The Story of R5-D4 - Star Wars Canon vs Legends
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Learn the story of R5-D4, the droid with the bad motivator, in the new Star Wars canon as well as Legends and a non-canon story! We compare and contrast all three!
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Uncle Owen this one's got a bad motivator!!!
Well, maybe it was hot that day and he wasn't really feeling it.
and it was the sand
So true, slim and sully
Slim and Sully hey! What are you tryna push on us???
Uncle Owen! This R2 unit has a bad motivator, look!*
I prefer R5's canon story
it was so cute
Same with me
I think everybody does
Same with me to
@@brendanfitzpatrick670 nope, legends all the way!
And now here he is, Din Djarins companion.
While I prefer R5's canon story, Skippy the Jedi droid will always have a place in my cardiovascular organ.
Q-tertainment: Thank you.
Exile Studios nope they were living crystals inside droid bodies
@Testbed Elite Shame really.
I like his new role as Din Djarins new droid in The Mandalorian... R5-D4 now accompanies the Mandalorian and Grogu (aka Baby Yoda) which will allow R5 to have some excitement in it's life... as of this time, R5-D4 has left tattoine and is on Mandalore, in Bo Katan's ship
Snoke is Skippy the Jedi Droid you mark my words
Skippy would NEVER do such a thing! he was noble and pure!
Still not the weirdest Snoke theory I have heard.
Snoke is a hairless cat from the island of sodor on planet gallifrey in dimension c-137.
Smoke was revealed to be some nobody that never appeared before episode 7
Infinate Dynamics is that a Thomas the tank engine reference and a doctor who reference in the same sentence?👏👏👏👏👏👏
Who’s here after episode 1 season 2 of the Mandalorian.
It's sus as hell that she has R5
She's more important than she's letting on
Well the legends story says that he was sold to a rebel spy
To me it's just awesome when I saw that R5-D4 was there! So after all the adventures he's had he's still alive and kicking. Kudos to Filoni and Favreau for giving us Star Wars fans so many awesome nods to the original trilogy. The Mandalorian just feels genuine and like real Star Wars. That other stuff from Disney ... not so much (Rogue One wasn't bad though but the rest could have been much better).
Now I want to get me droid parts from Disney's Droid Depot so I can have an R5-D4. I already have the (boxed) R2-D2 from Droid Depot and it's very fun. Now I've already written down all the parts I would need to turn an R2-D2 from Droid Depot into a R5-D4. Then the two of them could sit in my living room chatting with one another. 🥰
This is all fairly interesting... It never would've occurred to me that R2-D2 would've tried to sabotage R5-D4. Or that a Jawa would've seen Leia's message and decided not to wipe it. These are things I don't think I ever realized there was actually time enough for, to have happened. One thing I find to be an anomaly, is that I have seen it pointed out that R5 wound up being -- I think it's Porkins' -- companion droid, in the strike against the Death Star. And I was never sure if that meant that the actual droid prop was just re-used, or if somehow R5 the character wound up entangled with the Rebel Alliance by the end of ANH.
sXeblues
The galaxy is a big place and has droid galore. It's far more unlikely that r5 DOESN'T have thousands of lookalikes. That was just a similarly painted droid for a head canon explanation.
Pseudonymous Being That's true... And, totally works for me. :)
I don't think R2 was attempting to sabotage R5. In the book R5 states that his model of astromech cannot be deceptive, unlike R2's model. I think R2 altered R5 so that he could lie, or at least be a better droid so that he could understand the importance of what was going on and do something about it. R5 makes it clear that him blowing a gasket like he did is something he should not have been capable of doing.
I agree, at the end of the story it seemed more likely that R2 had modified him as R5 was surprised that he could deceive.
Criss the Nightbringer Ahh, that's even more interesting!
Glad the little guy found a new home :)
R5's Back baby!
I'm happy with the new canon ending. It's not too absurd but still makes him a good guy with a happy ending. Unlike how we just hit by a stray shot in the skippy comic.
and he shows up in the mandalorian
@@fluffwarrior Din Djarin just bought R5-D4 so his story is continuing in canon ^_^
Do an update! He gets his happy ending!
Skippy is Snoke!!!!1!1!1!!
Update 2023 - The Mandalorian
This little astromech droid is now even more of hero after assisting is saving Din's life! :)
Time for an update. He lives!
This R5 is in the first episode of Mandalorian season 2
I really like the new canon version of the story, it really humanizes Astromech droids in a way we haven’t really seen before. I haven’t read the book, but why does R5 day he’s “dying”? Is it just him falling into disrepair, or does it mean something deeper, like his willpower or spirit?
" it really humanizes Astromech droids in a way we haven’t really seen before."
