3B3

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"Drop your weapons."

―3B3, to the Jedi^[5]

3B3 was a B1 battle droid that served in the Trade Federation Droid Army. During the invasion of the planet Naboo in 32 BBY, 3B3 discovered the Jedi Knights Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi and the Gungan Jar Jar Binks sneaking into the capital city Theed. 3B3 ordered them to drop their weapons but was swiftly destroyed by Jinn.

Biography[]

3B3 was a B1-series battle droid that served in the Droid Army of the Trade Federation during the invasion of the planet Naboo^[3] in 32 BBY.^[1] 3B3 participated in the capture of Naboo's capital city Theed. During the battle, 3B3 encountered the Jedi Knights Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi, who had traveled to Theed via the Solleu River to rescue Naboo's queen, Padmé Amidala. They also ended up needing to pull their Gungan companion Jar Jar Binks out by an ascension gun cable connected to their tribubble bongo.^[3]

3B3 ordered the Jedi to stop and aimed a blaster pistol at them. Jinn turned^[3] and quickly^[6] yet casually^[5] decapitated the droid with his lightsaber while 3B3 simultaneously fired its blaster, hitting the grappling hook cable and sending the bongo over a waterfall.^[3] Kenobi looked at the droid's body as it lay to the ground.^[7]

Characteristics[]

3B3's name was a shortened version of its unique identification code, which was usually applied by Trade Federation technicians.^[8] Like all B1 battle droids, 3B3 stood at 1.91 meters tall, had masculine programming,^[4] and had tan plating.^[3]

Behind the scenes[]

"Hold it right there."

―3B3's alternate dialogue in Episode I: Obi-Wan Kenobi^[3]

3B3 was created for the prequel trilogy film Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, written by George Lucas. The droid appeared in drafts of the screenplay but was cut from the finished film,^[6] which premiered on May 19, 1999.^[9] 3B3's first appearance was in the picture book Dangers of the Core, an adaptation of a portion of The Phantom Menace that was written by Jim Thomas, illustrated by Boris Vallejo,^[7] and published in April 1999.^[10]

3B3 Danger — 3B3 points a blaster at Jar Jar Binks in *Dangers of the Core*.

3B3's encounter with the Jedi is portrayed in slightly different ways across adaptations of The Phantom Menace. In Dangers of the Core, 3B3 arrives and is pictured standing in the Solleu River just as Kenobi pulls Jinn ashore. After Binks arrives, 3B3 points a blaster at him before being bisected by Jinn.^[7] In the Mighty Chronicles adaptation, written by John Whitman^[5] and published on May 3, 1999,^[11] 3B3 runs into the Jedi on a riverbank just outside Theed rather than inside the city itself.^[5] In Episode I: Obi-Wan Kenobi, a one-shot comic written by Henry Gilroy and illustrated by Martin Egeland,^[3] and published on June 2, 1999,^[12] the droid tells the Jedi to "hold it"^[3] rather than to drop their weapons as portrayed in other sources.^[7]^[6]

The deleted scene in which Jinn, Kenobi, and Binks climb out of the Solleu River was included in the DVD of The Phantom Menace,^[13] released on October 16, 2001,^[14] but 3B3 did not appear in the sequence.^[13]