Well... Star Wars has a little, seemingly, of about EVERY other thing in existence... an SW Blair Witch/ maybe Dawn of Dead end/etc series or short movie or something like that'd be pretty cool. Maybe done as a UA-cam fan short movie or something.. sounds like something bout everyone at one them huge comic comicon events with everyone imaginable at would all get a laugh and appreciate least if they're true pop culture/sci-fi fans
There’s a mode in battlefront two where you’re a group of stormtroopers trying to survive the night on Endor until the shuttle comes and picks you up. Pretty creepy stuff
Proof. They tried to eat Han, Luke, and Chew. Helmets were seen at the end being played like drums. Where were the rest of the bodies? They didn't just set that up in an hour. They wear bones as decoration. Definitely carnivores.
Basically yeah 😂. Also remember Han trying to blow out the fire, and people moan there's cheesy bits in the prequels. There are as well in the sequels but they're undefendable!
Nothing quite as terrifying as something cute and cuddly that is ruthless and bloodthirsty. And the fun part is, it is implied through the Ewok movies that they generally aren't that violent against outsiders unless the outsiders wrongs them. Had the storm troopers at the beginning of the story accepted the gift of flowers, it is likely that the Ewoks would have left them alone. Just look at how friendly they are first with Leia and then the rest of rebels in Return of the Jedi. Show them kindness and they return kindness, show them violence, and may the force have mercy upon your soul, because the Ewok's won't.
They're probably in a tough & violent forest, so they adapted by being defensive to confirmed threats but with the affective empathy to accept potentially friendly strangers
@@nicholasleclerc1583 If the Ewok movies are anything to go by, calling the forest moon of Endor a tough and violent forest is an understatement and a half. They are surprisingly violent movies considering that they are supposed to be "kid friendly". Both of the human adults in the first movie get eaten by giant humanoids (together with about half a dozen ewoks), and of the two kids, the older other two bites the dust in the sequel. And that is not counting the large number of ewoks that die during the course of the movies.
It's a good law in nature to not bite unless harmed first. Most things with a primitive culture are prepared for fights, but want to avoid them because they have no idea how much it could escalate by.
Like that game in Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2017 version). Ewok Hunt, I believe it is called. Where its a bunch of Stormtroopers versus Ewoks. With every Stormtrooper players death, they become a Ewok. Its so dark and there are traps set up by the Ewoks. The Ewoks hunt you down and their small so its harder to see them. It's horrifying.
The Ewoks started with overtures of peace, and were met with brutality and slaughter. The Ewoks returned that brutality, and for the first time in a long time, the Empire was on the receiving end of brutality and not the ones dishing it out. The bullies found a target that looks weak, but fought back. Bullies don't like when their victims fight back. The Ewoks aren't extra terrifying, the Empire is just not used to being Terrified.
All they had to do was to be diplomatic here. But who could've thought the little fuzzy wuzzy teddy bears would be pint-sized Arctotheriums with a thirst for blood that would give a Sith Warrior pause.
@@CommanderBohnImagine Disney doing a series of Darth Ewak! The Sith are destroyed but several Sith journals and teachings fall in to the hands of the Ewak.😅
@@hackman669 Ironically there were two Jedi Ewoks. And one turned to the dark side once he found what slavers were doing with his people on Endor. The same Ewok was also trained by Luke Skywalker if I remember...
I’d assume they did that because of earlier interactions with the Storm Troopers, if one group of funny looking aliens blasted our welcome party to smithereens you’d best believe every other welcome party would be treated with hostility!
Not to mention that they actually seem quite adept at figuring out technology. I mean, you had that one with the speeder, those 2 in the walker with Chewie, and you see another one during the battle wielding a blaster.
I remember watching a cheesy TV special called The Ewok Adventure. A couple kids get stranded on the green moon and meet the Ewoks. My dad freaked out and said "Run! They eat people!"
The Disney produce movie before Disney bought out Star Wars. There were two of those tv movies made. Even tho their not considered canon they were still partly produced with Lucas Film.
Originally they were going to be Wookies on their home world of Kashyyyk, but they changed it to Ewoks on Endor. Probably for budget reasons. And yes, Kashyyyk is spelled with three y's. Don't ask.
Man Ewoks are vicious little hunters. Thank you for doing a video on this subject. Most Star Wars fans just want to push the fact that the Ewoks were/are flesh eating teddy bears. Thank you so much for doing a video about this it's much appreciated. Have a great day and may the force be with you always.
Endor is their Vietnam. Similar "technology" is what the Viet Cong used against the Americans. Sure, they had modern weapons too, but they primarily employed those low tech tactics and weapons extremely effectively.
Reminds me of how the Viet Cong fought U.S. forces during the Vietnam War. They used booby traps and hit and run tactics to inflict harm on U.S. troops, both physically and mentally.
The movie was pretty clear they ate human given a chance. It was unnerving seeing the rebels hanging around for the after party-- we always wondered if Luke, Leia, and Han ended up eating without thinking.
Looking at this, it makes you think. If the storm troopers did not shot the Ewoks when they first made contact, and offered peace with them, then the Ewoks would not have started killing and eating them. It's ironic that the storm troopers sealed their own fate the second they shot at them out of fear and ignorance. And I should also say that in the Star Wars Ewoks animated series of the 80s, the Ewoks mention that they do not hunt, unless there is no other food.
Considering that we see one Ewok operating a speeder bike and another group crewing an AT-ST with Chewbacca, I suspect that the Ewoks' primitive society is not from a lack of intelligence on their part. But rather a conscious choice to embrace a simple life.
If anything you have to be more intelligent if life is an actual fucking challenge. Even better, its not so much life as survival. Could you imagine? But societies like this happen due to not seeing the need to further technological development. See the whole point of inventing something is to sell it. To sell it you have to advertise it. You advertise it to convince the people that it is necessary. Vast regions where there aren't constant commercials never go far from the stoneage.
Manning an AT-ST isn't as complicated as it sounds. Droid-brains do a lot of the heavy lifting. Why else can a character seemingly step into the cockpit of a random ship and fly it? I spend 20 minutes trying to find the headlight controls in a rental car here on earth.
