# Where Did YODA (Star Wars) Come From? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 6, 2008, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-yoda-star-wars-come-from/440270 "2008-03-06T01:22:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-yoda-star-wars-come-from/440270/41 "2008-03-06T20:30:57Z")
[QUOTE=Cluricaun] An even better question that was never addressed and that I’ve mentioned before is what did the bathroom in Mos Eisley look like? There would have to be some serious hardware just to contain the pee of the universe and to accomodate the different going styles and substances that could show up. I mean could you imagine stopping in to have a few Galatic Beers only to find out that they don’t have a facility for you to use? I’ll bet that’s why that one guy was so pissed at Luke. He wasn’t a bad guy, he just needed to pee. [/QUOTE] Sergio Aragones from MAD magazine did a classic panel “showing” it: > **[StarWars.com | The Official Star Wars Website](https://www.starwars.com)** > > The official site for Star Wars, featuring the latest news on Star Wars movies, series, video games, books, and more. Scroll to the middle and click for close up. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-yoda-star-wars-come-from/440270/42 "2008-03-06T20:36:08Z")
[QUOTE=GIGObuster] Sergio Aragones from MAD magazine did a classic panel “showing” it: > **[StarWars.com | The Official Star Wars Website](https://www.starwars.com)** > > The official site for Star Wars, featuring the latest news on Star Wars movies, series, video games, books, and more. Scroll to the middle and click for close up. [/QUOTE] My god, my life is now somehow complete. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Will\_Repair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a698b9/32.png) [@Will\_Repair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Will_Repair)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-yoda-star-wars-come-from/440270/43 "2008-03-06T21:29:49Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] …the Imperial officers and troops are (almost) all human. [/QUOTE] If you were a hiring Dark Overlord wouldn’t you prefer the species that wiped out all other sentient species on their planet before they got outside their own solar system? I can see the t-shirts now: [del]Neanderthals 30,000 BC[/del] [del]Whales & Dolphins 2009 AD[/del] Jedi TBA ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-yoda-star-wars-come-from/440270/44 "2008-03-06T21:35:25Z")
[QUOTE=Will Repair] If you were a hiring Dark Overlord wouldn’t you prefer the species that wiped out all other sentient species on their planet before they got outside their own solar system? I can see the t-shirts now: [del]Neanderthals 30,000 BC[/del] [del]Whales & Dolphins 2009 AD[/del] Jedi TBA [/QUOTE] Eh. They’re not “us” human. They’re just humanoid enough to be called human in relation to the rest of their galaxy. Remember, “a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away”… ---
**Author:** ![Will\_Repair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a698b9/32.png) [@Will\_Repair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Will_Repair)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-yoda-star-wars-come-from/440270/45 "2008-03-06T21:49:41Z")
You mean like _Fargo_ was based on a true story? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-yoda-star-wars-come-from/440270/46 "2008-03-06T21:55:24Z")
I’m not quite sure of your point. Star Wars is complete fiction. If Lucas had wanted to make them exact duplicates of humanity but living in the galaxy M105, that’s the “truth” of their fictional situation. I’m well aware that there aren’t really “humans” in some distant galaxy millennia ago. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-yoda-star-wars-come-from/440270/47 "2008-03-06T22:08:28Z")
[QUOTE=Will Repair] You mean like _Fargo_ was based on a true story? [/QUOTE] I’m not sure I understand your point. We’re told it takes place in a galaxy far away and a long time ago so we know they’re not us. They happen to look human for convenience’s sake, and they also happen to speak English for convenience’s sake. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-yoda-star-wars-come-from/440270/48 "2008-03-06T22:16:12Z")
[QUOTE=ralph124c] That odd looking, quasi-human guy YODA-where did he come from? Was there ever an explanation of how his kind became involved with humans? And, why was there only one? Was he the last remnent of a species that died out? [/QUOTE] [http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33208](http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33208) 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Autumn\_Almanac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@Autumn\_Almanac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autumn_Almanac)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-yoda-star-wars-come-from/440270/49 "2008-03-06T22:50:14Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] We’re told it takes place in a galaxy far away and a long time ago so we know they’re not us. [/QUOTE] All will be explained when the Rebel fleet arrives at present day Earth in the next sequel, _Star Wars 1980_. ---
