C-3PO character on "Sesame Street" episodes 1364 and 1396 (along with R2-D2). Daniels initially did not agree to be cast as C-3PO but changed his mind after reading C-3PO's part in the script and seeing a concept painting by Ralph McQuarrie, who based his early design largely on Walter Schulze-Mittendorff's "Maschinenmensch" from the celebrated Fritz Lang film "Metropolis". Daniels appeared as C-3PO at the 50th Academy Awards in 1978 and 88th Academy Awards in 2016. During the development of "", C-3PO's left arm has been replaced with a red arm. The circumstances that caused it is told in Marvel's one-shot Star
C-3PO childhood friends of Anakin Skywalker. With their help C-3PO and the others discover Shmi's diary, whereof Leia remarks that the droid described reminds her of C-3PO. The code is eventually found and destroyed. In "Dark Force Rising", C-3PO goes to Honoghr with Leia during the Thrawn Crisis to discover what had caused the plight of the Noghri. He is forced to hide with Leia and Chewbacca when Imperial forces arrive overhead, but he later returns with Leia to Coruscant, where she gives birth to Jaina and Jacen Solo. He serves as caretaker to the twins, and later Anakin Solo as