The Most HATED Species in the Galaxy (for good reason) | Neimoidian Species Breakdown
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The Neimoidian species are one of the most important in all of Star Wars history. See how they rose to power from diseased grubs to become a Galactic Superpower that rivaled the Republic and would be one of the most powerful organizations in the CIS, with the Trade Federation, that would come to change the course of galactic history.
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“The Neimoidians were the only species with an organ dedicated to worrying.”
Idk, it sounds like they’re just describing a brain.
Made me lol
Yeah, I can relate. 😂
Maybe its like a 2nd brain, that specifically is focused about worrying.
Like maybe their normal brain, doesn’t even have that function.
The amygdala is the fear center in the brain. 👍
@@LordBackuro My second brain isn't focused on worrying. It's my first brain's job. My second brain doesn't worry about a thing
I really enjoy that the dub team just gave the Nimoidians the accent of whatever nationality a speaker of that language was most likely to dislike.
What are the different accents for each language lol
@@spicymeatballs2thespicening He talks about it in the video. German accent for the French dub, Russian for the Czech dub and so forth.
@@secretbaguette it’s French in German dub, Russian in French dub.
@@sleepy_chronotype Okay
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The battle droid thing is kind of interesting, and highlights some of the problems with aliens in science fiction. If the droids were designed to look like dead Neimoidians, then an army of battle droids would look like an army of terminator robots to other Neimoidians, which would inspire fear the way you'd want in an army that's not really designed to destroy but to capture and enslave the enemy. But to anyone who isn't a Neimoidian, they're just a bunch of dorky-looking robots with bad firing accuracy.
While I do agree with ya on most things here and it is interesting- I think one of the issues with B1 battledroids, and appreciating just how dangerous they are, comes down to us being used to seeing them from the angle of either Jedi, or clones. It's easy to forget a B1 battledroids could tear an organics head clean off with its bare hands. They definitely were symbols of fear and terror, and did kill countless beings. I think another thing that does not help the B1's reputation is that they are not meant to be thought of as individual units, such as "this is a clone/human soldier", but more as "Here are a few thousand B1's this landing craft just spat out all marching towards you shooting continuously." Ergo, the biggest strength of battledroids is quantity over quality, but because of both the point of view we are given (Jedi/clones), plus how we as the audience due to being humans fixate on individual people (especially in the very individualistic west with no shortage of super soldiers, one man army characters, and what have you to look at in Star wars alone), it makes them seem like jokes when a protagonist takes out a hundred without breaking a sweat. When in reality, a hundred droids dismantled means nothing, and there are exponentially more already off the assembly line and ready to come a blasting. Were such a force dropped off/being dropped into the real world, humanity would very quickly be clankered out of existence, as they just keep coming with (from our point of view) endless numbers unless one figures out a way to stop the flow.
Basically - Zerg rush tactics are easy to play down and laugh at when you got the good seats and some popcorn. Not so fun if you actually consider the implications and how absolutely devastating numbers actually are. After a certain point - Quantity usually beats quality, every single time. And there is in reality no such thing as a fair fight, so yea...B1's alone are way deadlier than they get given credit for. I do wish there was some Star Wars Media that showed an actual battle where the CIS droid army just wins by grinding an opponent to dust with numbers, as they are designed to do. Sure, they get mentioned, but to see what it actually looks like when the battledroids keep coming no matter what you hurl at them and just how brutal it is to deal with would do wonders to clean up misconceptions about battledroids...and B1's too. It would also be quite a nice change of pace, plus obviously quite a dark story too. No last hurraahs for the good guys, no plot armour, no clever comebacks, just the sheer horror of an army of battledroids endlessly coming at the defenders until the line they are holding is broken, and the droids begins their real rampage no matter what traps, tricks, or deceptions are used. Blow up a hundred, and a thousand come marching in.
@@videocrowsnest5251 tell that to the Ukrainians who keep throwing back the russian mobiks at Bahkmut.
