If you remove all the context and Western tropes from the Han and Greedo scene in Episode IV, you're left with a scene where a guy shoots someone who's pointing a gun and announcing their intent to murder him. Textbook self-defense. There was never any moral ambiguity to alter.

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image showing If you remove all the context and Western tropes from the Han and Greedo scene in Episode IV, you're left with a scene where a guy shoots someone who's pointing a gun and announcing their intent to murder him. Textbook self-defense. There was never any moral ambiguity to alter.

Darth_Texan on March 25th, 2020 at 13:52 UTC »

Yeah, growing up with the originals I never thought to question it. Greedo was about to haul Han in and was an obvious sumbag.

rooksjeff on March 25th, 2020 at 13:59 UTC »

I was less than five when I first saw this scene and I understood that.

It seems odd since it was fine for Ben Kenobi to cut down Ponda Baba and Dr. Evazan just moments earlier.

TomXizor on March 25th, 2020 at 15:12 UTC »

"If you're gonna shoot, shoot--- don't talk."

Could have been a great Tuco moment.