You're (Probably) Wrong About C-3PO | Star Wars LOREBREAKER

Recently, we discovered a gulf of knowledge. One of our latest videos talked about protocol droids. Specifically, it was about TC-14, and the 3PO series in general. This naturally involved a mention of C-3PO, but only as an example of his model. A lot of the comments on this video were identical.
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00:00 INTRO / Thank The Maker
03:59 Origin
08:37 C-3PO
21:33 OUTRO

[@PurpleColonel]

Can you help me get outta the star wars universe now?

[@AMBPineapple]

"I'm sure you can imagine there are worse alternatives"

[@thebreadcircus]

Sure! The next resonance cascade is expected in Half-Life 3. I'm sure it won't be long until you can go home.

[@friktogurg9242]

@@thebreadcircus What do you think of "Legends" and its canon tier?

[@SR388LovesYou]

whoever edited this one did you dirty with the length of time you were reading the comments.

[@thebreadcircus]

@@SR388LovesYou Considering how we're still getting stupid comments asking why we wanted to make this video, I reckon we should've had the Colonel read out another 60 seconds of comments. -ED-1TA

[@existentialselkath1264]

A 9 year old restoring a car is an incredible feat. You don't need to design and create one from scratch to make him look like a genius

[@MondoMurderface]

Nah.. A robot isn't a car. Restoration implies a lot more than just swapping around compatible parts. I think the PC comparison is more apt.

[@existentialselkath1264]

@@MondoMurderface a robot is a piece of moving machinery. A PC comparison is a good one, but taken literally is more like building a Droid brain rather than the whole package.

[@MondoMurderface]

@@existentialselkath1264 Servos are much easier to work with than an engine. An engine goes bad and you need to tear it down, replace gaskets, re bore cylinders, replace heads. A servo breaks down and you either chuck it out or you clean it. Then there is bodywork. "restoration" generally implies extensive bodywork. I think there is a chance he had to weld a few parts on 3P0 here and there, but clearing out rust patches or fixing dents is much more complex. Maybe neither comparison is truly 1 to 1, I just think giving him the credit of rebuilding a car is a bit much. Maybe a gocart?

[@existentialselkath1264]

@@MondoMurderface it's just a metaphor at the end of the day, and maybe we have different perspectives of what restoring a car actually is. I'm thinking more like an old triumph or mx5 or something, not anything crazy like a modern suv. And again, it's about restoring something, not making one from scratch

[@hamstermc7807]

Everyone talking about the difference between restoring a car and refurbishing a droid, and here I was interpreting the original comment as referring to the pod racer… which would be a pretty fair comparison, imo. Not just a car either, a 1st place race-car

[@mitsymarx]

Since I saw other 3PO units in the movies, I just assumed Anakin found one that had been damaged somehow and cobbled it back together. It never occurred to me that anyone would think that Anakin invented him.

[@mar_speedman]

Silly, isn't it?

[@lounowell4171]

This is a really polite way of calling out this video for the clickbait nonsense that it is, kudos!

[@mar_speedman]

@@lounowell4171 What's clickbait about it? The video proved very clearly that there's a huge misconception surrounding 3PO Just because you weren't wrong, doesn't mean most people weren't. Heck, even I discovered I was wrong about 3PO! (I knew he wasn't invented by Anakin, but I didn't realize he was a hundred years old)

[@willgillies5670]

Maybe the PC comparison is more apt but, I like Muscle cars, so its what came to mind.

[@bruhbbawallace]

never underestimate the ability of Star Wars fans to misunderstand very simple elements of Star Wars. see also: people who watch Yoda's warning against passion in Revenge of the Sith come true over the course of that very same movie, and somehow come away thinking the jedi are more responsible for Anakin's fall than the guy whose main character trait is being a master manipulator and who is literally named "Sidious"

[@logancade342]

"Anakin Skywalker built C-3PO in a cave! From a bucket of scraps!" "Well, I'm sorry, sir... I'm not Anakin Skywalker."

[@THJAFO]

Anakin Skywalker built this in a hut, With a box of scraps!

[@danieldean9827]

Very good Logan.

[@khit007]

Aww man I thought my comment was so witty. I'm not a robot guys!

[@e-satan9032]

Bruh, C-3PO was built by anakeen in the jungle or desert or wasteland

[@UNEEKMP3]

😂

[@CharliesTrousers-od3lt]

"Mom I built you a droid to help you in your life of menial drudgery!" "Can he bend his arms properly?" "No, he speaks two million languages!"

[@ShapeKeyes]

So good

[@mandowarrior123]

She's a sucker for a british accent.

[@USSMariner]

Honestly, even if he could just hold light items, that would still be better than nothing.

[@relo999]

@@USSMariner Sometimes you just need a screwdriverholder and lampholder that shits.

