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| 17 | [[header:Tatooine]] |
| 18 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tatooine_2.png]] |
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| 20 | ->'''Location:''' Tatoo System, Arkanis Sector, Outer Rim Territories |
| 21 | ->'''Native Species:''' Jawas, Tuskens |
| 22 | ->'''Fauna:''' Bantha, Canyon krayt dragon, Dewback, Dune worm, Eopie, Gorg, Greater krayt dragon, Jerba, Massiff, Rancor (In captivity), Rock wart, Ronto, Sandfly, Sarlacc, Scurrier, Womp rat, Worrt |
| 23 | |
| 24 | -->''"Well, if there's a bright center to the universe, you're on the planet that it's farthest from."'' |
| 25 | --->--'''Luke Skywalker''' |
| 26 | |
| 27 | A desert planet located in a binary star system, Tatooine was a lawless world controlled by the Hutts, specifically Jabba the Hutt, whose palace was located on the world. As such, Tatooine was a popular destination for criminals and bounty hunters to ply their trade or hide. Lacking any significant sources of water, many residents made their living by drawing water from the atmosphere on moisture farms. The planet was orbited by three moons, Ghomrassen, Guermessa, and Chenini. |
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| 29 | * AllPlanetsAreEarthLike: Notable zig-zag. While the part we see does resemble Earth's deserts[[labelnote:Note]]since its scenes in the film were shot in Tunisia and Death Valley[[/labelnote]], Tatooine as a whole is rather alien. It has two suns for example. Only a relatively small part of the northern hemisphere is considered habitable by intelligent life, and the whole southern hemisphere is too hot for anything but extremophile bacteria. |
| 30 | * BadGuyBar: Chalmun's Cantina in Mos Eisley is a popular hangout for smugglers, bounty hunters, murderers, and other even less savory beings. |
| 31 | * BinarySuns: One of the most famous examples in popular culture. |
| 32 | * BrightIsNotGood: Tatooine is a planet with clear yellow deserts, a bright blue sky, and orange sunsets, and it's considered one of the worst places in the galaxy on account of its crime rate, environmental problems, and simple dreariness. |
| 33 | * CrapsackWorld: Let's see: Tatooine is a desert planet and has dangerous sandstorms, slavery is legal, the rulers of the world are a violent criminal cartel, dangerous beasts are found everywhere including one that drags your death out for a thousand years, dangerous criminals go in hiding there or stop by the planet, and one of the two native species attack everyone who is not them. Plus, the Old Republic had no jurisdictions there. At the very least, it's implied to have become more peaceful decades after Jabba the Hutt died. |
| 34 | * DeadlyDustStorm: Massive sandstorms are a frequent hazard on Tatooine. |
| 35 | * DyingTown: The death of Jabba the Hutt and the upheaval of the criminal underworld that followed hit the cities of Tatooine hard. Mos Eisley, in particular, is now a shell of its former self. The once bustling streets are now empty, the Bounty Hunters' Guild doesn't bother to operate there anymore, and Chalmun's Cantina barely has any customers. When Rey makes a pilgrimage to Tatooine to bury the lightsabers of her masters, the lone resident that she runs into notes that there haven't been visitors for a very long time. |
| 36 | * HadToBeSharp: Out in the desert, you have to contend with dangerous wildlife, Sand People, Jawas, sandstorms, and the general arid ruggedness of the terrain, as well as access to supplies and assistance being a fair distance away. In the cities, you have to deal with criminals at all levels of organization and brutality. As a result, a surprisingly number of Tatooine natives are surprisingly competent in a wide array of necessary skills, from piloting to technical to marksmanship to rock climbing. |
| 37 | * HatedHometown: Neither Anakin nor Luke Skywalker have fond memories of this planet. |
| 38 | * MetalPoorPlanet: It was originally settled as a mining colony but this was soon abandoned as most of the metal was on the surface. |
| 39 | * RecurringLocation: Being the homeworld of Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader and the adoptive homeworld of Luke Skywalker, it is hardly a surprise that Tatooine is one of the most featured planets in the Canon. It also has a degree of relevance outside of this, due to being the home of Jabba the Hutt and the planet where Boba Fett was stuck on for several years. In a sense, it's kind of ironic that the planet farthest from the bright center of the universe ends up being one of the most visited in the franchise. |
| 40 | * SchrodingersCanon: In ''Legends'', long before the films themselves, Tatooine used to be a pristine world full of vast oceans and extensive jungles that was home to an advanced humanoid civilization known as the Kumumgah, who began colonizing nearby star systems, something which unfortunately drew the attention of the [[AbusivePrecursors Rakatan Infinite Empire]]. The Rakata invaded the planet and enslaved its inhabitants, but, after a terrible plague caused the Rakata to lose their connection to the Force, the Kumumgah took the chance and revolted against their masters, successfully driving them away from their world. In response, the Rakata subjected the planet to an orbital bombardment that "glassed" (that is, fused the silica in the soil into glass, which then broke up over time into sand) the planet and boiled its oceans away, turning it into the desertic world it is today. The Kumumgah split into two races as a result of this change, the Tusken Raiders and the Jawas. Likewise, Tatooine may have earned its name after the Jawa name for the planet, Tah-doo-Een-e. In ''The Book of Boba Fett'', the Tuskens make numerous references to Tatooine having once had plentiful water, though no further detail on what happened to the water is thus far forthcoming. The Sarlacc's tale "My Mouth Never Closes" in ''From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi'' also confirms that Tatooine used to be a jungle world, but no word on what caused it to become a desert (and while the Rakata have been recanonized, their involvement in it has yet to be confirmed). |
| 41 | * SeaOfSand: Tatooine is a [[SingleBiomePlanet desert planet]] that has negligible surface water or plant life, and whose natives mostly consist of a few WretchedHive spaceports and alien DesertBandits. The so-called Dune Sea is a particular example: while many parts of Tatooine are rocky crags and mountains, the Dune Sea is a vast stretch of near-featureless sand that even the native life mostly avoids. |
| 42 | * SingleBiomePlanet: The world is nothing but scorching desert with icecaps at the poles that nobody visits. Why or how there is anyone living there is unknown. |
| 43 | * SoapOperaRapidAgingSyndrome: This planet is the place where people age far quicker than they would anywhere else due to the scorching twin suns. Obi-Wan goes from 34 year-old Creator/EwanMcGregor to 63 year-old Creator/AlecGuinness after living on the planet for 19 years ''while'' being burdened with immense trauma and stress which only accelerated his aging process (though since Obi-Wan was meant to be 38 when he arrived on Tatooine, the disparity isn't that great) while Boba Fett, after spending five years wandering the deserts of Tatooine, looks like a 59-year old Creator/TemueraMorrison despite being only 41 years old in-canon. The Larses suffer from it as well, going from a young couple in (at their earliest) mid-20s to looking old enough to be Luke's ''grandparents'' in ''A New Hope''. |
| 44 | * ThirstyDesert: The planet is a massive desert with no water, with the exception of a few moisture farms. |
| 45 | * {{Tuckerization}}: Behind the scenes, the planet was named after Tataouine, a real-world town in UsefulNotes/{{Tunisia}}, whose deserts were the location in which most of the scenes taking place on Tatooine had been filmed through the franchise. One of its moons, Ghomrassen, is named after a city in Tunisia located 16 miles from Tataouine. |
| 46 | * WretchedHive: The whole world, but Obi-Wan Kenobi notes the TropeNamer, Mos Eisley, is the worst. |
| 47 | -->'''Obi-Wan:''' Mos Eisley Spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. |
| 48 | |
| 49 | !!Lars Homestead |
| 50 | |
| 51 | [[folder:Shmi Skywalker-Lars]] |
| 52 | !!Shmi Skywalker-Lars |
| 53 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shmi_skywalker_sw.png]] |
| 54 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"Now, be brave. Don't look back."'']] |
| 55 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 56 | |
| 57 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Pernilla August |
| 58 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' | ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]''[[note]]As an illusion created by the Son of Mortis[[/note]] | ''[[ComicBook/DarthVaderDarkLordOfTheSith Dark Lord of the Sith]]''[[note]]vision only[[/note]] | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsDarthVader Darth Vader]]''[[note]]flashback only[[/note]] |
| 59 | |
| 60 | -->''"There was no father. I carried him, I gave birth, I raised him... I can't explain what happened."'' |
| 61 | |
| 62 | Anakin Skywalker's mother, a brave and resilient woman who spent much of her life enslaved in Mos Espa. Years after surrendering her son to the Jedi Order to give him a better life, she was freed by moisture farmer Cliegg Lars, whom she subsequently married. She would later be kidnapped and killed by Tusken raiders, an event that served as an early catalyst for her son's fall to TheDarkSide. |
| 63 | ---- |
| 64 | * BackForTheDead: After being PutOnABus in ''The Phantom Menace'', she returns briefly in ''Attack of the Clones'', only to die in the same scene. |
| 65 | * BadassNormal: Downplayed. You'd have to be a certain level of badass to survive on Tatooine, especially as a single mother and a slave. |
| 66 | * BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Inverted. In ''Attack of the Clones'', Shmi displays the worst outer injuries of anyone else in the film due to the torture she endured--and that's saying a lot considering we see one person die by explosion, another by decapitation, and another lose an arm; her face in particular is bruised, swollen, and covered in cuts. |
| 67 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: She dies from a month's worth of [[ColdBloodedTorture torture and abuse]] at the hands of a Tusken Raider camp. |
| 68 | * DeathByOriginStory: Avenging her death is Anakin's first major step towards the DarkSide. |
| 69 | * DamselInDistress: in ''Attack of the Clones'', it's discovered she was abducted by Tusken Raiders and has been gone for a month. Anakin manages to track her down, but unfortunately she dies of her injuries. |
| 70 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Implied. Though her past isn't explored in any real detail in the films, she's been a slave for much of her life, raised Anakin completely alone with no partner or family to support her and has little hope for a better life. The best things she's got going for her are that Watto is comparatively kinder to her than other masters and she has a son she adores. And this is to say nothing of [[spoiler: Darth Sidious's apparent involvement in her son's conception.]] |
| 71 | * DeterminedHomesteader: She became this, helping Cliegg run his moisture farm after they got married. She's so determined she survives being kidnapped and tortured for a whole month, far beyond what most people expected. |
| 72 | * {{Determinator}}: In ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', she is beaten and starved by a group of Tusken Raiders and tortured for a month, but her memories of Anakin are all she needs to survive. Unfortunately, her determination gives out shortly after Anakin returns to rescue her. |
| 73 | * DiedInYourArmsTonight: Her fate in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' when Anakin arrives too late to save her from a Tusken camp. |
| 74 | * DiesWideOpen: When she dies in Anakin's arms, her eyes remain open. He closes them shut afterwards. |
| 75 | * DontLookBack: She gives Anakin the strength to leave Tatooine by telling him not to look back at her in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''. |
| 76 | * DueToTheDead: |
| 77 | ** Anakin returns her body to the Lars homestead after her death. She is buried in the family plot, where her husband Cliegg delivers a eulogy describing her as "the most loving partner a man could ever have", while Anakin [[ILetGwenStacyDie expresses regret he couldn't save her]] and vows never to "fail" again. |
| 78 | ** Decades later, Rey would give a symbolic funeral to her two grandchildren by burying their lightsabers (one of which was her son's lightsaber) near the site of her own burial. |
| 79 | * DyingDeclarationOfLove: A non-romantic example; she tries to tell her grown-up son that she loves him, but dies before she can fully say it. |
| 80 | * GoodParents: She loves Anakin dearly and willingly gives him up so he can have a life beyond slavery. She also serves as a [[GoodStepmother loving stepmother]] to Owen Lars. |
| 81 | * GoodStepmother: Shmi was a loving maternal figure to her stepson, Owen. |
| 82 | * HappilyMarried: It seems she was this to Cliegg Lars, who indicates it as such in his loving eulogy during her funeral in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''. |
| 83 | * HappinessInSlavery: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. She doesn't seem ''happy'' exactly, but she is content with remaining on Tatooine as a slave while Anakin leaves for a better life in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' (it helps that Watto is a relatively benign master). That doesn't stop Cliegg Lars from buying her freedom and marrying her sometime before ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''. |
| 84 | * HouseWife: She's very much a stay-at-home mother, with C-3PO built by Anakin to help her around the house. |
| 85 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: A familial example. She encourages Anakin to leave her behind on Tatooine and become a Jedi, firmly believing her son deserves "more than a slave's life" even if it means being separated from him. |
| 86 | * KilledMidSentence: She can only tell Anakin "I love..." before she expires. |
| 87 | * MadeASlave: She is a slave owned by Watto when she first appears. It's unknown if she's specifically a case of this trope or BornIntoSlavery (in the ''Legends'' continuity, she was enslaved as a child after her family were captured by pirates). It is known that Watto was far from her first master; prior to being won in a bet by Watto, she and her son were owned by Gardulla the Hutt and before ''that'', she was bought by the Hutts from a slave market not unlike the ones on Zygerria (which Anakin notes in "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E12SlavesOfTheRepublic Slaves of the Republic]]"). |
| 88 | * MadonnaArchetype: She's a strongwilled slave woman living in a desert, whose son was apparently immaculately conceived (possibly by the Force itself) and destined to bring balance to the Force. And he did...after [[FallenHero falling]] to the Dark Side, assisting in the Empire's evil as TheDragon, before being [[HeelFaceTurn brought back to the Light]] by dying to save his son. [[note]] Interestingly, Pernilla August also portrayed the actual Virgin Mary in the 1999 film ''Mary, Mother of Jesus'' [[/note]] |
| 89 | * MissingMom: Downplayed. Shmi was a devoted mother to Anakin until he was taken to be a Jedi when he was nine. He spent the next decade training to be a Jedi Knight, and when they finally meet again, she dies in his arms. |
| 90 | * MeaningfulRename: After marrying Cliegg, her last name went from "Skywalker" to "Lars". |
| 91 | * MysticalPregnancy: She tells Qui-Gon that Anakin had no father and that she can't explain how she came to conceive him. |
| 92 | * NiceGirl: Despite her hard life, she is a genuinely caring and gentle person. Anakin states she once told him that "the biggest problem in this universe is nobody helps each other". |
| 93 | * NothingIsScarier: We never find out exactly what was done to her during her captivity with the Tusken Raiders. When Anakin finds her, she's covered in cuts and bruises and barely clinging to life, so it certainly wasn't pleasant. |
| 94 | * ObiWanMoment: She knows that she's dead when Anakin finds her in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', and declares herself "complete" when she lays eyes on him one last time. |
| 95 | * ParentalSubstitute: It's hinted she became one to her stepson Owen, as his own mother died when he was young and he is clearly distressed by her kidnapping and death. |
