What is the canonical reason for the existence of AK-47's in the star wars universe?
What is the canonical reason for the existence of AK-47's in the star wars universe?
What is the canonical reason for the existence of AK-47's in the star wars universe?
solid projectiles were used by Jedi hunters because lightsabers can't block bullets. that guy's a rebel I think so maybe it's an anti-Sith gun
star wars is so moronic
>Cinemaphile contrarians don’t know that even Han Solo’s gun was based on a real pistol
Maybe reddittrek is more your speed
I know Cinemaphile posters are moronic but is it also true for /k/gays?
>I know Cinemaphile posters are moronic but is it also true for /k/gays?
Yes.
Absolutely. Nobody on /k/ owns guns.
So why aren't they all manufacturing kinetic weapons since laser weapons are so fricking useless?
its made by morons, for morons. anyone who unironically enjoys these movies is a fricking moron. they are a novelty and should be treated as such
Storm trooper weapon bolts travel at 1/10th the speed of bullets and are brightly visible giving away the shooters position.
okay but why would it be a kalashnikov rifle?
The star wars universe has had projectile guns before and they are not just clones of counterparts that wouldn't come about a long time from then in a far away galaxy
convergent evolution. the AK47 is simply a superior design. it's like how every third-world country has their local AK clones, every planet produces AKs as well
>convergent evolution dictates an exact replica of the AK-47 would inevitably arise everywhere
lol okay
>the AK47 is simply a superior design
It's really not, the AK74 is a superior weapon and it's still mid-tier when stacked up against other intermediate cartridge rifles.
>it's like how every third-world country has their local AK clones
3rd world countries have AKs because the Soviets produced far more than they would ever conceivably need and dumped them into the 3rd world for cheap.
Lmao best post in thread
Then wouldn't the ideal weapons for killing force users be shotguns? Just roll up on Vader with AA-12s and turn him into cybernetic swish cheese.
>swiss cheese
I think you mean nacho cheese after you pour it into a desk fan.
that shit doesnt make any sense, they have telekinesis and precog they should be able to shoot the bullets back even easier than a laser
BUT WHY IS IT SPECIFICALLY A FRICKING RUSSINA KALASHNIKOV AND NOT AN ORIGINAL SPACE GUN DESIGN?! I WANT TO FORGET ABOUT HOW SHITTY MY WORLD IS! ESCAPISM FOR FRICKS SAKE!
to be fair, star wars weapons are WW2 prop guns with a walky talky and a small radiodish glued to it, so it wouldn’t be too far off for them to spray paint an AK47 black and use it
Isn’t this just shit Republic Commando made up because they wanted a shotgun, and everybody just said “yeah, sure whatever”
>to be fair, star wars weapons are WW2 prop guns with a walky talky and a small radiodish glued to it, so it wouldn’t be too far off for them to spray paint an AK47 black and use it
That was an excuse in the 70's but it's 2022 they need to stop being lazy.
>saber can puncture extremely strong and thick space metal
>can't block bullets for some reason
Bravo.
the bullets pass through and melt, so the Jedi gets sprayed with molten metal
Bullshit George
That's moronic, the "light" saber rod is actually solid, that's why they can use them to spar.
nothing about lightsabers really makes sense
the only thing that's solid is my rod, when the lightsabers start going
>hrmmmmm worrrhrmmmm
on screen
picrel
Pretty stupid idea. It would be cool to watch them swinging the saber around and molten sparks fly off it. Jedi aren't using pure reflex when they deflect lasers fyi. They're using the force to read the path.
Side note: I hate Star Wars now.
How do you use the sight on that thing?
It's for cdi factor lol stormtroopers don't use sights haven't you seen SW?
So Comrade Mikail Kalashnikov is cannon in the SW universe?
>solid projectiles were used by Jedi hunters because lightsabers can't block bullets
Why the frick not? How can they cut steel doors but not stop bullets? Why the frick is anyone using lasers?
pretty sure the lore is that lightsabers can block projectile weapons, but they just can't reflect them back at the shooter like they can with lasers.
think: lightsabers can cut or melt almost anything. you think a tiny bullet or pellet hitting one at high speed wouldn't just vaporize?
unless it was beskar steel bullets...
