Ozymandius
Sr Member
From a design perspective that doesn't work. Everywhere else on the helmet they have stripped away detail and cleaned all the lines to present a minimalist aesthetic. Stuffing the mouthpiece and mic tips underneath the chin would then run counter to the overall design and clash with the clean lines they have created. It would be the equivalent of sticking a big rotary dial onto the bottom of an Iphone with the logic of "Well, it's a phone so it has to have a dial."
Again, when you look at it from a design perspective, they are clearly meant to reflect one another. Instead of the rolling profile of the OT Stormtrooper, both the chrome trooper and Neo Trooper (my term) have the same flattened profile wherein the face is presented as a single, smooth plain broken only by lines of a contrasting color. That is a form language that is clearly meant to show shared parentage, ie, the same company made both of them. Therefore it is reasonable to extrapolate that if they are using the same form language then what is inherent in one helmet design will be reflected at least to some degree in the other.
They did the same thing with the Original Trilogy. Vader, the Stormtroopers, and most every other bit of helmet and armor were designed to show a similar parentage by reflecting the same Samurai-esque appearance. Vader I think is pretty obvious what with the flared helmet and mask, but if you compare the OT Stormtrooper with a Japanese demon mask you will see the same rolling profile of exaggerated forms.
