Out of Pod Experience

Ask anybody who has seen Star Wars who their favorite character is and only one name pops up every time: Bobba Fett. Lets be honest here, how can you not like the man? He is mysterious and notably acclaimed as the best bounty hunter in the Galaxy. He packs around an ancient suit of body armor that not only looks awesome but has so many gadgets on it that even James bond would be envious. And lets not forget that he is quite the ladies man across the entire spectrum of females in the galaxy.
But when you get down to actually thinking about it, what has the man actually done? What did he actually accomplish in the movie that made fans of the series worship him like tweens at a Beiber concert?
I mean lets break down each scene here. When we first see Bobba Fett, it is on Vaders Star Destroyer along with several other bounty hunters. Vader breaks down the task at hand and offers the reward. He then promptly points a finger directly at Bobba Fett and says "and no disintegration's". Wait, what? What in the holy Bantha is this man doing to his bounties that disintegrates them? Is he purposefully trying to remove any shred of evidence showing that he caught the prize?
Lets forget for a moment that he melts faces and move on to the next step. When the Star Destroyer was getting ready to go into light speed it dumps its garbage as protocol mandates, in which we pretty much see it eject the entire contents of its inner hull into space (seriously, what else could they possibly be doing inside that ship that would cause them to dump sheets of metal and parts the size of a stock light freighter), at which point the falcon unlocks it's magnetic clamps and callously floats away with the rest of the garbage while the Star Destroyer flies off in a completely different direction. Once gone, the Falcon fires up its engines and goes on its merry way but not without secretly being tailed by non other than Fett. Now, one has to wonder how this conversation went between Bobba Fett and one of the ships officers:

Bobba Fett: I need to you to take my ship from the hangar and place it in the garbage disposal.
Imperial Officer: And why would I do that?
Bobba Fett: I believe that Han Solo may be attached to the back side of this ship and he is waiting for all of us to leave.
Imperial Officer: Well if he is on the back side of this ship why don't we just ship out some tie fighters to go retrieve him?
Bobba Fett: We do not want to alert the man. If things get out of hand I may be forced to use my disintegrater rays on his ship.

This brings us to the next scene in cloud city. Now here one may argue that he captured Han Solo, Leia, Chewie, and 2 droids that nobody was looking for thus finally living up to his reputation. But think about the actual scene. When they open the door who is standing there? Darth Vader. Han pulls out his trusty blaster and takes a couple of shots, both of which Vader blocks with his hand before disarming Han from 20 ft away using nothing but his brain. The whole scenario was an elaborate ruse perpetrated by Vader and Hans buddy Lando. And where was Bobba Fett in all this? Well it seems that he was hiding in a corner only to come out after everyone was neutralized. I mean dear god man, he didn't even help set up the trap, all he did was call up Vader who managed to make a massive interstellar U-turn, get over to cloud city before anyone else, pacify the governing body, lay out the steps for the trap, and still have time left over for a glass of wine. Now I don't know about anyone else, but Vader seems to have that real go-getter attitude that I would want to idolize. Not only did Vader accomplish all of that, he even wrapped Han up in a pretty little frozen carbonite package before sending Fett on his way. Truly the bounty of Han should have gone out to Vader.
And this bring us to Jabba's palace. In the first scene Leia, dressed as the bounty hunter Boushh, brings in Chewbacca and then decides to threaten the entire establishment with a thermal grenade. Now had Jango Fett been present, he probably would have shot that wired cable out snaring Leia's hand, yanking the cord causing Leia to fall on her back and the grenade to go flying through the air back to him, where he turns it off with one hand while stepping on Leia's throat. But we had Bobba, who simply stood there quietly wetting his mandalorian armor. Nothing. No aggression whatsoever. And to think he had the gall to do the chin lift on that sexy little Twi'lek dancer afterward.
But nothing really compares to the last scene. Yeah that one in the desert. What happened there? One minute they have everyone bound and next thing you know all hell breaks loose. Now sure, Bobba Fett did manage to tie up Luke Skywalker but that lasted for all of 2 seconds before Luke cut the wire, while blocking a heavy blaster shot at the same time, causing Bobba to fall forward of all positions, before jumping to another ship. To make matters worse, Bobba gets up and attempts to take a potshot at Luke with a forearm gun missing horribly (Seriously, what was the man aiming at that caused him to shoot 2 ft higher and 3 feet to the right of his intended target). Personally if I were in his position I would turn around and start melting the faces of those nearest to me with my disintegrater gun. But he doesn't, and for this act his gets blindsided by a blind man swinging around a broomstick, causing his jetpack to fire him into the hull of Jabba's barge, before falling 20 ft to the ground and rolling to his 1000 year doom in the belly of a creature that appears to have to wait for lunch to come to it.

Now having looked back on his career moves, I really must ask why people find this man to be so great?

Inspiration

To get that reaction someone should have posted this on the SWTOR forum. I'm sure EVE has SW fans, but the people who take it that seriously will be residing there.

EU is best thought of as an alternative universe, that the fans presume holds some truth to it, until Lucas says otherwise. Fett has a lot of EU story material behind him, where the writer basicly just gives literary hand jobs to Fett fans and portrays him as super awesome. The problem is, that large parts of that is crap that relies on things, that Lucas has already overwritten with the prequels and the clone war -series or has simply said it never happened. So off screen he is awesome, but on screen he just looks cool and fails a lot.

Because I have a shitload of free time at my desk today and felt like typing out my own variation. Why you gotta burn me down like that? And then tell me that I'm not funny, that's cold....looooooow.


I'll remember that, oh yes, got your name written down in the little black book now.

Angry sex...Only if its with your avatar.

"extended universe" - i smell dragon ball z and stuff.

My understanding of the Extended Universe is that it's all vetted by LucasWhatever and is considered canon.

That said, I'm pretty sure all the Boba Fett stuff is pure fanservice. It'd be like a graphic novel about Leia's days as a slave to Jabba, including being trained as a dancer by other metal bikini-clad slaves. Hmm...I might be on to something here...

...Darth Maul tyvm :D (Also maybe anakin before he became Darth Failer)

2 words: Wedge Antilles.

The only man in the galaxy who fought (and help to destroy) two death stars, in a ******* X-Wing. Without The Force, without plot armor, and with balls of steel.

Not bad for a lowly son of a corellian trader.

Also according to EU, he has more than 400 kills, (not including both DS) and kept flying the X-wing even when there were more advanced fighters available.