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Bounty Hunters

"Bounty hunters! We don't need their scum."

— Admiral Piett

Utilized by legitimate governments, private citizens, and criminals, bounty hunters are skilled trackers who hunt down targets to bring in alive or dead. Most bounty hunters also act as mercenaries, taking on other jobs like providing protection, taking down rival organizations, or stealing valuable items. Bounty hunters tend to work alone, but sometimes form groups of several hunters for larger jobs. The Bounty Hunters' Guild is responsible for regulating the legitimate bounties that its members pursue.

First active in the High Republic Era

From circa 382 BBY

Viess

General Viess

See her entry on the Nihil page under "The Three Ministers".

From circa 232 BBY

Deva Lompop

Species: Shani

Appearances: Adventures | Mission to Disaster | Defy the Storm | War of the Bounty Hunters | Sana Starros

A bounty hunter active since the days of the High Republic and a former member of the Nihil, she eventually retired from active hunting and became an information broker. However, an old debt to Jabba the Hutt forces her to undertake missions for him whenever he requests.

Affably Evil: She's generally friendly, charming, and laid-back. She's also completely onboard with the Nihil's philosophy and treats eating people alive as a casual hobby.
Black Widow: Tells Boba Fett that she usually eats her ex-partners, and while it's framed as a joke at first it's soon shown to be very literal.
Decapitation Presentation: After eating those she kills, she usually leaves only the head intact either to collect on a bounty or make a statement.
Delinquent Hair: To go with the delinquent look, she has multicolored feathers styled as a mohawk. She lets it down while seducing Doc Ragon, making her look less threatening.
The Dog Bites Back: Deva helps Crimson Dawn undermine Jabba, as payback for how he keeps reneging on his promise to free her of his debt to her.
The Dreaded: Phel goes from snide and confident to completely terrified the moment she shows up to to defend Sana from him.
Even Evil Has Standards:
- Calls Jabba a "monster" for his slave pens, though given that she was fine with the Nihil selling people as slaves to the Zygerrians when she served under Kara Xoo. However, she seemingly Took a Level in Kindness after dedicating herself to being Avon Starro's bodyguard, as she's shown to be disgusted by Kara continuing her child-trafficking practices on Aricho even when Avon's not around.
- She gets very mad when she learns one of her associates is breeding rancors, implicitly due to the abusive conditions captive rancors often face.
The Gadfly: In addition to calling Boba "pup", she asks how well he can hold his breath before throwing a grenade that eats flesh. When he asks how holding his breath would have helped, she states it wouldn't have, and she was just curious.
Green-Skinned Space Babe: She's a very attractive green-skinned alien woman, at least until she unhinges her jaw.
Hazy-Feel Turn: Her commitment to being Avon's bodyguard ends up marking her as a traitor to the Nihil, and ends up becoming an ally for Vernestra Rwoh. However, she's not exactly a good person and still has no qualms about eating people.
Honorary Aunt: By the time of the Galactic Civil War she’s considered an “auntie” to the Starros clan and refers to them as family.
Hyperactive Metabolism: She seems to need to eat a lot in order to fuel her rapid healing, usually eating the corpses of whoever injured her or their associates.
I Gave My Word: At some point she swore to protect the Starros family and seems to take that vow quite seriously.
Insistent Terminology: She never calls Boba by his name, only calling him "Pup" as a demeaning way of referring to his status as Jabba's most reliable bounty hunter. Boba doesn't really care one way or the other. Given how old she is, she calls just about every being younger than her "Pup".
Karma Houdini: Aside from her starship, the Dreadful Day being destroyed, Deva seems to not have faced any serious repercussions for the crimes she committed while working with the Nihil.
Long-Lived: The Shani are a long-lived species, with Deva having been a bounty hunter since the High Republic and into the Galactic Civil War over two hundred years later. She was only a hatchling during the Hyperspace Rush.
Knowledge Broker: Her stated profession after largely retiring from being a bounty hunter.
Made of Iron: Being set on fire doesn't really wound her, but it does slow her down a bit. It's stated later she can just heal the damage, which she can hasten by eating something high in protein, usually her attacker.
Pet the Dog:
- She helps out a young Nautolan girl with some bullies and then lets her go back to her parents safely before she and the other Nihil start firing at the crowds of people in the town square. It's unclear why she did this since, as noted below, she's had no problem hurting children in the past.
- Despite being antagonistic towards her when they first met, she eventually becomes Avon Starros's bodyguard and helps save Imri Cantaros during the destruction of Starlight Beacon at Avon's request. She speaks fondly of Avon a few centuries later, having since become a friend of the Starros family.
Pragmatic Villainy: She could have killed Boba after knocking him out, as well as Doc Ragon, but prefers to only kill when she has reason to, or she's hungry. Or both.
Sapient Eat Sapient: Sometimes, she eats her targets and jokes about eating her exes. Unfortunately for Jarm Brock, that turned out not to be a joke. According to her, Shani siblings also try to eat each other as soon as they hatch until only one of them remains.
Saved by Canon: Unlike the rest of the Nihil, her survival is assured, since she's still just fine by the time of War of the Bounty Hunters.
Show Some Leg: Utilizes her attractiveness to gain information from targets, like Doc Ragon for the location of Han's carbonite slab.
Snake People: As a Shani, she has green skin, slit-shaped irises, scale-like skin patterns, and can open her mouth widely, like a snake.
Still Wearing the Old Colors: While she seemingly isn’t loyal to the Nihil cause anymore, she still swears by the Storm centuries after their implicit defeat.
Would Hurt a Child: It's implied that while working with the Nihil, she has eaten some of the children that Kara Xoo kidnapped as punishment for falling out of line. Although, given some of her other actions with kids, it's unknown if she has actually done so or if Xoo is just blowing up Deva's reputation to keep them in line. However...
Wouldn't Hurt a Child: After becoming Avon's bodyguard, she visibly has reservations about killing or enslaving children (even when committed by her former superior Kara Xoo), even when Avon isn't around.

Vol Garat

Species: Harch

Appearances: The Edge of Balance: Precedent

A former cultist from the Path of the Open Hand turned independent bounty hunter, he still clings to his grudge against the Jedi. He was hired by Marchion Ro to search for the journal of Jedi Knight Azlin Rell.

Admiring the Abomination: When he sees Jedi Master Ravna mysteriously crumble into dust (as a result of an unseen Nameless), he seeks to find whatever caused her death and use it for himself against the Jedi, even going so far as to try to kidnap Azlin Rell after he's gone insane and find his journal.
Arch-Enemy: He serves as one to Arkhoff, having multiple encounters throughout Precedent, both in flashbacks and the present day.
Cryptic Background Reference: He and Marchion Ro apparently encountered each other at some point before the Nihil attacked Banchii. The most that can be said is that they likely know each other as a result of the Ro family's connections to the Path, much like how Marchion knew Elder Tromak.
Evil Is Bigger: Thanks to the Path's Improvised Training via manual farm labor, he's about as a tall as a young-adult Wookiee and has a lot of muscle.
Long-Lived: By the time of Starlight Beacon's destruction, he's over 150 years old.
Made of Iron: Garat takes a lot of punishment, from getting beaten by a Wookiee Jedi to getting drowned and buried under rocks when the Path compound on Dalna gets flooded. It's also noted here that as a species, Harches are incredibly hard to kill (as chronologically later shown with Admiral Trench, who survived even worse punishment than Garat ever did). However, he's not lightsaber resistant, as Arkhoff manages to kill him for good when he comes across Azlin's journal.
Multi-Armed and Dangerous: He's got six arms, and he's a lethal grappler that is able to hold his own against even a Wookiee Jedi.
Spiders Are Scary: He's a Harch anti-Jedi cultist turned bounty hunter who has an eerie fascination with creatures that can not only kill Jedi, but drive them insane with their presence alone.
Still Fighting the Civil War: Even 150 years after the Path of the Open Hand was fragmented, he still maintains the Path's extreme anti-Jedi dogma cultivated by the Mother.

First active under the Old Republic

See the Republic era bounty hunters page.

First active under the Empire

4-LOM

Model: LOM-series protocol droid

Portrayed by: Catherine Munro

A droid bounty hunter who often partners with Zuckuss.

