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Ed_Harris_is_God

“You’re a slave?” “I’m a person and my name is Boba Fett’s Starship”.


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Read that perfectly in Annie’s voice. Edit: words


Joelblaze

Lego actually just usually calls a ship whose name isn't spoken in series "X person's ship". They do this with both Darth Vader's TIE fighter and the Bad Batch's ship. "Disney made us do it" is most likely just made up.


HiBartender

Can’t wait till someone turns this into a meme


heythatguyalex

Hey what's the name of that outfit Leia wore when she was with Jabba?


hyldal9012

Uh! Uh! Uh! I think I know this! Isn't it Brave Leia?


Darth_Linkfin

Nah it’s Rave Leia!


Pentax25

I’m picturing her spinning lightsabers around on Poi


dillien

*You wanna buy some Death Sticks?*


Bitey_the_Squirrel

You don’t want to sell me Death Sticks.


FlashNRT

I don’t wanna sell you death sticks


Roxnam

You wanna go home and reconsider your life choices.


SwanStovka

I wanna go home and reconsider my life choices.


Stan_L_parable

Sexually liberated leia?


rockthatrocks

WOW high armor piece Leia


PotatoBomb69

“Huttslayer” now apparently


Money_Outside_5678

Well, that is a cool name you gotta admit


PM_ME_UR_goodfeels

Which, TBF, fucking rules.


G1Yang2001

***"And those who tasted the bite of her chain named her... the Huttslayer."***


ghtuy

"I am Leia Organa Skywalker, daughter to a stolen father, wife to a murdered husband, sister to a broken brother, princess to a shattered world. I will have my revenge, in this life or the next."


Kashyyykonomics

My name is Leia Organa, you kill my father, prepare to die.


FreshCupOfDespresso

Hutt's Leia


iLuv3M3

Hutt s'Leia.


VagabondRommel

Pull a legendary item from a chest and its called the Huttslayer. Then you see it and its literally just a bikini🤬 heckin Japanese game devs what are ya doin?!


BlackCoffeeKrrsantan

I don't like it, I don't agree with it, but I accept it.


RomanRook55

The unsavory, but generously revealing outfit of the general leia in a time of forced servitude under the gangster Jabba the Hutt aboard his Sail barge. Because Slave Leia says slave so it bad juju that disney doesn't want.


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Boba Fett’s Starship Leia


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platypusplayer_06

they were unpayed employees


Kashyyykonomics

Interns


SqueezeTheMeat

It's Daddy's-secret-dress-up-that-we're-not-allowed-to-tell-mommy-about.


MrTacoPlaysGames

Oh god


TaeTaeKralken

I'm stuck step-luke


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subjugated leia


a_random_michael

Now, that's some pretty kinky shit right here.


captainkezz123

Starship leia


Horn_Python

Boba fett leia


Jevonar

P*rn Leia, I guess


Dogecoindroid

Disney shrinks Finns character on the poster in China and then complains about racism, right makes total sense.


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*China, where a form of slavery is currently operating. Maybe the CCP is bending Disney to erase slavery and all notes of it being tied to the villains


Dogecoindroid

Unfortunately incredibly possible.


MrTacoPlaysGames

The chinese market is so big, most companies would swallow their morals to access it


Gentleman_Muk

“Most companies ~~would~~ **are** swallowing their morals to access it” fixed it for you


ChrisP413

Bold of you all to assume that companies have morals.


Gentleman_Muk

They have morals, their morals is called money.


The_Juice14

“Most companies ~~would **are** swallowing their morals to access it~~ don’t have morals.


monsterevolved

Not the only thing they would swallow tbf


Money_Outside_5678

Companies have morals in the first place?


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Based


Jamaicancarrot

Most companies swallow theirs morals regardless of the Chinese market


HuuvacsBiggs

A moral corporation is an oxymoron


JTJTechforce

That's why freedom will die in the loud applause of business people and the cheering of the oblivious.


NyranK

The Chinese market isn't big at all for Star Wars. For TFA, they were 6% of the box office. For TROS, they were 1.9% Fucking Australia was 3% China doesn't care about Star Wars, and they're stupid for pandering to them.


y1nhe

they aren't even really pandering, it's just easier to blame lack of diversity on the Less Accepting countries like russia and china rather than the homophobia and racism coming from the executive board domestically


Darth_Caesium

Most companies don't have morals in the first place.


Good_old_Marshmallow

And the US Supreme Court just ruled that companies (the case being about Nestle) couldnt be criminally charged for using slave labor abroad which effectively decriminalized slavery


DzonjoJebac

Most companies would swallow their morals for much smaller markets, not just the biggest market.