[@larsespeland6068]

He can, you see him help bring Jawa bodies over to the fire pile they made outside the sandcrawler after Luke comes back from finding his aunt and uncle burnt at his home in ep IV. @@USSMariner

[@Kevin-jb2pv]

I always figured that Anakin "built" C-3PO in the same sense that I "built" my computer, like you said. Yeah, there's some room for customization, as I'm sure there is when you order a droid from the factory, but at the end of the day all I really did was _assemble_ a computer. Maybe a better analogy would be if I built a car from junkyard parts. Sure, the parts might come from 10 different junked cars, but each one of them was still a 1985 Honda Civic, so at the end all I did was build... a 1985 Honda Civic. Maybe I also splurged on a nicer stereo, some seat covers to hide all the torn upholstery, and some _sick_ flame decals (to make it go faster), but it's still just a fucking 1985 Honda Civic.

[@5Demona5]

And I think he also had a good frame to start off from. Like saying you found a pretty messed up Honda Civic, took off most parts, leaving the chasis and some main parts. Then based off the other Hondas, you put em together

[@reapersritehand]

While this is a great analogy, now imagine doing at 9 yrs old, the kid is still operating at a higher intellect then most people

[@willgillies5670]

A resto-mod. Yes,

[@buckaroobonsi555]

True enough. What if I actual am handly with a soldering iron and purchase electronic coponets from Mouser and design and build my own circuit boards and machine some of my own parts from raw billets and bar stock and design and weld some parts myself but also use some off the shelf componets? So I build my own vechile from raw steel but then combine an engine from GM a transmission from Toyota, a transer case from Atlas, axle assemblies from Ford, after market engine controller etc....Do I get credit for anything I have done and making such an eclectic pile of non-compatable parts work? I build my own amateur radio gear from scratch including designing and etching my own pcb's. I machine my own rifles for competition use from scratch, I have fabricated my own cast engine and transfer case adapters to use a GM engine in a Toyota truck with toyota transmission and accessories but I did not smelt my own aluminum even though I made my own casting. We have no idea what is what with C-3PO. I think the brain built from 3 junkyard brains is more like combining parts from 3 different CPU's into one than the example given with hard drives. Even then if you wanted to use the harddrive idea's it would be more like taking the platter from one hard drive the read/write head from another totaly different design and brand harddrive and the controll board from another brand. The genius is in making all the incompatable parts talk to each other and work. Again the brain made from 3 different brains is more like taking a part of an AMD Ryzan CPU and a part of an Intel I9 CPU and part of a ARM CPU and making a working CPU from part of 3 seperate not compatable CPU's work as one. Like the first person to use XBOX boards to make a super computer or the first person to use GPU in the form of mad stacks of gaming cards to mine BitCoin the genius was not in inventing something new so much as it was finding a novel use for an existing product and designing the controller to make them work together for doing something they where never meant to do. Most people could not build an engine if I gave them the parts let alone make one companies engine, work with another companies transmission, and make those parts run with yet another companies ECU and seonsors. If you then make said person a child it is no less amazing even if nothign has been invented.

[@glennross85]

​@@reapersritehandkids are dumb because they spend all day at school, put them to work lile Anakin and they learn quick.

[@jrrarglblarg9241]

Jabba The Hutt’s palace was a renewable resource of destroyed protocol droids of any number of models. Watto bought a box of scrapped droids.

[@jrrarglblarg9241]

This is why it’s funny that 3PO get sent back to him as part of the plan to rescue Han.

[@russellharrell2747]

@@jrrarglblarg9241it’s like poetry, it rhymes.

[@jrrarglblarg9241]

@@russellharrell2747 Yes. 👍The whole saga has little rhymes like this. Sometimes it’s even subtle.

[@BigAL68xyz]

Who knows? ROTJ may not have been the first time 3PO served as Jabba's translator. Intruguing.

[@projectafterworld2557]

"Thinking quickly, Anakin constructs a homemade Pod Racer, using only some string, a squirrel, and a pod racer"

[@whitehawk4099]

C-3PO, I assumed, was built by Anakin in the sense that he was assembled from parts that Anakin found. Maybe he replaced a couple of parts with similar alternatives, similar to how someone would build a computer. There is no way that a twelve year old could assemble a droid that would be basically identical to all other protocol droids from parts that he built himself. Edit: in regards to the podracer, I never thought it was "the fastest ever built." I just assumed that was a mixture of Anakin talking up hiw good a mechanic he was, and Qui-Gon trying to convince Watto he had valuable property.

[@spencersholden]

Reassemble is a better term. His personality is the og from 80 years ago. That is C-3PO. The rest of the parts were added by Anakin.

[@KarmasAB123]

"There is no way that a twelve year old" Why is it so hard for people to get his age right? He's nine.

[@whitehawk4099]

@@KarmasAB123 Last time I watched the Phantom Menace was probably six or seven years ago. The exact age of Anakin in it was not particularly important for me to remember, just that he was a child.

[@gamersplaygroundliquidm3th526]

@@whitehawk4099 12 and 9 are vastly different ages, at 9 I was playing with Legos and Robotics toys at 12 i was drinking beer and having sex, saying someone is 12 and not 9 is a bigger difference than saying they are 35 when they are 24..... a 35-year-old might be the same as their 24-year-old self but a person is way older when they are 12 than when they are 9

[@iPig]

It's surprising what a common interpretation that was considering how many other droids who look exactly like him exist in the films.

