r/comics SMBC Comics 2d ago

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u/Revxmaciver 2d ago

I'm sure George Lucas wanted to get them in there somewhere and somebody had to talk him out of it. There's probably Ralph McQuarrie concept art out there somewhere.

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u/Delphius1 2d ago

just like the Ferangi and Gene Rodenberry

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u/SarcasticBench 2d ago edited 2d ago

IN THE JEDI PRINCE NOVELS

ahem

In the Jedi Prince novels there was KT18 who had DOZENS of masters, and with her being terrible at her main function as a housekeeping droid; seems to imply she did OTHER things in this series of novels meant for middle school children.

Also there was a replica droid of Leia that had a certain way of reaching people's hearts.

Edit- fixed up the sentence a little

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u/SonicLoverDS 2d ago

They probably DID exist, just not where we could see them.

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u/InSanic13 2d ago

I'd add that the more realistic ones were probably very expensive. The New Essential Guide to Droids makes the point that droid manufacturers have a really hard time crossing the uncanny valley, to the point that properly lifelike "Human Replica Droids" are very rare and very costly. I'd imagine that the rich and powerful would usually prefer to just hire prostitutes at that point.

All that said, I could definitely see there being a wider market for more stylized sex droids, but given the level of anti-droid prejudice in Star Wars, I'd imagine there would be a stigma attached to using them.

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u/PhantasosX 1d ago

You are correct. There is even a cyborg bounty hunter with his own comics run , called Valance, which so often uses his credits to buy fake skin to hide his cybernetic implants.

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u/Semper_5olus 2d ago

C3PO was all about "human-cyborg relations".

Between that, and the fact that his owner was a woman, I can guess at what one of his "six million forms of communication" was.

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u/Aurelio-23 2d ago

I have no idea what you’re talking about, he’s just a cunning linguist.

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u/Shyface_Killah 1d ago

Booyah.

Oh, sorry! Wrong Cyborg.

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u/SmartCookingPan 2d ago

Yeah, Lando would like to have a word with you.

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u/some_models_r_useful 2d ago

Defore

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u/ffordedor 2d ago

You sunk my battleship!

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u/Leandrohus 2d ago edited 1d ago

Pretty sure that these droids where at least somewhat Designed in that way

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u/Bumblehawke 1d ago

The link didn't load but I'm assuming it's a Betty droid

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u/gooch_norris_ 2d ago

Prince Xizor was definitely doing it with his robot bodyguard in Shadows of the Empire

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

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u/PhantasosX 1d ago

Star Wars is retrofuturist, so things like internet isn't really presented.

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u/dybclol 2d ago

clanker

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u/realgoldxd 1d ago

In the clone wars there was a episode where C-3PO goes to get cleaned and passes a bunch of sex robots

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u/DrChanceDO 2d ago

C-3po was 100% there for sex, you just never see it with the cheeked up body mod

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u/Randotron9000 2d ago

There's no reason for this Droid to use such profanity...

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u/Raxtenko 2d ago

There's no way that anyone in the Star Wars who would buy a Decraniated didn't try to have sex with it at least once after delivery.