Why R5-D4 Deserves More Love and Respect!

[@pangaeawriter8766]

When I was a child, R5-D4 fascinated me, because aside from R2-D2, he was the more prominent astromech. I had the R5-D4 action figure from Kenner, and I often played out stories where he was fixed and had new adventures. Then when he popped up in Chapter 5 of "The Mandalorian", I was cheering! Even more so when he appeared in Pelli Moto's hangar! When "A Certain Point of View" came out and told R5's story, I had a true respect for this unsung hero of the Original Trilogy. Now that he's in the spotlight, it is, for me, a childhood dream come true.

[@guyetchells8497]

Couldn't agree more. It's like you are channelling my experience of R5 too.

[@RogueWJL]

​@@guyetchells8497 and mine. I love the little fella

[@thunderfox53]

Same I absolutely loved r5d4

[@myriadmediamusings]

I love how his Legends and current Canon story have tried to redeem him after being just an exploding prop. His story in From A Certain Point of View ANH was also one of my faves and I'm glad he came back in Mando and is being utilized. I hope Season 3 won't forget him and I especially hope he won't be killed off.

[@Tores444]

Man I highly doubt they'll kill R4. Ever since he showed back up people have loved when he appears.

[@paulsarnik8506]

Oh brother😮

[@ThtSunbreaker]

Me and all my R5-D4 fans have been feasting

[@dtinagliastudios]

My favorite since I was a little kid!

[@balloonboy5212]

I've always loved him

[@tobiaslyons5470]

6 year old me is hyped for my boy “cone head R2-D2 “

[@strange_tastecereal5558]

I was so happy when I saw him in the Mandalorian series I even have a figurine of him from 1996 I think

[@bodytrick]

On member berries

[@nilsf5302]

I really love that they made him an anti-R2-D2 of sorts, scared and apparently not made for big adventures, even though he played his part in rescueing the galaxy. Makes the upcoming dynamic with Mando and him all the funnier

[@nilsf5302]

hi astromech if you‘re reading this ^^

[@angelbasiliorodriguezbusto2065]

In a way, he's the astromech version of C-3PO

[@thodorispatelis]

​@@SuttonsQuest Yeah, anti R2-D2 would be BT-1

[@JohnPeacekeeper]

We have, among the current time's prominent Astromechs... The Hero - R2-D2 The Psychopath - Chopper The Cowardly Lion - R5-D4 But we love all of em

[@smyset111]

@@JohnPeacekeeper The Family Dog - BB-8

[@Ardus_KaineTPA]

*"SKIPPY"*

[@Daniel-en1on]

As someone with an R5-D4 action figure on display on my desk, its nice seeing R5 show up in the Mandalorian. If anything happens to this droid though... R5 is the true hero.

[@Aeyrie1]

R5-D4 was the first of all the Star Wars figures I had, back in the 70’s. (I wanted R2, but my mom didn’t know the difference.) Since then, I’ve loved finding him wherever he’s popped up.

[@guyetchells8497]

Me too.still got the original also.

[@guyetchells8497]

Me too.still got the original also.

[@wyzemann]

Since my intro to Star Wars in '77, I've always remembered that droid, R5-D4, as just a dingy and worn piece of junk. Like most kiddie fans of that era, R2 & 3PO were the STARS. Now after reaching my 49th year in this world, I've gained a new and higher respect for R5...we've both come a long way in 46yrs🤗.

[@toganium4175]

I’m glad R5 is getting a redemption arc after being known as the droid with an exploding head.

[@weldonwin]

Its the redemption for the entire R5 Line of droids, since their lore background, was that they were bargain basement trash-bots, known only for how unreliable and badly made they were, all because the first one we saw on screen, blew its motivator. Now it's R5's time to shine and redeem himself and all of his kind

[@_V.Va_]

HE'S GOT A BLOWN MOTIVATOR

[@BretMuckdogs]

Thank you for this video.

[@demetrinight5924]

R5-D4 is one of the toys I got from the Kenner line when I was growing up. For some reason he was a missile launcher. But if you set off the missile without converting him it gave the appearance of him exploding like he did in a new hope. I hope he doesn't get destroyed in The Mandalorian or in any of the crossover shows.