[@pete_bruschi_racing]

I grew up around gearheads, hot rods, and racecars. First time I saw this movie, I was 5 years old in 2000 and I felt connected to Anakin for "building" his droid and his pod racer. I knew he didn't "invent" them. Your video is entertaining, I enjoyed the lore behind protocol droids. And it's pretty amusing to see how many people missed that 😆

[@BioFactory1]

21:17 - I always figured the TC protocol droids of the Trade Federation were just simply 3PO units that were generic brands to sell to the Trade Federation in bulk, like when companies make cheaper models of electronics and appliances for Walmart to sell at discount or lower prices. (Tradefederation Cheapo)

[@TheTonyMcD]

It's sad that this video needed to be made. I mean, I certainly enjoyed it and loved learning more about the lore. But that you actually needed to clarify that Anakin didn't design, build, and program an entire droid from scratch as a whatever year old slave kid? It's incredible how little thought people put into things before trying to correct someone.

[@Strideo1]

I never thought he built 3PO from scratch but I never thought 3PO's introduction as being a side project for kid Vader was ever a good choice to begin with. I never saw the point of 3PO belonging to Anakin since Vader never acknowledges this in any way and the all the coincidental connections just make the Star Wars universe feel smaller instead of the vast galaxy it's supposed to be.

[@paulwollenzein-zn1lh]

And one thing that I am not sure that anyone has mentioned. Just how truthful is little Anikin? He may be just doing what a great majority of kids his age do. Outright lying about what he has accomplished or more likely embellishing his accomplishments, looking for approval and recognition from the adults in his life. I think it's a good possibility...

[@willgillies5670]

C-3P0 is a resto-mod droid like an old barn find Ford Mustang or Dodge Charger that has not run for 30-plus years, Anakin fixed a salvaged, scrapped protocol droid and used whatever parts he could find. But 3P0 was once a factory-built droid before, or at least most of him was stock factory parts at one point. 112 years before Phantom Menace. Also, if Anakin was older and considered it better, it would be odd for a 3P0 droid to be one to assist his Mother, I mean an Astromech would be more useful. But Anakin found what would become the 3P0 we know today. Considering the Protocol droids made by Cybot Galactica, various models mean many compatible parts plus generic droid parts. Anakin did a good job, considering scavenged and parts sneaked out of Watto's.

[@willgillies5670]

Just felt like expanding my answer a tad.

[@MultiTrollface999]

last time I was this early I stole the death star plans

[@raymondtillotson6985]

And then Disney made a movie forgoing your involvement, which the fans seem to love despite everything else they've ruined, but some of us will always remember that you were there first.

[@Tobio88]

Kyle!?

[@RichardHansbury]

I would "like" this comment but the tally stands at 69 and...

[@RichardHansbury]

​@@raymondtillotson6985But so many Bothans died!

[@spencersholden]

When I saw all those comments I could only think: C-3PO is 80/110 years old by the time of the Phantom Menace/A New Hope.

[@Notmadenough]

As I said in my comment that was used in the video.

[@arran6255]

Now to be fair, while I understand the points made in the video it is not hard to see how the framing in the phantom menace heavily insinuates that anakin built him, this feels like it was the intent, to tie him into anakin by making him the droid's creator. No, anakin cannot just magic up materials and invent things, I had always thought that anakin had obviously just put him back together or built him from multiple parts or something, that seems to make sense, but I just think given the setting of the scene in the movie it's not a massive stretch to see why someone might mistakenly take the framing as trying to say anakin built him

[@MatchstickMan]

Yeah, and I see your point, but I raise you seeing TC-14 earlier in the movie. And if someone was actually paying attention, they'd carry over the logic that since obviously Anakin didn't build her, that 3PO is a salvage, not a creation.

[@rynobehnke8289]

I would at least say the assumption that Anakin rebuild him from scrap working for Watto gave him access too seems the more imminent assumption to make. Also I at least think Anakin was made the constructor of C-3PO for a larger narrative reason, As in what Anakin did was the robot equivalent of raising someone from the dead. Anakins genius mechanical skills set him up with a mindset that he can fix everything (something he even said directly in Phantom Menace even having plans of using his tech powers to free him and his mom from the bombs in there heads). This than goes a long way to explain why Anakin reacts to heavily when he loses his mother in Episode 2 as he can't fix her like he always could with anything else. And its also why he becomes to protective towards Padme in episode 3 as he was so shocked by just how powerless he was in saving his mother and why he was willing to turn to the dark side as Palpatin by becoming his pupil offers him ones more the power to be able to fix everything living things by manipulating the mediclorians the same way he always could with machines by resoldering there wires. Something he makes clear himself when he and Padme meet on Musterfar with him believing ones he learned this power can he overthrow Palaptin and than fix the world.