Adaptational Badass: While 4-LOM was destroyed by Boba Fett and rebuilt afterward, he still kept his protocol droid body in Legends. In canon, he had his head attached to a larger, multi-armed body built for combat, but the catch is that he was reprogrammed to kill Zuckuss. However, this is swapped out for his old body (or another protocol droid body) when Zuckuss undoes the reprogramming by detaching his head from the combat droid.
Adaptational Personality Change: In Legends, 4-LOM had aspirations of becoming a Jedi despite being a droid. In Canon, he's openly dismissive of the Force.
Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: Zuckuss and 4-LOM drifted apart in Legends due to the latter getting his memory wiped and deciding to go solo after being destroyed and rebuilt, only partnering up with Zuckuss every now and then. In Canon, the duo was split due to 4-LOM getting his head stolen, discarded on Tatooine, claimed by Cribiriz Idollax, and then reprogrammed to kill Zuckuss. After Zuckuss kills Cribiriz after hearing his Motive Rant and destroys the device controlling him, 4-LOM runs off, which implies that he's experiencing shame for trying to kill his friend. Once Zuckuss is able to undo the reprogramming with help from T'onga and her crew, the duo gets back together and remain partners even after the Galactic Civil War.
A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Was originally a protocol droid, but logic glitches allowed him to override his programming and become a thief and bounty hunter. This is a problem with the LOM-series of protocol droids in general, and a number of them became enforcers in the Outer Rim. Investigations by Exantor Divo revealed that the Droid Gotra (a crime syndicate founded by former Separatist Battle Droids) corrupted 4-LOM's programming and have used him as a symbol to rally other droids to their cause. When Cribiriz gets hold of 4-LOM's head, he attaches his head to a more heavily-armed body and reprograms him to kill Zuckuss to avenge his brother, Sribiriz, who was accidentally killed by the duo (who they mistook for Cribiriz) on their first hunt together.
Bullying a Dragon: While Boba Fett is away from Slave 1, he and Zuckuss try to sneak in to steal Han Solo (unaware that Crimson Dawn had stolen him first), and when they don't find him, they try to ambush Boba to interrogate him. It ends with Zuckuss being kicked off the platform and Boba stealing 4-LOM's head for information.
Cloud Cuckoolanders Minder: Despite some of his logical glithces, he's one of the only beings in the galaxy who understands Zuckuss. While he is frequently dismissive of Zuckuss's superstitions, he also helps keeps him grounded in reality, and is key to saving Zuckuss's life (as well as T'onga's crew) when he has a Force-induced seizure caused by the Fermata Cage's destruction while traversing a dangerous nebula.
Flat-Earth Atheist: Even though his usual hunting partner is a Force-sensitive mystic, he prefers to rely on facts with solid evidence and dismisses Zuckuss's warnings as "superstitious flim-flam".
Killer Robot: Was not designed to be one, but he is rather good at killing.
Losing Your Head: After being badly damaged from Boba Fett's counter ambush, Boba steals 4-LOM's head to find out who had put a bounty on his head. After having tracked the bounty as being placed by Jabba, he discards 4-LOM's still-active head into the sands of Tatooine as he futiley bargains for Boba to keep him around.
Robot Buddy: To Zuckuss.
Robot Maid: Formerly a protocol droid.
Spared by the Adaptation: In the Death of Personality sense. He was blown up by Boba Fett and rebuilt afterward in both Canon and Legends, but in the latter, that reconstruction came at the cost of his memories and personality, which eventually caused him and Zuckuss to drift apart. In Canon, he got rebuilt and reprogrammed as a combat droid by someone out for revenge on Zuckuss, but Zuckuss eventually undid his reprogramming and the duo came back together, and unlike in Legends, their partnership continued to stick after the Galactic Civil War thanks to their partnership with T'onga.
Unnecessarily Creepy Robot: Industrial Automaton's (normally known for astromech droids) LOM-series protocol droids have the same body build as Cybot Galactica's 3PO-series protocol droids, but have a more fly-like head to appeal to Insectoid Aliens such as Gands.
Villainous Friendship: His friendship with Zuckuss was his only friendship for a long time until their time on Losha's team of hunters. While 4-LOM is mostly with them for Zuckuss, he does grow friendly with them as well.

Amanaman

Species: Amani

Homeworld: Maridun

Portrayed by: Ailsa Berk

Appearances: Star Wars (Marvel 2015) | Return of the Jedi

An Amani headhunter who was often employed by Jabba the Hutt. Amanaman was known for using traditional hunting weapons instead of blasters.

Affably Evil: He is quite friendly with Lando despite his merciless reputation, even agreeing to contact him when Boba Fett arrived at Jabba's Palace with Han as they part with a friendly fist bump.
Bad with the Bone: He carries a staff with him that is decorated with three humanoid skulls.
Even Evil Has Standards: Notably he is one of the few patrons of Jabba's court who does not rush to see Oola eaten by the rancor and instead remains quietly seated while everyone else is cheering.
Exposed Extraterrestrials: He wears absolutely no clothing, but has no visible genitals exposed by doing so.

Beebox

Appearances: Darth Vader

One of the bounty hunters hired by Aphra to steal a shipment of Imperial money.

Ambiguously Human: He's never depicted out of his armor, so it's unclear if he's an alien species or a very short human.
Call-Forward: He is the reason why Vader demands to his bounty hunters that there'll be "no disintegration" in The Empire Strikes Back. And Vader demonstrates the penalty for breaking that rule.
Cool Helmet: He wears a helmet that very vaguely resembles Mandalorian helmets.
Depraved Dwarf: He's very short and also a murderous thief and bounty hunter.
The Faceless: As mentioned above, he's never seen without his helmet.
Force-Choke: He is choked to death by Darth Vader after bringing him a disintegrated body and claiming it was Aphra.
Oh, Crap!: Starts to panic when he realizes the anonymous client who he was attempting to swindle with fake remains of Aphra was none other than Darth Vader.
Too Dumb to Live: Presenting fake remains of a target to a client is bad business for any bounty hunter. Presenting fake remains of a target to Darth Vader, then trying to draw a weapon on him when called out for his deceit was just asking for that Force choke.

Beilert Valance

Captain Beilert Valance

"Code don't apply to the dead."

Species: Human

Homeworld: Chorin

"You're right. I am the worst of the worst."

Once a promising Imperial TIE pilot, Valance was horrifically injured during a training mission to subjugate the Outer Rim world of Qhulosk. Discharged from the service after it was deemed too expensive to replace his lost eye and limb, Valance replaced them himself and turned to bounty hunting, disillusioned with the Empire he once worshiped.

Ace Pilot: Was one of the Imperial Academy's best students. And as captain of the Broken Wing he can still give TIE fighters a run for their money.
Anti-Hero: A scoundrel who doesn't bother with the unwritten rules of his line of work. But he's A Lighter Shade of Black than the Empire and is willing to do jobs for the Rebellion unlike most bounty hunters.
Bayonet Ya: His blaster rifle has a bayonet attached to it.
Boomerang Bigot: Has a great hatred of droids despite being all but one himself.
Boxed Crook:
- Downplayed, but by the time the Hidden Hand approach him with their offer to go after Vader, Valance is being hunted by the Guild for breaking their code, and he's implied to still be in debt from having to pay for his cybernetics out of his own pocket. So their offer of sanctuary, and reminder that he's running out of places to hide, is what seals the deal for him.
- Happens once more after being captured by the Empire at the end of War of the Bounty Hunters. Vader has his memories downloaded and threatens to use them to hunt down and kill Yula and Cadeliah unless Valance becomes his operative.
Broken Pedestal: As a child, he idolized the Empire because they liberated his family from slavery. His faith takes a hit after Qhulosk, but the final straw was when the Empire abandoned his homeworld, leaving it to the mercy of raiders that killed his family.
Han Solo: Which part of them telling us we're meat for a meat grinder didn't get through to you? The Empire thinks we're expendable, Valance.
Canon Immigrant: He originated in the original Star Wars Marvel comic series as recurring bounty hunter antagonist who held a grudge against the Empire and droids. Valance was brought back into canon with the Imperial Cadet series.
Cool Starship: The Broken Wing, a light freighter that looks like a hybrid of the Millennium Falcon and the Ghost.
Crazy Enough to Work: A lot of his plans fall into this category. He lured a hit squad of rival bounty hunters into the same Bad Guy Bar, confident that he could catch them all in an ambush. After The Hidden Hand hires him to go after Darth Vader, Valance takes his team to an old contact he suspects is working with the Hidden Hand, but secretly uses an Imperial signal to lure the Devastator to their location. The Devastator attacks just as the contact betrays them (as Valance expected her to), giving the Broken Wing crew a chance to escape. With Vader and Valance now having the same intel on the Hidden Hand, the Broken Wing is able to track Vader's movements.
Chio Fain: Not a bad plan, Valance. Insane, but not bad.
Fantastic Racism: Shows a great distrust for droids, destroying R9-19 after it was assigned to his Vader hunting team, although he was also correct in his suspicion that the droid was a spy for the Hutt clans.
The Friend Nobody Likes: Valance is hated by the Bounty Hunters Guild for stealing bounties assigned to other members, essentially making him the Guild's equivalent of a scab.
Gwi: You've been stealing bounties, Valance. You must have heavy debt if you're willing to break the Bounty Hunter's Code like that. Tonight won't be the last time your own kind turn on you.
From Camouflage to Criminal: After being forced out of the Imperial military, Valance had to turn to being a bounty hunter taking highly illegal jobs, as his only skills were in fighting.
Full-Conversion Cyborg: The majority of his body was replaced by cybernetics after his injuries. After being betrayed and badly injured by Boba Fett on the Executor, the Empire saved him by removing even more of his organs and replacing them, including his heart.
I Am a Monster: Feels like an inhuman monster after his cybernetic conversion and service to the Empire, which leads to him refusing to stay on Chorin with Yura after being discharged and instead turns to bounty hunting.
Pet the Dog: Agrees with the rest of his training squad to let Nico desert and claim she was killed in action after learning that her homeworld was next on the Empire's list to conquer.
Power Palms: Valance has one built into his cybernetic hand, which can fire a relatively powerful short-ranged electrical attack. It's got a fairly lengthy Cooldown, so he uses it sparingly.
Reforged into a Minion: After being captured during a failed attempt to rescue Han from the Executor, Valance is rebuilt by Vader into an elite operative. With his memories downloaded by the Empire, Valance has no choice but to work for them or they would kill Cadeliah and Yura.
The Rival: Solo during his time in the Imperial Academy, Dengar during his mercenary career.
Two-Faced: After his injuries, the left side of his face is covered with Terminator-esque cybernetics. After being captured and forced to serve Vader, one of the "upgrades" given to him is synthflesh that makes his face appear normal.
What You Are in the Dark: During his team up with Dengar he could have left him to die several times, but instead saves his life, growing to respect and understand him better.
Dengar: Could have saved yourself, left me to die and no one in the guild would have known.
Valance: I would have known.

