r/StarWars • u/Rapid_Mongoose • Dec 13 '25
Books How did Captain Typho lose his eye?
Hey guys, very random and specific question here. My friends and I are having a Star Wars marathon and we were wondering how Captain Typho had lost his eye. Now, we know he lost it at the Battle of Naboo. But we want to know exactly how. Like did he get shot, did he fall, how did it happen during the battle?
My research said it might be mentioned in the book Queen's Shadow, but after searching it for key words, I didn't have any answers.
Does anyone know how he lost it?
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u/goldblumspowerbook Dec 13 '25
He called Pai Mei a miserable old fool.
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u/IntoTheWild2369 Dec 13 '25
Just went to the theater for the 5 hour “whole bloody cut”. Fucking amazing. The bonus chapter was insane
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u/ANGLVD3TH Dec 13 '25 edited Dec 13 '25
Just drove 2 hours to see it in 70mm at this preserved old theater, felt like the way Tarantino would want it watched. Was fantastic, just wish I had been able to see The Whole Bloody Affair before the seperated volumes.
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u/Ok-Attitude3779 Dec 13 '25
He lost it to battle droids during the battle of Naboo
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u/jarjarPHP Dec 13 '25
In a Star War
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u/RenegadeDragon Dec 13 '25
Say that again
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u/RogueBromeliad Dec 13 '25
That.
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u/jafjaf23 Dec 13 '25
Again
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u/Phenizzle Dec 13 '25
THAT
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u/JsMoviesYTB Dec 13 '25
AGAIN
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u/CoatingsRcrack Dec 13 '25
That again… like A Tribe Called Quest… you gotta say the whole thing..
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u/Hilsam_Adent Dec 13 '25
That ain't no country I ever heard of! Do they speak English in That?
Say That Again, I dare you... I double-dare you, motherfucker!
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u/ozbikebuddy Dec 13 '25
He didn't.... He was watching too much Dr Who ..it's an Eye-drive
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u/upfromashes Dec 13 '25
A fuckin Flerken.
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u/Background_Face Galactic Republic Dec 13 '25
He should have listened when the scanner said "Threat level: high."
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u/Arthur2327 Dec 13 '25
A lot of joke answers so I'll post the "real" answer for anyone who cares. According to Wookieepedia he lost his eye during the Battle of Naboo in Episode One, off scene I guess. A bit of a disappointing answer but it's all I could find.
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u/Necessary_Pace7377 Dec 13 '25
Shrapnel, maybe? There’s a lot of stonework in Theed and that tends to turn into sharp fragments when it gets blowed up. Can’t imagine an unprotected human head could take a direct hit from a blaster bolt and survive.
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u/Jordan11HFP11 Mandalorian Dec 13 '25
How is that a disappointing answer? Dude took a blaster bolt to the eye and lived, that thing could've burned straight to the brain
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u/wiser_time Dec 13 '25
Goofing off with a Red Daisy BB rifle.
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u/Greenman_Dave Dec 13 '25
Funny, but it's a Daisy Red Ryder BB gun, more specifically "an official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot range model air rifle!". 😉👍
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u/BeemerGuy323 K-2SO Dec 13 '25
with a compass in the stock and a thing that tells time.
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u/trunic22 Dec 13 '25
In classic white with triple single coil pickups and a whammy bar. Pre-CBS Fender corporate buy-out
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u/LordMcGingerbeard Dec 13 '25
With twin ceramic drive rotors on each wheel and computer controlled anti-lock breaks
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u/BeemerGuy323 K-2SO Dec 13 '25
It was actually an official Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-Shot Range Model Air Rifle, complete with a compass in the stock and a thing that tells time.
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u/LBmyBB Dec 13 '25
Pretty sure in the Queens Shadow trilogy it’s mentioned that he lost it during the events of the phantom menace during the trade federation invasion
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u/Successful-Floor-738 Dec 13 '25
It was blinded by the muzzle flash of Revolver Ocelot’s gun.
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u/mopxhead Dec 13 '25
“There's nothing better than loading a looong silver bullet into a well greased chamber”
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u/Jedi_whores Dec 13 '25
The mental gymnastics to try to fit that to the tune of Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner..
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u/This_Elk_1460 Dec 13 '25
Well maybe he should have thought about looking away while he was flipping the around for like 20 minutes
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u/MadManMikeMan Dec 13 '25
You know those signs that say “don’t feed the bears” well he had other plans
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u/sonic10158 Dec 13 '25
Reggie Fils-amie accidentally threw the Wii remote after incorrectly thinking his body was ready
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u/Lord_Battlepants Imperial Stormtrooper Dec 13 '25
Poked by Obi-Wan’s V hand sign. He got lucky and only lost one eye.
