Clone Trooper mistake?

How come Luke, who is "a little too short" to be a storm trooper, finds a uniform just his size? I thought all troopers were clones of Jango......meaning that their uniforms would all be the same size.

No, at the time of the OT, all the Troops are cloned from different hosts.

They were plastic, so they were likely pretty flexible anyway.

Laser blasts went right thorugh them and against sticks and stones, you would be better off wearing a newspaper.

Originally posted by ZoSo
No, at the time of the OT, all the Troops are cloned from different hosts.

Nope. I don't believe there's anything out there to support that theory.

The original trilogy takes place a good twenty years after Episode III, meaning that the clonetroopers would all be in their 50s, probably too old to be effective soldiers.

I don't think there's any evidence anywhere (canon or EU) to support that the Empire continued to use cloning to produce stormtroopers.

In fact, the EU shows that the Imperial Army accepted regular human males into their ranks to become stormtroopers. I think we can assume that from the movies as well.

The clones would be dead due to rapid aging.

Originally posted by Darklightr
Nope. I don't believe there's anything out there to support that theory.

The original trilogy takes place a good twenty years after Episode III, meaning that the clonetroopers would all be in their 50s, probably too old to be effective soldiers.

I don't think there's any evidence anywhere (canon or EU) to support that the Empire continued to use cloning to produce stormtroopers.

In fact, the EU shows that the Imperial Army accepted regular human males into their ranks to become stormtroopers. I think we can assume that from the movies as well.

Originally posted by Darklightr
Nope. I don't believe there's anything out there to support that theory.

The original trilogy takes place a good twenty years after Episode III, meaning that the clonetroopers would all be in their 50s, probably too old to be effective soldiers.

I don't think there's any evidence anywhere (canon or EU) to support that the Empire continued to use cloning to produce stormtroopers.

In fact, the EU shows that the Imperial Army accepted regular human males into their ranks to become stormtroopers. I think we can assume that from the movies as well.

Yes there is evidence. George Lucas said so

Which settles that.

By the time ANH came out, wouldn't the Empire have been recruiting their soldiers anyways?
Look at all the members of the Imperial Navy...they didn't look anything like Jango.

Obviously all the people in uniform are recruited in the old fashioned way.

But all the stormtroopers are clones, from various templates.

The Empire would recruit people to be Stormtroopers anyway.

Most "Jango clones" weren't around too long after Ep. III and in between 3 and 4 is when most people were recruited. Mostly mercenaries, free lances, and the commonfolk working classes were "pressured into joining the empire"(Or else)lol Kyle Katarn a merc turned stormtrooper turned rebel spy turned jedi is a good example of the commoners that were recruited to the empire. The empire was pretty much a draft. And about the multiple host cloning thing I do know that there were imperial cloning facilities still around after even ROTJ and were used to create "super clone soldiers" for the empire. All efforts the empire made however to retake the galaxy after the battle of Endor failed until the Yuuzhan vong invasion when the new rep. had to join with the dying empire to help save the galaxy from alien domination. sry if I rambled on lol

I agree with them recruiting human males. In ROTJ, when the scout troopers first got on their bikes, one of the ones that gets killed early is a little fatter than the others, i swear

the clone division of the 501st is the last ever clone set of jengo after that they cloned from random humans from around the galaxy and even recruited non-clones

so it is quite possible that luke could find a suit that would fit him, but then even if it didnt, id say the technology they have would allow for the suit to be self-fitting, which sounds alot more economical then having a tailor or even making different sizes.

Dude, don't revive threads that old.

It's mixed, there are clones of Jango, there are clones of other hosts and there are recruits. So Boba definatly has some brothers during the capture of Luke at cloud city. And why did the armour fit Luke if the sizes are mixed

well you got the upper armour which covers your chest and the lower armour that covers your belly and your manhood. You'll see that the upper armour covers a lot from his lower armour if you compare it to Solo's armour.

it's a mix of different clones and recruits. The only troopers made up of jango clones are vader's 501st. Basically, there was a rebellion on kamino and the cloning facilities had to be destroyed.

Originally posted by CellDweller
How come Luke, who is "a little too short" to be a storm trooper, finds a uniform just his size? I thought all troopers were clones of Jango......meaning that their uniforms would all be the same size.

He didn't. Leia even said "aren't you a little short to be a clone trooper?"

I dislike Battlefront for its tale on how the only clones left, are the ones of the 501st. There were other divisions besides them in the Clone Wars.

But yeah, by the time of ANH, the Stormtrooper ranks were a mix of Old Clones, not so recent clones, and natural recruits--who later became the only Stormtroopers until Thrawn's time.

I think the Luke being too short thing was a bit of a fluke.

Originally posted by Sesse

Laser blasts went right thorugh them and against sticks and stones, you would be better off wearing a newspaper.

😂 So true!

Originally posted by ESB - 1138
He didn't. Leia even said "aren't you a little short to be a clone trooper?"

I suggest you watch the OT again my friend. No where in the original trilogy does Leia ever mention "clone trooper". She says "storm trooper".