Caij Vanda

"I can't stand all this peace and quiet!"

Species: Nautolan

Portrayed by: Verona Blue

Appearances: Jedi: Survivor

"There's two kinds of people in the Galaxy: Those with live thermal detonators and those without! I trust you boys can do the math."

A retired bounty hunter who hid out on Koboh around 9 BBY, seeking to escape the attention of the Haxion Brood. Caij met the Jedi Knight Cal Kestis there and aided him in tracking the Haxion Brood's hunters, who were also seeking the Jedi.

Ace Custom: Mentions that she modified her blaster pistols herself to make them suitable for close combat.
Affably Evil: She was a ruthless bounty hunter and cheerfully admits to not being a great person, but is very charismatic and friendly with Cal once the two start to collaborate. The facade cracks a bit during her fight with him and then Boba's interference.
Ain't Too Proud to Beg: After she gets captured by Boba Fett, she tries to appeal to Cal's better nature and implores him to rescue her. Cal, who had by that point made several heartfelt attempts to make peace and appeal to her better nature only for her to keep trying to kill him, is done by that point and just leaves her to her fate.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: She is utterly flabbergasted by all the things Cal does for free, telling him he should never have gone after the Bedlam Raiders if there wasn't a bounty involved and not understanding why he cares or might have other motives for helping around town besides a reward.
Mix-and-Match Weapon: Her pistol-sized blaster has a very large bayonet attached to it, giving it a look akin to that of a gunblade from other media.
Mythology Gag: Like Guildmaster Hulas from the GenoHaradan questline of Knights of the Old Republic, Caij tricks a Jedi into eliminating her competitors, then tries to kill said Jedi once the ruse is discovered.
Caij: That was a big pool of contenders to carve through. I think you're the real deal, Jedi.
Retired Badass: Claims to have left the bounty hunting game and now just wants to be left in peace, which is difficult if the Haxion Brood is on Koboh hunting for Cal. Both Cal and Bode are suspicious of that claim, which is well-founded since Caij is actually just seeking to drive Cal's bounty higher and then claim it for herself once the competition is dead.
Caij: A girl's got debts.
Rocket Boots: She has a pair, and mentions them as being a big boost to her career.
Caij: I was practically an amateur before I scored my jet-boots. Then the jobs came pouring in.
Shout-Out: The above quote is one to Tuco's Mad Libs Catchphrase from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, as is the three-way Mexican Standoff between herself, Cal Kestis, and Boba Fett.
Signature Headgear: Much like fellow bounty hunter Cad Bane, Caij wears a large-brimmed cowboy hat and is never seen without it.
Uncertain Doom: She is last seen in the custody of Boba Fett, who makes a point of taking her in alive. According to Fett her bounty is obscenely high (enough that it's worth ignoring a Jedi, whose bounties are likewise extremely steep), and Cal comments that it will only become more so once the Haxion Brood discovers what she had been up to, leaving her to face quite a lot of trouble in the future.

Chanath Cha

Species: Human

"I had to swear an oath to him. Had to just…let it lie. I said those words because my parents wanted me to live…but my heart died the moment I watched Vader cut them open. Way I figure it, oaths end when you do. My heart died and I've been hunting Vader ever since."

The daughter of two bounty hunters, Chanath swore revenge upon Darth Vader after he killed them and sought to get close to the Sith Lord by working as an operative for the Emperor. However, after more than a decade of being unable to fulfill her task, Chanath recruited three other hunters into a group known as the Orphans and began working with Crimson Dawn to destroy the Sith.

Alliterative Name: Cha-cha.
Badass Bandolier: She has two of them crisscrossing her chest.
Badass Cape: Dark gray in color.
Badass Family: She and her parents, Bhada and Ramat, once formed a bounty hunter team that managed to put up a fight against Darth Vader.
The Cameo: She is one of the bounty hunters that Vader calls upon to hunt down the gone-rogue Doctor Aphra.
Deadpan Snarker: Considering she's a bounty hunter and she's also old friends of Lando and Lobot, it's expected.
Distaff Counterpart: She's a female version of Boba Fett.
Everybody Has Standards: Vader and Palpatine may like hiring her, but she's a little freaked out when a situation with a Sith artifact aboard the Imperialis comes up.
Good Parents: Bounty hunting may be the family business, but it doesn't take away from the "family" part of it.
Good Scars, Evil Scars: She has scars that resemble knife wounds above one eyebrow and over her mouth.
Guns Akimbo: Her main weapons of choice.
Heroic Sacrifice:
- Vader holds her hostage, leading to her parents turning themselves in to him so that she can live to see another day.
- She meets her end distracting Vader and buying the Archivist and Kho Phon Pharrus time to escape with the Fermata Cage.
Jet Boots: She has a pair that are similar to Cad Bane's.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: After attacking Vader at a bar with her family, she left behind the leftover ion bombs while fleeing the scene in belief that they had finished him off already. When Vader chases after them on the highway, they're practically defenseless and it results in her parents getting apprehended and executed.
One-Man Army: She takes on an army of mercenaries by herself in her introduction and wins.
Punch-Clock Villain: Palpatine just so happens to be the highest bidder, and one she needs to stay on good terms with for an opportunity to kill Vader. She has no problem killing either. But when it turns out her old pals Lando and Lobot are behind the theft of the Imperialis, she tells them off for being dumb enough to do something that crazy and works with them to destroy the ship (further persuaded to do so when it turns out there are some rather peculiar things going on in the ship).
Revenge: She is forced to promise not to seek vengeance against Vader for apprehending her parents after they attempted to assassinate him. However, this was a lie and she sought to find a way to kill Vader ever since, which is why she worked to become one of the Emperor's go-to bounty hunters and why she joined Crimson Dawn's plot to destroy the Sith. Once she got the opportunity, Vader killed her instead.
Samus Is a Girl: She is introduced wearing full body armor and helmet and in every conversation between her and Palpatine and his droid they use gender-neutral pronouns. It isn't until she takes her helmet off in Lando's presence that we see she is a woman.
Token Good Teammate: She and the rest of the Orphans are this for Crimson Dawn's plot to rid the galaxy of the Sith.
Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Lobot's alright, but Chanath is something else.

Deathstick

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Species: Zabrak (Dathomirian)

Voiced by: Sara Cravens

Appearances: War of the Bounty Hunters | Crimson Reign | Bounty Hunters | Uprising

"Do not fight for honor or money. Act because you can."

Whispered of but rarely seen in public, Deathstick rose up from a street level criminal to become the most legendary assassin in the Anoat Sector. Twitchy and prone to sadistic flights of fancy, few people seek out an audience with her. She is the daughter of Shelish, a Dathomirian Nightsister.

Bandaged Face: Black bandages block out everything about her face except for the eyes. This is the result of an altercation with Imperial forces that cost her most of her face.
Darkand Troubled Past: Her family was murdered by Grevious and his droids during the Clone Wars, joining up with Crimson Dawn to take revenge on the Sith.
Dark Action Girl: Being a professional assassin with a sadistic streak she fits most criteria, but considering she is fighting against the Empire she is technically on the good guys' side.
The Dragon: She's this to Qi'ra of Crimson Dawn between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
Facial Horror: Beneath her bandages, her face below her nose has been replaced with cybernetics.
In the Hood: Wears a red and black one.
Professional Killer: And one so good at her job she is considered a Living Legend.
Psycho Knife Nut: Deathstick is a sadistic assassin, and always has about six vibro-knives, a couple of which could be classified as short swords, clamped to her belt.

Djas Puhr

Species: Sakiyan

Portrayed by: ???

Appearances: From a Certain Point of View | A New Hope

A bounty hunter operating on Tatooine who is friends with several locals who frequent Chalmun's Cantina.

Adaptational Nice Guy: He's still a bounty hunter, but Puhr is nowhere near the same type of scum as his Legends counterpart. In Legends, he was on Jabba the Hutt's payroll and was even willing kidnap children for him. In canon, he despises Jabba enough to refuse to take bounties from his organization, to the point that he roots for Han when he knows Greedo is after him.
Blatant Lies: His repeated insistences to both himself and others that he is not friends with Han, Chewie, and the group with whom he drinks with at Chalmun's ring hollow due to how he treats them and the fact he freely offers up money and information to help them all out.
Dark Is Not Evil: His appearance may be frightening, but Djas himself is quite easygoing and even friendly.
Everyone Has Standards: His opinion of Jabba the Hutt is so low that he refuses to pursue bounties posted by him, and will sometimes even warn targets about the bounties. This may stem from his rumored past as a former slave of Jabba.
Pet the Dog: Warns Han about the high bounty that Jabba placed on his head and makes no attempt to claim it himself due to Han and Chewie bringing him a Gwayo bird egg, which are a delicacy on his homeworld and banned by the Empire.
The Power of Friendship: Believes in it, and manages to resolve the differences between all his friends by discussing it and making a wager that Han Solo will survive and Greedo will die because of it.
Token Good Teammate: Oddly enough for a bounty hunter, but out of his circle of friends on Tatooine Djas seems to be the most honorable and friendly of the group.

