marcicat | Caturday Star Wars thoughts

I did not actually see all of the 1-2-3 Star Wars movies, but now having read hundreds of thousands of words of fanfic based on them, I can officially say: anyone who thinks the name “Kylo Ren” being ridiculous is a new thing for Star Wars definitely did not see them either.

Kit Fisto?
Nute Gunray?
Mace Windu?

Who came up with these? There’s actually lots more super weird Star Wars names, too. Not even ‘hey, it’s an alien race, we had to come up with something,’ but ‘pick three single syllable words or sounds and jumble them together.’

I actually think that would be a great translation!fail story — like all these names are actually just being poorly babelfish’d into basic (or whatever the galactic standard language is), and people are constantly having the ‘you think my name is *what*?!’ conversation.

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