[@arran6255]

@@MatchstickMan If you're a general movie watcher and you see the scenes with anakin and his droid you might square that with 'he built a protocol droid to look like other protocol droids' or that maybe he was assembled with parts from existing models, you wouldn't think that anakin built all of them. My original point is not that it makes complete sense to think he built the droid, but more that the movie does not do a good job of making any of it clear, and a lot of the explaining has to be done in expanded material most people won't have been exposed to. Filling in the blanks for the movie that the movie made on the movie's behalf is not a positive outlook for the movie. People think anakin built him because the movie didn't really bother to make it clear and only wanted to tie the characters together. A simple 'Oh I found him in a scrap pile' would have been fine, but that isn't what the movie did

[@MatchstickMan]

@@arran6255 I agree to a point, only because it then gets into an argument of "show vs tell", and that's basically every overly long video essay on the internet screams about. Everyone says "show don't tell," but when they show, you miss it. If they tell, and explain everything, people complain about exposition and "lazy writing," but then it's like, pick a lane. (which all boils down to fans are never satisfied and always think they know better.) But yeah. Had Anakin used to word "salvaged," or "fixed" then 99% of this confusion goes away. However I'm the type that actually really enjoys going into the obscure details and lore to figure these things out on my own.

[@Strideo1]

I always hated the idea that Anakin built or reassembled C-3PO and he meets R2D2 as a kid. Even then first time I saw TPM I was like "Wait. That doesn't make sense. That means Vader knew 3PO and R2 all along and he's just pretending he doesn't know them in the original trilogy. That's dumb. Also of all the droid to rebuild a 12 year old kid wants to rebuilt a foppish protocol droid?"

[@PASTRAMIKick]

I've always thought that at one point C3PO was a factory built protocol droid who was destroyed and then rebuilt by anakin, sort of like a broken down car that is missing many parts and is then rebuilt.

[@alittlebitgone]

Yup, this is clearly what the movie, and Anakin, meant, and it is correct.

[@mitchmarq428]

honestly when first watching the prequels at age 13 the whole "anakin builds 3po" thing was my main problem with the trilogy. between this and your 12-hour breakdown, i have come to see the truth: the Phantom Menace is a pretty good movie.

[@t4me4]

I mean this with all due respect, but if a movie needs a 12 HOUR explanation in order to be coherent, it's probably failing in the basics of filmmaking and story telling

[@mitchmarq428]

@@t4me4 you should watch it, or at least a part or two. most of the 12 hours is diving ridiculously deep into lore for the fun of it with the movie as a rough guide, or analyzing action scenes shot by shot for how much sense each swing makes. if you were to condense down just the things they explain that are necessary for the movie to make sense, it would only be a few sentences: - going thru the planet core is dumb but may as well be a figure of speech - make Jar Jar unintelligible like R2 or Chewie, and all his scenes are much less annoying - anakin canonically doesn't build things from scratch, he salvages and repairs - whether Anakin was conceived by midichlorions is up to interpretation - anakin being solely responsible for the destruction of the trade federation starship is dumb but they wrote themselves into a corner in order to characterize him as a good kid. missed opportunity to build his relationship with the naboo pilot captain guy. You could say all that badly in 5 or 10 minutes, or okaily in an hour, or going into absurd and epic depth in 12. I for one appreciate the format, but i understand if you don't :)

[@cloudmaster182]

​@t4me4 it's very coherent lol. There's a million movie breakdowns on the internet, it doesn't mean they're all incoherent lmao "Revealed yourself, you have"

[@10011110011]

@t4me4 Such a big brain take. Like a balloon. Big and smooth.

[@gethriel]

Except the snoozer podrace

[@RaptorInMotion]

Some other bits ive gleaned about 3PO from the original - 1) he and r2d2 "have suffered a lot" together, he doesnt recognise the planet he is on (tattooine), hes been in several space battles (he thinks), he can drive speeders (drives Luke around for a scene), and he personally hates space travel.

[@dust_bin_gaming7319]

He doesn't remember being on Tatooine, because his last few years or decades were wiped at the end of Revenge. (and they just, dumbly, assumed an Astromech wouldn't care about holding secrets. xD )

[@gabethebabe3337]

@@dust_bin_gaming7319 Well R2 is incredibly resilient in self preservation. He also keeps the secret of Padme's murder from Luke until years after Return of the Jedi.

[@26th_Primarch]

That does match up with the old Droids cartoon.

[@benm6893]

My thoughts were that Anakin built C-3PO as best he could with what he could find in a backwater scrap yard and it wasn't until after he left Tatooine that he could get better quality parts and bring C-3PO back to factory (or close to it) specs.

[@Boundwithflame23]

Well remember 3PO was also with Anakin’s stepfather and half brother for awhile (Shmee had to have taken 3PO with her when she moved) and since he didn’t have any wires showing in AOTC like in Phantom Menace I’m guessing one or both of them added that plating first and Anakin probably gave him a further facelift later on ye.

[@owenkeller2748]

If I find a model-T in a junk yard and then I take it to my garage and restore it, do I get to claim I invented the model-T line of cars?

[@atracin]

"built by an autistic kid" is such a wild take haha

[@TheRyujinLP]

I mean, is it wrong though heh.

[@mrsamaritan6881]

@@TheRyujinLP Yes.

[@friendlysperg1372]

Tbh he probably was a hyper-obsessed, overly social, anxious attachment sperg. Does this explain the entire plot of the prequels? Does Anakin are retard?