Durge

Species: Gen'Dai

Appearances: Doctor Aphra | War of the Bounty Hunters | Bounty Hunters

A terrifying Gen'Dai bounty hunter encountered by Doctor Aphra and Sana.

Adaptational Nice Guy: His Legends counterpart was not heartless, as he loved his mentor Jaing and acted protective towards his partner Asajj Ventress, but he was a twisted psycho most of the time towards everybody else. This Durge, however, is nice enough to cooperate with Chelli Aphra and her group in the latter's namesake comic.
Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: The original Durge from Legends was employed by the CIS as a general along the lines of Grievous, was partners in crime and Vitriolic Best Buds with Asajj Ventress, and had an enmity with Boba Fett and the Mandalorians. This version of him seems to have merely been a hired gun for the Separatists with no indication of his position in their military. He certainly plays no part in Ventress' life and never shares a scene with Grievous either.
Canon Immigrant: He was created for the Clone Wars multimedia project after the release of Attack of the Clones and to lead up to Revenge of the Sith, most memorably featured in the Star Wars: Clone Wars 2003 animated series. Star Wars: The Clone Wars considered bringing him into the show, but was instead replaced by a new character, Cad Bane.
Cool Starship: According to Hot Shots and Aces II Separatist Pilots Overview, he owns a red Rogue-class Starfighter similar to Cad Bane's.
Evil Is Bigger: He absolutely towers over both Aphra and Sana.
Made of Iron: He admits as such, being a Gen'Dai. And to his credit, he's thrown out to the vast vacuum of space, and is shown alive and well later.
More Dakka: His BFG can turn into a small gun with a higher blaster rate, as well as having several guns are part of his armor.
Pragmatic Villainy: He's perfectly willing to work with Aphra and Sana to deal with the infestation that threatens to eat all three of them. Unfortunately for him, Aphra jettisons him out once he played his part.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: He's an incredibly ancient and deadly bounty hunter, but this is averted in his appearance with Doctor Aphra, he's got enough sense and pragmatism to focus on working with Aphra and Sana. However, given how Aphra betrayed him, it's hinted he'll attempt to settle the score later on.
Rogues' Gallery Transplant: In Legends, Durge was notably a Clone War era villain often in the employ of the Separatists. For his canon debut, he's first seen being active during the Galactic Civil War, but his Separatist past remains in general lines.
Schrödinger's Canon: How much of his life matches up with Legends remains a question, as while he's confirmed to still have served the Separatists, it’s clear his survival into the Galactic Civil War calls much of it into question.
Shrouded in Myth: His activities in the Clone Wars are considered this, as few who encountered him survived.
Spared by the Adaptation: Subverted. The Durge from Legends was killed by Anakin during the Clone Wars, although Star Wars: Galaxies featured a character who was implied to be a surviving Durge in the Imperial era. Canon Durge has him still kicking a good while into the Empire's rule while retaining his original identity.
Walking Armory: Not only is his gun already a BFG, he has guns supplemented all over his armor.

Fissol and Gowski

Species: Ithorian (Fissol), Gamorrean (Gowski)

Appearances: Rebels Magazine

A pair of bounty hunters that heard a rumor of two Jedi residing on Lothal. They caught Jedi Padawan Ezra Bridger and intended to turn him in to the Empire, but were halted by his master, Kanan Jarrus.

Laser-Guided Amnesia: Kanan mind tricks them into believing that there are no Jedi on Lothal and sends them back to where they came from.

IG-88B

Model: IG-series assassin droid

A droid bounty hunter also known as a Phlutdroid built by Holowan Laboratories, an Imperial research group. After turning on its creators, IG-88B became one of the galaxy's most feared bounty hunters.

Adaptational Intelligence: Zigzagged. His appearances in Forces of Destiny show him getting outsmarted or humiliated by the protagonists, but in "Triplecross", he shows that he doesn't have the same Smug Snake behavior of the IG-88 network in Legends, as he outright states that he and Hondo Ohnaka are not in a position to negotiate after they are both apprehended by Qi'ra.
Adaptational Nice Guy: Downplayed. His Legends counterpart (more specifically, IG-88A) had an ambitious plan to take control of the galaxy, believed he was superior to all organics, and was plotting to commit genocide on all organics to achieve dominance. While just as psychopathic, IG-88 in canon doesn't seem to be anywhere near as genocidally ambitious, there's no sign of Fantastic Racism, and his psychopathy seems to be limited to the thrill of the hunt. During the Dark Droids comic-crossover arc, he also teams up with R2-D2 and other Rebel droids to combat the Droid Scourge, which threatens organics and droids alike.
A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Holowan originally planned to make him to be at the beck and call of others, but IG-88's programming was incomplete when he was activated. This resulted in an independent droid bounty hunter that enjoys killing a little too much.
Death Is Cheap: IG-88 has been destroyed no less than three times, but thanks to being a droid (and being able to remotely command his ship, IG-2000, to bring him a spare body even as a disembodied head), he has been rebuilt every single time.
The Dreaded: His reputation is extensive enough that IG-88 is one of the bounty hunters personally summoned by Darth Vader to find the Millennium Falcon.
Killed Offscreen: He was disabled by Boba Fett after he was caught trailing him to Cloud City for Han Solo's bounty and left for dead in the Ugnaughts' incinerator room. However, unlike in Legends (as IG-88B), this wasn't permanent, as he was seen active again post-Endor.
Killer Robot: One of the deadliest in the galaxy. Unsurprising, since IG-88 is descended from the Separatist MagnaGuards.
Loophole Abuse: Not by him, but rather his makers. After the formation of the Galactic Empire, the production of battle droids was outlawed. Holowan Laboratories (already known for building MagnaGuards for the Separatist Alliance) worked around this ban by simply reclassifying their products as security droids. By all accounts, IG-88 is an illegal model.
Mythology Gag: According to the Force Collection digital trading card game, IG-88 once ran a software infiltration on the second Death Star, similar to how IG-88A uploaded his mind to it (and took control of it) in Legends. Unlike his Legends counterpart, IG-88 didn't get as far, as his infiltration attempt was thwarted by Imperial astromech droid R2-Q5 (which also turned out to be a blessing in disguise, considering what happened to the Death Star II).
Professional Killer: He used to be an assassin droid before going rogue and becoming a bounty hunter.
The Rival: Considered to be this to Boba Fett.
Robotic Psychopath: Ever since he was first activated, he had a desire to kill. So much that just the act of killing his targets is more of a reward to him than the payment he receives, even if the target was worth more alive. During a mission where he was hired to apprehend an Imperial shuttle thief, IG-88 got irritated by the thief's evasiveness and decided that the thief wasn't worth taking in alive, even if it meant blowing up the stolen shuttle and reducing his reward.
Spared by the Adaptation: In Legends, the entire IG-88 network was killed off by the end of the Battle of Endor (although the remains of IG-88A were found and reprogrammed). As a single character in Canon, he's been destroyed at least three times, but got rebuilt every time, surviving past Endor and into the First Order-Resistance conflict.
Swiss-Army Weapon: Has a considerable arsenal built into its exoskeleton.
Turned Against Their Masters: IG-88 went rogue almost soon as he was activated.
Unexplained Recovery: It isn't explained how he survived his encounter with Boba Fett on Bespin. He also managed to come back with his personality intact even when he had his central processor blown out.

IG-90

Model: IG-series assassin droid

Appearances: Darth Vader

An assassin droid and bounty hunter hired by Vader and Aphra to steal a shipment of Imperial money.

Fantastic Racism: Shoots a bouncer who says his bar doesn't serve droids. Also calls out a fellow bounty hunter for insulting droids.
Mythology Gag: His color scheme, speech pattern and being an assassin droid recall HK-47.
Palette Swap: He's IG-88 but with red plating. His relationship to IG-88, if any, is unknown.

Jas Emari

Species: Zabrak

Homeworld: Iridonia

Appearances: Aftermath | Life Debt | Empire's End

A bounty hunter who aids the Rebels' plan to rescue Wedge Antilles and investigate Imperial activity on Akiva in order to claim the bounties on several high ranking Imperials.

