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TIL in the original Star Wars Trilogy, despite being told by Luke to 'stay on the ship', R2D2 never follows his commands. Later, in the prequel trilogy, the last thing Anakin says to R2D2 was to stay on the ship, which he does. Never seeing Anakin again.

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