History Characters / StarWarsCreatures

* HellIsThatNoise: Acklays have a very distinct high-pitched, bone-chilling shriek.

* HellIsThatNoise: They can emit a very chilling and ear-piercing screech. It's actually created by playing some horse noises backwards.

->See their entry on the [[Characters/StarWarsOtherForceUsersAndBeings Other Force Users and Beings]] page under "Force-using creatures"

->See their entry on the [[Characters/StarWarsOtherForceUsersAndBeing Other Force Users and Beings]] page under "Force-using creatures"

* NatureIsNotNice: Unlike the Bendu, the wolves are very upfront about their violent, animalistic side and tend to put other rebels and the Jedi on edge when they're unhappy and snarling at everyone. They've yet to actually hurt anyone, but that's largely because the rebels have mostly gone along with what they want, and Kanan mouthing off to one almost ends poorly before he backtracks. [[spoiler:When Ezra tries to give up, they're openly antagonistic for the first time, chasing and beating him until he gets back into the fight.]]

->'''Appearances:''' ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsTheHighRepublicAdventures2022 The High Republic Adventures (2022)'' | ''Film/{{Solo}}'' | ''Series/{{Andor}}''

* CultureShock: Kaz is surprised to learn that gorgs on the Colossus are usually bought as food and EatenAlive rather than kept as pets.

->'''Appearances:''' ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Rebels]]'' | ''Series/TheMandalorian'' | ''[[WebAnimation/StarWarsGalaxyOfCreatures Galaxy of Creatures]]''

->'''Appearances:''' ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'' | ''Literature/ANewDawn'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Rebels]]'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsForcesOfDestiny Forces of Destiny]]'' | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsAdventures Adventures]]'' | ''Literature/TheMightyChewbacca'' | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsDoctorAphra Doctor Aphra]]'' | ''Series/TheMandalorian'' | ''[[WebAnimation/StarWarsGalaxyOfCreatures Galaxy of Creatures]]'' | ''[[WebAnimation/StarWarsGalacticPals Galactic Pals]]''

->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' | ''[[Literature/StarWarsCatalyst Catalyst]]''

->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/TheLastJedi''

->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'' | ''[[Literature/StarWarsCatalyst Catalyst]]''

* GutturalGrowler: Justified, their vocal cords don't accommodate Basic very well. They mainly stick to wolf vocalizations and body language, and when they do have to speak Basic they only speak one word at a time and it clearly takes effort.

* MonstrousMandibles: They are shown to have splitting mouths in their visual appearances.
* MultipleHeadCase: They've got three heads.

* PoisonousPerson: They are capable of spitting noxious gases.

* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: Unlike most other members of its, the Carkoon Sarlacc only wished to live in harmony with other living creatures, only feeding on plants and micro-organisms. Unfortunately, Jabba decided to take advantage of its immobility.

* NonMaliciousMonster: It only eats the ones unfortunate enough to slip in the pit. In other cases it will leave you alone. That said, ''Legends'' portrayed it as being aware of its victims' suffering and enjoying it as a semi-sentient being — while nothing says it does the same in the new canon, [[SchrodingersCanon nothing says it doesn't either]]. However, baby Sarlaccs are shown to be pretty aggressive in the ''Galaxy's Edge'' comic. In "My Mouth Never Closes", the Carkoon Sarlacc (in contrast to other members of its species) actually annoyed by Jabba feeding people to it, as it does not actually desire to feast on living beings.

* TimeAbyss: The Great Pit of Carkoon Sarlacc has been alive on Tatooine since before it became a desert.

* StrongerWithAge: While purrgil do get old and die, as they grow bigger, they get stronger and can seemingly fly through hyperspace even faster.

* BizarreAlienBiology: They live in deep space, breathe by collecting stores of gas at special asteroids, and can travel through hyperspace.
* CasualInterstellarTravel: ''Ahsoka'' heavily implies that they can travel between ''galaxies''.

* ProtectionInMouth: In the fifth episode of Ahsoka, Ahsoka and Huyang need to pass by an approaching New Republic Fleet undetected. To do so, Ahsoka force-influences a Purgill from a passing pod to open up, and sets her ship inside its mouth to be gently carried out into space.

