh. I missed that.
Where did that theory come from? Granted, I never watched Clone Wars or Rebels.
it's a theory i heard. he was on tatooine at the time and possibly alerted of the missing droids. he was warned about disintegration in esb which may have been referencing him doing that to beru and owen.
sharelol, no
shareIt ignores the first Star Wars movie where it was clear that the storm troopers killed his aunt and uncle along with the jawas... Remember Obi Wan was talking about how the attack was to precise to have been done by sand people. Boba Fett would have had no reason to be near Luke's home because there was no bounty on him or anything else.
One could argue that Boba Fett is more of a hero than Hans, remember Hans shot first which makes him a murderer, Fett was just trying to bring him in and stop his murderous ways.
except he didn't do any of those things
shareAunt Beru and Uncle Owen were killed by Storm Troopers.
Boba Fett was tasked with capturing and transporting Han Solo to Jabba the Hutt for unpaid debts. He didn't almost kill him, the Carbonite process almost did which Boba was not happy about anyway as he states to Darth Vader that he is no good to him dead.
Mando is no different to Boba Fett so I don't see the issue.