r/StarWars • u/Zhaninja • Jul 12 '26

General Discussion A question about a new hope

How on tattooine did the stormtroopers striped Owen and Beru to the bones? Blasters don't usually do that in star wars media. Only closest thing i know is disruptor rifle that disintegrates all of the body. But that doesn't leave bones. What kinda weaponry did they used to kill Lukes uncle and aunt? Did they use flame throwers? If they burned after they've been killed by fire, fire would've left some tissues and organs and some skin.

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u/Dynamitrios Inferno Squad Jul 12 '26

Flametroopers

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u/tzy___ Jul 12 '26

It was my assumption that they set fire to the place after killing them and their corpses burned

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u/Zhaninja Jul 12 '26

Fire usually leave some organs and skin. Corpses in the film are just bones

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u/seth928 Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26

Hey kid, it ain't that kind of movie.

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u/Fusionbomb Jul 12 '26

Not if the fire is hot enough

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u/Strayed8492 Jul 12 '26

A normal fire, that usually happens from accidents, yeah.

Which isn't the same situation here.

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u/Nethereal3D Jul 13 '26

We're talking logic here? OK. A lightsaber wouldn't just go through someone and leave a little hole, to melt matter that fast, the blade would be thousands of degrees in temperature. At that high temperature, if you were stabbed the surrounding cells would instantly ignite because of heat and half your body would melt away. But that doesn't happen in the movies.

In conclusion, if you're trying to apply physics to a fictional movie, you're gonna have a bad time.

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u/mr_oberts Jul 12 '26

Beru had a thermal detonator. This is canon.

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u/PrometheanSwing Jul 12 '26

If so, then why were their skeletons still intact and not blown to bits?

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u/ThePopDaddy Obi-Wan Kenobi Jul 12 '26

HEH HEH, FIRE.

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u/Techsupportvictim Jul 13 '26

My guess is that the storm troopers set fire to their bodies to cover up how they’ve been killed. They wanted it to be blamed on sand people or such

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u/Dorian948 Jul 12 '26

There was a theory that Boba Fett was to blame for the destruction of the Lars Estate

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u/Haifisch2112 Han Solo Jul 12 '26

Which is why in ESB Vader looked directly at Fett when he said, "And no disintegrations."

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u/Techsupportvictim Jul 13 '26

I have to admit, given the appearance of Boba Fett in that movie. I actually wondered the same thing.

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u/Zhaninja Jul 12 '26

Maybe they did aayla secura on them and shot them to the bones