>solid bullet, if stopped, desintegrate, and jedis can't kill you back with them
This is the only thing it makes sense, AND STILL, doesn't explain why an AK-47 needs to exist in star wars.
why not just fire a spaceship at hyperspeed into every planet that has ever had a jedi on it?
I think anon's problem is that they didn't doll it up at all and just stuck it in there stock standard without any blaster-fying.
Of course lightsabers could block bullets by vaporizing them on impact.
Did lightsabers reflect blasters in ESB or was that a moronic ROTJ invention?
Anon... the first time we see a lightsaber used in action is Obi-Wan in the cantina who deflects a blaster bolt from the death-sentence-in-12-systems guy
Obi-wan's saber appears to obsorb/dissipate that guy's blaster just as it does when Luke is training with the blast helmet. Obi-wan blocks the shot then cuts his arm off.
literally all they had to do was remove/change the front sight. Holy shit what a moronic art department.
Dumb Tankie working for Disney (shock)
Because the nu directors are all morons that didn’t understand making all the guns iconic ww2 and 1950s guns was a stylistic decision. They couldn’t get stg props so they used m16s and dressed them up to try and look like stgs
The same place everyone one else got them, they bought them wholesale from fleeing Russian military when the USSR collapsed.
It was named after its creator the legendary gunsmith droyd AK-47
they don't have the budget or creativity to make every weapon that pops up unique looking
Star Wars guns are usually just real guns with random shit slapped on top. The prop department gets a bit lazy sometimes like with the AK in OP's pic (random AK style rifle with some kind of a pipe put over where the bolt carrier used to be and a magazine meant to look like a space magazine) or Leia's blaster from the ANH (just a .22 starget pistol with random crap put over the barrel).
They can go from practical effects to green screen then a dome made of TV panels but still put out crap like in OP? That's just lazy excuses
Gotta save on something I guess
most of the prop guns that are “just guns” are from the first movie, where Lucas actually had a somewhat tight budget. Pretty much every weapon introduced after that is an intricate prop. There’s almost no guns in the prequels that are “just guns”. Even by ROTJ most new weapons were pretty elaborate props. That being said, gribblied out guns are kino. The AK is a ripe platform to turn into a star wars gun but jesus christ they didn’t even try
>Even by ROTJ most new weapons were pretty elaborate props
nah they didn't really start getting original gun designs until the prequels. Even so that tight budget still set an iconic aesthetic indicator for star wars, something that has been certainly ruined in the sequels but is still done just fine in the shows for the most part. Here's a pic of an AK style blaster that actually looks decent, from S2 of mando.
I see your point but I think it is more nuanced than that for the prequels, clone trooper blaster still just looked like ww2 era weapons and everything else was just an atomic age homage. I think people b***hing about this AK need to go back and look at Rouge One, they did the same thing with the AR platform
The Walking Dead is still on TV??
all the star wars guns are real life guns they just strapped future shit on it
oh gee wow I never knew that thanks for pointing that out. I’m a fricking moron or a woman and I have never seen a firearm before now or can distinguish similar shapes. Is there any more interesting Star Wars trivia you’d care to share?
Cool your breasts, moronic spergwoman.
>I’m a fricking moron or a woman and I have never seen a firearm before
yes clearly
all the space aliens were guys with costumes put on them they weren't real space aliens
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Source?
It was a long time ago in a galaxy far far away
I guess they think that Kalash looks rebely, a typical war Black person gun
As a child my headcanon was that boba fett used a flamethrower so he could beat jedi
As an adult I realised I was smarter back then than star wars writers today
fin
Star Wars uses real weapons all the time but usually they are more heavily modified and not as modern and recogniseable as the AK which is probably the most recogniseable assault rifle next to the M16. Some of the OT guns might look silly to people who really know their gun history, but this shit in the OP looks stupid to literally everyone who sees it.
They should've gotten a more modern AK and just slapped more shit on it to give it the sci-fi vibe
Here's a better question: Why is there a Black in Star Wars who's name isn't Lando?
Stop this fake shit.
They had real-world guns in the OT, moron.
More reasons why I think Star Wars is gay as frick