10 Traumatic Star Wars Facts You Wish You Hadn’t Heard

It was quite easy to despise the bartender seen kicking R2-D2 and C-3PO out of the Mos Eisley Cantina back in the first-ever Star Wars movie.

Though much of the galaxy were understandably not the biggest fans of droids in the wake of the Separatists using them to fight the Republic in the Clone Wars, the bar's "no-droid policy" still felt unfair. After all, they weren't all murderous and untrustworthy machines. Some just wanted to help.

However, once you find out the traumatic incident poor Wuher, the aforementioned bartender, went through when he was younger, it becomes tougher to just label him as an ignorant bully.

During the Clone Wars, this humanoid's parents were actually killed by battle droids, a horrifying event, revealed in the From A Certain Point of View: We Don't Serve Their Kind Here story, that clearly stuck with him for the rest of his life and resulted in a somewhat understandable hatred of mechanical figures. 

But he did have a soft spot for the Jedi after they saved him from a battalion of machines back in the day, with this being the reason why he didn't report Kenobi to the Empire after he clashed with Ponda Baba and Dr. Evazan in the bar.

Again, tarring all droids with the same brush still wasn't great by any means, but you can at least understand why Wuher acted the way he did. 

Strangely, this is one of those backstories you'll likely wish you hadn't been made aware of, though, as it turns a dude who was mean to our favourite set of droids into a traumatised person who's a little harder to hate.