Although we still want someone to tell us the fastest way to kill a Jar Jar or why no-one has reprogrammed C-3PO to be less annoying.
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“Star Wars Special: C-3PO” #1 from James Robinson and Tony Harris is on sale now.
There’s an untapped market for droid therapists in the Star Wars universe, apparently, as evidenced in R2-D2’s crushing depression-described as “low-power mode” in typical degrading droid terminology-in The Force Awakens.
Following on from the movie Marvel has released a comic for the gold robot himself dubbed Star Wars: C-3PO #1. Just how did Threepio get a red arm, anyway? As the team travels around finding their way, the other droids are picked and destroyed one by one by the native inhabitants, until only two are left, See-Threepio and Omri.
In the comic, C-3PO is with other Resistance droids who have on their ship a captured First Order droid named Omri when they crash-land on a planet. They get into a discussion about the way droids constantly have their minds wiped when they’re reprogrammed, something which obviously happened to Threepio following the events of the prequel trilogy.
As they journey the hostile planet full of savage creatures and perilous obstacles, C-3PO and OMRI have an ongoing conversation about the nature of being a droid and how they fall on either side of a larger conflict. Omri walks out into certain death to activate a beacon and save his once-enemy. The acid, in killing Omri, reveals the original coat of red paint he had in a previous life.
The film did draw attention to the arm with C-3PO even talking about it, but little more is even hinted at. It’s because the red arm was never supposed to be important beyond a superficial change for C-3PO.
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C-3PO stands besides BB-8, a roly-poly symbol of droid innocence, sure to be short-lived now that he’s joined the Star Wars cast.
