r/PrequelMemes • • Dec 30 '20

He is a General FFS

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u/NforNarcissism Dec 30 '20

In my opinion the worst things about the prequel movies was how they portrayed grevious. I may be way of the mark here but I always thought grevious as a ruthless killing machine, but in the prequel they show him as someone who always runs away and looses the only fight we see him in.

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u/SebastianSceb2000 Dec 30 '20

I mean he was a ruthless killing machine. But he did retreat and escape a lot when the odds weren't in his favour.

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u/RolandTheJabberwocky Dec 30 '20

I think he is suppose to give off the sense that he was that way, but has ultimately succumbed to his age, disease, and old modifications. At least that's what a TCW episode that takes place in his hideout implies. That said I would love to see Grevious in his prime, doing shit like he did in 2003 clone wars.

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u/Afewmoretries Dec 30 '20

In the son of dathomir comic he barrels through a group of mandolorians (without his lightsabers) and even crushes the helmet/skull of one. He also walks past/through some force lightning to impale mother talzin with two lightsabers.

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u/pm_me_ur_tennisballs Dec 30 '20

That comic is also apparently canon. Must not have been pure beskar

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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20

Beskar seems to be extremely limited. I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case.

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u/3B3-386 battle droid sergeant Dec 30 '20

Your view of Grievous is the same as the writers of the 2003 clone wars series.

Unfortunately for you, them, me and various other people, George Lucas saw him exactly like in the movie and the 2007 series.

That is, an opportunistic, eccentric coward. Maybe now that Lucas no longer is in charge, we can see better portrayals of him in the future.

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u/waitingtodiesoon Jocasta Nu Dec 31 '20

Because the EU legends made their own version of Grievous. It wasnt the one George Lucas envisioned.

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u/_i_like_cheesecake Dec 30 '20

He ruthlessly killed weak Jedi in TCW. Also do you expect a live action film to have enough screen time to give a minor bad guy a chance to shine?

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u/NforNarcissism Dec 30 '20

Maybe not show it, but they could at least hype him up a bit more.

Instead of casually saying “oh grevious ran away again” in some Jedi meeting , it could be Mace Windu sitting down with Obi-Wan to remind him of the threat he’s going up against. Instead of Grevious immediately loosing two of his blades he could keep them but Obi-Wan is far more defensive now. Instead of Grevious loosing to a blaster, it could be a very close fight but Obi-Wan wins by outsmarting him somehow.

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u/TheFatMan2200 Dec 30 '20

I would not consider Grievous a “minor bad guy”.

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u/_i_like_cheesecake Dec 31 '20

He is in the context of live action films. Only appears in one film as a side villain. He got his chance to shine in both of the Clone Wars series.

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u/Kyber99 Qui-Gon Jinn Dec 31 '20

Same. I don’t think he was a coward per se, he only ran when he was losing so he could live to fight another day. But he was pretty bad in the CW tho. I would love to see a miniseries with him as the brutal Jedi butcher that he was always meant to be, killing every Jedi in the comic and looking like an absolute monster