Admiral Ackbar

Admiral Ackbar is a fictional character in the Star Wars movies and novels.

Admiral Ackbar is of the aquatic alien race Mon Calamari. He was perhaps the finest military commander in the service of the Rebel Alliance and the New Republic. He led the attack on the second Death Star at Endor from the flagship Mon Calamari Crusier, Home One. However, unlike many career officers he was unable to properly play the political game, relying on his trusted friend Mon Mothma to cover him. When Mon Mothma retired from political service, Admiral Ackbar found severe difficulties in facing the political realities of high command.

He was, for a time, enslaved to Grand Moff Tarkin, where it appeared that he learned much about the art and skill of command. Rebel forces later rescued him and he swiftly rose through the ranks, designing the Alliance B-Wing fighter along the way. In terms of tactics, he is most well-known for his audacious, close-range assaults first seen at the Battle of Endor. He fought numerous campaigns against the Galactic Empire, and numerous splinter warlord groups. He retired some time after peace was signed with the Imperial Remnant.

When the Yuuzhan Vong invasion came, he pulled himself out of retirement to plan a trap against those forces in the Deep Core. That plan was highly successful and did much to restore morale after the losses in the invasion. In the New Jedi Order, Admiral Ackbar died during the Yuuzhan Vong invasion of natural causes, only days before the conflict's resolution.

Admiral Ackbar had several accomplishments that have not been equalled, including the defeat of two Imperial Grand Admirals. The only one to ever best him in combat was Grand Admiral Thrawn.

For SomethingAwful.com and Fark.com users, Ackbar has risen to level of Photoshop cliché, often used with the phrase "It's a trap!" or a variation thereof. The basis for this cliché is "Next time you watch Return of the Jedi, note that all Ackbar wants to do, from the minute the assault on the Death Star begins, is leave." The cliché was overused severely, and today any attempts to use it are considered sorely lacking in humour and ridiculed, much like most other Photoshop fads.