| 96 | * ParentsInDistress: A big part of Anakin's story in ''Attack of the Clones'' is that he [[PsychicDreamsForEveryone keeps having nightmares]] about Shmi being in danger. He becomes concerned enough that he goes to Tatooine to find her and learns she's been kidnapped by Tusken Raiders. Despite everyone else believing she's dead, Anakin refuses to give up hope and goes on a long trek across the desert to find and save her. He finally manages to [[HopeSpot track her down]]...but tragically, she dies in his arms from the torture and abuse she's suffered. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge He proceeds to kill every single one of the Tusken Raiders in the camp in a grief-fueled rage]]. Anakin's inability to save Shmi has a serious impact on his psyche, eventually becoming a factor in his turn to the DarkSide. |
| 97 | * ParentsKnowTheirChildren: She almost immediately recognizes Anakin in ''Attack of the Clones'', even though she's barely conscious and it's been ten years since she last saw him (he was only nine at the time). The fact Anakin specifically calls her "Mom" probably helps. |
| 98 | * PietaPlagiarism: The scene where she dies in Anakin's arms is reminiscent of this, as well the later scene where Anakin carries her wrapped body to the Lars homestead after her death. |
| 99 | * PlotTriggeringDeath: Shmi's death due to the torture she received by the Tusken Raiders was the first step that put Anakin on the path to the DarkSide. |
| 100 | * PresentAbsence: Very much so in ''[[Literature/StarWarsQueensShadow Queen's Shadow]]''. Although she never makes a physical appearance in the story, Padmé thinks about her multiple times and she is a driving factor in Sabé's plotline. Namely, Padmé always regretted being forced to leave Shmi in slavery and intended to return to Tatooine to free her and other slaves after her term as queen ended. When her senatorial duties prevent this, Padmé sends Sabé to Tatooine in her place, while she herself tries to bring up the issue of slavery in the Senate. Sabé is [[ForegoneConclusion unable to find Shmi]], but she and Padmé still tried to help her and she was never far from their minds. |
| 101 | * TheQuietOne: She doesn't have too many lines in her debut movie or subsequent appearances (it's justified in ''Attack of the Clones'', as she's only in one scene and barely has the strength to stay alive, let alone speak). When she does talk, she's usually very soft-spoken as well. |
| 102 | * RagsToRiches: Downplayed. Shmi was a slave for most of her life and in-between ''The Phantom Menace'' and ''Attack of the Clones'', she was freed by Cliegg, who would later be her husband. Afterwards, Shmi had a more comfortable life as a housewife and moisture farmer. |
| 103 | * ReunionVow: She promises Anakin they will see each other again someday before he leaves for Jedi training in ''The Phantom Menace'', while he promises to [[IShallReturn return and free her]]. They are finally reunited ten years later in ''Attack of the Clones''; unfortunately, it's in Shmi's dying moments. |
| 104 | * SacrificialLion: Shmi is a supporting character in ''The Phantom Menace'' and, though she's offscreen for most of ''Attack of the Clones'', she's [[PresentAbsence still significant]] to Anakin's arc. Anakin's quest to save Shmi in the second half of the film ultimately [[AllForNothing ends with her death]]; Shmi dying is one of the key inciting incidents for Anakin's eventual [[ProtagonistJourneyToVillain transformation into Darth Vader]] and marks the point where the Prequel Trilogy takes a [[DarkerAndEdgier much darker turn]]. It also sets up one of the main plot threads of the next film, ''Revenge of the Sith''; when Anakin starts [[DreamingOfThingsToCome getting nightmares about]] [[LoveInterest Padmé]] dying in childbirth, it is explicitly compared to the [[HistoryRepeats earlier incident]] with Shmi and he becomes fixated on trying to prevent another tragedy, which [[TheCorrupter Palpatine]] exploits to persuade him to fall to the Dark Side. |
| 105 | * SchrodingersCanon: In ''Legends'', she was a [[WrenchWench skilled mechanic]] like her son Anakin. |
| 106 | * SecondLove: To Cliegg. [[AllThereInTheManual He met his first wife, Aika, on a Core World where they married and had Owen, but she died when Owen was very young and Cliegg moved with him back to his family's moisture farm on Tatooine]]. He met Shmi some time after 32 BBY and the two fell in love, with Cliegg buying her from Watto to free her and marrying her. |
| 107 | * ShippingTorpedo: When Anakin encounters Shmi's 'spectre' in "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E15Overlords Overlords]]", she urges him to leave Padmé, saying he doesn't truly love her and that she is "poison" to him. [[PlayingWithATrope However]], as it turns out this is actually the Son impersonating Shmi, it's unclear what the real Shmi would've thought of Anakin and Padmé's relationship. |
| 108 | * SlaveLiberation: ''Queen's Hope'' reveals that Shmi was heavily involved in leading a underground organization called the White Suns alongside the Lars that helped to free slaves and disable the trackers and bombs implanted within them. |
| 109 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: Shmi has very little ''personal'' effect on the galaxy, but she's one of the lynch pins of ''everything'' that goes down in the prequel and original trilogies: she gives birth to the Chosen One and it's her death that sets her son down the path of the DarkSide. |
| 110 | * SoProudOfYou: She tells Anakin as much after he wins the Boonta Eve Classic in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''. It's also one of the last things she manages to tell Anakin before she dies in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''. |
| 111 | * TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: She is among the most kindhearted souls in the ''Star Wars'' canon, yet meets her end at the hands of a barbaric tribe of Tusken Raiders. At her funeral, Cliegg states "I know wherever you are, it's become a better place". |
| 112 | * TrulySingleParent: She conceived Anakin without a father; Qui-Gon speculates he was conceived by the Force. |
| 113 | * YankTheDogsChain: Between the events of ''The Phantom Menace'' and ''Attack of the Clones'', she is freed from slavery by Cliegg Lars, finds love with him, and becomes a stepmother to his son Owen. She's then abducted and tortured to death by Tusken Raiders and dies moments after finally getting to see her beloved son for the first time in ten years. |
| 114 | [[/folder]] |
| 115 | |
| 116 | [[folder:Cliegg Lars]] |
| 117 | !!Cliegg Lars |
| 118 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cliegg_lars_sw.png]] |
| 119 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 120 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 121 | !!!'''Homeworld:''' Tatooine |
| 122 | |
| 123 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/JackThompson |
| 124 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' |
| 125 | |
| 126 | -->''"Shmi is my wife. Come inside, we've got a lot to talk about."'' |
| 127 | |
| 128 | A humble and hardworking moisture farmer from Tatooine and the father of Owen Lars. He freed and married Shmi Skywalker after buying her from Watto, becoming Anakin's stepfather. |
| 129 | ---- |
| 130 | * AllThereInTheManual: A lot of his background is given in the ''Star Wars Character Encyclopedia: Updated and Expanded''. |
| 131 | * AnArmAndALeg: He lost his right leg to Tusken Raiders while searching for Shmi. According to Lucasfilm, he dies of his injuries and [[DespairEventHorizon a broken heart]] shortly afterward. |
| 132 | * BrutalHonesty: Though he's clearly grieved, he bluntly tells Anakin he should accept his mother is dead. As it turns out, Shmi is still alive, but she dies from her ordeal shortly after Anakin finds her. |
| 133 | * ButtMonkey: The [[AllThereInTheManual expanded material]] reveals more details about Cliegg's life and it's pretty darn depressing. His brother Edern died when he was only fourteen in a landspeeder accident and his first wife Aika died when their son was very young, leaving him to rear Owen and run the family farm alone. In the films themselves, we know he found love again with Shmi... only for her to be dragged off to a horrible fate by Tusken Raiders. Cliegg was badly injured in an unsuccessful attempt to rescue her and dies sometime after Anakin returns her body to them. |
| 134 | * CartwrightCurse: The poor guy is widowed ''twice''. |
| 135 | * DespairEventHorizon: When Anakin meets him, he's still grieving Shmi's loss to the Tusken Raiders one month earlier, and has long since given up hope of seeing her alive again. |
| 136 | * DisappearedDad: Downplayed. Cliegg was present in Owen's life but had an [[KilledOffscreen offscreen death]] between the events of ''Attack of the Clones'' and ''Revenge of the Sith''. Also, to Anakin, as Cliegg is his step-father, but the former was away training in the Jedi Order. |
| 137 | * FantasticRacism: He says that Tusken Raiders "walk like men, but they're vicious, mindless monsters." Then again, considering they kidnapped and tortured to death his wife, killed 26 of his fellow farmers when they tried to rescue her, ''and'' injured him so badly he lost a leg, his views are understandable. |
| 138 | * HappilyMarried: During Shmi's funeral, he calls her "the most loving partner a man could ever have". |
| 139 | * KilledOffscreen: He apparently died offscreen between the events of ''Attack of the Clones'' and ''Revenge of the Sith''. |
| 140 | * NiceGuy: From what little we see of him, he seems to be a pretty decent guy. He bought Shmi from Watto specifically so he could free her and is welcoming towards Anakin and Padmé, treating his stepson with sympathy over what happened to his mother. His son Owen also turned out to be a decent person, so it can be assumed he was a [[GoodParents good father]]. |
| 141 | * PermaStubble: Has this, which may be due to [[BeardOfSorrow his sorrow over Shmi's kidnapping.]] |
| 142 | * SlaveLiberation: Type B; he falls in love with Shmi while she's enslaved to Watto, and buys her so he can free and marry her. |
| 143 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: His freeing and marrying Shmi made Owen stepbrothers with Anakin; he and his wife Beru later adopt Anakin's son Luke after Anakin's FaceHeelTurn. |
| 144 | * TalkingToTheDead: In his eulogy to his late wife, he talks to Shmi's grave directly, telling her how much he loves her, that he thinks wherever she is now has become "[[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth a better place]]", and bidding her farewell. |
| 145 | * UptownGuy: Downplayed. He's a moisture farmer, which is not a money-filled job but is certainly better than being a slave. Like what his wife Shmi was. |
| 146 | [[/folder]] |
| 147 | |
| 148 | [[folder:Owen and Beru Lars]] |
| 149 | !!Owen Lars and Beru Whitesun-Lars |
| 150 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/owen_lars_sw.png]] |
| 151 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 152 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/beru_lars_sw.png]] |
| 153 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 154 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see them in their younger years]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/beru_and_owen_star_wars_attack_of_the_clones_36921596_481_313.jpg]][[/labelnote]] |
| 155 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 156 | !!!'''Homeworld:''' Tatooine |
| 157 | |
| 158 | ->'''Owen portrayed by:''' Phil Brown (''Film/ANewHope''), Creator/JoelEdgerton (Prequel Trilogy, ''Series/ObiWanKenobi'') |
| 159 | ->'''Beru portrayed by:''' Shelagh Fraser (''Film/ANewHope''), Bonnie Piesse (Prequel Trilogy, ''Series/ObiWanKenobi'') |
| 160 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' | ''[[Literature/StarWarsQueensHope Queen's Hope]]''[[note]]Beru, flashbacks only[[/note]] | ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' | ''ComicBook/StarWarsMarvel2015'' | ''Series/ObiWanKenobi'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Rebels]]''[[note]]Beru, voice only[[/note]] | ''Film/ANewHope'' | ''Literature/FromACertainPointOfView'' | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsDarthVader Darth Vader]]''[[note]]flashback[[/note]] |
| 161 | |
| 162 | ->'''Beru:''' Luke's just not a farmer, Owen. He has too much of his father in him.\ |
| 163 | '''Owen:''' That's what I'm afraid of. |
| 164 | |
| 165 | Owen was the son of Cliegg Lars from his previous marriage and the stepbrother of Anakin Skywalker. At the behest of Obi-Wan Kenobi, he and his wife Beru adopted their nephew and Anakin's son, Luke. |
| 166 | ---- |
| 167 | [[AC:Tropes that apply to both]] |
| 168 | * BabiesEverAfter: Downplayed. ''Revenge of the Sith'' shows how Owen and Beru came into the custody of their nephew, Luke. His biological parents were unable to care for him (and his sister, Leia) -- Anakin had fallen to the Dark Side and Padmé died. An infant Luke was then sent to his uncle and aunt to protect him from the Empire (while Leia was adopted by the Organas for the same reason). |
| 169 | * BadassNormal: Are shown to be this in ''Obi-Wan Kenobi'', as the two briefly hold their own against [[spoiler:an Inquisitor]] with nothing but a couple of blasters and farm equipment, albeit one who was [[WorfHadTheFlu previously wounded in a recent battle,]] despite having no Force powers of any kind. Not bad for a couple of moisture farmers. |
| 170 | * BattleCouple: [[spoiler:They work together in fighting Reva to protect Luke.]] |
| 171 | * BystanderSyndrome: They have no interest in galactic affairs. They believe the Rebellion and the Empire are no better than the Separatists and the (corrupt) Old Republic respectively. Owen believed Anakin should have stayed on Tatooine and not get involved in "some damn fool idealistic crusade". |
| 172 | -->'''Luke:''' I can't get involved, I've got work to do! It's not that I like the Empire, I hate them, but there's nothing I can do about it right now!\ |
| 173 | '''Obi-Wan:''' That's your uncle talking. |
| 174 | * TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Both of them are casualties of the Empire, and specifically keeping their nephew from leaving Tatooine. However, Obi-Wan has been living on Tatooine since delivering Luke to them and has every intention of training the boy in the ways of the Force and sending him off to fight Vader and Palpatine. |
| 175 | * DeathByOriginStory: Their deaths leave Luke free to leave Tatooine and begin his path to Jedi Knighthood. |
| 176 | * DentedIron: [[spoiler: A mere 9 years before the events of ''A New Hope'', they were able to give an Inquisitor a rough fight to protect a young Luke. Nearly a decade of living on Tatooine later and they're unable to do the same with the Stormtroopers who took their lives.]] |
| 177 | * DotingParent: They both adore Luke. In ''Obi-Wan'', when Owen and Luke go to a salvage shop to replace a part Luke broke, Owen can barely pretend to be upset with him. |
| 178 | * FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: While their deaths [[KilledOffscreen aren't shown onscreen,]] the sight of their burnt skeletons in the mostly family-friendly ''Star Wars'' was one of the more graphic moments in the films (until the DarkerAndEdgier prequels were released at any rate). |
| 179 | * ForgottenFallenFriend: Luke never brings them up after he leaves Tatooine following their demise. In ''Marvel's Star Wars'', he does break down and ''weeps'' about them, shortly after the Destruction of the first Death Star. |
| 180 | * GoodParents: While Owen is caring yet strict towards Luke, he nonetheless does this out of concern for Luke. Beru is far more understanding of Luke's frustrations of living on a farm, and helps iron out the tension between the two. Luke's reaction to their deaths shows that he loved them both deeply. In fact, had they not died, Luke would have stayed with them rather than learn to become a Jedi. |
| 181 | -->'''Luke:''' ''[upon witnessing their charred corpses]'' There's nothing left here for me now. |
| 182 | * HappilyMarried: Uneasy relations with Luke aside, they are content to live together on Tatooine as moisture farmers. Even before they're married, they're shown to be a happy couple in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''. |
| 183 | * HiddenBadass: It took more than forty years for the pair that were slaughtered off screen in ''A New Hope'' to show it, but ''Queen's Hope'' reveals they ran an UndergroundRailroad to free slaves on Tatooine, while in ''Obi-Wan Kenobi'', the pair [[spoiler:hold off an angry Inquisitor for quite some time using stashed blasters and equipment from around their home as improvised weapons]]. |
| 184 | * IWasQuiteALooker: The couple [[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm268745472/nm0682837?ref_=nm_phs_md_4 looked very well]] in their youth. |
| 185 | * KilledOffscreen: In one scene, Owen is waiting for Luke to get started on chores while Beru prepares breakfast. The next scene, Luke finds their charred corpses courtesy of Imperial stormtroopers. |
| 186 | * LawOfInverseFertility: In ''A Certain Point of View'', Beru states she and Owen wanted children soon after they married, but were unable to conceive, even considering consulting fertility droids. [[DownplayedTrope Fortunately for them]], they were able to adopt Luke and reared him as their son in all but name. |
