The Untold Story of PORKINS | REBEL HERO
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There's a lot of disinformation going around out there about the late Jek Tono Porkins today we clear his name once and for all. Judge a man not by the size of his flight suit but by the size of the hole he makes when he rams his Xwing in to a battle station. MTFBWYA Porkins.
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I wish they had brought him back in Rogue One :'(
I still consider the pre-Luke Red-5 was a discount Porkins anyway
Budget wasn't big enough to CGI Tarkin plus Porkin's fat ass
RW:he would have a good cameo appearance in that one.😔
@@darthnegrus9255 😂
@@ILessThan3Trolling agree
“No i’m alrigh-GHEGG GHAAA”
last words of a true hero...
That line still makes me sad
heros never give up!
Literature teachers will make students look for a deeper meaning in this line 20 years from now.
F
may he rest in peace...
RIP Porkins
Brave pilot
Despite the odds he took a suicide misión against the first planet size mechanical horror of the empire.
I don’t know... but in my opinion you need a lot of balls to do that.
If he really was at the battle of Scariff, that'd be two suicide missions in a row... two too many it seems.
Negrofluorescente indeed, facing down a menacing WMD like The Death Star isn't for the faint of heart
@@notosure2148 You know what they say. What doesn't kill you the first time usually succeeds in the 2nd attempt.
What do you think took up all that space in his suit?
Negrofluorescente *moon sized
Porkins is the best character. Not only in star wars, but throughout movie history.
Eveny though he only had 2 lines he toched all are hearts for the 1 hole minite we knew him RIP IN PASTA WITH BACCON Porkens
Thank you so much... since 1977, when I was 7 years old, I never could sleep at night peacefully, thinking that Porkins died in vain. Now, at the age of 51, I will finally sleep like a baby!!!!!
*The Porkins maneuver …*
Ramming an enemy ship in a strafing run. You just have to commit, no matter the relative sizes - which is how he also approached _getting into the cockpit._
That struggle inspired that attitude, and that _altitude._
There's a Captain I work with at Creech AFB that flies a MQ-9 with the callsign Porkins. He wears it with pride. 👍
Yeaaah ... Chair Force. Not helpin' any.
How good is he at providing cover?
That's pretty wild.
@@Lazarus1095 With a reaper drone? Pretty good I'd say.
Legends never die, Porkins will live on forever in our hearts.
So does Dengar if you think about it, another underappreciated character.
Also in our arteries
Here's to Porkins. The man never pulled out. Wait, why are you snickering?
Because you want us to. :)
Real men NEVER pull out! And Porkins was a real man!
Unless the woman begs for a facial.
Bee H. To Porkins! 🍺
Unless it's hard to stay in..
Porkins needs his own movie.
Porkins: A Star Wars Story
Just no
He'll appeal to sjws because he's fat
Porkins: A Star Wars Story. Would probably be better than The Last Jedi was.
@@JMAN-pg4tg really like the sound of that actually
Another reason he joined the rebels was that Tie fighter cockpits were cramped…
and they recruited him by offering unlimited ammount of wursts
@@johnbane6199 so a wurst case scenario then?
Wow
Not true. TIE Fighter cockpits were actually more spacious than X-Wing or Y-Wing cockpits (due to the fact that the TIE Fighter’s highly advanced engines and lasers were tiny in comparison to an X-Wing’s, but just as powerful). A-Wings were the most cramped.
Lol.... weren't a lot of Rebel Pilots former Empire Pilots?
Bill Hootkins. My friend in high school. Passed away in 2005 from pancreatic cancer.
Was also "We have TOP MEN working on it right now" in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
And Lt. Eckhardt in Batman.
"No I'm alright...GAAAH..AARRGH!"
- Porkin's last words.
He could be the most underrated Star Wars character ever.
well stated. Porkins was one of the pilots whom the rebellion counted among their 20 best chances of survival when facing absolute destruction.
On that note they let the guy who just showed up get in an x wing and join the attack
@@mastercheif1225 that was nepotism, though they didn't know it at the time ;)
Rip Porkins, hero of the Rebellion.
