Favorite Star Wars quote from any source

What's trite and toxic about the Mandos (unless you are referring to their occasional, erm, genocide)?
"In that raider's cave of a room [...] stood a magnificent man in magnificent armor, the kind of Radiant Mantle of Kingship sonofa[female dog] that doesn't really exist outside of stories and songs; you know, Arthur, Charlemagne, Frederick Barbarossa, Richard Coeur de Lion, all those blood-drunk thugs with good enough press agents to somehow end up heroes to way too many gullible losers. Not unlike me, I guess. But let that go."
-Dominic Shade on Justiciar Purthin Khlaylock, Caine Black Knife

(I, obviously, really like Stover. One of the best parts of Shadows of Mindor was how he had Lando mercilessly mock Fenn Shysa and the Protectors, while playing the Fandalorian stuff straight enough in other parts of the book to make it even out. Nice job with the balancing act, there.)

The Mandalorians are a bunch of blood-drunk thugs who pretend they're not, who abide by a code of honor that is ignored whenever it suits them and adhered to the rest of the time. They're the scrappy underdogs who always lose every war except the one for the history books. To their fans, they're the Everymen who don't have special Force powers but still go toe-to-toe with the Jedi (until they lose), but they add to this working-class hero rhetoric a bizarre fascination with the ostensibly superhuman amount of training that they undergo: the blue-collar elite, I guess. Their conlang was specifically designed to introduce fans of other fantasy IPs, like Star Trek and Lord of the Rings, to Star Wars fandom. (Look, our franchise can change to be just like yours! Buy a copy of Republic Commando while you're here.) They have a ridiculously Mary Sue society of yeoman farmer-warriors with small numbers but who somehow possess tremendous technological prowess - Maori Spartan-Romans with Nazi Wunderwaffen.

And to crown it all, the stories that form the backbone of the Mandalorian canon contain some of the poorest writing in the EU, from a fantasy author that even compared to her contemporaries is one of the more reviled writers in the genre. The whole 'Fandalorian' thing was really bad about eight years ago, but plenty of those obnoxious jerks are still around today. The Old Republic and the Clone Wars TV series sort of gave them a new lease on life.

In the films, Mandalorians spent all their screen time mugging, falling into death pits, running away from Jedi, and getting their heads chopped off like punks. Somehow that bloated into the biggest and most die-hard subset of Star Wars fandom around. Go figure.
 
"In that raider's cave of a room [...] stood a magnificent man in magnificent armor, the kind of Radiant Mantle of Kingship sonofa[female dog] that doesn't really exist outside of stories and songs; you know, Arthur, Charlemagne, Frederick Barbarossa, Richard Coeur de Lion, all those blood-drunk thugs with good enough press agents to somehow end up heroes to way too many gullible losers. Not unlike me, I guess. But let that go."
-Dominic Shade on Justiciar Purthin Khlaylock, Caine Black Knife

(I, obviously, really like Stover. One of the best parts of Shadows of Mindor was how he had Lando mercilessly mock Fenn Shysa and the Protectors, while playing the Fandalorian stuff straight enough in other parts of the book to make it even out. Nice job with the balancing act, there.)

The Mandalorians are a bunch of blood-drunk thugs who pretend they're not, who abide by a code of honor that is ignored whenever it suits them and adhered to the rest of the time. They're the scrappy underdogs who always lose every war except the one for the history books. To their fans, they're the Everymen who don't have special Force powers but still go toe-to-toe with the Jedi (until they lose), but they add to this working-class hero rhetoric a bizarre fascination with the ostensibly superhuman amount of training that they undergo: the blue-collar elite, I guess. Their conlang was specifically designed to introduce fans of other fantasy IPs, like Star Trek and Lord of the Rings, to Star Wars fandom. (Look, our franchise can change to be just like yours! Buy a copy of Republic Commando while you're here.) They have a ridiculously Mary Sue society of yeoman farmer-warriors with small numbers but who somehow possess tremendous technological prowess - Maori Spartan-Romans with Nazi Wunderwaffen.

And to crown it all, the stories that form the backbone of the Mandalorian canon contain some of the poorest writing in the EU, from a fantasy author that even compared to her contemporaries is one of the more reviled writers in the genre. The whole 'Fandalorian' thing was really bad about eight years ago, but plenty of those obnoxious jerks are still around today. The Old Republic and the Clone Wars TV series sort of gave them a new lease on life.

In the films, Mandalorians spent all their screen time mugging, falling into death pits, running away from Jedi, and getting their heads chopped off like punks. Somehow that bloated into the biggest and most die-hard subset of Star Wars fandom around. Go figure.
Okay, okay, I get it, I'm apparently a horrible person for liking them. I'm not a quarter as acquainted with Star Wars lore and fandoms as you are, so I'll defer to your knowledge on that. I haven't read any books on them or anything. I was just attracted to a militaristic society of armored people. Don't know much more about them than that, and that they fought a bunch of wars against everyone thousands of years before, and that they tended to lose to Jedi. Most people do, except for supernaturally, impossibly skilled Jedi hunters who inexplicably mow them down. But I digress.

