One of the most significant changes revealed on the official Star Wars website was that R2-D2 would have spoken English instead of emoting through various sound effects. This design choice would have meant that R2, much like his partner C-3PO, would have had a distinct voice that spoke in full and articulate sentences.
Binary, or Droidspeak, is made up of beeps and whistles. The language is “spoken” by droids such as R2-D2 and BB-8. In an early draft of the Star Wars script, R2-D2 speaks standard English.
C-3PO, his robot companion, could speak 6-million languages including excellent English with a hint of a British accent and all R2-D2 could muster were beeps and whistles. Clearly the technology was there to let him speak, but whoever designed him intentionally decided to stick with the beeps and whistles.
Believe it or not, R2-D2 actually speaks in a vocalization of binary. This is one of the reasons humans cannot understand him (Luke Skywalker uses a translator built into his X-wing to understand R2-D2 accurately) as our brains cannot handle binary.
R2-D2 stands for Second Generation Robotic Droid Series-2, according to a Star Wars encyclopedia published after the release of the film Star Wars.
The other characters commonly call the two robots by nicknames "Artoo" and "Threepio". These names are spelled phonetically even in the original Lucas novel. It's a natural extension to phoneticize their full "names".
Because droids learn and grow, R2-D2 has grown smarter and more intelligent without a memory wipe. But he has also been associated and working with some of the most powerful and knowledgeable people in the Galaxy (Anakin most specifically, but he was on missions with many other Jedi as well).
Wanna know how to say "I love you" in Droid? You guessed it: "Bleep bloop."
Yoda recognized R2-D2 during The Empire Strikes Back.
Further in Empire Strikes Back, neither Yoda nor Darth Vader recognizes either droid. Luke travels with R2-D2 to the Dagobah where they find Yoda. Yoda's relationship with R2-D2 is not on the same level with the same characters. Perhaps, the old creature simply forgot.
Star Wars Characters That Can Understand Droids
While all droids understand Binary, only a handful of living creatures can. Canon characters, such as Anakin Skywalker, whose relationship with R2-D2 is one of the best in the whole series, Rey, Poe Dameron, Hera Snydulla and Kazuda Xiono are fluent in the droid language.
By claiming he's never owned a droid, he applies the same tactic as he did with his embellishment about Anakin. He hasn't owned a droid because R2-D2 is his friend. No one can "own" him, and to claim to have done so disrespects the countless ways the little astromech has saved the galaxy.
Other Characters That Can Understand Droids In Star Wars
Obi-Wan Kenobi was another human who could speak Binary, as well as Anakin, who shared the strongest relationship with R2-D2, as seen in the prequel trilogy and Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
He (or, rather, it) is essentially a black-painted R2-D2 because, as we learn in the video shown below, both are part of the astromech droid family. Astromechs are utility droids used to maintain machinery, but C2 is utilized by the Empire.
Yes, he did. In the comic Thank the Maker, Darth Vader comes into possession briefly of 3PO's disassembled head while on Cloud City.
In the original script for "A New Hope," which was revealed on Twitter in 2016 by original Chewbacca actor, the late Peter Mayhew, R2-D2 spoke in "a flurry of electronic swearing," which is pretty great. Threepio reacts as expected, which is exactly like your grandparents might.
R2-D2 was present when Padmé gave birth to Leia and Luke, so he knew Luke was Anakin's son – but what he didn't know was that Anakin became Darth Vader. In addition to that, Anakin's fall was surely a painful event in R2-D2's life, one that he definitely wouldn't like to remember or even talk about.
After the battle, R2-D2 and C-3PO were the sole witnesses to the marriage of Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala in Lake Country. After this Padmé gave ownership of R2 to Anakin while she kept 3PO.
R2-D2, the indomitable droid and mainstay of the Star Wars series, may be responsible for one more incredible feat: saving Grogu.
R2 is referred to with the pronoun "he" in the movies, right? Of course, droids are really genderless machines, but they can apparently be given "masculine programming" or "feminine programming" as desired (apparently emulating gender stereotypes in the culture).
Han, worried that Leia is injured, is relieved when she's okay -- and finally utters the words, "I love you," when she reveals she has a blaster. The princess replies, "I know," before shooting two Stormtroopers. Only in Star Wars. There's great tension to the scenes between Han and Leia on Hoth.
Now, the R2-D2 card wasn't particularly powerful, and it certainly did not say that he was "Force-Attuned" or "Force-Sensitive." However, in the game, when R2 was present at a scomp-link (one of those little terminals he plugs into all the time) he could effect the Force reserve of the player.
History. Anakin Skywalker, a Tatooine slave boy, was gifted in engineering -- and was strong with the Force. To help his mother, Shmi, he secretly built a droid: C-3PO. In his earliest form, Threepio had no outside covering, and so appeared “naked,” with his internal parts and motors showing.
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As such, R2D2 appears to be the state property of Naboo. Queen Amidala as the head of state exercised her control over R2D2. The Droid continued his service to Amidala while she was a Senator.