And rip William Hootkins, thank you for bringing characters like this to life.
Isn't it ironic how comfortable Porkins would feel in a WARTHOG, and how the maneuver named after him is called the BELLY run :)
I'm convinced that the Resistance Pilot played by Greg Grunberg in Force Awakens was supposed to be the son of Porkins.
Beef Porkins
Chunk Porkins
No, he's the son of the Y-wing pliots from Endor. His name is Temmim "Snap" Wexley. His mom was part of a New Republic team of Imperial Hunters following Endor and was a friend of Wedge. Wedge ended up being his flight instructor.
Wasn't he called porkins in the film? Would have sworn he was....
@@cernstormrunner7263 totally made me laugh out loud
F to pay respects for Porkins. May he rest in peace.
F Rip Porkins
I agree. I saw Star Wars when it first came to theaters. I always like Porkins, he was a heavy guy, and I was a heavy kid. Porkins kinda taught me that you could be big and still make a difference. That really helped me when I got to high school. Even though people made fun of me bc of my size, I learned to carry it well and not let it stop me. I played football, and other sports and did very well. A lot of the teasing stopped when people realized how well I could move. It also helped that I could brake bones with a single punch thanks to football weight training and was not afraid of a fight. Any way my high school days went a lot better for me, and I owe a good part of that to a big guy who wasn't afraid to tell the Empire to kiss it. Thanks Lt. Jek Tono Porkins. You made a bigger difference then you will probably ever know.
You think they have subway in Star Wars cause I’m looking forward for some bistromi or whatever it’s called
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There's a restaurant with a giant painting of porkins eating a slice of pizza in my state. It's glorious
"Heroes get remembered, but legends never die."
What's so amazing about Star Wars is that EVERY character has a deep interesting story, no matter how much of a minor character they are. I love this! But I guess this only happened because Star Wars blew up so fast in the 70s? Bc there are other cool franchises that don't even go this deep.
You got to remember how long it was between trilogies, lots of time for writers and fans to come up with stuff and yes it was soooo popular. Actually very hard to imagine now just how popular it was in the day, nothing like it since.
"Star Wars: A Porkins Story" -coming to theaters near you 2029
A man can hope.
“The Empire or Us - there is no compromise. Biggs Darklighter, Wedge Antilles, Jek Porkins”
Andrew Beehler lol u have a halo 5 emblem
SII Reece S024 Why not?
Andrew Beehler I’m not saying u cant
He may be dead, but he will never be forgotten! RIP Mr Porkins. The Rebel Alliance thanks you for your service and sacrifice.
Hes not dead hes just in a different place
Clearly you haven't done your full research, or read the legends canon. Porkins didn't die. His X-Wing crashed landed into a turbo laser control room. In the confusion, he ejected out killing 11 stormtroopers and weapons control officers. After which point fought his way to one of the smaller Death Star Hangar bays to steal a shuttle. But not before freeing a small batch of wookie prisoners. He lost his left arm in the escape to a lucky bolt from a Stormtrooper before a female wookie snapped that stormtrooper's neck. Porkins and the wookie fell in love. The group jumped to hyperspace right before the Death Star was going to explode. Having felt he did his fair share for the rebel alliance, Porkins decided to retire (letting people think he died) with his new wookie family in the outer rim. They became farmers on a remote peaceful planet. It ends with an older Porkins having lost his left arm working on his farm thinking back on all his rebel adventures, but hopeful for the future. Jeez Generation Tech. How could you not read up on your Porkins history before making this video? He is an epic character with a rich backstory.
after the success of Star Wars, a lot of minor characters even got expanded
Porkins was expanded enough already.
I remember reading also that Porkins had his inertial dampener dialed up which reduced the g-force one experienced, but also made one less aware of how your ship was handling. I remember reading in one of the x-wing novels (rogue squadron I think) that it was better to keep inertial at 80 or 90 percent and not full power as it gave better situational awareness in terms of how you were maneuvering.
