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20. Chewbacca
 Chewbacca is always a favourite amongst youngerStar Wars fans. He's not for us. He often comes across as captious and puerile, moaning at the smallest of perceived slights, and crying at the tasks handed to him by Han. Nonetheless, Chewbacca defines much of what Star Wars is about; A character of pure imagination with more hair than a girl from Woodstock and more personality than a late night TV show host, in other words, an always unique character that would be remembered for a long time to come. Chewbacca is always a main character throughout the star wars series, most of the time as the sidekick of Han Solo. While Chewbacca seems to bitch at everything that Han wants him to do, he eventually finishes his tasks set to him. Chewbacca while not being the most efficient of star wars creatures, makes up for his laziness in his momentary anger where he is always willing to defend his master to the death, and even pick up the broken parts of a friend droid, exemplifying a big inner heart to match the actual physical size of this beast. Chewbacca's trademark roar has been parodied by everything in modern TV culture from Peter in "Family Guy", to the late infamous "Tourettes Guy" which you can find on Youtube when in need of a laugh at the expense of others. Love him or loathe him, Star Wars would not be Star Wars without Chewbacca. For a time, he is everyone's favourite character, until the time when one has to prove his Star Wars nerdhood by appreciating much smaller lesser-known characters, like Wuher the bartender.
19. Wuhr "the Bartender"
18. Wicket the Ewok
 Wuher was "The Bartender" who worked on Tatooine who we meet when Luke and Obi-Wan look to have a couple minutes of repose in the local slimy bar. This bar was full of the worst of the planetary thugs smoking their outer space haze and drinking only the most average alcohol from Wuher. Wuher had a strong command of his bar which we see when Luke and Obi try to enter into the bar with R2D2 and C3PO. We all remember the fastidious roar of Wuher when he says "Hey! We don't serve their kind here!", referring to his inexorable rules of having no droids in his bar. Even the Jedi and the Jedi in training follow the rules of the supreme bartender. Wuher, also showed a blithe placidity, when he witnessed a fight between Luke and a Patron where the Patron carpingly bothered Luke by saying "I don't like you!", "He doesn't like you!" "NOBODY LIKES YOU!" eventually much to the dismay and life of the patron. All this happened without any attrition to Wuher. After the fight scene, Wuher continues making drinks and the bar follows suit in their voluptuous activities. On that same day, Han kills a bounty hunter after himself in Wuhers bar, with not the slightest of disturbance in the mood of the bar. Wuher owned his precinct. People would dilapidate and face threats throughout the long hours of the bar's work week. For Wuher, there was only one rule for his bar. NO DROIDS ALLOWED! 
17. Greedo
 Greedo like Boba Fett, was a bounty hunter after Han Solo's life who we meet for approximately 1 minute in "A New Hope". So why is he in our top 20 list of Star Wars characters of all time? Is it because he looks like squalid space alien that would serve as the best Halloween costume on the block? No. Is it because his suction cup fingers prove once again to be an overpowering afflatus on the Star Wars maker's parts? Wrong again. Greedo is in our list because he is the first character to make Han Solo look cool. We all remember Greedo telling Han to pay up…or else, much to Hans chagrin, and eventually to Greedo's life as Han pulls out his gun from underneath the table and shoots Greedo causing a state of calamite, just for a moment (remember, we're in Wuher's bar now where this stuff happens all the time). Greedo gives Han his first appearance as a swarthy outer space thug who would not put up with all the bounty's after his life. Han will eventually pay the parsimonious Jabba, but if you try to rush him, you will suffer Greedo's fate. Much controversy would follow this scene as we see from the 1997 re-release of the film where Greedo shoots a missed shot at Han first, much to the dismay of Star Wars nerds around the world. Cries of "sell out" could be heard on Star Wars message boards across the web. The SW nerds liked their Han as he was, which means a once germinal licentious thug who would slowly become much more affable and good natured throughout the series. Greedo was the character to start Han's development from his abject roots.
16. Admiral Akbar
 Admiral Akbar was another impressive character only possible in the imagination of Lucas and the Star Wars creators. We first meet this heroic fish in "Return of the Jedi" as the commander of the allied forces in their fight to extirpate the almost-rebuilt Death Star. Akbar embodied the leadership qualities and spirited rhetoric of a Winston Churchill, while maintaining a uniqueness only reserved to a "fish out of the water". Akbar is clearly most popular in the obsessive Star Wars fan circles, especially with his unforgettable quotes throughout Return of Jedi like "Our cruisers can't repel firepower of that magnitude!" said with the type of urgency that made viewers believe that they were in the battle themselves. Akbar, while seeming overtly intense in the actual battle itself, proved to be equally placid in times before and after the battle where we witness the eruditic fish in modes of absolute philosophical repose. Admiral Akbar, like many characters in the Star Wars series epitomized someone that everyone could aspire too, regardless of species and respitory systems. He would go on to have his fame augmented in subsequent novels in the Star Wars series, but more than anywhere, Akbar was first and foremost known for his quality of character shown in The Return of the Jedi. "All craft, prepare to jump into hyperspace on my mark!"
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