Oots as Star Wars

[oppyu]

Taken from my horribly off-topic post in the #858 Discussion Thread

Luke Skywalker: Elan
Darth Vader: Tarquin
Emperor Palpatine: The IFCC
Han Solo (Luke's new love interest): Haley
Chewbacca: Belkar
Princess Leia: Nale
C3PO: Vaarsuvius
R2D2: Durkon
Admiral Ackbar: Roy
Ben Kenobi: Shojo
Ewoks: Mr. Scruffies (plural Mr. Scruffy)
Lando Calrissian: Sabine
Empire Bureauracrat: Kilkil
Storm Troopers: Thog, Zz'dtri, Yikyokyuk.
Rebel Commander: Hinjo
Rebel Soldiers: O-Chul, Miko, Lien, Thanh, Niu
Owen Lars: Xykon
Beru: Redcloak (Contractually obliged to cuddle at least once on-panel)
Curtain-Puller: MitD
Audience: Demon-Roaches

[Gift Jeraff]

Stolen from myself (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=13144945&postcount=7) but modified a bit as per some suggestions:

Roy = Luke
Elan = Han
Haley = Leia
Belkar = R2-D2
Vaarsuvius = C-3PO
Durkon = Obi-Wan
Mr. Scruffy = Chewbacca
The Oracle = Yoda
Xykon = the Emperor
Redcloak = Vader
Demon-roaches = Imperial officers
Tsukiko = Tarkin
Hobgoblins = Stormtroopers
Nale = Jabba
Thog = Jabba's rancor
Sabine = that bounty hunter guy
Zz'dtri = Bib Fortuna
Linear Guild kobolds = Salacious B. Crumb
Jenny = Sy Snootles
MitD = Sarlacc
Hinjo = Akbar
O-Chul = Lando
Lien = Nien Nunb
The Resistance = X-wing pilots
Niu = Wedge
Eugene = Owen
Dwarves = Ewoks
Banjo = the Force
The Snarl = the Death Star
Rich Baker = Rick McCallum

[ti'esar]

I still say Admiral Ackbar should be a rogue.

How else could he spot traps so well?

[oppyu]

Stolen from myself (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=13144945&postcount=7) but modified a bit as per some suggestions:

Roy = Luke
Elan = Han
Haley = Leia
Belkar = R2-D2
Vaarsuvius = C-3PO
Durkon = Obi-Wan
Mr. Scruffy = Chewbacca
The Oracle = Yoda
Xykon = the Emperor
Redcloak = Vader
Demon-roaches = Imperial officers
Tsukiko = Tarkin
Hobgoblins = Stormtroopers
Nale = Jabba
Thog = Jabba's rancor
Sabine = that bounty hunter guy
Zz'dtri = Bib Fortuna
Linear Guild kobolds = Salacious B. Crumb
Jenny = Sy Snootles
MitD = Sarlacc
Hinjo = Akbar
O-Chul = Lando
Lien = Nien Nunb
The Resistance = X-wing pilots
Niu = Wedge
Eugene = Owen
Dwarves = Ewoks
Banjo = the Force
The Snarl = the Death Star
Rich Baker = Rick McCallum
COnsidering the other obscure names you listed, you really should know who Boba Fett is :smalltongue:

I still say Admiral Ackbar should be a rogue.

How else could he spot traps so well?
The problem is that none of the rogues in Oots have demonstrated any great capacity at identifying traps. Although we could always cast the kobold who ended up as Mr. Scruffy's stool/shield/trap activator.

[ti'esar]

The problem is that none of the rogues in Oots have demonstrated any great capacity at identifying traps.

Did Ackbar? :smalltongue:

[Omergideon]

Expand to the EU, Call Haley Mara Jade (if Elan is still Luke, which is perfect in my eyes) and lets figure out who could work as Tyrannus and Maul.

Cos Tarquin strikes me more as the refined Count Dooku type than Darth Vader. Vader is more blunt and direct than that and so works as a blunt and straightforward sort of villain. not sure who to use though.

[Raimun]

Julio Scroundrél should be Obi-Wan.