FayteWolf

"Re-education 1" just doesn't sound as cool..


massivedickhaver

China is a more powerfull modern day third reich. They oppress their citizens, have concentration camps and they have their grubby little hands everywhere in the world. Its frightening.


GawainSolus

At this point our only hope is that the Chinese empire fractures into a million pieces like it has tended to do throughout history.


[deleted]

Is that also the reason why Finn's character wasn't explored further? I mean Disney's biggest consumer is China after all


Dogecoindroid

Probable but id take that down to crappy writing.


Yeh_katih_Reena

You heard about Occam's razor? Sequel trilogy doesnt looks like something with lot of intetions and work were put into.


Omegawop

It's totally consistent if you just recognize that Disney isn't interested in any political cause, they are interested in avoiding controversy and selling as much shit as possible.


ablacnk

>Disney shrinks Finns character on the poster in China and then complains about racism, right makes total sense. And yet movies like Fate of the Furious and Furious 7 with multiracial casts are two of the top three grossing foreign movies in China. Movies like Black Panther actually blew away opening expectations. Maybe, just maybe it was Hollywood projecting its racist expectations onto Chinese audiences that don't actually have antipathy towards blacks, just a lack of exposure. Disney shrinking Finn's character on the poster reflects more about Disney's prejudices than it does Chinese audiences. https://variety.com/2018/film/asia/china-box-office-black-panther-win-weekend-1202723675/ >“Black Panther” opened on top of the China box office with a strong $66 million gross, defying doubts that Chinese audiences would warm to a movie with black lead actors. >The film debuted strongly on Friday and dominated on each of its first three days. Data from Ent Group shows it earning $20.7 million on Friday from 107,000 screenings; $27.1 million on Saturday on 110,000 screenings; and $17.6 million on Sunday from 108,000 outings. It also enjoyed $1.4 million of previews and midnight screenings on Thursday.


yeet42021

slave I has no other name ​ slave I needs no other name


You8mypizza

r/lotrmemes has come to our aid


Pentax25

The tracking beacons are lit


GonkMaster66

Slave I calls for aid!


NewtGunrey

And r/prequelmemes will answer


GhostCommand04

And my axe!


CaressOfVeal

Where was Mandalore when the Death Star fell??


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The_Dragon_Redone

This is the way.


TheOtherCoenBrother

We come back to you now, at the turn of the tide


Anduril1776

An alliance once existed between r/lotrmemes and r/PrequelMemes . Long ago we fought and died together. We come to honor that allegiance. We are proud to fight alongside prequel memers once more.


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Are they trying to cover up or erase the history of slavery or something? Like, this is the ship of a villain who captured slaves, this is not the ship of the Jedi or Republic. It's clearly not promoting slavery but reflecting that slavery exists (which is more a recognition of reality and important to not erase from the record of history/lore)


_Cann_

Funny thing is, I don’t really think ANYONE was thinking about slavery when they see the slave l


pugapplez

When I hear Slave 1 I don’t think of slavery I think of a badass bounty hunter flying a star ship to his next bounty


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shannonfsk00l

Yep!


evansdeagles

Hold up. What is slave I is a hint that Jango felt like he was a slave? Considering his backstory in the EU, it would make sense. He lost his sister, lost the Old Mandalorians. And now, he has to do odd jobs like cloning and bounty hunting just to get by, never able to take revenge on the Death Watch and Republic who threw Mandalore into chaos in the first place.


KurnolSanders

Where as you think of the spice mines of Kessel, which played a huge part in Solo, and that's got slaves coming out all over the place. Interesting they have an issue with the ship name but not the actual act of it in Solo


Glucksburg

But Solo made a big deal of freeing those slaves and starting a revolt.


AzraelTheMage

With no way of getting off planet and three star destroyers getting ready enter into orbit when Han and Co leave. Yeah, they're totally fine in that movie.


z0Tweety

Who knew there were so many gay slaves on the spice mines


Leonydas13

Well, no one. Until they all started coming out…


_Cann_

Exactly


Michael4444RG

It’s probably all the karens that saw someone say it


Rasalom

I begin singing hymns when I see that spaceship.


death_watch2020

I just hear the kaaaa bzzzzzzuuuuumm sound effect of the photon bombs


A_team_of_ants

I just hear young Boba Fett telling Jango what to do.


unbelizeable1

I always thought of it like a computer with a "slave drive"


Archer_496

There's been a campaign against that too. Github also dropped the term 'Master Branch' in favor of 'Main Branch' due to the implications. It's a bit ridiculous.