| 187 | * MirrorCharacter: To Bail and Breha Organa. Both of the couples are the loving, adoptive parents of {{Hope Bringer}}s Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa. It was all of them being GoodParents that [[UpbringingMakesTheHero helped]] their children becomes the heroes they are. However, both set of parents did lie about their children's heritage to a certain extent to protect them. The Organas' explanation that Leia was a war orphan was vague but broadly truthful while the Larses' lie about Luke's father having been a spice freighter navigator who died was a complete fabrication. While the Organas were royalty, secretly aided in the Rebellion which Leia became a part of when she found out, gave Leia their surname, and were close friends of the twins' mother Padmé; the Larses were poor, were concerned with being moisture farmers and not galactic politics, expressed no desire for Luke to go into the Rebellion but also had different takes on Luke leaving Tatooine (Owen was against the idea while Beru was more open to it), gave Luke the Skywalker surname, and were related to the twin's father Anakin through marriage but hadn't had a particularly close relationship with him. |
| 188 | * MuggleFosterParents: They have no connection to the Force, yet are related to the most powerful family of Force users by marriage. |
| 189 | * ParentalSubstitute: Although Luke calls them his aunt and uncle, they're his parents in every other sense; they reared him from infancy and clearly love him as if he were their own child. While he sometimes clashes with Owen, Luke loves them and despite hating Tatooine, he's unwilling to just run off and leave them, only leaving with Obi-Wan after they're killed. |
| 190 | * RelationshipUpgrade: ''Attack of the Clones'' has them as just boyfriend and girlfriend before marrying offscreen between that movie and ''Revenge of the Sith''. |
| 191 | * SacrificialLamb: They are both incinerated alive by stormtroopers to show that the Empire will kill ''anyone'' who stands in their way. |
| 192 | * SlaveLiberation: ''Queen's Hope'' reveals that they were heavily involved in leading a underground organization called the White Suns alongside Cliegg and Shmi that helped to free slaves and disable the trackers and bombs implanted within them. |
| 193 | * YoungerThanTheyLook: By the time of ''A New Hope'', they're in their late forties, but due to Tatooine's hostile environment, they physically look like they're about a decade older than that. This is due in no small part to originally being played by actors who really were in their late fifties and early sixties. |
| 194 | |
| 195 | [[AC:Tropes that apply to Owen]] |
| 196 | * ArmorPiercingQuestion: |
| 197 | ** In a heated discussion with Obi-Wan regarding the possibility of helping Luke reach his full potential, Owen shuts down the argument with the following question: |
| 198 | --->'''Owen Lars:''' Haven't you murdered '''''enough''''' Skywalkers already, Kenobi? |
| 199 | ** He also angrily asks another one of Obi-Wan in another argument. |
| 200 | --->'''Obi-Wan''': When the time comes, [Luke] must be trained!\ |
| 201 | '''Owen''': Like you trained his father? |
| 202 | * BigBrotherInstinct: Downplayed. He is Anakin's older step-brother but they didn't get to form a close relationship due to Anakin's life in the Jedi Order, but Owen still cares for him. In fact, one of the reasons he was antagonistic towards Obi-Wan is because he blames the older Jedi for what happened to Anakin. |
| 203 | * CainAndAbel: Downplayed with Anakin. They only met once (''Attack of the Clones'') and more emphasis is placed on Anakin's brotherly relationship with Obi-Wan. However, while Anakin made a FaceHeelTurn and became TheDragon for the Empire, Owen remained a relatively good, if flawed man. |
| 204 | * DeterminedHomesteader: Owen runs the Lars family homestead as a successful moisture farm. In a deleted scene, Biggs mentions that Owen could hold off a tribe of Tusken Raiders. |
| 205 | * DramaticIrony: He has no idea that his stepbrother is not only alive, but is one of the leaders of the Empire, as well as that Obi-Wan tried to ''save'' him from falling to the Dark Side. |
| 206 | * EveryoneHasStandards: He doesn't like Obi-Wan and warns him to stay away from his family, but a little while later when the Third Sister holds her lightsaber to his throat and threatens to kill his family if he doesn't tell her where any Jedi are, Owen refuses to give Obi-Wan up. |
| 207 | * FantasyForbiddingFather: Owen tries to reign in Luke's adventurous impulses in ''Film/ANewHope'' for fear that he will TurnOutLikeHisFather. |
| 208 | * ForgottenFirstMeeting: Sure, Threepio had changed his outer shell and had his memory erased, but Owen fails to recognize the name of the droid he bought is the same his stepmother brought with her until he met his stepbrother. Though he might have suspected it when Luke brought up that that the R2 droid they bought carries a message for Obi-Wan. |
| 209 | * FreudianExcuse: Whilst Owen's extreme {{Jerkass}} tendencies towards Obi-Wan seems pretty harsh, it's rooted in the belief that Owen thinks Obi-Wan is responsible for separating Anakin and his mother Shmi (who despite being Owen's stepmother, Owen truly loved [[ParentalSubstitute like his real mother]]), and ultimately, destroying his family and doesn't want [[HereWeGoAgain history to repeat itself]] with Luke. |
| 210 | * JerkassHasAPoint: In ''Series/ObiWanKenobi'', while Owen pointing out to Kenobi that he failed in training Anakin may have been a low blow, it's not unreasonable for him to be skeptical of Kenobi being a good master for Luke, given that he doesn't have the benefit of knowing the entire situation. Furthermore, he has every right to not want Luke to be trained as a Jedi considering there is currently a ''galaxy-wide manhunt'' for anyone and everyone associated with the group. [[spoiler:Obi-Wan eventually accepts this and decides that Luke shouldn't be trained until he is older and makes the decision himself.]] |
| 211 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: |
| 212 | ** Owen can be controlling and demanding at times but he has a good heart. Best shown in ''Series/ObiWanKenobi'' where he refuses to sell out Obi-Wan to the Inquisitors, even though he doesn't like him, and later [[spoiler:goes head to head with an Inquisitor to protect Luke]]. |
| 213 | ** His love for his family is best shown when [[spoiler:Reva comes after Luke. Despite Reva being an inquisitor, not to mention the same person that almost cut his head off for no reason, he puts up a hell of a fight, and after Obi-Wan returns and helps deal with the situation, he admits his grudging respect for him, and even introduces him to Luke, after it becomes clear Obi-Wan cares more about Luke growing up happy than to rush him into Jedi training]]. |
| 214 | * KnightTemplarParent: Owen is an extremely mild example, as he insists Luke stay on the farm, and as far away from "Crazy Old" Ben Kenobi, instead of following his dream to join the Imperial Academy. He also hides Luke's Jedi heritage by making up the story that his "dead" father was a simple navigator on a spice freighter. Though this tenses up their relationship, it's only because he doesn't want Luke to TurnOutLikeHisFather. |
| 215 | * NeutralityBacklash: Preferred to stay out of galactic affairs, and wanted to keep Luke out of the war between the Empire and the Rebellion too, believing it was best to keep to themselves. Unfortunately, he failed to realized that leaving the Empire alone didn't mean they'd leave ''him'' alone. |
| 216 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: ''Fortunately averted''. If Luke had followed Owen's orders to take R2-D2 to Anchorhead to have its memory wiped, then the Death Star plans would have been irretrievably lost, the Rebel Alliance would not have been able to destroy the Death Star, the Galactic Empire would have possibly won the war and the sacrifices of Jyn Erso and the Rogue One team would have been AllForNothing. In other words, Owen's decision would have doomed the whole galaxy. |
| 217 | * PapaWolf: Many of his actions to keep Luke on the farm are to protect him, and he is willing to go toe-to-toe with Obi-Wan to keep Luke alive. Even when the Stormtroopers threaten him with death, he refuses to give up his nephew's whereabouts with the droid. [[spoiler:He even fights against Reva to protect Luke despite being outmatched.]] |
| 218 | -->'''[[spoiler:Reva]]:''' You really love the boy. [[LikeASonToMe Like he's your own]].\ |
| 219 | '''Owen:''' He ''is'' my own. |
| 220 | * ParentsAsPeople: He lies to Luke about who his father is and forbids him from getting Jedi training or going to the Academy. We realize it's because he loves Luke and is worried about losing him to the same terrible fate that took his father. |
| 221 | * ProperlyParanoid: |
| 222 | ** Owen refuses to let Luke go to the Imperial Academy under any circumstances. As we learn in ''Rebels'', academies screen for Force-sensitive students and send them off to the Inquisitorius, meaning Luke would have had a one-way ticket to Darth Vader if he'd attended. |
| 223 | ** He ''does'' have a point in being against Obi-Wan training Luke. Ignoring that as far as he knows, the Jedi life, and Obi-Wan's training had directly led to the death of his step-brother, the fact is that any Jedi, be it a master or a mere initiate, is the subject of a galaxy-wide manhunt, meaning that even a faint ''rumor'' that Obi-Wan was on Tatooine, and training a young Luke would most likely bring heavy Imperial attention towards the Lars family, most likely ending in Owen and Beru meeting their fates even sooner, with Luke and Obi-Wan either being killed or worse, captured either by the Inquisitors, or more likely, by Vader himself. |
| 224 | * SecretlySelfish: Uncle Owen, who spent the last of his savings on C-3PO and R2-D2, wants to regain his investment so he can hire more help, persuading Luke to stay on the farm for another year, instead of joining Biggs at the Academy. Owen also has a very negative opinion of Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi, whom he regards as a crazy old wizard and a dangerous, mysterious hermit that he sees as nothing more than trouble. [[PlayingWithATrope Or at least, that's how it initially appears to Luke.]] While he ''is'' a jerk to Obi-Wan and somewhat over-protective of Luke, Owen actually has very good reasons for wanting to keep Luke at home and away from Obi-Wan; he's afraid that he will end up like Anakin, who Owen knows fell to the Dark Side and believes was killed by Obi-Wan. The EU also reveals [[FreudianExcuse the root cause]] of his dislike for Obi-Wan is that he partly blames him for what happened to his stepbrother. |
| 225 | * SpannerInTheWorks: Obi-Wan clearly intended to train Luke in the ways of the Force as soon as he was old enough, but Owen refused to let his nephew have anything to do with the Jedi and told Kenobi to stay away. Who knows how things might have turned out if Luke had slightly more training when the plot of ''Film/ANewHope'' kicked off? |
| 226 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: Owen greatly resembles his father Cliegg in his later years. |
| 227 | * UngratefulBastard: During Obi-Wan's exile on Tatooine, he had defended the Lars family on more than one occasion but Owen doesn't thank the old Jedi Master for saving his family, even punching him at one point. Subverted when Kenobi saved him from a Wookiee bounty hunter in which Owen silently acknowledges Obi-Wan for saving his life. |
| 228 | * VocalEvolution: Creator/JoelEdgerton's voice for Owen in ''Series/ObiWanKenobi'' is much lower and gruff than it was in the prequels, sounding much more like Phil Brown's portrayal of the character in ''Film/ANewHope''. |
| 229 | |
| 230 | [[AC:Tropes that apply to Beru]] |
| 231 | * TheCameo: At the end of the ''Rebels'' episode "[[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS3E18TwinSuns Twin Suns]]", Beru can be heard calling Luke home. |
| 232 | * ChildrenRaiseYou: According to Bonnie Piesse (who played young Beru in the Prequel Trilogy), she portrayed Beru as being a bit shy and unworldly, and that it was rearing Luke that helped her mature into the doting, maternal woman she is in ''A New Hope''. |
| 233 | * HouseWife: Beru's main role shown in the Lars family homestead consists of making blue milk and preparing the family's food. |
| 234 | * MamaBear: [[spoiler:She helps Owen in fighting against Reva to protect Luke despite being outmatched, and is the first to go for the blasters in order to stand and fight when Owen's inclination is to run.]] |
| 235 | * NiceGirl: Beru is shown to be a kind and compassionate woman. ''Series/ObiWanKenobi'' even shows that, unlike Owen, she's more respectful of Obi-Wan and thinks Owen is too harsh towards him. |
| 236 | * OpenMindedParent: Unlike [[KnightTemplarParent Owen]], Beru is far more empathetic to Luke's wishes, and seemingly believes he just can't stay on the moisture farm forever. |
| 237 | * PluckyGirl: Beru is said to have a cheerful and positive disposition despite the harsh lifestyle of a Tatooine moisture farmer. "Beru Whitesun Lars", told from her point of view [[PosthumousNarration after her death]] shows her fully as this, taking life as it goes up to and including her own death, saying that she'd have preferred not to die so young but at least it allowed Luke to save the galaxy from the Empire's claws, and as such she believed it wasn't that bad after all. |
| 238 | * SupremeChef: Beru took a cooking class once and her teacher said she made the best blue milk cheese he'd ever tasted. |
| 239 | * TrueBlueFemininity: Beru always wears at least one blue item of clothing, underlining her kind and nurturing nature and status as Luke's mother-figure. |
| 240 | [[/folder]] |
| 241 | |
| 242 | [[folder:Edern Lars]] |
| 243 | !!Edern Lars |
| 244 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 245 | !!!'''Homeworld:''' Tatooine |
| 246 | |
| 247 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' [[note]] grave only [[/note]] |
| 248 | |
| 249 | The younger brother of Cliegg Lars and uncle to Owen Lars. |
| 250 | ---- |
| 251 | * AllThereInTheManual: His name and what happened to him are explained in expanded material. |
| 252 | * DeathOfAChild: He died at the age of just fourteen after crashing the family's landspeeder. |
| 253 | * PosthumousCharacter: He'd been dead for many years by the events of ''Attack of the Clones''; his grave can be seen during Shmi's funeral. |
| 254 | [[/folder]] |
| 255 | |
| 256 | [[folder:Aika Lars]] |
| 257 | !!Aika Lars |
| 258 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 259 | |
| 260 | ->'''Appearances:''' AllThereInTheManual |
| 261 | |
| 262 | The first wife of Cliegg Lars and mother to Owen Lars, who died years before they met the Skywalkers. |
| 263 | ---- |
| 264 | * AllThereInTheManual: She's an UnknownCharacter in the films, with details about her being fleshed out in the ''Star Wars Character Encyclopedia: Updated and Expanded''. |
| 265 | * CanonImmigrant: She was first mentioned in the ''Visual Dictionary'' for ''Attack of the Clones'', which is now under the ''Legends'' banner, and was re-canonized in the ''Star Wars Character Encyclopedia''. |
| 266 | * FirstLove: She was this to Cliegg. |
| 267 | * MissingMom: To Owen. |
| 268 | * PosthumousCharacter: She died when Owen was very young in unspecified circumstances, prompting her widowed husband and son to move back to Tatooine where Cliegg eventually met his second wife, Shmi. |
| 269 | * SchrodingersCanon: In ''Legends'', she hailed from the Core World of Ator. In Canon, it's mentioned that she and Cliegg met on a Core World and that he owns a pyramid puzzle from Ator; although it's not mentioned if Ator is canonically a Core World and that this is where Aika was from, it's at least a strong possibility. |
| 270 | [[/folder]] |
| 271 | |
| 272 | !!Mos Espa |
| 273 | !!!Fall of the Republic Era |
| 274 | |
| 275 | [[folder:Watto]] |
| 276 | !!Watto |
| 277 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/watto_sw.png]] |
| 278 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 279 | !!!'''Species:''' Toydarian |
| 280 | !!!'''Homeworld:''' Toydaria |
| 281 | |
| 282 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Andrew Secombe |
| 283 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' | ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' |
| 284 | |
| 285 | -->''"No money, no parts, no deal!"'' |
| 286 | |
| 287 | A junk dealer who did business in Mos Espa. He owned the slaves Shmi Skywalker and her son Anakin, whom he put to work in his shop. |
| 288 | ---- |
| 289 | * AffablyEvil: Watto's a pretty alright guy for a slave owner as he treats his slaves nicer than any other slave owner and genuinely cares for them. When Anakin reunites with him ten years later, Watto is genuinely glad to see him again and tells him what happened to Shmi without hesitating when he asks him where she is. |
