A to Z Challenge: Stormtroopers

 Stormtroopers were the first Imperial troops ever shown.  They were in that very first scene of what became Episode IV when they were the troops who stormed the Rebel blockade runner.  And so there's a figure of them:

Then you have all the variations over the years because every movie has to have different troops.

Episode V had the Snowtroopers 

Episode VI had Biker Scouts and the Emperor's Royal Guard:

Plus you had the other assorted Imperial troops like TIE pilots, AT-AT drivers, Death Star troops, and whatever.

The prequels didn't really have any Stormtrooper-types until Episode II when the clone army was introduced.  The two prequel movies and Clone Wars series introduced a bunch of different troops, some of whom became regular characters with real names and personalities.  Captain Rex and a couple others were later in the Rebels series.

Episode VII introduced "The First Order" which had Stormtroopers who were largely the same, only maybe a little more streamlined.  Finn was of course a Stormtrooper who defected, and later so was Jannah and the others on that one planet.  The Stormtroopers were led by Captain Phasma in the first two movies--I got the Phasma figure from Ollie's in Saginaw a couple years ago.

Episode IX introduced "Sith Troopers" who were basically First Order troops only with red armor.  I got one of those from Meijer in Wixom on clearance.

And there have been other troops in Rogue One, Solo, The Mandalorian, and various video games.

There were a couple of funny ones they made for the holidays with a Stormtrooper and Snowtrooper recolored in holiday colors:

By now there have probably been more troopers in Star Wars than were in COBRA on GI JOE.