Topic: Boba and Jango, Side-by-Side

I put those two stickers in my computer book and seeing them side by side
Jango has a far better Outfit in fact he looks compared to Boba the Richer of the Family
and makes Poor Boba the poor one of the Family as if he picked all his stuff off the Street
   Bats

But Boba has the battle worn aspect.  Or you could say it adds to the surprise you get when you see the battle-worn hobo snipe you in face.

LOL I also think that Boba has gone for that look so merchandise know that he's survived an awful lot - so don't mess with him!

Yeah.  I'd much rather have something a little worn around the edges than something so shiny and new like Jango.

its an interesting observation.
perhaps the contrast is that Jango is sort of a regal-polished stainless sort.
clean armor, living on the pristine city on kamino.

Boba an orphan- keeping scum as company. rolling w/ villains. its natural that he cares little about his battle worn armor-he basically lives out of his ship right? and yeah it looks more BA.

I think Jango was a bit of a showman too. Look at the display he does with the pistols. I think if someone did that in front of Boba he'd just shoot them - Indiana Jones style :P

I like Jango's armour but I prefer Boba's. I love that it looks battered and battle worn and also that it has trophies attatched to show off previous victories.

That is a really good point Cujo :D

I don't think either of them has a perfect set of colors, though I like Boba's better.  Was a bit taken back when i saw Jango for the first time..........purple suit............but it grew on me.  Love Boba's battle worn look, though it might be just a tad overdone *battle worne is one thing; neglecting your armor is another; but it seems functional enough,* and he uses a really good green, and love the red visor and red gauntlets in RotJ.  My only beef with his armor was the shoes and the yellow on the shoulder bells

Never the less; would love to see those to walking down a street together; ready for anything.   With a squad of SuperCommandos backing them up   ;)

You are exactly right.

Jango was a bit of a showman and it irks me that he spins his pistols in the movie and in the BOUNTY HUNTER game.  That little bit of showmanship is actually really poor weapons handling, something professionals just don't do.

Twirling pistols around, no doubt they have a hair trigger, is dangerous for the spinner and anyone around.  Think what would happen if a blaster went off.

Boba, the constant professional maintains his armor meticulously, so for him to maintain the "worn" appearance is intentional.  If he were to shine like a new penny it would announce his arrival, besides how hard would it be to blend in if you looked like C-3PO?

Just a thought

Now that would be a fantastic sight :D (LOL unless they were after you of course ;) )

In my opinion Boba looks far better than Jango. Especially the 1 shoulder cape

I like Boba's armor more.

What I like about Boba's armor is that is functional while JAngo seems more for show.  Sure both are lethal, but one got the perm a shave at the hand of a Jedi, while the other stacked Jedi up like cord wood outside.  I think Jango's garb was part of his gig for the Kaminos, they did like things crisp and clean afterall.

Totally agree

wait......what part of Jango's armor isn't functional?  I agree that the spit-n-polish look Jango has isn't as good as Boba's, but you compared two totally different things: their suit's functionallity with the person's skill in battle. 

One, Jango had just abouty everything Boba had in the armor; maybe more, and it was all functional and Jango was fully versed in their uses

Two, if you're using the EU *which I'm sure you are since Boba sure as hell didn't stack up any dead Jedi 'like cord wood' in RotJ* then you need to add that Jando killed as many or more Jedi during his reign as Mandalore, and then in the movie fought Obi-Wan to a stand still, killed another Jedi, and stood up to Mace; Boba doesn't come close in the film history

But anyway, back on topic of looks/armor

I see the connection to and have to think Lucas gleened some inspiration from the Kamino set and added that 'look' to Jango when he created the character.  However, I don't think there's a connection between the character and the place as far as the story goes.  I'm not familiar with the EU, but from what I've heard Jango had been using his chosen style for some time before Dooku hired him, so there' isn't a storyline connection between his look and the place.  Might be wrong though

Jango's armour is in fact far from clean, the armour is in fact very dirty (take it from one who's recreated it). The helmet is chipped and dented and his flightsuit too is dirty (although not to Boba's extent). The reason Boba's looks dirty and more beat up is that his armour is painted whilst Jango's isn't. Jango's armour was taken from him when he was imprisoned a few years before TPM, the planetary ruler had it restored and polished to the colours you see now (the silver is the colour of the metal of the armour and helmets blue was added by the governor). When Jango escaped from the prison mines, he took back the armour and has used it that way ever since. (ALL of this is canon fact)

Prior to this Jango's armour was first greens and yellows (much like Boba's) and then when he became Mandalore, it was repainted gun-metal grey and red.

