About

Imperial Droid C2-B5 is an astromech robot in the upcoming Star Wars film Rogue One, which resembles a black-plated version of the droid R2-D2 from previous Star Wars films.

Origin

On August 31st, 2016, the starwarsmovies Instagram feed posted a photograph of the C2-B5 (shown below). Within 24 hours, the post gained over 27,000 likes and 320 comments.

Spread

The same day, the Star Wars Show released a episode on YouTube featuring the newly revealed robot (shown below). Meanwhile, Redditor 1080TJ submitted the photo to /r/StarWarsLeaks.^[8]

On September 1st, 2016, a thread about the droid was submitted to the /pol (politically incorrect) board on 4chan, where many joked about the character's black color (shown below).^[2] The same day, a page for the robot was created on the Disney Wiki.^[7]

Meanwhile, the IGN YouTube channel uploaded a first look at the new robot (shown below). In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the new droid character, including Yahoo!,^[3] Polygon, Hollywood Reporter and Looper.

Search Interest

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