This is just not logically, logistically and historically incorrect it’s also technically impossible. Advertising?!?!? First came the market then came advertising. Advertising as it is now is a pretty new invention but humanities progress is pretty constant the last few thousand years. This is crazy talk so crazy it’s blowing my mind. Advertising is basically lies and no good information is really retained by it. I think the thing you are thinking of is called a book not a commercial and you can find them in libraries…..
I love the look on the old stormtrooper's face when the guy tells him that the Ewoks being wiped out was only a myth. He's so deflated. For all these years, the only thing that kept this old man going was the thought of a bunch feral teddy bears dying horribly in a burning hellscape, only to learn that they're all fine.😟 😂😂😂
The Ewoks eating storm troopers really makes me wonder what happened to other humans or alien species who had the misfortune to end up on Endor via a ship crash or intentional trip or if it was the empire that made the Ewoks so violent towards other humans Ik one thing for sure though the Ewok hunt mode in Bf2 just became more terrifying
Pureblooded Sith Warrior: I fear nothing. But that thing (quickly glances at an Ewok) terrifies me. Ewok: Nub, Nub. PSW: *Force Jumps out in panic* Also considering Endor is full of scary predators and home to another brutal race that butts heads with Ewoks, it's no wonder the little guys had to become hardcore.
The thing that stuck with me about the Ewoks is when they were going to cook the heroes. They didn't kill them and dress the bodies for preparation. They tied them, still alive, and hung them over the fire fully conscious. The women and children gathered around the fire. They are completely merciless, and the humans screaming in agony and begging for a clean death means nothing to them. I even wonder if their screams would serve as a kind of entertainment for them. I can't even count the number of times I've failed to convince people how terrifying an Ewok is, they are the worst monsters in the entire series.
Forces of Destiny: An Imperial Feast is canon under Disney, and features Ewoks preparing to eat captured Imperial stormtroopers until the Rebels intervene.
Ewok Chief: It's over, Troopers! We have the high ground! Troopers: You underestimate my technology. A few minutes later... Ewok: I don't know what I am eating, but I'll have another.
they definitely ate people in canon. Even in the newer Tales from Return of the Jedi we clearly learn that they ate humans and liked torturing people. It even says that they like eating arrogant humans because they're fear makes them taste better. Even the Empire thought it was evil, that's saying something
The Ewok Hunt mode on Battlefront II takes place on that night on Endor. 2 Ewoks vs. 19 Stormtroopers. A Stormtrooper dies and they become an Ewok, it's all in the dark, and your flashlight's batteries don't last forever... It is absolutely terrifying playing as a Stormtrooper. It's an awesome mode and totally worth checking out.
Did one of those comics literally drop the line from Aliens: "Maybe they don't show up on infra-red at all." I love learning more Legends Lore. Great video.
I can’t believe so many people didn’t think the Ewoks ate their enemies! Just the fact that Han, Luke, and Chewy were on the menu until 3P0 convinced them otherwise gives you the first clue. If not, then one can understand the symbolism of the helmet drums at the victory celebration. Obviously, the stormtroopers became the main course for the feast that would feed so many rebel guests!
Great stuff. Definite 'Predator' vibe. It's an issue that stuck with me right from the first time I saw ROTJ. Never bothered me that much as they were clearly hunters, and one thing that hunter-gatherers tend to be very big on is NOT wasting food. Simple homefield advantage would have counted for a lot. A very big part of what happened could be attributed to what many refer to as 'The Rules Of War'. Impies, Rebels and so forth all had familiarity with dealing with each other, and at least a fair understanding of what everybody would and would NOT do in battle. Very simply, the Ewoks had never read that book. Plus, it sounds like they were more "All-In" with their tactics than a lot of other folks woould be. Doubtless, other so--called 'primitives' had been dealt with before. But it seems plausible that, in most of these prior instances, the technological forces had a better understanding of their opponents beforehand. There might have even been early efforts at assimilation and/or subjugation (" *Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure* ..."). In this case, seems like the Imperials just strolled in, expecting a completely unopposed walkover.
You are right, I mostly don't believe it. Not that I'd call it out as BS, or convenient for October, or intriguing fan-fiction, and C3PO even tells our heroes he thinks the Ewoks are planning to eat them, but then we also see segments where their tactics, and equipment, aren't anything up to snuff vs the Empire's kit, and more than that, the Empire isn't really subtle. Until the day the Rebellion arrives, there's basically no reason to worry that anything is going to happen at Endor. If the Imperial troops, and Stormtroopers, who had been there for some time, were really having a fraction of that trouble, I'd imagine they'd deal with it. The Ewoks weren't valuable as labor, nor did the prefab garrison base need the forest canopy as cover; it was under the shield, too, and safe from orbital strike. If the Empire, who seemed surprised when we saw them, which was after the Rebellion was there, had been bothered by more than a bit of irritation, they probably would have razed the forest around the base, or sent troops into the woods hunting, to give them something to do, while waiting for the encounter they knew was eventually coming. I'm actually entirely willing to believe Ewoks ate people, as Threepio prevented for Luke and Han, but I find it harder to believe that they were really taxing the interloper troops, and the Imperials didn't just call down some carpet bombs, some dispatch some flamer Troopers, or worse.
Maybe the location of the new Death Star was not casual they know to keep their bases in Endor night closed and not slowly walk in their forest for a reason. Ewoks can't eat armored battle station and the "Unknown" menace was a security layer of that base, they were sure no rebels will survive there.
One of the great underappreciated aspects of Return of the Jedi was how the Empire arrogantly dismissed the Ewoks, and how this dismissal turned out to be the key factor in undermining Palpatine's entire plan to wipe out the Rebels, instead getting him killed and the Empire collapsing. Though the movie itself presented the Ewoks as cute, cuddly bears, the cannibal bits, initially played for laughs, have inspired us over the years as fans to rethink these cute, cuddly bears and draw comparison to the lurking terrors of the Viet Cong.
