14 Sassiest Droids In The Star Wars Universe
10. R2 & Threepio
The original sassy duo.
George Lucas took a lot of inspiration from Akira Kurosawa’s Samurai films. In particular, The Hidden Fortress features a princess and general behind enemy lines, accompanied by two squabbling peasants. These peasants formed the *ahem* blueprints for everyone’s favorite astromech and protocol droids.
Even though Artoo doesn’t talk, it’s easy to tell when he’s throwing shade. You have to hand it to the Foley artists at Skywalker Sound for coming up with such an expressive lexicon of beeps and whistles. Even though they’re just noises, you know when Artoo is pissed.
And then there’s Threepio. It was probably a red flag that little Anakin was going to turn out evil when he programmed his droid with crippling anxiety, an overwhelming sense of fatalism and a fear of, well, pretty much everything.