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[Zomba13]

Yaddle in episode 1 didn't have a backstory either did she?

Yoda and Yaddle are the last surviving members of the Yodiddle race. Their planet was destroyed by Darth Vader from the future in his Death Star that went back in time but was stopped by the midichlorians but not before Yodworld was blown up. Yaddle can't speak because she/he/it lost it's/his/her tounge during the war and Yoda took a bump to the head so he's kinda cooky.

Come at me Lucas.

 

[boiled goose]

i like that him and gandalf never had a backstory (or not much of one). one glaring anamoly among the rest of the cast

Gandalf does.
Plenty about the istari.

 

[BigJonsson]

Gandalf has a ton of backstory written by Tolkien

 

[FUNKNOWN iXi]

THAT'S NOT YODA!!!

 

[BrokenEchelon]

He's one of the blue wizards, a Maia.

 

[Valhelm]

Lucas actually recalled merchandise and books because they said too much about Yoda, and refuses to say that Yoda and Yaddle are members of an entire species. It seems like this is the only bit of the Star Wars lore that he cares about.

 

[fanboi]

He's one of the blue wizards, a Maia.

He is a purple warlock of the race of the Borgs.

 

[border]

Does Lucas still have any kind of veto-authority when it comes to Star Wars?

If Disney wanted to make a CG Yoda origin story, could Lucas put a stop to it? And how?

If not Lucas, is there anyone dictating what can and cannot be done in the Star Wars universe?

Lucas was a pretty terrible caretaker for Star Wars, but it's still a little disconcerting to think that now there's nobody who is willing to put a stop to ridiculous backstories or insane retcons.

 

[Mario]

When I was a kid I thought he was human.

I bet humans would look pretty similar to Yoda when they're 900.

I actually still kind of think this.

http://geektyrant.com/news/2012/10/...en-a-crazy-realistic-human-like-makeover.html

 

[BinaryPork2737]

Yoda and Yaddle are the last surviving members of the Yodiddle race. Their planet was destroyed by Darth Vader from the future in his Death Star that went back in time but was stopped by the midichlorians but not before Yodworld was blown up. Yaddle can't speak because she/he/it lost it's/his/her tounge during the war and Yoda took a bump to the head so he's kinda cooky.

Come at me Lucas.

I really want this to be the plot to Episode VII. Vader is resurrected though the force/cloned and the movie turns into a wacky space buddy cop comedy with Han and Luke.

 

[Dead Man]

Why did Lucas make him off limits when all the EU stuff is non canon and ignored at will?

 

[MattKeil]

 

[Tesseract]

in my head, blame space is yoda.

 

[Branduil]

That commercial encapsulated everything that was wrong with the Star Wars prequels.

 

[Stiflers Mom]

When I was a kid I thought he was human.

I bet humans would look pretty similar to Yoda when they're 900.

I actually still kind of think this.

This is the funniest thing I read in a while...

 

[SpacedCadette]

I've heard both Yoda and Yaddle refered to as "Whills", but the official answer is that the race is unknown/unnamed.

Whills are some kind of higher being with a deeper connection to the Force. If I remember right they're the ones that developed the whole "blue glowy" Force-ghost thing. However, Star Wars' canon only makes slightly more sense than Marvel Comics' so who the hell knows.

 

[Aeriscloud]

Isn't he Jesus? He's Jesus right?

 

[Aaron]

He's a very old frog.

 

[Into]

He is Tom Bombadil

Its Lucas realizing that some mystique is necessary in his universe, as that allows the viewer's imagination to run wild.

 

[Basileus777]

Why did Lucas make him off limits when all the EU stuff is non canon and ignored at will?

Lucas set plenty of limits on the EU for ground that he wanted to tread. Like the whole prequel era.

 

[ThankeeSai]

Coincidently, I was flicking through channels on the tv yesterday and caught the end of episode 3. My 7 year old was sat with me and she asked "Dad, what IS Yoda?" To which I replied "Well he's....erm.....he's a.....Actually, I have no idea"

True story.

 

[Winterblink]

We're done here.

Every time someone does this I hear Jason Isaac belt that line out in Black Hawk Down with a horrible fake accent. lol

 

[akira28]

Isn't he Jesus? He's Jesus right?

More like Buddha.

 

[Jintor]

I keep thinking of the great Star Wars Canon debate of 2008 GFWL Radio

 

[Nekofrog]

Yordle.

 

[filler]

Obviously a robot, how else can you live to be over 800 years, get real.

