My take is the empire has a really poor weapons budget so they buy cheap, poorly made weapons Take a look at some funny fan reactions below: Given the fact that Stormtroopers are supposed to be highly trained soldiers of the Empire, the fact that they were missing their shots from such close range was weird, to say the least. During the first few episodes of the Star Wars Saga, it was believed that our heroes were just really good at dodging the Stormtroopers shots but as time passed it became clear that the reason that Stormtrooper could not hit anything was simply cause maybe they were just not that good. He misses, repeatedly, at this point the other stormtrooper looks at him disappointedly and takes out his own blaster in order to show his colleague how it is done.īut he misses too, every shot and can then be seen shaking the gun near his ear indicating that maybe there was something wrong in the blasters that making them miss their shots. The scene from the show has two Stormtroopers on some sort of mission and talking when they get bored, one of the troopers takes out his blaster to shoot at a can some distance away. The Mandalorian proving that Stormtroopers can't aim Disneys latest addition to the Star Wars universe, The Mandalorian seems to have paid tribute to this long-running joke by adding a scene in their latest episodes showing two Stormtroopers shooting at a can.
In conclusion stormtroopers were weak but could hold strongholds against civilians.Since the original Star Wars Trilogy, the fact that Stormtroopers have poor sense of aim has been a recurring joke in the fandom.
In episode 4 “a new hope” we see luke and the gang trying to escape and then see all these stormtroopers miss their shots.These stormtroopers were ordered to miss and let them escape so they can follow the millennium falcon and reach the rebel base.Īlso whenever a character steals stormtrooper armor they always say “how do you see out of these things?!”-luke in episode 4 “I can’t see!”-captain rex in rebelsĪnother point people make is that stormtroopers die to easily this is because stormtrooper armor is meant absorb the blast not defend the user this was revealed in “ezra’s gamble” Many stormtroopers were placed around all imperial strongholds and ships.Stormtrooper training was usually rushed and half-baked which resulted in awful troopers the empire focused on quantity not quality.But this is not the primary reason why stormtroopers were bad defenses.Many times we see stormtroopers is because our main character is trying to go somewhere and has to easily wipe out these stormtroopers to get to the main plot in other words it’s plot armor but they have a good reason.Imagine Jyn erso(My favorite) trying to get ahold of the death star plans for the fate of the galaxy and then a stormtrooper shoots her in back and she dies. Stormtroopers were common troops of the Galactic Empire. Stormtroopers being useless is a thing that many fans like poking at but the truth is that stormtroopers were decent troops here’s the evidence