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This incomplete list of characters from the Star Wars franchise contains only those which are considered part of the official Star Wars canon, as of the changes made by Lucasfilm in April 2014.
This incomplete list of characters from the Star Wars franchise contains only those which are considered part of the official Star Wars canon, as of the changes made by Lucasfilm in April 2014.
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- Character – Han Solo. A native of Correlia, he was a smuggler by profession. He piloted the Millennium Falcon which he won from Lando Calrissian. His sidekick in many of his conquests is a Wookie by the name of Chewbacca.
- Portrayed by – Harrison Ford.
- Character – Leia Organa. The daughter of Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala, she was a native of Alderaan and the twin sister of Luke Skywalker. Like her mother, she was a senator and responsible for the creation of the New Republic.
- Portrayed by – Carrie Fisher.
- Darth Vader
- R2-D2
- BB-8
- Captain Phasma
- Nute Gunray
- Ewoks
- Wookiees
- Jedi
Darth is simply a variation of the word dark, while Vader comes from the Dutch word for father (though in the movies it's pronounced more like vater, the German word for father). While it seems like Lucas might have tipped his hand on Vader's relationship with Luke and Leia with that name in the first movie, the decision to make Darth a Skywalker w...
The name R2-D2 was conceived in the editing bay of George Lucas's 1973 teen comedy, American Graffiti. The term originated with the film's editor, Walter Murch, who used to say "R2, D2," which was shorthand for "reel two, dialogue two," referring to the movie's various dialogue tracks. Lucas, who was jotting down notes for what would become Star Wa...
For BB-8, director J.J. Abrams didn't want to complicate matters, so the naming process was as simple as looking at the droid's design. “I named him BB-8 because it was almost onomatopoeia ... It was sort of how he looked to me, with the 8, obviously, and then the 2 B’s," the director explained.
The reflective chrome surface of Captain Phasma's uniform directly inspired her name, which also has its roots in a cult horror classic. “Phasma I named because of the amazing chrome design that came from Michael Kaplan’s wardrobe team,” Abrams said in an interview. “It reminded me of the ball in Phantasm, and I just thought, Phasma sounds really c...
Nute Gunray, the sleazy Viceroy of the Trade Federation, seems to have gotten his first name from Newt Gingrich and his last name by swapping the syllables of Reagan. You're never going to hear Lucas admit this one outright, but fans and news outlets have been dissecting the name ever since it first appeared in 1999's The Phantom Menace.
The lovable (or supremely hateable, depending on your tolerance for militarized teddy bears) little fuzzballs from 1983's Return of the Jedi didn't get their name from politicians or classic works of sci-fi; instead, the story behind the word Ewok has its origins right in Lucas's backyard. He got the term by rearranging the syllables in the word Wo...
If the word Wookiee sounds like nonsense, well, it is. The name actually originated during Lucas's 1971 debut sci-fi filmTHX 1138. In it, actor Terry McGovern played a voice on a radio providing background chatter during the film's vehicular escape sequence. One of the lines he improvised was "I think I ran over a Wookiee." McGovern came up with th...
There are two main theories behind the word Jedi—the first one points to Jidaigeki, which is a Japanese term for "period dramas" in theater or on the screen. This origin certainly makes sense, since Lucas modeled so much of the Star Wars mythology on the samurai movies of directors like Akira Kurosawa (they all fell into the Jidaigeki genre). The o...
The names for Star Wars characters have a distinct feel to them (Anakin Skywalker, Obiwan Kenobi, Leia Organa, etc...) but I never figured out where these names "came from." We can exclude sith names since they're pretty obvious. Vader comes from "Invader". Sidious comes from "Insidious". "Maul" and "Grevious" are just evil sounding words.
List of characters. This is a list of Star Wars characters. They are sorted by canonicity and appearances. Contents. 1Canon characters. 1.1Canon characters appearing in The Phantom Menace. 1.2Canon characters appearing in Attack of the Clones. 1.3Canon characters appearing in Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