This totally changes my R.o.t.j. experience lol! I'll look at it on a far better light now lol 😂 I never quite looked at it from an on the battlefield experience approach before but rather they were tiny little fuzzy teddy bears but aftet this it appears that looks can be deceiving & the Ewoks were indeed beastly warriors!
It's been said that the Ewoks had those large traps that took down many Walkers because they would sometimes get attacked by the Endore giants called Gorax and the traps were originally meant to fend off the giants. You should do a video about the Gorax.
Imagine being sent to a world you know nothing about other than the books. Having the rug pulled out from underneath you. Then watching your comrades being spit roasted and eaten before your eyes.
0:16.... (panel 2) i wonder how many know where else that line is used motion trackers on the Storm Troopers wouldn't have helped either....."Look, I'm telling you, there's something moving here and it ain't us!" "Trackers off scale, man. There all around us man, Jesus!"
🤔 . . . Honestly, I’d prefer the Ewoks, in the Galactic Empire’s Stormtroopers’ perspective, to be as scary as _Goblin Slayer_ ‘s Goblins, i.e. they spared the women & children, only to become dairy cattle & such. Due to their size, the women’s limbs were trimmed so they wouldn’t be a threat to the Ewoks. If the Galactic Empire brought their families, i.e. their kids, they’d keep the kids alive, only to being fattened up with various drugs to keep them complacent (I highly recommend Jay Naylor’s [ _CottonWine_ ] story arc to understand how it could’ve happened); the male Ewoks would even release their ‘frustrations’ upon them, maybe birthing various hybrids & such, but they wouldn’t care because they’ve been so drugged up through their food that they’re completely complacent to being the Ewoks livestock & such . . . - Happy Halloween 😏…
Of course they ate people They were going to eat Luke and Han Solo and Chewbacca. They were the apex predators on their planet even if they worked teddy bears. It doesn't make them cannibals to eat whatever they can find as long as it wasn't themselves.. They tried to make it more kid friendly but the tone at the end with a storm trooper helmets and how they were able to easily take out in gorilla warfare a lot of those stormtroopers was pretty foreboding when you thought about it.
Uh Ewoks do what? Smh I see why those little munchkins didn't get an invite to join the Jedi Order. Innocent on the outside, but dangerous on the inside
Was gonna say... somehow there ACTUALLY was a Jedi Ewok... BUT yall... if the stock outta the forest Ewok might eat or even just decide to maim an murder for reasons.. Just imagine a Sith Ewok....
Well now that makes sense. I always wondered why they had Han Solo tied up like they wanted to roast him. Unless it was possible that they did in fact practice cannibalism.
I have to wonder how much Imperial occupation of Endor might have negatively affected their normal hunting/resource gathering operations, putting the Ewoks on edge
*The following are the musings of a Salty SEAGULL named EARL who just shows up in my posts whenever he feels like it!* [EARL the Salty SEAGULL:] "I have always respected the Ewoks and believe it was a good idea to make the Ewok spin off films which are vastly superior to the sequel trilogy (but then again even the Life Day Special is better than the the Disney Sequel Trilogy)! The Ewoks may look like cuddly teddy bears but they are warriors who defended their home from the Imperials and aided the Rebel Alliance in bringing freedom to the galaxy! I also love that they did it with low tech weaponry which of course is a reference to Vietnam War! Sure Disney will probably retcon the Ewoks brutality so it doesn't hurt theit marketability or leave it vague!"
Interestingly enough, the phrase "Maybe they don't show up on infrared at all!" Is a direct reference to a scene Aliens where the character who says that also get dragged away upwards right afterward.
Strom trooper blasters exploded chunks out of concrete, yet you see ewoks frontal charge a pair of stormtroopers, overwhelm them, and bludgeon them with rocks larger than a human fist, and while it looks comical, you don't see stormtroopers get up from that. The only ewok you saw die on screen was hit by a vehicle mounted cannon, and instead of becoming chunky salsa, as the AT-STs are shown doing to soldiers on hoth, that ewok DIED SLOWLY. In some of the expanded legends material, it is shown that ewoks only natural predators are a giant that likes to wear bandoliers of live ewoks AS ARMOR. The storm troopers were defenseless against them, the empire was counting on ewoks to be the hazzard in the forest that would stop the rebels (and it almost did) because vader had cowed them into submission. The whole reason the worshiped C3P0 was that he was a natural counter to the "dark robot" (vader) which they already feared. If that weren't enough, in the old star wars RPG, it spells out that the most common force talent for uninitiated ewoks was technolink, ie telepathically guessing the correct function of technology, as you see one ewok doing when he jumps on a speeder bike and immediately knows how to use it.
I always like to think that Endor is a high-grav planet(moon). It would help explain alot-like the AT-ST's fragility and difficulty moving, the Ewok's super strength, maybe also why the troopers seemed so pathetic. Even Leia got winded pretty quick.
I think some people have very active and morbid imaginations. The Ewoks were simply what we saw in ROTJ. A cool race of primitive wood people that at first were scared into sacrificing creatures they didn’t understand to what they thought was a god. But then, once they understood, joined their new found friends against the evil Empire. They were a fun aspect to the movie, and cool figures with a super cool Playset.
Following your enemy deep into their territory without accurate intel (where guerrilla warfare is almost guaranteed) never ends well… it’s still one of the most devastating lessons to learn in war throughout the ages.
I would say Baby Yoda is even more terrifying. As you watch the show... he purposely eats the eggs (babies) of other sentient beings.. almost all of them. Just like the Ewoks, he looks cute... but he's basically eating another sentient, intelligent being's developing babies. It would be like Ewoks gutting pregnant human women, and eating the unborn, developing baby.
I was in high school when Empire came out I was walking home with some friends after the movie and a buddy said " Ken what's wrong " I said "...they ate them " they ate who?" my friend asked "the Ewoks ate the Stormtroopers" all of us were silent for a while after that ...walking in the dark
their is also treek the first ewok to leave endor and became a greatly feared bounty hunter as well despite using fairly primtive tools along with adapting to advanced tech
The very first statement is true. Before even watching the rest, I could tell you anyone who's played Ewok Hunt in SW BF when it was around can attest to this. Surviving the night while these little bastards ran around the woods was terrifying.