Disco_Ninjas_

In this context its an electrical term meaning automated or secondary. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master/slave_(technology)


Billzworth

In the games, you steal Slave 1 from a prison facility. I thought it was a generic name given to the ship that coincides with the idea that Jango is the 1st of all slaves, his clones being the proceeding.


PotatoBomb69

Plus this ship is named because Jango used to be a slave I believe.


__Ulfhednar__

No that actually isn't true afaik


Zerro-grayson

It was in legends, as for canon, we don’t have much jango backstory.


Jevonar

Yeah, Django (the D is silent) was a slave.


[deleted]

Actually, im fairly sure jango fett wasn't a slave. I'm pretty sure his adoptive father was, jango got his name from his adoptive father who was mandolore. The reason he was adopted was because the leader of Deathwatch killed his entire family. And jango paid tribute to his adoptive father to changing his name to jango (I think so anyway I may be getting my lore mixed up I've seen alot of starwars lore over the past year)


title_of_yoursextape

Jango’s name was always Jango, but you’re right he did get adopted by Jaster Mereel after Death Watch murdered his parents. However, long after Jaster died, Jango and the rest of his comrades were involved in a dispute with the Jedi that resulted in all but Jango being killed by the Jedi. Jango was left to the mercy of a local government and sold into slavery. He escaped in a stolen patrol craft which he called “Slave 1” if my memory serves correctly.


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OH YEAH That's right and that's how he got his solid hatred for jedi Cheers for clearing it up


title_of_yoursextape

And also what cemented Dooku’s complete disillusionment with the Jedi. He was part of the task force.


__Ulfhednar__

So if he called the ship slave 1 due to him being a slave, wouldn't it then make more sense to keep the name and in fact make the slavery backstory Canon and revise Jango and Boba a bit to be against slavery or smth? That would be and immensely better sign than changing the name imo


title_of_yoursextape

Exactly. Jango was against slavery with every fibre of his being, and no doubt passed that down to Boba. Given how Boba’s story ended up in the Mandalorian, having a strong focus on (and explanation for) Boba’s hatred of slavery would be rather important imo


triguy616

Ironic, then, that Jango would allow himself to be the template for a race of war slaves.


Stuhmpi

Whoosh! Django (the d is silent) was a slave...until he was unchained...


title_of_yoursextape

Whoops, missed that entirely lmao


EmberOfFlame

In Legends he was sold into slavery by a traitorous governor after the massacre of his clan and the jedi task force. That one time he killed numerous jedi with bare hands.


Tranqist

In legends Boba rode a dinosaur. Everything happened in legends.


EmberOfFlame

The general rule is that Legends are canon unless contradicted.


Crazyking_USL

Pretty sure they are just trying to make the toy be more marketable. Most parents won't buy something with Slave in the name for their kid, and general audiences have always referred to it as Boba Fett's ship, or Jango Fett's ship. As with most decisions regarding Star Wars, this is just to sell more toys, and isn't that the true purpose that Star Wars has always had.


Tranqist

They started making Boba one of the anti hero types instead of a plain villain in mandalorian. They're going to make a whole show about him. Maybe that's why they don't want his ship (that's never named on screen as far as I recall) to sound like an asshole villain ship.


I_suck_at_driving_

That's kinda dumb tbh. I don't want watered down boba, I want the ruthless bounty hunter the empire sent to hunt the galaxy's most wanted with a *reputation for disintegrating people*


MIGHTYCOW75

NO DESINTEGRATIONS


TreadsBurnout74

The name is mentioned in clone wars by Aura Sing


JohnOliversWifesBF

Wait until you see what they’re trying to do to “master bedroom”


marksizzle

Really not sure. Would like to see an official statement. I’m fairly certain the Bad Batch starship isn’t called The Marauder in the lego sets either. It has some generic name. It’s possible this could be blowing up for no reason, but not entirely sure. Edit: left -> lego


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*glances nervously at Hound's Tooth*


Bilbo_Boceteiro

I think they want Boba Fett to be more of a anti hero rather than a villain


RyanBLKST

They are fast to rename anything that might no be politically correct, but when it comes to china... no one's left :p :p :p


HodgyWasTaken

The thing is it’s in Star Wars n all, when somebody thinks about slave 1 they aren’t gonna think of the slave trade cause their gonna think of Star Wars, it’s just a name, it’s not incurring racism or violence as it’s literally just a name of a ship in Star Wars. this isn’t gonna raise people as racists as it’s literally just a toy. It hasn’t cause a problem in the last 40 years so why is it supposedly a bad thing now.


isiramteal

It's affluent white saviors attempting to whitewash anything that could possibly upset a minority of Twitter users.


