who sounds like he smokes ten packs a day. Justified, since he's seen it used before, and it ended up killing as many Imperials as Rebels. Even Evil Has Standards: Admiral Screed - Imperial warlord and representative of Palpatine - draws the line at using Rooze Disease to wipe out insurgents.Appropriately enough, the show ran from 1985-86. Everything about this show - the hair, the animation, the music, the art style - screams eighties like you wouldn't believe. Apparently the Empire got their superweapon ideas from low-life gangsters. Earth-Shattering Kaboom: The Trigon One, at full power, has the capacity to blow up a planet.Drives Like Crazy: Artoo in "The Trigon Unleashed." To be fair, he was trying to maneuver a fast-moving platform while inside a building with narrow hallways.Do-Anything Robot: R2-D2, the show took the examples set by the movies and took it to its logical extreme.Darker and Edgier: The Great Heep has a significantly darker and more sinister tone than the rest of the series, especially when compared to the first few episodes of the show.For good measure, Evil Sounds Deep as well. The first few stories take place some time before the show's events and, in its final issues, tells the story of a certain movie from the droids' perspective. Comic-Book Adaptation: After finishing Star Wars (Marvel 1977), Marvel Comics made an eight-issue comic based upon the show.
Chekhov's Gunman: Admiral Screed shows up in "A Race to the Finish" before becoming a major villain.Character as Himself: R2-D2, thanks to his voice being recycled.Catchphrase: Threepio has "It is our honour and privilege to serve!" and "I do love a happy ending!", the latter said at the end of each episode cycle.Canon Fodder: Several ideas for the prequel movies, as well as anthology movies, come from the series.
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