Well, they did try to sell out once, but nobody bought.
Is there a Star Wars equivalent to Rule 34? “If a character appears in the Original Trilogy, no matter for how short a time, there is at least an anthology short story about them.”
NM, ninja’d. Well, not really, just need to read for comprehension. See post #21 for what I referenced…
Before we saw the latest film, my wife and I were sitting around and I made a joke that the movie had better explore the life of Hammerhead or else I’d be pissed.
“Hammerhead? Did he, like, shoot someone?”
“Nah, I think he was just in the background. Had a head sorta like a Hammerhead shark.”
“How do you know he was named Hammerhead?”
“I had the action figure. Well, I’m sure in the geek world someone knows his real name and whole life story. Hang on… [checks Wookiepedia]… Momaw Nadon. That’s his name. Did absolutely nothing the whole movie but the fucker likes gardening.”
“What? You’re kidding!”
“Nope. Says here: ‘Nadon maintained a small secret garden in the mountains’. In fact, he got kicked out from his Hammerhead family for sharing gardening secrets. Then he started his own secret garden, started hitting the bar at night, probably blitzed out of his mind talking tomatoes and snap peas with Walrusman and then one day Obi Wan kills Walrusman. Momaw sat like a stump watching it happen and then probably went back to his garden. Someone actually decided this stuff.”
“Wow.”
Any history I could have made up for Hammerhead would have paled against an exiled gardener.
From an entire race of gardeners living on a planet of sentient trees and forests
There’s an entire group of people devoted to cosplaying the Neil De Grasse-Tyson-looking guy running with the ice cream maker in the Cloud City evacuation from TESB.
They’re a reliable local band with a nice range of original tunes to soothe the drunken rabble. Seems to me there are plenty of Earthling equivalents.
Most of those backstories came from the “Tales of…” series of novels, giving each of the background characters in the Cantina, Jabba’s Palace, etc. their own novella storylines. Also the roleplaying games contributed a good chunk, though I don’t know how much of that got incorporated into the books. It’s all moot now, though, since the Disney takeover.
The good news is that since they chucked the Expanded Universe you can make up whatever you want.
No kidding! I was only marginally joking in the OP. I had a feeling that someone out there had at least written a backstory on these guys. This thread is amazing, and not necessarily in a good way.
I think I need to start a thread on this, but for other movies. Make up (since no one else will) back stories for minor characters in other films.
Take for instance,* Live and Let Die*. Anybody can write a story about JW Pepper. he’s a colorful character that you could probably make a whole TV show about (at least in the 70s), but does anyone know about the woman whose wedding got ruined by the boat chase? What became of her?
“Intergalactic” Federation of Musicians? Isn’t that stretching things just a bit? :dubious:
No worse than the World Series.
Even a long time ago, marketing was still important. 
I was always amused that they sold action figures of the most obscure droids. Seriously, characters that had only been on screen for less than a minute.
Can I make up that Kylo Ren isn’t a whiny dweeb with rage issues?
Because of this thread I have learned that the cantina song actually has a name.
You know, don’t you, that he was in a whole slew of TV commercials (under a different name) before he was in that movie?
I see that all of the time, and it drives me nuts - using “intergalactic” when “interstellar” is the correct word.
When I was 12 in 1977 I wondered:
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why those aliens were playing what sounded like very human jazz-type music;
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whether the other aliens could even perceive what they were hearing as music or enjoyable sounds;
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why they were playing such goofy, upbeat music in such a grim dive.
Or, if you absolutely must have the “i” for your acronym, then “intragalactic”.