No. He’s a protocol droid. He’s designed as an assistant, an aide, in international/interplanetary/intergalactic negotiations.
And built by a 5-year old slave. Other than to show how special Anakin was supposed to be this never made much sense to me. Was he built to help his mom haggle better prices in the marketplace?
Yeah, I liked the idea that C-3PO/0 was very old - hundreds of years, even - and had been used by the Republic before falling in with the Rebellion.
Oh, and Artoo and Threepio are also kind of special cases in the droid world - droids’ memories are supposed to be wiped quite frequently (annually, maybe?) so they don’t start developing a personality like those two have.
It was a joke, dude.
Not a very good one, then. In my lexicon, jokes are meant to make you laugh.
I prefer to think of 3PO not so much as being built by Anakin, as reassembled. Therefore his true original intentions and his actual age and history may still be quite extensive.
My apologies; here in the real world, my sarcasm is as a hammer. Out there in DoperLand it is but a feather landing on one’s head.
My use of smilies is grossly insufficient. Please mentally attach a :rolleyes: to each if you so feel the need.
I always wondered what the hell Ani was doing building a protocal droid anyway?
My guess is, he was a disasembled damaged thrown out droid, Ani took the parts and rebuilt him.
Similar to what I have seen done with some vehicles pulled out of the junk yards and fields and restored.
I think Lucas has R2 beep and whistle because it made a better movies having a cute spunky droid that did not speak.
Lets face it, R2 with a voice would have been less impressive.