Tag and Bink

Tag Greenley and Bink Otauna
Star Wars characters
Star Wars: Tag & Bink Are Dead #1 (October 2001)
First appearance	Legends: Tag & Bink Are Dead (2001) Canon: Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
Created by	Kevin Rubio
Portrayed by	Jon Kasdan, Toby Hefferman
In-universe information
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Rebel Alliance, Galactic Empire, Jedi Order
Homeworld	Alderaan, Corellia

Tag and Bink are the main characters in a Star Wars spoof series of comic books by Kevin Rubio. Tag is from the planet Corellia and Bink is from Alderaan. The two first meet when they are found to have Force potential. The comics illustrate how these two Jedi in training haphazardly cause all the pivotal events in the Star Wars universe. Like other Star Wars comics of the time, Tag and Bink was published by Dark Horse Comics, the holder of Star Wars-licence from early 1990s (taken over from Marvel Comics). The whole Tag and Bink series was collected in Tag & Bink Were Here.

Tag and Bink are the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern of the Star Wars universe, a pair of minor characters who deliberately or accidentally influence the events seen in the first and second film trilogies. Their meddling also explains some of the inconsistent and illogical events of the series. In fact, the title of their initial appearance — Tag and Bink Are Dead — is a direct reference to the Tom Stoppard play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

Tag and Bink will make their official cinematic debut in the 2018 film Solo: A Star Wars Story, portrayed by Jon Kasdan and Toby Hefferman. In a Reddit AMA in October 2017, Kevin Rubio supported the fan theory stating that the two stormtroopers who back up to avoid the wrath of Kylo Ren following him discovering Rey has escaped in Star Wars: The Force Awakens are an elderly Tag and Bink.

Appearances

Comics

Tag and Bink Are Dead (#1)

Tag and Bink are two soldiers aboard the Rebellion flagship Tantive IV when the Star Destroyer Devastator captures it. After almost being captured, they dress up as stormtroopers and are transported to the Death Star. They try to leave by stealing TIE fighters... twice. Darth Vader realizes his need for two TIE pilots as wingmen for his fight against the Rebel starfighters attacking the space station. As the comic illustrates, it is not the Millennium Falcon's fault that Vader is almost killed in the trenches of the Death Star, but due to Tag and Bink's lousy piloting.

Although the two TIE fighters they appeared to be in were destroyed, the next comic states they were in fact in the background when Vader selected two pilots, and that they stole an Imperial landing craft and escaped from the Death Star moments before it exploded.

Tag and Bink Are Dead (#2) and The Return of Tag and Bink

The adventures of Tag and Bink continue as they venture through the events of the Star Wars original trilogy, meeting up with allies such as Lando Calrissian, and villains such as Boba Fett and Emperor Palpatine. Tag and Bink eventually find themselves trapped on the second Death Star dressed as the Emperor's Royal Guards. After the confrontation between Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader, the Rebels destroy the space station, killing Tag and Bink in the process (hence the title). Tag and Bink live on as Force ghosts.

Tag and Bink: Revenge of the Clone Menace

Main article: Tag and Bink: Revenge of the Clone Menace

This issue is a prequel to the previous Tag and Bink Are Dead issues. Tag and Bink are shown as children, haplessly trying to become Jedi under Master Yoda's tutelage. They find Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala in a restaurant, as seen in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, and later secretly gives tips to Anakin on how to romance Padmé. Anakin eventually leaves Tag and Bink stranded on Naboo when he goes to Tatooine. It takes them three years to get back to the Jedi Temple, just in time to see clone troopers destroy the Jedi Order. They are confronted by Anakin, newly rechristened Darth Vader; he spares them due to their past association, but warns them abandon their Jedi training. They do so. Tag and Bink Are Dead takes place about 20 years later.

Film

In October 2017, director Ron Howard suggested he might use the characters in his upcoming film, Solo: A Star Wars Story, which will be released on May 25, 2018. It was later confirmed that the film's screenwriter Jon Kasdan and first assistant director Toby Hefferman will portray Tag and Bink in the film.