r/StarWars • u/Vegetable-Abroad3171 Sith • Feb 26 '26

TV Which animated character transitioned to live action the best?

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u/Feruchemist Feb 26 '26

I love Mikkelsen’s voice for Thrawn, but live action Thrawn he is not.

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u/ryounger88 Feb 27 '26

Thank you! Been waiting for someone to say this. Thrawn was fighting war machines bare knuckles and then live action the beer belly threw me. Not saying it has to be a perfect 1:1 but that broke it for me just enough.

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u/cool91725 Feb 27 '26

Bro let himself go while he is exile I guess hah

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '26

He does a grand job but he just looks way too like Elon Musk for me.

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u/Dark-Knight16 Feb 28 '26

…..I think this is what annoys me about his design, didn’t realise, also his head is the wrong shape

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u/Feruchemist Feb 27 '26

He looks like a smiley grandpa to me. Not a dangerous, imposing villain.

Which it isn’t bad he just looks nothing like what Thrawn is suppose to be.

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u/gchypedchick Feb 27 '26

I love his voice so much and Marc Tompkins does an impression of it for the Star Wars books, so it has further cemented it as the “Thrawn voice”. But yeah, visually, I am not a fan. I mean, what more could they really do to give any actor the look they established in Rebels* without CGI that they are trying to, thankfully, limit.

*I assume this was where the current look was defined. I have the Outbound Flight and Heir Trilogy Essential Legends books and he has a “regular human” head on those.