Labyrinth of Evil explains "that business on Cato Neimoidia" Obi-Wan mentions in Revenge of the Sith. During an underground commando raid on Cato Neimoidia that Anakin and Obi-Wan are leading, the Jedi split up, with one team to act as a diversion. Obi-Wan and the majority of the force engage the majority of the droids in underground storage bays, and Obi-Wan accidentally deflects a blaster bolt into a canister of spores. Thinking quickly, he reaches for his breather mask, but discovers it to be missing. Cue Anakin getting a message from Obi-Wan's second-in-command, Commander Cody, that they need assistance. Puzzled why the larger force would need assistance, Anakin remembers something, and pulls out of his pocket... Obi-Wan's breather mask. Frantic, he races back to the tunnels, to discover Obi-Wan falling all over himself, intoxicated by the spores, and humorously declares that Obi-Wan has invented a new lightsaber form. Anakin then discovers that Obi-Wan single-handedly destroyed over fifty droidsdespite being completely intoxicated.
Later, Obi-Wan and Anakin go on a four-hour long bar-hopping spree and get themselves “half-drunk”. Especially due to how eager Obi-Wan seems at the idea of getting wasted, and that the whole thing was Obi-Wan’s idea, not the usually more reckless Anakin’s, in the first place. As Anakin says, they could easily just look up their target in the directory, Obi-Wan seemingly just wants an excuse to get hammered.
A great one towards the end of The Ahakista Gambit story arc of the Star Wars: Rebellion series. Wyl Tarson and Laynara are inspecting "one of those impenetrable doors" (don't you just hate them?) that they need to get through. Not to worry, they've brought tech expert and Snarky Non-Human Sidekick Baco Par along to open it. Then they turn around to see Baco pointing a blaster at them. He knows they're planning to betray him, he's a little ticked off that they kidnapped him for this caper, and the Empire can have the galaxy.
Baco: Some people just want to be left alone! Some people just aren't good enough to make a difference! Don't you get that?! Laynara: (plucks Baco's blaster out of his hand) You're shaking. Don't be afraid, Baco—you can do this. Baco: Yes, I—you wouldn't happen to have a drink on you, do you? Laynara: No. Baco: I suppose I'd better get on with it, then.
The disgruntled teammate's cut-and-run gambit subverted in nothing flat.
While the totally Canon Discontinuity comic books starring Tag & Bink might be considered a Funny Moment for Star Wars comics generally, they have their own when Boba Fett shoots the spy who gave Tag and Bink information about the second Death Star. The spy's name? Manny Both-Hans.
The Star Wars: Underworld comic has several, mainly because it perfectly summarizes Greedo's role as the galaxy's Butt-Monkey.
Greedo: (Puts his hand on Boba Fett's shoulder in a friendly manner) Nice shot! We make a pretty good team. Boba Fett: Don't touch me. Greedo: Sorry.
In Star Wars: Republic issue 39, A smuggler who knows the code to a navigation computer nanovirus turns traitor on his friends in exchange for amnesty. He tries to haggle the code to Qui-gonn and Obi-wan who simply ignite their lightsabers and give him a deadpan glare.
Smuggler: Ah, can’t kill a guy for trying can you?
Issue's 40 and 41 take it even further, from Vilmarh Grahrk, Aayla Secura, and Yoda in familiar poses, to the former almost marrying a whole group of Yinchorri, to the Jedi Council blame game, and to Vilmarh managing to "outsmart Bo Bo".
In Shadows of the Empire, lingering at your ship too long will prompt Leebo to say things like "We'll never get paid if you stay here all day." and then "Go away, sir."
Taking out an enemy Jedi/Sith hero in Battlefront. Ways to do this include: grenading them out a window, landing a starfighter on top of them, running them over with a fast enough vehicle (ex: speeder bike), etc.
Imperial Admiral: As you can see, Snookums, the whole crew has been putting in overtime... in fact, I think the Christmas recital will be the bestest in years! Little Timmy's Drummer Boy is— Darth Vader: What I see, Choralmeister Lumpy, is that no has been washing these windows in my absence! This ship isn't your personal garbage can, young man!
