In The Mandalorian there are multiple references to how worthless Stormtroopers are. Bill Burr’s character, Mayfeld, is a former Imperial sharp shooter. Mando isn’t impressed. He retorts “Hey, I wasn’t a Stormtrooper!” Later we see two scout troopers who literally cannot hit a rock 2 meters away from them. In the third episode of the second season (I’ll be vague to avoid spoilers) a character says that Stormtroopers “couldn’t hit the side of a bantha”.

As that episode progresses we see a handful of characters kill easily forty or more Stormtroopers directly. Granted, these characters are implied to be elite mercenaries, but still the message is clear: Stormtroopers are worthless cannon fodder and of no real threat to our heroes.

Has this always been the case?

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