And how exactly is this "par for the course" for me based on my other interests? I really don't pay attention to fanbases and the like. Medieval Lithuania doesn't have any large, annoying fanbase that I know of. It's simply forgotten by everyone outside of Eastern Europe and the unmentionable country. Steppe nomads are worshipped by insane hypernationalist Turanist losers who hijack everything that involves Turkey or Mongolia, I'll grant, but I like said nomads anyway due to their whole lifestyle and history. The 16th century Mediterranean military/political climate is nothing like the Mandalorians. Timur the Lame is largely forgotten; he was an evil mass-murderer, but it's okay to find him interesting; lots of people study things like crime and Nazism and harmonicas without being looked down upon for it. Sassanid Persia is flat-out ignored, so it's not really comparable to the Mandos.

So I don't exactly see your point that I'm a gullible idiot fanboy who worships blood-drunk thugs. I find military affairs fascinating, yes, but I think that "great conquerors" worshiped by so many were just violent jerks who made the world worse (Alexander, Napoleon, Chinggis Khan, Timur, Nader Shah, etc). Granted, I'm not exactly a prominent poster and so it's easy to forget what my interests are, but still. :confused:
 
It was mostly about the Mongols and other associated steppe nomads bit.

Anyway, it wasn't meant as OMG YOU'RE A HORRIBLE PERSON; the ;) ought to have been at least sort of a way to clue you in to that. But you hit enough of the points that most Fandalorians would - indestructibility, "aruetii" shaming, anything and everything Skirata - to make that sort of reaction almost knee-jerk.

If you see somebody quoting Rand Paul and Ted Cruz, talking about the government as a Ponzi scheme, praising bitcoins as the new wave of rational currency, and referring to everybody who disagrees as a "statist", you're going to assume that that person is a libertarian with all of the enormous amount of baggage that that entails. You're not going to think, "oh, hey, maybe this person just happened to read some interesting quotes and doesn't really know the whole context behind this issue".

I will, however, say that I, Jedi is a very good pick in general, not just for quotes. It's one of Stackpole's two best Star Wars books (depending on how you feel about Dark Tide: Ruin) and the hydrogen, stupidity, and TIE fighters line is one of his funniest bits in that book. It combined one of my favorite parts of Star Wars writing - fixing stupid crap that bad authors wrote and making it fit into the lore in a way that makes sense - with a broad variety of action sequences and philosophy that was better than the usual garden-variety crap in mass market paperback fiction. Horn was less of an obnoxious ass than he was in the X-Wing books. All good.
 
Well, two of my three Mando quotes just mentioned their armor, and one made fun of this Skirata guy, so I don't think I'm that comparable to another GW16, but I see your point; it's just that I really haven't followed Star Wars since I was 12-ish (not because I think it's childish; I just got interested in other things), and even then I didn't read all that much. Besides the kids' books (Young Jedi Apprentice or something), I really only read I, Jedi, a handful of the Yuuzhan Vong books, Shatterpoint, and Labyrinth of Evil, saw the movies, and played a lot of the games (but not KOTOR, unfortunately).

I just get a bit defensive when sharing my interests here because I've seen so many people here, including me, get put down for sharing theirs. It's made me pretty hesitant to post at all, and when I do I'm always expecting to get attacked for it. And, of course, there's Poe's Law.

Aaanyway, a quote:

"It occurred to me, on reflection, that Nick Rostu can be regarded as a test to my moral conviction. A Jedi might conceivably fall to the dark side from the simple desire to smack the snot out of him."
– Mace Windu’s diary entry, Shatterpoint
 
This is my favourite.


Link to video.

Who is this daft Vadar, btw?

Then there's this:


Link to video.

Which is a bit, meh. But still, the original Star Wars was supposed to be based on Hidden Fortress - the first 30 seconds of the latter were quite good.
 
I just reread my first post and wow, I did come off as a Fandalorian. Oops.
 
Actually never mind I just remembered that this is rather vulgar for this forum, WOOPS
 
"It's always so easy to avoid other people's vices, isn't it?" - Dark Redezvous. I wish dearly I could remember who said this. I read it once, four years ago, and the line has never left my head.

Yesterday my nephew and I were playing Star Wars Battlefront. I ran into an alcove with a control point -- undefended -- to claim it, and suddenly two droidekas (the rolling droids with the impenetrable shields) appeared and took aim at me. He, who has never seen any of the movies, yelled "It's a trap" and has no idea why I almost laughed myself off the chair.

There are Star Wars books now?

Yep, just a couple here and there.
 
"We don't have to win. We only have to fight." - Mace Windu, Shatterpoint

I don't like this one. Fighting without perspective is unneeded aggression to deceive yourself you're trying to set things right to me.
 
"These aren't the droids you're looking for," but only on the assumption that the hand wave can be counted as part of the quote. Otherwise, as squadbroken noted above, "I know."
 
Where have you been the last 17 years?
17's kind of a bizarre number to pick. Splinter of the Mind's Eye and Han Solo at Stars' End came out in 1978. And the modern explosion of Star Wars books began with Heir to the Empire in 1991.
 
 
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