| 290 | * BaldOfEvil: While not necessarily "evil", his baldness does emphasize his more unscrupulous nature. |
| 291 | * BenevolentBoss: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]], but it's there. He's generally pretty good to Anakin, for whom he spares a few [[PetTheDog moments of kindness]]. He clearly values his abilities, both as a mechanic and a racer, and is reluctant to let him go. Still, he ''is'' a slave owner, bets against Anakin in the races (despite, according to Shmi, forcing him to do it to begin with), and is remarkably petty in general where podracing in concerned. For all that, when they're reunited ten years later, Watto is ecstatic to see him and Anakin seems to hold no grudge. |
| 292 | * {{Expy}}: His appearance seems to be based on the Shingouz from ''ComicBook/{{Valerian}}''. ''The Phantom Menace'' design director, Doug Chiang was known to own a set of the comics. |
| 293 | * TheGamblingAddict: He often bets on Podraces, winning Shmi and Anakin from Gardulla the Hutt this way; it's also how he loses Anakin, and [[TrappedByGamblingDebts everything else he has]]. |
| 294 | * {{Greed}}: Played with; he doesn't actually demonstrate much in the way of greed when conducting business, only initially turning Qui-Gon away because Republic credits, the only currency that Qui-Gon has on hand, are worthless on Tatooine. His greed really manifests itself in his gambling, however, and results in him taking a major bath when he bets on Sebulba over the eventually victorious Anakin. |
| 295 | * HumblePie: He is deeply affected by his lost Podrace wager against Qui-Gon in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', as he not only loses his business, but his "favorite" slave Anakin as well. He is significantly less of a {{Jerkass}} in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''. |
| 296 | * ImmuneToMindControl: Like all Toydarians, he's immune to {{Jedi Mind Trick}}s. |
| 297 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He claims to have great faith in Anakin's performance in the Boonta Eve Podrace right after [[{{Hypocrite}} betting heavily against him in favor of a racer who "always wins"]] and proceeds to laugh at the boy when his racer fails to start up. Nevertheless, he is far from an unfair master and, according to WordOfGod, has genuinely come to love the Skywalker family, evidenced by how upset he is to lose Anakin in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', and how overjoyed he is to see him again as a fully-fledged Jedi in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''. Still according to WordOfGod, he treats his slaves far better than most of Tatooine's slave owners. After all, Shmi seems to be allowed to have her own house and Anakin, as long as he does the work he has to do, is allowed to wander in the town. |
| 298 | * LargeHam: Watto is always waving his hands while he talks and he doesn't do that much more subtly. |
| 299 | * LostHimInACardGame: He won Anakin and Shmi from Gardulla the Hutt gambling. He himself loses Anakin to Qui-Gon betting on the Boonta Eve Classic. He actually seems genuinely upset to lose Anakin and it's strongly implied he'd grown fond of him. |
| 300 | * MixAndMatchCritters: He has a tapir-like snout, duck-like feet, and insect-like wings. |
| 301 | * NoSell: He is immune to {{Jedi Mind Trick}}s, a trait that is inherent in all Toydarians, as Qui-Gon learns to his dismay when he tries to haggle for needed hyperdrive parts. |
| 302 | * ParentalSubstitute: Rather sadly, Watto is the closest thing young Anakin has to a father figure. Though he still does occasionally discipline him and Shmi like any average slave owner would, from what we get to see he is genuinely fond of the mother and son, treats them well, and was ''genuinely'' sad to see Anakin go. On top of all that, he would not sell Shmi until he was ''certain'' that her new master was a kind man that would give her a good and happy life (sure enough, when he does sell her off before [[Film/AttackOfTheClones the sequel]], her new master promptly freed and then married her). WordOfGod does state that Watto generally treats his slaves ''much'' better than most other masters. |
| 303 | * PermaStubble: It thickens in the time between ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' and ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''. |
| 304 | * PetTheDog: |
| 305 | ** He lets Anakin go home early after their first meeting with Qui-Gon, much to the boy's delight. |
| 306 | ** When Qui-Gon asks if he has the ship part he's looking for, Watto confirms that he does, but in a surprising display of honesty, he warns Qui-Gon that buying a whole new ship (which he doesn't sell) would be cheaper than buying the part. |
| 307 | * ShoutOut: His body language was modeled after Creator/AlecGuinness as [[Literature/OliverTwist Fagin]]. |
| 308 | * SinisterSchnoz: Taken to an interesting level; his nose is a short, floppy trunk similar to a tapir's. |
| 309 | * SoreLoser: He initially refused to free Anakin since he believed it was "an unfair bet" (and suspected that Qui-Gon knew that Anakin would win somehow). But relented when Qui-Gon suggested bringing this up with the Hutts. |
| 310 | * SpaceJews: He's a hook-nosed, [[GreedyJew penny-pinching]] merchant and slave owner with a vaguely Yiddish-sounding accent as a result of him being voiced by Andrew Secombe. ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' goes the extra mile by giving him a scraggly beard and brimmed hat. |
| 311 | * StereotypeFlip: Watto comes off as a very sleazy and amoral individual, but ''The Clone Wars'' presents other Toydarians (or at least those living on Toydaria) to be compassionate and honorable people. In short, Watto is one of the odd ones out of his species despite being the first one introduced. Living on [[CrapsackWorld Tatooine]] may contribute to enhance his flaws. Though as previously mentioned, Watto is much nicer and more decent than your average slaveowner, so by slaver standards, Watto would arguably be considered an exemplar Toydarian. |
| 312 | * SympatheticSlaveOwner: Watto's [[DownplayedTrope no saint]], but he's comparatively a lot nicer to his slaves than most other slave owners depicted in ''Star Wars'' (such as Jabba the Hutt, who sexually harasses his slaves and [[FedToTheBeast feeds them to his rancor]] if they displease him). He lets Shmi and Anakin have their own home which, while nothing fancy, seems comfortable enough and lets Anakin do what he wants provided he completes his work. He also appears to have a soft spot for them; he seems genuinely sad to see Anakin go when Qui-Gon wins his freedom and is happy to see him again a decade later in ''Attack of the Clones'', calling him "[[AffectionateNickname little Ani]]". When he had to sell Shmi due to money troubles, he also made sure she'd be bought by someone who would treat her well. |
| 313 | * TrappedByGamblingDebts: He loses everything -- including ownership of Anakin -- after betting heavily on Sebulba during the Boonta Eve Classic in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''. By ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', he's down on his luck and had to sell Shmi to Cliegg Lars just to get by. |
| 314 | * VerbalTic: Says "I think" at the end of nearly every sentence. |
| 315 | * WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: His accent seems to wander somewhere between Yiddish and Italian, sounding more like the former in ''The Phantom Menace'', but a little nearer the latter in ''Attack of the Clones'' and his video game appearances. |
| 316 | * WingedHumanoid: He seems to prefer hovering everywhere as opposed to standing and walking. |
| 317 | [[/folder]] |
| 318 | |
| 319 | [[folder:Kitster Banai]] |
| 320 | !!Kitster Banai |
| 321 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kitster_banai.png]] |
| 322 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/39f86f97_d952_4202_a35f_0e1befd865b0.jpeg]] |
| 323 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 324 | !!!'''Homeworld:''' Tatooine |
| 325 | |
| 326 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Dhruv Chanchani |
| 327 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsDarthVader2020 Darth Vader (2020)]]'' |
| 328 | |
| 329 | -->''"This is so wizard, Ani!"'' |
| 330 | |
| 331 | A slave child on Tatooine who was close friends with Anakin. He was eventually freed from slavery by Sabé alongside many other slaves, including Wald, and settled on Gabredor III. |
| 332 | ---- |
| 333 | * CheerfulChild: He may be a slave but seems to be a rather joyful person. Anakin recalled in ''[[Literature/StarWarsBrotherhood Brotherhood]]'' that Kitster helped him find joy despite their lives as slaves. |
| 334 | * HairTodayGoneTomorrow: He's bald as an adult. |
| 335 | * SchrodingersCanon: His middle name is Chanchani. |
| 336 | * ThoseTwoGuys: Often seen in the company of Anakin or Wald. |
| 337 | [[/folder]] |
| 338 | |
| 339 | [[folder:Wald]] |
| 340 | !!Wald |
| 341 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wald_sw.png]] |
| 342 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/9ced2026_12c3_41d1_9411_f15df372ae49.jpeg]] |
| 343 | !!!'''Species:''' Rodian |
| 344 | !!!'''Homeworld:''' Tatooine |
| 345 | |
| 346 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/WarwickDavis |
| 347 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsDarthVader2020 Darth Vader (2020)]]'' |
| 348 | |
| 349 | A six-year old Rodian slave child from Tatooine and one of Anakin's playmates. Like his friend Kitster, Wald was freed by Sabé and settled on Gabredor III. |
| 350 | ---- |
| 351 | * AdaptationNameChange: Downplayed. in ''Legends'', his name was W. Wald, with the capital W. being the initial of an unknown first name. |
| 352 | * BilingualBonus: His name means "forest" in German. |
| 353 | * BilingualDialogue: He only speaks Huttese but understands Basic. |
| 354 | * CallForward: In a removed scene. When Anakin briefly tussled with a different Rodian child, Wald warns him after the fight, revealing the then unnamed Rodian to be Greedo in his youth, to be careful who he messes with or he'll come to regret it. |
| 355 | * CheerfulChild: He's a slave, but is friendly and playful. |
| 356 | * HumanoidAlien: He's a Rodian. |
| 357 | * LittleGreenMen: Rodians invoke this trope with their design and coloration. While adult members of the species are human-sized, Wald is a kid and has a more adequate size for this trope. |
| 358 | * LizardFolk: Rodians have green skin with peeble-like scales. |
| 359 | * ThoseTwoGuys: Often seen in company of Kitster or Anakin. |
| 360 | [[/folder]] |
| 361 | |
| 362 | [[folder:Sebulba]] |
| 363 | !!Sebulba |
| 364 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sebulba_sw.png]] |
| 365 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 366 | !!!'''Species:''' Dug |
| 367 | !!!'''Homeworld:''' Malastare |
| 368 | |
| 369 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/LewisMacLeod |
| 370 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' |
| 371 | |
| 372 | -->''"You'll be bantha fodder!"'' |
| 373 | |
| 374 | A vicious podracer and reigning champion of the Boonta Eve Classic. He was not above cheating to win a race, often using various illegal weapons hidden in his heavily modified podracer against his opponents. |
| 375 | ---- |
| 376 | * ArrogantKungFuGuy: A race pilot version; as skilled a podracer he may be, he is still a crafty and unapologetic cheater. |
| 377 | * BadassDriver: An impressive podracer pilot despite his tendency to cheat. |
| 378 | * BizarreAlienBiology: Like all Dugs, he walks on his hands and uses his feet to hold onto things. |
| 379 | * CheatersNeverProsper: Subverted. Even though ''everyone'' knows he cheats, he's still a crowd favorite. Played straight during the race though. Even with his sabotage, Anakin still manages to catch up that he tries to ram into him out of desperation. All the move does is get the wires to their engines tangled and risking crashing both vehicles. Anakin manages to free himself in time but Sebulba karmically suffers instead by having the electro-magnetic link to both his engine pods deactivate which causes them to chaotically crash, the left-most engine crashing into a rock formation whilst the other one gets shredded to bits and the remaining pilot seat pitifully skids and stops short, which causes Sebulba to angrily curse his luck, costing him the race. He was lucky to walk away alive from that. |
| 380 | * CoolCar: His massive, split-X engine podracer. |
| 381 | * CripplingTheCompetition: He has no qualms doing this to other podracers to ensure his victory, as he does to Anakin's pod before the Boonta Eve. |
| 382 | * EarFins: He has pointy fin-ears. |
| 383 | * HairTriggerTemper: He picks a fight with Jar Jar after the Gungan accidentally spits a gorg into his soup. |
| 384 | * HellishPupils: His pupils are uniquely cross-shaped on close inspection. |
| 385 | * JerkJock: He's very into the sport of podracing, arrogant, aggressive, and perfectly willing to cheat to win a race. |
| 386 | * LaserGuidedKarma: According to Anakin, Sebulba was the reason he lost in a previous race due to sabotage that he barely could salvage the remains of the pod. When they race again, it's Sebulba who crashes completely and loses all but the pod he's riding in. |
| 387 | * ManiacMonkeys: Despite his dragon-like reptilian face, Sebulba's Dug body evokes both the muscular physicality and tool skills of wild chimpanzees, while his personality shows some of their very worst behavioral traits (territorial competitiveness, unbridled aggression when provoked, and a surly, often hostile attitude). |
| 388 | * TheNapoleon: He's HotBlooded and a total {{Jerkass}}, but stands no taller than a nine-year-old boy. |
| 389 | * OpposingSportsTeam: Sebulba is Anakin's only competition in the podrace with any focus, and fits the typical role of a more experienced competitor who loses thanks to lacking the hero's integrity and spirit. |
| 390 | * ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: His name is probably derived from Xibalba, the Mayan underworld. |
| 391 | * TheRival: To Anakin, whom he butts heads with numerous times even outside the race. |
| 392 | * SpikedWheels: Sebulba modified his podracer in lethal ways such as adding a flamethrower and making it durable enough to ram other racers off the track. |
| 393 | * TheUnintelligible: Speaks only in Huttese. |
| 394 | * VehicularSabotage: "Accidentally" breaks a piece off of Anakin's podracer before their race, which eventually causes Anakin's engine to overheat during the final stretch. |
| 395 | * WouldHurtAChild: With Anakin, who was nine years old when he was ramming his podracer into the former. |
| 396 | * WeirdBeard: His "mustache" is actually a pair of loose skin strands with feathery tips. |
| 397 | [[/folder]] |
| 398 | |
| 399 | [[folder:Fodesinbeed Annodue]] |
| 400 | !!Fodesinbeed Annodue |
| 401 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fodesinbeed_annodue_sw.png]] |
| 402 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 403 | !!!'''Species:''' Troig |
| 404 | !!!'''Homeworld:''' Pollilus |
| 405 | |
| 406 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Greg Proops (Fode), Scott Capurro (Beed) |
| 407 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' |
| 408 | |
| 409 | --> ''"I don't care what universe you're from, that's got to hurt."'' |
| 410 | |
| 411 | The announcers of the Boonta Eve Podrace, Fode and Beed were a two-headed Troig who shared a single body. The red-skinned Fode provided commentary in an easy Basic drawl, while the green-skinned Beed provided counterpoint in Huttese. |
| 412 | ---- |
| 413 | * AmusingAlien: They're a two-headed race commentator played by improv comedians. |
| 414 | * FatAndSkinny: Beed is the larger head, while Fode is the skinnier one. |
| 415 | * {{Improv}}: All of their dialogue was riffed by their actors. |
| 416 | * InkSuitActor: Interestingly inverted; Greg Proops was originally going to play the green head and Scott Capurro the red head. |
| 417 | * LargeHamAnnouncer: They won't shut up about how awesome the Podrace is. |
| 418 | * LongNeck: Each head rests upon its own neck stalk. |
| 419 | * MultipleHeadCase: They are two heads who share a single body, though the only differences they have character-wise is that each head speaks a different language: Basic (i.e., English) and Huttese, respectively. |
| 420 | * SerkisFolk: Originally their actors' heads were going to be superimposed on a CGI body until it was decided that a full CGI model looked better. |
| 421 | * ThoseTwoGuys: They give commentary for the podrace in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''. |
| 422 | * VertebrateWithExtraLimbs: From what can be seen of their body, they have at least four arms. |
| 423 | [[/folder]] |
| 424 | |
| 425 | [[folder:Ben Quadinaros]] |
| 426 | !!Ben Quadinaros |
| 427 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ben_quadinaros_sw.png]] |
