sith_master2000 Posted May 16, 2004 Share Posted May 16, 2004 In episode 6, Jabba says "Now your Bantha Fodder" then "Bantha Fodder" was later played in the new films. But does anyone know what Bantha Fodder acutally means? If so please respond to this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan Gaarni Posted May 16, 2004 Share Posted May 16, 2004 Fodder, or Podoo (sp?) in huttese, seems to mean two things: Originally it was just fodder, but in the new films we also see it is some kind of swear word. Either that or we have completelly missunderstood what Jabba ment by Bantha podoo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prism Posted May 16, 2004 Share Posted May 16, 2004 maybe it means somethin like b**** lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coupes. Posted May 17, 2004 Share Posted May 17, 2004 a bantha is this big furry creature your find on Tattooine. Calling someone bantha fodder is basicaly telling him he's as good as bantha food. OR As the banthas live in the desert and certainly aren't hunters, my guess would be they are scavengers. So, calling someone a banthat fodder would basically mean you said to this person has was as good as dead. So it's either an insult or a threat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sith_master2000 Posted May 17, 2004 Author Share Posted May 17, 2004 a bantha is this big furry creature your find on Tattooine. Calling someone bantha fodder is basicaly telling him he's as good as bantha food OR As the banthas live in the desert and certainly aren't hunters, my guess would be they are scavengers. So, calling someone a banthat fodder would basically mean you said to this person has was as good as dead. So it's either an insult or a threat. Yeah, it's gotta be one of those. Thanks for that .:CoupeS:. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joesdomain Posted May 23, 2004 Share Posted May 23, 2004 I think Bantha Fodder is Bantha food. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zappa_0 Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 Bantha Fodder is small animals which bathas eat. If you ever played KOTOR, you learn about on Tatioone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revlt Coranier Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 Maybe it is bantha crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurgan Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 Banthas of course are the elephant/buffalo-like beasts that the Tusken Raiders (aka Sandpeople) on Tatooine are seen riding around. "Bantha Poodoo" in the canon ROTJ is translated from Jabba's speech as "Bantha Fodder." "Fodder" is "food." It's usually used in reference to what you give animals like grain, oats or hay, etc for horses, cows, etc. Now suddenly in AOTC it means "poop" (go figure). In AOTC Anakin nearly misses hitting another driver's speeder on Coruscant and he says "...Poodoo!" Why would somebody who's angry while driving yell "Food!" or "Hay!" "Grain for animals!" etc. More likely they were trying to say he was saying "Poopy!" (or any other more vulgar synonyms for extrement that people say while driving. This notion is supported by the fact that in the AOTC novelisation (considered canon below the Film itself) the Lars family talks about "a pile of Bantha Poodoo" covering up some of their farm equipment. Now why would a pile of grain be deposited on top of their equipment as evidence that Tuskens had been prowling their homestead? Doesn't make sense that they'd pile hay or grain on somebody else's propertly and leave it there. So we're left with some choices: 1) Jabba has an odd sense of humor. 2) Banthas eat their own (or other) excrement, leading to the double meaning. 3) The word simply changed popular usage in the 27 years from AOTC to ROTJ. 4) Calling somebody "food" is considered a grave insult in the cultures of Dugs and Hutts. Though this doesn't explain the reference in the novel unless it was simply a writer's gaff, from not understanding it. Taking Poodoo as Fodder in Jabba's speech still makes sense. He's comparing Solo to grain fed to Banthas. Meaning his life is worth that much. Saying he's "Bantha s***" would have the same effect, since he's being eaten by Banthas and crapped out by them. For all we know Banthas have been known to eat humans. So yeah, that's pretty much how it is... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynk Former Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 Originally posted by Kurgan 1) Jabba has an odd sense of humor. I'm putting down $20 on that one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzyfreaker Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 Look. Bantha Fodder: Something a Banta eats. (KOTOR, TPM) Insult: You're just about as good as bantha fodder (ROTJ, TPM) Bantha Poodoo: Bantha Poop (TPM) Insult: You're a pile of Bantha Crap (TPM) Watch the Movies, play KOTOR, you'll learn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan Gaarni Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 20 bucks Kurgan is gonna give Fuzzy an overhaul for that one. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurgan Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 So you're saying that Banthas eat their own poop, fuzzy? Could be, I don't know. Lucas hasn't been above making toilet jokes about big dopey beasts before in his films. ; p Though maybe you're saying people use a word that means one thing in another sense entirely. Like how a lot of young people these days call stuff they don't like or each other "gay" (synonymous with calling them/it "stupid") rather than trying to mean they believe the person is homosexual or cheerful? PS: Do they use the term "poodoo" in TPM? I don't remember if they did... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drog Posted June 15, 2004 Share Posted June 15, 2004 Bantha Fodder is some type of "FOOD" for the Banthas i figured that out when i played Star Wars: Kotor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kale Jerre Posted June 16, 2004 Share Posted June 16, 2004 Originally posted by Kurgan PS: Do they use the term "poodoo" in TPM? I don't remember if they did... Yeah, they do. 1) Anakin uses it in the conversation he has with Sebulba when Jar Jar's stolen snack lands on Sebulba's table and 2) Sebulba says it when he crashes in the home stretch of the pod race. In both of these cases the context is pretty clear IMO that it means fecal matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CortoCG Posted July 3, 2004 Share Posted July 3, 2004 I think we should base the expression "bantha fodder" on "cannon fodder". Commonly used to describe an infantry soldier who worths nothing and you send it to the frontline to die. Actually, infantry soldiers are always cannon fodder since they are the spearhead. It means something like you are meat for the cannon. So taking "bantha fodder" as bantha's food is not wrong at all, but it really means that you worth so little that you could be used even to feed the banthas, or even to let you die under a pack of banthas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabretooth Posted July 18, 2004 Share Posted July 18, 2004 Bantha Fodder is a rank for users upto 50 posts in LF... Oh... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheech Marin Posted July 18, 2004 Share Posted July 18, 2004 There's also Bantha Cleaner, not sure how to get that though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azurik12x Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 Originally posted by Revlt Coranier Maybe it is bantha crap. You're right Revlt. In KOTOR they say that Bantha Fodder is Poo. You use it to get the banthas attention to lure them into the Krayt Dragon cave so that it coems out and you kill it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabretooth Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 Originally posted by Cheech Marin There's also Bantha Cleaner, not sure how to get that though. There are diffrent ranks in diffrent forums at LF. Try the Battlefront forum, or check your profile. Bantha Cleaner is the other version of Bantha Fodder, methinks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joesdomain Posted July 22, 2004 Share Posted July 22, 2004 I think it means Bantha food or Bantha dung. I could be wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joesdomain Posted July 22, 2004 Share Posted July 22, 2004 I think it means Bantha food or Bantha dung. I could be wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Dex Posted August 21, 2004 Share Posted August 21, 2004 It's food. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedHawke Posted August 21, 2004 Share Posted August 21, 2004 Originally posted by Azurik12x You're right Revlt. In KOTOR they say that Bantha Fodder is Poo. You use it to get the banthas attention to lure them into the Krayt Dragon cave so that it coems out and you kill it. Banthas eat Bantha fodder, meaning it is Bantha Food like hay for horses, now Bantha Poodoo is what comes out the other end! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kain Posted August 21, 2004 Share Posted August 21, 2004 The Star Wars RPG book says its: Worthless or waste. As in "You won't be worth bantha fodder!" Bantha fodder as an object is bantha ****. Expand your Imagi-Nation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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