[@johnmiddleton4291]

@@TheRyujinLP Of course it's wrong. Space autism is a different thing entirely.

[@savemars4383]

Hay so did I, but it was in the back seat of my car lol

[@jbarr8730]

"I'll try spinning, that's a good trick!!"

[@mardy3732]

The aspect of world building in star wars I really like is how old the futuristic technology is in this universe. Progress is very stagnant in a way to the point where 100 year old tech is not yet obsolete. And cost and availability is often the main consideration when getting a droid in a remote place like tatooine. Steering away from the shiny polish that was previously associated with sci-fi is one of the best decisions George could have made.

[@sonofluke3172]

In the Star Wars Tales comic, "Thank the Maker", it shows Anakin finding C3P0's head and body in a junk pile. He takes it back home and fixes him up.

[@Harloween74]

I've been trying to find an audio clip of that for my daughter, she has me listed in her phone as "the maker" 😂

[@ijustwantedausername]

There’s a comic of ESB where Vader finds 3PO’s head in Cloud City. He also holds it up to his head/helmet. Like poetry. It rhymes 🤘

[@sonofluke3172]

@@ijustwantedausername Yes sir, same comic.

[@patrickmurray3846]

Anakin did not build 3po from scratch, he rebuild a 3po from different 3po parts he found in a junkyard with a few self adjustments as he couldn't find everything. Basicly he took many cars of same/simular model/makes, took best parts and rebuilt himself a mostly running car (with a few parts that were made to fit in as he couldn't get everything he needed).

[@RockyRailroadProductions_B0SS]

THIS is the kind of Star Wars discussion I can't get enough of. The technical quirks of things like non-combat droids, etc. Braman would make a great protocol droid, though, you've convinced me. If you want to do a video in the future going into the slight design differences between the "Original trilogy" R5 droids and the slightly off "Prequel trilogy" versions, I have a full scale replica of the latter which I could provide chroma-keyed clips of, if interested.

[@theenchiladakid1866]

I always thought it was odd that there was other c3p-0 s running about and just put it down to he made him from a kit

[@hackman669]

Exactly. 😁

[@BatBreakr]

So, just like a custom build computer, Anakin applied his talents to get his pod racer cobbled together from parts he obtained, C3PO as well, and liked to customize things as he restored them. Dude was 9 and had the podracer, and a working 3PO he was making a specialized unit? Still looks like a genius to me.

[@dragonsteve69]

People may be confused because in the movie Phantom M Anakin says "I built him to help out my mom".... one just assumes he was a rebuild, just like how Jawas Crawlers were built thousands of years earlier for mining, then repurposed.

[@michaelcase8231]

I just assumed that Anakin was lying about most stuff when we first saw him. The only male role model he had was Watto so telling the truth wouldn't have been something Anakin would have understood as a life principle. After all he makes up a story about angles to smooze a "handmaiden" just to secure a possible sale. Watto wasn't a good role model.

[@dust_bin_gaming7319]

The story about Angels wasn't made up. They are legitimately a thing, though their correct name is the Diathim, that live both *on* the planet iego, and one of it's moons Millius Prime. They re coloquially known as 'Angels', because they're very slight of frame and have fair skin. Having never seen one, he just assumed (and sure, was maybe schmoozing a bit) that 'pretty girl must be one of those pretty beings I've heard about'.

[@michaelcase8231]

@@dust_bin_gaming7319 Interesting, but their existence wasn't the part I felt he made up. I felt that he made up the description or rather the vagueness of them while trying to schmoozing up Padme for a sale. Who knows how many times Watto did that and was observed by Anakin.

[@andyghkfilm2287]

Actually, I always assumed exactly the opposite. I figured that his intensity with, say, Padme (Are you an angel?) and with the Jedi (I think you _are_ here to free the slaves) are so charming and so incisive to those around him because Anakin can sense them, and feel them out-and he isn’t even aware he’s doing it, so he’s not adapting his responses at all, he’s just responding honestly to the vibes everyone is putting out. I think Anakin could sense Padme was a queen in disguise, and addressed this as “an angel/the pilots talk about angels sometimes at spaceports”, and I think he could sense Qui-Gon’s heart ache against the slavery on tatooine, despite Qui-Gon having to stifle that in the name of his mission. And I think being surrounded by the Jedi in the Temple was so intimidating because, for one thing, the temple is built on a dark side nexus, and for another because he can’t read the master Jedi, who are closed off to him, as readily as he can read other people.

[@michaelcase8231]

@andyghkfilm2287 that's a neat take on him

[@asator0505]

but anakin still has a mother. why wouldnt she teach him not to lie? i mean, he's obviously a very confident kid and maybe overstimates himself in his claims or exaggarates things. but a lying about most things? idk

[@funnylumpy]

Thank you for the indepth explaination, C-3PO is 112+ years old referenced in source books before the prequels. A lot of fans thinks that Ani created him.

[@russellharrell2747]

Anakin was 100% on the AU spectrum.

[@darthdragonborn1552]

The fact that you completely separate TCW from the EU, cuz you actually use your brain makes you one of the best Star Wars KZbinrs. Also a plus with using the older guides, which I didn’t know had no updated info, except for some like the guide to warfare which does have TCW shite in it. I’m wondering if you also ignore the Denningverse as well lol.