Amazing Technicolor Population: Sinjir describes Jas as having moonlight-blue skin. Unless it had to do with the light (they were on Endor when Sinjir described her, so this might be possible if it were night-time), this would make Jas the first Zabrak with a hue of blue skin.
Bounty Hunter: Her original job before becoming part of the New Republic's war criminal hunting task force. After the Battle of Jakku, Jas returns to bounty hunting as the head of a band consisting of herself, Dengar, Embo, and a female Rodian named Jeeta.
Fire-Forged Friends: With Norra, Temmin, Sinjir and Jom. Their experiences on Akiva and then as a team working for the New Republic make them nearly inseparable and more loyal to each other than any orders or government.
Generation Xerox: She is the niece of Sugi from The Clone Wars, who is also a Zabrak bounty hunter with a strong moral code. Jas is painfully aware of this fact, and laments that she ended up acting exactly like her aunt by taking jobs for morality over credits after swearing not to.
Heel–Face Turn: She used to take jobs for the Empire and criminal organizations, and was in fact on Endor preparing to kill Leia Organa and claim the bounty on her before the second Death Star exploded. After that, she decided the Rebels were going to win the war and started working for them exclusively, going after high ranking Imperial war criminals.
Incompatible Orientation: She offers to have sex with Sinjir, who turns her down by revealing that he is gay.
Interspecies Romance: Enters into one with Jom, although while he falls in love with her, Jas' feelings are not as strong for him.
I Work Alone: While she partnered with her aunt Sugi a young bounty hunter in training, Jas swore off working with teams unlike her aunt and preferred to operate solo. Ending up on a team working for the Rebellion and then later forming her own bounty hunter crew are additional reminders of how Jas ended up like her aunt despite swearing not to.
The Leader: After the end of the war, she forms a bounty hunting crew with Dengar, Embo, and Jeeta after having convinced them to switch sides in the Battle of Jakku by convincing them it was more profitable to hunt wanted Imperials and getting them pardons from the New Republic.
Mob Debt: She has several, some of which were inherited from her aunt Sugi. One of the largest is owed to Boss Gyuti of Black Sun, who eventually places a bounty on her head for it.
Slap-Slap-Kiss: Her relationship with Jom Barell begins with them getting into a fistfight before ending up having sex in her quarters.

Mayv Trillick

Mayvlin "Mayv" Trillick

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Species: Human (Oktarian)

Homeworld: Oktaro

Appearances: The Mighty Chewbacca

A young bounty hunter and librarian. She was hired by Alinka Aloo to take care of her tookas, only to find herself on a dangerous quest with Chewbacca and "K-2SB" to retrieve a book from Ushruu for the Aloo family.

Ambiguously Brown: She's an Oktarian human, a race of humans. She also appears to have a forehead decoration, like a bindi.
Audience Surrogate: The only human character in The Mighty Chewbacca, and she also loves books, is smart, is an Action Girl, is Ambiguously Brown, and young (but not too young) without parental supervision.
I Have Your Wife: Well, Alinka gets her to submit to her by threatening to destroy a book that is sacred to her people, which is especially taken seriously by Mayv, a book-lover.

Nik Hepho

Species: Britarro

Portrayed by: ???

Appearances: Rogue One

A bounty hunter of some renown in the Inner Rim. Hepho specializes in tracking down members of the Church of the Force.

Humanoid Alien: He's a Britarro, a humanoid species with bluish skin, bald heads and small nostrils.
Illegal Religion: He helps enforce this, having hunted the depths of Coruscant to root out the Church of the Force from the Imperial capital.
Rubber-Forehead Alien: Britarros look mostly like humans except for their bluish skin, bald heads and tiny nostrils.
Uncertain Doom: He was on Jedha shortly before Jedha City and the surrounding area were destroyed by the Death Star.

The Shade

Species: Human

Appearances: Adventures in Wild Space

Professionally known as "the Shade", this bounty hunter was hired by Imperial Captain Korda to apprehend the children of cartographers Rhyssa and Auric Graf as well as their droid, CR-8R.

Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She acts friendly to Lina, but drops all pretenses once her identity is revealed.
False Friend: While in her civilian guise, she fed a hungry Lina in an attempt to earn her trust.
Hidden Depths: Okay, she may be a bounty hunter and one that's against the heroes, but she's apparently a pretty good cook too.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Her mask has red glowing eyes.
Samus Is a Girl: In case the trope being listed here wasn't enough, the Shade is Shalla, a woman.
Walking Spoiler: She's Shalla Mondatha, the cook that fed Lina earlier on.

T'onga

Species: Human

Appearances: Han Solo & Chewbacca | Bounty Hunters | War of the Bounty Hunters | The Halcyon Legacy

Once a member of Nakano Lash's bounty hunter crew alongside her twin T'ongor, T'onga retired to live on a quiet farmstead with her wife Losha. After T'ongor's death on a botched mission, T'onga believed Lash to be responsible and hunted her several years later after rumors of her location emerged. After barely escaping death and learning the truth behind T'ongor's death and the war between the Mourner's Wail and Unbroken Clan syndicates, T'ongor and Losha put together a crew to find the missing heir to both syndicates and end the war between them.

Affably Evil: While nicer and having more standards than the average bounty hunter, T'onga still takes bounties from some of the worst syndicates in the galaxy and kills or delivers her targets to certain death.
Battle Couple: With Losha after they put together their crew. T'onga's fears of their mission getting Losha killed, and concern over how her personality has changed as a hunter, causes her to send her away.
Deuteragonist: Eventually emerges as the secondary protagonist of the Bounty Hunter series, following in Valence's footsteps to find Cadeliah.
Enemy Mine: In order to get information on a contact who can save Valance's memory, T'onga very reluctantly hires and works alongside Boba Fett despite him having nearly killed her less than a year prior.
The Leader: The team she puts together thrives under her leadership, and actually mostly stays together under part of the New Republic's reign.
Not Quite Dead: She was thought dead after being shot in the back by Boba Fett, but barely managed to crawl to an escape pod and make it off Nakano's ship to land on Ruusan.
Only Sane Woman: Shares the role with Losha after their team is put together, and the two are frequently exasperated by Bossk and Tasu's bloodthirstiness and rivalry, Zuckuss Cloudcuckoolander nature, and 4-Lom's personality issues.
Villainous Friendship: With Valance, who she worked with under Nakano. She also forms friendships with Zuckuss and 4-Lom, who are the two more affable members of her team.

Tam Posla

Species: Human

Homeworld: Milvayne

Portrayed by: ???

Appearances: Solo | Rogue One | Doctor Aphra

An interstellar lawman from the Milvayne Authority. He has gone rogue in pursuit of a pair of criminals calling themselves Roofoo and Sawkee responsible for kidnapping, slavery, and surgical alteration. After escaping the destruction of Jedha City, he signed on as a mercenary with Son-tuul Pride to fund his hunt, entering a romantic relationship with Caysin Bog, another of Roofoo's victims, in the process.

Ambiguous Situation: A man wearing his armor can be seen escorting Jyn into the Partisan base. Either this is a blooper or Tam was undercover for whatever reason.
Battle Couple: He and Bog end up fighting side by side several times while working for Son-tuul Pride.
Bounty Hunter: His new occupation.
Break the Badass: Though it does invoke his Berserk Button at first, he is then too traumatized to fight back against the Tarkin Initiative droids after witnessing Bog's death.
Bury Your Gays: Bog ends up dying during the Hivebase-1 infiltration thanks to a secret contingency Dr. Aphra programmed into his implants forcing him to walk into a wall of droid blasterfire. Later, Posla is killed by Triple-Zero after Aphra lured him to Accresker Jail under the claim that Doctor Evazan was there (which happened to be accidentally true, as the person she claimed to be Evazan was indeed Evazan in disguise).
By-the-Book Cop: Though he's not strictly following his department's orders, he refuses to kill a Stormtrooper and even an Eldritch Abomination because they've broken no laws.
The Cameo: He briefly appears in the background of Solo as a spectator watching Han and Lando's game of sabacc on Vandor.
Cool Helmet: As the Guavian Death Gang security soldiers' helmets appear to be similar or even successor versions to Posla's, then it means that the strange design on the face is a central sensor and a broadcasting dish.
Cowboy Cop: Jedha is not in his jurisdiction, but he is determined to bring these two criminals to justice.
Famed In-Story: The rebels have heard of his exploits and want someone like him working for the Alliance.
Freeze-Frame Bonus: Watch the scene in Solo where Han and Lando play sabacc closely, and he's in the background, watching their game.
Full-Conversion Cyborg: Dr. Aphra reveals that his body is almost entirely robotic and bristling with built-in weapons, though it's unclear if his enhancements are standard issue for the Milvayne Authority or if he acquired them during his bounty hunting career.
Hero of Another Story: His hunt for Roofoo and Sawkee.
Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: He is so focused on hunting down Roofoo and Sawkee for their crimes that he is willing to work for brutal criminal organizations like the Son-tuul Pride to get the credits he needs to continue his search.
Killed Off for Real: He is taken down for good when Triple-Zero set him on fire, burning him and the Gundravian hookspores away.
Lawful Stupid: He refuses to fight a literal Eldritch Abomination because it hasn't broken any laws. He only snaps out of it when the creature kills his boyfriend.
Not Quite Dead: His body remained intact even after Accresker Jail was destroyed, and just so happened to be the perfect host the Force energy from the Gundravian spores was looking for.
Not So Stoic:
- On Skako Minor, he goes apeshit (that is, he unleashes his entire weapon arsenal) when it seems like Bog is dead. When Bog comes to a moment later, he sheepishly apologizes for the outburst.
- He tries to defect to the rebels, but upon realizing that the rebels see him as a dirty merc now thanks to the actions of his team, he grabs onto the runway of his team's ship midflight while begging them to let him get onboard.
- When Bog dies for real during the Hivebase-1 infiltration, he goes from homicidal rage to near-catatonia in the space of a few minutes.
Not What I Signed Up For: Finding out that his teammates snuck in weapons aboard a rebel ship so they could ambush the crew despite the fact that they were supposed to have given them up when they boarded almost causes him to stay with the rebels. Since they were in the middle of a firefight and he was in on it as far as the rebels were concerned, he changes his mind, though he's still upset about the whole ordeal.
Revenge: After he realizes that Aphra killed his lover, Tam vows that after he takes out Evazan he will hunt down Aphra and cut out her heart as slowly as possible.
Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Dr. Aphra lured him to Accresker Jail under the claim that Evazan was there in an attempt to escape. She instead hands over Lopset Yas, whom she claims to be Evazan. After a while, Posla suspects that he's been deceived by Aphra, and when he tries to go after her, Triple-Zero kills him. Then it turns out "Lopset Yas" was Evazan in disguise the whole time.
That One Case: The Decraniations on Milvayne, so much so that he went rogue to hunt the suspects down when they fled his jurisdiction. If his presence on Vandor around the same time as Dryden Vos (a known owner of Decraniated servants) is any indication, he's been on his crusade for years.
Token Good Teammate: He felt that the Empire was keeping his police department from doing their job properly, so he quit. Despite becoming a vigilante, he's still a law-abiding and honorable citizen... or he tries to be.
Unexplained Recovery: As of this writing, it's unknown how he escaped Jedha City before its destruction.

