# Jar Jar Binks - do the Jedi just hope he gets killed **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [August 29, 2024, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jar-jar-binks-do-the-jedi-just-hope-he-gets-killed/1006408 "2024-08-29T08:23:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SpicyDuckBillyHunt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@SpicyDuckBillyHunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpicyDuckBillyHunt)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jar-jar-binks-do-the-jedi-just-hope-he-gets-killed/1006408/1 "2024-08-29T08:23:09Z")
At the start of the Phantom Menace the Jedi don’t try to save him or help him. Multiple times he almost gets killed. Do they just quietly hope something will kill him? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jar-jar-binks-do-the-jedi-just-hope-he-gets-killed/1006408/2 "2024-08-29T09:30:37Z")
I mean, who wouldn’t? ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jar-jar-binks-do-the-jedi-just-hope-he-gets-killed/1006408/3 "2024-08-29T13:50:03Z")
It may have been a result of [Darth Jar Jar](https://screenrant.com/star-wars-darth-jar-jar-theory-explained/)’s plan and misdirection. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jar-jar-binks-do-the-jedi-just-hope-he-gets-killed/1006408/4 "2024-08-29T14:17:50Z")
If they wanted him dead, they could just _accidentally_ force-deflect a blaster bolt into his head, and who would know? I wonder if Lucas is out there, still, wondering why no one likes Jar Jar. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jar-jar-binks-do-the-jedi-just-hope-he-gets-killed/1006408/5 "2024-08-29T15:28:04Z")
I didn’t think they wanted him dead, or hoped he was killed. The overwhelming impression I got was that they wanted him to stay out of their way and hopefully go away and leave them alone, because they had a job to do, and he was this goofy, bumbling alien who was more of a liability than anything else, because he had every likelihood of getting in the way and making things worse. I also felt like their lukewarm reception of Jar-Jar was the beginning of his redemption arc in the story; he starts out as a bumbling, goofy alien who they don’t much like, and ends up a heroic, bumbling, goofy alien who they sort of like. Which is supposed to be endearing or something… I never got it. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jar-jar-binks-do-the-jedi-just-hope-he-gets-killed/1006408/6 "2024-08-29T15:29:38Z")
IMHO, Jar Jar was nothing but fan servicing. And the fan it was servicing was Lucas. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jar-jar-binks-do-the-jedi-just-hope-he-gets-killed/1006408/7 "2024-08-29T16:17:31Z")
Come on, my cynical comrades, you know if Jar Jar gets killed, he’ll ascend to the right hand of Yoda where the two of them will jabber incessantly making everyone else in the galaxy want to poke out their ears with pencils. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jar-jar-binks-do-the-jedi-just-hope-he-gets-killed/1006408/8 "2024-08-29T16:46:59Z")
Now I’m wondering how Yoda would mangle [Gungan sentences](https://talklikejarjarday.com/jar_jar_quotes). ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jar-jar-binks-do-the-jedi-just-hope-he-gets-killed/1006408/9 "2024-08-29T18:48:11Z")
Treating the question semi-seriously, I think @bump has it mostly. They have jobs to do. Jedi, much like our police, don’t have a clearly defined duty to protect the public, but instead are enforcing the will of the Senate / Council or accomplishing a certain task. Absent those, sure, they’d probably assist those in their immediate vicinity based on personal virtue (for those who have it), or public image, but that’s not their _job_. I always assumed that one of the reasons they keep the peace, and settle disputes, is because those lead to a greater strength of the Dark Side overall, even among those who are not force-sensitive. They’re supposed to be _dispassionate_ warrior monks serving a greater good, and as **bump** points out, Jar-Jar is going more harm than good most of the time. So they don’t _hope_ he gets killed, and would not take an action to make it easier, but they’re trained to not be _invested_ in individuals. Being aggressively irritated and aiding in, or hoping for Jar Jar’s death would be flirting with the Dark Side after all. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jar-jar-binks-do-the-jedi-just-hope-he-gets-killed/1006408/10 "2024-08-29T19:00:37Z")
“Look at how much the others hate him. I’d be doing them a favor.” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/BonScdt0-Sc/maxresdefault.jpg "CREEPIO TIME - Auralnauts STAR WARS Saga") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BonScdt0-Sc&t=74) ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jar-jar-binks-do-the-jedi-just-hope-he-gets-killed/1006408/11 "2024-08-29T19:25:47Z")
considering he’s the one who officially puts Palpitine in power I wonder if Obi-Wan wished he was accidentally hit with a rock … ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2024, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jar-jar-binks-do-the-jedi-just-hope-he-gets-killed/1006408/12 "2024-08-30T01:00:24Z")
Indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2024, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jar-jar-binks-do-the-jedi-just-hope-he-gets-killed/1006408/13 "2024-08-30T01:09:36Z")
Tell Jar Jar it was only business, I always liked him. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2024, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jar-jar-binks-do-the-jedi-just-hope-he-gets-killed/1006408/14 "2024-08-30T22:49:49Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > IMHO, Jar Jar was nothing but fan servicing. And the fan it was servicing was Lucas. It was for his kids, who were around the age that he was orienting the movie towards. When he made the first Star Wars the kids he was making it for were theoretical, but by the prequels they were now manifest in his life and his opinion of what kids wanted had shifted into the painfully twee and annoying.