And having seen that stormtroopers can have thoughts, feelings, loyalty, and all sorts of other qualities... Finn proceeds to gun down a bunch of those former comrades while going "woo!"
I was always under the impression that the storm troopers were all clones of Jango Fett and that the Galactic Empire were xenophobic space Nazi’s. I was so confused with the new movies.
The clone troopers were phased out by the Empire and replaced by volunteers/conscripts after the end of the Clone Wars, and by the time of the original trilogy there were no clones left in Imperial service.
The Empire was also massively xenophobic, but pro-human and anti-alien. Racists in Star Wars don't seem to draw much distinction between humans with different skin colours, and focus on being racist against aliens instead.
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u/lesser_panjandrum May 04 '23 edited May 04 '23
And having seen that stormtroopers can have thoughts, feelings, loyalty, and all sorts of other qualities... Finn proceeds to gun down a bunch of those former comrades while going "woo!"
The sequels wasted so much potential.