 

[Kurod]

When I was a kid I thought he was human.

I bet humans would look pretty similar to Yoda when they're 900.

I actually still kind of think this.

I thought that too. Like he was a human hopped up on too much of that force. His skill with the force made him live longer than he was supposed to and shrunk/deformed him in his long term exposure of it kinda like Gollum with the ring or a meth addict stretched out on almost a millennia of use.

 

[Tesseract]

I thought that too. Like he was a human hopped up on too much of that force. His skill with the force made him live longer than he was supposed to and shrunk/deformed him in his long term exposure of it kinda like Gollum with the ring or a Meth addict stretched out on almost a millennia of use.

i like the cut of your jabba

 

[Mistel]

I wonder what happened to the rest of them, I mean there must be more than 2 of them.

 

[ajim]

He's a Moleman

haha this got me more than it should have.

 

[StalkerUKCG]

I wonder what happened to the rest of them, I mean there must be more than 2 of them.

If you take Kotor as canon then we have seen 3 of them.

It's possible that they have a very infertile society and only a few exist at any one time.

 

[LiK]

not important unless we see more of them pop up in later installments

 

[MrCunningham]

He's a very old frog.

Well he came from the swamps of Dagobah, so he's gotta be some sort of amphibian. I like to think that Yoda was the last of his race.

 

[Mistel]

If you take Kotor as canon then we have seen 3 of them.

It's possible that they have a very infertile society and only a few exist at any one time.

I forgot about Kotor, so that's at least 3 of then. Maybe they are an engineered life form, that would explain the few of them existing as they wouldn't need a large population to reproduce.

 

[Lucc]

We should ask E.T.

 

[mclem]

But there's also another from his race in Episode I, right?

You can go back further: Yodalike beings exist in KOTOR.

 

[Minion101]

Yoda's race is called Yoda's race

 

[NotLiquid]

Yoda shouldn't even have been in the prequels.

Everyone else; fine. But Yoda should have purposefully been under wraps and simply be mentioned, it'd have given his role in the originals a lot more impact and the mystery behind him would be great. The less known about him the better.

 

[Bluth54]

He's CGI.

That's not true. That's IMPOSSIBLE.

 

[NinjaBoiX]

Yoda isn't real its just a suit

He's not even that now, just grafix.

 

[Snaku]

Perhaps he's human, and that's just what his body has degenerated into after 900 years of artificially prolonging his life with the Force?

 

[tensuke]

He's CGI.

#teamreal

 

[sarcastor]

How can he be 900 years old and speak such shitty English?

 

[Herne]

He was once thought to be a Whill, but Lucas has denied this for years now. So, until he gets a classification, he's a puppet. Or, simply Yoda.

Well he came from the swamps of Dagobah, so he's gotta be some sort of amphibian. I like to think that Yoda was the last of his race.

He doesn't come from Dagobah, he merely fled there because it was an unknown backwater of a planet where nobody would have suspected the last Grandmaster of the Jedi Order would have gone. There was a female equivalent to Yoda in Phantom Menace also, so I doubt he was the last even after she died.

 

[SJRB]

How can he be 900 years old and speak such shitty English?

Because contrary to popular belief, the universe doesn't revolve around murica?

I hear he's fluent in Swedish, Austrian, Vietnamese and doge speak.

 

[The Silver]

He's crab people

 

[Ocaso]

How can he be 900 years old and speak such shitty English?

It's a regional dialect. You don't just lose regionalisms over time.

In any case, we should all abandon hope that any mystery will remain within Star Wars once Disney is done. Aren't they planning a full Yoda origins film? Best we can hope for is that some truly devoted fan and talented writer comes up with a story that isn't a load of tripe.

 

[Tunesmith]

His full name is Minch Yoda, isn't it?

 

[MrCunningham]

He was once thought to be a Whill, but Lucas has denied this for years now. So, until he gets a classification, he's a puppet. Or, simply Yoda.



He doesn't come from Dagobah, he merely fled there because it was an unknown backwater of a planet where nobody would have suspected the last Grandmaster of the Jedi Order would have gone. There was a female equivalent to Yoda in Phantom Menace also, so I doubt he was the last even after she died.

I'm sure I am wrong about him being the last of his kind. But he could've picked any planet to spend the last of his days on in exile, and he chose one that is entirely swampland. Which would make you think that it would be in his natural instinct to be drawn too such humid climates. Which could make him kinda amphibious.

 

[watershed]

Just ask Yaddle.