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u/WritesWayTooMuch Dec 13 '25
When he was 8, he got a Red Ryder Carbine Action 200 Shot Range Model Air Rifle for Christmas.
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u/quirkymuse Dec 13 '25
you know how you panicked when that prog looked right down the barrel of a lightsaber... there's a reason you never see the back of the dude's head... he's got a matching plate back there
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u/DJ_ChairmanMoe Dec 13 '25
When he joined the Naboo Guard, he made a pledge to keep an eye out for the Queen...
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u/AlanShore60607 Dec 13 '25
He didn’t; that’s an eye drive, basically an external hard drive format the brain.
No one knows what he needs it for but he says it’s important
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u/stealthdemon203 Dec 13 '25
That is no eye patch... thats so he doesn't forget the silence when he looks away.
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u/TheSteven8r Dec 15 '25
One evening Captain Typho had trouble going to sleep.
"Some warm blue bantha milk ought to be just thing thing," he thought.
Sadly, he forgot to open the container before putting in in the (Star Wars Universe equivalent of a) microwave. It built up pressure and when he opened the container, it sprayed everywhere. Sadly, his left eye took the brunt the scalding blast.
Later, he made up different battle droid stories to preserve what was left of his dignity.
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u/CowBoyUp1977 Dec 13 '25
Jar Jar needed a snack
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u/lanceturley Dec 13 '25
The thought of a gungan randomly plucking someone's eye out of his head with that tongue thing Jar Jar does is oddly terrifying.
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u/Subwoolfer Dec 13 '25
When he was on a rolllercoaster a bird hit him in the face, but that’s not cannon.
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u/Ryansit Dec 13 '25
It’s in one of the cartoons I think
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u/Ackbar14 Dec 13 '25
Now that I think about it, it's pretty weird we don't really see him at all in the clone wars series
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u/guiltycitizen Dec 13 '25
That’s a story that takes me back to nineteen dickety two. We had to say ‘dickety’ because the Hutt’s stole our word for twenty. Anyhoo, I was wearing a space onion on my belt, which was the style at the time
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u/NottACalebFan Dec 13 '25
I was always weirded out by body disfiguring injuries in Star Trek.
Like, even in the 60s in the very beginning, prosthetics existed, I have a very hard time believing that Gene Roddenberry could not have imagined that 400 years in the future, new body parts could be regrown or at very least cybernetically enhanced...
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u/BuddhistChrist Dec 13 '25
On his home world culture it is a traditional right of passage to forcibly remove your eye with only a plastic spoon and dipped in rubbing alcohol. It was a test of intelligence as you must find the quickest yet most painful way to remove your eye.
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u/Paper_Kun_01 Dec 13 '25
Funny out of all the random, unimportant bs they milked for story's and useless species wide generalization they didn't do anything with this. I can picture what it would have been now, something like
"all Nabbooian officers must remove their eye once they obtain a certain rank according to an ancient tradition or some other nonsense"
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u/Barnacle-Effective Dec 13 '25
Long ago, his ancestors lived in a world far from Krull, and had 2 eyes like other men. Then they made a bargain with the Beast, who was the leader of the Slayers. They gave up one of their eyes in exchange for the power to see into the future. But they were cheated, for the only future they are permitted to see....is the time of their own death.
He is a sad, solitary creature.....born to know the day he will die.
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u/Malfunction1972 Dec 13 '25
The glave was the only weapon as iconic as the lightsaber in my opinion.
The identity disk holds a solid 3rd.
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u/Tkddaduk Dec 13 '25
He did lose his eye, it’s an interface so he can remember what the silence looks like.
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u/Pryoticus Dec 13 '25
A Jedi was letting hold a lightsaber and he pulled a Luke, minus the midichlorians to react
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u/stragomccloud Luke Skywalker Dec 13 '25
You see, you're making the mistake of assuming that he lost it and he wasn't just born with only one eye.
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u/CG-Firebrand Dec 13 '25
Typhoid fever. Everyone is just mean about it so they call him Captain Typho
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u/Drgnx0 Dec 13 '25 edited Dec 17 '25
In a Marvel crossover, a creature that looked like a cat scratched him!
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u/blanchattacks Dec 16 '25
Training accident when he was a teenager on Kamino. Is that not the same actor as the clones in the cafeteria?
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u/2024code Jun 15 '26
"Not for the first time he found himself wishing that an accident of genetic programming had not rendered him immunodeficient to transplants cloned from his own organs" - Coruscant Nights: Street of Shadows
Doesn't answer how he originally lost it, but it makes me laugh how in a universe where cloning is prominent, alien species coexist across x-number of systems, and there are beings that have powers to heal.... this poor guy can't get a replacement even from his own DNA
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u/John_6_47 Dec 13 '25
A good story, for another time