You need to read more legends books.
nexus prime Yeah, but I meant in canon
He’s dying because the Jawas don’t maintain him and he knows, if he’s not sold at the next stop (The Lars Homestead) then the jawas will just scrap him.
My boy finally got some action in the Mando season 3 let’s goooo!!!!!
Look no further boys. Now he’s chillin with Peti helping her fix ships. Probably got a new motivator too.
Good for him.
And now he’s in the Mandalorian.
he finally got his happy ending by being bought by a ship mechanic
Which episode
I wish we could've seen more R2 and R5 team-ups
RIP Skippy, gone but never forgotten
Daniel Hales I rather forget the non-legends and non-canon story of the Jedi Skippy droid thing that went all emo and killed himself... and became a force ghost with no explanation as to how it learned such an difficult and/or simple task to achieve it.
Yeah... forgotten. Easily.
Woah wait, Skippy survived Episode IV in canon?! That's great! :D I mean I know he's not called Skippy but that canon story definitely calls back to Skippy's proper character from Infinities. :)
For me, I have never liked the weird side Star Wars. Canon has some weird stuff, but most of the weird stuff is in Legends.
I love the new canon because of how interconnected it feels, Phasma has easter eggs connecting it to Aftermath, TLJ has a reference to Rogue One, and Rogue One connects to Clone Wars and Rebels, just to name a few examples.
Legends, has references and easter eggs too, but authors largely works independent of one another. Never before has coordination been on this scale: the movies making nods to the TV shows, books of different series spinning off each other, video game plots based on the comics, its all connected in one huge web telling one story.
Canon’s goodness is not in the trees, but in the forest.
_Mit_Whit _Gaming_ well said
😉
_Mit_Whit _Gaming_ I agree, but I think this is actually a case where I think the legends part of R2 just sabotaging R5 seems more logical than luck that he also had ties with the rebellion. But I do agree that the new canon just makes more sense than the uncontrolled legends. But it is cool that Star Wars basically has it’s own whole archive of myths that may or may not be true just like we have in real life.
im half on that but still true
_Mit_Whit _Gaming_ understandable have a great day
Now Din Djarin bought R5
The story of him helping R2D2 by faking the break down, eventually escaping after the death of the Jawas. Especially since he shows up in Mandalorian.
I like the canon version more
Skippy the best no debate
2020 Update
He is now in with the madolorian not on his side but appeared he survived all this chaos and still has the same leak in the top of his head I like his story
Update 2023 - The Mandalorian
This little astromech droid is now even more of hero after assisting is saving Din's life! :)
I guess his legends story is now
Skippable
Booh!
As well it should be.
Michał Jaśniewski
Boi
Skippy-ble
Michał Jaśniewski that story was never canon even in legends
Now,he is with Din Djarin and Grogu
All hail Lord Skippy, savior of the galaxy! He who sacrificed himself for the greater good!
This is actually the perfect time for youtube to recommend me this
You’ll have to update this for the mandalorian
Anyone noticed him, in mandalorian s2
He even makes an appereance in the mandalorian
He just made an appearance on Book of Boba Fett as Peli Moto's new astro mech, you can see his motivator was refurbished
Mate i think he knows the video is just 4 years old
I just realised that there is a small mistake in a new hope. Luke tell’s Uncle Owen that “This R2 unit has a bad motivator.” But R5D4 is an R5 unit. Not an R2 unit.
Here after Mandalorian
amazing video man!!
Now he works for Peli Motto in Mos Eisley Space Port.
Loved his new story, it was really cool to see dialog from a droid like that.
I don't know...I find it weird that any of this happened, even in canon. Why can't it just be a random malfunction for once? Why does there have to be a story behind it?
I found it hilarious that a random droid that malfunction has some complicated backstory to it
Honestly such an obscure topic, but I thoroughly enjoyed it!
i love his cannon story! he is my favorite character in star wars!
Great vid and the canon story for 'skippy' is great
And he returns in The Mandalorian S2-E1.
So cool to see it again. :)
Or you know...it could just be a droid. A random droid. But I guess it wouldn't be Star Wars if that was the case.
Lol ikr
He gonna be in Mandalorian
Hi great vid
He is working now in the mandalorian. Good for him
R5-D4 gets a backstory! 'Fake Wedge' gets a backstory! Everyone gets a backstory!
I saw a private viewing pre-release version of this film. They sent guards to watch over the film reels, so they wouldent get copied.
In this scene, RD sabotaged Red when others were distracted, causing him to be damaged.
Seen as underhanded my preview audiences, the scene was cut out of the final version.
I hadn't considered that R2 thought his mission was important, in destroying the other droid, until seeing this video. Thanks,
Nice Video :)
The Mandolin SE 2 Episode 1 took me here!!!
I'd like to imagine the Jawa that saw the message and didn't wipe him probably thought he could sell him directly to Ben Kenobi for a higher price cause his secret identity was pretty obvious.
