Battle Droid Sings “Fortunate Son”

Separatist B1 Battle-Droid, Roger, sings his rendition of "Fortunate Son" by Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Edited by Aidan Russell

[@goingblargh]

_“Y’know, there’s lots of things you expect in war. Carnage, the sleepless nights, but what they don’t prepare you for is the Clanker’s incessant use of Fortunate Son.“_ -A clone trooper serving in the 501st

[@chrisharris1521]

Who else but Quagmire?!

[@Midnight.Shadows]

"That and that "There's something happening here" song."

[@Joseph_yy]

⁠@@chrisharris1521You mean Clankmire?

[@joshuacowling2237]

I Understood That Reference 😎

[@user-ds6yz7mp6m]

Sir, the clinkers are basting the song again sir!

[@BAGELMENSK]

The "Ain't no Senator's son" line hits different.

[@CamBoone]

😂

[@werewolfx51]

Not yet!

[@thegamingnb_666]

I am the senate

[@timmy6890]

Lol true

[@TheRomanSkull]

@@thegamingnb_666 so he isn't yours right?

[@OuterRimPride]

When you were designed to move boxes but get sent across the galaxy to topple the entire Republic and defeat their army of cloned Mandalorian super-soldiers and space-wizard generals, all because a couple old guys in black robes wanted to settle a religious feud

[@timmorin6657]

It do be like that ma klanka

[@mitchellwright5478]

My Klanka.

[@PsychoPubBoi]

Underrated

[@aaronsibley]

​@@timmorin6657maclunkey

[@Blueee51]

​@@mitchellwright5478my klanka my klanka

[@MrRitsukaLoveless]

Clones on Kashyyyk waking up and hearing this in the middle of the night

[@AntiCreativeUsername]

AARARARAHG (HERE THEY COME!)

[@ShatteredQvartz]

I just thought of that lmao

[@ECWPlays]

Clankers in the trees!

[@pawe8134]

Kashyyyk 1971

[@El_Tanque_]

THE TREES ARE TALKING IN WOOKIE

[@richs.7373]

The trees are speaking Gungan out here

[@nuruddinshah684]

Oh fuck 😂

[@jackalope2302]

Yousa inna dah deep poodoo!

[@ChupeTTe]

​@@jackalope2302 Kriff

[@popinyoyo]

Gotta have this on loop when playing battlefront 2 supremacy for the true experience

[@kaoniceli7096]

Only on Kashyyyk

[@popinyoyo]

@@kaoniceli7096 only when playing as a droid on supremacy or galactic assault (preferably galactic assault because of the air vehicles)

[@matttheradartechnician]

Lore accurate experience

[@cometastral]

Wtf are yall talking about? He meant the REAL Star Wars Battlefront 2 from the 2000s

[@popinyoyo]

@@cometastral No, I'm not

[@rayanderson5797]

Battle droid with "born to kill" and a peace sign stenciled on it's head, and a toothbrush and bottle of hot sauce attached to it...somehow...

[@jasonvargo8087]

Duck Tape and broken dreams is how

[@ArdentLion]

"It represents the dichotomy of the force, sir. You know, a Jungian thing."

[@filanfyretracker]

@@ArdentLion "how do you shoot women and younglings" "Easy you just don't lead em so much".

[@jackalope2302]

"I AM in a galaxy of poodoo!" Pvt. P-Y13

[@53gaDr34mc4st]

Magnets. Instead of patches and stickers Droids use magnets.

[@TsukiNaito1]

It occurs to me that Luke Skywalker cannot sing this song, as he is both a military and senator's son.

[@Stussmeister]

Indeed, and when you think about it, his parents owned one of the most expensive homes on Coruscant, and his father (as Vader) could throw money out the window without a second thought, so the "millionaire's son" seems to apply as well.

[@John-qv5ux]

The Rebel Alliance is just the children of the upper class wanting their Coruscant penthouses back

[@Drizerce]

A battle droid singing about how he wasn’t born to serve the army is the funniest thing i’ve ever heard.

[@koopatroopa7968]

I mean, it technically wasn’t _born,_ it was built

[@johnblackrose]

No human is meant to serve either but because people are evil or dumb or both we have to have militaries

[@paradox2210]

B1 Battle Droids (the old OOM trade federation ones) were originally created as mining robots… so it’s technically true.

[@dreamcatcherben8214]

The fact that this fits so well with the view the CIS had of the republic, thus why they wanted to rebel, is mental.

