History Characters / StarWarsTatooine

* CatchPhrase: '''"UTINNI!"''' This translates to "come on" or something to that effect -- commonly used whenever they have found something of use.

* AlliterativeName: '''S'''hmi '''S'''kywalker, before her marriage to Cliegg Lars at least.

* Fennec Shand on the [[Characters/StarWarsBountyHuntersAndMercenariesNewRepublicEra Bounty Hunters and Mercenaries: New Republic Era]] page.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: By the time of ''A New Hope'', they're in their late forties, but due to Tatooine's hostile environment, they physically look like they're about a decade older than that.

* SlaveLiberation: ''Queen's Hope'' reveals that Shmi was heavily involved in leading a underground organization called the White Suns alongside the LArs that helped to free slaves and disable the trackers and bombs implanted within them.

->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' | ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'' | ''Literature/FromACertainPointOfView'' | ''Series/ObiWanKenobi'' | ''Film/ANewHope'' | ''VideoGame/{{Commander}}'' | ''[[VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefront Battlefront]]'' | ''ComicBook/StarWarsMarvel2015'' | ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' | ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'' | ''[[Literature/StarWarsAftermath Aftermath]]'' | ''Series/TheMandalorian'' | ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'' | ''[[WebAnimation/StarWarsGalacticPals Galactic Pals]]''

* HappinessInSlavery: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. She doesn't seem ''happy'' exactly, but she is content with remaining on Tatooine as a slave while Anakin leaves for a better life in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''. That doesn't stop Cliegg Lars from buying her freedom and marrying her sometime before ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: The reason that the Modal Nodes stick with him, despite his antics constantly putting them in danger -- [[DoingItForTheArt he's one of the best musicians in the business, and they're not about to throw away the chance to work with him.]] [[invoked]]

* BlindedByTheLight: Garindan wears goggles because Kubaz are sensitive to light. Because Garindan's trapped on a planet with two suns, he only gets a few opportunities to take his goggles off.

* NamedByTheAdaptation: Subverted. While he had a name, [[OnlyOneName he didn't have a family name]] in ''Legends''.

* HairTriggerTemper: Picks a fight with Jar Jar after the Gungan accidentally spits a gorg into his soup.

* {{Jerkass}}: He's arrogant, aggressive, and perfectly willing to cheat to win a race.
* JerkJock: Is very into the sport of podracing, and is a total piece of shit.

* NeutralityBacklash: Preferred to stay out of galactic affairs, and wanted to keep Luke out of the war between the Empire and the Rebellion too, believe it was best to keep to themselves. Unfortunately, he failed to realized that leaving the Empire alone didn't mean they'd leave ''him'' alone.

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* BunnyEarsLawyer: The reason that the Modal Nodes stick with him, despite his antics constantly putting them in danger -- [[DoingItForTheArt he's one of the best musicians in the business, and they're not about to throw away the chance to work with him.]]

* {{Expy}}: Arguably one for the Fremen of ''Literature/{{Dune}}''. Both cultures are desert dwellers who wear almost entirely full-body covering. They both revere water and instinctively mistrust outsiders, and both are skilled in hand-to-hand combat. They also have continual issues with large subterranean mega-predators, though the Fremen have a semi-symbiotic relationship with the Shai-Hulud that the Tuskens lack with Krayt Dragons. Both cultures are seen by the rest of their respective galaxies as being savage barbarians, though both in fact have highly complex societies. The Tuskens are generally portrayed less sympathetically, however, as they are not fighting an occupying force like the Fremen but rather harassing settlers on their own planet (though this is largely due to the points of view of their respective stories).

* NeutralityBackfire: Preferred to stay out of galactic affairs, and wanted to keep Luke out of the war between the Empire and the Rebellion too, believe it was best to keep to themselves. Unfortunately, he failed to realized that leaving the Empire alone didn't mean they'd leave ''him'' alone.

* Expy: Arguably one for the Fremen of ''Literature/{{Dune}}''. Both cultures are desert dwellers who wear almost entirely full-body covering. They both revere water and instinctively mistrust outsiders, and both are skilled in hand-to-hand combat. They also have continual issues with large subterranean mega-predators, though the Fremen have a semi-symbiotic relationship with the Shai-Hulud that the Tuskens lack with Krayt Dragons. Both cultures are seen by the rest of their respective galaxies as being savage barbarians, though both in fact have highly complex societies. The Tuskens are generally portrayed less sympathetically, however, as they are not fighting an occupying force like the Fremen but rather harassing settlers on their own planet (though this is largely due to the POVs of their respectice stories).

