There are no indications in-canon that the Wookiees and Ewoks are related in any way, other than looking moderately similar. Improve this answer. Valorum Valorum k gold badges silver badges bronze badges. It's worth noting that they've removed the word "native" from the current SW databank article on the wookiees. I don't think there's any special significance to this change, but it's moderately interesting. Out of universe, George Lucas created the Ewoks because he wanted Return of the Jedi to feature a tribe of some primitive creatures that bring down the technological Empire.
Peregrine Rook Peregrine Rook 2, 16 16 silver badges 26 26 bronze badges. Maybe add more words to this answer. Simply having "OoU" and a quote with no summary seems a little Simply trivia, but that is why they are called ewoka.
Lucas swapped around the two sounda that make up wook-ee to make e-wok. Citation, please. Cite your sources so users can learn more from your answer. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. But Lucas also wanted these kid-friendly aliens to have some action chops. In short, the quintessential Star Wars character was someone or something that was both loveable and heroic.
Wicket the Ewok. Nien Nunb the Sullustan. Wookiees are one of the more beloved — and most mysterious — creatures of early Star Wars lore. Wookiees are a cross between a large dog, an auto mechanic, and Bigfoot. Chewbacca, the lone Wookiee of the original trilogy, clings to Han Solo like a faithful companion, but he can also repair a hyperdrive or club a stormtrooper to death if the situation requires.
Lucas considered at least two planets as possible Wookiee homeworlds during the original trilogy. The other was Endor, the jungle world of Return of the Jedi that instead went to the Ewoks. George Lucas intended that a primitive race should overthrow the Empire in what was intended at that time to be the final episode, and had originally planned to use Wookiees , but decided against it after it had been established that Chewbacca was already proficient with technology at that point.
His answer was to create a new race called Ewoks, which is "Wookiee" with the syllables reversed and altered to resemble the name of a Native American people. In the audio commentary for the re-release of Return of the Jedi , as well as the documentary Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy , Lucas also cited the Viet Cong as being the primary inspiration for the Ewoks, particularly their defeat of the Galactic Empire. The Ewoks are never referred to by name in Return of the Jedi ' s dialogue; the name only appeared in the script directions, the novelization , the movie's credits, and other spin-off and promotional materials.
In multiplayer modes such as Galactic Assault and Co-op, Ewok hunters serve as the Rebel Alliance's infiltrator class and can be selected by players to play as.
Battlefront II also features Ewoks in a game mode called Ewok Hunt, in which a group of players are chosen to play as Stormtroopers on Endor, while the rest become Ewoks.
The Stormtroopers are required to fend off the attacking Ewoks as they wait for an evacuation shuttle to arrive. Wookieepedia Explore. Star Wars. Clone Wars Droids Ewoks. Administrators' noticeboard IRC Discord.
Tutorials Editing sandbox Things to do Status article nominations Featured article nominations Good article nominations Comprehensive article nominations. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Edit source History Talk 5. Do you like this video? Play Sound. For other uses, see Ewok disambiguation. Boba Fett? Adrienne Tyler is a features writer for Screen Rant. She is an Audiovisual Communication graduate who wanted to be a filmmaker, but life had other plans and it turned out great.
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