| 428 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 429 | !!!'''Species:''' Toong |
| 430 | !!!'''Homeworld:''' Tund |
| 431 | |
| 432 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' CGI |
| 433 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' |
| 434 | |
| 435 | A rookie racer at the time of the Boonta Eve Classic, Quadinaros later became one of the sport's greatest champions by the time of the Clone Wars. |
| 436 | ---- |
| 437 | * AdaptationalBadass: In ''Legends'', he only entered the Boonta Eve on a bet with a drunken Boles Roor; after wiping out at the starting line, he took his money and returned to amateur racing, although it is indicated he did move to a higher level at some point. Here, he becomes a genuine rival to the likes of Sebulba himself by the time of the Clone Wars. |
| 438 | * ButtMonkey: He doesn't even make it past the starting line due to engine problems. And it [[NoodleIncident apparently wasn't]] [[OhNoNotAgain the first time]] either.[[note]]Although, at least in ''Legends'', his racer was actually in working order during ''The Phantom Menace'', until someone sabotaged it, mistaking his racer for Anakin's.[[/note]] |
| 439 | * {{Cephalothorax}}: Toongs like Quadinaros have their heads where their chest should be located. |
| 440 | * MeaningfulName: '''Quad'''inaros has '''four''' engines on his vehicle. |
| 441 | * NonStandardCharacterDesign: His racer is the only one to have four engines instead of two. |
| 442 | * TookALevelInBadass: During the Boonta Eve Classic, Quadinaros couldn't even get past the starting grid. According to a poster seen in ''The Clone Wars'', Quadinaros continued to use the same racer model and got into a rivalry with Sebulba worth promoting for a then-upcoming race. |
| 443 | [[/folder]] |
| 444 | |
| 445 | [[folder:Gasgano]] |
| 446 | !!Gasgano |
| 447 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gasgano_sw.png]] |
| 448 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 449 | !!!'''Species:''' Xexto |
| 450 | !!!'''Homeworld:''' Troiken |
| 451 | |
| 452 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' CGI |
| 453 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' |
| 454 | |
| 455 | A highly competitive but professional pod racer who piloted a green ''Ord Pedrovia'' model. |
| 456 | ---- |
| 457 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Normally he is focused on the race itself, rather than eliminating the competition like Sebulba, and would simply pass his competition without resorting to taunts or attacking them. But if someone tried to act scummy toward him, he was known to use his rather large pod to pay them back with interest. |
| 458 | * CombatPragmatist: Gasgano's podracer is the only one seen with a rear-view camera, making it easier for him to block racers trying to pass him. |
| 459 | * EnsembleDarkhorse: In-Universe with Gasgano, even if he rarely wins a race he remains popular with the crowds. |
| 460 | * MultiArmedMultitasking: By virtue of being a Xexto, Gasgano has six limbs (two of them serving as legs), allowing him to perform more control functions at once. |
| 461 | [[/folder]] |
| 462 | |
| 463 | [[folder:Ratts Tyerell]] |
| 464 | !!Ratts Tyerell |
| 465 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ratts_tyerell_sw.png]] |
| 466 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 467 | !!!'''Species:''' Aleen |
| 468 | !!!'''Homeworld:''' Aleena |
| 469 | |
| 470 | %%->'''Portrayed by:''' |
| 471 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' |
| 472 | |
| 473 | A diminutive Aleena who raced an oversized podracer, Tyerell was a famed competitor in the sport and well-known for travelling the racing circuit with his wife and children. |
| 474 | ---- |
| 475 | * FamedInStory: On his homeworld of Aleen, Tyerell was considered to be the most famous member of their species in the galaxy and the entire planet mourned his death in the Boonta Eve race. |
| 476 | * FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Poor, poor Ratts Tyerell. As he was going through the Laguna Caves, Tyerell's accelerator jammed, leaving him unable to control his podracer, and the only thing the little Aleena could do was scream in horror as his podracer crashed into a stalactite and exploded. ''Ouch''. |
| 477 | * HappilyMarried: He and his wife were in a very loving relationship, with her accompanying him around the galaxy to his races with their children. |
| 478 | * HeWhoFightsMonsters: [[AllThereInTheManual According to character guide]], Tyerell was sick of Sebulba's cheating and meant "to fight fire with fire". However, he died in a crash before he could pay Sebulba back... |
| 479 | * LizardFolk: He is an Aleen, who are small reptilian aliens. |
| 480 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: His death in the Boota Eve Classic actually led to the decline of the sport, as his son Deland began an organization that sought to expose the criminal elements that had control of the sport. This led to podracing being outlawed in the Core Worlds and a more than 50% decline in viewership. |
| 481 | [[/folder]] |
| 482 | |
| 483 | [[folder:Boonta Eve Classic Podracers]] |
| 484 | !!Boonta Eve Classic Podracers |
| 485 | |
| 486 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' |
| 487 | |
| 488 | The Boonta Eve was considered to be the most dangerous of all podracing courses. |
| 489 | ---- |
| 490 | * AllThereInTheManual: Half of the podracers listed here have only very brief appearances and can only be identified in the movie by their pods. Supplementary material reveals their names, species, homeworlds, and even backstories. |
| 491 | * BirdPeople: Nuknogs like Ark Roose are anthropomorphic, featherless chickens. Wan Sandage, a Devlikk, is seemingly this as well, having hands with long sharp claws like those of a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratite ratite]] and looking like an anthropomorphic ostrich to an extent. |
| 492 | * BloodSport: The race consists of piloting small pods which are tied to massive jet engines. Many of the pilots don't even finish the race, let alone survive it. |
| 493 | * CheatersNeverProsper: Teemto Pagalies is the only racer seen ramming an opponent's pod in the Boonta Eve Classic aside from Sebulba, doing so to Anakin after Anakin passes Gasgano. Not only does he fail to stop Anakin from passing him, he proceeds to get shot down by Tusken Raiders (he survives the crash, though). |
| 494 | * CoolCar: Pods tied to jet engines. Can't get much cooler than that! |
| 495 | * FrogMen: Fluggrians like Elan Mak look like anthropomorphic frogs. In ''Legends'', they were aquatic in nature, though this has yet to be confirmed in the current canon. |
| 496 | * FullBoarAction: Dud Bolt. Vulptereens like him look like some type of cross between boars and crocodiles, with a stalk growing on their heads. |
| 497 | * GagLips: Elan Mak has lips that form a perfect circle around his mouth when closed. |
| 498 | * HumanoidAlien: Ody Mandrell, as an Er'Kit. |
| 499 | * IntrepidReporter: Clegg Holdfast, in addition to participating in the race itself, is a journalist for the ''[[ShowWithinAShow Podracing Quarterly]]'' magazine. |
| 500 | * JerkJock: Many of the racers are. |
| 501 | * KillerSpaceMonkey: Boles Roor and Ebe E. Endocott are this to an extent, given they're participating on a rather ruthless sport. They're a Sneevel and a Triffian, respectively, both of which resemble primates. |
| 502 | * LizardFolk: Mars Guo, Neva Kee and Clegg Holdfast. They're a Bardottan, a Xamster and a Nosaurian, respectively. |
| 503 | * MixAndMatchCritters: Dud Bolt's species, the Vulptereens, look like boars mixed with crocodiles with the stalk of an anglerfish on their heads. |
| 504 | * NeverFoundTheBody: Neva Kee, who took off on a shortcut in the middle of the race and was never seen again. However, the book ''Scum and Villainy'' revealed that Jabba the Hutt hired Aurra Sing to shoot down his racer and capture him. Tan Divo suspects that Farwan & Glott (the manufacturer of Kee's podracer) placed the bounty in retaliation for Kee refusing to share the details on his modifications. |
| 505 | * NonStandardCharacterDesign: In a vehicle-based version of this trope, Neva Kee's podracer is the only one to have its cockpit in front of the engines, not use a power coupling and have the engines directly attached to the cockpit. |
| 506 | * ThreeStoogesShoutOut: Ody Mandrell's pit crew, who gets into a slapstick scuffle. |
| 507 | * TurbineBlender: One of Ody Mandrell's pit droids gets sucked into his pod engine when he pulls over for repairs. Inverted in that, while the droid was unharmed, the pod was ruined along with his chances at winning the race. |
| 508 | [[/folder]] |
| 509 | |
| 510 | [[folder:Ann and Tann Gella]] |
| 511 | !!Ann and Tann Gella |
| 512 | [[quoteright:299:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gella_twins.png]] |
| 513 | [[caption-width-right:299:Ann on the left, Tann on the right.]] |
| 514 | !!!'''Species:''' Twi'lek |
| 515 | !!!'''Homeworld:''' Ryloth |
| 516 | |
| 517 | -> '''Portrayed by:''' Nifa Hindes (Ann Gella), Nishan Hindes (Tann Gella) |
| 518 | -> '''Appearances:''' ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' |
| 519 | |
| 520 | Twin Twi'lek sisters owned as slaves by Sebulba. |
| 521 | ---- |
| 522 | * AlienHair: Their lekku. |
| 523 | * AllThereInTheManual: Expanded material reveals Sebulba purchased them from (surprise, surprise) Jabba the Hutt. |
| 524 | * BeautifulSlaveGirl: Both of them. |
| 525 | * CleavageWindow: Their jumpsuits, combined with NavelDeepNeckline. |
| 526 | * CoordinatedClothes: They both wear the same outfit and headgear (though possibly not by choice, given they're slaves). |
| 527 | * FanserviceExtra: They can be briefly seen giving Sebulba a massage and filing his toenails before the Boonta Eve Classic podrace. [[ConspicuousConsumption The fact Sebulba can afford two slaves to act as personal masseuses is a further indication he wins a lot]]. |
| 528 | * GoGoEnslavement: They wear matching, [[FormFittingWardrobe tight-fitting]] jumpsuits apparently made from netting. |
| 529 | * GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Blue-skinned space babes. |
| 530 | * SlaveCollar: They both wear metal collars. |
| 531 | * ThemeTwinNaming: '''Ann''' and '''Tann'''. Also counts as AerithAndBob, given Ann is a pretty common-sounding name, Tann less so. |
| 532 | [[/folder]] |
| 533 | |
| 534 | [[folder:Gragra]] |
| 535 | !!Gragra |
| 536 | [[quoteright:290:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gragra.png]] |
| 537 | !!!'''Species:''' Swokes Swokes |
| 538 | !!!'''Homeworld:''' Makem Te |
| 539 | |
| 540 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' |
| 541 | |
| 542 | A Swokes Swokes gorgmonger who chastised Jar Jar Binks when she saw him attempting to eat one of her gorgs without paying. |
| 543 | ---- |
| 544 | * CallForward: Her phrase, "Die wanna wanga", would be uttered [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi many years later]] by Bib Fortuna when R2-D2 and C-3PO infiltrated Jabba's palace as part of the plan to rescue Han Solo. |
| 545 | * {{Gonk}}: Her species certainly aren't known for their beauty. |
| 546 | * HornedHumanoid: Has a crown of short, pointy and spiky horns adorning her head. |
| 547 | * HumanoidAlien: She's a Swokes Swokes, a race of violent worm-like humanoids with regenerative abilities. |
| 548 | * LadyLooksLikeADude: Despite her monstrous appearance and gruff, masculine voice, she is actually female. |
| 549 | * ScaryTeeth: Her teeth are sharp and uneven. |
| 550 | * SchrodingersCanon: In ''Legends'', Gragra deeply regretted her harsh behavior and lived with a negligent husband named Grognak. She eventually managed to sell enough gorgs to buy a ship for herself and left her life on Tatooine behind, becoming a symbol to Gorgmongers everywhere. After she left, the gorg population in Mos Espa's sewers skyrocketed and they became a common food source for homeless people. |
| 551 | [[/folder]] |
| 552 | |
| 553 | !!!New Republic Era |
| 554 | |
| 555 | [[folder:Mok Shaiz]] |
| 556 | !!Mok Shaiz |
| 557 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mok_shaiz_sw.png]] |
| 558 | !!!'''Species:''' Ithorian |
| 559 | |
| 560 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' David Rosengrant |
| 561 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RobertRodriguez |
| 562 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'' |
| 563 | |
| 564 | The mayor of Mos Espa and its surrounding regions in the aftermath of the Galactic Civil War. |
| 565 | ---- |
| 566 | * DirtyCoward: Despite his bravado at Boba Fett in their first meeting, Mok Shaiz is revealed to be a gutless coward who would hand over his city to the ruthless Pykes for a lucrative deal. Once Boba is made aware of this deal by the Hutts, the mayor flees from his city [[spoiler:and hides in Mos Eisley]] under protection of the Pyke leadership. |
| 567 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: As calculating as he can be, he's still disturbed by the Pykes' "pragmatic" criminality and their disregard for collateral damage. |
| 568 | -->''"No more explosives. Please. I didn't sign off on [[spoiler:bombing Garsa's Sanctuary]]. I agreed to surgical strikes, not open warfare.'' [...] ''I am still the mayor of Mos Espa, and I will not see it destroyed."'' |
| 569 | * HangingAround: [[spoiler:Fennec Shand hangs him to death with a grappling cable.]] |
| 570 | * NotMeThisTime: Despite the Night Wind assassin's claim, he denies any responsibility for sending them after Boba and directs him to Garsa’s Sanctuary, where he learns the Twins are the real perpetrators. |
| 571 | * PlayingBothSides: After Boba Fett assassinates Bib Fortuna and destabilizes the underworld of Tatooine, Mok Shaiz takes advantage of the chaos to pit Boba's new organization against Jabba's twin cousins while plotting to hand control over to the Pyke Syndicate for his own profit. |
| 572 | * StereotypeFlip: Ithorians are typically known for being pacifists and gardeners. Shaiz is instead a corrupt mayor who orders executions and lives on a desert world. |
| 573 | * TranslatorMicrobes: He wears a device on his head that translates his speech in real time. |
| 574 | [[/folder]] |
| 575 | |
| 576 | [[folder:Garsa Fwip]] |
| 577 | !!Garsa Fwip |
| 578 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/garsa_fwip_sw.png]] |
| 579 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 580 | !!!'''Species:''' Twi'lek |
| 581 | |
| 582 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/JenniferBeals |
| 583 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'' |
| 584 | |
| 585 | The owner of the Sanctuary, a cantina in Mos Espa. |
| 586 | ---- |
| 587 | * CharacterDeath: In [[spoiler:Chapter 6, just before the climax, her cantina is blown up by the Pykes, signaling their incoming invasion. Garsa is inside when the bomb goes off and realizes too late what is about to happen.]] |
| 588 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Though seemingly friendly and sweet to all, there are hints that she's been through hardship, such as her mysterious scar, that her actor describes Garsa's cantina as "trying to create a literal sanctuary of beauty and balance in a world that's lacking both", and that she insists on being called "Madame" and not "master". Twi'leks are often victims of slavery and have fought in wars on their homeworld for independence. |
| 589 | * GoodScarsEvilScars: She has a scar running from her collarbone to her sternum ([[https://twitter.com/jenbeship/status/1488854959567384578 visible here]]), [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/book-of-boba-fetts-jennifer-beals-star-wars-disney-series-1235085875/ which her actor implies she received in war.]] |
| 590 | * GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Not as extreme as some Twi'leks but her rose-gold skintone is just different enough from human skintones to qualify. |
| 591 | * MissKitty: While not explicitly identified as such, she does employ several scantily-clad Twi'leks in her cantina. She's occasionally referred to as "Madame Garsa". |
| 592 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: For most of her scenes, Garsa comes off as someone who's well in the know not only of the business she's running, but how to deal with every actor/name amongst the "hive of scum and villainy" patronizing her establishment. Not only is she one of the few people Boba seems to be at ease with doing business during his rise as daimyo, but she's also one of the few people willing to deal with Krrsantan with words (even if they [[ComedicSociopathy turn out to be unsuccessful]]). |
| 593 | [[/folder]] |
| 594 | |
| 595 | [[folder:Mok Shaiz's Majordomo]] |
| 596 | !!Mok Shaiz's Majordomo |
| 597 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/themayorsmajordomo.png]] |
| 598 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"Ah, indeed yes. With apologies. I understand how one might draw such a conclusion from the correspondence."'']] |
| 599 | !!!'''Species:''' Twi'lek |
| 600 | |