I most confess I am far from a JANGO buff, after all this is the BOBA page, so most of my observations are drawn form the films and someof the stuff that is mentioned in the BOUNTY HUNTER TRILOGY and the more recent TRAVISS stuff.

I will concede that JANGO had functional armor, he has all the same stuff as BOBA on the games and all, minus the rocket launcher, which is a fundamental difference.  BOBA is ready for a ship encounter, now JANGO did have the wrist rockets.

I still can't get away from JANGO's showmanship thing and am glad you are in a greement with me on that point.
Sure he fought OBI, and up and coming JEDI to a draw, but he went down fast with only getting MACE's ebony skin a little warm.  True, BOBA didn't get his JEDI stomp on in the films, but other than freezing HAN there wasn't much he did do.

When BOBA got the upgrade to the BESKAR armor, it was intentionally painted to look more worse for the wear as BOBA didn't want anyone to know he was wearing new and improved kit.  I believe that BOBA kept the vagabond look in large part to throw off his foes and give him a slight edge by them under estimating him.  BOBA seems a guy who shave inches anywhere he can to gain the mile advantage.

No offense Ner'vod, I'm just stickin' up for a brother Mando in Jango.  I think most of us agree that Boba is the superior character.  Both bad writing and lack of character development into our favorite Mandos is what held both of them back.  Both could have been a lot better; so I just like to stick up for which ever one is getting knocked down

Well said and well received.  I plan to polish up on JANGO, but BOBA and the CLONES as TRAVISS tells them is what rekindled my STAR WARS fandom. 

I love the way they tell the soldier story.  I tell people you take out hyperdrives and lazers and you have a modern day army

Yup; KT is very good.  I just finished the first RepCom book and I loved the modern miliary talk, tactics, and meathods.  I don't agree with everything she's done, to Boba or the Clones; but she has my highest respect as the author who brought us Mando'a and has brought the spotlight to Mandos, the clones, and the connections between them

But there is ONE thing that bothers Bats
EEERR!! has to do with Jango's Helmet ???when you see Boba picking it up !!
Surely he didn't use that helmet ???
And I would love Boba Fett walking up my Hill flashing his Guns.
   Bats

You'd wanna hope not. Besides I always expected there to be a rip off version where Jango's severed head falls out of the helmet... I'm sure it's only a matter of time :P

Well I think that if the gun was completely out of bullets then a little show can't hurt.

People always talk about how good Boba is at killing Jedi when, ironically, he didn't do very good in the film history. He did do ok against Luke (compared to all the other henchmen) but yeah you;re absolutely right Boba doesn't come close. Oh and I wouldn't say Jango fought Obi Wan to a standstill, I'd say he just about won. You see if that platform (which HAPPENED to be where Obi Wan fell) hadn;t been there then Obi Wan would've drowned.

Yeah in Bounty Hunter he already had that color scheme, and I think the silver was chosen due to the fact tha Boba's armor showed silver underneath the green.

Jango's armour is silver purely because they made it and before they could paint it, George came into the room to look at the props and spotting the silver armour liked it and kept it that way.

As to Jango's head in the helmet, if you look closely following the scene in which he's decapitated, you can see the helmet fly through the air and the shadow of Jango's head flying out from it.

nice find, Orthar. i'll have to watch Attack of the Clones now to see that.

I'm pretty sure I saw that to.  Always wondered why Jango didn't fall out of the helm, so watched really close to see if it came out before.  It's not clear, but yes, I think you can see it fly off in a different direction as the helmet gets chopped off

I still think Jango went down quickly by Mace Windu, not so much to show how weak Jango was, but to show how much of a baddy Mace Windu was supposed to be.  I mean, Jango fought Obi-Wan to a standstill, the guy he kills on the balcony was a member of the Jedi Council (aren't they all suppose to be the best of the Jedi).  Even in Open Seasons, after Jango realized how many of his men the Jedi have killed, Jango kills several of the Jedi "with his bare hands" before he is subdued.  Now, here comes Mace Windu who takes out Jango, seemingly effortlessly.  But to a Jedi of that skill, it probably should have been effortless.  However, I do think they had Jango depend on his jetpack too much.  He obviously wouldn't have bit the dust so quickly, had his jetpack fired, when he ignited it and all it did was spark and do nothing.  A much more drawn out fight between the two of them would have been more believable. 

