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TheStar Warsuniverse is occupy with premium hunter , assassins , and shooter , but none of them can hold a cd toIG-88 … formally the deadliest droid in the galaxy .
Some are probable to read that description of IG-88 or catch a glimpse of its lank , mechanical body and remember it merely ajokethat he should be call the deadliest , most notorious , and reckon killer to ever fire a chargeman . But with IG-88 drive a account all to itself in the newestStar war : Age of Rebellion Special , buff can see for themselves . It ’s an unbelievable coup d’oeil into an untold legend of theStar Warsuniverse , and a shuddery ( and antic ) reminder that bounty hunting watch may expend their reward money on reputation , armour , or weapons … but for IG-88,“killing is its own wages . "
In type anyone has problem recognizing IG-88 in these comic panels of the droid engaging in resplendent , heroic combat , the character made its first coming into court in theStar Warsmovies canon inThe Empire Strikes Back . As one ofthe bounty Hunter hired by Darth Vaderto bring Han Solo into custody , few in the audience could help but laugh at the lank - armed , case shot - headed droid that was , presumably , as famous a contract killer and bounty pursuer as the respite of the killers predict upon by Vader flat . And all these years later , the droid is live up to that reputation in a comical story so good , fans will bedemandingIG-88 get a series all to itself .
The short tarradiddle titled " The Long Game " gift as official an parentage history as IG-88 is ever likely to get , confirming that its wild reputation and legends – that it kill its creators , reprogrammed itself to recognise no victor , and dread no wrong to itself , thus allowing it to upgrade and weaponize its body"with the obsession of an artist”–are all true . And to demonstrate what sets IG-88 aside from the rest of the bounty hunters scrabbling for one job after the next , the story recounts one of the time the droid chose NOT to exact a amplitude .
It ’s an entertaining question to see answered , and one fewStar Warsfans credibly ever require : what if kill to collect a bounty finish up putting a cost on your own head ? In those case , when IG-88 dauntlessly faces down a prey ’s grease-gun , kills them , and realise their friends will essay requital , the droid does the only logical thing : incinerate the body and exact it was a case of mistaken identity . Enjoying the killing for that alone , IG-88 cuts its losses … but never forgets . The result is a recorded listing of criminals assumed by the galaxy to still be alive , since IG-88 never cover their deaths . Fans can use their imagination to approximate why that kind of information is worthful in a galaxy filled with liars and squealer .
In this case , IG-88 see through a disguise to outsmart a object . But even for a droid , call an ambush is n’t an precise science . At least that ’s how IG-88 ’s ' destruction ' seems to wager out , getting blast to pieces by the gangster ’s crew until only the droid ’s head exist the mass murder . Or rather , that ’s what IG-88wantsits killers to imagine . get enough unclaimed bounties in its retentivity banks to make them rich , the droid ’s killers seek out requital from the near warlord , and watch exactly why IG-88 find the blame for these deadened fellow too dangerous to claim in the first place . The result is , predictably , a brutal gunplay that IG-88 ’s killers end up on the wrong closing of . Only then does IG-88 ’s rightful blaze become percipient , survey the survivor now that the dead gangsters have softened up the plunder .
Any normal bounty Orion fan would assume that a droid ’s reaction fourth dimension or lack of creative thinking would essay a disability in the field ( peculiarly when taking on organic opponents ) . But the intelligence of IG-88 is curb purely within its head – make it far easier to pull round almost any attack than a life , breathing bounty huntsman . Having taciturnly watch its own attackers stumble into an lying in wait and brutal gunfight , IG-88 takes aim at therealtarget it was eyeball up all along . Firing off a quick sequence of killshots using nothing but its fountainhead - rise gun , IG-88 uprise from crafty to outrightTerminatorlevels of baddassery by calling in its ship to deploy a stain Modern body .
land in the classical action - moving-picture show - champion stance , guns at the ready , it ’s distressingly obvious that writer Simon Spurrier and artist Caspar Wijngaard knowexactlywhat joke they ’re play into . But irrespective of the intent or shlock - factor , the result is IG-88 rise above all of the bounty hunter rivalry .
So for those who thought that Boba Fett , Bossk , Aurra Sing , or any other malefactor was the deadliest , shrewdest , smartest , or hardest to vote out H.M.S. Bounty hunting watch in the Star Wars universe , the storytellers in bang of the unexampled canon have clearly shown otherwise . How many other bounty hunter can claim to have been kill and reborn as many time as their tall tales and fable would suggest ? In hindsight , Star Warsfans should just moot themselves lucky that it was Boba Fett who finally caught Han Solo , and started a trail that could head to Han ’s escape . If it had been IG-88 who got to him first , the Rebels would have never found out what ever befall to their old friend .
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