They’re other ships of the same design line, most of them larger than the Tyderium-type. Presumably they’re made by the same company that made the shuttles seen in Jedi and also the T-16 Skyhopper which seems to also share design elements. You might as well be asking why BMW makes a 3 series, 5 series, 7 series, etc…

It’s very much a cross between this and a snowspeeder from ESB. And considering the Buck Rogers ship is also a MacQuarrie design, it fits. He did all the designs for Star Wars, Buck Rogers, and original Battlestar Galactica, which is a major reason why the basic technology style seems similar across all three…

No need for heat shielding when:

* They don’t have to conserve limited fuel from weak rocket engines and thus don’t have any need to utilize orbital mechanics that require short burns to slow down just enough to come down in a parabolic arc at near orbital velocity. They have more than enough fuel and power to just…

One of them just said “my favorite food is the souls of children” LOL

You want her to dress up as a Breen from Star Trek? :P

Thor doesn’t fly. His hammer flies, and he holds on to it. The hammer is a hyper-advanced piece of technology whose capabilities are so extraordinary they are akin to magic.

I don’t have enough stars to give this comment. I’m so very glad someone else gets it, I’m so sick of the “ZOMG it’s an attractive female so it’s sexist misogynist objectification and if you disagree you’re a vile MRA troll who needs to go back to jacking off in the basement!” crap from what passes for the feminist…

What the hell is a “Ganbgang”?

This is why I objected to Jon Boyega as a black stormtrooper —the racist facist Empire / First Order wouldn’t allow that. My reaction was “wait, what? Since when did the evil fascists become multi-ethnic and inclusive? Last I checked they were a white human supremacist organization. Diversity is the Rebels thing.”

“Ralph Macchio might have been the hero...but in any semblance of real life, all the crane poses in the world wouldn’t stop that blonde goober from kicking his ass”

I’m just going to leave this here ...

Unicorn dream was added years later, with the footage taken from the film Legend. It wasn’t part of the original Blade Runner at all.

Except that’s a retcon. Lucas said Greedo shot first, and fans don’t accept that either.

It’s been a while since I saw it, but as I remember it they didn’t know for sure. Her lifespan was unknown, she could go tomorrow or three weeks from now or three years or live a full human lifespan or even more, they just didn’t know. So the decision Deckard made was to take the chance and live with her as long as…

They are supported by the fact that the unicorn scene was lifted entirely from the film Legend made several years later and inserted into the director’s cuts on video as if it was a deleted scene, which it wasn’t.

Except Ridley Scott is a liar. The “unicorn daydream” was NOT in the original movie, at ALL. It wasn’t a deleted scene that was part of the director’s original vision, it was a retcon made years after the fact. That sequence wasn’t filmed until years later, and not even for that movie. The unicorn footage came from…

The trope is rather out of hand, though as you said it’s more acceptable to some degree in comedy but really it’s overstayed it’s welcome in my opinion.

The concept was done to death long ago, and received what I’d call a death blow via extreme parody in Bludgeoning Angel Dokoru-chan. It depicted one of these…

One of the humorous slogans printed on buttons and bumper stickers at nerd cons some years back used to be “If AT&T is not the evil empire, why do they use the Death Star as their corporate logo?”.

That joke was better than the “film”.

Unless they’re cats with special collars that allow them to exert telekinesis, and then it’s just confusing because nobody can figure out how they built the collars in the first place without the collars OR opposable thumbs.