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Star Wars has always had an underwater of strange racism, which ranged from Luke Skywalker calling Tusken Raiders “sand people” (sounding like slurry to us, Farmboy!) To George Lucas turning aliens into racist scours in the prequels. However, the racism comes to us by kindness of New hopeWhere Mos Eisley Cantina’s Bartender starts C-3PO and R2D2 and explains that it does not “serve their type” in its organization. It’s troublesome because of this bartender (Wuher) is the only droid cashier in the original Star Wars trilogy, but it seems only hateful because his parents were killed by battle droids.
Why Wuher hates Droids is something that Star Wars fans have been asking for themselves for decades, for several reasons … like, why would the bartender go out of his way to explain that he doesn’t serve droids who can’t already eat or drink anything? He was ever Go to serve them, and in a world where influential people often travel with droids, his policy would actually mean lose Money by losing out on the richest clients. However, the short story “We do not serve their kind here” in the book From a specific scene Reveals that Wuher’s parents were killed by battle droids during the clone wars.
As far as Retcons goes, this is one of the most elegant we have ever seen in a distant galaxy, far away. In 1977, it made no sense that Wuher would be the same racial droid in the Star Wars universe as a whole. Learning that the battle of the battle has killed the parents of this bartender gives the gripping character some pathos in building the bleak reality of the prequels: that half of the Galaxy torn apart by an army of gibbering robots, which would leave more than a few people with some serious techno trauma.
Whether you dig Wuher’s sad backstory or not, you may be asking why we call the antipy racism of this character … after all, “droid” is not an exact grace in this fictional universe. Nevertheless, the bartender’s feelings are very similar to racism because it does not hold certain people liable for what happened to his parents, blaming every droid he sees for their murder. For example, he does not keep his rabies for battle droids specifically than their trade federation designers in general, going as far as acting as C-3PO and R2-D2 are just as dangerous as the bots that killed his mother and father.
If nothing else, we enjoyed this revelation about Wuher because he answered one of our biggest questions about Star Wars: how, how people on average felt about post -war droids between the old Republic and the Confederation of Independent Systems ended. We know that countless galactic residents have learned to hate and fear the Jedi after order 66 thanks to the effective propaganda of the Palpatine emperor. It stands for reason that many imperialist citizens would likewise hate Droids after the war, and Wuher’s anger towards these clanists proves how wide this robbed racism actually was.
Thanks to his memorable line delivery of “We Don’t Serve Their Kind Here,” Wuher became a fast -loving Star Wars character. However, those fans had to spend decade Wondering why this guy got a grudge size star Death towards Droids. Thanks to the short story “We are not serving their kind here,” we have the answer to that question as well as some Really Heavy backstory for the most traumatic guy in the galaxy of this side to Rancor Wrangler Jabba.