[@rjshadow4321]

the fact he says (I'm building a droid) could mean anything from he got a kit with all the parts to finding said parts from multiple droids which I'm going with given his life at the time.

[@DrHundTF2]

THANK YOU! It burned holes in my brain to see comments about The Rise of Skywalker, with 3P0 being unable to read sith and ppl assuming a 9yo Anakin programmed that… Look, that movie is far from perfect. But there’s often a lot of complaints by star wars fans in general that are just completely unwarranted and, well, stoopid. Take the « They fly now » scene. Yes of course they know what a jetpack is. But these troopers on their outdated track-bike thingies did not fly 2 minutes ago. But suddenly during the chase, they launched from behind and used jetpacks. In other words, they fly now. And we can probably assume the same thing about Solo, and the story about the Falcon’s computer

[@VadersFirst]

It's the same semantics that we use for building virtually anything mechanical. Very rarely do we manufacture the parts, but we do assemble the parts like if we were to build a computer, build a car, etc.

[@g6qwerty]

yeah you don't refine the metal cast it and and machine each and every part and screw your self very much any more, you tend to build with existing parts or modify parts to work with what you have.

[@tylerreed610]

Tony stark build this in a CAVE. With a BUNCH OF SCRAPS

[@brycspain]

You're wrong. Every mom needs a protocol droid.

[@jasongriffin1517]

It's a good thing the Jedi rescued Anakin. He had such a hard life. Living at home with his mother, building Droids in the house and Pod Racers in the backyard with his friends. Such suffering and torment.

[@KneelB4Bacon]

Young Anakin: "He's a protocol droid to help Mom." HOW is that useful in a slave household? Also, he doesn't HAVE to be a protocol droid right now, Lucas! Droids can be re-programmed! Hey, here's an idea: when we meet C3P0 for the first time, he can have a completely different personality. We could get to know him over the course of 3 movies and then, when they erase his memory at the end of the third movie, we would actually feel BAD for him, like they're killing a real person. Instead, his reprogramming is treated like a "ha ha please laugh" moment. Humans in the Star Wars universe have a monstrous blind spot when it comes to their treatment of droids.

[@lba_e_ross2152]

Very nice and to the point video. I'm sure those lovely commenters now have all their concerns laid to rest. Good job getting this out and here's looking forward to more new videos this year!

[@Flopdoodle]

You underestimate the wounded ego of star-wars nerds.

[@lba_e_ross2152]

@@Flopdoodle Oh no, I really dont. I revil in it often enough to enjoy making them rancorus at times. >:3

[@lukestarkiller1470]

I’m glad someone finally made a video about this. Somehow people literally think that Anakin built C-3PO completely from scratch and completely programmed his entire personality and all 6 million forms of communication, including the outlawed Sith language. If he was actually a completely custom made droid then why would he even bother to make it look exactly like an existing model instead of just making his own? It should be obvious that he just found the pieces of a protocol could and put it together. Sometimes people are just so dumb it physically hurts me

[@orangezilla247]

I cant even begin to illustrate how exhausting it is explaining this kind of stuff to some fans. .. when I was 8 I built a computer from scrap parts of OTHER models my dad had. I streamlined it for speed through trial and error. But they were all factory standard components. Am I a genious? Well, I call myself a polymath, but thats not even a close comparison. Anyways tldr: Some fans are just not very aware of common sense.

[@thelippyserver58]

This is the second time i've head og DOOM music in your videos. A man of culture I see.

[@A-W80]

Always nice to see this channel upload

[@marikasdaughter6263]

The scene gave me the impression that he repaired him. Got a broken down robot working again. To completely design a robot from the ground up would be insanely hard and I don't think he was meant to be that kind of super genius somehow. Remember these are the words of a kid, and he never said from scratch. He's not technically lying when he says he's building but neither c-3po or the pod racer were built by him. He fixes stuff, puts things back together, makes them work again, he doesn't design from the ground up nor did he ever claim to.

[@1988dgs]

I had always assumes c-3po was scrapped, parts salvages, Anakin found the stripped chassis and rebuilt him, probably with access to other scrapped droids to get the right parts

[@BullMooseFox]

I always assumed that Anakin rapaired a damaged C3PO or put him together from multiple damaged droids or spare parts. I never thought he fabricated him completely from scratch.

[@sirtsregris9040]

I just studied subscribed about 2 minutes ago and you immediately release a video. What are the chances of that?

[@lefdee]

congrats. welcome to the family

[@RoachDoggJr2112]

Holy shit Purple Colonel crossover?!?! A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

[@mcwatchy1]

Just yesterday i commented on a different video,that 3po must have been built from a protocol droid kit available at your local big junk dealer. This is an interesting conversation indeed. Thanks for the upload.

[@natedawg6755]

Thank you so much for the Half Life gag, and the Vinny Watto voice scenes, we niche internet comedy enjoyers appreciate fan service to such extent

[@harltoncheston]

Speaking of how to write C-3PO's name, I remember reading the Jedi Prince series while in grade school, and in those books they wrote it out phonetically: "See-Threepio"

[@schubertuk]

The idea of what 'The Bread Circus' finds astonishing is hilarious!

