History Literature / TalesFromJabbasPalace

** Literal example with several characters who are turned into a BrainInAJar by the B'omarr monks, especially after they retake control of the palace after Jabba's death. The indicator lights on their life-support systems indicate their emotional state, and red lights indicate the brain is screaming in horror because the person hasn't adjusted to their transformation well.

** The B'omarr monks, the original inhabitants of the palace, have their brains surgically removed and placed in jars upon reaching enlightenment. In this state they can contemplate the cosmos without the distractions of a living body and mundane senses. When the monks choose, the jars do allow for limited hearing, speech, and vision (and the monks are telepathic anyway). They can also summon spider-like droids that carry the brain jars around when they want to move--one of which can be barely glimpsed in the film as C-3PO and R2-D2 enter the palace.
** After Jabba's death, the monks take over the palace, applying their surgical techniques to [[spoiler: Bib Fortuna]] and several others, including Bubo (willingly), Tessek (less willingly) and J'Quille (in the epilogue, where he only consents because he can't stand Tatooine's heat any longer and has a bounty on his head if he ever leaves the planet). In the ''ComicBook/XWingRogueSquadron'' comics we see that [[spoiler: Bib]] got out of it eventually.
* BrainTheft: The ultimate fate of [[spoiler:Bib Fortuna]]. [[ComicBook/XWingRogueSquadron He escapes with a brain theft of his own.]]

* EntertaininglyWrong: EV-9D9 thinks Lando Calrissian has infiltrated Jabba's palace in order to recapture her and bring her back to Cloud City. Of course, as we know from the film, he's more concerned with rescuing Han from Jabba's clutches.

* FullConversionCyborg: Jabba's Palace initially belongs to the B'omarr Order, a group of ascetics who surgically extracted their own brains to become a BrainInAJar as a form of intentional sensory deprivation so they could achieve enlightenment. More senior monks were permitted to connect their brains to cybernetic spider-like bodies for practical needs.

-->Minor religions had been built around Porcellus's beignets in Mos Eisley--scaresly the oddest objects of veneration in that port, it should be added.
* {{Telepathy}}: Tessek develops this as a result of his time with the monks; six months later, he uses it to touch the minds of Han, Leia, Luke and Chewbacca, who all get (and shake off) the same, strange thought as a result: "If ever you return to Jabba's fortress, you will find a free Quarren in the palace."

* WhoEvenNeedsABrain: Played entirely realistically in Bib Fortuna's chapter, where he has the brain removed from his friend Nat Secura's head and [[BrainInAJar transferred to a nutrient jar]]. Nat's body is only still alive because the brain stem was left, specifically so the body would still breathe, but it otherwise remains motionless until it's eaten by the rancor.

** Bib Fortuna remained in the palace, [[spoiler:a brain in a jar]], though he managed to contact other allies and still hoped to escape some day.
** Dannik Jerriko went on a killing spree in the palace and ended up a wanted man.
** Like Mara Jade, Boba Fett was kept very, very busy by his later adventures.
** Yarna Gargan and her business partner Doallyn lived on their new ship and became free traders; Yarna danced for credits when needed, including at Han and Leia's wedding, and there became recruited as a model for a new line of jeweled brassieres. Doallyn managed her new career, with a side job of capturing specimens for zoos. Yarna's son and daughters discovered a talent for music and eventually became a swinging jizz trio.
** Of the other eight stories, six ended with the viewpoint character dead, and two others (Tessek and Bubo) joined the B'omarr monks.

-->'''12-4C-41:''' I am Wuntoo Forcee Forwun. Traffic controller. Second class. [[YouKilledMyFather You deactivated my manufacturing lot-mates.]] [[PrepareToDie Now the equation must be balanced.]]

** J'Quille the Whiphid--on orders from Jabba's chief criminal rival, the Lady Valarian--has bribed the kitchen boy to put slow-acting poison in Jabba's food each day... However, the kitchen boy ends up getting murdered by Dannik Jerriko!

* SeriesContinuityError: In "A Boy and His Monster," Bib Fortuna is rewarded with a promotion to majordomo for bringing Jabba the rancor. In "And the Band Played On," Jabba already has the rancor before the retirement of Bib's predecessor.

* YouNoTakeCandle: How Gartogg the Gamorrean guard speaks, due to his lower intelligence. Head guard Ortugg finds it annoying and yells at him repeatedly to talk normally.

* BlindIdiotTranslation: The Huttese word "fierfek" is generally believed to mean poison, so the chef Porcellus is horrified to learn Jabba thinks he used a "fierfek" on the food. While able to prove his assistant was poisoning Jabba's food, Porcellus is still sentenced to death. As C-3PO explains, Hutts doesn't actually ''have'' a word for poison as their biology is too resilient for many substances to harm them. "Fierfek" actually translates most closely to "hex"; Jabba believed that Porcellus was hexing his food to cause bad luck, which is why so many people who ate it died soon after.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: The anthology has 19 short stories and all contain at least one main character and often several supporting characters unique to that story.

* KarmicDeath: Averted. Bib was ''planning'' one for Jabba but never got a chance to enact it. As part of his coup, he was planning to have Jabba doused in hot grease fromm the kitchen and then slid down the rancor chute.

* BlindIdiotTranslation: The Huttese word "fierfek" is generally believed to mean poison, so the chef Porcellus is horrified to learn Jabba thinks he used a "fierfek" on the food. While able to prove his assistant was poisoning Jabba's food, Porcellus is still sentence to death. As C-3PO explains, Hutts doesn't actually ''have'' a word for poison as their biology is too resilient for many substances to harm them. "Fierfek" actually translates most closely to "hex"; Jabba believed that Porcellus was hexing his food to cause bad luck, which is why so many people who ate it died soon after.

* MultiBoobage: Yarna has six breasts. Justified, in that her species bear multiple young at one time. After she leaves Tatooine she becomes a model for a line of jeweled brassieres.

* BigBeautifulWoman: Yarra, the Fat Dancer, turns out to be one. Although shown as rather ugly in the film, she reveals to Doallyn that she was forced to wear makeup that reminded Jabba of his mother, and her eyes are bright green. Her species retains water to survive desert climates, and she sheds some of the weight almost immediately and becomes more voluptuous.