In the comic, The Jabba Tape, Jabba the Hutt leaves his greedy nephew Gorgia "the entire holdings in the Bank of Jabba." Gorga starts celebrating, only to be informed that the Bank of Jabba is Jabba's piggy bank.
In Battlefront 2, if you're playing as the Separatists and get enough kills to play as Jango Fett, sometimes you may hear a clone say something along the lines of "It's Jango Fett! And he's brought his head!"
A lot of normal soldiers in in Battlefront 2 will make comments on the appearance of special characters, usually along the lines of "Oh, Crap!, it's him!"
The Party Mode cheat code. Cartoony "Pow" effects and confetti popping out when you hit things with a lightsaber. Such fun.
The Anzati assassin is a kind of vampire who feeds off something he calls "soup" that he sucks out of peoples' heads but insists isn't something like brains. Almost the entire story is just endless monologuing about how he's a tremendous badass who loves soup, and the kinds of soup he's eaten from different people. He says soup is better the longer it's been on the shelf. The word loses all meaning and becomes bizarre and funny.
Bonus, while his story here and in Tales from Jabba's Palace both take him very seriously, in Jabba's Palace a story from a different POV mentioning him calls him a "snot vampire" and the speaker covers his own nose protectively whenever the assassin is in sight.
A New Hope's Death Star conference room scene — written from Motti's point of view in Death Star.
Skirata: Delta! This is the geriatric! Get down and give me fifty! Ordo (on catching a Republic agent tailing Besany): I'm the jealous type. I don't like perverts stalking my girlfriend. Jilka: Do you always pick up women like this? Ordo: No, I shot Besany.
The Killiks get rid of some Squibs by sending them over their lines via air mail. With a trebuchet in Dark Nest Trilogy.
From Episode 3 of Star Wars: Droids, C-3P0 tunes into a R2's favorite program, showing two R2 units, a white hat and black hat, throwing rocks at each other. Later, another character watches the same program, with the white hat astromech smoking a Peace Pipe with a "native" astromech.
Kinman Doriana's doublecrossing in Outbound Flight. Palpatine must have been having a lot of fun each time when that guy was making separate reports to both his personas!
The Infinities retelling of Empire Strikes Back has Lando Calrissian having Boba Fett knocked out. A few pages later, Lando is in his office at his own floating desk, when Vader personally calls him, asking for Fett. Lando tells him he has no idea where he is... and then we have a shot of the underside of said "desk": Boba Fett frozen in carbonite.
The Dark Empire Sourcebook mentions that amongst Darth Vader's many acts of vengeance is one he gave for being mistaken for a droid; to serve at a preschool for a year. Doubled since the "victim" was a droid named... C-3PO.
At one point in Survivor's Quest, (published 2004) Luke announces that his group should go for the high ground, a full year before his former Master makes it a Memetic Mutation in Revenge of the Sith.
From Infinities, the comic Tantive IV. In which the Imperials capture Leia's ship... Only for the Stormtroopers to get mauled by Jar Jar Binks' son in a very convincing Leia's disguise. It's then revealed the ship is the Tantive V, a perfect copy of Leia's ship crewed entirely by unarmed Gungans and distracting Vader to let the actual Tantive IV gain time, at which point Vader orders to just let the annoying amphibians go and return to look for Leia's ship. One gets the impression Vader was so angry in A New Hope due the sheer humiliation of that encounter...
In Jedi Quest #6, Obi-Wan reflects on his native guides: "They were scruffy, rude, and probably untrustworthy. Qui-Gon would have befriended them instantly."
The opening line of chapter 6 of Spectre of the Past:
She was short, she was furry, she was loud, and she was determined to sell him a melon.
