YMMV / Star Wars: Tag & Bink

• Angst? What Angst?:
  • Given that he was Alderaanian, you'd think Bink would be a bit more grief-stricken over seeing his homeworld blown up in front of him. However, this is most likely a result of the duo's early backgrounds not being established at the time of the first issue. Fridge Brilliance can be applied when you realize that Bink was taken into the Jedi Order as an infant and that they were taught to forego attachments.
  • This also applies to both Tag and Bink spending the entirety of the Clone Wars trying to get back to the Jedi Temple, only to arrive in time to witness the execution of Order 66. While they are rightly scared for their lives and go on the run to start new lives after being spared by Darth Vader, but don't seem quite as saddened by the fact that their childhood home was being razed and that the people they grew up with were being slaughtered. However, all this happens right at the end of the comic and their priorities right then were survival, so they may have grieved later.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Manny Both-Hanz's death is as hilarious as it is tragic. Why? Aside from the comically oversized hole in his torso, his death turns a line from Return of the Jedi with a much darker context into a punchline, just from the Pun in his name.
• Cult Classic: As an acknowledged non-canon, licensed parody even before the Legends decision, this comic series is loved by fans of both canon and Legends. It got to the point that not only did Tag and Bink make the live-action transition in Solo (albeit in a deleted scene), Kevin Rubio himself has voiced interest in writing Tag and Bink comics set during the Sequel Trilogy.
• Fanon:
  • Fans of the comic like to believe that the two First Order Stormtroopers on Starkiller Base that turned away after nearly crossing paths with one of Kylo Ren's tantrums are an elderly Tag and Bink (in the new Canon, as the comic has them die when the second Death Star blows up). Kevin Rubio even supports this theory.
  • In Solo, fans and Kevin Rubio himself, after wondering where Tag and Bink were in the movie, believe they are the Mudtroopers in "the beast" scene since their dialogue is very T&B-like. Even after it was confirmed they were cut for time, their existence is still canon and it's confirmed they were working menial security detail when Han got kicked out of the Academy. Kevin further speculated that they got their desk jobs through Tag's father (who lives on Tag's homeworld of Corellia, not far from Coruscant) pulling some strings to get them in. He also speculates that they would still join the Rebellion years later.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Go here.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Go here.
• Iron Woobie: Even though they are comedy protagonists, both Tag and Bink have also endured tragedies that weren't Played for Laughs in the main Star Wars films. They've witnessed their childhood home being destroyed and Bink even saw his home planet get destroyed by the Death Star. Their suffering is an endless source of frustration (comedic or otherwise), but it has never completely broken them down.
• Like You Would Really Do It: Acknowledged in-story. The titular duo is seemingly killed at the end of the first issue just by being Darth Vader's wingmen during the Battle of Yavin. This is followed by a shot of their bodies floating in the Death Star's wreckage and the tag "Next Issue: Tag and Bink Live!" The second issue begins by having Kevin Rubio explain that scene as a Red Herring and that those wingmen weren't Tag and Bink. However, they die for real in the second Death Star's destruction, but come back as Force ghosts.
  Opening Crawl: It is a dark time for Dark Horse Comics. Numerous death threats and two failed assassination attempts have done little to curb the procrastinating tendencies of the writer, who in the last issue wrote himself into a hole by killing the main characters in the first part of a two issue series... or did he?
• Values Dissonance: While explaining the Red Herring to the audience in "Tag and Bink Are Dead 2", Kevin Rubio refers to the idea of his readers being teased as being "gypped". While the word didn't draw as much attention back in 2003, it would draw a lot more scrutiny if the comic were released today due to being derived from the word "gypsy", which is considered a slur against Romani people.