Vect Nokru

Species: Human

Portrayed by: Flea

Appearances: Obi-Wan Kenobi

A mercenary based on Daiyu who was hired by the Third Sister to lure out Obi-Wan Kenobi by kidnapping Leia Organa with his team.

Asshole Victim: It's not clear if the Grand Inquisitor killed Vect, but the child-abducting scumbag mercenary certainly suffered for his role in Leia's kidnapping.
Bald of Evil: A mercenary who's balding and has no problems with kidnapping a little girl.
Gory Discretion Shot: The Grand Inquisitor threatens Vect with his spinning lightsaber, but the scene cuts away just as we hear the sound of the blade striking the man and him screaming in pain.
Icy Blue Eyes: An amoral mercenary with bright blue eyes.
Kick the Dog: Grabs Lola and smashes her into the ground in front of Leia.
Uncertain Doom: Vect is last seen being questioned by the Grand Inquisitor, and the scene cuts away just as Vect starts screaming in pain; while it's certainly likely that the Grand Inquisitor killed him, Vect's fate is unconfirmed.
Underestimating Badassery: He took some precautions with Kenobi, but he still gets the drop on them and gets away quite quickly.
Vect: You're not a Jedi any more, you're just a man, and you're bleeding all over my floor.
Obi-Wan: Well, everyone bleeds.
Would Hurt a Child: Has no issue with kidnapping a ten year old child, tying her up, and using her as bait to lure out a Jedi.

Zuckuss

"Something isn't right. Zuckuss can sense it."

Species: Gand

Homeworld: Gand

Portrayed by: Chris Parsons

"Zuckuss does not foresee that happening. And Zuckuss is quite good at foreseeing things."

A Gand Findsman, Zuckuss was one of the first members of his organization to leave his homeworld. He was one of the bounty hunters who answered Darth Vader's call to find the Millennium Falcon.

Abled in the Adaptation:
- In Legends, Zuckuss was suffering from life-threatening lung damage by the time of The Empire Strikes Back, and was trying to make enough credits to get the necessary surgery. Even though he recovered, his health still deteriorated over time. In Canon, there is no clear indication of him suffering from any lung damage, and while he still needs to breathe ammonia, breathing even a little bit of oxygen apparently isn't quite as life-threatening to Gands as it is in Legends (in the Bounty Hunters comic, Zuckuss notes that he can still feel oxygen's causticness through his mask, and when fighting the Knights of Ren, getting one of his tubes cut doesn't bring him down and he doesn't seem any worse for wear afterward).
- In Legends, Zuckuss was diagnosed with both schizophrenia and multiple personality disorder. In Canon, while there are some signs of the former, Zuckuss doesn't seem to exhibit the latter.
Acrofatic: Despite being on the pudgy side, Zuckuss is surprisingly quick on his feet and can dodge a lot of blaster fire.
Adaptational Badass: In Legends, Zuckuss was severely crippled from having his respirator ripped off during a rather mundane job. In Canon, he gets one of his tubes cut while fighting the Knights of Ren, but instead of being put out of the fight the moment he's exposed to oxygen, Zuckuss pumps his leaking ammonia into one of the Knights' mask and escapes with his life.
Affably Evil: He may be a ruthless bounty hunter, but Zuckuss is amongst the nicer members of his profession and makes friends with other hunters easily.
Bullying a Dragon: While Boba Fett is away from Slave 1, he and 4-LOM try to sneak in it to steal Han Solo (unaware that Crimson Dawn had stolen him first), and when they don't find him, they try to ambush Boba to interrogate him. It ends with Zuckuss nearly falling to his death and Boba stealing 4-LOM's head.
Cloud Cuckoolander: Whether or not it's because of his Force visions working in weird ways, Zuckuss is a little bit out there. Prior to getting hired to hunt down the Millenium Falcon, he claimed that he and 4-LOM were doing charity for children orphaned by the Great Hyperspace Disaster... which happened during the High Republic era (which was over two centuries ago).
Combat Pragmatist: While fighting the Knights of Ren along with T'onga's crew, he gets one of his breathing tubes cut. When it seems he's about to be finished off, Zuckuss retaliates by filtering his leaking ammonia supply into the Knight's helmet.
Cool Starship: He pilots the Mist Hunter, a ship filled with ammonia to make himself feel at home, which also immigrated from Legends.
Covered in Scars: When he is briefly seen without his robes in one issue, Zuckuss is shown to have several scars across his chest, stomach, and arms, presumably from injuries sustained during his Findsman training and career as a bounty hunter.
Danger Sense: His Force-sensitivity and Findsman training gives him one, although it is typically a little vague and only gives him a few seconds to respond.
Disney Villain Death: After failing to ambush Boba Fett, the latter remotely uses Slave 1's laser cannons to blow Zuckuss off a landing platform on Nar Shaddaa. However, Zuckuss nearly holds on, and pleads for his life, even offering Boba advice about his future. Boba promptly kicks him off the platform. This is however, subverted, as he survived the fall.
Et Tu, Brute?: When he was exiled, even his own mother, the person he looked up to the most back on Gand, turned on him.
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: It's shown in flashback that when he was training to be a Findsman, he held his mother in high esteem. However, it's unclear if he still feels this way about her, considering she too turned her back on him when he failed his training ritual.
The Exile: He was exiled from his clan because he failed to bring back a flower from a Charon's nest as part of the findsmen's Rite of Passage, even though he went even further than the conditions of the ritual by tricking the Charon into falling to its death.
Extremophile Lifeforms: As Gands come from a world with an ammonia-based atmosphere, oxygen is toxic to Zuckuss and he requires a respirator mask when away from Gand.
Fat Bastard: In Bounty Hunters, we get see Zuckuss without his respirator and robe onboard a Gand sanctuary station during his depression following his encounter with the rebuilt 4-LOM, revealing that he's got a bit of a belly for a humanoid arthropod and it wasn't just the robe making him look bulky.
Formerly Fit: Flashbacks to his life on Gand show that he used to be skinny.
Gas Mask, Longcoat: Wears a long robe and a respirator, which he needs because Gand breathe ammonia rather than oxygen.
Insectoid Aliens: Zuckuss is a Gand, a species with compound eyes and hard exoskeletons.
My Skull Runneth Over: When attempting to help T'onga's crew navigate the Lost Souls asteroid field (which would require a Force-sensitive's input to safely navigate), Zuckuss experiences a Force-based seizure while trying to tap into the Force as a consequence of the Fermata Cage's destruction. Thankfully, the crew is able to get him out of this thanks to 4-LOM's experience and understanding of his Gand physiology and psychology.
Robot Buddy: 4-LOM is his. They became True Companions during what was supposed to be a competitive hunt after 4-LOM made it clear he was the only person to ever understand Zuckuss and he becomes incredibly depressed when he gets separated from him, when 4-LOM gets reprogrammed to kill him, and 4-LOM runs away despite Zuckuss trying to free him from said reprogramming.
Scarily Competent Tracker: As a Findsman (who are Force-sensitive to a degree), Zuckuss used his uncanny tracking abilities for bounty hunting.
Seers: One of his Force powers as a Findsman is the ability to see the future. In a futile attempt to beg for his life, he predicts Boba drowning in "a sea of red".
Third-Person Person: Like all Gands, he only refers to himself with third-person pronouns. During the hunt in which he first partnered with 4-LOM, his habit of referring to himself in third-person ends up confusing some droid goons, who interpret a message to see their master as him being a messenger for someone else not present.
Villainous BSoD: He goes into a state of depression after 4-LOM is seemingly destroyed by Boba Fett, as 4-LOM was the only person to ever truly understand him. He gets even more depressed when he encounters 4-LOM with a rebuilt body, but reprogrammed to kill him by Cribiriz Idollax in revenge for unknowingly killing his brother, Sribiriz, on their first hunt together, and getting left alone despite freeing 4-LOM from Cribiriz's control. By teaming up with T'onga's crew to find Cadeliah, he eventually reunites with 4-LOM and undoes his reprogramming, breaking him out of his depression.
Villainous Friendship:
- With 4-LOM. The two are very loyal to each other and always have each other's backs during their hunts, with Zuckuss risking his own life to save 4-LOM and restore his original programing and memories after the droid had been sent to kill him, even when it would have been far easier to simply destroy him.
- Zuckuss also considers the rest of Losha's team to be his friends and consistently works to protect them all in battle. He has several opportunities to betray them but never takes them.