Shada's dogged pursuit of trying to get information out of Talon Karrde:
Karrde: He's someone who used to be in the same business I am. Probably still is, actually. Shada: But not a competitor? Karrde: You were certainly paying attention in there. Incidentally, just out of curiosity, where in the bedroom were you hiding? I didn't notice any place where anyone bigger than a Noghri could have been tucked away. Shada: I was on the floor, between the back bed and the wall. A gap like that always looks smaller than it really is. If Car'das wasn't a competitor, what was he? Karrde: Persistent, too. I like that in my people. Shada: Delighted to hear it.If he wasn't a competitor, what was he?
The Qom-Qae and Qom-Jha uses the naming scheme "Verber of Noun", and when refering to outsiders, they simply change their names around to fit better. Skywalker obviously becomes "Walker of Sky", but Mara Jade turns out to be "Jaded of Mara".
Voss Parck explains the Outbound Flight situation to Mara Jade:
Parck: You can't imagine it, Mara. On one side were handpicked units of Palpatine's own private army, equipped with fifteen top-line combat ships. On the other side were Commander Mitth'raw'nuruodo of the Chiss Expansionary Defense and perhaps twelve small and insignificant border patrol ships." Mara: "I can imagine it just fine. How badly did Thrawn slaughter them?" Parck:"Utterly."
This utterly hilarious bit (also somewhat heartwarming) from Legacy of the Force, as Leia pilots the Millennium Falcon across an asteroid:
C-3PO: A mountain range! That will certainly complicate our escape!
Han: Complicate! If it were me in the pilot's seat, you'd be yelling "we're doomed!"
C-3PO: Quite possibly, sir. However, Princess Leia is a Jedi.
In Betrayal, we follow Syal Antilles in the midst of a battle as she attempts to shoot down a rogue X-wing fighter in the midst of a battle. No matter what she does, she can't get a lock, she's going full-out... and then it turns out that the person in the other fighter is her father. Who proceeds to have a friendly, utterly conversation with her as if they'd just bumped into each other on the street.
The third book of the Dark Nest Trilogy has Luke tell the Jedi that if they can't put their loyalty to the Order first, they shouldn't be Jedi at all. Corran comes into Luke's office, announces that he's quitting, he's made a whole bunch of mistakes, it's all his fault that Cal Omas took control of the Order...Luke patiently tells his friend that he's not going to stop Corran leaving a third time, then tells him that taking on all the responsibility for everything makes him seem pompous.
From The New Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels, the quote on the EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigate is an Imperial admiral complaining about how often the Rebels are using ships stolen from the Empire.
Just once, I would like to destroy a starship that we didn't pay for!
The conceit of The Jedi Path: a manual for students of the Force, Book of Sith: Secrets from the Dark Side, the Imperial Handbook: a Commander's guide, and The Bounty Hunter Code: from the files of Boba Fett is that they are not just Fictional Documents but entire in-universe books that were then annotated by several people scribbling comments in the margins.
The Jedi Path had been a review copy which Yoda marked for updates and passed through familiar hands, including Dooku, Obi-Wan, and Anakin, before ending up as Sidious's trophy. The pettiness of his comments, all in a red pen, suggests that he had some time on his hands. It's also a bit funny to imagine Luke, in his long and arduous quest to recover information about the Jedi, finally getting his hands on this which is not only a priceless textbook but one with so many personal connections for him, and deciding to join in the marginalia.
The Book of Sith is actually chapters from several books penned throughout Sith history, some stolen from the Jedi temple, all cut out and bound together by Sidious who provides a smug, gloating preface, afterword, and commentary throughout. Each author sampled is aware of the prophecy of the "Sith'ari", a supposedly perfect being who would both destroy the Sith and raise them to greater heights than ever before. In a Running Gag, each and every author of a text, Sidious included, concludes that they are the Sith'ari.
Luke complains that the chronology of the Clone Wars is confusing. In universe this would be because of the Empire censoring and altering the records of this time to paint Jedi as being Evil All Along, quite a task considering how they were portrayed as heroes in the media. Out of universe, the Clone Wars were mentioned without context in the original trilogy. In the span between then and the prequels they were sometimes referred to as being very different from the "actual" Clone Wars as portrayed in Episode II. That short span of years between II and III was rapidly filled with dozens of books, comics, an animated movie, multiple TV series... Trying to consider it all as canon and work out just what happened when is challenging.
