Something about Star Wars brings out people's creative side. The franchise has long since inspired a trail of fan-made ephemera, as large and as canonical as the Expanded Universe. Ever since that fateful day in 1977 a whole cottage industry sprung up, with people making their own costumes, stories, toys, and even short films inspired by a galaxy far, far away. There are even the more extreme cases, like the 501st Legion, an international fan group who are all about building and wearing (in public) perfect replicas of Stormtrooper armour, who also regularly do cool stuff for charity. Which is jolly nice of them. Even if some of them are a little short to be Stormtroopers. This is the first time a new Star Wars film is being released in the internet age, though. The Phantom Menace may have been glimpsed by some first through a slow-loading Quicktime file, and Revenge Of The Sith was quickly harvested for memes, but The Force Awakens is the first entry in the franchise that's been obsessively picked apart on mainstream websites, had its all-star cast speculated on through social media for months, and naturally is already getting the creative juices going of people who specialise in the very particular brand of internet humour of creating parody trailers. It probably shouldn't be a surprise that, almost literally overnight, the goofs on those two minutes of The Force Awakens started to pop up. While Disney managed to strike down most of the knock-offs distracting from the real thing, they very nobly left up the jokes: good to know this'll be a new trilogy with a sense of humour. Here are ten of the most hilarious Star Wars 7 trailer parodies.
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