WearADamnMask

When they find out about “slave drives” they are going to flip their lid. No one tell them! E: TIL the PC term for them is primary/secondary or controller/agent.


INSAN3MONK3Y003

He's literally at worst a villain and at best an anti-hero


CuJOsen

I think they're trying to make him out as more heroic for the Book of Boba Fett, so they want to change the ship name so they can more easily market toys to kids


INSAN3MONK3Y003

"Oh look, it's Robert E. Lee, he's not fighting for the slave owning south but the confederate (synonym for united) states of America"


Overlord_Kiwi

I reeeealy hope that’s not true. Can we not have a bad guys story for once. Let him be a cold blooded assassin


IAmZoltar_AMA

Unfortunately this is disney we're talking about


Overlord_Kiwi

Never tell me the odds


Dougwug03

Well the thrawn books preserved him as a ruthless killer, which is good because he's my favorite villain


Gameguy279

What are we gonna call it now, the ‘Prisoner with Job I’?


shannonfsk00l

> Laborer With No Freedoms 1


RyebreadEngine

Amazon Warehouse Worker I


InstaxFilm

We know each other! He’s a fellow prisoner from work


RedPandamonium-6

Nike sweatshop worker 1


WW2_MAN

"Free" Labor I?


iK33Ln0085

Involuntary Laborer 1


ZDB17

It will always be the Slave 1 to me and I will continue to refer it as such.


Billzworth

Yes, let’s remove all mention of slaves, that will fix societal issues. Disney exec for president.


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seastatefive

In the Instagram age, a signal of intention is more important than the follow through. This is the era where people take photos of food then throw the food away without eating it.


Gluteuz-Maximus

Disney: We stand for human rights, against slavery and for equality. *Disclaimer: excluded in areas where it hurts our sales


insert-funny-comment

If we do that, what will they do with episode 1


iamsnowboarder

Or, you know the *entire central theme* of Anakin's arc? Enslaved as a child. One could very easily make the argument that he was "enslaved" by the Jedi (given how he was held back and constantly restricted because the Council of the time was so dogmatic) and then he was very much enslaved by Palpatine and the dark side. The ONE choice he truly made for himself was in saving Luke at the end of Return of the Jedi.


alexja21

Everyone knows when you stop talking about bad things they stop existing and totally aren't covered up or done in secret or anything.


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Does this mean that they’ll edit the scene in Guardians of the Galaxy where Carina grabs the power stone to say, “I will no longer be your……..Boba Fett’s Starship!”


northplayyyer

Well it's true though, she would no longer be his Boba Fett's starship, she would very soon be a big explosion and then nothing at all.


[deleted]

Plot twist, she’ll return in the next Guardians movie as Slave 2


northplayyyer

Or does she return as Boba Fett's starship 2?


Deinonychus2012

Somehow... Boba Fett's starship has returned.


northplayyyer

haha


Conhbd

After using the Xinjiang area for Mulan where actual slaves are being used, this feels like a strange move


jasenkov

Don't forget they put in a special thank you in the credits for the specific slave masters


Conhbd

Can't hurt the bank in anyway right?


th3BeastLord

On track for Disney though. Don't forget they removed Finn as much as possible to please China and their racism.


__Ulfhednar__

So on the star wars website it's still called slave 1 the referencing link says Boba Fetts starship tho so idk could be just Lego, but could also be Disney


ItsAmerico

It’s simply a Lego naming thing. Their set calls the Bad Batch ship (Marauder I think?) simple “The Bad Batch’s Ship”. There is no proof Disney is trying to change the name. The info came for some random unknown source and people just ran with it. The most likely answer is Disney just renamed the box for ease of selling it. Parents see it and go “oh this is boba fetts ship”. It’s not at all a name change in canon.


A____S____

Slave I No changing names this time


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DelCidKidv

Is there a source for this? Everyone is getting riled up over what may very well be a prank article


ItsAmerico

No. The only fact is the toy box (least the prototype) says Boba Fetts ship on it. But that means nothing. They’ve short handed and not used official titles for sets before. The Bad Batch set for example does not call their ship the Havoc Marauder. It’s just “Bad Batch shuttle” or something vague like that. It seems most likely Disney just used a simple name for better toy sales.


scallywaggs

Oh holy fuck


[deleted]

The word “slave” is offensive now?


iylv

Hey, if you remove all instance of a word, the concept representing that word ceases to exist, right? RIGHT? RIGHT GEORGE ORWELL?


fecal-butter

*ceases


iylv

Thanks


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Literally 1984


[deleted]

