R2D2 is one of the few redeeming features about Star Wars, particularly Episodes I-III.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

Droid's badass and can't have any "dialogue" (using that term loosely), just beeps. He also is the true hero of all six movies.

Discuss.

:D :P

[City of Mills]

1. R2D2 is the Chuck Norris of Star Wars

Seriously, he saves virtually everyone at least once and some a few times. Is there a character in the whole saga who sees more combat action?

Props to R2, unsung hero.

[pokerfan]

2. R2D2: Secret leader of the rebellion

Keith Martin's "http://www.morningstar.nildram.co.uk/A_New_Sith.html">A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope Reconsidering Star Wars IV in the light of I-III" is an essay that convincingly argues that R2D2 is actually the secret leader of the Rebellion:

For the next 20 years, as far as 3PO knows, he is the property of Captain Antilles, doing protocol duties on a diplomatic transport. He is vaguely aware of the existence of the princess but doesn't know much about her. Wherever 3PO goes, being as loud and obvious as he always is, his unobtrusive little counterpart goes with him. 3PO is R2's front man. Wherever they land, R2 is passing messages between rebel sympathisers and sizing up governments as potential rebel recruits - both by personal contact and by hacking into their networks. He passes his recommendations on to Organa.

Yoda is out of the picture by this stage, using the Force-infused swamps of Dagobah to hide himself from Vader and the Emperor. Or something. He is meditating on the future and keeping in touch with Obi-Wan via the ghost of Qui-Gon Jin, which as comm systems go has the virtue of being untappable. Obi-Wan, on Tattoine, keeps in touch with Bail Organa and the other Rebel leaders by courier, of which more later.

As Star Wars opens, R2 is rushing the Death Star plans to the Rebellion. R2, not Leia. The plans are always in R2. What Leia puts into him in the early scene is only her own holographic message to Kenobi. Leia's own mission, as she says in the holographic message, is to pick up Obi-Wan and take him to Alderaan - or so she thinks. Actually, her father just wants her to meet Kenobi, which up to this point she never has. There's a reason for that.

[Elidor]

3. That's brilliant

Right up until the part where he gets to Chewie. I was right there with him until that moment. But still, very nicely thought out. And it has the added virtue of being totally unkown by Lucas, who couldn't have dreamed that up on his best day.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. He would be, if they hadn't given him jetpacks to fly around with and kill bad guys.

that shit was just stupid.