In one of the novels of the X-wing series, they explain that Porkins flew with his fighter setup to negate all G forces. Wedge trained the other members of Rogue Squadron in that series to have their fighters set to .05 or 5% of the normal G forces because he felt that it gave a pilot better awareness of their fighter's current situation. Wedge also believed that Porkins having his system set the way it was contributed greatly to his death.
It's good to see a video that makes reference to a brave pilot that sacrificed his own life in an effort to destroy a major threat to the lives of billions of people on multiple worlds and portrayed him in a good light
Giving a backstory about someone like that gives us all a look into who this person was and his motivation joining the rebel alliance
Man, that was awesome! Original, informative and great to see Porkins get some Love.
If I remember, Jansen ended up being the XO (Wraith Squadron) over the son of the pilot he had to shoot down.
I love pork skins. My favorite flavor is sea salt
yummm
chicharones, thank the Maker I'm not a muslim
Now y'all making me hungry for bacon.
Butter toast flavor is good too
SALSAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love this channel, love you guys! Keep up the hard work
Thank you! I've been praising him for all these reasons for years.
RIP Porkins 0 ABY. Respect the man who thought he could hold it and how he gave his life for the Rebellion
Also, great video Generation Tech
Great video I didn’t know any of his backstory so that was cool! Would love to see one on Biggs too.
I want to see the untold Porkins story how he survived after crash on the Death Star, about his fall to the Dark Side and becoming the supreme leader of the First Order.
I really liked learning so much information about a character that isn't really talked about other than the meme. Hope to see more of these types of videos on less talked about characters from the SW universe!
Can you make this with Wedge Antilles
Why would he make a video on such an insignificant side character. The next video should be on Willrow Hood.
Jonathan Swavely Insignificant? Wedge literally blew up one of the Deathstars, took out imperial walkers, helped take out the first Deathstar, etc. He is not insignificant, you don’t know what you’re talking about.
@@BMXSTUNTRIDER2232
Just Google "Willrow Hood"
"HIS NAME WAS WILLROW HOOD!! HE SAVED THE ICE CREAM FOR ALL OF BESPIN!!!"
@BMXSTUNTMAN
Sure, Wedge is the only being in the Universe with two Death Star kill-stickers on his X-Wing. But Willrow SAVED THE ICE CREAM, man!!!
Thanks for making this and all of the rest of your videos.
Porkins didn't have a big belly. It was actually his member, rolled up and carried above the waist line.
This day and age they would never be able to name him "Porkins". Only reason they haven't changed his name or the spelling is because he is an established and venerated character of Star Wars lore. Everybody knows and loves him.
YES! FINALLY A FITTING TRIBUTE TO THE REBELLION'S FINEST!
Thanks for making this documentary
Great video generation tech one of my favorite pilot
If you read the Rogue Squadron novels, Commander Antilles had a gread deal of respect for Porkins, although his nickname was Piggy.
It would have been cool if he was in Rogue One, or even hear red leader call him by his name.
Great vid GenTech! RIP Mr Porkins.
I think it was in the Wedge series of books (Rogue Squadron?) - I remember reading that the cockpit of the X-Wing could be set for normal gravity, zero-G or whatever in between the pilot chose, or else you could set it so you felt the actual acceleration your starfighter was feeling (within safety parameters ) & when he crashed, Porkins had his cockpit set to a neutral-G setting, so he didn't feel his X-Wing diving. Like the narrator was saying that if Porkins had felt his dive, he could have pulled out, making it sound like party-line propaganda that he screwed up or got lazy.
Either way, I bet Porkins was a blast to go out drinking with.
Finally. Porkins gets the respect he deserves.
I honestly love this dude.
Jek Porkins - he can hold it.
Great video!! RIP Porkins!
👍☯️👍
I didn't know Porkins was at Scarriff. That's awesome.
He had space diabetes
Topaz 13 diabeetus
@@prestobizmal auto correct eh
Imperial officer: The fighters are so small they're avoiding our turbolasers.
Porkins: gets shot down by a turbolaser
If you see in canon, they talk about his speed got too low allowing the turbolaser tower operators to target him.
thank you , i used to be a fatty, then lost some flab, then won it back!!!! thanks for respecting us big, not-so-big, BIG people!!!...We can pew-pew too!!!!