I know I put this in another thread before, but here's the different pics of Jango's armor through the Open Seasons comics.  His first set looks very much like Boba's.

And his second set looks just like Jaster Mereel's, but without the symbols on it.

Jango had a rocket launching jetpack just like Boba. He fires it at Obi-Wan during their fight on the landing platform on Kamino in AotC. As far as my preference goes I like the way Jango's armor is bulkier and looks more like its made for actual combat.

I don't like how Boba's armor doesn't cover important parts of him, like his legs. I'm surprised Boba didnt get hit by something in his leg and die because he couldn't walk

Maybe there's chain mail under his flight suit :P

Yeah,  that would totaly protect against a light and energy bolt. or an explosion :P

It's super duper extra light, extra tough multipurpose chain mail :P

Most Mandalorian Shock Trooper armor(like Boba's) have a liner shirt with a micro energy field projector and two layers of ceramic plates under the torso armor to increase durability and protection, so maybe the pants have the same thing or something similar. It would seem unlikely that Boba or Jango or any Mando would leave their legs with so little protection.

Uber protection factor :P Obviousy technology will have advanced from Jango's time to Boba's. Also we've often wondered what Boba spends his credits on, I'd say it'd be for the ultimate armour enhancers out there :D

Gah this makes me want the comics all the more!

Do you know what color they were going to paint it?

Maybe they were going to paint it to be green like Boba's.

Now I also have to watch the arena fight more carefully to see this thing with the helm. Im fascinated and grossed out at the same time.

Just watched the scene on YouTube, there is a head shaped/sized shadow. Interesting.

Ah Man I allready said that in another post. Or a maby you put it up first. Piont is we both noticed it. :D

Purple? Looks blue to me. :)

Yeah, I know; but it seemed purple to the skeptical eye when I first saw him    :P

Most of the small action figures of him have a purple flight suit though.....ick, looking at mine now

Hey At least you have one. I'd love to have a Jango or Boba action figure. :)

You dont ee that is so sad, :( i have over o dozen of each (not to brag) But on another note, in the books boba re-paints and cleans his armor all the time. Maybe he thinks the chips and dents give him an edge of sorts.

I don't have any either. Cause I grew up in a house hold where my mom rather...well, she hates Star Wars. GASP I know. Apparently though, my great grandpa was a Trekkie. o_O;

But yeah, I think Boba is cooler. I don't know why exactly. Theres just something about him I find more appealing.

Gosh, maybe I should start buying for peaple. But I have no money:(

I agree that Boba is the better and more interesting Fett *though not by much in my book,* but I can't get over the thought that Both of them TOGETHER would be even BETTER!

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Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi

Boba Fett gets back to his feet.  Looking across at the other hover skiff, he sees Luke deflecting bolts from the passengers.  Boba takes aim with his wrist laser and fires, missing just a little high.

Behind him, Solo hears Chewie say Boba is right behind him.  "Boba Fett?  Boba Fett??  Where..."

Before he can swing his stick/whatever backward, Solo is sniped in the head by Jango from the deck of the sail barge.  Boba, seeing with his 360 degree vision what almost happened, gives 'ol Dad a quick wave/salute, takes aim again with his missile launcher, and blows up Luke's hover skiff, sending LUKE screaming into the Sarlacc like a girl.

Father and son take THEIR sail barge *Leia would have still done her part and strangled Jabba to death* back to THEIR new base of Mandalorian operations in the sector, and claim the prizes of victory *Leia would also still be lookin' gooooooooood in that outfit   ;) *

                                                                                        THE END

*the end of Ep. VI anyway.  A whole new trilogy would be required to tell the tales of Boba and Jango's further exploits   :D *

That would end the saga,... but it would be so cool, older jango SHWEEEEEEEET! :D

It's the perfect ending as far as I'm concerned.........some reason however I'm not sure I'd get the same vote from the Jedi lovers out there   :P

That was such a good ending. Why couldn't the movies be like that. You know with a happy ending. (wink)(wink) :D

Ahhhh! I saw a Jodo Kast action figure at Wal-mart. and  I DIDN'T HAVE ANY MONEY! :(

Why the winks?  That's a perfectly happy ending I thought.

(Wink Wink)

:D :P :D