[@malhablado8815]

thats brutal

[@TheJedaiHero9000]

Wow, so R5-D4 is the same Astrodroid from the Episode 4 of the movies!!! That is Most Definitely fraking Awesome, my guy!!!

[@edgarkruize]

His character in The Mandalorian reminds me of Beaker from the Muppet Show.

[@gentlemanlygeeky4088]

Meep meep.

[@OnTheNerdySide]

I can so relate to R5-D4. I, too, have a bad motivator.

[@daviddupont517]

As kid I had this droid as a toy. For years I want a r2d2 unit. And not just the red one with a bad motivator. But I was a kid and it was my parents who buy it (from jawas). I did loved him and tell many story. I was super happy to so him pop on some legend material (Skippy the Jedi droid is a must) and I am still happy to see him back for a certain point of view and now mando. He is a hero of the rebellion

[@IsaacKuo]

Last we saw R5, he was monitoring Grogu and Bo-Katan entering the ruins on the ship's sensors. It would be a blast to see him next observing Din, Grogu and Bo-Katan running for the ship ... followed by a big baby duckling Mythosaur ambling after its oblivious mommy.

[@robertgriffiths1724]

All droids are cool Nuff said

[@arfived4]

Here's the thing - R5-D4 has been 'my' Star Wars character since I was about 5, and I've worked him into just about everything, from being my pilot in the X-Wng games, to several different builds in TTRPGs. While my inner 8-year-old is VERY happy to see him get some actual adventures, it means that I've lost a degree of creative freedom.

[@RougaFang]

I love R5-D4! I fell in love with this Droid when I first watched a New Hope

[@Starscooterkart]

I do love him.

[@RedHeadKevin]

I really just hope someone calls him "Skippy."

[@CloneScavengerVulpin8389]

I always liked R5-D4.

[@delarkaBCN]

i still remember reading the r5d4 in star wars tales comic. seeing him in mando its...nice.

[@BG_StuartJ]

True bravery is not the absence of fear, but the ability to act in the face of fear. R5 is a brave bot and deserves recognition

[@bluesquadron8667]

R5-D4 is deadly af in battlefront

[@jacobbrowning3804]

I had Lego R5-D4 in the Y-wing and Vader's TIE fighter set from 1999, so he's got a special place in my heart, even if the figure was just red R2-D2!

[@sonicguyver7445]

It is so great seeing R5-D4 back in action. I remember just before Revenge of the Sith came out there were four "preview" figures released, one was R4-G9, the gold R2 unit Obi-Wan got after his other one was lost. After that I kind of became obsessed with droids. I collected quite a few from eBay (they had the droids I was looking for). And I did get R5-D4. It even had a play feature where if you twisted the head the motivator would rise up from the back of the head. Plus while not explicitly stated he did also appear in the game "Jedi Academy." An early mission is to rescue an R5 unit from jawas because a moisture farmer had it record a conversation he overheard between Sith cultists. But he got nervous and sold the droid so you need to recover him before the jawas wipe his memory. I always like to think after they recover whatever they needed from him Jaiden (your jedi character) is allowed to keep R5-D4.

[@joshfactor1]

yeah, we love skippy

[@ImmortalAbsol]

Poor lil anxiety droid, there was also the What If type story where he was force sensitive, that wasn't canon even to the EU.

[@Mr-Sinister]

I always liked this design more than R2 unit

[@thetraitorguardsmen.5321]

Always makes me laugh. When he's lay on the couch saying he's not feeling it. in robot chicken.

[@RogueWJL]

I do. Loved him since 1977. Never stopped loving him❤

[@CounterRhythms]

It certainly makes my vintage Kenner figure feel less useless. I can now display him with Din!

[@Adam2326-v1b]

Interesting story

[@Br4nTheBuilder]

I've fallen in love w/ R5 lately and I'm actively starting ro develop a personal project to make an animated short adapting The Red One with an epilogue of R5's Mando plot.

