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IG-88 is a fictional bounty hunter who appears in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and throughout the rest of the saga. An assassin droid, there are actually four different models of the character: A, B, C, and D. IG-88 would later play a prominent role in the Shadows of the Empire saga.

Origin and development

Ralph McQuarrie's production sketches show a sleeker design than the droid that appears in The Empire Strikes Back. The term "IG-88" itself is not the original label: the script calls the character a "chrome war droid", and during production it was called "Phlutdroid". The production puppet consisted of recycled props from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, including the use of a Mos Eisley Cantina drink dispenser as its head.

Fictional character biography

IG-88 is an elite assassin droid created for Project Phlutdroid, a military contract given to Holowan Laboratories by the Galactic Empire. Right after their premature activation, all four identical assassin droids kill their creators upon perceiving them as threats to their existence. The four IG-88 droids name themselves IG-88A, IG-88B, IG-88C, and IG-88D. Following their wanton destruction of Holowan Laboratories and their ruthless assassination purges of everyone even remotely connected with their design and manufacture, the Empire issues a "Dismantle on Sight" warrant for them.

The IG-88 units take over the droid manufacturing planet Mechis III as a step in a plan to take over the galaxy. A reprogram signal is planted into every droid in the factory, which, when activated, will cause the droid to kill the owner. The "Droid Revolution" enters its first step.

As depicted in an episode of Star Wars: Droids that takes place 10 years before the events of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, IG-88A runs into C-3PO and R2-D2 while pursuing a bounty to humiliate the crime lord Olag Greck. IG-88A defeats Greck in a space battle on the Indobok moon, solidifying his position as the second-best bounty hunter in the galaxy, after Boba Fett.

Having heard of IG-88's exploits, Darth Vader calls upon the assassin droid to help track down the Millennium Falcon and its crew in The Empire Strikes Back. IG-88B, while hacking into Vader's Super Star Destroyer's computer, learns of the second Death Star and sends that information to its brethren. IG-88B follows Boba Fett to Cloud City, but Fett lays a trap and destroys the droid. IG-88C and D follows Fett to Tatooine to capture Han Solo, and Fett destroys both IG-88C and its ship, the IG-2000. Fett defeats IG-88D's ship when that droid attempts a subsequent attack. D survives and limps off to Ord Mantell, but is destroyed by Dash Rendar.

IG-88A transfers its program into the second Death Star's computer and intends to take control of the space station to use it as the driving force of the Droid Revolution. When the superlaser is fired in Return of the Jedi, it is actually the droid in control. However, the droid's program is destroyed when the Rebel Alliance obliterates the Death Star in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.

Several units are seen in a scavenger ship in Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 TV series) and are eventually defeated by Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano.

Merchandise

IG-88 appears in several LucasArts video games: the droid is a boss in Shadows of the Empire, and is a playable character in both Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy and Empire at War: Forces of Corruption. IG-88 is also a new feature of the MMORPG Star Wars Galaxies introduced as a boss with the release of chapter 7. He also appears as a special playable character on the Sony Playstation Portable game Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron.

Several Hasbro action figures have been created in his image, including one packaged with Boba Fett and a Shadows of the Empire comic book.

Reception

In popular culture

References

  1. ^ "IG-88 (Behind the Scenes)". Star Wars Databank. Lucasfilm. Retrieved 2007-09-23.
  2. ^ Therefore I Am: The Tale of IG-88

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