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we're going to be covering 10 interesting facts about wado let's start
with number one he was a slave owner the male toy darian wado had little
regard for having human slaves though he did live on the desert world of tatooine
where slavery was mainly socially acceptable
shmee skywalker and her young son anakin were his property and they spent many
years doing taxing work for the materialistic junk dealer though
he felt little remorse for his slaves compared to
other slave owners he was less cruel and was generally regarded as a decent owner
though everything is relative but he did grant little anakin an early day off
when jedi master qui-gon jinn and padme who is disguised as the naboo
queen's handmaiden came to tatooine number two he didn't
mind risking anakin's life for profit anakin was an incredible skilled pilot
something guadal took note of when the boy became a pod race enthusiast
so despite his mother's protests the toridarian began to make
wages and put the boy in the very dangerous sport
now only because anakin was so strong in the force was he able to actually
participate and survive and even then the young boy lost every
race until the bunta classic watto put anakin in the races he always
bet against him picking the reigning champion the male
doug sabolba as long as anakin lost watto got richer
so do you think it was anakin's skills that won the race
or could qui-gon have done something with the force
number three he was a war criminal before his career as a junk dealer
trafficker watto had actually been a soldier on his
home world of toidaria his people suffered through many famines through
the decades which caused numerous revolutions and raids across this planet
during these conflicts wato had been a member of the osiki confederacy army
a unit infamous for using chemical warfare on other toidarian groups
so their food supply would be annihilated their reasons weren't
strategic but instead done out of spite if the osiki
army couldn't eat the food why should the other toidarian groups
get to this way they all suffered together
eventually though due to debilitating injuries wado had to leave his home
world number four he beat anakin up when
anakin was just around three or four years old watto purchased
him and his mother though his memory may be vague of those
early years in his servitude anakin did recall that while he was
around the age of four watto had beaten him severely for
displeasing him again since water was considered to be less
ruthless than the other masters this stood out in the young skywalker's
memory as it was a rare occurrence yet he still beat up a toddler and kept
anakin and schmie a slave for years so the toidarian certainly played his
part in leaving the scars an anakin that would one day take him down the
path of darkness number five he's a cheat wato purposely
targets off-worlders as they are easier to swindle because they would have no
knowledge of the market prices in moscesba
the tatooine city where wato kept his shop nor does he have an issue with
cheating as when qui-gon wanted to make a wager with the toidarian for anakin's
freedom in the boontaive pod race watto deliberately used a chance cube that was
divided between red and blue like lightsabers the red color would mean he
would wager shmee skywalker and the blue was for anakin as the toidarian
considered shmee a less valuable slave than anakin he chose the color red for
her because he had loaded the chance cube
with that color so that it would always come up red but when to his surprise the
dye lands on blue the slave owner can barely
contain his anger qui-gon had used the force to change the
outcome condemning schmie to a continued life of slavery
but saving her son anakin from it if he won the pod race that is
ironically if he had adhered to the jedi code and let the dye
land where it may there would be no darth vader or galactic empire
at least not the way it went number six he went back on his word after the bunta
classic and anakin had defeated cevulba watto tried to rescind the beat
he doesn't want to surrender his most vulnerable slave it's only when qui-gon
has to threaten to get the huts involved that water relinquishes the boy to the
jedi master though watto still made out nicely
qui-gon had offered him all the winnings minus the cost of the spaceship parts
if anakin was the victor of the pod race had the boy lost
water would not only have kept his slave but also gotten qui-gon's ship
number seven he hired a hit on qui-gon jinn
a female hut named gardula the hutt approached watto
after having seen anakin's winning pod race impressed by the human child she
offered watto an incredible amount of credits for the boy
not realizing anakin was no longer the toidarians to sell
not wanting to reveal that to the hutt watto asks for time to consider her
generous offer he then quickly hires thugs to convince
qui-gon to return anakin to him in other words
he arranged for a hit on the jedi of course qui-gon easily handled the thugs
and wado had to let anakin go number eight he grew close to anakin's
mother after anakin skywalker left with qui-gon to follow his destiny
watto's business suffered without the young boy's mechanical genius
as it was now just shmee and him and the two began to grow friendlier with each
other as time went by later watto made a trip to mos eisley
where he soon heard news of the invasion of naboo
and the fate of qui-gon jinn when he returned to his junk shop he told shmee
the bad news again the toidarian whined over anakin's
departure arguing that the boy would have been
much safer had he remained with him shmi then spent a hundred credits which
isn't easy for a slave to get their hands on to send a message to the jedi
council on coruscant though watto did recover 10
of the cost in her message to the jedi shmi inquired about what happened to
anakin after the battle of naboo but the jedi
never answered back which outraged wado as he had become
increasingly melancholy after anakin's departure seeing how
depressed schmie was about her son's absence
watto feared she would try to escape so without telling her
he deactivated her transmitter chip and he'd rather risk
losing her than having shemi die number nine he was alone
however when a local moisture farmer named cleig lars kept coming by the shop
to befriend the smitten shmee skywalker they approached him together about
buying her freedom for a substantial amount
far more than the standard value of a slave though the credits were more than
generous and it was also shmee's desire the toridarian refused
because he was afraid of being completely alone
even went so far as to take her to the other moisture farmers
so she could see what a difficult life it would be but when lars offered even
more for smee his greed trumped his fear and he
finally relented though it could also be that part of him
that wanted her to be happy even with the large sum of money watto's
junk shop continued to deteriorate as now he had neither skywalker
which left him both financially and emotionally
in the hole number 10 can be seen in this video here
which covers vader and the possible well most possible murder of watto by vader's
hands in legends of course i'll link that
video down below for you and i'll also put a snippet of it at the
end of this video hope you enjoyed these really
interesting facts about watto he's a very fascinating character and
there's a lot more to him than just meets the eye
leave a like on this one if you enjoyed it catch you in the next one have an
awesome rest of your day until then remember
the force will be with you always the information comes from the book
jedi verse sith the essential guide to the force and it's from vader's actual
journal himself both hutts and toidarians possess
varying degrees of mental strength that can make them
immune to jedi mind tricks in an event from the year 4
aby that has since become the stuff of legend luke skywalker
found himself unable to mentally persuade jabba the hutt to release rebel
prisoners and had to resort to a backup plan
a personal log of darth vader recovered from his fortress on vun
revealed vader's disturbing perspective regarding tordarians
it should be noted that vader's disposition may have been influenced by
anakin skywalker's relationship to watto the toydarian junk dealer and
slaver who was young anakin's master on tatooine although schmie skywalker's
recovered journal suggests that watto was a relatively benevolent
master it is conceivable that vader's memories of wato
were unfavorable furthermore the identity of the taurdarian subject
mentioned invader's recording remains unknown but recordings from tatooine
preclude the possibility that it was watto and here is the piece
from vader's actual journal these creatures have become such an irritation
that every time i see one i want to strike it down with my lightsaber
be that as it may i interviewed a toydarian subject who showed a great
amount of resistance to force suggestion up to the point that i created physical
discomfort i found that they can be easily intimidated by a demonstration of
strength and it proved relatively simple to cause
it to expire merely by making it
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