[ThePhantasm]

Owen Lars: Xykon
Beru: Redcloak (Contractually obliged to cuddle at least once on-panel)


Er, whyyyy? If anything, Xykon should be Palpatine.

The IFCC should be Jabba the Hutt, given that V is now highly indebted to them.

[NerfTW]

I still say Admiral Ackbar should be a rogue.

How else could he spot traps so well?

I get the joke, but my inner nerd must point out that he said "It's a trap!" AFTER it was sprung and they were being fired upon.

You'd have to have a negative intelligence and wisdom score not to spot it at that point.

[oppyu]

Er, whyyyy? If anything, Xykon should be Palpatine.

The IFCC should be Jabba the Hutt, given that V is now highly indebted to them.
In trope-talk, it's called Rule of Funny. In general conversation, it's called 'because that would be hilarious.' In subtext, it's called 'they're secretly a Redcloak/Xykon shipper... Redkon... Xykloak. Yeah, Xykloak.

I get the joke, but my inner nerd must point out that he said "It's a trap!" AFTER it was sprung and they were being fired upon.

You'd have to have a negative intelligence and wisdom score not to spot it at that point.
To be fair, nobody else was pointing out that it was a trap. It takes a wise man to state the blatantly obvious.

[dps]

Expand to the EU, Call Haley Mara Jade (if Elan is still Luke, which is perfect in my eyes) and lets figure out who could work as Tyrannus and Maul.

Cos Tarquin strikes me more as the refined Count Dooku type than Darth Vader. Vader is more blunt and direct than that and so works as a blunt and straightforward sort of villain. not sure who to use though.

Darth Maul's easy--he's the half-orge with a spiked chain.

And that's a really sad example of how much the potential of the Darth Maul character was wasted in The Phantom Menace--the half orge has about 5 times as much dialogue as Maul.

[Omergideon]

Darth Maul's easy--he's the half-orge with a spiked chain.

And that's a really sad example of how much the potential of the Darth Maul character was wasted in The Phantom Menace--the half orge has about 5 times as much dialogue as Maul.

I can see that. But I think Mauls character was shown by his acting in the action scene and really well done.

And Julio is the perfect Obi-Wan, assuming again Elan is Luke.

[ThePhantasm]

And that's a really sad example of how much the potential of the Darth Maul character was wasted in The Phantom Menace--the half orge has about 5 times as much dialogue as Maul.

Lucas had to make room for Jar Jar's dialogue somehow.

[Morquard]

Luke Skywalker: Elan
Ben Kenobi: Shojo
Owen Lars: Xykon
Beru: Redcloak (Contractually obliged to cuddle at least once on-panel)

If Luke is Elan, then Ben Kenobi is obviously Julio Scoundrel.
Your Xykon and Redcloak makes no sense at all either.
Shojo or Hinjo make more sense as Admiral Ackbar too.

[Morquard]

Roy = Luke
Elan = Han
Haley = Leia
Nale = Jabba
Thog = Jabba's rancor
Sabine = that bounty hunter guy

I'd switch Elan and Haley around. Elan always wanted to be Roys brother after all :)
Nale as Jabba? Please, the Empress of Blood is like made for it :) Nale could be Boba Fett. In which case Elan being Han makes some sense again.

[zimmerwald1915]

Nale as Jabba? Please, the Empress of Blood is like made for it :) Nale could be Boba Fett. In which case Elan being Han makes some sense again.
Ugh, this sort of argument always crops up in these threads, mostly because of unclear OPs. What is compared? Physical or personal characteristics? Priorities? Actions? Narrative role?

[Gift Jeraff]

Well, I based my list mostly on narrative role + personality. Occasionally appearance factored in.

Luke/Roy is the protagonist. He gets a green glowy sword.

Han/Elan and Leia/Haley are the 2nd/3rd most important characters, are the only other humans in the main cast, and have a romantic subplot with each other. Also, Elan looks like Locke Cole who looks like Han. I considered switching them, and swapping the Linear Guild for the Thieves' Guild. After all, Haley was sort of trapped in carbonite.

R2/Belkar is the lovably obnoxious little guy.

V-3PO is prissy. (This is my weakest one, IMO.)

