No, you're right, there's no way to make it look 100% realistic, but little perceived inconsistencies detract a little from immersion. For an example, space battles in Star Wars would actually be silent, but that would feel really weird in a movie, so we hear lasers and explosions, etc.

I'm not looking for an actress to be built like Arnold Schwarzenegger to pull off Wonder Woman, but if she had toned up and at least looked athletic, she would have been more convincing to me as an athlete who has super powered extra strength. Look at Linda Hamilton in Terminator vs. Terminator 2 as an example of how the same person can come off very differently.

Thinking about it a bit more, I'm a hypocrite, because it really irks me that Jonathon Kent is drawn so slim. Good thing I've pretty much given up on DC. I think with live-action entertainment, I'm looking more at acting ability than body type. I'm not overly familiar with modern super-hero movies, but from what I've seen, Chris Evans seems to have been the best casting as far as getting both the character and the body type right. I need to get me one of them Hollywood trainers.

Speaking of Star Wars, and reaching back to another topic in this thread, I was under the impression that stormtroopers were clones. At what point would a casual fan have been made aware that not all stormtroopers were clones? Because when the first movie of the current trilogy was released, and the ads showed a stormtrooper taking off his helmet to reveal John Boyega, I did a spit-take. I'm normally one to call BS at accusations of political correctness, but one of the first black guys in Star wars is a clone of a white dude? How silly. I've since learned that they aren't all clones anymore, but give me some set-up before reversing something like that. Maybe there *was* some set-up and I missed it?

Well, stormtroopers being clones was a concept introduced in the prequels. They weren't clones in the original trilogy (not the same voice, not the same height) nor in expanded material like the Marvel Star Wars comic. My guess is that after the clone wars, the empire stopped buying clones from Camino and resorted to enlisting regular people; it's cheaper, it provides employment, and it helps with popular indoctrination.

Seeing Fyn remove his helmet, my own reaction was "ah, things are back to normal".

If you have enough money to build two death stars, you have enough money for clones

The idea that at least some stormtroopers (at the time of the OT) were clones predates the prequels by a long way. I'm not sure where this idea originated, but I was aware of it in the late '80s, I believe. It may even have been mentioned in a novelization or something. Anyway, the idea of stormtroopers as clones certainly didn't originate with the prequels.

Edit: So yeah, I just pulled out volume 2 of the Star Wars Technical Journals published by Starlog magazine in 1994, just because it's on the bookshelf nearest me. Sure enough, under the entry for stormtroopers, it states that rumours persist that some or all Stormtroopers are grown in a laboratory as clones with accelerated aging. But personally, I recall that this was "common knowledge" (at least, if you were a huge SW nerd like I was) earlier than that.

But what sense does that make? Why would you make half of your army clones and then half of them not? Unless the clones are the guys that serve under Palpatine

Well, the SW Technical Journals weren't made up of various sci-fi journalist's theories or guess work. They were an attempt to gather together all of the canonical information about the SW Universe as it existed in the early '90s (and I mean "canonical" in all its levels: films, novelisations, radio dramas, novels, West End Games RPG supliments, and comics, in roughly that order of canonicity).

My memory is that I already knew about the Stormtrooper/clones thing earlier than that though. My guess is that it was probably mentioned in one of the '80s novels or film novelisations, or maybe even in the SW fanclub newsletter Batha Tracks or in the Lucasfilm Star Wars Insider magazine. I mean, it clearly wasn't in the films, but it was something that was mentioned in official, Lucasfilm-approved literature by at least the early '90s, and I recall it being "known" in the late '80s. Wish I could remember where I first encountered it.

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Roquefort Raider -- this was bugging me, so I did a quick bit of online research. Apparently, the very first mention of Stormtroopers being clones was in issue #4 of the officially licensed Star Wars Poster Monthly magazine in 1978. I found scans of the magazine online at starwars.com and, sure enough, in an article titled "Soldiers of the Empire", it states that all Stormtroopers are clones.

Now, clearly this was modified in other sources later on in the '80s and it became a case of only some Stormtroopers being clones (which is how I first learned this piece of then-obscure SW lore), but the fact that Stormtroopers were being referred to as clones in a Lucasfilm-sanctioned poster magazine as early 1978 shows that this idea had been rattling around in George Lucas's head and in the public domain a long time prior to 2002's Attack of the Clones.





I don't know, but I think that the idea was that initially, way back when, all or most of the troopers were clones. But over time that changed and ordinary humans filled the ranks. Which is pretty much in line with what we saw in the prequels and sequel trilogy.