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Hi guys! I'm hoping to bring back the "It's a trap"(!) page due to it's popular use in Star Wars works (Precedent: Hello there, I have a bad feeling about this) and the page technically being deleted in Forum:TC:Notable lines in Star Wars (Second Nomination). The star wars youtube channel has even made a compilation of times where it was said

Uses (that i've found so far):

There are other episodes that use similar variants that are included in the compilation such as Destroy Malevolence, The Hidden Enemy, and Crisis on Coruscant, but i'm note sure these should count

this is all the uses cases I can find at the moment of but i'm sure I will find more and obviously we can add more as we go along and find them.

RocketLaunchJr1 Ever been to Ghorman? 01:27, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

Allow page creation

  1. RocketLaunchJr1 Ever been to Ghorman? 01:27, 18 December 2025 (UTC)
  2. I fully understand that same people may feel this is a slippery slope, but I do not think that. It's a Trap was the original Hello There. This is not your average meme, but something that earned a life of its own Editoronthewiki (talk) 01:36, 18 December 2025 (UTC)
  3. The Mandalorian Chapter 19 has "It was a trap" btw. あざした (talk) 01:44, 18 December 2025 (UTC)
  4. Been used in a number of places, and extremely well-known in the fandom. Having pages for other meme-quotes might be iffy but I think the amount of usage is enough for this one. Rsand 30 (talk) 01:58, 18 December 2025 (UTC)
  5. We need to start getting more useful to the reader and cover more of the phrases recurring throughout Star Wars. Imperators II(Talk) 07:53, 18 December 2025 (UTC)
  6. Commander Code-8 Hello There! 11:42, 18 December 2025 (UTC)
  7. OOM 224 12:06, 18 December 2025 (UTC)
  8. Rakhsh (talk) 12:54, 18 December 2025 (UTC)
  9. I believe all of the most frequently reoccurring Star Wars phrases should have their own pages. StarWarsFan327Talk 14:23, 18 December 2025 (UTC)
  10. Mor9347 ForPipadaLogo-UserImage (Talk) 15:59, 18 December 2025 (UTC)
  11. SaintSirNicholas (talk) 22:42, 18 December 2025 (UTC)
  12. JMAS Jolly Trooper Hey, it's me! 22:47, 18 December 2025 (UTC)
  13. Elijah Palmer (talk) 02:37, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

Keep "It's a Trap!" redirected to Gial Ackbar

Comments

  • I went into the history of the original page and pulled the trap section. NBDani TeamFireballLogo-Collider(they/them)Yeager's Repairs 19:19, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

"It's a trap!"

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Listen to Admiral Ackbar's line


This line first appears in The Empire Strikes Back when Princess Leia shouts it to Luke Skywalker in the corridors of Cloud City, warning him that his mission to travel there and save them from their suffering was instead a trap set by Darth Vader to capture Luke.

Nonetheless, its most famous appearance is in Return of the Jedi when the Rebel fleet discovers they've been lured into a trap by the Imperial fleet. In their attempt to launch a surprise attack against the second Death Star, they find that Han Solo has so far failed to disable the shield protecting the Death Star from the forest moon of Endor.

Lando Calrissian: "We've got to be able to get some reading on that shield, up or down…
Nien Nunb: "(Something in Sullustese)"
Lando: Well, how can they be jamming us if they don't know…if we're coming. Break off the attack! The shield is still up!"
Wedge Antilles: "I get no reading. Are you sure?"
Lando: "Pull up! All craft, pull up!"
Admiral Ackbar: "Take evasive action. Green Group, stay close to holding sector MD-7."
Mon Calamari crewmember: "Admiral, we have enemy ships, sector 47!"
Ackbar: "It's a trap!"

For Fark.com users in particular, the image of Ackbar delivering this line has risen to level of Photoshop cliché, and currently any attempts to use it are considered by some to be sorely lacking in humor. For other forum users they use a picture of a tarp and, instead of "It's a trap!", they say "It's a tarp!" It is also a popular "meme" on the image board 4chan. When it is believed that a picture of a woman posted on the site is that of a cross-dressing man or of a pre-op transexual, one or more users will more than likely post a picture of Admiral Ackbar captioned: "It's a trap!" The line is also ironically referenced several times in the video game Star Wars: Empire at War, with Admiral Ackbar and several other characters using variations of the phrase, "Watch out for traps," when selected.

Ackbar delivers a similar line in Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron when he says "We're trapped!" while in the hangar of a Star Destroyer during a mission to rescue him.

Ackbar nearly repeats his line in the novel Dark Apprentice. During an attack by Daala's forces, he recognized the strategy she was using and utilized an under-construction Mon Cal cruiser to ram her third star destroyer, lying in wait behind the moon. He explained this course of action to Leia, saying, "It is a trap."

The line also appears in Ewoks 2: Rites of Power. Teebo, who has been captured by Zorbian space pirates, is about to be rescued by the other Ewoks. But when they go to untie him, he warns them, a moment too late, that "IT'S A TRAP!"

Also, in the Robot Chicken: Star Wars special, Ackbar, in promotion of his cereal, bursts in on two children eating oatmeal. He slaps both of their bowls off the table while shouting, "It's a trap!"

Jaina Solo, during a conversation with Mara Jade Skywalker, referencing the line by stating "It is, as a certain Admiral said, a trap..."