Its why i panic when i am around only 3 or 4 storm troopers in that survival mode in battlefront II cause at that point I know where dead where just buying time
The Ewoks aren't actually cannibalistic - they don't eat their own kind. At least not for the most part. And they're not exactly xenophobic, either. They are usually welcoming to outsiders when they visit... HOWEVER..! They are vindictive little bastards who have NO problem eating a sapient from another species. An Ewok crewmate I worked with on a bulk freighter a few years back even told me that they're not bothered by extraendorians eating them if it's from an honorable hunt or combat, or something like that. Remember, Luke and friends were caught in that trap fair and sqare. And, you gotta question the sapience of someone who would fall for that hanging bird trap anyway (looking at you, Chewie). They even have an underground gladiator circuit that resembles the Roman arena. Only, the similarly frequent deaths see the corpse suctioned off; the proceeds, and half the fight's profits go to helping restore the devastation that did happen despite the NR's best efforts. Sanctuary lost a solid quarter of its globe-spanning forest and half its grasslands. So, yeah. They're one of the SCARIEST species in the Galaxy.
Not sure if this is canon but I heard that when palpatine die before the deathstar was destroyed his death contaminated endor with the dark side giving endor a dark side Nexus. That alone will make all life on endor more aggressive & maybe blood thirsty.
The Ewoks evolved on a planet tantamount to hell, it’s populated by dangerous plants, giant flesh eating mega wookies, outrider invaders from other worlds and most horrifying of all, Ewoks, these tiny mofos have mastered the art of destroying things much bigger than them, the empire never stood a chance
This makes me wonder if the inspiration was drawn from the massacre of the Romans in the Teutoburg forest in 9 AD. The Germans used their knowledge of the terrain to their advantage, springing a trap and, in the end, wiping out a full 1/10 of the most powerful army in the world at that time. The Romans who died in the attack, however, were the lucky ones. After the battle, Roman captives were subjected to brutal tortures and executions with some accounts saying that many were skinned alive. The similarities to the Battle of Endor and the aftermath are spooky.
Darth Vader: "The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the terror of an Ewok."
The Ewoks caught Luke in a simple net. Something Vader was not able to do with literally an entire Galactic Armada as his command.
@@aldenstromberg7273 It was a joke.
@@aldenstromberg7273this response concerns me 🤨
Palpatine: “Quick, write that down!”
@@DarthSardukar what he say
Found footage of a group of storm troopers trying to escape ewoks on endor but being picked off 1 by 1 would be metal but terrifying
Sounds great. Let's make sure the next Ewoks do not have zippers? 🤪 (Original costumes.)
Well... Star Wars has a little, seemingly, of about EVERY other thing in existence... an SW Blair Witch/ maybe Dawn of Dead end/etc series or short movie or something like that'd be pretty cool.
Maybe done as a UA-cam fan short movie or something.. sounds like something bout everyone at one them huge comic comicon events with everyone imaginable at would all get a laugh and appreciate least if they're true pop culture/sci-fi fans
Wasn't there a mission in a star wars game basically like this?
@@vestarakhai5303Yes. The new Battlefront 2. Scary as hell mode, since it's multiplayer.
VR Horror Game, You're the storm trooper trying to save your battalion but every attempt is futile, As teddy bears munch on there skulls
The jungles speak Vietnamese, The rooftops speak Korean and the forests of Endor speak Ewok.
Bless the rooftop Koreans. Absolute megachads.
And the snow-laden pine trees, of course, speak Finnish! 😅
And the wheat fields speak Russian
@@tesseract_1982 Simo Häyhä.
@@tesseract_1982 Winter 1939 - when war was not merely hell, but absolute fucking perkele.
There’s a mode in battlefront two where you’re a group of stormtroopers trying to survive the night on Endor until the shuttle comes and picks you up. Pretty creepy stuff
Sounds Funny AF
Proof. They tried to eat Han, Luke, and Chew. Helmets were seen at the end being played like drums. Where were the rest of the bodies? They didn't just set that up in an hour. They wear bones as decoration. Definitely carnivores.
Don't forget the clothing Leia was wearing. It didn't look crudely stitched and was just her size.
@@hippy282 Very true. It was probably made of human hair.
@@richardkinkead7823 Or just some previous dinner's wardrobe they haven't gotten around to throwing out
Extra funny when you consider that early drafts had Kashyyyk as the world the DSII was built above.
Basically yeah 😂. Also remember Han trying to blow out the fire, and people moan there's cheesy bits in the prequels. There are as well in the sequels but they're undefendable!
Nothing quite as terrifying as something cute and cuddly that is ruthless and bloodthirsty.
And the fun part is, it is implied through the Ewok movies that they generally aren't that violent against outsiders unless the outsiders wrongs them. Had the storm troopers at the beginning of the story accepted the gift of flowers, it is likely that the Ewoks would have left them alone. Just look at how friendly they are first with Leia and then the rest of rebels in Return of the Jedi. Show them kindness and they return kindness, show them violence, and may the force have mercy upon your soul, because the Ewok's won't.
They're probably in a tough & violent forest, so they adapted by being defensive to confirmed threats but with the affective empathy to accept potentially friendly strangers
@@nicholasleclerc1583 If the Ewok movies are anything to go by, calling the forest moon of Endor a tough and violent forest is an understatement and a half. They are surprisingly violent movies considering that they are supposed to be "kid friendly". Both of the human adults in the first movie get eaten by giant humanoids (together with about half a dozen ewoks), and of the two kids, the older other two bites the dust in the sequel. And that is not counting the large number of ewoks that die during the course of the movies.
It's a good law in nature to not bite unless harmed first. Most things with a primitive culture are prepared for fights, but want to avoid them because they have no idea how much it could escalate by.
My. Thought. Exactly.
