New #StarWars comic confirms that Darth Vader went back to Tatooine and killed Watto pic.twitter.com/yOFQCD5rCk

— Culture Crave 🍿 (@CultureCrave) January 24, 2025

crowds have begun placing memorial flower bouquets outside of Watto's home on Tattooine 🤍 pic.twitter.com/GvNqmw6vT8

— joe (@JoeStokowski) January 25, 2025

Just hearing about Watto pic.twitter.com/IPlNmittO9

— Kenjac (@JackKennedy) January 26, 2025

let those little wings carry Watto past the twin suns and into a place of harmony and bliss

— Brendan Hodges (@metaplexmovies) January 26, 2025

Wait, Watto died?pic.twitter.com/T6on6XG01a

— Seán, Master of Wagons (@candon_sean) January 25, 2025

Watto died? Wow. I didn't know that, you're telling me now for the first time.

He led an amazing life. What else can you say? He was an amazing Toydarian, whether you agree or not. He was an amazing Toydarian who led an amazing life. https://t.co/8yWrY3uXRz

— lewys piper 🇵🇸 (@generalquixote) January 25, 2025

watto was an immigrant who escaped an oppressive regime to make a new life for himself through hard work and determination. but the left would rather demonize him than find common ground and fight for a better world together

— the gentleman skirmisher (@trevorcrumbo) January 25, 2025

I keep picking up the phone to text Watto then I remember

— big n’ate 🐛 (@Nateorious10) January 25, 2025

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— Lolo (@LolOverruled) January 25, 2025

Dave Chappelle (suddenly getting serious 50 minutes into a special): On January 24, 2025, Watto, a small business owner on Tatooine, my friend, died. He fucking died

— Dear Thommy 💘 (@thom_weights) January 24, 2025

telling everybody at the bar watto died pic.twitter.com/Xo2YW7XpCJ

— Southern Dan (@StolenDans) January 25, 2025

Watto? The Podrace Financier? pic.twitter.com/eWaDORf0fw

— CPR (@cpr781) January 26, 2025

Ok, pretty good job, internet.

ChipFTAC01 said:

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Has there ever been an explanation /description of what the Bothans did that was so awesome other than one line from Mon Mothma in ROTJ and Borsk Feylya talking about how great Bothans are?

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the Bothans used their spy network to zero in on a high level Death Star project delivery manager.

One night the project manager and his outer infrastructure team were out for a night celebrating a milestone for being 60% done with Death Star exterior at a makeshift cantina on the forest moon of Endor.

The PM was actually kind of relieved the emperor took his foot off the gas on outer construction and instead focused on weapons systems, so he still had budget to throw a blowout for his Trandoshan and Ugnaught project team members. The Ewok cantina slaves cleaning the floors mopped up much Ugnaught vomit that night. In fact, three verses of Yub Nub tell of the Ewok enmity against Ugnaughts.

The Bothan waitress was keeping the Sarlacc Stouts and Corellian Spiced Ale flowing all night, and she caught the eye of the project manager. He was definitely taken on by her equine beauty since such alien/human relations were highly discouraged by the emperor's bigoted speciesism views.

He was already intoxicated (by the drinks or her huge horse ass, no one can say) before he could question "Hey, a Bothan - who are known to be notorious spies - is my waitress and she's giving us lots of intoxicating drinks and asking about my Death Star security badge."

At some point he sketched out on a cocktail napkin how, in theory only, a hostile force of man-to-man star fighters could potentially weave in and out of the incomplete infrastructure to get to the reactor core. He assured the waitress a couple of correctly timed proton torpedoes could blow the hole mofo up!

After the waitress had the info, she stole a Lambda-class shuttle, Tydiri-something, from the cantina parking lot and took off for the nearest rebel outpost, Sullust I believe it was. Upon arrival she gave the rebellion base executive officer the stained napkin with the drunken scribbles on it, and he was like, "So a bunch of small ships fly through the half-assed construction and then blow up the power system full of unstable hypermatter, which is the single point of failure. Got it."

The waitress wasn't feeling too well after the flight to Sullust. It had something to do with all the Ewok dander back in the cantina. She immediately went to Urgent Care and was on liquids and oats for a few days until she was unceremoniously released and faded into the fabric of the Bothan spy network to await her next assignment.

Mon Mothma was lying her ass off. "Many" Bothans did not die. Only one got the Ewok sniffles while pumping a drunk Imperial for Death Star info.

I thought I was actually reading a legit plot summary from a book explaining this until I got to the end of the 3rd paragraph….