Obi-Wan/Durkon is a wise bearded guy, closest to the main protagonist. Dies/will die.

Chewbacca/Scruffy is the team pet.

Yoda/the Oracle is a short, quirky "wise guy" approached by Luke/the OOTS at least twice.

Palpy/Xykon is the pure evil big bad and Vader/Redcloak is the "tragic" right-hand man who loses a body part, which symbolically mirrors a close relative. (It's like poetry; they rhyme.)

Tarkin/Tsukiko is a pretty major ally of the above 2 but dies much earlier in the story.

Stormtroopers/hobgoblins are the primary mooks.

Jabba/Nale is the head secondary antagonist, who is after Han/Elan.

Boba Fett's backpack got jets. Sabine has wings, will fly.

Jabba's rancor/Thog is Jabba/Nale's muscle. I didn't even have Luke/Roy in mind when I first thought of this...

Jabba's jester sorta looks like a kobold.

Sy Snootles/Jenny is a musician in a villainous hive of scum.

The sarlacc/MitD is an ugly thing that eats a lot and is confined to a certain spot.

Lando-Chul and Lien Nunb head towards the Death Star/Kraagor's Gate while the primary heroes go to Endor's moon/Girard's Gate.

Akbar/Hinjo is a coordinator, I guess.

When the Rebel Alliance finally shows some racial diversity, the token minorities/elves die.

Wedge/Niu are surviving tertiary characters.

The Force/Banjo is a state of mind, not microorganisms/just a puppet.

The Death Snarl is the big bad WMD the heroes are out to stop the main villains from using.

[oppyu]

Luke Skywalker: Elan
-Young, naive hero on a journey of self-discovery and a speciality sword(or rapier) based class.

Darth Vader: Tarquin
-Young, naive hero's evil father.

Emperor Palpatine: The IFCC
-String-pulling evil masterminds.

Han Solo (Luke's new love interest): Hale
-Charming roguish love interest. Luke had brief moments of romance with Leia before realising she was his sister, Haley had brief moments of romance with Nale before realising he wasn't Elan.

Chewbacca: Belkar
-Haley's sidekick. Kind of an alternative character interpretation for Chewbacca.

Princess Leia: Nale
-Elan's brother, has a history of appearing as a hologram/sending. (Yeah, the second point is weak.)

C3PO: Vaarsuvius
-Verbose, somewhat arrogant machine; verbose, extremely arrogant wizard.

R2D2: Durkon
-Hypercompetent when it counts, short, hangs out with V.

Admiral Ackbar: Roy
-Supporting leader (sort of), they've both unwittingly stumbled into traps... they're both not white?

Ben Kenobi: Julio Scoundrel
-Cool old guys who teach the hero the ways of the Force/Dashing Swordsman.

Yoda: Shojo
-Cool, extremely old trickster mentors who die.

Ewoks: Mr. Scruffies (plural Mr. Scruffy)
-Diminutive killers.

Lando Calrissian: Sabine
-Dark-skinned rogue who has a rivalry with Han Solo/Haley Starshine

Empire Bureauracrat: Kilkil
-Should appear somewhere in the movie.

Storm Troopers: Thog, Zz'dtri, Yikyokyuk.
-See: Kilkil

Rebel Commander: Hinjo
-See: Kilkil

Rebel Soldiers: O-Chul, Miko, Lien, Thanh, Niu
-See: Kilkil

Owen Lars: Xykon
Beru: Redcloak (Contractually obliged to cuddle at least once on-panel)
-Because it would be funny, ok. Not every pick needs to make sense!

Curtain-Puller: MitD
-Because he's so good at it.

Audience: Demon-Roaches
-See: Kilkil

[ti'esar]

...Yeah, I think I'm buying Gift Jeraff's take on things a bit more.

[oppyu]

Pft, philistine.

[hihidude]

Gift Jeraff has it perfectly, IMHO. I don't know Star Wars as well as I know OotS, but I know i enough to see a lot of the similarities. The Gates as planets. Just struck me as a weird thought. I'm a silly person though, so it's okay :smalltongue:

[ti'esar]

Jabba's rancor/Thog is Jabba/Nale's muscle. I didn't even have Luke/Roy in mind when I first thought of this...

