When an alien race is known for doing one specific thing, especially when that thing just so happens to be what the one named member of that race happened to be doing in the original movie/episode/book.
I mostly got this way from reading Star Wars novels. Greedo was a green guy who got blasted by a bounty he was hunting, but (in the legends canon anyway) someone decided that the entire Rodian species were infamous bounty hunters and that their entire culture revolved around the hunting season and it's so dumb. These guys are into interstellar travel, there's no way their culture is a monolith that centers around such a specific and fringe profession.
The Star Wars EU is terrible for this but there is an even worse, similar thing that it does
For a while anyone writing an EU book wanted some kind of movie tie-in. Well they weren't always telling a story about Luke Fucking Skywalker all the time, but they still really wanted that movie legitimacy.
So the authors would go down a massive list of minor characters and eventually give names to the fucking extras. I read in some fucking wiki that the bartender in Mos Eisley is a galaxy-renowned chemist who can also quote "mix any drink".
It turns out that every solitary shot in the original trilogy was a serendipitous meeting of literally the most fascinating street beggar laying on the ground catching dust from a broom held by the Emperor's own black ops posing as a janitor.
The two things Disney did right were Andor and the merciful euthanasia upon all that EU material.
When an alien race is known for doing one specific thing, especially when that thing just so happens to be what the one named member of that race happened to be doing in the original movie/episode/book.
I mostly got this way from reading Star Wars novels. Greedo was a green guy who got blasted by a bounty he was hunting, but (in the legends canon anyway) someone decided that the entire Rodian species were infamous bounty hunters and that their entire culture revolved around the hunting season and it's so dumb. These guys are into interstellar travel, there's no way their culture is a monolith that centers around such a specific and fringe profession.
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The Star Wars EU is terrible for this but there is an even worse, similar thing that it does
For a while anyone writing an EU book wanted some kind of movie tie-in. Well they weren't always telling a story about Luke Fucking Skywalker all the time, but they still really wanted that movie legitimacy.
So the authors would go down a massive list of minor characters and eventually give names to the fucking extras. I read in some fucking wiki that the bartender in Mos Eisley is a galaxy-renowned chemist who can also quote "mix any drink".
It turns out that every solitary shot in the original trilogy was a serendipitous meeting of literally the most fascinating street beggar laying on the ground catching dust from a broom held by the Emperor's own black ops posing as a janitor.
The two things Disney did right were Andor and the merciful euthanasia upon all that EU material.
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fuck that, the replacement is worse.
the replacement is awful but god, a lot of the EU material is... oh man. Rise of Skywalker feels like it was ripped from the EU