@dplocksmith91 you seem to have a major misunderstanding of the war in Ukraine. Your comment implies that you think Ukraine defending bahkmut somehow counters the idea of 'quantity over quality'.
The thing is ukrainian soldiers out number Russian soldiers, by alot. According to both sides.
In other words, the war in Ukraine only reinforces the idea that quantity beats quality (since the average training time for most of the war was in favour of Russia).
Ofcaurse things are changeing. Russia's mobilisation is reducing their average quality of their forces while increasing their quantity. (while Western trained Ukrainians are binging to finish their training and returning to Ukraine increasing their average quality). Although Russian numbers are still lower than Ukraine (who has already gone through 7 rounds of mobilisation, which is why their troops are so numerous).
And this is before we look at other factors.
@@videocrowsnest5251 So basically, the Battle Droids were a good idea on paper that were unfortunately poorly adapted to their particular universe, as the army of one-man armies that was the Republic were natural predators for the pawns of a Separatist movement that ultimately existed to be the disposable patsy of another one-man army who was determined to be Emperor of the entire galaxy of one-man armies.
Maybe if they had been born into, say, a universe about helpless characters written by a less individualistic culture such as an Eastern one as opposed to the individualistically-minded Western ones, the battle cry of "Roger, Roger" would trigger fear and surrender instead of laughter and cooing "aww, lookit the robots that look like Jar Jar, they're trying to hit the broadside of a barn, how cute".
Imagine being the most hated species in a galaxy of 20 million species
Imagine being the most hated species in the galaxy, and controlling trade.
that hatred was earned.
Reminds me of Jews lol, and they are hatred here also for good reason
@@Mephilis78 little hats irl
@@lucifer2b666 you know it
I must admit I lol'd at the germans dubbing them with french accents!
I never thought of that as a child xD
I just realized they did. I completely forgot about that.
@@BangaWangaTschanga that's your chilhood ruined!
i always thought it was supposed to be a japanese accent
@@itsfinnickbitch63 It is
I legitimately feel bad for not just Neimoidians, but all of the other alien species that received a lot of unwarranted hatred and scrutiny after the Clone Wars. Sidious had no problem pointing towards them and proclaiming "These guys are the source of all the suffering you had to endure" to a galaxy full of people that believed his words.
Nemoidians are capable of being very generous and cooperative, it's unfortunate that the most well known ones were scumbags
You have no idea how many real life parallels there are with this in the present day.
As Tony Montana once said: “You need people like me so you can point your fingers and say he’s the bad guy.”
Ohhh yea. He had a whole "if it dont look human, its evil " policy, right?
@@salazardeltoro4561 Nemoidians and Asians have a lot in common it seems: similar accents, similar traditional clothing, both are stereotyped as greedy and selfish corporate moguls, both considered disease carriers after plagues and both are blamed and are victims of hate crimes due to past events, plagues and conspiracy theories
I always thought the Neimoidians were a great design. The prosthetics are great, I’m glad they weren’t CGI.
they look so much better than most of the other aliens
Heard they were dancing when the Death Star blew up
Nemoidians always trying to Nemoid me out of my Credits.
My thoughts exactly
I once had an original Star Wars story in the works that featured a Neimoidian character. It was set after the Clone Wars, and said character actually befriended an ex-clone and turned bounty hunters together trying to survive in a galaxy that wanted them dead, along with searching for the Neimoidian's lost daughter. The two learned to overcome their biases against each other and formed a bond that lasted years. I kinda miss writing about them :')
Edit: WOW I really didn't expect that much replies, thank you everyone! Their story was actually part of a wider story featuring a young Force-sensitive girl trying to learn about the Force and the Jedi without having a master, and the Neimoidian and Clone were part of her crew, alongside a Pantoran smuggler and later a rogue ex-Purge Trooper. I wanted to make a comic but it's a lot of work, so I don't know if it will ever see the light, but the reception definitely gives me the motivation to carry on.