Yep, even a cute, fluffy little white rabbit might just tear you to bits. Just ask King Arthur's knights.
Like that game in Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2017 version). Ewok Hunt, I believe it is called. Where its a bunch of Stormtroopers versus Ewoks. With every Stormtrooper players death, they become a Ewok. Its so dark and there are traps set up by the Ewoks. The Ewoks hunt you down and their small so its harder to see them. It's horrifying.
@TheTyler211995 couldn’t agree more. Never looked at the Ewoks the same after Battlefront 2.
That's what I'm thinking it was definitely implied
Turns out that game mode is canon
This makes playing Ewok hunt on Starwars BF2 even more fun and terrifying.
The Ewoks started with overtures of peace, and were met with brutality and slaughter. The Ewoks returned that brutality, and for the first time in a long time, the Empire was on the receiving end of brutality and not the ones dishing it out. The bullies found a target that looks weak, but fought back. Bullies don't like when their victims fight back. The Ewoks aren't extra terrifying, the Empire is just not used to being Terrified.
All they had to do was to be diplomatic here. But who could've thought the little fuzzy wuzzy teddy bears would be pint-sized Arctotheriums with a thirst for blood that would give a Sith Warrior pause.
@@CommanderBohnImagine Disney doing a series of Darth Ewak! The Sith are destroyed but several Sith journals and teachings fall in to the hands of the Ewak.😅
@@hackman669 Ironically there were two Jedi Ewoks. And one turned to the dark side once he found what slavers were doing with his people on Endor.
The same Ewok was also trained by Luke Skywalker if I remember...
Rebel propaganda. The Ewoks were always going to eat them. The flowers were just garnishing.
The Ewoks are more savage than we thought. Must explain why Luke and Han were brought in as food.
I’d assume they did that because of earlier interactions with the Storm Troopers, if one group of funny looking aliens blasted our welcome party to smithereens you’d best believe every other welcome party would be treated with hostility!
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Not to mention that they actually seem quite adept at figuring out technology. I mean, you had that one with the speeder, those 2 in the walker with Chewie, and you see another one during the battle wielding a blaster.
I remember watching a cheesy TV special called The Ewok Adventure.
A couple kids get stranded on the green moon and meet the Ewoks.
My dad freaked out and said "Run! They eat people!"
It was probably one of the Ewoks movies.
@@notabannedaccount8362 It was shortly after Return of The Jedi was in theatres
I’ve got both of those movies on DVD!
The Disney produce movie before Disney bought out Star Wars. There were two of those tv movies made. Even tho their not considered canon they were still partly produced with Lucas Film.
I actually liked that movie when I was a kid. I didn't know it was a made for TV movie. Haven't seen it 30+ years.
I'm new to Star Wars, and I always thought Chewbacca was an Ewok..
That was wookie mistake.
Originally they were going to be Wookies on their home world of Kashyyyk, but they changed it to Ewoks on Endor. Probably for budget reasons. And yes, Kashyyyk is spelled with three y's. Don't ask.
Haha. What a Star Wars dad joke.
@@traikentercept144 Think less budget, more cuddly toy dollars
I’d borderline blame South Park for that, Johnny Cochran’s Chewbacca defense posited that Chewie “lived” on Endor!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
BTW, "Wookiee" is spelled with two E's.
Now it makes more sense why GenerationTech always hates Ewoks.
Humanity first
Man Ewoks are vicious little hunters. Thank you for doing a video on this subject. Most Star Wars fans just want to push the fact that the Ewoks were/are flesh eating teddy bears. Thank you so much for doing a video about this it's much appreciated. Have a great day and may the force be with you always.
Thanks for watching!
Endor is their Vietnam. Similar "technology" is what the Viet Cong used against the Americans. Sure, they had modern weapons too, but they primarily employed those low tech tactics and weapons extremely effectively.
Lol, for each killed US soldier 40 vietcongs were killed, so NOPE
Reminds me of how the Viet Cong fought U.S. forces during the Vietnam War. They used booby traps and hit and run tactics to inflict harm on U.S. troops, both physically and mentally.
Lol, the viets feared the US men with the green faces aka the original S.E.A.L. Team members
The movie was pretty clear they ate human given a chance. It was unnerving seeing the rebels hanging around for the after party-- we always wondered if Luke, Leia, and Han ended up eating without thinking.
Gotta eat something, might as well be Steve... I mean TK-1138.
Looking at this, it makes you think.
If the storm troopers did not shot the Ewoks when they first made contact, and offered peace with them, then the Ewoks would not have started killing and eating them. It's ironic that the storm troopers sealed their own fate the second they shot at them out of fear and ignorance.
And I should also say that in the Star Wars Ewoks animated series of the 80s, the Ewoks mention that they do not hunt, unless there is no other food.
Considering that we see one Ewok operating a speeder bike and another group crewing an AT-ST with Chewbacca, I suspect that the Ewoks' primitive society is not from a lack of intelligence on their part. But rather a conscious choice to embrace a simple life.
If anything you have to be more intelligent if life is an actual fucking challenge. Even better, its not so much life as survival. Could you imagine?
But societies like this happen due to not seeing the need to further technological development. See the whole point of inventing something is to sell it. To sell it you have to advertise it. You advertise it to convince the people that it is necessary.
Vast regions where there aren't constant commercials never go far from the stoneage.
& didn’t 1 of the ewoks wielded a blaster @ 1 point?
Manning an AT-ST isn't as complicated as it sounds. Droid-brains do a lot of the heavy lifting. Why else can a character seemingly step into the cockpit of a random ship and fly it? I spend 20 minutes trying to find the headlight controls in a rental car here on earth.
@@seanwoods647 Yeah like, wait... They were expecting a tribe of savages to fight fair when they brought AT-STs to a clovis point fight?
This is just not logically, logistically and historically incorrect it’s also technically impossible. Advertising?!?!? First came the market then came advertising. Advertising as it is now is a pretty new invention but humanities progress is pretty constant the last few thousand years. This is crazy talk so crazy it’s blowing my mind. Advertising is basically lies and no good information is really retained by it.
