The original actor who portrayed a human Jabba the Hutt in Star Wars has been made canon. For many years, the existence of a human version of Jabba the Hutt was a relatively deep cut, as the original iteration of Star Wars has been famously lost with time.
When the saga was rereleased, George Lucas reincorporated the deleted scene featuring actor Declan Mulholland in the role of the gangster. At the time, Lucas hadn't conceptualized the large slug that fans know today. Since the scene was reincorporated into the film, the crime boss was covered by a CG version of Jabba from Return of the Jedi.
Leading a group known as the Dark Syndicate, the man who resembles the first iteration of Jabba seems to be a crime lord in his second life as well. A few Imperial shots happened to hit our hull. Jabba said there would be no bargain, keeping the droids anyway. Soon, a bounty hunter called Boushh appeared, a captive Chewbacca in tow, looking to collect on the Wookiee. The crime lord offered 35, credits, and all seemed well. Later that night, however, Boushh stealthily unfroze Han; as it turned out, the masked infiltrator was Princess Leia , the love of the captured Rebel.
He knew it was Leia all along, and took her captive, as well. A powerful Jedi, Luke defeated the rancor to the shock of all watching. In anger, Jabba took the small band of Rebels to the desert, where he planned to feed them to the Sarlacc -- a sand-dwelling creature that would eat and digest them over a thousand years. Skip Navigation Disney. Log In. Show More Loading My Kind of Scum In Jabba's Palace, the bounty hunter Boushh demands double the reward for Chewbacca and holds an armed thermal detonator to show he's serious.
I Know That Laugh. Jabba Desilijic Tiure , more commonly referred to as Jabba the Hutt or simply Jabba , and formally styled as His Excellency Jabba Desilijic Tiure of Nal Hutta, Eminence of Tatooine , was a Hutt gangster and crime lord , as well as a leading member of the Grand Hutt Council and influential leader of the Hutt Clan , who operated and led a criminal empire from his palace on the Outer Rim world of Tatooine.
Jabba was a major figure on Tatooine, where he controlled the bulk of the piracy , slavery , and trafficking in illegal goods that generated most of the planet's wealth. He was also highly influential in the entire Outer Rim as one of its most powerful crime lords. During the Clone Wars , Jabba's influence and power over the Outer Rim, specifically its hyperlanes , was sought by both the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems , who both courted Jabba's approval.
When Rotta , Jabba's son, was kidnapped, the crime lord promised his support to whoever returned his son. When the Separatists were revealed to have orchestrated Rotta's kidnapping, Jabba pledged his support to the Republic.
Jabba continued to operate in the Outer Rim after the end of the Clone Wars and the rise of the Galactic Empire , preserving his power base, despite the interference of Darth Sidious , the Galactic Emperor. After the destruction of the Death Star by the Rebel Alliance , the Emperor sent Darth Vader to negotiate a deal with Jabba to secure raw materials for Imperial military production. Jabba's alliance with the Empire allowed him and the Hutts to survive the Imperial crackdown against criminal elements in the Outer Rim, as well as rid the Hutt of his competitors.
After the smuggler Han Solo failed to repay him for lost cargo, Jabba placed a high price on his head. Solo was eventually delivered to him by one of his bounty hunters , Boba Fett , as a gift from Darth Vader.
However, this capture brought him to the attention of Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker , who sought to rescue his friend from Jabba's imprisonment.
With the Hutts unable to decide who would inherit Jabba's criminal ventures, many of his slaves, including the Niktos , were free, and his palace was abandoned after the droid pool was deactivated.
Several centuries before the Galactic Civil War , he became the reigning crime lord in the Outer Rim , owning several criminal enterprises which included smuggling, glitterstim spice dealing, slave trading, assassination and piracy.
As a result of his collaboration with the Crymorah, he gained a position on the Grand Hutt Council. His operations grew to include slavery, arms dealing, spice smuggling, and gambling.
Gambling was a prominent feature of the Mos Espa Grand Arena , where Jabba built grandstands from which he could control the gambling and concessions during podraces. Shortly after the start of the Invasion of Naboo , Jabba presided over the Boonta Eve Classic podrace, where his entrance in the stands was greeted with cheers from the spectators who came to watch the race from all corners of the Outer Rim Territories.
Jabba signaled the start of the race, and the podracers began their laps, at the end of which Anakin Skywalker , a young slave from Mos Espa , emerged victorious. Jabba had to be awoken after falling asleep during the race, [17] as podracing did not interest him—aside from the gambling involved. Ten years after the Naboo Crisis, [18] the galaxy was plunged into the chaos of the Clone Wars , a massive galactic conflict between the Grand Army of the Republic and the droid armies of the Confederacy of Independent Systems.
Shortly after the outbreak of the war, Jabba's infant son, Rotta , was kidnapped. Though Jabba did not know who the kidnapper was, it was carried out by his uncle, Ziro, and the Separatist Alliance, both of whom had their own schemes at play. Jabba requested the assistance of anyone who could help, and the Republic and the Jedi Order answered the call. It was the hope of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine that the Republic would be able to negotiate an alliance with Jabba for use of Hutt hyperspace lanes in the Outer Rim, as the Separatists controlled the major lanes.
While the Jedi Master was en route, Jabba was presented with the heads of bounty hunters he had sent to Teth to find his son. Infuriated by the lack of progress, Jabba contacted Chancellor Palpatine and, through his translator droid, TC , demanded to know why the Jedi were not searching for his son.
