{"id":49521,"date":"2016-10-05T17:30:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T00:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/?p=49521"},"modified":"2019-03-05T17:53:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T01:53:48","slug":"the-wit-of-star-wars-a-galaxy-of-sass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/the-wit-of-star-wars-a-galaxy-of-sass\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wit of Star Wars: A Galaxy of Sass"},"content":{"rendered":"

When your job becomes saving the galaxy, it\u2019s easy to give in to some sass every once and a while. Or, perhaps more than that if you\u2019ve got a special penchant for snark. The heroes of the Star Wars<\/em> universe<\/a> had such penchant. These characters trained many of us, including myself, the finer details of the art of sassiness. They even illustrated that sometimes it takes no words to convey your whip-like smarts.<\/p>\n

Han Solo<\/h2>\n

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It\u2019s hard to rank them, but let\u2019s start with Han Solo. Being the scruffy looking nerf herder that he is, sass is basically all that he\u2019s made up of. Snark is easier than emotions, you see. So is running, but that\u2019s a rant for another time. From the moment we meet the smuggler, we are met with constant quips and biting wit. His few moments of sincerity are typically when himself or when someone he (begrudgingly) loves is in mortal peril.<\/p>\n

Princess Leia Organa<\/h2>\n

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Every scoundrel with wit needs an equally clever woman to banter with, so next up is Leia Organa. Being raised as a princess didn\u2019t stop Leia from picking up the finer points of being cheeky. In fact, it seems to have only sharpened the sassy bite of her words. Never once does she put up with Han\u2019s, or anyone\u2019s snark. The General of the Resistance may be more pensive now, but she can dish out every bit of what she can take.<\/p>\n

Obi-Wan Kenobi<\/h2>\n

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Young Obi-Wan Kenobi may seem like a weird addition to this list, but I firmly believe that\u2019s only because most of us avoid the prequels whenever possible. If you take a look at them, and shows like Star Wars:\u00a0The Clone Wars<\/em>, you can see that Master Kenobi schools Anakin every moment he can, and I\u2019m not just talking about in the art of being a Jedi.<\/p>\n

Chewbacca and R2-D2<\/h2>\n

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Leaving out Chewbacca and R2 would be gross negligence on my part. These two characters have spread their sass across the galaxy without ever uttering a single word. It\u2019s impossible to blame them though. Chewie\u2019s spent a\u00a0long time dealing with Han\u2019s shenanigans, and R2 has dealt with everything from Anakin Skywalker to Yoda. With their growls and beeps, these two companions can keep up with the sassiest of \u2018em.<\/p>\n

They may be scruffy lookin\u2019, walking carpets, beaten down droids, “disgraced” Jedi, and occasionally stuck up princesses, but the sass, snark, and wit that these characters bring add a levity sorely needed to a galaxy that seems to be in constant peril.<\/p>\n

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The views expressed in this article are solely those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect the views of Entertainment Earth, Inc. its owners, officers, employees, affiliates, subsidiaries, partners, vendors, customers or licensors.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When your job becomes saving the galaxy, it\u2019s easy to give in to some sass every once and a while. Or, perhaps more than that if you\u2019ve got a special penchant for snark. The heroes of the Star Wars universe had such penchant. These characters trained many of us, including myself, the finer details of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,3792,390,389],"tags":[896,3145,112,373,858,1136,3857,335,419,4622],"yst_prominent_words":[5804,6475,36883,6703,7462,7441,29579,6032,36842,32435,36882,36879,36884,36880,7470,5780,5779,5781,36881,23631],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49521"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64127,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49521\/revisions\/64127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49521"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=49521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}