I think the thing you are thinking of is called a book not a commercial and you can find them in libraries…..
Should have taken the flowers
I love the look on the old stormtrooper's face when the guy tells him that the Ewoks being wiped out was only a myth. He's so deflated. For all these years, the only thing that kept this old man going was the thought of a bunch feral teddy bears dying horribly in a burning hellscape, only to learn that they're all fine.😟 😂😂😂
@rHunter42dragon the Death Star wreckage actually crushed the Ewoks and a vast bulk of the planet was turned into an ashen wasteland
@@Charlie94781 We've already established that didn't actually happen.
The fact they have a game mode that lets you feel what it is like to be hunted down by these Ewoks is downright Scary
To be fair, the Ewoks wanted peace. The Empire chose war. They reaped what they sowed.
Correct analysis.
The Ewoks eating storm troopers really makes me wonder what happened to other humans or alien species who had the misfortune to end up on Endor via a ship crash or intentional trip or if it was the empire that made the Ewoks so violent towards other humans
Ik one thing for sure though the Ewok hunt mode in Bf2 just became more terrifying
Pureblooded Sith Warrior: I fear nothing. But that thing (quickly glances at an Ewok) terrifies me.
Ewok: Nub, Nub.
PSW: *Force Jumps out in panic*
Also considering Endor is full of scary predators and home to another brutal race that butts heads with Ewoks, it's no wonder the little guys had to become hardcore.
It's not cannibalism if you're eating a different species 👍
Yeah thats just ordinary food
The thing that stuck with me about the Ewoks is when they were going to cook the heroes. They didn't kill them and dress the bodies for preparation. They tied them, still alive, and hung them over the fire fully conscious. The women and children gathered around the fire. They are completely merciless, and the humans screaming in agony and begging for a clean death means nothing to them. I even wonder if their screams would serve as a kind of entertainment for them. I can't even count the number of times I've failed to convince people how terrifying an Ewok is, they are the worst monsters in the entire series.
Forces of Destiny: An Imperial Feast is canon under Disney, and features Ewoks preparing to eat captured Imperial stormtroopers until the Rebels intervene.
Dude, we use every part of the stormtrooper...
Ewoks: Offer friendship.
Stormtroopers: Open blaster fire.
Ewoks: Nub nub it is.
Sounds like a future Vietnam with cannibalism and teddy bears!
Finally a video about how hardcore Ewoks are. Great video mate!
Rebels watching the Ewoks feast upon emperial flesh during the Celebration: 👀
Ewok Chief: It's over, Troopers! We have the high ground!
Troopers: You underestimate my technology.
A few minutes later...
Ewok: I don't know what I am eating, but I'll have another.
Ewok Chef: Bitch, you know whatchu eating...
they definitely ate people in canon. Even in the newer Tales from Return of the Jedi we clearly learn that they ate humans and liked torturing people. It even says that they like eating arrogant humans because they're fear makes them taste better. Even the Empire thought it was evil, that's saying something
People forget that Ewoks are bears and bears are omivores.
Bears are omnivores
@@peter-radiantpipes2800 Still eats meat.
Who the Hell ever said they were bears ?
@@davidponseigo8811 Dude, it's more than obvious based on how they look.
Makes sense, Panda Bears are cute but do not let that fool you.
Doomguy- You wanted a war.....
You should enjoy it......💀
Maybe they should have accepted those flowers from the Ewoks.
Good Afternoon.
The Ewok Hunt mode on Battlefront II takes place on that night on Endor. 2 Ewoks vs. 19 Stormtroopers. A Stormtrooper dies and they become an Ewok, it's all in the dark, and your flashlight's batteries don't last forever... It is absolutely terrifying playing as a Stormtrooper. It's an awesome mode and totally worth checking out.
If they're devouring the stormtroopers spirit, strenght and energy... they wouldn't have got much 😂
Did one of those comics literally drop the line from Aliens: "Maybe they don't show up on infra-red at all."
I love learning more Legends Lore. Great video.
I can’t believe so many people didn’t think the Ewoks ate their enemies! Just the fact that Han, Luke, and Chewy were on the menu until 3P0 convinced them otherwise gives you the first clue. If not, then one can understand the symbolism of the helmet drums at the victory celebration. Obviously, the stormtroopers became the main course for the feast that would feed so many rebel guests!
The Ewoks showed peace, the Empire showed war, then the Ewoks showed terror.
I love this
If anything the cuteness is a genetic adaptation. It makes enemies instantly lower their guard and become vulnerable
Flashbacks to that Ewok hunting mode in Battlefront 2
Great stuff. Definite 'Predator' vibe. It's an issue that stuck with me right from the first time I saw ROTJ. Never bothered me that much as they were clearly hunters, and one thing that hunter-gatherers tend to be very big on is NOT wasting food. Simple homefield advantage would have counted for a lot. A very big part of what happened could be attributed to what many refer to as 'The Rules Of War'. Impies, Rebels and so forth all had familiarity with dealing with each other, and at least a fair understanding of what everybody would and would NOT do in battle.
Very simply, the Ewoks had never read that book. Plus, it sounds like they were more "All-In" with their tactics than a lot of other folks woould be.
Doubtless, other so--called 'primitives' had been dealt with before. But it seems plausible that, in most of these prior instances, the technological forces had a better understanding of their opponents beforehand. There might have even been early efforts at assimilation and/or subjugation (" *Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure* ..."). In this case, seems like the Imperials just strolled in, expecting a completely unopposed walkover.
Battlefront II completely changed the way I saw Ewoks. They are truly terrifying.
