I don’t know if it would be the first time an espresso maker killed someone, but I wouldn’t lay odds. Shaped like a rocket launcher, IG-88 is clearly a machine designed for dealing death even if he’s made out of parts left over from the cantina in A New Hope. It’s easy to imagine he took up bounty hunting after a brief stint as a dinner theater Tin Man. IG-88, the other droid that volunteers to hunt Han Solo and company for Darth Vader, Iggy, as he’s known to his friends, is fairly unique looking for a series with weird robots out the wazoo. If you think the front’s impressive, you should see the back. Still, he’s one of the more unique additions to the bounty hunter canon, and he looks pretty good standing there. 4-LOM has a gun, but that doesn’t necessarily mean much if he shoots as well as every other droid we’ve seen in the series. He’d be almost deadly if a person’s shoelaces were tied together. ![]() That means he’d run after his quarry, arms held out like Frankenstein, waddling like someone trying to get to the bathroom before a real mess happens. While one would think that the cold logic of a droid would make for an excellent bounty hunter, 4-LOM is also built like C-3PO. Maybe this droid is the anime phone cover of the Star Wars universe. To be fair, there was also that duck-faced model in the Jawa Sandcrawler, so there may be an aftermarket in customizable add-ons for protocol droids, sort of like what we do with cell phone cases. 4-LOM, the second bug-headed bounty hunter aboard Vader’s ship, was originally a protocol droid designed that way and not at all a last-minute combination of an insect mask and a brown robot suit. More like Bee-3PO, am I right? No? Okay, moving on. His rifle is impressive at least, with a fantastic, well-used look that makes you wonder exactly who he stole it from before he snuck into Vader’s bounty hunter tea party. Meatloaf-cosplaying-as-a-mummy pairs a surly expression with the rosy complexion of Baron Harkonnen which may be what passes for a tough guy look where he comes from or may mean he just needed a lot of Proactiv as a teen. No wonder this buffoon was never seen again. I mean, there’s always the possibility he’s naughtily trying to slip one off, but the guy’s face says he’s the type who struggles with the operating mechanics of Velcro. Bandaged from head to foot like a guy who tried to scam his insurance by getting his friend to run him down with a landspeeder in the parking lot of the local Safeway, Dengar can’t even wear shoulder pads right. Rocking the dad bod before it became a fetish look for guys who simply gave up, Dengar is one of the human bounty hunters hired by Darth Vader to hunt down the Millennium Falcon in The Empire Strikes Back. It goes to show, if a person looks hard enough, they can find something in common with almost anyone. ![]() Which head goes with the corpse? Who knows? The only thing we know for certain is that this guy just really hates humans. His other balloon hand, conveniently out of frame, clasps the headless remains of a human. ![]() A weird spear dangling human heads, there’s something very heavy metal about wantonly hanging noggins in such a way as to make his weapon ungainly and useless for stabbing. His weapon is more interesting than he is. Every child who got excited as the camera barely passed over this guy as he stood in the background of Jabba’s Palace must have thought that this moldy Twinkie the Kid was almost as cool as Lobot. With the appearance of an overripe red-eyed banana with limp, gas station hotdogs for lips, this dork with baseball mitt-sized hands is exactly the type of character every kid wanted to see wrapped up under their Christmas tree. With a name like a Muppet Show lyric or a superhero based on a line of mid-range appliances, Amanaman is the type of bounty hunter who looks neither cool nor stands very well. Amanaman has learned how to get ahead in life.
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