Star Wars: 10 Things Everyone Gets Wrong About The Empire
3. Stormtroopers DON'T Always Have Terrible Aim
It may be a running joke that the Empire's soldiers on the ground possess some laughably bad aim, but is it actually the truth?
When you really stop and think about it, you realise that these troopers are a lot more accurate than most people choose to remember.
The skeleton-suited troops gun down a number of Rebels with some rather accurate shooting during the opening scene of 1977's Star Wars, for example. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story sees many a hero getting gunned down by a stormtrooper. And there's even a reason why the troopers seem so incapable of hitting the target when chasing after Han, Luke, and Leia on the Death Star, too.
You see, Vader had planted a tracker on the Millennium Falcon and actually wanted them to escape the space station. So, it's likely he simply ordered the Empire's soldiers to not kill the gang before they could lead them to the Rebel base.
They obviously still missed the target a decent number of times across big and small screen projects and media away from the screen - they're only human. But stormtroopers definitely weren't as consistently terrible as the jokes would have you believe!