* CunningLinguist: She can communicate with Jawas and Frog people in addition to humans. She also seems to understand droid speak as she can communicate without need of a translator with her pit droids and astromechs.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's happy to soak the Mandalorian for every credit he's got for using her docking bay, but she's kind to the Child and is genuinely concerned that Mando may not be taking care of him properly (though she wastes no time trying to get Grogu back to him when he returns to Tatooine in ''Book of Boba Fett''). She also immediately helps Frog Lady with her problem of finding a ship to ferry her without hyperdrive.

* BackAlleyDoctor: His role in "The Gathering Storm". Although perfectly capable of installing life-saving cybernetics, he normally caters to the Modder cyborgs subculture, and is treated more like a tattoo/piercing artist. Although at first refusing his services without an appointment, Boba Fett pays him handsomely to change his mind. Boba admits this was the best he could do under the circumstances, pressed for time, acknowledging that this was a shady surgeon, but he got the job done and did save Fennec's life.

* TheSheriff: His job, and the reason he uses Boba's armor.

-->''"I can't abide those Jawas! Disgusting creatures!"''
--->-- '''C-3PO'''

* AmbiguouslyHuman: There has been a lot of speculation both out and in-universe on whether Tuskens are human or not, given that there isn't anything visually to say they aren't just covered-up people, though it's pretty certain at this point they are a different species. ''Legends'' material takes this a step further, having ''both'' Tuskens and Jawas being the distant descendants of a highly advanced race that devolved over the millennia. They are also shown unmasked, and look decidedly ''non''-human in appearance.
** What muddies the water even further is the Tusken habit of raising human children as their own, which means some Sand People really ''are'' human, just impossible to identify behind all the covering.

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: According to Obi-Wan, their marksmanship is actually worse compared to Stormtroopers. In a deleted scene from the ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', despite managing to take down a pod racer previously, the Tuskens miss every shot they fire upon the Jawas scavenging the wreckage. Their aim is so poor that the Jawas didn't even flinch or flee at all.

* SchrodingersCanon: In ''Legends'', the valley where Anakin's massacre of the tribe that murdered Shmi occurred became a haunted site infused with the dark side of the Force, where other Tuskens would make sacrifices. Luke Skywalker felt deeply disturbed when he happened upon the site as a youth.
** ''Legends'' also gave the Tuskens a definitive origin - they, along with the Jawas trace their ancestry to a mostly peaceful, technologically advanced civilization that lived on Tatooine back when it was significantly more habitable than it is in the present.

* TheBusCameBack: He reappears in live action in [[Recap/TheMandalorianS1E5Chapter5TheGunslinger Episode 5]] of ''The Mandalorian'' at the Cantina, then in [[Recap/TheMandalorianS2E1Chapter9TheMarshal "The Marshal"]] at Peli Motto's hangar.

* CheatersNeverProsper: Subverted. Even though ''everyone'' knows he cheats, he's still a crowd favorite. Played straight during the race though. Even with his sabotage, Anakin still manages to catch up that he tries to ram into him out of desperation. All the move does is get the wires to their engines tangled and risking crashing both vehicles. Anakin manages to free himself in time but Sebulba's pod careens right into a rock, wrecks his engines completely and costs him the race. He was lucky to walk away alive from that.

* NotGoodWithPeople: He gets along well with his own species, but not other sentient races. However, he gets along just fine with Tatooine's animals due to their more basic desires and being consistently honest with themselves.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Possibly. R5 was desperate to be bought, but sacrificed his chance to allow R2-D2 to complete his mission by "blowing his motivator". However, by playing dead, he survives the stormtrooper attack on the sandcrawler, and with his Jawa owners dead, he went for the nearest settlement to look for a new master (and he'd be free to claim, too). By season two of ''The Mandalorian'' he's now working for Peli Motto who seems to be treating him pretty well.

* StarfishLanguage: Like the Wookiees, they cannot physically speak Galactic Basic, but can understand it. When non-Jawas like Din Djarin the Mandalorian attempt to speak Jawaese, it sounds [[YouNoTakeCandle silly]] to them.