Before binding it into the Book of Sith, Sidious had lent Vader the chapter of Darth Malgus's diary and of course Vader wrote in it. At one point Malgus has an aside about Eleena Daru, who according to current Sith doctrine is fit only to be a slave because she's not human but she's so special to him, a valuable servant who might be more. Vader complains there that he'd tried to find out what happened to Malgus's secret love but it's just not in the journal! Secret soft spot, eh?
A chapter written by Darth Bane was in Quinlan Vos's possession and Quinlan seems to be quite impulsive. He decides to try a feint that Bane writes about, and writes under it that when he tried it he dislocated his shoulder.
The chapter taken from Darth Plagueis's notes has him regarding life in general as so common it's basically worthless, while his life is special and to be preserved, of course. His apprentice, compiling this long after killing him, can't help making a smug note that knowing the secret of eternal life hadn't protected Plagueis from being murdered in his sleep. In the end notes for this section, Daniel Wallace (who out of universe put this whole thing together) has his own comment, which Luke Skywalker was too noble to make, about this and the general complacent superiority Palpatine displays throughout. "Or from being thrown down a reactor shaft, hey Palpy? How do you like them apples?"
The Imperial Handbook has a somewhat tenuous excuse for being marked up - a variety of Rebel leaders, "top officers", were brought in to lend their thoughts on the tactics, philosophy etc found therein. They are all unimpressed by the self-congratulatory tone of much of the handbook and pick apart some of the claims.
Captain Ozzel contributed a page to the handbook where he boasted about his ancestors' naval accomplishments and claimed he too had a "quick mind and a deep intellect", and lists tactical innovations he has contributed. All three are laughably basic. One is to surprise the enemy by coming out of hyperspace right on top of them, one is pursue fleeing enemies, one is overwhelm a small force with a larger one. Han writes over it that he can't even make fun of this, it's just too easy.
Rivalry between military branches is apparently alive and well in the Empire. The general writing a section on the Imperial Army says to the Navy (the branch that involves Star Destroyers) that "we are grateful for the ride and offer you our thanks, but only when the Army has disembarked does the war begin". He's also dismissive of the stormtrooper corps, saying they rush in quickly and take massive casualties and their role is, with ellipses, "...consistent." Leia's commentary when he gets into the supposed origins of the Army is so scathing that Han follows her notes with "It's just empty boasting. Besides, this guy is space dust now."
The stormtrooper section includes the note that most would-be stormtroopers don't make the cut, but these washouts shouldn't despair, the Army can use them. Han contributes an incredibly petty note, "the tighter the helmet the stupider the trooper".
Most of Leia's comments are philosophical or historical in nature, sometimes as above becoming quite angry, but in the section on walkers she writes that the AT-ST can be dealt with quite easily.
Leia: Fire a missile behind the angled viewport visors and the cockpit will burst like an egg.
Han: How does she know this?!
After a long section praising the versatility and function of walkers and other land vehicles used by the Imperial Army, including speeder bikes that purportedly barely need maintenance, there are some pages from what appear to be an in-universe catalogue that Imperial commanders can order things from - things including riding and pack animals, a section prefaced with a breezy sales pitch that undermines that previous section.
"As a base commander, how many times has this happened to you? The harsh conditions found in the local environment debilitate your mechanized scout vehicles, keeping them shut in the repair bays for weeks."
Alternative Title(s):Outbound Flight, Tales From The Mos Eisley Cantina, Death Star, Republic Commando Series, Dark Nest Trilogy, Labyrinth Of Evil
.Imperial Admiral: As you can see, Snookums, the whole crew has been putting in overtime... in fact, I think the Christmas recital will be the bestest in years! Little Timmy's Drummer Boy is—