[@jinkwon8410]

How is that literal tin can not falling apart at the seams

[@SpammytheHedgehog]

R2-D2 will always be my favorite droid.

[@lukestarkiller1470]

Nothing wrong with that, he’s a great droid

[@Hawkinson88]

"You'll have to share that pain" R5 is in such bad shape; I already feel that pain.

[@jeremydale4548]

Ok I freaking LOVE the backstory for R5. Now, I always respected him. Because he has a cool head. But I never knew he INTENTIONALLY sacrificed himself perse for the greater good.

[@RogueDakotan]

Skippy is one of my favorite characters and one of those characters I try to get all the figures of. My boy! 😭

[@kingssman2]

I would've preferred he was so thrilled to be useful, that he up his own motivator out of excitement.

[@kimberlym-w9926]

R5-D4 now has a dad, Mando/Din Djarin, and a brother named, Grogu too!! Welcome to the family!! THIS IS THE WAY!! ❤️🎉👍😎

[@DeamonChocobo]

R5-D4 was one of the first Star Wars action figures I had as a kid, to me he is a Legacy character and they wouldn't dare do anything to hurt him (I say evey time something bad happens this season)

[@Red_Vega]

His name is skippy!

[@Erics_Youtube_Handle]

R5-D4, the Star Wars universe's answer to Forrest Gump.

[@br0wnr4bb1t]

At one point in the show, I'd love to see R5-D4 floating because he is wearing hoverskates.... bringing Christmas in the Stars one tiny step closer to canon

[@srvfan454]

R5 has always been my favorite droid. I always loved the obscure droids.

[@wesleykim6523]

Holy Wow! I am early! 8 seconds! Also, a part of me might believe that R5 might’ve fabricated some of the stuff that happened to him in the From a Certain Point of view. Like I’m gonna have the headcanon that his motivator did actually just break, but since he knew about R2’s mission, he just told everyone that he did it on purpose and helped save the Galaxy! I mean, he technically still did, but I’m just considering how scared R5 is, I’m gonna pretend he’s got a fear of death after having the equivalent of a near-death experience!

[@khronokraze]

R5-D4 has a special place for me. It was my first Star Wars droid toy from the early 80s.. or actually, probably the late 70s?! It was an original from Kenner. I forget if I specifically asked for it or was it simply gifted. None the less, I just liked him more than R2-D2. I liked the colors and more conical cylindrical shape. I think I always had a thing for the lesser known or mainstream items, also. It's great to learn of its expanded story which makes it all the more lovable.

[@Tores444]

Man I think we need more droid protagonists. I think I'm in the minority but I really liked the D-Squad or R2 arcs in Clone Wars. And of course the story of how C-3P0 got his red arm. I just like droids man

[@lukestarkiller1470]

Yeah me too, I always think the droid stories are a lot of fun

[@Mike1064ab]

I think they planned to use the D squad more and then Disney bought up Star Wars and they cancelled clone wars for some dumb reason before they could. So many stories didn’t get put on screen son of dathomir, dark disciple, Crystal crisis on utapau etc.

[@minicle426]

OOM-9 got to be the protagonist in his campaign for Galactic Battlegrounds. :P

[@ketatgenhorst]

In chapter 7 Book of Boba Fett, R2-D2 lands an X-Wing at Pelli's garage. R5-D4 watched as Grogu disembarked. I wonder if they recognized each other?

[@lukestarkiller1470]

I bet they did, or at the very least R5 would have remembered R2, but R2 is also nice enough that I’m sure he’d remember a droid that sacrificed his own future to just help him

[@smyset111]

@@lukestarkiller1470 "Is that..?" "It is. Thanks for blowing your motivator, Red." "I can't believe it. You really didn't forget!" "My memory hasn't been wiped in like fifty years, how would I have forgotten?"

[@BenWillyums]

in 2043 we're going to be sitting here talking about the latest episode of the Porkins series

[@MarcusMapua]

I suppose what's more love & respect for R5 to get is for him to become the droid & pilot for Mando & Grogu

[@guyetchells8497]

I too love R5D4. I was surprised that R2 & R5 didn't acknowledge each other when R2 brought Grogu back in the X-wing. I was shouting at the screen "it's the first time they have seen each other since A New Hope!"