* ShiplessFasterThanLightTravel: They can naturally enter hyperspace and travel faster than light without the need for mechanical aid, provided that they can gather large quantities of a specific gas first to power their organic hyperdrives. It's speculated in "The Call" that ancient spacefarers witnessing purrgil migrations may have been what inspired the invention of hyperspace travel to begin with.

* RammingAlwaysWorks: They have naturally thick hides that allow them to ram starships without suffering damage themselves. They're a menace in space lanes for this reason. [[spoiler:The biger ones are tough enough to smash through the hull of a Star Destroyer.]]

->'''Appearances:''' ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Rebels]]'' | ''Series/TheMandalorian'' | ''Series/Ahsoka''

->'''Appearances:''' ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Rebels]]'' | ''Series/TheMandalorian''

* ChekhovsGunman: After their initial appearance in season 2, [[spoiler:hundreds appear with their largest members in tow to save the day in the series finale by disabling the Star Destroyers]].

* AdaptationalNonSapience: In ''Legends'', the Sarlacc is semi-sentient and in one story, one of its victim's consciences merged with the Sarlacc's, giving the beast the ability to telepathy talk to its victims as they're slowly digested away. Zigzagged in canon, where the Sarlacc is depicted as just a hungry animal in most stories, and Boba didn't suffer any telepathic MindRape during his brief time in the stomach. In its ''From a Certain Point of View'' story, it's shown that the Sarlacc is actually quite philosophical.
* AdaptationalSympathy: If it's ''From a Certain Point of View'' story is any indication, the Sarlacc from the Great Pit of Carkoon is actually a peaceful creature that doesn't prey on living creatures by choice and is rather frustrated that someone keeps feeding people to it. Unfortunately, most other sentient beings don't understand it, with the only one who was able to being [=C-3PO=]. This is drastic contrast to the ''Legends'' Sarlacc, which was a sadistic monster that psychologically tortured its victims as they were slowly digested alive to pass the time in its sedentary existence.

* ExtremeOmnivore: It devours anything unfortunate enough to get within range of its tentacles.

* NestedMouths: It has two mouths. One is the giant maw of sharp teeth that is visible on the surface of the pit. The second is a retractable beak-like tentacle that lies in the center, waiting swallow the unfortunate victim and make escape practically impossible.
* NonMaliciousMonster: It only eats the ones unfortunate enough to slip in the pit. In other cases it will leave you alone. That said, ''Legends'' portrayed it as being aware of its victims' suffering and enjoying it as a semi-sentient being — while nothing says it does the same in the new canon, [[SchrodingersCanon nothing says it doesn't either]]. However, baby Sarlaccs are shown to be pretty aggressive in the ''Galaxy's Edge'' comic. In its story in ''From a Certain Point of View'', it's actually annoyed by Jabba feeding people to it, as it does not actually desire to feast on living beings.

* ShoutOut: The sound the creature's head emits is a distorted "[[Creator/HideoKojima Kojima]]".

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: It’s massive skull looks to be significantly larger than a Rancor’s.
* EarlyBirdCameo: As the symbol of the Mandalorian people, it’s skull was first seen on a pauldron of Boba Fett’s armor in the Original Trilogy. The same symbol peridocailly crept up whenever the Fett’s or Mandos made appearances elsewhere, but the beast itself didn’t appear until 2023’s The Mandalorian Season 3.

* ShroudedInMyth: It’s lair became a sort of tourist attraction and planetary heirloom since it hadn’t been seen in eons. Bo Katan is shocked to see it there.

->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' | ''[[WebAnimation/StarWarsGalaxyOfCreatures Galaxy of Creatures]]''

->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''

* AndIMustScream: According to ''Legends'', Sarlacc's victims spend a solid millennium being digested alive while kept paralyzed in constant agony by a potent neurotoxin. In canon, it seems to be an exaggerated story told by Jabba to terrify his executees, as Boba would have died of suffocation in the belly had he not found a seemingly dead stormtrooper with a still-usable oxygen tank.

->'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefront Battlefront]]'' | ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' | ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'' | Marvel's ''Galaxy's Edge''

* AdaptationalNonSapience: In ''Legends'', the Sarlacc is semi-sentient and in one story, one of its victim's consciences merged with the Sarlacc's, giving the beast the ability to telepathy talk to its victims as they're slowly digested away. In canon, the Sarlacc is depicted as just a hungry animal, and Boba didn't suffer any telepathic MindRape during his brief time in the stomach.