Boushh's Group

A group of Ubese who were exiled from their homeworld for various crimes. Boushh now leads them as a small unit of bounty hunters who seek to make enough credits to survive in a hostile galaxy.

In General

Criminal Found Family: They regard each other as replacements for the family they all lost or never had before their exile from Uba IV.
The Exile: Due to being convicted of a crime, they were exiled from their homeworld and wear their suits as a mark of that shame.
Only in It for the Money: They were originally hired by Crimson Dawn to assassinate Domina Tagge for 200,000 credits, but after confronting her, she bought them away by offering 300,000 to know their employer and offering to pull some strings to undo their exile from Uba IV.
Punch-Clock Villain: They are just trying to make a living in a very dangerous galaxy with the skills that they have.
Un-person: Being exiled from Uba IV means the rest of their people and family erased any trace of them from their records.

Boushh

Species: Ubese

Homeworld: Uba IV

Portrayed by: Carrie Fisher

Voiced by: Pat Walsh (Return of the Jedi), Matt Lanter (Forces of Destiny)

Appearances: War of the Bounty Hunters | Doctor Aphra | Forces of Destiny | Return of the Jedi^note

A dangerous bounty hunter once employed by the Black Sun, who was killed by the syndicate after he attempted to blackmail them. Before his death, he had a run-in with Leia Organa and Chewbacca on Ord Mantell. After a firefight that rendered Boushh unconscious, Leia stole his armor to use as a disguise for infiltrating Jabba the Hutt's palace.

Adaptational Sympathy: From what little we knew of him in Legends, Boushh in that continuity was little more than a crook that went over his head and got killed for it. In canon, Boushh is an exile struggling to make ends meet and having a found family of similarly exiled Ubese to care for.
Ascended Extra: In prior Legends stories, most of Boushh's relevance was in regards to the origins of Leia's bounty hunter disguise. While he sometimes showed up in the flesh, it was usually a bit role. In the Crimson Dawn arc of the Canon comics, he gains more characterization beyond being a gun for hire.
Bullying a Dragon: He was killed by the Black Sun, the same crime syndicate he was working for, for trying to blackmail them.
Cool Helmet: He wore a helmet with a vision-enhancement scanner and targeting laser, and the design was decently common among the Ubese.
Criminal Found Family: After losing his family and being exiled from Uba IV for unspecified crimes (and one younger relative of his dying), he found a new family in the form of a group of other exiled Ubese.
Dies Differently in Adaptation: In Legends, Boushh was long dead when Leia got hold of his armor, with it being supplied by the same former Black Sun bodyguard who killed him. In the Forces of Destiny short "Bounty Hunted", Leia encounters him in the flesh and merely incapacitates him before taking his armor. Canonically, it's suggested he was killed by Black Sun afterward.
Evil Laugh: He lets out a sinister chuckle when he's about to blow himself and Leia up with a thermal detonator.
Evil Sounds Deep: At least from his helmet's filter. The voice sounds raspy when speaking in Ubese, but much deeper in Basic.
The Faceless: The real Boushh has yet to be seen without his helmet in canon, and the closest we've seen so far of the real Boushh taking off his helmet had his face offpanel. Legends has shown what he (and Ubese in general) looks like underneath.
Impersonation-Exclusive Character: Leia impersonates him in Return of the Jedi, but he never actually appears in any of the movies.
Mad Bomber: Thermal detonators are in his loadout, and he tried to blow himself and Leia up when he was backed in a corner. Leia played up this aspect of his character when impersonating him.
Mugged for Disguise: Leia got his armor from him after incapacitating him.
The Napoleon: Given that the petite-bodied Leia was impersonating him, Boushh - a male humanoid - was just as small. He also had the audacity to try to blackmail Black Sun and carried explosives.
Posthumous Character: Boushh was killed before his debut appearance, being impersonated by Leia.
Shock Stick: He carried what seemed to be a polearm-type weapon. Forces of Destiny shows it has taser-like functionality when Maz uses it to incapacitate Boushh before he could set off his thermal detonator, likely meaning that he used it to capture bounties alive.
Taking You with Me: After R2-D2 slams him against a wall with an industrial crane, he tries to blow himself and Leia up with a thermal detonator, but Maz Kanata zaps him unconscious before he can kill anyone. Leia got the idea to threaten to blow up everyone in Jabba's throne room from him.
The Unintelligible: In "Bounty Hunted", his Ubese dialect is un-subtitled.

Brene

Species: Ubese

Homeworld: Uba IV

Appearances: War of the Bounty Hunters | Doctor Aphra

The first of Boushh's crew to join him, Brene is a jovial exile and his lieutenant.

Guns Akimbo: Wields two blaster pistols in combat.
In Love with Your Carnage: Upon seeing Domina Tagge slaughter a group of Crimson Dawn operatives, Brene is very attracted to how scary she is.
Tan: She's terrifying.
Brene: I know.
Ilini: You have bad taste, Brene.
Noodle Incident: What caused her exile from Uba IV is unknown.
Number Two: She is second-in-command of the crew.

Hareck

Species: Ubese

Homeworld: Uba IV

Appearances: War of the Bounty Hunters | Doctor Aphra

A large warrior who is married to Ilini. He joined them in exile from Uba IV after helping attempt to cover up their murder of their father.

Battle Couple: With Ilini, his spouse.
The Big Guy: He is the largest of Boushh's group and is their heavy weapons expert.
Even Evil Has Standards: He expresses concern and hesitation after Crimson Dawn hires them to kill the executive board of TaggeCo, noting that it is straight-up assassination and not bounty hunting like they normally do. Boushh counters that they have done worse jobs and that at least the leaders of TaggeCo likely have it coming due to the centuries of blood on the family's hands.
Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Upon encountering a room of young TaggeCo interns in their late teens, Hareck immediately has Ilini lower their blaster and tries to reassure them that they are not there for them and are only looking for the executive board.

Ilini

Species: Ubese

Homeworld: Uba IV

Appearances: War of the Bounty Hunters | Doctor Aphra

Hareck's spouse and another member of Boushh's group.

Ambiguously Absent Parent: While their father is mentioned as having been killed by Ilini, their mother is not mentioned.
Battle Couple: With Hareck, their spouse.
Patricide: They killed their father, who according to Hareck had it coming. This resulted in their exile from Uba IV.

Tans

Species: Ubese

Homeworld: Uba IV

Appearances: War of the Bounty Hunters | Doctor Aphra

The newest member of the group, having been only exiled from Uba IV three years prior.

The Baby of the Bunch: Described as such by their creator Alyssa Wong. In the comic, we see Tans is trying to navigate their recent exile and is relying on the others and their experience to deal with it.
Noodle Incident: What crime resulted in them being exiled from Uba IV has yet to be revealed.

Employed by the Son-tuul Pride

Sister Six

See her page on Star Wars – Rebel Alliance & New Republic Intelligence

Rabael Dir Glorio

Viscount Rabael Dir Glorio

Species: Human (Alderaanian)

Homeworld: Alderaan

Appearances: Doctor Aphra

A mysterious mercenary with skill in swordsmanship. He’s apparently a prince, in fact, 26th in line to the late royal family of Alderaan and the last surviving member of House Glorio. He is hired by Dr. Aphra and the Son-tuul Pride for a mission.

Heroic Sacrifice: He volunteers to delay the stormtroopers attacking the crew's transport. However, he didn't expect Aphra to leave him behind.
Incorruptible Pure Pureness: According to Aphra's Stat-O-Vision, which leads her to distrust him.
Master Swordsman: Takes down several stormtroopers with this.
My Name Is Inigo Montoya: Pretty much the only thing we get of him before he gets screwed over.
Purple Is Powerful: His main color is purple.
Red Baron: He’s known as the Violet Ghost.
Sacrificial Lion: He is the first in Aphra's new crew to die (though we never actually see it happen) to display Aphra's ruthlessness.
Suspiciously Specific Denial: He was away from Alderaan when it got blown up because he was on a “100% legitimate diplomatic visit to the pleasuredomes to Thyron III.”
Token Good Teammate: Aphra describes him as having incorruptible morals. Naturally, that kind of thing can't last in an action-comedy series about criminal scum.
Uncertain Doom: He’s last seen realizing Aphra left him behind and he's cornered by stormtroopers.
We Hardly Knew Ye: It’s implied he doesn't make it to the end of the issue he debuts in.

Glahst Omera

Species: Defel

Appearances: Doctor Aphra

A mercenary obsessed with hiding in the shadows.

Awesome, but Impractical: Always sneaking off in the midst of battles sets up her own death, as it means Tolvan can kill her and impersonate her while no one is looking.
Dirty Coward: Everyone assumes that she's this.
Genuine Human Hide: After Tolvan kills her, Tolvan uses Omera's skin as a disguise.
Informed Ability: Lampshaded. She's supposedly a sneaky bastard who does things behind the scenes, but everyone complains that she doesn't actually do anything, so she probably only sneaks off to loot for herself and hide out for the rest of the battle.
Invisibility: Defels can bend light around themselves, effectively becoming invisible.
The Nose Knows: Has a very sensitive sense of smell.
We Hardly Knew Ye: She's only alive for two issues and then it turns out Tolvan killed her partway through her second appearance.
Wolf Man: She's a Defel, which are wolf-like humanoids.

