What's so cool about Boba Fett?

[DigitalSushi]

This is something that has always confused me about Star Wars fans. Why do they consider Boba Fett to be such a cool character? (I actually consider myself a Star Wars fan as well, but it's something I've never shared with the rest.)

Boba Fett never really does anything in the movies except stand around looking cool, and he dies in a really stupid and embarrassing way. So I don't really understand why there's so many comics and books and stuff about him. (Apparently he's still alive.)

Anyone care to explain?

The reason Boba Fett became so popular is because the toy of him was incredibly detailed for its time, the toy had lazer burn marks on him and because he had a helmet you didn't have that "uncanny valley" feeling with him. So because you weren't repulsed by his face because he didn't have one, he was the closest approximation to a human toy from the film, not even Darth Vader had burn marks and battle scars which made the Boba Fett toy, the total bad ass of the Star Wars toy line.

A boba fett used to go for 400 dollars in the US in the 90's.

His popularity is a by product of your older cousins pew pewing with action men essentially.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

This is something that has always confused me about Star Wars fans. Why do they consider Boba Fett to be such a cool character? (I actually consider myself a Star Wars fan as well, but it's something I've never shared with the rest.)

Boba Fett never really does anything in the movies except stand around looking cool, and he dies in a really stupid and embarrassing way. So I don't really understand why there's so many comics and books and stuff about him. (Apparently he's still alive.)

Anyone care to explain?

I think you answered your own question, OP.

Plus he's a bounty hunter, which is automatically cool. And on top of that he has to be specifically told "No disintigrations". Which is even cooler.

On a different note, he was also one of the (relatively) few characters in the films to have his own set of individual armour. In a trilogy where a lot of the cast were in samey uniforms it made that character stand out. Which meant people noticed him more, and attributed this to 'cool'.

 

[wadark]

Never really understood his fandom really. I mean he has the cool costume, which is a plus. But apart from the decent character design, there's not much to him. He's barely even there with something like 10-15 minutes screen time over 2 movies, he has like 2 lines of dialogue (which isn't really a bad thing, in and of itself), doesn't generally do much of anything, and like the OP said, has a pretty lame death (getting taken out by a blind Han Solo by accident and falling into a Sarlac pit).

What I'm getting at here is not that Boba Fett was a bad character. None of the things listed above are "bad" things, but they are indications that the character is rather insubstantial, by and large. As such, I've never understood the devotion of his fans. He's a bit cool, of course, but he just doesn't do enough to really be as cool as some people think (in my opinion, of course).

EDIT: P.S. I don't really know how much weight it carries that he is a super badass assassin when you remember that he was KILLED BY A BLIND GUY!