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" It was recently announced that Adam Driver may play the villain in the new Star Wars. Bad guys are fun and all, but many fans have yet to recognize Star Wars&amp;#039; true hero. It&amp;#039;s not Luke Skywalker or Han Solo. It sure as hell ain&amp;#039;t Darth Vader. What people don&amp;#039;t realize is that R2-D2 is the most underrated hero in movie history. R2-D2 is droid at its best. Without him The Trade Federation would have prevailed, Obi-Wan, Padme, Anakin, Luke, and Leia all would have been killed, the Death Star would have not been defeated, and Han Solo would&amp;#039;ve gotten vaporized for real (and not just frozen in carbonite). Don&amp;#039;t believe me? Take a look and recognize. Episode I: God doesn&amp;#039;t save the Queen. R2-D2 does when he fixes her escaping ship&amp;#039;s shield generator. And he helps Anakin get his ship off autopilot so he can whoop Trade Federation ass. Episode II: Stops Padme from being melted to death. Episode III: Prevents Anakin&amp;#039;s ship from being ripped apart by buzz droids. Episode IV: Carries the Death Star plans for the rebels and gets the &amp;quot;Help me Obi-Wan&amp;quot; message to Luke. Oh, and he saves Luke, Han, and Leia from being crushed in this trash shoot thing. Episode V: Fixes the Millennium Falcon and allows for a hyperdrive escape from Cloud City. Episode VI: Breaks chains that are holding Leia captive so she&amp;#039;s not attached to a giant dead slug on a ship that&amp;#039;s about to explode. This allows her to escape in that hot, hot bikini. Also smuggles Luke&amp;#039;s lightsaber into Jabba&amp;#039;s palace and throws it to him at the most opportune time. R2-D2 isn&amp;#039;t just some droid Luke bought after other robot purchases defected. Nor is he merely collateral for Luke to offer in exchange for Han Solo&amp;#039;s life. And he&amp;#039;s certainly more than some cutesy sidekick that provides comic relief with C-3PO. He&amp;#039;s a badass motherfker. And he doesn&amp;#039;t shove it in your face or brag about it. Nor does he give a shit whether the Force is with him. Doesn&amp;#039;t need it. He creates his own destiny. Don&amp;#039;t mistake his philosophical indifference for a lack of confidence. When he outwits battle droids and fries them in oil, he doesn&amp;#039;t hang around to ensure the much larger opponents were destroyed. When he&amp;#039;s in Jabba&amp;#039;s compound, he doesn&amp;#039;t cowardly submit like C-3PO. Doesn&amp;#039;t need to. He still delivers a feisty attitude because he already knows he&amp;#039;s won. The droid just goes about his day subtly saving the galaxy one movie at a time while displaying a super-fly nonchalance. If Samuel Jackson were a droid, and wasn&amp;#039;t already playing Mace Windu, he would have played R2-D2. But even Jackson doesn&amp;#039;t have enough flavor to cover R2-D2&amp;#039;s hip persona. Don&amp;#039;t be fooled by Obi-Wan&amp;#039;s mind tricks. R2-D2 is the hero we&amp;#039;re all looking for. Watch R2-D2 in fine form \u2014 wasting other droids \u2014 below (ignore the Swedish subtitles).      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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