Topic: Jango and Boba

Jango Fett. top notch assassin, and template for the clone army. Boba Fett, an unaltered clone who grew up as Jango's son, and rose above and beyond Jango's legend to become the most ruthless, stoic bounty hunter ever. but here's the essential question. if Boba is basically the same person as Jango, how did he come to surpass him on so many levels? This question is up for interpretation by any and all...

uh, jango died and therefore could not rise to the same level of fame as boba? plus boba was met by people who already knew his father and therefore it helped his rep?

Their lives weren't identical. Jango's parents died about the time he was 10, but Jango was adopted by Jaster Mareel, and therefore grew to be an adult with the help of a parent, and the Mandalorians. Boba was thrust out into the galaxy on his own. Jango didn't start being a bounty hunter till after he broke free from slavery which the Jedi sold him into after the Battle of Galadrian. He was well into adult-hood by that point. Boba grew up around Jango, started learning the ways of being a bounty hunter since before he can remember. And their personalities are a little different as well, for example Jango goes around helmetless sometimes, especially at home. Boba never goes without it, and as far as I know Slave I IS his home. So one of the main differences is that Jango, drifting from family to family with the period of slavery exempt, (after that it was Roz, an employer, and after that he had Boba) he was probably a little softer because of that. Boba, having no one after age 10 had to learn to be a little rougher, and a lot earlier on.

And I agree that people already having the idea of "Fett" being someone you don't want to mess with helped him out a lot.

Agreed, Boba is a lot harder personality wise than Jango. I can't imagine him getting close to anyone (despite the newer SW novels claiming he had family - bah).

Besides I can't imagine Boba ever sub-contracting someone to do a job for him like Jango did with Zam Wesel. That doesn't really give a being great rep if they don't fulfill the job themselves.

that's actually a pretty good take on it. very insightful.  surprised i didn't think of it.

I read from somewhere that Boba was smarter than Jango. Could this be from nature or nurture(or lack thereof)? It seems to me he is a different person if the differences are for the most part slight. It's as if a little bit of mutation took place during the cloning process whether Jango and the cloners planned on it or not.

I really think Boba had a Code he lived by and that's why he was
trusted more whoever hired him ,where Jango didn't
bats :cool: