re: Second Star Wars Standalone Film Rumored To Be A Boba Fett Origin Story

A lot of people attribute the character's popularity to looking cool and toys

It certainly helps that he looks cool, but why? He's essentially the Star Wars version of Clint Eastwood from the dollars trilogy. He has scuff marks and bullet holes all over his cool looking costume and he has the half cape that's kind of raggedy and torn (like Clint wastwood's poncho) you'll notice he even cradles his rifle like one of the bad guys in an old western

We're never given his name in empire, we don't see his face, we know nothing about him (and we don't need to) Vader seems to have a respect for him that he doesn't have for his officers or the other bounty hunters. He doesn't talk down to him, he treats him like a #2 man. "No disentigrations" and he points only at boba fett...as if this horrible option is either exclusive to him or he's such a bad motherfricker he's the only one who needs to be told this

Character development is essential to empire, but with all of the strong characters the ironic thing is that boba fett sticks out because he's an enigma, and it makes him dangerous because we have visual clues as to him being a bad motherfricker, but to what degree? It's left to our imagination