That sounds pretty good I’d read it
@@DaSamster224 same. Sounds like something I’d read.
Yo that sounds clever🤔🔥💯
Where can I read this, you got my attention with this interesting story.
You have my attention.
15:05
"Palpatine sailed to Neimoidia, followed by 12 legions and started killing every single Neimoidian he found"
He would slaughter any and all witness as well
Oh. My. God
He was tired of their shit by phantom menace 😂
@@drkinferno72 Well, he was also making damn certain that no one ever found out that he was the leader of both the Republic and the Separatists.
“No mercy was shown, no quarter given. Palpatine would settle with nothing less than the complete destruction of Neinoidia.”
What do you think of them? Obviously not all Neimoidians get the blame, but from their grub eugenics, evil business practices, mercenary funded genocides, hated for democracy and addiction to back-stabbing, not to mention the virus shedding all over the galaxy, there are a lot of reasons the Neimoidians faced a ton of negative stereotypes.
I’m 50/50 with them
It must suck to be the butt of most of the galaxies jokes, I feel bad
@@legogonkdroid3630 y would that make me happy
They sound like China.
The nemoidians are pretty cool, how the went from weak grubs to business tycoons
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Even though Neimoidians may be guilty of a lot of things, they didn’t deserve to have their species genocided by the end of the Clone Wars. Praise to the Neimoidian chads who were willing to reembrace their old Duros customs.
the neimoidian genocide never happened, that's just a lie fabricated by the neimoidian-controlled media
No they definitely deserved it
I know this is in universe but for me I grew up with the prequels and the Neimodians were a huge part throughout it all. They will always be my favorite species since they always make me think of the prequel era which I grew up with
Same!
I thought the Rakata were the most hated. They were a cannibalistic race that conquered the galaxy 50,000+ years before The Phantom Menace started, and when their victims fought back, they'd nuke the entire planet! Tattoonie was one such planet. The Tusken Raiders used to be a quiet, peaceful race who lived on a green planet with water and forests and everything, but after the Rakata had nuked their world into a permanent desert, the survivors were mutated/evolved into the savages they are now.
Apparently the Rakata made themselves extinct, but the damage they caused remains all these millennia later.
Eh, they were from an era before the republic and before the Galaxy really connected with other civilizations.
By the time the galaxy really started coming together, the Rakata were already a long dead race and the Republic purged them from historical record.
I loved in phantom menace when the neimoidians got in the ship and said "its moidin' time"
Amusing how every dub has the Neimoidians speak with an accent of a generational adversary.
Upon watching it in English, I thought Nute Gunray and Rune Haako’s accents were Russian given how I remembered one actor(Rade Serbedzija) who would play East European villains in Mighty Joe Young and Ravenous and I thought he voiced one of the Neimoidians!
Did they ever think of you know now inflicting generational trauma on their children? I think that could have helped.
Minor spelling error: opinion ignored
I'm reminded of the Quintaglios which were a pretty advanced species but it took them hundreds of years to realize making your children watch as their siblings were eaten by a Blood-priest might cause some problems. Sometimes you just don't have that type of thinking in a species.
Generation trauma isn't real
@@SergyMilitaryRankings another guy who doesn't know what the fuh they're talking about.
@@carlost856 generation trauma isn't real, if it was everyone would have it because everyone ancestors at some point have experienced "trauma"
George Lucas said, "Okay, Bill" then turned around and named the aliens after Leonard Nemoy
So, in other words, the Neimodians are the Disney Corporation.
What's the ethnicity of the executives?
Your history videos are just awesome! I really enjoy these while I'm cooking or cleaning. Thank you for all the hard work!
109 galaxies for no reason
Because everyone else was bigots obviously 🤭
Reflects the moderates and orthodox dicitomy
Based
Based
oh dear, don't let the ADL see this title. You know they are aligned with the trade federation.
lol
Ironic jokes I’m sure, hopefully
Spock. That's where their name came from. Lucas declined to name them after William Shatner, choosing Nemoy instead.
