C-3PO Battle droid scenes
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Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange users link it as the reference scene when asking or answering questions about where a droid's personality and brain reside, and how battle droids sound.
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What it is
A 73-second clip from Star Wars: Attack of the Clones showing C-3PO's head swapped onto a battle droid's body and a battle droid's head placed on C-3PO's body. It was uploaded by a fan channel and shows the scene's comic mix-up of voices and limbs.
What people said
Cites Null · 2015-03 · Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange · on “Where did C-3PO's fussy and worry-prone personality come from?”
To the best of my knowledge, nothing in canon or Legends tells us exactly where a droid's personality comes from. Therefore I will provide an educated guess. We see in Episode II that C-3PO's head was placed on a battle droid's body and a battle droid's head placed on C-3PO's head. There is clearly a personality conflict between C-3PO and the battle droid: the one with C-3PO's head fires its blaster at the Jedi and exclaims (in the battle droid's voice!) "Die, Jedi, die!", and then C-3PO apologizes in his own voice. Here's a video of the scene on Youtube: From this scene it is apparent that a droid's personality is not entirely dependent on the verbobrain [LINK] in its head. This information
Cites Ryan · 2015-10 · Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange · on “Where is a droid's brain located?”
Inspired by this clip [this video] , I was wondering where the brains (CPU's?) for the B1 battle-droids and C-3PO are located. We see 3PO's head put on a battle droid's body and a battle droid's head put on 3PO's body. Three things then happen: The battle droid head comments that his legs don't seem to respond. 3PO is shooting things and says, “Die Jedi scum”, then asks what made him say that. We see the battle droid effectively using 3PO's arms to shoot, even though he commented that the legs didn't respond properly. So, - Where is a droid's brain located? - Do they have more than one brain (and if so, how many brains do they have and what is each brain responsible for)?
Cites Milo P · 2017-02 · Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange · on “Why did the battle droids' voices change?”
Here's one that I always thought was odd - why do the voices of the battle droids change between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith ? In The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones , they have similar "robot" voices: But in Revenge of the Sith , and later The Clone Wars , their voices are very high-pitched and odd-sounding: Has there ever been any in-universe or out-of-universe explanation for this?