Hey man, skippy the Jedi droid, and Tag and Binks are the main plot points to all of Star Wars and we know it
My favorite!
I will miss the only force sensitive droid :(
Please do a video on how Captain typho lost his eye
As a kid the library in my town had a collection of non-canon Star Wars comics like Skippy the Jedi Droid. More Star Wars nostalgia. I knew just from the title that comic would be mentioned here
Pretty sure that Skippy wasn’t canon by even Legends standards. It was a joke
lol, I like how they introduce this whole deal about the jawas memory wiping ALL the droids, and which retro-actively makes ANH more contrived...
1:55 min. that could explain why Lego sold the first red astromech in 1999 in the Y-Wing pack as R5-D4 and later in 2012 in the X-wing from Prokins.
Anyone else notice R5 in the Mandalorian?
Hehe, Tom Servo and Crow appear in the Skippy comic.
Do you think you could do a what if video on what if Luke listened to leia when she told him it was a trap on cloud city? Great video btw
This needs to be updated
Star Wars Explained can you do a video on r2-c2 who appeared in the background at zero the hutt's club when senator amidala attempted to get zero's help in the clone wars feature film.
Wow!
Skippy lay dormant on tattonne for 10 yrs after the stormtrooper's shot disabled him.
Two scavengers find the Jawas crawler buried in the sand.
Jondar Says "hay Tona there is a R5 unit here ".
"It is junk Jon" said Tona.
"I don't know, I think I could get it running lets get it to the speeder" jon said.
Tona yells "Wow here is another one but it is all parts but maybe... maybe you got something but I got a bad feeling about this ".
So begins the new adventures of Skippy.
Actually, you left out the radio drama episode where the droid appeared in, just thought I'd like to point that out to you, SWE.
2:36 _"This _*_R2_*_ unit has a bad motivator!"_ So why is it nowadays called "R5"?
R5 saves Mandalore.
skippy the jedi droid: so ridiculous it should have been made canon.
LMAO at Skippy the Jedi droid as a Force ghost
.... Long live R5-D4!
I honestly prefer the canon version, it’s sad yet hopeful as R5 was able to escape the massacre and will find a home
R5 helps to save Mandalore, in my book he’s a hero
R5 is one of my favorite astromech so I like his canon story
Now we know he is alive
I love him in star wars battlefront
I played r5 in the old Star Wars rpg and he was repaired by the Jawa, became bitter about r2 thinking he damaged him (he blew his own motivator) and was requiped with weaponry to hunt down and kill r2 and 3po and possibly that whiney brat he was sold to. I must have killed 20 or so r2 astromecha.
I want to know more about the jawa that didn't wipe R2's memory.
Porkins had an R5 in his x wing when he went down on the death star
Subtitle read R2 as "Artoo"
Freakin' Legends, man. I wonder what Skippy's Midichlorian count was.
It's little things like this that are so unnecessary! Like do we really need a backstory for a droid that had a bad motivator? I did laugh at skippy the Jedi droid though 😂
I like the idea that R5-D4 understand what R2-D2 true mission is to save the galaxy
When I first watched Rogue One, (correct me if I'm wrong) I'm almost certain that I spotted R5-D4 in a X-Wing astromech port once the Rebels pull out of hyperspace, as they're about to attack Scarif.
That was most likely R5-D8 who was owned by Porkins.
Gotcha
Interesting.
I was actually wondering what would've happened had R5-D4 not blown his motivator aside from Owen not buying R2-D2 in place of him.
Would C-3PO & R5-D4 have gotten along?
Maybe.
I will always think of him as Skippy :)
I like the legends version, where Skippy is now one with the force.
thats not legends
wait this is 3 years old
R5 is genuinely my favorite astro mech in the entire franchise
YAAAAAS Skippy!
I thought Wedge got hold of the droid after the battle of hoth or endor, when his previous droid got destroyed by some giant bat thing.
We now know what happened to R5 after he left the crawler...
The canon version is the best and somewhat heartwarming
The original story was R5 D4 held a grudge against R2 D2, and joined the Empire leading to him controlling attacks on R2 D2 in an X Wing that were misinterpreted as attacks on Luke Skywalker,.and that he took over the RotJ Death Star computers as his final attempt to destroy R2 with a planet destroying weapon just when it gets blown up. But that disappeared from the Star Wars internet wiki sites in a purge for the Disney cartoons. Not saying it is all bad but the original, more adult version is much more entertaining.
The more you know huh , wow !
I've always had a soft spot for R5D4 & feel sorry the lttle droid. If I lived in the SW universe I'd definitely purchase it & give it a good overhaul & upgrades to it's software/hardware.
I'm still waiting for one of the slideshow images to hit the edge of the screen without fading... 😂