Saponza's Gang

Saponza

Species: Human

Appearances: Commander

A male human mercenary from Tatooine who established a base of operations in his homestead with his gang.

Badass Bandolier: His character portrait shows him carrying one over his right shoulder to left waist.
Cutting Off the Branches: According to All There in the Manual, Saponza, his partner, and their gang canonically chose to join the Rebel Alliance.
Desert Punk: His base of operations is located in the desert of Tatooine.
Didn't Think This Through: He did not believe Jabba would bother to seek revenge after he and his gang killed several of Jabba's outlaws.
Heel–Face Revolving Door: Downplayed. At the beginning of the game, Darth Vader hires him and his gang to deal with some Tusken Raiders on Tatooine. Later, Princess Leia hires his gang to retake medical supplies from a cartel den. After these missions, he and his gang are forced to pick a side and stick to it.
The Leader: Of his mercenary gang.
Neutral No Longer: Jabba's assault on his base forces him and his gang to pick a side.

Saponza's partner

Saponza's partner-in-crime

Appearances: Commander

An old friend of Saponza, a fellow mercenary based on Tatooine. They and Saponza established a base of operations with their gang at the latter's homestead until they ended up killing several of Jabba the Hutt's outlaws, forcing the gang to choose between joining the Empire or the Rebel Alliance.

Cutting Off the Branches: Canonically, you and the gang chose to join the Rebel Alliance.
Hello, [Insert Name Here]: It is almost whatever name you want it to be.
Player Character: For Commander.

Employed by Black Sun

Ketsu Onyo

Species: Human

Homeworld: Shukut (Mandalorian Space)

Voiced by: Gina Torres

Appearances: Rebels | Rebels Magazine | Forces of Destiny

"Tell me you don't miss it."

A bounty hunter who was once a cadet at the Imperial Academy on Mandalore. She escaped along with fellow cadet Sabine Wren, who was then her partner for a time before Ketsu betrayed her and left her for dead. She encountered Sabine again years later while working for Black Sun.

All There in the Manual: Initially, it went unrevealed as to whether or not Ketsu was actually Mandalorian or she just came from outside of Mandalorian Space to attend the Imperial Academy there (though it raises the question as to why she didn't just attend the Imperial Academy in her own sector), but the Visual Encyclopedia revealed that yes, she is Mandalorian. Scum and Villainy finally names her homeworld as Shukut.
Assassin With A Heart: She can be merciless, but she'll be willing to go against her orders for good friends and people with loved ones.
Badass in Distress: After sparing Jarret, she gets captured and the rebels go off to save her.
The Bus Came Back:
- Makes a surprise return in "The Forgotten Droid", where she's helping the Ghost crew and Phoenix Squadron get to the Yaust system to establish their base. It is implied that she found that piece of intel for them, but unfortunately, her source probably wasn't as trustworthy as she thought.
- After being absent from the show since "The Forgotten Droid", she comes Back for the Finale, having become a rebel in between episodes as we see in Forces of Destiny.
Canon Immigrant: Her homeworld is Shukut, a gas giant at the end of the Mandalorian system.
Changed My Mind, Kid: Turns around and rescues Sabine, and allows her to deliver the courier to the Rebel Alliance, presumably to make up for betraying her in the backstory.
Cool Big Sis: To Sabine. She also shows a bit of this to Ezra towards the end of "Blood Sisters".
Cool Helmet: A helmet based on early concept art of Kylo Ren, or at least a Knight of Ren.
Cool Ship: The Shadow Caster, which is a similar model to Ventress's Banshee.
Dark Action Girl: Works as a bounty hunter for the Black Sun syndicate.
A Day in the Limelight: She receives a comic revolving around one of her hunts, "Too Late to Change", and later appears in a couple more issues as well.
Evil Former Friend: To Sabine.
Good Costume Switch: Sabine paints a yellow starbird over her Black Sun insignia on her armor when she joins the Rebellion.
Heel–Face Turn: To some extent. After Sabine tells Ketsu she forgives her for abandoning her years ago, Ketsu starts to warm up again. When Ketsu is given a chance to cut and run without Sabine again, she instead returns for her. She also interacts amicably with Ezra, Chopper, and Hera afterwards but politely turns down their offers to join the Rebellion, unsure if she wants to leave her position in Black Sun yet, but is happy to help out whenever she can such as finding information on a secure base that they could use. Later on, her Forces of Destiny short with Sabine is about whether or not she feels she's ready to join the Alliance now... and she does, but as a solo operative.
Hidden Heart of Gold: While her pay comes above all else, Ketsu does care for Sabine and is willing to make an exception for her.
Mix-and-Match Weapon: Her main weapon is a pike with a blaster on the tip.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Abandoning Sabine to fend for herself led to Sabine having more trust and abandonment issues that she likely was aware of.
Shadow Archetype: To Sabine, being a former cadet of the Mandalorian Imperial Academy with explosives expertise. While Sabine joined the rebels, Ketsu joined the Black Sun. Ketsu is even wearing Sabine's Season 1 colors.
Tattooed Crook: Has a large tattoo of the Black Sun symbol on the back of her head.
Technicolor Eyes: Hers are a very distinct violet.
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: With Sabine in her debut episode, as while both are after a courier droid with important intel, neither wants it to fall into the Empire's hands. It gets better soon enough, though.
Tomboy and Girly Girl: Uses darker colors in contrast to Sabine's multiple colors including pink, though if anything, they're both tomboys.
We Used to Be Friends: She and Sabine did not part on amicable terms. They make up at the end of her debut episode.

The Partisans

See their own page here.

Unnamed Lasat Mercenary

Species: Lasat

Appearances: Rebel Rising^note | Rebels^note

"And then I saw him. The Lasat calmly walked through smoke and fire to finish my unit off. The injured never had a chance... I always wondered why he let me live."

— Agent Kallus, "The Honorable Ones"

A Lasat mercenary who was hired by rebel leader Saw Gerrera of the Partisans. He was a colleague of one of Saw's allies, Reece Tallent.

Ambiguous Situation: He may be the Fool described in the Prophecy of Three, as his actions led Kallus to attempt to kill Zeb — and both characters have already been stated by Chava to be the Warrior and the Child respectively.
The Cameo: In Rebel Rising, he's mentioned to be one of Reece's men.
Driving Question: Why did he spare Kallus? Was it out of Cruel Mercy? A distaste for that much violence by that point? Did he want Kallus to do something later?
The Quiet One: He's apparently this from what Jyn knows about him according to Rebel Rising.
Unknown Character: We don't know anything about him, but he was key to Kallus finding a motivation as an ISB agent, all because he let him live for whatever reason.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: If he hadn't attacked and offed Kallus' unit minus the man himself, then Kallus might've chosen another career option, his homeworld wouldn't have gotten wasted, and other rebel cells including the Ghost crew and Phoenix Squadron would have one less threat on their hands. Though then again...
Walking Spoiler: The fact that he exists reveals that Kallus has a Freudian Excuse to be an Imperial, but also leads to him having a Heel Realization.
What Happened to the Mouse?: He isn't seen with Saw and/or the other Partisans in Guardians of the Whills and Rogue One, so either he was there and we just didn't see him, he was with another group of Partisans, or he left/died in between the years Kallus first saw him and the time of Guardians of the Whills/Rogue One. He was at least around when the Partisans still made efforts to liberate Onderon some years ago when Jyn was still with them, according to Rebel Rising. Reece also then complains later on in the book (in other words, about five years before Rebels) about how his men have ditched him so they could join Saw.

First active under the New Republic

See the New Republic Era bounty hunters page.

Characters / Star Wars – Bounty Hunters and Mercenaries

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First active in the High Republic Era

From circa 382 BBY

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Vol Garat

Species: Harch

First active under the Old Republic

First active under the Empire

4-LOM

Model: LOM-series protocol droid

Amanaman

Species: Amani

Homeworld: Maridun

Beebox

Captain Beilert Valance

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Caij Vanda

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Chanath Cha

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Deathstick

Species: Zabrak (Dathomirian)

Djas Puhr

Species: Sakiyan

Durge

Species: Gen'Dai

Fissol and Gowski

Species: Ithorian (Fissol), Gamorrean (Gowski)

IG-88B

Model: IG-series assassin droid

IG-90

Model: IG-series assassin droid

Jas Emari

Species: Zabrak

Homeworld: Iridonia

Mayvlin "Mayv" Trillick

Species: Human (Oktarian)

Homeworld: Oktaro

Nik Hepho

Species: Britarro

The Shade

Species: Human

T'onga

Species: Human

Tam Posla

Species: Human

Homeworld: Milvayne

Vect Nokru

Species: Human

Zuckuss

Species: Gand

Homeworld: Gand

Boushh's Group

Boushh

Species: Ubese

Homeworld: Uba IV

Brene

Species: Ubese

Homeworld: Uba IV

Hareck

Species: Ubese

Homeworld: Uba IV

Ilini

Species: Ubese

Homeworld: Uba IV

Tans

Species: Ubese

Homeworld: Uba IV

Employed by the Son-tuul Pride

Sister Six

Viscount Rabael Dir Glorio

Species: Human (Alderaanian)

Homeworld: Alderaan

Glahst Omera