**Author:** ![Furious\_Marmot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dfb087/32.png) [@Furious\_Marmot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Furious_Marmot)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-yoda-star-wars-come-from/440270/50 "2008-03-06T22:50:25Z")
[QUOTE=Cluricaun] My god, my life is now somehow complete. Thank you. [/QUOTE] The old Sierra computer game Space Quest 2 also did an amusing take on multi-species space bathrooms. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-yoda-star-wars-come-from/440270/51 "2008-03-06T22:52:55Z")
[QUOTE=Autumn Almanac] All will be explained when the Rebel fleet arrives at present day Earth in the next sequel, _Star Wars 1980_. [/QUOTE] _thwap_ There are ideas too vile for words, you know… ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-yoda-star-wars-come-from/440270/52 "2008-03-06T22:57:22Z")
[QUOTE=ralph124c] **Where Did YODA (Star Wars) Come From?** [/QUOTE] I’m thinking an improbable concatenation of events involving a Jedi, a whomprat in estrus, and some death-sticks past their sell-by date. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-yoda-star-wars-come-from/440270/53 "2008-03-06T23:04:31Z")
[QUOTE=Autumn Almanac] All will be explained when the Rebel fleet arrives at present day Earth in the next sequel, _Star Wars 1980_. [/QUOTE] Let’s make it _Star Wars 2008/SG-1._ That’d be fun. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-yoda-star-wars-come-from/440270/54 "2008-03-07T03:25:16Z")
“Well, Yoda’s just zis guy, you know?” -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-yoda-star-wars-come-from/440270/55 "2008-03-07T12:41:28Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] _thwap_ There are ideas too vile for words, you know… [/QUOTE] And yet Lucas seems strangely drawn to such things. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-yoda-star-wars-come-from/440270/56 "2008-03-07T16:56:01Z")
[QUOTE=Furious\_Marmot] The old Sierra computer game Space Quest 2 also did an amusing take on multi-species space bathrooms. [/QUOTE] I know that Babylon 5 had separate stalls for Pakmara. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-yoda-star-wars-come-from/440270/57 "2008-03-08T01:18:08Z")
[QUOTE=Yllaria] How do you identify an alien as female without hanging a symbol from our culture on them or a sign saying ‘female’? [/QUOTE] Like [this.](http://lh5.google.ca/abramsv/R7DyCaoDz7I/AAAAAAAAIH4/3V7L9f2pHMc/s1600-h/2097112920_e4fdb7542d_o.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-yoda-star-wars-come-from/440270/58 "2008-03-08T17:11:49Z")
So do you think Yoda was live birth or an egg? And what does his own language sound like? And why is it he can levitate and whip foes 10 times his size and overcome whatever vocal impediments his own kind has in speaking “English” but can’t master syntax? (And did anybody actually _see_ or _hear_ him talking with Qui Gon Jinn or did they just take the stressed old lizardling’s word for it? This was possibly in the top 40 weakest moments of the third movie in the trilogy that doesn’t count.) Other alien questions: Has any “official” source ever shown what Jawas look like under their robes? Are sandmen/Tusken raiders human? Is interspecies dating/marriage permitted? (Jabba certainly seems to like his non-Hutt dancing girls, and the way his tail was patting on the floor next to the sleeping Leia was a bit grossly suggestive.) If so the stage is set for MOS EISLEY SIDE STORY (“A boy with scales cannot love! A boy who’s slimy has two hearts! One of your own kind, stick to your own kind!”) One of MTV Movie Awards better moments was the senile Yoda at the Jedi council (made using actual clips from the movie to show his non sequitur responses in an interrogation). ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-yoda-star-wars-come-from/440270/59 "2008-03-08T17:22:01Z")
[QUOTE=Autumn Almanac] All will be explained when the Rebel fleet arrives at present day Earth in the next sequel, _Star Wars 1980_. [/QUOTE] I’m really sorry, but now I’m gonna have to kill you. Nothing personal. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-yoda-star-wars-come-from/440270/60 "2008-03-08T17:34:51Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] Has any “official” source ever shown what Jawas look like under their robes? Are sandmen/Tusken raiders human? [/QUOTE] Okay…this is from Wookiepedia, so I’m sure it’s not 100% reliable, but: I don’t believe we’ve ever seen (in ANY canon source) an unrobed/unhooded Jawa. However, according to [the Jawa article](http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jawa), the Jawas and [Sand](http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Tusken_Raider) People are thought to both be descendants of the [Kumumgah](http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Kumumgah), whom it is implied are the original Humans (or at least related to them) of the Star Wars galaxy in the game _Knights of the Old Republic_. Obviously, they’ve evolved away from anything reasonably human-looking, but that’s your base. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-yoda-star-wars-come-from/440270.md?page=2)