[@namikstudios]

Anakin did in fact build C-3PO, as in he put the parts of the droid together. He did not design C-3PO. There is a big difference between the two.

[@SkywalkerFoe]

A Bread Circus video today?? Fantastic!

[@tonycollins3505]

I agree he didn’t build 3PO but he did make him from several droids and that in itself is a feat for an average 9 year old so in a sense he did “ build “ 3 po

[@AMBPineapple]

Did not expect to see the funny purple half-life man in one of these videos

[@evprince]

I was not anticipating the Resonance Cascade reference in a Star Wars vid.

[@khit007]

Anakin Skywalker was able to build C3PO in a cave, with a box of scraps!

[@onefishblow]

Wow, what an amazing wealth of knowledge. Thanks for the awesome video Bud.

[@dewdew80]

So Anakin...ASSEMBLED C-3PO? Seems much more plausible than what I believed as a child. I wonder how many of his parts were proper to the factory models and how much was imitation. What if he was running on an emulator on an improper processor or something. edit: amazing what questions are answered when you actually watch the video

[@theunintelligentlydesigned4931]

I never thought Anakin built C-3PO "from scratch". Nearly everything we make is not "from scratch". Even my wonderful Mexican Casseloaf uses store bought tortilla chips, not "from scratch". Mexican Casseloaf ingredients: hamburger, tortilla chips, tomatoes, romaine lettuce, taco seasoning. Optionally you can add beans or cheese if you want.

[@ObinWangRavioli]

WHERE ARE YOU BREAD CIRCUS? YOURE MY ONLY HOPE

[@peteypiranalover]

Cant you assume Bail Organa owned C-3P0 during the 19 years in between 3-4 in EU canon. Not just Captain Antilles.

[@joedurran3122]

I always thought of Threepio being built by Anakin like a person builds a custom computer. He didn’t invent Threepio just assembled him. With that being said, Lucas could’ve at least made Threepio look slightly different from the other protocol droids because not everyone’s custom built computers looks the same, even if assembled from the same parts.

[@joranlefleur7942]

Great stuff man, I'm a huge fan of the channel

[@futurelink8]

My beat guess, is that C stands for cybot Galactica, the company, 3 for tranlang 3, P for protocol, but I'm not sure what O would stand for.

[@paulaccuardi9071]

What if cybot galactica made another protocol droid with the translang 3?

[@SymmetricalDocking]

​@@paulaccuardi9071The C-3PP?

[@LiteralApe]

Right they could do an alphabetical thing​@@SymmetricalDocking

[@RichardHansbury]

I never boggled at a boy building a robot. I never assumed it was from individual transistors and solenoids. When I was a boy that age there were kits. Primitive by today's standards but still pretty neat. I saw Ep 4 at 11 and didn't hate Ep 1 on sight. For instance, I just assumed Anakin found a crate with a C3PO in modules ready to assemble and program with instructions. Probably an obsolete unit that never sold, likely incomplete. Luke reattached Threepio's arm with no trouble in Ep 4. At one point i vaguely remember a silver droid with a red replacement arm. Not to mention Chewbacca completely reassembling him with few tools. (And he is a "him" not an "it"). I also remember Anakin telling Padme he wished he hadn't made Threepio so self-aware because he was so anxious. Padme did use him extensively as did Leia as Head of the New Republic in Timothy Zahn's Heir to the Empire. Artoo Detoo seems never to have been wiped, but since he doesn't speak Basic he knows history. Interesting characters based on Shakespeare.

[@clawed279]

Phenomenal crossover. Definitely not a face I was expecting to see but a delightful one.

[@jameshead9119]

Frankly I always felt that having him make a droid should of been a R2D2 to use in his pod racing than a protocol droid to supposedly help his mother just as a C-3PO would have been more in place in the Royal yacht instead

[@johnmiller7682]

The funny thing about the Anakin building 3PO argument is that they completely miss the reality. If I bought a garage filled with car parts, and I put them all together. And the end result was a Mustang. I built a Mustang, not a custom car.

[@MatecaCorp]

Even when I was a kid I understood that the intended implication was that Anakin had simply rebuilt C3PO from junk condition. That said, the prequels were not good at explaining things so the misunderstanding is not unreasonable.

[@iblackfeathers]

what is very odd is how anakin stopped creating things on a regular basis when he got older, like he was a completely different person. with his rank, he could have built the deathstar or other lethal devices without having to rely on scientists. i could see him design and make his own weapons.

[@darth_yoda]

I haven't watched the video. But this have been going around sooo long.. I always say "No he didn't BUILD he repaired" I have always imagen that Anakin found a broken down C-3po and rebuild him and him having his mind WIPED would also explain why he think of Anakin as his creator as the one whom put him back together and got him to work.