Well said
There's a Cobra pilot in my unit who's callsign is Porkins. Needless to say his appearance lives up to the callsign.
PORKins BELLY run
Wow, I never knew he was such an awesome guy. I have a lot more respect for him now.
Thank you for all of the research you did. Had no idea who Porkins was beside what we see in the movie
He killed the lunch buffet at Tattoine!
I just now noticed something I never gave much thought until now that I'm older. Look around during the award ceremony after the destruction of the death Star… Look how many rebel pilots there are… And yet they only had I handful of X-wings and Y-wings. So much manpower and not enough ships for them to fly
Well said .
RIP Porkins. I remember reading that William Hootkins was upset when he learned his character name was Porkins. Wish he had a scene in Rogue One blasting a few TIE's. I also liked his character in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Even though it was a small role.
That dude that's in every J.J. work is Porkin's son lol.
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Wow! I had no idea that Porkins had such a great history. And here I thought he was just a fat guy nobody who got killed so easily. I guess you learn something new everyday.
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Biggs Darklighter and Jek Porkins are my favriote rebel pilots
trey nicholsjr The cut scene from A New Hope with Biggs talking to Luke on Tatooine is really cool.
I agree
Great video.
I don't think you can count the Millennium Falcon as part of the attack group at Yavin. Han's run was unplanned he was leaving then changed his mind and came back to cover Luke.
I remember watching Porkins demise in the theater, cried like a baby.
he wasn't some fancy space wizard or a smuggler fly boy. just some dude who fought against unbelievable odds for his beliefs and is still just as well known despite seconds of screen time .
*MAD RESPECT*
It would be great to see porkins on rogue one as we saw Red Leader
RIP porkins 😢. All gave some, but some gave all.
The real story:
George Lucas: What if we call that heavy actor 'Porkins'?
Some Assistant: Ha ...yeah. Good one, sir.
This was the first change Lucas did, in his ever long quest to perfect his original movies.
True authentic hero
Poor Perkins! Not only was he a pudgy guy with pork right there in his name, but he had no mustache or plot armor to protect him. While all the rebels respected his skills, they HAD to snicker behind his back. Like a guy with a speech impediment named Lisp, or Stutter. Or a three legged dog named Lucky. Sad irony in a galaxy far, far away. We salute you Perkins.
First pilot to go through a galactic drivethru in a xwing.
Porkins is the reason the Rebellion won. I always get nervous and anxious before his death scene-always.
Allen get well soon!
Only found out this week that guy who plays Porkins is also the chunkier army guy from Raiders of the Lost Ark (when Indy/Marcus talk to them about the Ark)
“I got a problem here. My converter's running wild.”
Please do more of these heroes lol
Which Sci-Fi faction has the best armoured forces (Suggestion for the next series)
I think I read in one of the X-wing books that he set the internal gravity for his X-wing to 1/2 G. According to Wedge this hampered his ability to tell if he was actually pulling G/ pulling up. I’d have to reread the books but that’s what is in my immediate memory.
We need to replace mall Santas with Porkins. Most kids would rather sit on Porkins lap and tell him what they want for 'Porkmas'. He could promise to land on their roofs in his X-Wing. Blue milk should be left out with the cookies for Porkins.
Best name ever for Star Wars shaped pork rinds.. yes?
Like the intro
Glad to see the OG Thiccc Boi get his recognition
FYI, the guy in the picture at 0:33 is Gil Guemes, a costumer in the Rebel Legion. If you're going to use his picture you might want to give him credit for it. :)
Porkins getting pissy about his weight being made fun of was the most nonsensical part of his Legends portrayal. Everything else about his character would make you assume he wouldn't give a hoot or outright joke about himself being fat.
Han: We did it kid! Woohoo!
Luke: Yeah, it was awesome!
Wedge: I'll say! And I also don't have to pay Porkins the fifty bucks I owed him.
(awkward silence ensues)
The only time I have a problem with someone's weight is when either I'm having to carry them off the battlefield, or when they're too unfit to fight.