The chancellor assured the crime lord that the Jedi were on their way, of which Jabba said the treaty with him depended on. Kenobi soon arrived at Jabba's Palace and was taken before the Hutt's court. Kenobi told Jabba that Skywalker, who he described as one of the Order's most powerful Jedi, was on his way to Teth to rescue Rotta and that the Jedi would not let the Hutt down. Jabba attached one additional condition to the proposed treaty—that the Jedi deliver him the kidnapper as well, dead or alive.
Jabba also leveled a threat against the Jedi: if they did not succeed, the Separatist leader Count Dooku and the Separatist Droid Army would—still not knowing that Dooku himself was behind the kidnapping, in a plot to turn the Hutt Clan into an enemy of the Republic. Kenobi departed the palace, which was followed by the arrival of Count Dooku himself. Jabba demanded proof, which Dooku delivered in the form of a manipulated holographic recording allegedly showing Skywalker and Tano, who had found Rotta on Teth, harming the child, when in reality they were caring for it after he had fallen ill.
Dooku told the crime lord that the Separatist Droid Army was initiating a rescue mission and would soon deliver the Huttlet to his father. All Dooku asked in return was that Jabba join the Separatist cause. Dooku's Sith acolyte, Asajj Ventress , contacted the count, who played her message in front of Jabba and his court. Ventress claimed that Skywalker killed Rotta and was on his way to Tatooine. Jabba questioned why the Jedi would come to Tatooine, to which Dooku said that the Jedi plot had become clear and that Skywalker would soon arrive to kill the crime lord and wipe out the entire Hutt Clan.
Dooku promised Jabba that he would personally deal with Skywalker and, despite fighting the Jedi Knight in a lightsaber duel in the desert, Skywalker managed to reach Jabba's Palace. Once there, Skywalker found that Tano, who had Rotta and from whom he had become separated, had not yet reached the palace. Jabba's henchmen drew their weapons on Skywalker, so the Jedi Knight drew his lightsaber and pointed it at Jabba—seemingly confirming Dooku's claims. Jabba said that this was proof that Skywalker had arrived to kill him, but the Jedi said he had only come to negotiate.
Just as Jabba's henchmen prepared to kill Skywalker, Tano arrived and delivered Rotta to his father. Despite the happy reunion with his son, Jabba ordered Skywalker and Tano's execution due to believing they kindapped the kid. Ziro entered the holographic transmission and admitted to conspiring with Dooku to kidnap Rotta and frame the Jedi, so Jabba told the senator that the Hutt Clan would severely punish Ziro.
Amidala asked him if the hostilities between Jabba and the Jedi could cease and if he would open his hyperspace lanes to the Republic, to which Jabba agreed.
The two sides signed a treaty allowing the Grand Army of the Republic through Jabba's territories, a decision Amidala assured him he would not regret. Grand Master Yoda and clone forces soon arrived at Jabba's Palace, signaling a new era of cooperation between the Republic and Jabba the Hutt.
The chairman was able to reason with the Hutt crime lord, who, like Papanoida, knew all too well what it was like to have his child taken from him. Greedo insisted that he was not responsible, but Jabba allowed a blood sample to be taken from his bounty hunter so it could be compared to blood found at the scene of the crime.
Greedo admitted to kidnapping the chairman's daughters at the behest of the Separatists, who wanted leverage against the Pantorans, and Papanoida was soon reunited with his children.
Shortly thereafter, the Grand Hutt Council became concerned that Ziro, who was in Galactic Republic custody, was planning on turning over incriminating evidence about the council's illicit activity, as the imprisoned Hutt had a journal secretly hidden on Teth that contained the evidence. Jabba hired bounty hunter Cad Bane to free Ziro from prison, [8] so he could be imprisoned by the Hutt Clan instead. Chancellor Palpatine refused the demands, but Palpatine soon changed his mind and allowed Ziro to be freed.
Gardulla Besadii the Elder instead acted as a representative. Jabba instead planned Ziro's elimination. He hired Ziro's old girlfriend, the singer Sy Snootles , to find the records and eliminate Ziro. Snootles freed Ziro from his imprisonment and tricked him into believing that she was on his side, so he brought her to Teth where he planned to recover his records.
Once there, however, Snootles killed the crime lord and brought the records to Jabba, who expressed his gratitude for her work. Jabba Desilijic Tiure later found himself roped into the schemes of Maul , a renegade Sith Lord who hoped to regain the status he lost after his defeat during the Battle of Naboo over a decade earlier.
As part of his plan, Maul formed the Shadow Collective , an alliance between the Mandalorian faction Death Watch and various elements from the criminal underworld, including Black Sun and the Pyke Syndicate. Their goal was to take over the planet Mandalore. Despite their combined might, the Shadow Collective still required additional resources, including muscle and supplies, to achieve their goal. To find these resources, they went before the Grand Hutt Council to negotiate an alliance between the Hutt Clan and the Shadow Collective.
Maul, his brother Savage Opress , and Death Watch leader Pre Vizsla met with the Hutt leaders, where Maul negotiated the terms and conditions of the alliance with Jabba himself. The Hutts wanted to know what they could offer and how much their assistance was worth. Maul proposed an exchange: in return for Hutt Space and everything in its borders, he would spare their lives. Jabba and the Council were dismissive of Maul's threats, which resulted in a skirmish between the Shadow Collective and the Grand Hutt Council's forces.
Maul, Opress, and Vizsla fought off various enforcers and bounty hunters, until their Death Watch reinforcements arrived. With the additional troops, Maul, Vizsla and Opress were able to rout the enemy forces and secure a victory.
Jabba is forced into joining the Shadow Collective, though the alliance would not last for long. Although the Collective was triumphant, the ensuing conflict and chaos allowed all but one Hutt to escape— Oruba.
Maul interrogated Oruba, threatening to kill him unless he revealed where the others had escaped to.
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