| 601 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/DavidPasquesi |
| 602 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'' |
| 603 | |
| 604 | The smooth-talking administrative assistant to the mayor of Mos Espa. |
| 605 | ---- |
| 606 | * ButtMonkey: Put bluntly, very little goes well for this guy. He's abandoned by his own superior, menaced by Boba and Fennec, humiliated in a low-speed chase that ends with him covered by an overturned fruit cart, and taken hostage. [[spoiler:By "In the Name of Honor", he's sent out as an emissary to deliver a message to the Pykes' soldiers -- a message that he doesn't know is an insult and a threat, and surely would've gotten him killed if Boba hadn't been waiting to catch them off guard; when he meekly offers additional council, Boba responds with a dry remark about ''selling'' him, which can't be good for any Twi'lek's self-esteem. Most of his remaining screentime is spent cowering in fear at the Rancor or clinging to Peli Motto for help.]] |
| 607 | * EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: He's only known as the Mayor's majordomo in ''The Book of Boba Fett'' despite having a more prominent role than Mok Shaiz. |
| 608 | * HazyFeelTurn: Starts as the corrupt mayor's assistant, but after being captured by Boba Fett he starts to cooperate more and more with him. By the end, he has partnered up with Peli and even helps Mando to his feet after the Rancor is calmed down. |
| 609 | * HumiliationConga: The series is a very, very long one for him. |
| 610 | * LovableCoward: He's a coward at heart but unlike the Mayor he serves, he's merely seen as a hapless, if rather annoying, messenger who actually cooperates with Boba and Fennec after he gets captured. [[spoiler:This is best seen with his meek interactions with a bold Peli Motto during the battle of Mos Espa.]] |
| 611 | * MilkingTheGiantCow: He almost always moves his hands while he's talking. |
| 612 | * NeverHeardThatOneBefore: Dealing with the Pykes is clearly not the first time he's been called a "[[FantasticSlur Tail-head]]", although he smothers his annoyance under another layer of flattery. |
| 613 | * PluckyComicRelief: His smarminess, gesturing and ButtMonkey status are PlayedForLaughs. |
| 614 | * ProfessionalButtKisser: Whether when dealing with a dignitary or with some rough-and-tumble mercenary, he'll be effusive with the flattery. He lays it on super thick. |
| 615 | * ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: [[spoiler:When he and Peli are cornered by Boba's Rancor they both scream, and his voice is ''much'' higher than Peli's.]] |
| 616 | * SmugSnake: Introduced as an oily bureaucrat with a pompous and patronizing bearing, which never quite goes away even as the show [[BreakTheHaughty grinds his dignity to powder]]. |
| 617 | [[/folder]] |
| 618 | |
| 619 | [[folder:Lortha Peel]] |
| 620 | !!Lortha Peel |
| 621 | [[quoteright:299:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lortha_peel.png]] |
| 622 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 623 | |
| 624 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/StephenRoot |
| 625 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'' |
| 626 | |
| 627 | The chief watermonger in Mos Espa, a greedy and conniving businessman who is also one of Boba's vassals. |
| 628 | ---- |
| 629 | * CreateYourOwnVillain: The Mods wouldn't be stealing water from him if he wasn't price-gouging for it. |
| 630 | * EvilOldFolks: A greedy, sleazy crook who overcharges for water. |
| 631 | * FauxAffablyEvil: A trope that is a specialty of Stephen Root's acting abilities; he acts polite and doting, but it's clearly an act and he makes little effort to not condescend anybody he speaks to. |
| 632 | * KnowWhenToFoldEm: When threatened with eviction to Mos Eisley, Peel cuts his losses with the mods and accepts Boba's order to slash his prices back down to a reasonable amount. |
| 633 | * NeverMyFault: Refuses to concede any part in the rise of water theft despite charging ridiculous prices for it. |
| 634 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: He condescends Boba for being a poor daimyo who nobody respects, but his attempt to get Boba to deal with the mods results in several wins for him; Boba hires a gang of specialized troops to bolster his ranks, deals with a scam causing unrest in his city, earning Boba the respect of his soldiers and the townspeople. |
| 635 | * SmugSnake: Very smug and has his head up his ass. |
| 636 | * VillainHasAPoint: He's right that nobody in Mos Espa really respects Boba as daimyo, and points to the assassination attempt in the first episode as proof. |
| 637 | [[/folder]] |
| 638 | |
| 639 | !!Mos Eisley |
| 640 | |
| 641 | [[folder:Wuher]] |
| 642 | !!Wuher |
| 643 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wuher_sw_0.png]] |
| 644 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 645 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 646 | !!!'''Homeworld:''' Tatooine |
| 647 | |
| 648 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Ted Burnett |
| 649 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ANewHope'' | ''Literature/FromACertainPointOfView'' | ''ComicBook/StarWarsMarvel2015'' |
| 650 | |
| 651 | -->''"Hey! We don't serve their kind here!"'' |
| 652 | |
| 653 | The day-shift bartender of Chalmun's Cantina in Mos Eisley. |
| 654 | ---- |
| 655 | * TheBartender: His job in the cantina. He's a real jerk about it, too - for instance, he serves Luke a glass of filthy water for getting on his nerves. |
| 656 | * EveryoneHasStandards: He may be a jerk and hate droids, but Wuher despises slavery and hates that it is so ingrained on Tatooine. Even though buying a couple slaves would help with staffing issues at the cantina, he refuses to consider it. He also makes a point of not telling the stormtroopers about Obi-Wan and his companions, the former of whom he recognizes as a Jedi. |
| 657 | * FantasticRacism: |
| 658 | ** Despises droids because his parents were killed by battle droids right in front of him during the Clone Wars. Wuher had a droid detector installed in Chalmun's to stop them from entering, although it keeps breaking. |
| 659 | ** In the mini-comic "The Sand Will Provide", he cruelly kicks out a thirsty Tusken Raider boy for attempting to steal a drink. |
| 660 | * FreudianExcuse: He hates droids because he saw his parents gunned down by battle droids during the Clone Wars. |
| 661 | * MeanBoss: He makes a point of telling the Modal Nodes not to stop playing for ''anything'' -- even if someone was just murdered in front of them, or thrown onto the stage. |
| 662 | * NoodleIncident: ''Series/TheMandalorian'' Season 1 shows that [[{{Irony}} he's been replaced by a droid]]. |
| 663 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: For whatever reason, he's no longer the bartender by the time of ''The Mandalorian'' and a droid has taken his place. |
| 664 | [[/folder]] |
| 665 | |
| 666 | [[folder:Garindan ezz Zavor]] |
| 667 | !!Garindan ezz Zavor |
| 668 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/garindan.png]] |
| 669 | !!!'''Species:''' Kubaz |
| 670 | !!!'''Homeworld:''' Kubindi |
| 671 | |
| 672 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Saddie Edonn |
| 673 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JohnWayne [[note]]based on archive audio[[/note]] |
| 674 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ANewHope'' | ''Literature/FromACertainPointOfView'' |
| 675 | |
| 676 | He serves as an informant to those who hire his services in Mos Eisley. Garindan was hired by the Empire to assist them in their search for two Rebel droids attempting to get offworld. |
| 677 | ---- |
| 678 | * AdaptationalHeroism: In ''Legends'', Garindan was made out to be a truly unscrupulous individual with no apparent other motivation besides {{Greed}} who would work for anyone who paid him, including the Hutts. In the Canon, while he's still willing to perform criminal activity and take spy jobs against the Rebellion, he's a victim of attempted brainwashing to be a spy for the Empire (which he only pretends to have worked), and only sold out the Rebel droids to the stormtroopers to earn enough credits to get off Tatooine and free his homeworld from the Empire later. |
| 679 | * AllThereInTheManual: His name is given in ''Star Wars in 100 Scenes''. |
| 680 | * AntiVillain: Of the not really evil type. Under the ruse of being a brainwashed spy, he's only working with the Empire to make enough money to return to Kubindi and then liberate it from the Empire. |
| 681 | * BrokenPedestal: He once had an optimistic opinion of the Empire and wished to train as a diplomat. However, his opinion of them soured when he learned that they were brainwashing his people into being spies for them. |
| 682 | * DayHurtsDarkAdjustedEyes: Garindan wears goggles because Kubaz are sensitive to light. Because Garindan's trapped on a planet with two suns, he only gets a few opportunities to take his goggles off. |
| 683 | * FantasticRacism: He finds himself on the receiving end of this by a lot of humans in Mos Eisley due to his bizarre appearance, to the point that the name "Long Snoot" is essentially a FantasticSlur. Garindan also has a bit of this attitude towards humans in turn. |
| 684 | * FurryReminder: His species being anthropomorphic anteaters, Garindan sometimes eats Tatooine's sand flies out of the air on instinct. |
| 685 | * HumansAreMorons: He holds most of the humans he's seen in low regard because he believes their status as the galaxy's dominant species has made them rather arrogant (and not just because the Empire, which is predominantly run by humans, ruined his life). He finds Wuher to be one of the least offensive humans he knows, and he finds the moisture farmers outside Mos Eisley to be nobler. |
| 686 | * HumanoidAlien: Has the standard human body shape but has the face of an anteater. |
| 687 | * InsectoidAlien: Even though his species look like humanoid anteaters, it is said that Kubaz have insectoid ancestry. |
| 688 | * InTheHood: Wears a dark cloak with a black hood up all the time. |
| 689 | * KnightInSourArmor: He wants to free Kubindi from the Empire, but he's developed a cynical outlook after the Empire tried to feed the Kubaz propaganda, all the while exploiting them. As such, he perceives most humans as naive and self-centered fools who are [[{{Doublethink}} willing to lie to themselves]]. |
| 690 | * TheLostLenore: He is informed by his daughter via comlink that his wife died while he was away from Kubindi. |
| 691 | * MadeASlave: His enlistment by the Empire as a spy is actually a result of being enslaved and then (seemingly) brainwashed by them. |
| 692 | * NamedByTheAdaptation: Subverted. While he had a name, [[OnlyOneName he didn't have a family name]] in ''Legends''. This type of naming convention for Kubaz would find its way back into ''Legends'' via the ''Onslaught'' expansion of ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'', which introduced a Kubaz companion by the name of Altuur zok Adon. |
| 693 | * TheNoseKnows: Kubaz have very a acute sense of smell, even smelling minor environmental details. For Garindan, this just makes Tatooine even more unbearable. |
| 694 | * NonActionGuy: He carries a blaster in case he needs it, but he prefers to fight with information. |
| 695 | * PretendToBeBrainwashed: After the Empire enslaved him, and like a lot of Kubaz, they tried to brainwash him into working as a spy on Tatooine. [[NoSell It didn't work on him]], and he only pretends that it worked so that he can make money to liberate his planet later. |
| 696 | * PunchClockVillain: He's fighting against the Empire in the long-term, but he's willing to work against the Rebellion (as well as carry out other criminal activities) if it makes him enough money to hurt the Empire later. |
| 697 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: His report to the Empire about Luke and Obi-Wan hiring Han and Chewie to transport them and the Rebel droids not only almost led to their capture before they departed Tatooine, but also served as a starting point for the Empire's investigation into the identity of the pilot who blew up the first Death Star. |
| 698 | * StarfishLanguage: He only speaks in Kubazian (which consists mostly of nasally whirring sounds) on screen, which is not subtitled for the audience, but [[BilingualDialogue the stormtroopers he informs can understand]] (which is justified by the Empire attempting to turn the Kubaz into brainwashed spies). He is capable of speaking Basic, but rarely does so. |
| 699 | * VagueAge: His exact age is unclear, but he is old enough to have grandchildren by Kubaz standards. |
| 700 | * YouCantGoHomeAgain: His main goal is get back to Kubindi so he can free it from the Empire and reunite with his hive. However, he's been stranded on Tatooine for years, and he's struggling to make enough credits (some of which he uses to make calls home) to get off despite being seemingly wealthy. His attempt to sell out [=C-3PO=] and [=R2-D2=] to the Imperials was supposed to be his last job to get him off Tatooine. When the Imperials didn't get the droids and he wasn't paid because the bounty was forfeited, he was delayed for a little longer. |
| 701 | [[/folder]] |
| 702 | |
| 703 | [[folder:Figrin D'an]] |
| 704 | !!Figrin D'an |
| 705 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/figrin_dan_sw.png]] |
| 706 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 707 | !!!'''Species:''' Bith |
| 708 | !!!'''Homeworld:''' Bith |
| 709 | |
| 710 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/RickBaker |
| 711 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''[[note]]deleted scene[[/note]] | ''Film/ANewHope'' | ''Literature/FromACertainPointOfView'' |
| 712 | |
| 713 | A musician and leader of the Modal Nodes, who perform in Chalmun's Cantina. |
| 714 | ---- |
| 715 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: The reason that the Modal Nodes stick with him, despite his antics constantly putting them in danger -- he's one of the best musicians in the business, and they're not about to throw away the chance to work with him. |
| 716 | * TheGamblingAddict: After they escape Jabba's service, the band makes a point of keeping someone near him at all times so that he doesn't gamble their few remaining credits away. |
| 717 | * MetaphoricallyTrue: To convince the band to come with him to Tatooine, he promised that they'd be working for the "local lord" and playing in his palace. He didn't mention that their employer was Jabba the Hutt, a ''crime'' lord. |
| 718 | * NoNameGiven: Both he and his band are unnamed in the film. Their previously established ''Legends'' names were reestablished in the official article ''[[http://www.starwars.com//news/music-in-the-star-wars-galaxy-the-modal-nodes-vs-the-max-rebo-band Music in the Star Wars Galaxy: The Modal Nodes vs the Max Rebo Band]]''. |
| 719 | * TrappedByGamblingDebts: The reason he and the Modal Nodes are on Tatooine in the first place -- they were more or less made slaves to Jabba the Hutt to pay back his debts. |
| 720 | [[/folder]] |
| 721 | |
| 722 | [[folder:Ackmena]] |
| 723 | !!Ackmena |
| 724 | [[quoteright:299:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ackmena_4.png]] |
| 725 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 726 | |
| 727 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/BeaArthur |
| 728 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''Literature/FromACertainPointOfView'' |
| 729 | |
| 730 | The night-shift bartender at Chalmun's Cantina. |
| 731 | ---- |
| 732 | * TheBartender: Serves as a much more amicable version of this than Wuher. |
| 733 | * CanonImmigrant: Perhaps one of the biggest examples in the franchise. She is one of the only characters from the [[Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial Holiday Special]] to make the jump to canon status in either the current EU or ''Legends''. |
| 734 | * SchrodingersCanon: In ''Legends'', she was an amateur singer who eventually left Mos Eisley and went pro. She also joined an UndergroundRailroad-style organization after the defeat of the Empire. |
| 735 | [[/folder]] |
| 736 | |
| 737 | [[folder:Peli Motto]] |
| 738 | !!Peli Motto |
| 739 | %% |
| 740 | %%Image selected per Image Pickin' thread: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1643650984088720400 |
| 741 | %%Please don't change or remove without starting a new thread. |
| 742 | %% |
| 743 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fkauuhyveaii_nv_9.jpeg]] |
| 744 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"You know, I never went anywhere, and look how good I got it."'']] |
| 745 | %% |
| 746 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 747 | |
| 748 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/AmySedaris |
| 749 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheMandalorian'' | ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'' |
| 750 | |
| 751 | -->''"What can I say, I'm an excellent judge of character."'' |
| 752 | |
| 753 | The overseer and mechanic of Hangar 5-3. |