[@raspiankiado]

He took the scrap of an almost functional droid, and fixed him up with scrap.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Seeing Anakain assemble C-3PO in the prequels felt so weird. I could understand R2-D2 being there just by chance. Bought them cheap for some miscellaneous work. Now, Anakain fixing up some broken robot from scraps he found in the area is more plausible. He is good at tinkering. He doesn't create things, but fixes them up. Average 2 years per master sounds fine. I could totally see the droid being in use at some diplomatic station, where the diplomat keeps rotating, the droid stays. And now it makes me wonder if there is a C-2PO or a C-3NO or a C-3PM or a similar earlier version, however the version numbers work on the series.

[@davidzollinger8436]

It's a world with tons of advanced tech. Making a droid doesn't have to mean you have to design the mechanics, programming, and electronics from outright scratch. Even today, it would take experienced engineers dedicated to portions of such a project. Meanwhile, there are literal robot toys made for kids to build. Toys like Arduino are like a kid's introduction to embedded systems development and are still applicable to engineering college students and early prototype development in R&D fields. Considering Anakin's role in Watto's junkyard, it's not much of a stretch to assume he could assemble a functioning robot from a random assortment of junk parts around. It's likely robots of similar lines share lots of interchangeable parts like any modern computer. Anakin building 3PO is likely the world equivalent of a genius poor kid from the bad part of town finding a few scrap robot toy kits somebody threw out and being bored enough to build the equivalent of what high schoolers in the good schools do for a robotics club. Unusual, to be sure, but well within the realm of possibility, especially considering the kinds of things he did around Watto's shop.

[@moorebounce]

C-3P0 was built like the original Xbox with off the shelf parts. So he was factory built. He took the undamaged parts from multiple robots and put them together.

[@lba_e_ross2152]

Oh boy this is gonna be fun

[@surferdude4487]

I had assumed, since seeing Episode I, that Anakin had built C-3PO from scavanged parts of similar droids. However, I had also assumed that he found a mostly intact, funtional droid brain in an otherwise badly damaged droid. At no point did I think that he built the thing from the elements of the planet or that he invented the protocol droid.

[@artiesykes]

anakin building a 3po from parts salvaged from a junk yard is akin to getting a junk pickup truck from a scrapper and making it work again. it may differ from a factory model, but it's still going to be a basic truck when it gets running again. it's not rocket appliances julian lol

[@rcrawford42]

In "A New Hope", when C-3PO said "Thank the maker!" he was thanking Darth Vader. Because Anakin built him.

[@8_Bit]

These videos are awesome! Why does a lot of the movie footage look so different, kind of hyper-real like it was transferred to high-definition video tape or something? I totally don't know how to describe it :) Is it because it's somehow (AI?) had its frame-rate increased to 60 fps?

[@kamarraimo4391]

Aww and there I thought this video was gonna address the C-3PO question I had on that video. Well, it was still very informative. I never knew the LOM series were protocol droids. I wonder how one of them ended up becoming a bounty hunter since they don't seem to be particularly combat oriented builds.

[@dust_bin_gaming7319]

To make it short, he was ambitious and got bored, and tired of serving people, so had his programming overwritten. >_

[@matthewgarrity9405]

Where there's a (artificial) will, there's a (very real) way. The way is crime. 😂

[@dust_bin_gaming7319]

@@matthewgarrity9405 '(artificial)Life, uh... Finds a way.' even! xD

[@DerrangedGadgeteer]

I always imagined Anakin put C-3PO together from a kit. I mean, do people really think in the distant sci-fi galaxy that there's no DIY kits for droids, ships, blasters etc?

[@enigma1863]

It’s ironic how small Star Wars is. So small this droid has run into the skywalker family multiple times. It’s literally in space on planets and they treat each planet like it’s a single village. If you want world building look at game of thrones. Taken place on a world smaller than earth yet feels so much larger.

[@braydonfisher9273]

21:22 perfect place for a chronicom "As I have always been" reference

[@FrarmerFrank]

He was REBUILT by Anikan with the protocol droid scraps and spare parts if im remember the dialog correctly

[@FrarmerFrank]

And this is what happens when you comment before Finishing the Video 😹

[@ianbelletti6241]

He may have built C-3P0 but because it's from spare parts it doesn't mean he's not a 3P0 model. It's more likely that he's a modified 3P0 model considering that his core parts are probably from a 3P0 model but he probably sourced compatible spare parts from other models due to limited access to the right parts. On top of that, some of the parts may have been from a different model but the same across multiple models anyway.

[@harrisonwardwell3901]

Great video, very cool!

[@antraxxslingshots]

4:49 from what Source are those HighRes + High Framerate Clips?

[@fangslore9988]

technically speaking C-3P0 was rebuilt by anakin, he is in actuality a 100 year old protocol droid Anakin found in Watto's junk yard

[@moonshoes11]

Tony Stark built C-3PO, in a cave…from a box of scraps.

[@pikachuthegayatheist6215]

There’s something else that tells that C-3PO was built way before the Empire and the high Republic the droid brain of C-3PO have the ability to translate the original Sith language because of old Republic regulations the droid brain was not normally able to access this translation without modifications, that would eventually erase the protocol droids database.

[@compugasm]

I built a model airplane when I was nine. Nobody thought I was Wilbur Wright.

[@ryanrockers]

thank you, I hated thinking that child built a robot