R2-D2's sidekick and character foil, based on art by Ralph McQuarrie, is C-3PO. Termed a protocol droid in the films, C-3PO serves the diverse cultures of Lucas' imaginary galaxy as a robotic diplomat and translator, speaking six million languages.
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.
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.
4-LOM is a protocol droid, like C-3PO, but with a head shaped like an insect – and unlike the fussy golden droid, 4-LOM is a no-nonsense bounty hunter.
A replacement droid assigned to Anakin Skywalker during the Clone Wars after the loss of R2-D2, R3-S6 was a newer model at the time, the latest in astromech technology.
As has been noted in several instances, Artoo has never had a full memory wipe, enabling him to retain his recollections of everything he saw and heard over the decades. This includes his first meeting with Padme Amidala, a nine-year-old Anakin Skywalker, and C-3PO himself during the events of The Phantom Menace.
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 ...
Darth Vader acts like he doesn't even know C-3PO or R2D2. They were with him since he was a child. He did everything he could to forget his past. Also, his plating had been replaced many times, and protocol droids all look very similar.
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.
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.
The two droids do express the simulation of the emotion in living beings known as affection. Even what might even be called love. So, at best, C3PO and R2D2 might be seen as having a close friendship. However, to some some individuals, the two droids often appear to relate to each other like a stereotypical gay couple.
Biography. C-3PO gets blasted by Drazin. Drazin was born on Cloud City, over the gas giant of Bespin. At some point, he chose to enlist in the Stormtrooper Corps of the Galactic Empire, eventually achieving the rank of corporal.
Episode I features his "birth" as Anakin Skywalker's first creation. He then goes on to die twice in the prequel trilogy: once in Geonosis, where he's dismembered and stuck to another droid, and once in Episode III, when Bail Organa and Obi-Wan erase his memory of Padmé and Anakin.
C-3PO's strange behavior is most often played for laughs, but the simple fact is that the droid appears to feel fear in a way that many other droids do not.
After C-3PO's second memory wipe, it turned out that R2-D2 had backed up C-3PO's memories to the point where Rey had undertaken her first mission for the Resistance. R2-D2 was able to restore his counterpart's memories from that backup.
R2-D2 was present when Padmé gave birth to Leia and Luke, so he knew Luke was Anakin's son – but what he didn't know was that Anakin became Darth Vader. In addition to that, Anakin's fall was surely a painful event in R2-D2's life, one that he definitely wouldn't like to remember or even talk about.
In the year 3 ABY, Fett saved Vader's life from an assassination attempt. In the aftermath of the battle, Vader revealed to Fett his true identity: Anakin Skywalker, and his past with the Jedi Order. It was here where Fett learned of the fate of Mace Windu, and how Vader had killed him.
Towards the very start of George Lucas' creation of R2-D2, both he and C-3PO had speaking roles, leaving R2-D2's trademark bleeps without a place in the story. This plan was abandoned eventually, but C-3PO does often explain to the audience that R2-D2's bleeps often translate to swear words.
secondly, in Legends, R2 was given programming that actually restricted him. from sharing any information with Luke or Leia. about their parents or relation to one another. this was all part of the plan. to conceal this information from the twins.