* NonMaliciousMonster: It only eats the ones unfortunate enough to slip in the pit. In other cases it will leave you alone. That said, ''Legends'' portrayed it as being aware of its victims' suffering and enjoying it as a semi-sentient being — while nothing says it does the same in the new canon, [[SchrodingersCanon nothing says it doesn't either]]. However, baby Sarlaccs are shown to be pretty aggressive in the ''Galaxy's Edge'' comic.

->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Solo}}''

[[folder:Nightwatcher Worm]]
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->'''Homeworld:''' Jakku
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsForcesOfDestiny Forces of Destiny]]''

Also known as "Arconan night terrors" and "sandborers". They are a species of nocturnal sand-boring worms native to Jakku. Mature specimens top 20 meters in length, although some are reputed to be much larger.

* BigLittleMan: Only the creature's hammer-shaped head can be seen in ''The Force Awakens'', observing BB-8 as he flees the First Order's attack. The whole creature appears in ''Forces of Destiny''.
* BizarreAlienBiology: The worms have mutliple tentacle-shaped tongues and a nasal horn-like limb that ends with a hammer-shaped head. Said head includes the Nightwatcher's eyes, it is used like a periscope when the beast is hiding under the sand.
* CallBack: Their hammer-shaped heads give them a superficial resemblance to the sentient [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Arcona Arcona species]], which earned them the alternate name of "Arconan night terrors". Indeed, the one we see in ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' (which may or may not be the same individual that Rey and BB-8 encounter later on) raises its head and turns it around while seeing BB-8 roll by in the same way as [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Hem_Dazon Hem Dazon]], an Arcona patron of Chalmun's Cantina who is the first non-Jawa or non-Tusken alien to appear in ''Film/ANewHope''.
* ExtremeOmnivore: They can eat anything, since their mouthparts can grind metal into scrap, and their stomachs generate acid to melt down anything they cannot digest.
* FastTunnelling: They move very fast under the sand.
* HungryMenace: One of them tries to eat BB-8 in ''Forces of Destiny'' (after presumably following him since the First Order attack night in ''The Force Awakens''), purely out of hunger. After saving BB-8 from the creature, Rey feeds the Nightwatcher with metal scrap.
* SandWorm: They live in the sands of Jakku. They remain under the sands motionless, but at the slightest vibration from something moving on the surface, they spring up and snap onto their preys.
* ShoutOut: The sound the creature's head emits is a distorted "[[Creator/HideoKojima Kojima]]".

!Expansion Region

[[folder:Acklay]]
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->'''Homeworld:''' Vendaxa
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' | ''[[Literature/StarWarsCatalyst Catalyst]]''

A six-legged creature similar to a crustacean, the acklay is a very dangerous predator on its homeworld.

* BigCreepyCrawlies: A ferocious crab/mantis hybrid with the jaws of a ''Velociraptor''.
* CripplingOverspecialization: According to WordOfGod, the reason it wasn't able to just ''stab'' its claw into Obi-Wan is this trope; the Acklay comes from a tropical planet without a lot of light, so its eyes are best adjusted and suited to low light levels. On the bright, sunny desert planet Geonosis, the Acklay's eyesight is very poorly suited and so it can't get a particularly good look at Obi-Wan.
* ExtraEyes: It has a total of three.
* HellIsThatNoise: Acklays have a very distinct high-pitched, bone-chilling shriek.
* MixAndMatchCritters: It looks like a cross between a crab, a praying mantis and a dinosaur.
* NoSell: Obi-Wan tries to toss a spear into its hide. Its response is to pull the spear out of its own body and ''snap it in half with its teeth''.
* SeaMonster: They are primarily aquatic creatures and in nature normally inhabit their homeworld's oceans, but occasionally emerge onto land to hunt their prey.

!Mid Rim

[[folder:Gorg]]
->'''Homeworld:''' Castilon
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsResistance Resistance]]'' | ''[[WebAnimation/StarWarsGalaxyOfCreatures Galaxy of Creatures]]''

Frog-like creatures with piranha-like teeth. They are considered a tasty delicacy by many alien species and are used as bait for the aquatic creatures in the oceans of Castilon.