Clever naming of star wars villans.

[GeneHunt]

Anyone noticed how they have quite clever names for the villans?

They have

Darth SIDIOUS - he's quite inSIDIOUS

Darth TYRANus - he's TYRANical

General GREVIOUS - a victim and inflictor of GREVIOUS bodily harm.

Coincidence? anyone have any to add?

 

[David cgc]

Elan SLEAZEBAGgano was a bit of an ASSHOLE.

No, wait, that's not right.

 

[nx1701g]

Darth VADER - inVADER
Natasi Daala - I SATAN

 

[Chaos Descending]

GREEDo was kind of GREEDy.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Coincidence?

Yes. All those names were randomly chosen and just happened to be parts of larger meaningful words by accident or fate.

Lucas came up with Skywalker by looking in a greater San Francisco Bay Area phonebook and pointing at a randomly selected page while blindfolded I believe.

 

[T'Baio]

No, I have never noticed the names were clever.

 

[Harvey]

Wasn't it originally Luke STARKILLER in the original draft of Star Wars?

 

[nx1701g]

^ Yes. That name has been used though now as the name of Vader's Secret Apprentice.

 

[Trekker4747]

Count Dooku!

Because he's a poopie head!

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Wasn't it originally Luke STARKILLER in the original draft of Star Wars?

Starkiller was some dude from USC who Lucas used to cheat off of in film class. I believe it's from the old Scottish Starkiller clan if I'm not mistaken.

No in-movie significance to that name, really.

 

[PsychoPere]

Wasn't it originally Luke STARKILLER in the original draft of Star Wars?

General Luke Starkiller of the Jedi Bendu. His son, Annikin Starkiller, was to be the protagonist of The Star Wars.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

Jar Jar Binks: Jinks (I don't care if that's the wrong spelling)

Watto: Twat

Sebulba: Blase'

Count Dooku: Took U Out

 

[Darth_Pinche]

I saw an interview where Lucass said he had his 5 and 6 year olds make up names, like Greedo, Jar Jar, Ewok, etc... I guess he figured 5 year olds have to be the pinnacle of writing acumen. Lucass.

[note: the spell check had issue with Greedo but not Jar Jar. sad, so sad.]

 

[Forbin]

Anyone noticed how they have quite clever names for the villans?

Nope, never in the last three decades has anything like this ever come up.

 

[PsychoPere]

[note: the spell check had issue with Greedo but not Jar Jar. sad, so sad.]

Considering that "jar" is a real word, why would a spell check utility take issue with it?

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Anyone noticed how they have quite clever names for the villans?

Nope, never in the last three decades has anything like this ever come up.

How would I know that General Grievous is a bad guy without the evil sounding name? Like the skull mask is any indication.

 

[Darth_Pinche]

[note: the spell check had issue with Greedo but not Jar Jar. sad, so sad.]

Considering that "jar" is a real word, why would a spell check utility take issue with it?

Jar Jar by definition is a mistake.

 

[PsychoPere]

[note: the spell check had issue with Greedo but not Jar Jar. sad, so sad.]

Considering that "jar" is a real word, why would a spell check utility take issue with it?

Jar Jar by definition is a mistake.

It is, however, not a spelling mistake.

 

[MyCylon]

^
He's obviously a Jar Jar head. Which is obviously worse than a jar head.

As for Darth Vader, I believe "Vader" is the Dutch for father (relatively similar to the German "Vater" btw.). So I suppose the revelation about Luke's father was no big surprise to fans in the Netherlands, I assume .

 

[Dark Gilligan]

Clever? No. Juvenile and void of imagination? Yes.