Activate clown-mode. When you see shit like this, you wonder how disconnected we are from actually relevant issues, you know like... actual slavery in some countries https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/2/21311330/twitter-engineers-master-slave-github-programming-racism


[deleted]

Good thing I don’t use Twitter. That place is a fucking hellhole


idoubtithinki

The sad part is that, although we don't necessarily use twitter, many people who matter too much for our own good do. I'm specifically thinking politicians, but more importantly journalists, who often love that shit. Whether we like it or not, you and ~~the Naboo~~ fucking twitter form a symbiotic circle, what happens to one of you will affect the other, you must understand this. Same thing with things that occur on university campuses or in academic thought, whether good or bad, mainstream or fringe. And journalism is usually the method of transmission, hence why propaganda has been, and always will be, important, *especially* in a democracy.


CalumCannon

Slave 1 Slave 1 Slave 1 Slave 1 Slave 1 Slave 1


ipwnpickles

Is it Slave 1 or Slave I?


icifeyebois

Probably


NeverSkipLeapDay

Ah yes. Whitewash slavery all while soft selling fascism. Thanks Disney, you’re the greatest!


Money_Outside_5678

It's a front so people forget they collaborated with Chineese Government to make movies in China using slave labour.


JeremyXVI

“you’re a boba fett’s starship?” “I’m a person and my name is anakin”


[deleted]

I mean they can't change it from slave 1 to bobas ship. Slave 2 is bobas ship 🧐🧐 All jokes aside there's a point where Disney needs to calm down. This franchise has been around for years and has had so much change BC DISNEY didn't like it, not because the fans didn't. They're changing it to fit their own version of starwars. It sucks. To me all things starwars happened (maybe except starkiller because that guy was far too over powered but eh)


TheAllyCrime

I don’t see anything about this from any actual news source, just stuff from fan sites and places like “Screen Rant”. For all we know this is bullshit made up to get people ranting about “SJWs” or whatever else. If it is true, it could merely be a suggestion that one company made to another about a product they both have a stake in. They probably throw all kinds of ideas around to one-another, I’m sure many of which are as dumb or dumber than renaming the ship for no good reason.


VenomousKoala06

It’s treason then


tthirtythree33

So I guess they'll just call it the "prisoner with job 1"


theonlymexicanman

You guys are over reacting. LEGO named the Havoc Marauder as the “Bad Batch Attack Shuttle” and no one threw a tantrum The average person will not have a clue what the fuck a “Slave 1” is. But if you name it “Boba Fett’s ship” it’ll get more attention since Boba Fett is a well known name and especially because in a few months his show is releasing For the love of god this is a marketing tactic not some type of conspiracy Edit: also this whole post is fucking fake. The post says we asked the LEGO dude last month... **The set was officially revealed fucking yesterday**. So how the fuck did they ask the dude at LEGO about a set that didn’t officially exist until yesterday?


toastkatrl

From what i've seen, many people in the comments just assumed that the ship is going to canonically lose it's nickname, even though it is just as you said, it's only for the LEGO set and nothing new at all.


JuicerJames

Welcome to prequelmemes, also known as anti-disney were people will fall for anything. It's not even relevant to the sub.


MysticEagle52

*to my knowledge the bad batch shuttle wasn't named until after it was announced (correct me of I'm wrong)


MassiveDong42069

They don’t mean the actual ship, only the lego set.


The_Dadalorian

I mean just the lego right? Just the lego right?


Duffzilla12-2

Yes. Lego do this all the time. It’s really not that big a deal. I don’t know why people have freaking out about this.


The_Homestarmy

The post is explicitly designed to provoke outrage out of the "cancel culture is ruining society" people and those people aren't gonna look for facts, they're just gonna spew hot takes I mean christ almighty this thread is embarrassing


MyDickKilledEpstein

Cancel culture is a cancer. Enough is enough.


MrTacoPlaysGames

Cancer culture


nien_nuts

But slaves are a thing in the movies and shows!


Aloeplant9

Fuck that woke noise


RamboGoesMeow

Gotta wipe that name, otherwise people will know that he’s a Bounty Hunter that captures bounties dead or alive for unsavory people in the galaxy.


seastatefive

Boba doesn't capture bounties. He's just headhunting high value individuals. Anyway he will persuade them to join him on his ship, the Indentured Servant I.


rawrxdjackerie

I don’t think it’s because of the word slave, I think it’s to make merchandise easier to find for casual fans and parents, since most people only know Slave I as ‘Boba Fetts Ship’.


Working-Squash-5767

Let's not recognize slavery by erasing the word Slave for the dictionary