Boba Fett: explain his popularity please

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

Uh... he's a complete bad ass...
And Mandalorians are awesome.

 

[anaphysik]

So would someone be so kind as to tell me why our good Mr. Fett is so popular?

From my understanding, there was a Boba Fett action figure you could get via a mail-in offer; the neatness of the figure made people start caring about Fett. Later generations (like my own) were thus told of the awesome of Fett once he became popular, and his popularity spread.

(Personally, I love the green helmet; plus everyone knows bounty hunters are intrinsically awesome.)

 

[kingcom]

Probably because we see so little of him we are allowed to think up our own backstories.
I guess the mystery of his character is what people love.

Sometimes, less is for the best. Kind of like Portal. Little story involved, but it was fantastic.

Just my 2 cents.

I don't NEED a story to like characters, my favorite character Han Solo had no backstory and he was still awesome. My confusion comes from that fact that Boba Fett NEVER DID ANYTHING in the movies, and yet he has one of the largest cult fanbases I've ever seen.

I'm not talking about story, I'm saying people probably like him so much because they see very little of him. I merely used Portal as an example of "less is more".

Han Solo had a backstory established into the actual movies. You know, awed money to Jabba, Queedo in the bar...hes got bounty hunters after him, it catches up with him later on. You may have not noticed it but "your brain did".

See Boba Fetts popularity grew from the expanded universe where he was one of the few characters who could stand toe to toe with force powered individuals. You know, a regular guy with no magic power taking down these people. I mean he hunted jedi, thats a very cool character. Until the expanded universe grew with KoTOR and the whole mandalorian thing being much more commonplace, he was a one of a kind character.

 

[Composer]

-snip-

DAMN! that is awesome


OT: ya every poster above me was right
awesome helmet+jetpack= why people love him

 

[cheese_wizington]

He escaped the giant spiky vagina thing.

So that's pretty cool.

Boba Fett 1 Spikey Vagina 0.

 

[zenoaugustus]

Spoiler

He looks cool, that is all.

Yeah, pretty much. I mean, if I could look that cool, I'd be down.

 

[internetzealot1]

He's Boba the Fett. His backpack's got jets. He bounty hunts for Jabba the Hutt to finance his 'Vette.

He chills in deep space. A mask is over his face. He delivers the prize but he still narrows his eyes because his time he does not like to waste.

 

[internetzealot1]

One thing people haven't mentioned is that he totally knew that Solo had attached to the back of the star destroyer.

 

[MonkOfDoom]

IG88 was much cooler.

Hands down.

Sorry but who? I don't remember anyone named IG88, although I assume it's a droid.

I think he was a robot bounty hunter. Though I only know that because he was a boss in an old Star Wars game I used to play in which he repeatedly killed me with purple balls of doom.

Ya he was the robot bounty hunter ---> http://biobreak.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/ig88.jpg[/link] ...and yes the train level in Shadows of the Empire was a pain in the @$$

 

[jigs160]

IG88 was much cooler.

Hands down.

Sorry but who? I don't remember anyone named IG88, although I assume it's a droid.

I think he was a robot bounty hunter. Though I only know that because he was a boss in an old Star Wars game I used to play in which he repeatedly killed me with purple balls of doom.

Ah, that was Shadows of the Empire for the N64. Both it and Fett were a pain to fight. You basically had to spam all your missiles to defeat them.

And yes he was a robot bounty hunter. He was with that group of bounty hunters in ESB.

i don't know man, i like HK-47 better.

 

[EMFCRACKSHOT]

The guy crawled his way out of the Saarlac (sp?) How is that not awesome.
He also has a jetpack and a flamethrower and a cape and a suit of Mandalorian armour.

 

[Chrmike]

I think most of his fame comes from the expanded universe novels. If you read some of the novels with Boba Fett as the main character, you'll see he does some pretty awesome shit.

Also, he does have the helmet, thereby giving him the mystery angle.

 

[fer1wi]

IG88 was much cooler.

Hands down.

Sorry but who? I don't remember anyone named IG88, although I assume it's a droid.

I think he was a robot bounty hunter. Though I only know that because he was a boss in an old Star Wars game I used to play in which he repeatedly killed me with purple balls of doom.

The game was an old N64 game called "Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire". I still own that game, along with both 007 games on the N64, Smash Bros., Perfect Dark, and others.

OT: Well, as many people said, he's just a bad-ass. And he has a well-developed back-story that I never found out about.

...So why am I talking about the back-story?
*Twilight Zone music playing*

 

[Lazarus Long]

I have no idea, but he still is awesome looking.

He also kind of talk back to Vader in the Empire Strikes Back. Something many people were too afraid to do.

This right here.

Spoiler: Video evidence, un-messed-about-with

Boba Fett, Palpatine, and Tarkin were, to my knowledge, the only three people in the galaxy with the sand to speak to Vader as an equal. That's some pretty sandy company to keep.

 

[xHipaboo420x]

He had a bro-level appearance within the films (slapstick death and miniscule screetime nonewithstanding), but he's really fleshed out in the expanded universe stuff. Read some of the books or play some of the games and you'll see.

 

[Mr.Valdor]

He looks cool, kills stuff, and has a jetpack.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Kickass helmet
Jetpack
Bounty Hunter
Fun-to-say name
A lot of cool guns
Gets decapitated

What else do you need?

 

[Xhumed]

IG88 was much cooler.

Hands down.

Sorry but who? I don't remember anyone named IG88, although I assume it's a droid.

I think he was a robot bounty hunter. Though I only know that because he was a boss in an old Star Wars game I used to play in which he repeatedly killed me with purple balls of doom.

Actually IG88 was 4 different droids in the EU, all the same model, with the same consciousness. He plotted to overthrow humanity by installing himself in the second death star.
Oh and Boba Fett kills the Sarlaac with a thermal detonator and climbs out of it's pit.
He's just that badass.

 

[Con Carne]

I am a Star Wars Fan I grew up with the movies (The REAL ones), and one thing I've heard over and over again is how Boba Fett was fucking awesome. Now yes he's a bounty hunter and bounty hunters are awesome, but he didn't do anything, he had like three lines, never used any of his weapons, and the only thing he actually did was take Han Solo to Jabba's place, and then he got eaten. So would someone be so kind as to tell me why our good Mr. Fett is so popular?

Disclaimer: I am not saying that he sucks, I mean hands down he has my favorite costume in the franchise. It's just that I don't understand why people love him as much as they do.

I've often wondered the same thing myself. Well played sir, well played.