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No One Beats Plot Armor: Star Wars' Most USELESS 'Invincible' Materials

Beskar can stop blaster fire, explosions, even lightsabers—but you know what it can't stop? Being an important character.And look, I'm not here to lecture you about fictional metals. You already know this. You've been screaming it in comment sections for twenty years. Every time someone posts a video about how incredible beskar is, how revolutionary Phrik alloy was, how the Dark Troopers were basically unkillable murder machines—you're already typing the same thing."Then why did Luke cut through them like butter?"You're right. You've always been right. And today, we're going to prosecute this case properly—starting with the most egregious offenders in Star Wars history. The machines that were hyped as unstoppable, built from lightsaber-resistant alloys, and presented as the ultimate Imperial weapon.The Dark Troopers.These walking nightmares have a history that stretches back further than most fans realize. Before The Mandalorian. Before Disney. Before the Expanded Universe got rebranded as Legends and shoved into a corner. The Dark Trooper program was born in 1995, in a video game called Star Wars: Dark Forces, and the story of their creation tells you everything you need to know about how Star Wars treats "invincible" materials.General Rom Mohc was the mastermind. An Imperial officer who looked at the Empire's military doctrine and saw a fundamental weakness: stormtroopers were squishy. They died in droves. The armor they wore—that iconic white plastoid composite—offered about as much protection as a philosophical suggestion. Blaster bolts punched through it. Rocks thrown by teddy bears apparently defeated it. The Empire's endless supply of soldiers only mattered because they needed an endless supply; the survival rate was embarrassing for a galactic superpower.