Star Wars: 22 Products That Prove George Lucas Is A Complete Sell Out

9. The Gungans

Hate to bang the already beaten to death gong, but it just has to be done here. The Gungans in Episode I exist to serve entirely no purpose at all. They could have easily ignored what was happening to the rest of Naboo and been perfectly fine. Which means their only in the movie so the story has an excuse to get the giant federation army out of the city so the beautiful Natal-err- Padme can take back her throne, which is conveniently left almost unguarded. The Gungans don't do anything useful and Jar Jar Binks did more damage to the saga than he did bringing happiness to kids (the reason Lucas created him, see a pattern here?). If the original Star Wars trilogy had never existed, then maybe Jar Jar wouldn't take as much heat, but under the circumstances he and the Gungans were really just a travesty of a joke and a bad plot device. Sure did sell a lot of Gungan based merchandise, though.