Star Wars' 'Han Shot First Debate' Has One Detail Die-Hard Fans Missed
A Legends-era Star Wars comic starringGreedo provides a potential explanation for the bounty hunter's improbably poor marksmanship during the infamous «Han shot first» scene with Han Solo in the original film. One of the most derided additions to the entire Star Wars franchise is the shootout between Han and Greedo, which has been edited and altered numerous times since 1997. The original film showed Han shooting Greedo in cold blood, but the scene was re-edited so that the bounty hunter fires his blaster at Han and misses before the smuggler blasts him. This has led to controversy among die-hard fans, who use the phrase “Han shot first” to describe the original iteration of the scene.
In preparation for the then-upcoming prequel trilogy, the original Star Wars trilogy was re-released in 1997 with changes, some overt and others more subtle. The Special Editions are quite divisive, though most die-hard viewers take issue with the Han and Greedo scene, which has been altered no less than four times. Still, each post-1997 version of Star Wars continues to share the same problem. Greedo, who ought to be a dangerous bounty hunter if he was hired by Jabba the Hutt to go after Han Solo, shouldn’t miss the smuggler at point-blank range, nor should Han Solo wait for an assailant to fire at him first.
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A mere three years after the controversial Special Editions, the Star Wars Tales #6 story “The Hovel on Terk Street” by Tom Fassbender, Jim Pascoe, and Eric Powell, is told from Greedo’s perspective as he’s hired to track down a Rebel Alliance sympathizer. After being ambushed and disarmed, Greedo purchases a replacement blaster from Jawas, which later
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