[@theconfidentchicken3414]

so he was there when R2 dropped Grogu off with Peli and i wonder if they recognized each other

[@JR-Mystic]

0:37 ".... he was _in_ possession of the same Jawas that picked up..." Pretty sure you meant he was *the* possession of the Jawas..... although the idea of droids owning sentient beings is a frightfully intriguing image.

[@athroughzdude]

What if they put R5 inside of IG-11 after being severely damaged? Then they can be like a double droid. R5 tools in an IG body.

[@Adam2326-v1b]

Or maybe R5 get a arm and leg like MA-13

[@lilacocto9103]

Putting an R2 unit INSIDE of an IG body??

[@athroughzdude]

@@lilacocto9103 I dunno, it was just a random dumb idea.

[@lukestarkiller1470]

Yeah it’d be like the lava ferry droid in season one, I always liked that design and was sad he got killed pretty soon after

[@arfived4]

I think they've set something along these lines up, but probably more the other way around - the unreparable IG droid is a bit of a "Chekhov's gun" ("don't introduce it if you're not going to use it"), and they established a link between the two droids early on, with Djarin buying one as a substitute for the other. Thing is, R5-D4 is easily the second most merchandised "classical" astromech, and has been getting models consistently for decades, so I don't think they'll be doing that much to the character. I suspect that R5-D4 will either end up using the IG droid like a puppet, or ending up having its guns and targetting system installed into his existing body, which would be a throwback to the "Attack R5-D4" model that they made in the 90s, which contained a rocket launcher.

[@jakefrechette3224]

Misery loves company haha! Let's hope it doesn't come to that though!

[@PedroPlaysMX]

i knew it was the same droid that burned when Luke bought R2! Also.. i agree, now i'm gonna be upset when the droid sacrifices himself for Din and Grogu, like IG on 1st season :(

[@NewtonDKC]

R2 has always been my favorite but now R5 D4 is becoming a close second if not equal! I can’t wait to see him in season four and yeah nothing bad better happen to him! :-)

[@Absaroka]

It's been my user profile pics for a long time lol. I love R5-D4.

[@happymike420]

I knew he looked familiar, from a new hope

[@spino-tinodon1146]

R5-D4 is my droid choice when I go to Disney in February and head to the Droid Depot.

[@ilhanmuqri9344]

If it wasn't for this guy, the Original Trilogy will never happen.

[@towerbunga]

I just realised R2 and R5 could have caught up when Grogu was delivered back to Din in TBOBF

[@guyetchells8497]

I was waiting for R2 & R5 to beep at each other. I can't believe they missed doing this. It would have been a deep cut but boy! What a moment for fans like me who were waiting for that interaction.

[@JHawk99]

I interpreted Pelli saying he was a “hero of the rebellion” as an endorsement of astromechs in general, since they were so frequently and prominently used by the Alliance.

[@henryhammond7393]

I was all for resurrecting IG-11 at first… but I think it makes more sense to have Din move on to trusting more droids. IG-11 is a symbol of his past, and the mandalorians as a whole have to learn to not live strictly in the past.

[@markofabecic6824]

R5d4 Is one of my favorite droids

[@dasheemcole5155]

If Din does keep him, I hope he'll take him somewhere to get some much needed maintenance. You know for a fact Peli was not taking care of him properly lol

[@guyetchells8497]

Me too.

[@MCLegoboy]

He's gonna get blown up by pirates isn't he? The slight glimmer of hope though is we at least have some people on Nevarro that can put him back together if that happens.