Am I the only one who saw this?
i also thought nematodes, roundworms phylum. since they start as grubs, they seem like worm humanoids.
always loved their design in the prequels. love em even more now.
George Lucas was unfathomably based when creating alien racial stereotypes.
He was gunning to compete with Tolkien in that respect
I remember that backlash!
Like based in real world stereotypes?
Oh boy finally a video on the space j- *gets disintegrated*
Jews
Muuns are space js
Only in fantasy stereotype land
@@stanleymorrison8569 okay epstein
@Trebelsi gonna need more than one example to prove your massively far-reaching conspiracy theory, especially since Epstein surrounded himself with a plethora of extremely powerful non-Jewish predators (think Prince Andrew, Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, etc)
Dirty rat species has to be the best insult I have heard in a while.
Very fitting that the Neimodians were your newest subject because my next podcast video will be about the Trade Federation. Damn you Metanerdz!! XD
Interesting 🤔 just subbed, looking forward to it 🍻
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“My fellow senators, we must import more Weequay and gamorreans into our planets!”
I support the mass migration of these weequeys & gamorreans to the planet of Neimoidia
I originally thought Cad Bane was a Nemoidian to make the species cooler. Then I realized I'm just a space r@ci$t.
To be fair, Cad Bane is a Duro so he’s a very distant cousin
Unrelated to the topic, It's fair to dunk on Episode 1 for bad story, but that cinematography was on point. Visually it was a beautiful movie.
Story wasnt even bad. It just had to set up to much for its run time. The high points of the movie were just as good as any of the prequels
'The only species with an organ dedicated to worrying.'
My brain.
From what I've heard, their hats on the ships denote their rank
Wow I'm ready to go full Kanye on nemoidians
I like the Nemoidians as a design, but I can see why people watching TPM for the first time would have found them to be lame villains.
BTW, you seem like a very nice and cool person and this is a great channel 🙏 Keep up the good work!
I mean they do look like generic sci fi horror movie aliens at first glance
@@chrispekel5709 Racist much? The fuck?
@@ZiddersRooFurrydon't care
Another fantastic breakdown video!
Keep up the good work!
Fun fact: in Polish version Neimodians got slightly noticable Russian accent
Yeah, cause that fits the agenda of your country. Russia had Finnish/baltic and some EU countries more Romanian (if recall correctly). Also good way to settle some images by Hollywood (and not only). 😄
@@swite989 it's not an agenda when it's obvious truth
I dunno, I still think the Hutts are the most despised in the galaxy. The force itself hates the Hutts.
5:20 Wouldn't the galaxy be filled with these problems and Coruscant a virtual hellhole filled with different viruses?
Please do the complete life of Saba Sebatyne, you always do amazing work and I love your videos!
Please do a SW beastiary with the wampas, tauntauns , Dianagas, Rancors and so forth
This sounds fantastic
@@rrensdenn4382 I have yet to see a video on wampas
@dragonweyr44 I think I've found one a while back but I may be misremembering it
@@rrensdenn4382 I looked for wampa videos last week and all I found were clips and deleted scenes from Empire
No videos
There is a guy that does beastiaries for Trek but no one is doing it for Wars
@dragonweyr44 that sucks. Let me see if I can find something and I'll let you know otherwise 😁👍
Palpatine be like:
"Dirty money grubbing Neimoidians, tried to Neimoid me right out of my money. Blew those little bastards up is what i did".
They're basically the J's of SW, so no surprise.
Like in an unfortunate stereotype of Jews way
Man whenever I see that Star Wars info book I die a little inside. I used to have that thing and read it all the time. Can’t find that shit anymore. My young self didn’t keep it close enough😩
I thought "Neimoidian" was a dig at Leonard Nimoy, but that might just be rumor.
Awesome video as usual. Neimoidians definitely get a bad wrap. Can you also do the Gossam species?
I'm pretty sure all the Separatist species were hated after the Clone Wars (minus the Quarrens and Aqualish)
12:08 Wait, those droids look like Skeletons or Zombies to Neimoidians?
