But while these names have entered the cultural lexicon, there are many more that haven't. As a result, many of the characters who share the screen with our favorite heroes have names that aren't as appealing or powerful.
To be fair, Droopy is only his stage name. His legal name is Snit, though that's not much better. Perhaps, in his native Kitonakian, it is more mellifluous. Either way, Droopy is how he's best known.
Everyone's favorite death stick dealer, Elan Sleazebaggano, has a name perfectly suited to his profession. Appearing in Attack of the Clones, Elan's closest brush with fame happened when he attempted to sell death sticks to Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Alas! Poor Ima-Gun Di. We hardly knew ye. Yet another resident of that distant galaxy whose name seems to preconceive his fate is Ima-Gun Di (pronounced I'm-a gon' die). Ima-Gun is a Jedi master who met death in the same episode of The Clone Wars that audiences first met him.
It sounds like the college nickname given to the freshman who got so wasted on rosé during Rush week that he passed out in the janitor's closet after mistaking it for his dorm.
I'll bet you anything Mr. Lo knows how to cook a mean pork loin. But whatever ideas his name might evoke upon first hearing it, Slowen Lo defies expectations.
This poor dude. I know he's a Separatist and war-monger and that he believes the clones to be little more than cannon fodder, but with a name like that, I think anyone would be bitter.