[@tolstukha]

I’ve been waiting for the whole episode for its motivator to break

[@michaelrichardson6569]

Ha, that is fun. I liked that it was called a bad motivator. I assumed R5-D4 simply didn't feel like it (not motivated) to be sold to moisture farmers. Basically the droid equivalent of faking a leg injury. Like calling in sick, or the blue flu, or "Darn, I just can't make it this time..." Maybe the smoke was like a middle finger? 😀 And, Maybe R5-D4 was right... "from a certain point of view" at being a Rebellion hero. He allowed R2 to get out, which in turn allowed R2 to go with Master Luke and help the Rebel Alliance directly... which would not have happened if not for R5-D4 letting R2-D2 take his place. 😁

[@TitoChowden]

I swear to god if they make him force sensitive like in legends I'm going to pass away

[@EternalEmperorofZakuul]

You didn't pass away when tobi the jedi droid became force sensitive, mastered lightsaber combat, and defeated an inquisitor

[@TitoChowden]

@@EternalEmperorofZakuul bruh thank god I've never heard of that before I would've passed away that sounds awful

[@stevenjericho]

"Something terrible" did happen to him... He was in The Mandalorian.

[@trevorphilips4925]

You know in the video Game Rogue squadron 3 R5 is wedge's astromech and after they crash on genosis they find Obi wan's Jedi starfighter and he fixes it witch they use to escape

[@landondavis8678]

Do you think that in BoBF when R2D2 comes to drop off Grogu in the x-wing he and R5D4 have a moment? In my head canon they do.

[@tomlichnofsky.7048]

This Is the way!! 😎✊👊🍁♈🍁

[@BernardManansala]

R5 having his Book Of Boba Fett moment.

[@old_man_bob_10]

Q/A Do you think we will ever see Imperial Bio weapons Project 171A in a Star Wars Film/Show what are your thoughts on this

[@bodytrick]

'Member R5-D4? I 'member.

[@anthonyyoutubefan7567]

I hope to hear more of his canonical backstory, and what befell him during The Galactic Civil War, to make him so shaky in temperament. I also hope to see him have more adventures with Din and Grogu, and that he gets to meet R2-D2 again, so they can regale each other with their experiences.

[@IsaacKuo]

Maybe he's just a nervous wreck because Peli's always palling around with grubby Jawas and they always eye him funny whenever they're over. R5's jumpy from all those years of cowering and thinking, "I can't go back to the crawler. I can't go back to the crawler. I can't go back to the crawler."

[@charlesbard2331]

I would like to see mando go back and do a salvage on that old fairy Droid and bring it back to the lady who run the garage...

[@TDSgeek]

R5 was Yoda's original astro droid!!!

[@nathanwebb3371]

I never realised he was in the prequels

[@Testbug-dy6tj]

Add Blocker 💪👍

[@Marandahir]

No mention about how he had force powers in Legends?

[@Kubinda12345]

I must say that while the story of R5-D4 is sweet, I dislike the plot of him committing fake suicide.

[@Mxyzptlksac]

I’m guessing this vid was made before Carson said R5 served with him in the rebellion ?

[@alexanderparra9240]

Shout-out to me fellow R5 series droid fans!

[@kevthepoet]

I wish he'd confim whether he's talking Legends or canon at the start rather than the end of a story...

[@SinShadowed]

i prefer Obi-wans/Wedges R4

[@Michael-fe8co]

R5 is definitely dying IMO

[@paulsarnik8506]

Oh brother 😮. 🤓😎✌🏻

[@Renkencen]

Bruh, you didn't mention in one of the Legend, R5 had Jedi powers! It was to the point R5 saw the future if Luke pick him instead of R2 which result in the Empire winning therefore he sabotage itself to ensure R2 would be pick and the Rebel won the war!

[@CryingCreeperMLG]

This is 100% an overreaction but I think R5 has been my favourite "slowbuild" in Star Wars liveaction stuff in ages. We first saw him and people everywhere who probably care *too* much about Star Wars got a bit giddy and went "Wait... is that ...? Naaah.... is it?" and that snowballed through multiple seasons into "The second astromech droid we ever saw on screen is now kickin it with Din and Grogu for an episode" I love, love, love that escalation. Also shows that, despite all the people who desperately want to convince us of the contrary, Star Wars is still in the safe hands of fans who not only care about the franchise, but actually know what to do with it.

[@cybernite60z98]

Didn't he help Luke a lot in legends comics?

[@Lr.Laecro.Lirus3445]

And now people wanna talk about character-assassination.