![]() Their relationship starts hostile, but Chopper donates his shiny new leg for AP-5 when the latter needs repairs to survive. He makes an unexpected friend in AP-5 ( Stephen Stanton), the most chronically depressed protocol droid this side of the Outer Rim. ( Rebels would easily earn an R-rating just for Chopper's dialogue if there were onscreen subtitles.)Īll the same, droids are people with nuanced personalities, and Chopper's no exception. And who gives life to Chopper's cackles and squeaks? Rebels and Ahsoka creator Dave Filoni, the current king of the Star Wars creative universe. His devious tendencies earn him affectionate (not) nicknames such as "rust bucket" and "metal menace" among the Ghost squadron. He basically hazes his new cohort with pranks, shoulder pokes, and mockery. Go big or go home, right?Chopper's especially miserly toward Ezra Bridger ( Taylor Gray) when the teenager first joins the Ghost crew. In the same episode he also body-slams R2, cusses him out with a string of indignant expletives, and nearly goads him into a fight. When C-3PO ( Anthony Daniels) calls him old, Chopper literally blows a circuit. And woe betide to anyone who brings up his advanced age. ![]() Sometimes his parts barely hang on - I'd also act cranky without remorse. ![]() He's a Clone Wars-era droid rolling around almost two decades later. If Rebels had Darth Chopper instead of Darth Vader, he would've eliminated the Rebellion within a week and merrily whistled about it.Some of this sassafras attitude we can trace purely to Chopper being an old man. Simply put, he wakes up and chooses violence every day. He has hissy fits, cackles maniacally over his carnage, and makes strategic use of his buzzsaw. Duh.) He steals important items just to be a troll, electrically shocks his friends and enemies at the slightest annoyance, boots an Imperial droid off the Ghost to its plummeting demise, runs down stormtroopers with the Imperial version of a giant tractor, and masterminded how to blow up a Star Destroyer from the outside. This little astromech is the droid equivalent of an old man yelling "damn kids, get off my lawn" while also wreaking gleeful destruction everywhere he goes. Speaking of Chopper's.unique.personality. She also charged Chopper with maintaining and repairing the Ghost, a task he only performed after intense procrastination and with heaving, aggrieved sighs. ![]() Hera formed the Spectre resistance group and granted Chopper the codename "Spectre-3," third only in the group to Jedi Knight Kanan Jarrus ( Freddie Prinze Jr.) and Hera. To no one's shock, the two stirred up mischief in Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season 1, Episode 11.When Hera left her home planet to join the earliest grassroots stages of the Rebellion, her best and closest ally followed. In turn, Hera felt ignored by Cham and Chopper's friendship filled that emotional void. Hera's father, Cham Syndulla ( Robin Atkin Downes), was frustrated that Hera spent more time with a droid than seeking out her father. The girl and her droid became close friends during the Clone Wars after a young Hera rescued Chopper from the wreckage of his crashed Y-wing ship. In the style of Luke Skywalker ( Mark Hamill) and R2-D2 or Poe Dameron ( Oscar Isaac) with BB-8, Hera and Chopper were rarely far apart.
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