Oh, wow - I didn't even pick up on that the first time around.

They even both suffer mouth attacks that give Luke/Roy a temporary advantage.

[Cuthalion]

I suggest Julio Scoundrel as Qui-Gonn.

[WindStruck]

Oh cmon! Jabba is SO Bozok! Makes perfect sense with the elan-as-luke and haley-as-han setup....

[Gift Jeraff]

Oh, wow - I didn't even pick up on that the first time around.

They even both suffer mouth attacks that give Luke/Roy a temporary advantage.Wow, and I was just thinking "they fight in a pit" when I said that.

[ManuelSacha]

I like Gift Jeraff's list better.

That being said... do you know those parodies of well known stories that Rich likes to do? Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet... you've seen them.
I hate them. I've seen those stories "re-told" hundreds and hundreds of times, under a different light each time, often as a parody... Disney does that every other week, for example.

However, this one would be one that I'd gladly see. Too bad the copyright rules won't allow it.

[ti'esar]

Too bad the copyright rules won't allow it.

I'm not at all sure that's true, actually.

[Kish]

Parody is protected speech.

That said, if you're hoping to have Rich write and/or draw it, you'd better be a millionaire and ready to pay through the nose for him to interrupt working on the webcomic that's actually his original work to write/draw something else.

[theinsulabot]

Luke Skywalker: Elan -no
Darth Vader: Tarquin -no
Emperor Palpatine: The IFCC -no
Han Solo (Luke's new love interest): Haley -works for me
Chewbacca: Belkar -surprisingly fitting
Princess Leia: Nale -no
C3PO: Vaarsuvius -no
R2D2: Durkon -a good one
Admiral Ackbar: Roy -eh.
Ben Kenobi: Shojo -sure
Ewoks: Mr. Scruffies (plural Mr. Scruffy) -I guess?
Lando Calrissian: Sabine -eh
Empire Bureauracrat: Kilkil -sure
Storm Troopers: Thog, Zz'dtri, Yikyokyuk. -no -no -eh
Rebel Commander: Hinjo -no
Rebel Soldiers: O-Chul, Miko, Lien, Thanh, Niu -yes -no -yes -yes
Owen Lars: Xykon -no
Beru: Redcloak (Contractually obliged to cuddle at least once on-panel) -no
Curtain-Puller: MitD -what?
Audience: Demon-Roaches -sure.



EDIT: this one looks better


Roy = Luke -kind of?
Elan = Han -no. woulda said julio myself.
Haley = Leia -sure
Belkar = R2-D2 -no
Vaarsuvius = C-3PO -no
Durkon = Obi-Wan -good one
Mr. Scruffy = Chewbacca -sure
The Oracle = Yoda -good one
Xykon = the Emperor -obviously
Redcloak = Vader -good one
Demon-roaches = Imperial officers -eh
Tsukiko = Tarkin -sure
Hobgoblins = Stormtroopers -sure
Nale = Jabba hmm, ok, I can see that
Thog = Jabba's rancor good one
Sabine = that bounty hunter guy -and here I thought you were about to lose it by saying a slave girl, fett works
Zz'dtri = Bib Fortuna -no
Linear Guild kobolds = Salacious B. Crumb -eh
Jenny = Sy Snootles -who?
MitD = Sarlacc - hmm, ok
Hinjo = Akbar -good one
O-Chul = Lando -definitely not
Lien = Nien Nunb -maybe
The Resistance = X-wing pilots -sure
Niu = Wedge -sure
Eugene = Owen -good one
Dwarves = Ewoks -eh
Banjo = the Force -eh
The Snarl = the Death Star -good one
Rich Baker = Rick McCallum - who?

[oppyu]

Nobody is brilliant enough to appreciate my vision! :smallfurious:

[Oscaver]

I suggest Julio Scoundrel as Qui-Gonn.

NO QUI-GONN, ONLY ORIGIONAL TRIOLGY!

[ti'esar]

Rich Baker = Rick McCallum - who?

...Sigh...

[ti'esar]

Rich Baker = Rick McCallum - who?

...Sigh...