[@dbio305]

The funnier part is that America was founded on rebellion, we should all have sided with CIS from the start

[@Benjithecorg37482]

It’s just like another confederacy we’ve had on earth before

[@RavenWolffe77]

​@BenitoBorealis-on5ni lmao no, it wasn't. Superficially, maybe, with the rich wanting to avoid loosing profits, but the reality was that the CIS was a legitimate movement long before the Megacorps got involved.

[@TK--hf6db]

Both made mad profits off slavery@@Benjithecorg37482

[@praisethesun.praisedeussol6051]

​@@TK--hf6db the confederacy was actually justified tho as they had basically no power in the republic

[@Cleavatr0n]

Droids: “WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER 🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸” Clones: “😮”

[@EvilerManx8]

irony is both sides lost their respective wars

[@xeltanni8999]

The REAL irony is that the droids actually do have kill-o-meters. That's how they track who gets promoted. If you slice it to give yourself more kills artificially, they call that "cloned valor".

[@Randomrobot-fs4du]

@@EvilerManx8 it was more of a, we gave up. just kinda... left, it was kinda "you done" "no." "okay im going home."

[@EmilyKimMartin]

@@Randomrobot-fs4du "I'm done getting my ass kicked by rice farmers so I'm leaving" is the same thing as losing your war

[@vexiture]

@@EmilyKimMartin mmm you sure we lost the one we kill thousands more than them they killed 58k soldiers we had Some 275,000-310,000 Cambodians, 20,000-62,000 Laotians i think we may have won

[@reduxys4819]

love how he still has a southern accent despite the filter lmao

[@YoLo-bb2vc]

id imagine droid voices are modular so it wouldnt really take much to change the pitch and tone i guess

[@yesyesyesyes1600]

Never heard of the southern part of the galaxy? 😅😁

[@Supernautiloid]

That droid be born on the bayou, son.

[@turdmanjones59]

@@Supernautiloid a bayou droid

[@obamabiden]

well he is from the *Confederacy* of Independent Systems

[@schrodingersgat4344]

This slaps WAY harder than it should.

[@gamermich6gaming319]

Exactly bro, its super good

[@agent_f4lstad]

yep

[@DeathSpread]

Hearing a B1 Battledroid shout "That red white and blue!" is something I never thought would be so wonderful

[@giarnovanzeijl399]

Dutch and French droids.

[@greenhydra10]

The fact that it's a battle droid (well, any group that took part in the Clone Wars) makes it a hundred times better because it makes perfect sense.

[@thepastarat]

almost like that's why they made the video

[@channelname5938]

@@thepastarat☝️🤓

[@thepastarat]

@@channelname5938 you dont know what that emoji means do you lmao

[@KwadDamyj]

Damn, for a guy with no respiratory system, Roger's got some serious pipes!

[@jackalope2302]

They exhaust pipes!

[@YeetusDeletus239]

😂

[@RobocopStealerOfFridges]

"Hey B1572, remember the Battle of Kashyyk?"

[@moblinmajorgeneral]

"Of course I remember, OOM-556"

[@Joe_Potts]

(Traumatized Roger Roger)

[@Dingusdongus257]

Had to google. Matthew Wood does basically every battledroid voice ever.

[@panickedpaladin3966]

He also does General Grevious! Met him at a convention once, cool dude.

[@ThePs3Gangster]

God bless him

[@BobSmith-dk8nw]

Matthew Wood en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Wood_(sound_editor) .

[@ShatteredQvartz]

Lucas made the prequels as an allegory for Nam' So, in it's own words: "It's like poetry"

[@spiderz5145]

The fact that the Clones are always on the right side of the screen to symbolize they’re bad is amazing to me.

[@im3phirebird81]

Is that so? Where can I find more about this?

[@CameraGuyClyde]

Magnificent, aren't they?

[@darthsalutis5378]

I would be scared if I heard a bunch of Battle droids sing Fortunate Son as they are coming at me.

[@mannyjohnson8383]

Childhood: The jedi are the good guys, the sith are evil! Adulthood: Dooku did nothing wrong.

[@mitchellwright5478]

Preach Brother

[@dekaw9138]

How?

[@Hebdomad7]

@@dekaw9138 Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise?