13:29 You could say "the Plan blew up in their face."
They got kicked out of 109 planets for a reason
10,900.
i bet black humans on earth are the descendents of the neimodians they commited so much crime and heinous actions that got them banned from many locations, acted like the victims, their original domain is nasty and dangerous WAH WAH WAH
I kinda feel that after Death Star, Starkiller base and Imperial genocides on many species, humans should be the most hated species in the Galaxy.
It would be interesting angle to explore.
Other species: "Can you stop building planet killing superweapons for ONE MINUTE?"
The Death Star was designed by the Genosians and was used primarily on human worlds
@@genghiskhan5701 Galen Erso designed the Death Star, Geonosians were employed to build it
Galen designed the superlaser system, the initial draft and overall design for the Death Star was drawn up by the Geonosians.
18:13 In the Spanish version I'm pretty sure they tried to achieve a Romanian sounding accent, not a Russian one, but fairly close.
Thanks for that stock footage man I almost thought a Star Wars video would be safe to watch while eating 😐
They might be hated, but i have a softspot for that neimoidian sitting on a chair for the whole Episode I with those sonsensal metallic eyeballs and a technological pacifier. And i don't even know why... perhaps it's just an unrelevant character that i happen to remember whatsoever... which is a cool part of the purest star wars, i guess.
What's wrong with your faaaaace
Tey how she's called
How else would she know they'd gone up the ventilation shaft?
This video was extraordinarily well-planned and thought out. I just knew from the name alone that it would be about the Neimoidians lol The only other one I could think of would be Dathomiriansーwhom I genuinely feel were just mostly misunderstood.
...Well, or humans.
"What if Jonestown instead of ending in tragedy became its own subspecies."
Thank thing about the accents is hilarious and a fascinating insight into other countries cultures.
I don't think they are Neimodians are hated since they are the most notable for creating the most powerful organization of the Galaxy when it comes to trading, has it's own security, and even private army.
You mean stuff that would universally make them hated lmao. Generally beloved people dont need a private army
@@UnholyWrath3277 most species have their own army in SW, even Republic members
@@johnr797 "planetary defense forces" which makes sense being as the government in this scenario leaves defense to local systems. Thats a far cry from a private military with actual offensive capablilities that can come take your planet
@@UnholyWrath3277 still not uncommon in the lore, not like they were the only ones with colonies. It's like the Japanese calling their military the Self-Defense Forces to get past a technicality in their constitution.
@@johnr797 ya except in this scenario its comparing the japanese sdf to the U.S military and implying they are even remotely close in capability. Extremely disingenous at best
17:06 They gave a planet Dysentery... Those poor colonists...
As a german, there is a 0% chance, that making them have a french accent was an accident😂
It's crazy the Neimoidians are banned from 169 stat systems.
Omg I had to laugh at the accent trivia XD.
Very comprehensive
Sweet! Thanks.
No problem!
@@MetaNerdzLore great video
Of COURSE the germans gave them french accents. That's so german.
I kind of want to see the star wars movies in german, now.
you use the words brain worms and now I'm curious. Are baby neimoidians the same creatures we see turning Geonosians into zombies in season 2 of the Clone Wars, in the episode called "Legacy of Terror"?
The way Darth Sidious manipulated and used these rising species to transform the Republic into his Empire was beautiful.
Where’s that footage from of the cgi Nemoidian army, the guy in the tower and the pirates attacking lucre hulks from?
Can’t wait to see the Trade Federation war against that mysterious empire in Star Wars:Eclipse
hopefully epic
@@MetaNerdzLore I hope so too
They're named after Spock. Leonard Nimoy.
I subscribed to his channel purely for this video. magnificently based video 😂
I have some random questions about the same subject. Are the Rattataki still canon? What's the lore on Rattatak currently? And were the first generation of the Night Sisters of Dathomir Rattataki (especially since the Rattataki were, at one time, Republic humans who migrated to the once vacant world)?
