Now, does the average non- Star Wars person know all of this? Probably not. A robotic rags to riches tale that has brushed him against all manner of Star Wars icons like Han Solo, Darth Vader and various other cast members in the “scum & villainy” section of Star Wars.
And that purpose just happened to be running down nerf-herders and scumbags across the whole Saga, armed with little other than a blaster rifle, his cutthroat partner and his drolly hilarious need to find the “perfect” job. Unhappy with his existence as a servant on a casino barge, 4-LOM threw off his restraining bolted chains and struck out on his own, seeking his own joy and purpose in the galaxy. Unlike his virtually identical IG-unit robotic brethren, 4-LOM’s power lies in his personality! And weirdly, his “professional” ambitions. Usually paired with his equally hateful and credit hungry partner, Zukuss, this former Protocol Droid turned bounty hunter just screams perfect Star Wars story to me. There are a lot of murder-bots in the Star Wars universe, but none of them have the ambition or charm of 4-LOM. Until then I’ll count the days until I get my Two and a Half Bounty Hunters spin off with Bossk, Dengar and Baby Boba. I’m just hoping and praying I can catch a glimpse of that floppy 90s hair and hear that New Zealand accented voice in the throes of puberty in the Bad Batch. But me? I’m not interested in the cool armor or the jetpack. Two different characters but scratch the same “oh my god you are a comically serious toddler” archetype.īoba Fett, the grown man, is having a resurgence through The Mandelorian and the upcoming Book of Boba Fett, which is all well and good for fans of that character. I think Teen Boba appeals to me in the same way as Damian Wayne. It’s made all the more fun by leaving my head and remembering this is a 14 year old trying to kill a grown man. His first major Clone Wars story is him wanting revenge on Mace Windu and it’s genuinely compelling stuff, adds to the world building of the Clone Army and has a good revenge plot. In the Clone Wars we get Boba Fett age 14 bopping around the galaxy with his soon to be best friends (and uncles?) for 20 years, Dengar and Bossk, and not only did we tolerate it, we ate it up. Kenneth’s Pick: Teen Boba Fettīoba Fett, a character who’s whole appeal was his mystique and having said less than a handful lines in all of the original movies has not only survived but thrived as “Teen Boba Fett”. Second fiddle still means you’re in the band. Long live, you traffic light looking dude. Did he absolutely get wrecked by Boba Fett off-screen in The Empire Strikes Back, leaving a fun easter egg where you see his blasted up parts in the Ugnaught chamber? Yeah, and that’s just a good time.Īm I only a little sad that the story where he infiltrated and took control of the second Death Star, combining his AI with the massive superweapon, has been stricken from the record, replaced by merely a story where he ATTEMPTS to do this but with thwarting by a little faschist astromech? Should it maybe have been him who was in The Mandalorian? Nah. Since moving from “Legends” to “Canon” stories, he’s kind of lost some personality, as he was originally kind of a droid revolutionary, but has now kind of comfortably settled into the role of cool space robot with guns, which is frankly all that I expect from the guy. IG-88 (or IG-88B, since there are apparently quite a few of them) is kind of the platonic ideal of a background bounty hunter character. Why did a droid need money? Why did he even want to hunt bounties?
When I was a sweet young child, I was kind of fixated on this droid bounty hunter, as he stood lanky tall and faceless, a stoic grey on the bridge of the Executor. Sometimes you become oddly fixated with a dude who looks like a heavily armed traffic light, and that’s ultimately why I’m pretty into IG-88.
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