[@MVPUnlucky]

@@dekaw9138 Given newer lore that's come out and just how the Original Clone Wars panned out. Dooku, much like Anakin, was just a pawn of Palpatine in which he used their disenfranchisement with the Jedi order in order to turn them on the Order. Essentially what made Dooku turn was he became a Jedi to be a hero of the people, but then after seeing how bureaucratic, bloated, and useless the Senate and the Order was when it came to dealing the justice that he felt needed to be done he turned under the understanding he was doing it to save his people and planet from those who he viewed had become hypocritical pretenders and wants to cede from the Republic to remake a new Republic where he felt he could have done a better job then the Jedi and the Republic. This is why they used droids instead of humans like the Republic. He wanted to protect his people not send them to die. Now granted. He ABSOLUTELY gave into his hate and lost the plot and was a sith true to any sith, but he's a lot more relatable in his motivations then most Sith lords because he did it for his homeworld and country instead of purely just for personal power.

[@nathanielking6387]

Right, same with hitler... that's a joke btw

[@greyeyed123]

My heart goes out to all the toasters and microwaves who lost sons in this terrible war between the stars.

[@yoda1037]

When the droid refuses to fight at geonosis

[@KetamineUser69]

Brother

[@davepowers3194]

🎶 Some droids were built, made to wave the flag, hoo that spoked hexagon! And when the band plays “Hail To The Chief,” they point their blaster over yon’!🎶

[@Matt-xc6sp]

Hail to the Count

[@Catapult12345]

That one rogue droid at 3am in the morning be like 😂

[@Nefylym]

Now we need a clanker squad like Bad Batch in their own tv show

[@TheSeptacle]

Why does this fit so well

[@Dr.Ngegitigegitibaba]

Oh the irony of a Battle Droid singing an anti-war, anti-draft song especially when it never had a choice in the matter has me in tears and stiches.

[@kainoatorres2439]

GOOOOOOD MORNING KAMINO!!!

[@charleswinthrop5929]

DAMN SOMEBODY BEAT ME TO IT LOL

[@wendysbrian1]

Oh my God, I knew exaclty what this was going to be based on the thumbnail. I clicked, and I WASN'T dissapointed!

[@roadwarrior114]

When Roger finds out about the ancient American Vietnam War and is documenting the history of it so it doesn't get lost to time and finds these songs, later sparking a renewed interest in the time period of the 1960s among the Droid Army.

[@TempusVulpi]

You know Star Wars takes place in the past right

[@A_sentient_Rubiks_cube]

@@TempusVulpi I thought it didn't even take place IN the Milky Way galaxy

[@roadwarrior114]

@@TempusVulpi I placed in the future because of all the technology in it we currently don't have, to keep it in one timeline.

[@roadwarrior114]

@@A_sentient_Rubiks_cube They probably found out about it from their intergalactic digital library of foreign historical wars or something.

[@TempusVulpi]

@@roadwarrior114 That's because they're not us-

[@someasiankid6214]

WERE GETTING OUT OF SECTOR TWELVE WITH THIS ONE.

[@Midnight.Shadows]

The Separatist Gunship thing fits the huey vibe of this song so well. . . XD

[@thebighurt2495]

Just like the LAAT fits the Huey vibe, too

[@marchindley9856]

"Good thing those bugs can't aim!" Final words of a 212th Shock trooper after getting one shot out the sky from 9 miles away.

[@commanderkronos]

First heard this loaded on an HMP Gunship while surfing the skies of Felucia, 21’. Good times.

[@rowe1756]

Just goes to show what an absolute masterpiece of a song Fortunate Son is, I still got chills watching this

[@mrduckman8381]

"You don't know clanker, you weren't there"

[@brianholmes1812]

When you're on Umbara and the trees start speaking Australian

[@eatsleepplayrepeat]

They gotta send our droids back home from this pointless war.

[@FreaknJedi]

"I love the smell of droid poppers in the morning." -- CT-5555, aka 5's Batlle of Umbra

[@NitroCodes]

Thank you for this. I randomly missclicked on this vid, then heard the opening note, then realized that *it was the very song I've been looking for over many months now*.Thank you again, take my subscribership as a reward. :)

[@RookeOfGlass]

I've never come across such a beautiful rendition of this song, my strategist droid's head is off to you.

[@brodyrichardson8869]

Random clone:Commander gree, you look like hammered shit. Gree: Looks don't count for shit in the jungle, this is god damn kashyyyk

[@Harrycoook]

_"You're listening to 19.2225FM! This song goes out to all our droid brothers on the frontlines of Kashyyyk! Go gettem!"_

[@KillinWithKi11Roy]

Gets the Clone Wars a whole different feel.

[@theroyburnhamshow1014]

It hits differently

[@PatchAttack666]

I never thought I'd need this... thank you

[@kespos2100]

This worked better than expected

[@raymondsims537]

and the song fits the battle perfectly too

[@oliversherman2414]

Average clanker experience on Kashyyyk

[@twinductionj2237]

why do i love this so much

[@HunterAnsorge-ok9jk]

Some of these bars are both icy ❄️ and fire 🔥

[@amandevelours692]

Man drop one video, did the amazing !