You are right, I mostly don't believe it. Not that I'd call it out as BS, or convenient for October, or intriguing fan-fiction, and C3PO even tells our heroes he thinks the Ewoks are planning to eat them, but then we also see segments where their tactics, and equipment, aren't anything up to snuff vs the Empire's kit, and more than that, the Empire isn't really subtle. Until the day the Rebellion arrives, there's basically no reason to worry that anything is going to happen at Endor. If the Imperial troops, and Stormtroopers, who had been there for some time, were really having a fraction of that trouble, I'd imagine they'd deal with it. The Ewoks weren't valuable as labor, nor did the prefab garrison base need the forest canopy as cover; it was under the shield, too, and safe from orbital strike. If the Empire, who seemed surprised when we saw them, which was after the Rebellion was there, had been bothered by more than a bit of irritation, they probably would have razed the forest around the base, or sent troops into the woods hunting, to give them something to do, while waiting for the encounter they knew was eventually coming. I'm actually entirely willing to believe Ewoks ate people, as Threepio prevented for Luke and Han, but I find it harder to believe that they were really taxing the interloper troops, and the Imperials didn't just call down some carpet bombs, some dispatch some flamer Troopers, or worse.
Maybe the location of the new Death Star was not casual they know to keep their bases in Endor night closed and not slowly walk in their forest for a reason. Ewoks can't eat armored battle station and the "Unknown" menace was a security layer of that base, they were sure no rebels will survive there.
That panel where Vader is just looking over at you, holding half a dead Ewok. Ha!
One of the great underappreciated aspects of Return of the Jedi was how the Empire arrogantly dismissed the Ewoks, and how this dismissal turned out to be the key factor in undermining Palpatine's entire plan to wipe out the Rebels, instead getting him killed and the Empire collapsing. Though the movie itself presented the Ewoks as cute, cuddly bears, the cannibal bits, initially played for laughs, have inspired us over the years as fans to rethink these cute, cuddly bears and draw comparison to the lurking terrors of the Viet Cong.
That's why princess Leia had that dress during the ending of the Return of the Jedi.
Wait why?
That's right I remember a tv show called forces of destiny were ewoks where going to have a couple stormtroopers for lunch in that show
Stormtroopers: guns down Ewoks for offering peace
Ewoks: retaliate
Stormtroopers: 😮
This whole video makes me think of Ewok Hunt in Battlefront II. Especially on OLED on PC running Ultra Wide and HDR.
This totally changes my R.o.t.j. experience lol! I'll look at it on a far better light now lol 😂 I never quite looked at it from an on the battlefield experience approach before but rather they were tiny little fuzzy teddy bears but aftet this it appears that looks can be deceiving & the Ewoks were indeed beastly warriors!
It's been said that the Ewoks had those large traps that took down many Walkers because they would sometimes get attacked by the Endore giants called Gorax and the traps were originally meant to fend off the giants. You should do a video about the Gorax.
"Maybe they don't show up on infra-red at all." Confirmed, Ewoks are the Star Wars galaxy's Xenomorphs.
Imagine being sent to a world you know nothing about other than the books. Having the rug pulled out from underneath you. Then watching your comrades being spit roasted and eaten before your eyes.
0:16.... (panel 2) i wonder how many know where else that line is used
motion trackers on the Storm Troopers wouldn't have helped either....."Look, I'm telling you, there's something moving here and it ain't us!" "Trackers off scale, man. There all around us man, Jesus!"
🤔 . . . Honestly, I’d prefer the Ewoks, in the Galactic Empire’s Stormtroopers’ perspective, to be as scary as _Goblin Slayer_ ‘s Goblins, i.e. they spared the women & children, only to become dairy cattle & such. Due to their size, the women’s limbs were trimmed so they wouldn’t be a threat to the Ewoks. If the Galactic Empire brought their families, i.e. their kids, they’d keep the kids alive, only to being fattened up with various drugs to keep them complacent (I highly recommend Jay Naylor’s [ _CottonWine_ ] story arc to understand how it could’ve happened); the male Ewoks would even release their ‘frustrations’ upon them, maybe birthing various hybrids & such, but they wouldn’t care because they’ve been so drugged up through their food that they’re completely complacent to being the Ewoks livestock & such . . .
- Happy Halloween 😏…
Me: Nub nub....(Slings a slingshot around and hits himself in the face.) Ah roo gah!
love the aliens reference in that "maybe they dont show up on infrared" panel
Stormtrooper holding a thermal detonator: “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but Ewoks will never get to eat me.”
Of course they ate people They were going to eat Luke and Han Solo and Chewbacca. They were the apex predators on their planet even if they worked teddy bears. It doesn't make them cannibals to eat whatever they can find as long as it wasn't themselves.. They tried to make it more kid friendly but the tone at the end with a storm trooper helmets and how they were able to easily take out in gorilla warfare a lot of those stormtroopers was pretty foreboding when you thought about it.
Uh Ewoks do what? Smh I see why those little munchkins didn't get an invite to join the Jedi Order. Innocent on the outside, but dangerous on the inside
There was a jedi Ewok.
@@achimkunisch8619 I stand corrected
Was gonna say... somehow there ACTUALLY was a Jedi Ewok... BUT yall... if the stock outta the forest Ewok might eat or even just decide to maim an murder for reasons..
Just imagine a Sith Ewok....
Well now that makes sense. I always wondered why they had Han Solo tied up like they wanted to roast him. Unless it was possible that they did in fact practice cannibalism.
You know what? Had the Rebels recruited the Ewoks in Disney Canon, I could believe how the Galactic Empire fell in a year or two.
I have to wonder how much Imperial occupation of Endor might have negatively affected their normal hunting/resource gathering operations, putting the Ewoks on edge
I love how they had to make the ewaks terrifying after they were referred to as teddy bears
*The following are the musings of a Salty SEAGULL named EARL who just shows up in my posts whenever he feels like it!*
[EARL the Salty SEAGULL:] "I have always respected the Ewoks and believe it was a good idea to make the Ewok spin off films which are vastly superior to the sequel trilogy (but then again even the Life Day Special is better than the the Disney Sequel Trilogy)! The Ewoks may look like cuddly teddy bears but they are warriors who defended their home from the Imperials and aided the Rebel Alliance in bringing freedom to the galaxy! I also love that they did it with low tech weaponry which of course is a reference to Vietnam War! Sure Disney will probably retcon the Ewoks brutality so it doesn't hurt theit marketability or leave it vague!"
