# The Boba Fett thread (spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 30, 2003, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boba-fett-thread-spoilers/210515 "2003-10-30T21:13:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boba-fett-thread-spoilers/210515/21 "2003-10-31T13:00:10Z")
> [@](#): > > I always took that as canon. It is canon. The order of canon goes like this: Movies Novelisations Expanded U Books Everything else has its own order behind this. But the three above are the important stuff; the real canon events. So officially, by the canon, Fett lived. You can’t kill Boba Fett. Also, the EU had some of its better books about Fett himself. I;ve noticed that any book where Jedi are a major feature suck. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boba-fett-thread-spoilers/210515/22 "2003-10-31T13:03:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by fiddlesticks \* > As I remember it, Boba was an amnesiac and mostly unconscious after being belched from Sarlaac and was picked up my Jawas who mistook him a broken-down droid. > > Somehow, Han got inside the same sandcrawler later in the comic. Boba got his memory back as Han was holding out his hand to save him from the doomed crawler heading back into the maw of Sarlaac. As far as I know that was Boba’s last appearance in the Marvel series. > > Had a pretty cover…it was the first issue after RotJ. > > [http://www.wheelon.com/comics/marvel\_comics\_issues\_81-90.htm](http://www.wheelon.com/comics/marvel_comics_issues_81-90.htm) Yes! Yes! Thank you for validating my hallucinations. (Whatever happened to those comics, anyway? Iskalonians and Nagai and all that … they just kinda disappeared at issue #107. And my subscription as a kid ended at #106, so I’ve never read the last issue and feel very, very ripped off about it.) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boba-fett-thread-spoilers/210515/23 "2003-10-31T19:18:13Z")
Officially, by the highest level of canon, anything that falls into the Sarlaac pit is a goner, and Boba fell into the Sarlaac pit. It’s a simple syllogism, folks. The other materials are canon only insofar as they don’t contradict the movies, and saying that Boba survived contradicts the movies. And why is it such an ignoble way to die, anyway? I could see that if Boba were a cool character, but from the canon sources, he’s a bungling idiot. I mean, he’s such a loser that he made his first appearance in the _Christmas special_, fercryingoutloud! A loser in life, a loser in death. It works. ---
**Author:** ![PigArcher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@PigArcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PigArcher)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boba-fett-thread-spoilers/210515/24 "2003-10-31T19:43:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Baggins111 \* > **Wedge did not die at the Battle of Hoth. He’s been in all three movies.** IANA Star Wars Geek, but I’m pretty sure that Wedge dies, not at the Battle of Hoth, but in the big space battle at the end of RotJ. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boba-fett-thread-spoilers/210515/25 "2003-10-31T19:56:45Z")
Nah. Wedge pilots the X-Wing into the center of the Death Star, followed by Lando and Nien Numb in the Millenium Falcon. Wedge takes out the power regulator on the north side and then flies out. But I’ll deny knowing that in public. ---
**Author:** ![ResIpsaLoquitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@ResIpsaLoquitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ResIpsaLoquitor)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boba-fett-thread-spoilers/210515/26 "2003-10-31T20:05:41Z")
Wedge can be seen at the Ewok celebration afterward, can’t he? ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boba-fett-thread-spoilers/210515/27 "2003-10-31T20:36:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ResIpsaLoquitor \* > \*\*Wedge can be seen at the Ewok celebration afterward, can’t he? \*\* yes. Wedge cannot be killed. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boba-fett-thread-spoilers/210515/28 "2003-10-31T20:46:27Z")
Yep. He’s the ‘non-lead’ character given face time in the final portrait. Hell, he earned it. ---
**Author:** ![paperbackwriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@paperbackwriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paperbackwriter)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boba-fett-thread-spoilers/210515/29 "2003-10-31T20:54:24Z")
I don’t know much about Boba Fett, but I think I should nominate this thread as an answer to **Ranchoth** ’s [query](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=220409&highlight=geeky+group+activity). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Soapbox\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Soapbox\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soapbox_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boba-fett-thread-spoilers/210515/30 "2003-10-31T21:23:30Z")
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!! I’m tired of this EU shit. None of it is canon. When it comes to Star Wars the only canon material is what appears on the big screen. Boba Fett is DEAD. Get over it. Not only did he die in the sarlac pit, he is an overrated character. I’m sorry, but these books and games mean shit in terms of the story. The only thing that matters are the events during the 2 and a half hours of screentime for each episode. Who cares what happens to Boba while he’s in the sarlac pit? Who cares about Han and Leia’s children? Star Wars is about the rise, fall and redemption of Anakin Skywalker. We first meet Anakin in Episode I, and he dies in Episode VI. END OF STORY! \ ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boba-fett-thread-spoilers/210515/31 "2003-10-31T21:45:51Z")
> [@](#): > > **Soapbox Monkey** :Not only did he die in the sarlac pit, he is an overrated character. Blasphemy! After 1980, all [the hard kids](http://216.232.71.251/~larry/photos/mudd_fett.jpg) knew Fett was where it was at. Err… ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boba-fett-thread-spoilers/210515/32 "2003-11-01T08:05:33Z")
My friend’s feeling is that Lucas is ultimately responsible for Jedi Academy since it’s his company, therefore Boba Fett lives. Personally, I don’t see how the Sarlacc is so difficult to escape for a fully armed and armored bounty hunter, but I don’t really care that much one way or the other. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boba-fett-thread-spoilers/210515.md?page=1)