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13 SEVERED HANDS! (2)

2009-09-30 · list · Hank · 5:45 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Pop culture · mode: Curiosity & trivia

Prompted by John's video in which Willy chewed the arm off Chewbacca, Hank walks chronologically through every hand removal of a major character in the Star Wars films and notes that those who cut off hands tend to lose their own.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Willy chewed Chewbacca's arm off; Hank as a connoisseur of Star Wars hand removal; plan to go through every major-character hand removal

  • ★★ Watching John's video from a couple of weeks ago, in which Willy chewed the arm off Chewbacca, reminded Hank that he used to be a connoisseur of Star Wars hand removal. (playful) — 00:00:00 · Willy
  • ★★ Hank says a lot of hands are removed in Star Wars: some characters with only two hands have their hands chopped off three times. (playful) — 00:00:20 · first in: 2009-09-30 (said on 2009-10-01, implied), 13 SEVERED HANDS! (1)
  • ★★ Hank says Chewbacca was always supposed to rip people's arms out of their sockets but never did, and kept both his hands through all the Star Wars movies. — 00:00:29
  • ★★★ Hank walks through every hand removal of a major character in the Star Wars movies, noting there are more in minor battle scenes and many more in the books. — 00:00:43
  • ★★ Hank says that, unlike some Star Wars purists, he considers the prequels to be Star Wars movies, so he goes through the films chronologically. — 00:00:52 · first in: 2009-09-30 (said on 2009-10-01, implied), 13 SEVERED HANDS! (1)

00:00:58 — Prequels: The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith

  • ★★ Hank calls The Phantom Menace arguably the worst live-action Star Wars movie ever; no hands are removed in it. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:58
  • ★★ Hank says Attack of the Clones, a much better movie, opens with Obi-Wan Kenobi cutting off the hand of a jerk with a gun in a bar, and later Count Dooku cuts off Anakin Skywalker's hand. (playful) — 00:01:05
  • ★★★ Hank points out a theme of the Star Wars films: whoever cuts off someone's hand has a good chance of getting their own hand chopped off too. (playful) — 00:01:27
  • ★★ Hank says Revenge of the Sith, a very good movie, is the peak of Star Wars hand removal: it opens with Count Dooku losing both hands shortly before he is killed. (playful) — 00:01:30
  • ★★ Hank says General Grievous has four hands but loses only two of them in Revenge of the Sith, which always made Hank angry. (playful) — 00:01:45
  • ★★ Hank says Anakin Skywalker cuts off Mace Windu's arm, so in Revenge of the Sith Anakin has chopped off three hands while losing only one himself. (playful) — 00:01:58
  • ★★ Hank says that when Anakin Skywalker turns evil, Obi-Wan Kenobi cuts off both his legs and one of his hands, leaving Anakin with one hand, a robotic one. (playful) — 00:02:09

00:02:21 — A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi; Darth Vader in the comic books and books

  • ★★ Hank says that in A New Hope C-3PO's arm is yanked off off screen and later seen lying on the ground, and Obi-Wan Kenobi cuts off his second gun-wielding arm in a bar. — 00:02:21
  • ★★ Hank says that in The Empire Strikes Back the giant snow beast captures Luke Skywalker and hangs him upside down in a cave, and Luke chops its arm off. (playful) — 00:02:33
  • ★★★ Hank says Luke Skywalker losing his hand in The Empire Strikes Back is one of the most memorable scenes in science fiction; Luke gets a bionic hand like his father's. (playful) — 00:02:44
  • ★★ Hank says Return of the Jedi has only one hand removal: Luke Skywalker cuts off Darth Vader's third hand, sees its wires and feels his own bionic hand. (playful) — 00:02:58
  • ★★ Hank says that counting the Star Wars comic books and books, Darth Vader has his hands chopped off no less than five times. — 00:03:06

00:03:24 — Being a Jedi is too dangerous; sign-off

  • This part replays 13 SEVERED HANDS! (1) (2009-09-30 (said on 2009-10-01, implied)); what is said here is covered on that page: 1 statement.

Humor (significant)

  • Hank notes that no hands are cut off in The Phantom Menace. — 00:01:05

    “Obviously, this is a bad movie.”

  • General Grievous has four hands, and Hank is annoyed by what happens to them. — 00:01:50

    “Unfortunately, and this always sort of made me angry, he only loses two of them.”

  • Luke cuts off the snow beast's arm, and Hank scolds him with the hand-removal karma theme. — 00:02:47

    “Why did Luke do it? Why did he chop off that hand? Because, you know, now Luke's gonna get his hand chopped off.”

  • Hank shrugs off Luke and Vader's reconciliation at the end of Return of the Jedi. — 00:03:24

    “but no more hands get chopped off, so as far as I'm concerned, that's the end of the movie.”

Threads in this video

Mentioned

Central: Darth Vader · Luke Skywalker · Star Wars

Also: Works: Return of the Jedi · Star Wars (film) · Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace · Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones · Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith · The Empire Strikes Back

Concepts: comics · science fiction

Characters: C-3PO · Chewbacca · Count Dooku · General Grievous · Jedi · Mace Windu · Obi-Wan Kenobi · Sith · Wampa

animal: Willy

Only in the description or credits: Run Leia Run

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