Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back/IMDB Corrections

### Character error

* While Luke assists Wedge in attacking an Imperial Walker, he says, "Steady, Rogue 2." Wedge is "Rogue 3." Later when Luke assists Zev, he correctly calls him, "Rogue 2." **He may be calling to Zev, while assisting Wedge, to ensure Zev doesn’t get too far ahead.**
* Towards the end when Chewbacca tries to go up the ramp of the Falcon and into the ship, C3-PO's head bumps one of the lights "attached" to the Falcon. As soon as he bumps it, it goes out. **The contact could have triggered an off switch.**
* According to the credits, Luke's gunner in the Snowspeeder is named Dak. However, all other spin-off media (games, books, etc.) spells the name as Dack, which now seems to be official. Later versions of the movie (special edition, DVD release, etc.) do not correct this. **Many names have alternate spellings.**
* When C3PO is switched off by Leia in the Millennium Falcon cockpit, he can still be seen breathing quite clearly. As a droid, C3PO shouldn't breathe. **This could be due to the system that prevents his circuitry overheating by passing air through it.**
* When Luke watches the Millennium Falcon escaping the ice cave on Hoth, he turns his head to follow her with his gaze, but he does so too soon - the ship has not yet even entered his field of view. **He’s looking towards the sound of the Falcon’s engines.**
* When Luke meets Yoda for the first time, Yoda is behind Luke, but R2D2 is looking right at the location where Yoda is located, but he says nothing to warn Luke. **Yoda could be using the Force to mask his location before he reveals himself.**
* C3PO calculates specific odds for navigating the asteroid field, but the odds would depend on the size and number of asteroids which he could not estimate. **This could be why he tells Solo the odds are approximate.**
* During the battle with the walkers, Luke states, "That armor is too thick for the blasters, use your harpoon." When the first walker is taken down with the cable, they proceed to shoot it with their blasters and it explodes. **This is because they are firing into the flexible neck tube, which is weaker, fulling the energy bolts into the walker’s body, which was weakened by the impact to the crash.(( This explanation is given in various sources, including Andrew Darling in the Q&A section in an early edition of the Official Star Wars Magazine.))**

### Continuity

* When the fighters are attacking the ATAT walkers, Luke is extremely far away from them. The ships he is flying are extremely nimble. It is not plausible that his attack run on the ATAT Walkers would start from such a distance, head on. **These could be targeting shots.**
* When Darth Vader lands on Hoth, he goes to the launch bay to find the Millennium Falcon leaving. A short time later you find the Millennium Falcon evading several Star Destroyers and Tie Fighters near the asteroid field, but Vader is already back on the Star Destroyer. **there could have been enough time for Vader to return to his ship between the two scenes.**

### Factual errors

* Obi-Wan's ghost tells Luke on Hoth that Yoda is the Jedi master who trained him, when in fact, his master was Qui-Gon Jinn. **Technically, all Jedi are trained by Yoda, especially in the early stages of their training, and Kenobi may have received some later training from Yoda.**
* Han Leia and Chewie exit the Millennium Falcon and leave the ramp open exposing the interior to the vacuum of space the air should have been evacuated. **Not necessarily – the fact they are using breather masks in place of full spacesuits would indicate the presence of an atmosphere in the cave.**
* The ships that are escaping are all trying to leave at the same location, but it would be more logical for them to split up and to escape from different directions. **They need to stay close, in order to maximise the protection from the Ion Cannon.**
* When the ATAT Walkers are attacking, you can see how far away they are from the front line of fighters. In another scene Han and Leia have snow falling on them leading you to believe that they are underground with the ATAT Walkers above them. However, in other scenes, you can see that the base is at ground level and that the launch bays are under a mountain. This is not plausible as the underground base would have to extremely massive to have the ATAT Walkers above them. **The snow falling inside the base could be due to vibration travelling horizontally through the groundd, dure to the impact of the ATAT’s feet**
* The ATAT Walkers move extremely slow, but when they need to, they can turn their heads extremely quickly to shoot a fighter. **They were likely designed with this feature to compensate for their lake of speed.**
* Luke informs one other fighter to use the tow cable, but no other fighters. **This could be done in order to ensure the technique works, without the fighters getting in each other’s way.**
* The snowspeeders' have turning vanes/speed brakes that open directly into the slipstream, this should be enough to cause a catastrophic failure and flip the aircraft. **the onboard flight control computer would likely be programmed to compensate for this**

### Incorrectly regarded as goofs

* The colors of the different buttons on Darth Vader's chest plate vary between the movies. **Since time passes between each movie, it is not unthinkable that he has his life support equipment refurbished and upgraded on occasion.**
* When Darth Vader uses the Force to throw things at Luke, one of them breaks the glass blowing Luke outside. This indicates Cloud City is pressurized. However, when the Millenium Falcon lands earlier, Lando is able to easily walk out the door, indicating there is equal pressure. **Luke and Vader are battling in what is very obviously an interior portion of the city which is far more likely to be pressurized than the exposed outer hatches.**
* Leia says to Lando "Vader wants us all dead." Vader could have had them killed at anytime during their stay at Cloud City if he'd wanted. Leia would have realized that. **Vader was using Han and Leia as bait for Luke - so killing them before he arrived would have thwarted his plans.**
* Chewbacca leaves their quarters on Cloud City with Han and Leia, leaving behind C3PO dismantled in a box. They are captured in the next scene and moved to a holding cell. The box of C3PO parts is now in the cell instead of the junk scrapheap where he was rescued from. **It is entirely plausible that Lando arranged for this as he appears to be covertly helping his friends while pretending to go along with Vader's plans.**
* When the rebel base detects the Imperial probe on their scanners, Han suggest that it "could be a speeder." He was told the previous night that the rebels were having trouble adapting them to the cold. **The speeders had been fixed by that morning - as we can clearly see one come to rescue him and Luke.**

### Revealing mistakes

* When C-3PO interrupts Han and Leia's kiss on the Millennium Falcon, you can see parts of the Threepio costume break off and fall off at the elbow. **The stress of the trip is causing C3PO to come apart!**
* As Lando, Leia, R2, Chewie, and 3PO start boarding the Falcon to escape Bespin, you can see a blaster mark on the chest of one of the Stormtroopers firing at them from the doorway. Seconds later, Leia shoots the Stormtrooper in the exact spot and he falls down. **The trooper could have caught a glancing blow earlier in the fight.**
* While Vader is trying to tempt Luke to the dark side, the first part of his helmet can be seen moving on his head, when it is supposed to be magnetically sealed. **Maybe the seal has failed for some reason.**
* During the Battle for Hoth, several rebel soldiers fall down without being hit. **They probably slipped on the snow and ice.**
* When Luke passes Yoda (before the latter raises the X-wing fighter with the Force), the entire ground around Yoda slightly lowers and rises under Lukes weight, indicating it's not solid ground but set up of some kind of planks (the Dagobah scenes were filmed on a sound stage). **That area could be waterlogged.**