Imagine how scared storm troopers would be if they met xenomorph 🤣
Interestingly enough, the phrase "Maybe they don't show up on infrared at all!" Is a direct reference to a scene Aliens where the character who says that also get dragged away upwards right afterward.
Strom trooper blasters exploded chunks out of concrete, yet you see ewoks frontal charge a pair of stormtroopers, overwhelm them, and bludgeon them with rocks larger than a human fist, and while it looks comical, you don't see stormtroopers get up from that. The only ewok you saw die on screen was hit by a vehicle mounted cannon, and instead of becoming chunky salsa, as the AT-STs are shown doing to soldiers on hoth, that ewok DIED SLOWLY. In some of the expanded legends material, it is shown that ewoks only natural predators are a giant that likes to wear bandoliers of live ewoks AS ARMOR.
The storm troopers were defenseless against them, the empire was counting on ewoks to be the hazzard in the forest that would stop the rebels (and it almost did) because vader had cowed them into submission. The whole reason the worshiped C3P0 was that he was a natural counter to the "dark robot" (vader) which they already feared. If that weren't enough, in the old star wars RPG, it spells out that the most common force talent for uninitiated ewoks was technolink, ie telepathically guessing the correct function of technology, as you see one ewok doing when he jumps on a speeder bike and immediately knows how to use it.
Love the Ewoks as I find them very fascinating, yet very vicious and will do anything to protect their land against anyone!!
I choose to believe the irradiated wreck of the DS-II battlestation rendered the moon of Endor an uninhabitable rock.
The stormtroopers kind of brought it on themself by rejecting an offer of peace in such a brutal fashion
I always like to think that Endor is a high-grav planet(moon). It would help explain alot-like the AT-ST's fragility and difficulty moving, the Ewok's super strength, maybe also why the troopers seemed so pathetic. Even Leia got winded pretty quick.
Rebellion War Crimes!
I think some people have very active and morbid imaginations. The Ewoks were simply what we saw in ROTJ. A cool race of primitive wood people that at first were scared into sacrificing creatures they didn’t understand to what they thought was a god. But then, once they understood, joined their new found friends against the evil Empire. They were a fun aspect to the movie, and cool figures with a super cool Playset.
This would be like the Navy Seals losing on North Sentinel Island
Following your enemy deep into their territory without accurate intel (where guerrilla warfare is almost guaranteed) never ends well… it’s still one of the most devastating lessons to learn in war throughout the ages.
I would say Baby Yoda is even more terrifying. As you watch the show... he purposely eats the eggs (babies) of other sentient beings.. almost all of them. Just like the Ewoks, he looks cute... but he's basically eating another sentient, intelligent being's developing babies. It would be like Ewoks gutting pregnant human women, and eating the unborn, developing baby.
Not the video i expected. But the video we deserved. Happy Halloween 😂
Haha
I heard one ewok penatrated a stormtrooper with his bare hog!
Indeed
The Star Wars movie we need: Wrath of the Ewoks
Quite frankly, a bunch of feral teddy bears scaring stormtroopers s*tless is glorious!
I was in high school when Empire came out
I was walking home with some friends after the movie and a buddy said " Ken what's wrong "
I said "...they ate them " they ate who?" my friend asked "the Ewoks ate the Stormtroopers"
all of us were silent for a while after that ...walking in the dark
their is also treek the first ewok to leave endor and became a greatly feared bounty hunter as well despite using fairly primtive tools along with adapting to advanced tech
"Picture this: 'Predator', but it's teddy bears."
The very first statement is true.
Before even watching the rest, I could tell you anyone who's played Ewok Hunt in SW BF when it was around can attest to this. Surviving the night while these little bastards ran around the woods was terrifying.
Crunchy on the outside, chewy on the inside. What's not to love?
Its why i panic when i am around only 3 or 4 storm troopers in that survival mode in battlefront II cause at that point I know where dead where just buying time
The Ewoks aren't actually cannibalistic - they don't eat their own kind. At least not for the most part. And they're not exactly xenophobic, either. They are usually welcoming to outsiders when they visit... HOWEVER..! They are vindictive little bastards who have NO problem eating a sapient from another species. An Ewok crewmate I worked with on a bulk freighter a few years back even told me that they're not bothered by extraendorians eating them if it's from an honorable hunt or combat, or something like that. Remember, Luke and friends were caught in that trap fair and sqare. And, you gotta question the sapience of someone who would fall for that hanging bird trap anyway (looking at you, Chewie).
They even have an underground gladiator circuit that resembles the Roman arena. Only, the similarly frequent deaths see the corpse suctioned off; the proceeds, and half the fight's profits go to helping restore the devastation that did happen despite the NR's best efforts. Sanctuary lost a solid quarter of its globe-spanning forest and half its grasslands.
So, yeah. They're one of the SCARIEST species in the Galaxy.
I mean they were going to barbecue everyone until Luke used C-3PO to deceive them...
Not sure if this is canon but I heard that when palpatine die before the deathstar was destroyed his death contaminated endor with the dark side giving endor a dark side Nexus. That alone will make all life on endor more aggressive & maybe blood thirsty.
The Ewoks evolved on a planet tantamount to hell, it’s populated by dangerous plants, giant flesh eating mega wookies, outrider invaders from other worlds and most horrifying of all, Ewoks, these tiny mofos have mastered the art of destroying things much bigger than them, the empire never stood a chance
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This makes me wonder if the inspiration was drawn from the massacre of the Romans in the Teutoburg forest in 9 AD. The Germans used their knowledge of the terrain to their advantage, springing a trap and, in the end, wiping out a full 1/10 of the most powerful army in the world at that time. The Romans who died in the attack, however, were the lucky ones. After the battle, Roman captives were subjected to brutal tortures and executions with some accounts saying that many were skinned alive. The similarities to the Battle of Endor and the aftermath are spooky.
Love Endor!!!
Great video
Thanks!
These teddybears have honed their craft fighting each other & the predators of their forest planet. It's no wonder they're vicious.
maybe it's about poohing out your enemy and know they have what's left of the death star.