Dumbest Star Wars Characters Hey guys!
Welcome back to Top 10 Nerd, Iím Ron McKenzie-Lefurgey.
The Star Wars films are pretty great.
But they do come with their fair share of ridiculous characters.
(Jar Jar pops up, I look and he hides) Sometimes this is nice, adding a new dimension to the
film, and sometimes the character becomes something of a joke.
(Jar Jar pops up, I look and he hides) Iím here to talk about some of the dumbest characters
out there.
Not necessarily stupid ones though, maybe they look dumb, or do dumb things, or their
mere existence makes no sense.
(Jar Jar pops up) JUST WAIT YOUíLL GET YOUR TURN!
Okay, letís hop right in!
Itís time for the Top 10 Dumbest Star Wars Characters!
Editor note: Yeah if Jar Jarís head could just slowly creep into the screen then go
away when I look at it that would be sweeeeeeet.
Number 10: Nute Gunray.
First of all, in case you didnít realize it, Nute Gunray is based on two names in real
life.
Can you guess?
Well, Nute is a little easier, named after American politician Newt Gingrich, but Gunray
is actually named after Ronald Reagan.
GunrayÖ RaygunÖ?
Pretty clever, and it certainly went unnoticed by me for some time.
But the viceroy of the Trade Confederation was pretty ridiculous.
Not only because he and his fellow Neimoidians spoke with a pretty outrageous Japanese accent,
but they were also quite useless.
In Star Wars, the vast majority of the villains are evil, but have some pretty awesome qualities
to them.
But not Nute.
Nuteís just a pushover jerk, puppet of Palpetine, and heís not smart, or cool, or powerful,
or anything.
So dumb.
Number 9: The Ewoks.
Now personally I quite like the Ewoks.
Following the How I Met Your Mother logic of the Ewok Line, since I was born after May
25, 1973, itís normal for me to like Ewoks since I was a kid when I first saw them.
So thank god HIMYM got that one right.
But even though I always found them to be cute, even I have to admit that the whole
part with them is kinda dumb.
Little teddy bears with rocks should NOT be able to take on highly-trained, heavily armoured
soldiers.
I donít care how resourceful or cute they are, they would die REAL quick.
Number 8: Greedo.
This is one that shouldnít piss off too many people, because Greedo is certainly not the
sharpest tool in the shed.
He was a bounty hunter who had found Han Solo, super eager to bring his head to Jabba for
a hefty reward.
So eager, in fact, that he forgets everything about bounty hunting.
First of all, he gets caught up monologuing!
Thatís likeÖ bad guy 101!
Plus, thereís a reason most people say ìhands upî when holding a gun on someone.
Itís so that they donít, oh I dunno, draw a gun under the table and shoot you?
He deserved to die.
And yes, Han shot first, but I really donít get the whole controversy.
Greedo was going to kill him, why should Han wait for Greedo to actually shoot?
Do you think Han is dumb or something?
Number 7: Han Solo.
Haaaaa see what I did there?
I asked if you thought he was dumb then I said he was dumb.
Look, I love Han as much as the next guy.
Probably more than the next guy, heís kinda my favourite character in Star Wars.
But the dude seems to get by less by being smart or clever, and more, well, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbxMy9T49fM
(3:33).
He thinks a parsec is a unit of time, heís constantly pissing people off for no reason,
and if he didnít have Chewey with him heíd be dead a hundred times over.
But again, heís awesome.
And handsome.
And funny.
Okay, this point is making me question my sexuality, letís move on.
Number 6: C3P0.
C3P0 might sound like a surprising entry for this list, since heís a rather intelligent
robot, able to simulate human emotions and perform complicated calculations.
But there are a few things that get him on this list.
First of all, heís basically the epitome of the bumbling idiot.
He isnít stupid, and heís definitely good, but he just manages to get himself into so
much trouble itís insane.
Kind of like Marcus Brody from Indiana Jones.
Youíre rooting for him, but you probably wouldnít trust him with anything important.
Number 5: Anakin Skywalker.
We all love to hate on Anakin, what with the terrible writing and Hayden Christensonís
bland delivery.
Many people were disappointed that the young man who would become Darth Vadar was so annoying
and weird.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi5jjXTPtyY NOBODY CARES, SHUT UP!
Seriously, every time he opens his mouth you know itíll either be whiny or stupid.
Plus he does pretty much anything heís told without thinking.
Hey Anakin, you should go kill a bunch of Younglings.
Will that save Padmeís life?
UhÖ sure.
That makes sense.
Kind of goes beyond ìloyalî into the realm of Kronk from Emperorís New Groove.
Except it takes Anakin wayyyyyyyy longer to realize heís on the wrong side.
Number 4: Dr. Cornelius Evazan.
Thatís right I looked up his name.
You may not remember him, but he had his start (and end) in the cantina scene in A New Hope,
where he drunkenly picked a fight with Luke because he and his friend didnít like him.
This guyís pretty dumb picking a fight with a couple guys carrying freaking lightsabers,
but I think I need to step aside from the dumbness for a second for an educational moment.
Dr. Cornelius Evazan was a rising cosmetic surgeon, until he began a descent into madness,
doing ìcreative surgeryî to disfigure his patients.
He was later disfigured himself by a vengeful bounty hunter, and saved by Ponda Baba, who
would later become the very friend that ìdoesnít likeî Luke.
Sorry, I just love how there are such detailed backstories to minor characters.
Evazan was a small part in A New Hope, but was deemed memorable enough to have a cameo
in Rogue One!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZeTb_ZDpkQ But yeah, in terms of dumbness, maybe picking
a fight with 2 Jedi isnít the smartest thing to do.
Number 3: Lumpy.
Thatís right, weíre going Holiday special up in here.
There are too many terrible things about the special, it was really hard to not make this
just a list about that, but thatís no fun so Iíll stick with one.
And my goodness, what a one it is.
Lumpy is just the worst guys.
I mean, that whole family was the worst; that first scene where theyíre just grunting and
miming to each other for 10 minutes is mind-numbingly painful.
But I think Lumpyís the worst of all just because on top of not speaking English, heís
a whiny, bratty little kid.
Plus, he does some rather dumb things throughout the special.
I canít give you specifics because I havenít watched it in a while and Iíll be DAMNED
if Iíll watch that train wreck again just for one point in a video, but just take my
word for it.
Urgh.
Number 2: That Stormtrooper who hit his head.
Yep, this one isnít really a particular character, but there was one hilarious moment in A New
Hope that will forever go down in history.
When we saw a group of Storm Troopers walking into the Control Room, one of them just smacks
his head on the top of the doorway, presumably not used to the height of the helmet.
Itís just such a silly moment in whatís supposed to be a serious scene.
This was so popular that when they remastered the movie, they added a sound effect to draw
attention to the head bump.
Now THATíS how you remaster a movie.
Number 1: Mace Windu.
Just kidding, of course itís Jar Jar Binks.
Jar Jar is dumb in pretty much every sense of the word.
Heís goofy, does silly things, is straight up stupid, and the fact that he was even in
the film was pretty dumb in itself.
Jar Jar is so ubiquitously hated that heís become a total joke in the Star Wars community.
We even made him the subject of our last April Fools video, linked down below?
Maybe?
While many people will argue some of the other, more loved characters on this list, I think
there should be a fair bit of agreement that Jar Jar is super dumb.
Unless you believe that heís a sith lord, in which case heís the smartest of the lot.
But I donít believe it.
So heís dumb.
Thatís it for today!
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