10 Best Droids In Star Wars
3. C-3PO
C-3PO is the character you love to hate in Star Wars. The whiny, overbearing protocol droid is the non-stop source of on-the-nose dialog that lets you know the context of everything happening on the screen. He is the living embodiment of exposition. But Star Wars isn't Star Wars without him.
As one of the first major characters to show up on screen in A New Hope, C-3PO was a big part of Star Wars from the get go. But as movies, TV series, comics and more continued to come out, fans got a clear vision of how big that role truly was. First and foremost, he was built by Anakin Skywalker, the Jedi who would eventually become Darth Vader.
C-3PO stood with the Republic during the Clone Wars, and fought with both the Rebellion and the Resistance. Whether the golden droid was annoying or not is irrelevant. He always fought for what was right, even though he sometimes quite literally had to be dragged into battle by R2-D2.