| 754 | ---- |
| 755 | * EightiesHair: She has an impressive set of bushy curls that evoke the massive perms of the 80s. |
| 756 | * ActorAllusion: Peli offers to [[InterspeciesAdoption buy the Child's spawn]] in ''Mandalorian'' Chapter 9, and confesses in ''The Book of Boba Fett'' Chapter 5 that she used to date a Jawa. On the long-running cartoon ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'', Amy Sedaris voiced Princess Carolyn, an anthropomorphic cat who also found romance and an adoptive child outside of her species. |
| 757 | * TheCameo: When Boba Fett arrives in Mos Eisley to negotiate with the Pykes on the Tusken Tribe's behalf, she and her pit droids can be seen in the background. |
| 758 | * CutenessProximity: She takes an immediate shine to the Child, half-jokingly telling the Mandalorian she'd pay to take him off his hands, and seriously offers to pay for any potential offspring if the Child happens to reproduce asexually. |
| 759 | * TheDividual: She's rarely ever seen without her pit droids, who seems to follow her everywhere, including out of her hangar. They often provide comedy at her side. |
| 760 | * HonestJohnsDealership: She regularly scams her customers, such as by hiring Jawas to steal parts from peoples' speeders, and then when the speeders' owners pay her to replace the parts, she puts back the same parts that were stolen in the first place. She can be a FriendInTheBlackMarket to people she knows well, like Din Djarin. |
| 761 | * InterspeciesRomance: She used to date a Jawa. [[spoiler:In "In the Name of Honor" she briefly flirts with Mok Shaiz's Majordomo who's a Twi'lek.]] |
| 762 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's happy to soak the Mandalorian for every credit he's got for using her docking bay, but she's kind to the Child and is genuinely concerned that Mando may not be taking care of him properly (though she wastes no time trying to get Grogu back to him when he returns to Tatooine in ''The Book of Boba Fett''). She also immediately helps Frog Lady with her problem of finding a ship to ferry her without hyperdrive. |
| 763 | * LargeHam: Much more overtly silly and comedic than most other characters from ''The Mandalorian'', with exaggerated expressions and mannerisms. |
| 764 | * MamaBear: She's protective towards Grogu and when reunited with him in ''The Book of Boba Fett'', immediately sees to it that he gets a good meal before risking her life to return him to Mando. |
| 765 | * {{Omniglot}}: She can communicate with Jawas and Frog people in addition to Basic-speaking humans. She also seems to understand Binary as she can communicate without need of a translator with her pit droids and astromechs. Plus, living on Tatooine, it's very likely she speaks Huttese too. |
| 766 | * TookALevelInBadass: In the finale of ''The Book of Boba Fett'', Peli proves to be a decent fighter against the Pyke Syndicate, while also making sure that Grogu is safe. |
| 767 | * TheToothHurts: She loses one of her front teeth during the fight against the Pykes in Mos Espa after her droid-powered rickshaw crashes, sending her face-first into the ground. She's still missing it when Din comes to visit her in the third season of ''The Mandalorian''. |
| 768 | * WrenchWench: Works as a mechanic and appears to have done most of the repairs to the ''Razor Crest'' herself after the Mandalorian insists that no droids work on his ship. She later restores and soups up a [[WhatAPieceOfJunk junked Naboo N-1 starfighter]] for Din. |
| 769 | [[/folder]] |
| 770 | |
| 771 | [[folder:The Modifier]] |
| 772 | !!The Modifier |
| 773 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_modifier.png]] |
| 774 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 775 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 776 | |
| 777 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' [[Music/{{Thundercat}} Steven Bruner]] |
| 778 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'' |
| 779 | |
| 780 | -->''"No walk-ins, appointment only."'' |
| 781 | |
| 782 | A mod artist who runs a parlor at the outskirts of Mos Eisley. |
| 783 | ---- |
| 784 | * ArtificialLimbs: He has a crude cybernetic right hand which he can swap out for a variety of tools. |
| 785 | * BackAlleyDoctor: His role in "The Gathering Storm". Although perfectly capable of installing life-saving cybernetics, he normally caters to the Modder cyborgs subculture, and is treated more like a tattoo/piercing artist. If at first he's refusing his services without an appointment, Boba Fett pays him handsomely to change his mind. Boba admits this was the best he could do under the circumstances, pressed for time, acknowledging that this was a shady surgeon, but he got the job done and did save Fennec's life. |
| 786 | * ChekhovsGunman: He's the person who saved Fennec Shand's life after she suffered a fatal injury [[spoiler:and is also seen in Boba's palace preparing to perform a surgery on the injured Cobb Vanth]]. |
| 787 | * GadgeteerGenius: Aside from performing small modifications, he's able to install mechanical organs into people's bodies, mostly likely made by himself. |
| 788 | * NoNameGiven: His name is never mentioned in the series, and the database only refers to his as "the Modifier". |
| 789 | [[/folder]] |
| 790 | |
| 791 | !!Mos Pelgo/Freetown |
| 792 | |
| 793 | [[folder:Cobb Vanth]] |
| 794 | !!Marshal Cobb Vanth |
| 795 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mv5bztnkzmuwzjqtntlims00mwnilthimzutymziywzim2y1otlhxkeyxkfqcgdeqxvyotg3nji1mtg_v1.jpg]] |
| 796 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"Think it through."'']] |
| 797 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 798 | !!!'''Homeworld:''' Tatooine |
| 799 | |
| 800 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/TimothyOlyphant |
| 801 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''[[Literature/StarWarsAftermath Aftermath]]'' | ''[[Literature/AftermathLifeDebt Life Debt]]'' | ''[[Literature/AftermathEmpiresEnd Empire's End]]'' | ''Series/TheMandalorian'' | ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'' |
| 802 | |
| 803 | -->''"Look, pal, I'm sure you call the shots where you come from, but 'round here, I'm the one who tells folks what to do."'' |
| 804 | |
| 805 | A lawman from Mos Pelgo, driven out of the town when the Mining Collective took it over and enslaved its inhabitants. After wandering the desert for days with nothing but a crate of crystals he stole from the Collective, he was rescued by a Jawa sandcrawler and traded the crystals for an acid-scarred set of Mandalorian armor -- Boba Fett's. Clad in impenetrable beskar, he returned to Mos Pelgo and freed it from the Collective, restoring law and order to the town. |
| 806 | ---- |
| 807 | * CleanUpTheTown: His goal in becoming a lawman and forming Freetown. |
| 808 | * CoolBike: His speeder, which appears to have been made from a podracer engine (and the same model of podracer as [[Film/ThePhantomMenace Anakin Skywalker]]'s at that). |
| 809 | * CurbStompCushion: [[spoiler:His duel with Cad Bane goes to great lengths to show that Vanth was distracted by his deputy's insistence on getting involved against Vanth's orders. Had he been able to give Bane his full attention, it might have gone differently.]] |
| 810 | * EvilPowerVacuum: Hopes to take advantage of the power vacuum left by Jabba's death and the Empire's post-Battle of Endor disarray to improve Tatooine for the better. |
| 811 | * {{Expy}}: |
| 812 | ** Before Timothy Olyphant was cast as him in ''The Mandalorian'' (thus making this a case of CastingGag), ''Aftermath'' writer Chuck Wendig stated that Cobb was an expy of [[Series/{{Justified}} Raylan Givens]]. |
| 813 | ** His term as TheSheriff of Freetown brings [[Series/{{Deadwood}} Seth Bullock]] to mind (also a CastingGag for his Weequay friend, played by Creator/WEarlBrown (Dan Dority)). |
| 814 | * FantasticRacism: Towards Tusken Raiders. |
| 815 | * FireForgedFriends: He initially gets off on the wrong foot with the Mandalorian for disrespecting his culture by supposedly having stolen another Mandalorian's armor while not being Mandalorian himself, lightened when he explains how he simply found it and just needed it to protect his town. Over the course of the episode, they come to respect each other and Mando even asks him to [[TakeCareOfTheKids take care of the Child]] if he gets killed by the Krayt Dragon. After slaying the beast, Cobb has no problem returning his armor to Mando as agreed and they go their own ways in peace. |
| 816 | * HumbleHero: A pirate accuses him of being motivated by greed and vanity. He answers that he's just a man trying to do some good for Tatooine. |
| 817 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: He wasn't aware that wearing Mandalorian armor without being Mandalorian was considered disrespectful to their culture (or at least to the culture that's still practiced by Mando's tribe), only meaning to use it as a means to protect Freetown. He also offers a drink to Mando, unaware that Mando comes from an offshoot where eating and drinking would need to be done in private due to their beliefs about unmasking. |
| 818 | * InsistentTerminology: The town Vanth protects is called Freetown, ''not'' "Mos Pelgo". |
| 819 | * MirrorCharacter: To Greef Karga. Both of them are allies to Din Djarin who devote their resources to cleaning up the respective towns they live in to make it a safe place for people in the galaxy to live in, and they also have a soft spot for Grogu once they actually meet him. The main difference is that Vanth was always a good guy who just wanted to make Mos Pelgo a safe place to live, whereas Karga came from a bad background as a ruthless bounty contractor and a former Imperial Magistrate who eventually made a HeelFaceTurn. |
| 820 | * MistakenIdentity: The Mandalorian mistakes him for the Mandalorian bounty hunter he's heard about, only to discover that he's merely a pretender, something he takes offense to since only Mandalorians should wear Mandalorian armor according to his tribe's ways. Fortunately for Cobb, the issue of the Krayt Dragon gives him a non-violent out to the problem. |
| 821 | * NotQuiteDead: In the Season 1 finale of ''The Book of Boba Fett'' [[spoiler:Cad Bane implies he killed Vanth to get a rise out of Boba Fett, and this seems only to be confirmed when Freetown's bartender Taanti tells Din Djarin that the Marshal was "gunned down in cold blood" later on. However it turns out Taanti was using ExactWords and Bane was either wrong or lying, as Vanth turns out to be just alive enough to be put into Boba's bacta tank and under the Modifier's tools to be patched up.]] |
| 822 | * PermaStubble: The only description of his appearance in the ''Aftermath'' trilogy we get is his salt-and-pepper stubble. |
| 823 | * ScarredEquipment: The Mandalorian armor he finds is described as looking like it's been "through hell and back" but still perfectly functional. Considering it's been through the stomach of a sarlacc, it's understandable it would come out a bit worse for wear. |
| 824 | * TheSheriff: His job, and the reason he uses Boba's armor. |
| 825 | * SlaveLiberation: He was a slave until he escaped. |
| 826 | * UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:It's unclear whether Cobb survived his duel with Cad Bane in ''The Book of Boba Fett'' Chapter 6 or not. Unlike his deputy, he was just shot once and Freetown's population immediately tends him and requests immediate medical help, but the episode ends before revealing Vanth's fate.]] This is resolved [[spoiler: in TheStinger for the Season 1 finale of ''The Book of Boba Fett'', where he is shown alive in Boba's bacta tank.]] |
| 827 | * UniversallyBelovedLeader: The citizens of Freetown absolutely love their Marshal, and take his goal in making Freetown a good place to live very seriously. [[spoiler:When Cad Bane strolls up uninvited and shoots both Vanth and his overeager deputy in cold blood, all of its citizens travel over to Mos Espa to avenge him, despite trying to initially be a neutral force in the gang war.]] |
| 828 | * UnskilledButStrong: Compared to how Boba Fett uses the armor, Cobb only knows the basics of using the armor's weapons and isn't using it to its full potential. It is excused by the fact that he found the armor in the possession of Jawas and simply bought it from them without knowing anything about the original owner. Since Cobb didn't know anything about Mandalorian culture, he didn't receive the necessary training to use the armor properly. |
| 829 | * WardrobeFlawOfCharacterization: One fairly obvious clue that he isn't Boba Fett is the fact that Boba's Mandalorian armor is almost comically ill-fitting, being several sizes too small for Cobb's lankier physique. Cobb is, after all, not the rightful owner of the armor, but his purpose in wearing it is to recontextualize the armor as a symbol of hope for the people of Mos Pelgo. Ironically, Cobb is ignorant of the fact that it was originally worn by the galaxy's most notoriously murderous bounty hunter. |
| 830 | * TheWorfEffect: In ''The Book of Boba Fett'', [[spoiler:Cad Bane proves he is not to be trifled with when he guns Cobb and his deputy down effortlessly]]. |
| 831 | * YouCannotKillAnIdea: He tells a bandit leader that even if they destroy Freetown, the idea of it will never die. |
| 832 | [[/folder]] |
| 833 | |
| 834 | [[folder:Taanti]] |
| 835 | !!Taanti |
| 836 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/taanti_sw.png]] |
| 837 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 838 | !!!'''Species:''' Weequay |
| 839 | |
| 840 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/WEarlBrown |
| 841 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheMandalorian'' | ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'' |
| 842 | |
| 843 | A bar proprietor from Freetown who is one of Vanth's most trusted confidants. |
| 844 | ---- |
| 845 | * CastingGag: He's portrayed by a ''Series/{{Deadwood}}'' alumnus, much like Vanth. |
| 846 | * TheCavalry: He and the other people of Freetown act as this in the Season 1 finale of ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett''. |
| 847 | * CoolOldGuy: He's a pretty humble, honest old guy who is always concerned for the town's well-being. |
| 848 | * FriendlySniper: His primary weapon of choice is a good sniper rifle. |
| 849 | * TheLancer: To Vanth, being his unofficial deputy and the voice of reason in domestic situations. |
| 850 | * LetsGetDangerous: Despite being concerned with Freetown's involvement in the war between Fett and the Pykes, he still brings the townspeople to Mos Espa to help Boba defend it. |
| 851 | * OlderSidekick: He's one of Vanth's right-hand men helping run Freetown and is implied to be much older than him. |
| 852 | * YouAreInCommandNow: After [[spoiler:Vanth is critically wounded,]] he leads Freetown into the Battle of Mos Espa. |
| 853 | [[/folder]] |
| 854 | |
| 855 | [[folder:Jo]] |
| 856 | !!Jo |
| 857 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jo_sw.png]] |
| 858 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 859 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 860 | |
| 861 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Karisma Shanel |
| 862 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheMandalorian'' | ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'' |
| 863 | |
| 864 | A young woman from Freetown, who is involved in both fighting the Krayth Dragon and defending Mos Espa against the Pyke Syndicate. |
| 865 | ---- |
| 866 | * TheCavalry: She's among the Freetown citizens who come to Boba's aid in the Season 1 finale of ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett''. |
| 867 | * FireForgedFriends: She and Drash team up and form a friendship during the chaos of the Battle of Mos Espa. |
| 868 | * FriendlySniper: Working in tandem with Drash, she shoots a fair number of Pyke henchmen. |
| 869 | [[/folder]] |
| 870 | |
| 871 | [[folder:Scott]] |
| 872 | !!Deputy Scott |
| 873 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/deputy_scott.png]] |
| 874 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 875 | |
| 876 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' JJ Dashnaw |
| 877 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'' |
| 878 | |
| 879 | Cobb Vanth's new Deputy Marshal in the newly-renamed Freetown. |
| 880 | ---- |
| 881 | * AerithAndBob: Scott has a much more grounded name than his superior, Cobb. |
| 882 | * AuthorityInNameOnly: He may be the deputy and the ''de facto'' second-in-command of Freetown, but he's too hot-headed and foolish to really be the figure of authority he thinks he is and is supposed to be given his title. Taanti functions much better as Cobb's second given he's generally the voice of reason for the town and the wise OlderSidekick. |
| 883 | * OverzealousUnderling: To Cobb Vanth. Scott obviously means well but he's overeager in performing his duties. He's needlessly antagonistic towards Din Djarin, who's a proven ally to Freetown, and ignores Cobb's instructions to stay inside when Cad Bane walks into town. |