[@stevelenox152]

Oh man I'm having flashbacks

[@eagle_and_the_dragon]

The music video was on point, as well as the voice. Kudos.

[@phild8095]

That droid has been to the jungle.

[@ExplotaOriginal]

It sounds surprisngly well

[@YoshiMitsubishi]

What a time to truly be alive

[@oregonhockeyfan]

This has no reason to sound this good, but it does, and I love it.

[@duanepierson4375]

Never be able to watch StarWars the same again. I’m going to be looking for Phantoms & Hueys now 😂

[@tomd5069]

This is so cursed but also SOO good.

[@crocadillius6418]

“Welcome to Geonosis! Have fun down there!”

[@Salt_Master_Queue]

I am the B1 I speak for the 'nosians But for some clanking reason I'm hearing Wookie The 'notians can't be harmed If the B1 is armed You touch my 'notians, I break your knees

[@Salt_Master_Queue]

I know, doesn't work as well, but I wanted to do this anyway.

[@wr7662]

I like the idea of a battle droid's rich parents paying for it to get out of going to battle.

[@greyeyed123]

Doctor's note: "Cannot go to war. Has a bad motivator."

[@UnchainedEruption]

LMAO I’m dying. Battle Droid Vietnam is just about the funniest thing I’ve seen XD Beautiful gems like this are why the internet exists.

[@arisrayden]

i know a roger who's a huge star wars fan and loves the "roger, roger" expresion of the droids.... i will send this his way, i'm sure he'll love it

[@scootza1]

0:37 "It ain't meeEeeEe, it ain't meeeEEEeEeee, i ain't no senators' SOSSS" Lol

[@Hampter_4312]

This is a masterpiece

[@cmdrreggit]

The most American Battle-Droid I've ever heard! 🇺🇸 🫡

[@HiddenPalm]

You just defined an era.

[@foenexx]

You should make more videos lol you have great creative ability man

[@ghostrights9314]

Why is this so good? Them droids can rock.

[@gijoel]

I just realized that Luke is literally a Senator's son.

[@DarthZevrel66]

This is wonderful

[@Luke_SkyWalk3r]

The song you didn't know you needed

[@MrHSwager]

This song/video is WAY better than I thought it would be! Well done! 😃😃

[@Oper8Fur07]

POV: You've been stationed on utapau for weeks and the clones arrive:

[@nooneinparticular1491]

This is brilliant; please, please, PLEASE have Roger sing "Paint it Black"!

[@oofgaming2322]

the remix I never knew I needed

[@acedspades9457]

Please make more of these!

[@T_Moneyzz]

Prequel memes are already some of the best on the Internet and this is immediately in the top tier of those. Well done.

[@91plm]

lol i wasn't expecting this to be soooo gooood! XD now the clone wars got a vietnam vibe in my head because of this! this is gold!!

[@ConsoleCombatant]

That is CC...Clever & Creative, well done

[@EmilyKimMartin]

Clanked and Creative

[@ThePaleKing89]

Good mornin' Felucia!

[@syndicate_555]

This is so well edited

[@nb2008nc]

Poor droids. They didn't ask to get sent to the opposite side of the galaxy to fight a war they had nothing to do with. They did the best they could and when they came home, they were spat on and deactivated.

[@julianshaw3776]

One of the best parodys I've seen in a long while! The video fits the song perfectly!

[@fn-pug5447]

Was this what they were listening to during the droid attack on the Wookiees?

[@GlennKNeyra]

Probably " Paranoid" !

[@sharkman1042]

Hell Yeah, I fucking love Creedence Clearroger Revival

[@TheQuestionableMan.]

It is time we stamp out the “Grand” Army of the Republics guerrilla tactics once and for all

[@EmilyKimMartin]

Clank Sinatra's son got the draft

[@compareandcontrast9833]

Out of all the AI song covers I've heard this is one of the best.🎉

[@plushytoons7423]

The fact that the song fits so well with the video is just perfect!

[@juliosalas6455]

When the trees speak Wookie

[@SussiSalamander6]

Southern Battle Droid is my favorite battle droid

[@november_7th]

Flawless

[@tonyheck1635]

god can we get this in the next starwars movie? this would be fucking rad

[@YoLo-bb2vc]

man you gotta hand it to Roger and the Droids they were a great anti clone wars band! there best song being "Fortunate Droid" heard all over the outer rim! inspiring to know after the clone wars the song is still going strong :)