Star Wars: 10 Things You Didn't Know About R2-D2

10. R2-D2 Toppled More Than Just One Empire

There are some people who just seem to get themselves into all kinds of adventures, and that seems to be the same with droids if R2-D2 and C-3PO are anything to go by.

The Clone Wars series could get pretty weird at times, and in the episode Nomad Droids from season four, they had some of their strangest escapades. On one occasion, after abandoning their destroyed Venator, the two landed on a planet of foot-tall aliens being run by a military dictator.

Artoo got feisty with him, and in an attempt to keep him quiet, Threepio gave him a whack on his dome which toppled the little droid onto the dictator, squashing him.

The same day, the droids landed on another planet under the grip of a dictator who tried to keep out any outsiders. It wasn't long before R2 uncovered that the tyrant was actually a group of pit droids in a crashed cruiser who were projecting a giant hologram that kept the local population in line with its threats of destruction. With their façade destroyed, the pit droids were quickly turned on by their former subjects and reduced to scrap.