Captain Needa

Captain Lorth Needa is a minor antagonist in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. He is a captain for the Empire's space navy and was assigned to find the Millennium Falcon. He ultimately fails to capture the Falcon.
He was portrayed by the late .
==What Makes Him an Ensemble Dark Horse?==
*Captain Needa was introduced in the second installment of the original trilogy of Star Wars films. He didn't have much screentime, but he was considered a reasonable officer, especially compared to the ruthless Darth Vader. Him apologizing was generally considered interesting for an Imperial officer.
*His death scene is famous for a number of reasons. For one thing, Vader accepts his apology, but only after killing him, which many found to be darkly funny. This also had people feeling sorry for Needa, because he tried to fix his mistake in a nice way, but was killed anyway.
*Many interpret him taking "full responsibility" was so that his crew would evade punishment. Needa is the only one to receive punishment, even though his crew also lost the Falcon. Fans see Needa as the one that saved his crew from Vader by personally flying over to accept sole punishment.
*Needa's death is also interpreted by many fans to symbolize something, whether it be Vader's ruthlessness to even the most loyal officers that fail, how Vader appears to be be intolerant to failure in this part of the movie than at the end, or other such beliefs.
*Many defend Needa's choice to take a shuttle to apologize to Vader, such as him saving his crew from punishment as well, or that Needa wouldn't have known about Han Solo's little trick he pulled due to not being familiar with smuggler tactics, therefore couldn't have captured the Falcon because he was dealing with someone "too elusive".
==Trivia==
*Some consider Captain Needa to be an idiot, but his status still remains because he is remembered fondly by his large amount of fans.
*He appears in other companion media, in both canon and Legends, which often is covered by fiction historians. While not the general fanbase's interest is towards Needa, fans still fixate on him even outside of his debut appearance.
==External Links==
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*Captain Needa on the Wookieepedia
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