I know there's stipulations about the Rattataki and the Night Sisters of Dathomir. I watched your video about the Zabraks and it's stated that they were all female humans, but after breeding with Zabraks, they officially became Dathomirians.
I'm just a little confused about the Rattataki at this stage in Star Wars lore. Maybe it could make for a potential future video?
They're canon, but we have no idea if they're still a species or just a name of people who live on the planet. So not really canon lol.
Do a video on history, culture, force abilities, and weapons of the nightbrothers.
Do a video on biology, and behavior of the Reek.
Shatner wanted a species named after him and Lucas wasn't playing ball so he named them Neimoidinians.....Leonard Nimoy....
They give me ferengi (Trek) vibes
They basically are the ferengi of star wars.
9:18 What was that space battle? I saw Lucrehulks, but what were the vessels they were facing? What was that video?
Part of SW: Eclipse trailer
Can you do the Kel Dor species if you can or is there not much information about that species?
For some reason the clip at the very beginning of this video is hilarious.
"3rd rock for the sun" please tell me that was a reference to the show of the same name
I like that you put parts of that Star Wars game that got in trouble , Eclipse
I have wondered sometimes if the Neimoidians are named in part, after Nematode worms. They are often parasitic to host bodies. It is a bit of a stretch if Lucas was flicking through some Zoology/Biology book for inspirations on the names of the species in the Star Wars prequels, but it does seem a little close. Nematode sounds vaguely akin to Neimoidian, especially if you pronounce Neimoidian like, 'Ney-moy-dee-an' or 'Nee-moy-dee-an'. Perhaps 'Nem-oy-dee-an' or 'Neem-oy-dee-an' also work. I've heard 'Nye-moy-dee-an' only rarely, including your pronunciation.
It's probably just a coincidence but looking at Nematode worms it isn't hard to imagine the visuals of those creatures somewhat informing the Neimoidians nomenclature. Yes, the Neimoidians are more or less Amphibian inspired humanoids, though the grub part of the life cycle does seem more insectoid and grubs are by their very nature in larval form, more worm like. Worms in general are lower life-forms in the grand scheme of things in terms of complexity but a worm mind you, is far more advanced than a single-celled bacteria as far as the evolution of life goes (at least, on Earth, in the real world) Just saying...
I miss neimoidians really bad. Love em.
I love that, aside from English, all the other languages either use accents from nations they fought wars against, or countries they see as insignificant.
America vs japan ring a bell?
Dunno bout Finnish accent in Russian dub, but with these yo-ye additions to every second word (like 'now thyer twyo of thyem!', but in russian) in our dub feels rather alien-ish and distinct to me. cant imagine baltic people talking like that
I like that they're some kind of racist stereotype in EVERY language.
Ok, random question: Where did 9:19 come from?? It looks awesome!
Who are they supposed to represent?
Your mom
YESSSS FINALLY THANK YOU.
I think George Lucas was trying to portray space Jews
Watto?
Litterally just Space Jews
Ah yes, the delightfully well-thought out conspiracy theory where 3% of the global population somehow controls the world economic system, rather than the largely Christian politicians who set it up
Can we get one of these on the Rishii?
Have you read/listened to starwars: brotherhood? It takes place just after attack of the clones on Cato neimoidia
I'm sorry you don't know where Nemoidian comes from. Okay follow me here if they were originally named after William Shatner and called Shatnerians, and who's co-star was Leonard Nimoy what do you think
So Shatner wanted them named after him. Sounds like George Lucas may have chosen Leonard Nemoy instead.
Can you do a video on the colicoid species? (the ones that made the droidekas)
Do you mean Colicoid?
@@kingagrabowska9366 fixed it
These are so damn good. I need a humans video tho, how tf did they become the most populated species?
The Neimodians are the Ferengi of the Star Wars universe.
Underrated comment
I absolutely love the Neimoidians, without a doubt my favourite alien species.