Water pistol

For other uses, see water.

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"The battle is won, so I'm leaving. TK-332, you're in charge now. I'm confident you can handle it."
"But all I have is this water pistol, and I'm out of water!"

―Darth Vader and TK-332^[4]

Water pistols, also known as water blasters, were a variety of gun that fired water. They came in a variety of colors and sizes. Some water pistols, such as a number in use on the planet Tatooine, were used by younglings as toys. Water pistols could also, however, be equipped as weaponry; on one occasion, the rebel Luke Skywalker used a water pistol to hinder the droid bounty hunter IG-88. On another occasion, a group of stormtroopers on the planet Mohan—among them Stormtrooper Commander TK-332—were equipped with water pistols during a battle on the planet, and the inappropriate form of weaponry ended up costing their forces the battle.

Description

Water pistols, also referred to as water blasters,^[3] were a type of toy gun that fired water. Larger variants utilized as toys were multicolored, with blue, white, lime, and orange parts.^[1] Smaller variants, which could be equipped as weaponry, could have a reddish-purple^[3] or orange coloration. They were capable of incapacitating droids.^[2]

History

"While you were gone, rebel support forces arrived and our troops failed to repel the attack, their water blasters proving useless."

―Darth Sidious, to Darth Vader^[5]

TK-332 (pictured) was equipped only with a water pistol while on Mohan.

Between 1 BBY and 4 ABY,^[6] during the Galactic Civil War between the Galactic Empire and the Alliance to Restore the Republic, several stormtroopers wielded water pistols during a battle on the planet Mohan. After the Imperial forces had ostensibly emerged victorious,^[3] the Sith Lord^[7] Darth Vader placed Stormtrooper Commander TK-332 in charge, prompting them to complain that they did not wish to be on "Team Vader" due to their now-depleted water pistol. Nonetheless, Vader departed and reported the Empire's "victory" on Mohan to^[3] his Sith Master,^[7] Darth Sidious. Sidious informed Vader the battle had actually been a loss for the Empire, revealing that, after Vader's departure, the stormtroopers' water pistols rendered them incapable of holding off a rebel counterattack.^[3]

Luke Skywalker dispatches IG-88 with a water pistol.

At another point during the Galactic Civil War^[2]—between 0 BBY and 4 ABY^[6]—Vader reported a recent failed attempt at capturing the rebel Luke Skywalker to Sidious. Vader reported he had hired the assassin droid bounty hunter IG-88 to capture Skywalker, who foiled the attempt by rendering the droid inoperable with a water pistol. Out of anger toward IG-88's—and, by extension, Vader's—failure, Sidious sprayed Vader with a water pistol as well.^[2]

A group of younglings in Mos Eisley^[1] spaceport on the planet^[7] Tatooine played with water pistols^[1] around 9 ABY,^[8] but the water in them ran out alongside much of the spaceport's water. Soon afterward,^[1] Daimyo^[7] Boba Fett^[1] and assassin^[7] Fennec Shand delivered several blocks of ice to Mos Eisley via Fett's ship,^[1] the Slave I,^[9] providing the younglings and townsfolk with a new source of water. As the townsfolk celebrated, one youngling ran up to Fett, sprayed^[1] him^[9] in the face, then ran away.^[1]