Perhaps the most infamous fact about stormtroopers is that they can’t aim to save their lives. A quick Google search will instantly dredge up a nearly endless slew of memes and jokes about how frequently the Empire’s elite soldiers miss their targets. While this is far less excusable in later movies or shows like “Star Wars Rebels,” stormtroopers’ inaccuracy in the original film has a proper explanation — one that many fans have noticed over the years, but which still goes widely ignored.
Most battles with stormtroopers in the original “Star Wars” take place on the Death Star itself, when Luke, Han, R2-D2, C-3PO, and Obi-Wan Kenobi attempt to rescue Princess Leia. While the crew is off infiltrating detention levels and trash compactors, Darth Vader and Grand Moff Tarkin sneak a tracking device aboard the Millennium Falcon, which leads them right to the rebel base after the intruders escape. Why can’t the stormtroopers land a single shot? Because they have to let the rebels get away in order to follow them to Yavin.
On the flight afterwards, Leia even says that the escape was far too easy, and that the Empire is likely tracking them. Again, this doesn’t excuse poor accuracy in the later films, but in the original “Star Wars,” those stormtroopers are missing on purpose.
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