Droids in the 3PO-series came in a variety of colors, the most usual being gold, silver and white. Their colored plating, however, was known to be prone to corrosion.
As neither the films nor other canon material have explained how C-3PO got a silver leg, fans believe his leg was damaged during the Clone Wars and so had to have it replaced – but whoever did it couldn't find a golden plate, more so as he was covered in golden paint, not made like that, and so a silver one (which is ...
He always had it in the sense that yes, one leg was silver in the 1977 release of Star Wars. In-universe, he didn't always have it, going through a couple different looks over the course of the prequels; he acquired the silver leg sometime between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope.
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What color was C-3PO?
Serving Senator Amidala
During the Clone Wars, C-3PO would serve Senator Padmé Amidala, the spouse of Anakin Skywalker, and was given a shiny gold-colored plating to better suit his new role.
K-3PO (Kay-Threepio) was a white, older model 3PO-series protocol droid who became one of the most valued droids to serve the Alliance to Restore the Republic.
They aren't abbreviations — they're model and serial numbers. R2 is a second generation R-series astromech, serial number D2. * And C-3PO is a C-series protocol droid with the serial number 3PO. *And likely several more numbers that get dropped for the sake of time.
C-3PO is a droid. "He" is only even a "he" because someone opted to give him and leave him with a male voice. He's a protocol droid, not a sex toy, so he does not appear to have any sort of sexual functions at all.
The main characters of nearly every Star Wars movie allude to C-3PO being an unreliable secret keeper. But worse than that, the droid is constantly tripping up, sometimes jeopardizing the plans of those around him. C-3PO is supposedly intelligent AI programmed for etiquette and protocol.
That C-3PO can read Sith but cannot talk about it is used for laughs, when it could have worked also as one of the side effects of Luke and Leia's willful blindness and fear of Ben's dark side, and the obfuscation that they brought upon themselves.
He is programmed to prioritize the safety of his companions, which can sometimes lead to his overprotective behavior. C-3PO's worrying nature is also a result of his experiences throughout the Star Wars saga. He has been through many dangerous situations and has witnessed the destruction and chaos caused by the Empire.
'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' spoilers: From Rey to Kylo, what we loved and loathed. Gen. Hux: He died as he lived — hating Kylo Ren. C-3PO: Alive with most of his memories intact.
"I am C-3PO, human-cyborg relations." C-3PO, sometimes spelled See-Threepio and often referred to as Threepio, was a bipedal, humanoid protocol droid designed to interact with organics, programmed primarily for etiquette and protocol.
Anakin Skywalker, a Tatooine slave boy, was gifted in engineering -- and was strong with the Force. To help his mother, Shmi, he secretly built a droid: C-3PO. In his earliest form, Threepio had no outside covering, and so appeared “naked,” with his internal parts and motors showing.
C-3PO (/ˌsiːˈθriːpioʊ/) or See-Threepio is a humanoid robot character in the Star Wars franchise. He is a protocol droid designed to assist in etiquette and translation, and is fluent in over six million forms of communication.
Darth Vader's true identity as Anakin Skywalker was a highly guarded secret, known only to a select few individuals including Palpatine, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke, Han, Leia, R2-D2, C-3PO, Master Yoda, Bail Organa, Ahsoka Tano, Darth Maul, Grand Moff Tarkin, Grand Admiral Thrawn, Jocasta Nu, Ferren Barr, Verla, Reva, ...
The Ewoks mistook C-3PO for the Golden One. Thousands of years after coming of the Golden One in legend, in 4 ABY, the 3PO-series protocol droid C-3PO came to Endor as part of an Alliance to Restore the Republic mission to destroy the Galactic Empire's second Death Star, which was being built above the moon.
Bane is looking for information about the Senate building on behalf of Jabba the Hutt. Finding C-3PO devoid of useful information, Bane and his accomplices kidnap R2-D2 and extract the vital data, before memory-wiping the droids of the incident, and letting them on their way.