| 884 | * SacrificialLamb: He's gunned down by Cad Bane during a MexicanStandoff to demonstrate how dangerous Bane is. |
| 885 | * SpannerInTheWorks: With him getting involved in the duel between Vanth and Bane, Bane is forced to outdraw both of them, and taking them out in quick succession. This is likely the reason why he only injures Vanth instead of killing him outright. |
| 886 | * ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Cad Bane shoots him several times in the torso, even after it's clear he's down and not getting back up. |
| 887 | * TooDumbToLive: Despite Cobb clearly letting him know that Cad Bane is not someone to mess with, the poor guy still decides to insert himself into the fight and pays for it with his life. |
| 888 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: We don't get a chance to learn much about him besides his brashness before he's killed. |
| 889 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: His presence in the MexicanStandoff distracts Cobb enough to slow him down and let Cad Bane outdraw them both. |
| 890 | [[/folder]] |
| 891 | |
| 892 | [[folder:Issa-Or]] |
| 893 | !!Issa-Or |
| 894 | !!!'''Species:''' Twi'lek |
| 895 | |
| 896 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''[[Literature/AftermathLifeDebt Life Debt]]'' |
| 897 | |
| 898 | A woman who works with Cobb Vanth in "Freetown". |
| 899 | ---- |
| 900 | * ActionGirl: Saves Malakili from some thugs. |
| 901 | * TheSheriff: Alongside Vanth. |
| 902 | [[/folder]] |
| 903 | |
| 904 | [[folder:Malakili]] |
| 905 | !!Malakili |
| 906 | ->See his entry on the [[Characters/StarWarsTheHuttClans Hutt Clans]] page. |
| 907 | [[/folder]] |
| 908 | |
| 909 | [[folder:Borgo the Hutt]] |
| 910 | !!Borgo the Hutt |
| 911 | !!!'''Species:''' Hutt |
| 912 | |
| 913 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''[[Literature/AftermathLifeDebt Life Debt]]'' | ''[[Literature/AftermathEmpiresEnd Empire's End]]'' |
| 914 | |
| 915 | A young Hutt living in Freetown. Vanth enlists Malakili as his tutor. |
| 916 | ---- |
| 917 | * NoNameGiven: His name is not revealed until ''[[Literature/AftermathEmpiresEnd Empire's End]]''. |
| 918 | * PuppetKing: The Red Key mining conglomerate hoped to install this Hutt on Jabba's throne. Vanth put a stop to their plan and ended up with a baby Hutt to care for. |
| 919 | [[/folder]] |
| 920 | |
| 921 | !!Native Species |
| 922 | |
| 923 | [[folder:Jawas]] |
| 924 | !!Jawas |
| 925 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jawa_sw.png]] |
| 926 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"Utinni!"'']] |
| 927 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Jack Purvis (Chief Jawa in ''A New Hope'') |
| 928 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' | ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'' | ''Literature/FromACertainPointOfView'' | ''Series/ObiWanKenobi'' | ''Film/ANewHope'' | ''VideoGame/{{Commander}}'' | ''[[VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefront Battlefront]]'' | ''ComicBook/StarWarsMarvel2015'' | ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' | ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'' | ''[[Literature/StarWarsAftermath Aftermath]]'' | ''Series/TheMandalorian'' | ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'' | ''[[WebAnimation/StarWarsGalacticPals Galactic Pals]]'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsYoungJediAdventures Young Jedi Adventures]]'' |
| 929 | |
| 930 | ->''"I can't abide those Jawas! Disgusting creatures!"'' |
| 931 | -->-- '''C-3PO''' |
| 932 | |
| 933 | Short, rodent-like natives of Tatooine. They are passionate scavengers, seeking out or even stealing technology for trade in the deep deserts in their huge sandcrawler transports. Some can also be found on other worlds such as Arvala-7. |
| 934 | ---- |
| 935 | * AmbiguouslyHuman: The novelization to ''Film/ANewHope'' says that scientists wonder if humans and Jawas are distantly related. |
| 936 | * AnimalMotifs: Rats. They are compared to them frequently, and when scared tend to scatter like a pack of them. In Legends materials, Jawas were said to look rather rat-like under the cloak, so there's that. |
| 937 | * BaseOnWheels: Their sandcrawlers. |
| 938 | * BedouinRescueService: |
| 939 | ** If by "rescue" you mean "kidnap Artoo and Threepio and effectively put them through the droid equivalent of human trafficking", then they did this. Nonetheless, both droids would have been kriffed had it not been for them, so it's a mixed blessing. |
| 940 | ** Played much more straight in ''The Mandalorian'', where they briefly take in a lost and impoverished Cobb Vanth from Tatooine's harsh conditions. They allow Cobb to drink some water to rehydrate himself, and even allow him to take some old Mandalorian armor in exchange for the precious crystals he had on him. Justified, since Jawas are scavengers and traders of old droids and junk they can find, and not only is Cobb Vanth not a droid, but was also technically a customer in their eyes. |
| 941 | ** Soundly averted with Boba. They rob him of his armor and then leave him for dead when they find him after he crawled out of the Sarlacc. His treatment by the Jawas may have differed from Cobb's because Cobb was still fully conscious, lucid, and would be able to cause trouble with his blaster, so they had to parley instead. |
| 942 | * ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: Due to their tendency to hide under hoods, the only recognizable feature of a Jawa's face are their bright yellow eyes. |
| 943 | * CharacterCatchphrase: '''"UTINNI!"''' This translates to "come on" or something to that effect -- commonly used whenever they have found something of use. |
| 944 | * DisasterScavengers: If there's been an explosion or some kind of a battle, these guys will be sure to make a profit off of it. |
| 945 | * TheFaceless: Due to their hoods. One of the only things known about their biology is that they have fur. |
| 946 | * ImportedAlienPhlebotinum: Inverted, their sandcrawlers were left behind by human miners after they realized that Tatooine was a MetalPoorPlanet. |
| 947 | * InTheHood: They wear hoods that completely conceal their faces, making it unknown what they look like underneath. |
| 948 | * JabbaTableManners: The Jawas found on Arvala-7 are extremely sloppy eaters. When The Mandalorian brings them the rare Mudhorn egg they demanded as payment they immediately chop it open and start smearing the yolk over themselves in their rush to eat it. |
| 949 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In contrast to the Tuskens. They're relentless thieves, and are not above trying to sell somebody something they just stole from that person, but they only seem to do it because of how desperate their situation is, being non-violent and take some care in not completely destroying equipment they steal parts from. |
| 950 | * KillerRabbit: Despite their diminutive size, they can be dangerous when push comes to shove. What they lack in individual strength they make up for by living in moving fortresses, using powerful ion blasters and swarming their opponents. They are even able to fend off a hardened bounty hunter like Din Djarin, who ends up negotiating with them after his defeat. |
| 951 | * KnowledgeBroker: A minor example. In ''Attack of the Clones'', while searching for his mother, Anakin comes across a Jawa pitstop and trades some tools for them to point him in the right direction. |
| 952 | * ShadowedFaceGlowingEyes: A rare example in live-action films, because their faces are always hidden by their hoods, with only their eyes visible. |
| 953 | * SchrodingersCanon: ''Legends'' material suggests the Jawas evolved (or de-volved) from the Kumumgah, a technologically advanced species that lived on Tatooine when it was more habitable and whom eventually turned into both the Jawas and the Tusken Raiders after millennia of surviving in the harsh deserts. |
| 954 | * StarfishLanguage: Like the Wookiees, they cannot physically speak Galactic Basic, but can understand it. When non-Jawas like Din Djarin the Mandalorian attempt to speak Jawaese, it sounds [[YouNoTakeCandle silly]] to them. However, Peli Motto apparently speaks their language fluently. |
| 955 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: They enjoy Mudhorn eggs ("SOO-GA!") so much that they will trade a spaceship's worth of parts, and all the weapons and other valuables they looted from said spaceship, in exchange for a single one of them. Once acquired, they will enthustically eat it on the spot. |
| 956 | [[/folder]] |
| 957 | |
| 958 | !!!Tuskens |
| 959 | |
| 960 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 961 | !!Tuskens |
| 962 | [[quoteright:349:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tusken_raiders.png]] |
| 963 | |
| 964 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' | ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Rebels]]'' | ''Literature/FromACertainPointOfView'' | ''Film/ANewHope'' | ''VideoGame/{{Commander}}'' | ''[[VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefront Battlefront]]'' | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsDarthVader Darth Vader]]'' | ''ComicBook/StarWarsMarvel2015'' | ''[[Literature/AftermathEmpiresEnd Empire's End]]'' | ''Series/TheMandalorian'' | ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'' |
| 965 | |
| 966 | -->''"The Sand People are easily startled but they'll soon be back, and in greater numbers."'' |
| 967 | --->-- '''Obi-Wan Kenobi''' |
| 968 | |
| 969 | Also known as "Tusken Raiders" and pejoratively referred to as "Sand People" by locals, these nomadic, primitive humanoids are native inhabitants of Tatooine's harsh deserts. They frequently raid settlements inhabited by off-world species, who they view as water-stealing invaders. |
| 970 | ---- |
| 971 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: The current ExpandedUniverse has portrayed the Tuskens as a nuanced and diverse alien culture whose exact traditions, beliefs, and moral codes vary from tribe to tribe, in contrast to the [[AlwaysChaoticEvil uniformly bloodthirsty savages]] they were typically portrayed as in ''Legends'' and the first two trilogies. |
| 972 | * AmbiguouslyHuman: There has been a lot of speculation both out and in-universe on whether Tuskens are human or not, given that there isn't anything visually to say they aren't just covered-up people, though it's pretty certain at this point they are a different species. ''Legends'' material takes this a step further, having ''both'' Tuskens and Jawas being the distant descendants of a highly advanced race that devolved over the millennia. They are also shown unmasked, and look decidedly ''non''-human in appearance. What muddies the water even further is the Tusken habit of raising human children as their own, which means some Sand People really ''are'' human, just impossible to identify behind all the covering. |
| 973 | * AmbiguousGender: Tusken children wear gender-obscuring, unisex robes and are mostly forbidden from removing them. It isn't until adulthood that their genders are made visibly clearer. |
| 974 | * BandagedFace: The males' faces are wrapped in bandages. |
| 975 | * BondCreatures: An individual Tusken is given a Bantha early in life and they stay with each other until one of them dies. If a Tusken were to mate, their Bantha would do the same with their mate's Bantha. If the rider were to die before the Bantha, the Bantha would usually die alongside them. If the Bantha died before the rider, the Bantha would be given a burial in a designated Bantha graveyard. |
| 976 | * CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Their idea of making Cobb Vanth repent for a history of transgressions against their people is making him drink from a Black melon, a harmless fruit important to Tusken culture that is notorious for tasting horrible. |
| 977 | * DirtyCoward: The moment they think they might be in danger, they run away. As Obi-Wan explains, they return in greater numbers. |
| 978 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: One wonders if the Gaderffii stick was a jab at [[UsefulNotes/MuammarGaddafi the Libyan Dictator,]] combined with the Tuskens' overall image of aggressive desert people. |
| 979 | * TheDreaded: In ''A New Hope'', Luke wouldn't look for R2 late at night because there'd be too many Sand People to face under such potentially dangerous conditions. |
| 980 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: From what can be gathered, Tuskens genuinely care for their own tribe, and share a deep, almost spiritual bond with their Banthas, to the point that one dies should the other die first. |
| 981 | * TheFaceless: Due to their masks. As part of their culture, they are forbidden from removing their masks except on special occasions such as childbirth. |
| 982 | * FantasticRaceWeaponAffinity: They favor gaderffii, metal sticks with both bladed and blunt ends. |
| 983 | * FantasticRacism: In the Tusken POV stories from ''From a Certain Point of View'', they are shown to have a very low opinion of Jawas and the moisture farmers, especially the latter because Tuskens view water as a sacred birthright given by their gods and they perceive farmers as stealing their resources. |
| 984 | * FireForgedFriends: While "friendship" is pushing it, a small tribe of Tuskens forged a peace with the denizens of Freetown after fighting together to slay a Krayt Dragon. So long as no-one breaks the peace, the Tuskens have sworn to come to Freetown's aid in times of strife and vice versa. |
| 985 | * GodOfEvil: A large swathe of Tusken tribes view Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader as mythical bringers of death, owing to Skywalker's massacre of a Tusken tribe and Vader's occasional killing of Tuskens. |
| 986 | * HiddenDepths: The POV stories "Reirin" and "Rites" show that there's more to the Tuskens than killing anyone that isn't them and that they have a very religious culture. At least one Tusken (namely Reirin) wants to get off Tatooine. |
| 987 | * HorseOfADifferentColor: They use Banthas as mounts, and according to outside materials, are freakishly devoted to the things. |
| 988 | * ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: According to Obi-Wan, their marksmanship is actually worse compared to Stormtroopers. In a deleted scene from the ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', despite managing to take down a pod racer previously, the Tuskens miss every shot they fire upon the Jawas scavenging the wreckage. Their aim is so poor that the Jawas don't even flinch or flee at all. |
| 989 | * ImprobableAimingSkills: |
| 990 | ** While Obi-Wan claims their accuracy pales in comparison to Imperial Stormtroopers, they are good enough shots with a long gun to bring down a podracer going several hundred miles an hour... though it may have been sheer luck, as they missed every shot on the Jawas that were immediately upon the wreck so badly that the Jawas act as if nothing's happening. |
| 991 | ** Played straight in ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett''. Tusken marksmen have no problems hitting Pyke gunmen protected by the gunports of an armored train while the train is moving at great speed. |
| 992 | * KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: They prefer conventional firearms (known in-universe as "slugthrowers") such as the [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Cycler_rifle Cycler rifle]] instead of blasters, emphasizing their low-tech culture. |
| 993 | * MagicallyIneptFighter: Almost no force-sensitive Tuskens have appeared either in the current canon or ''Legends.'' The only possible example is Reirin in ''Literature/FromACertainPointOfView'', who develops some sort of spiritual connection to what is implied to be a scavenged kyber crystal. |
| 994 | * MalevolentMaskedMen: They are violent masked raiders who terrorize the people of Tatooine. |
| 995 | * NothingIsScarier: |
| 996 | ** While there may be a single Bantha track, Tuskens ride single file to hide their numbers. |
| 997 | ** Their faces were never shown in the ''Legends'' continuity to invoke this trope, and it's unlikely that the tradition will be broken anytime soon.[[labelnote:Note]]However, there are unmasked tuskens in ''VideoGame/JediKnightDarkForcesII'', known as [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Grave_Tuskens Grave Tusken]], but the game's limited graphic makes them hard to make out.[[/labelnote]] |
| 998 | * OccupiersOutOfOurCountry: Or rather, off our planet -- Tuskens largely view the colonists who've settled Tatooine over the past millennia as water-thieving invaders, and their raiding is at least partially motivated by a desire to reclaim the planet and its sparse resources for themselves. |
| 999 | * OddFriendship: The Tuskens seem to feel some kinship to Mandalorians, possibly due to their shared custom of hiding their faces. The first canon depiction of diplomacy between Tuskens and outsiders was with Mandalorian BountyHunter Din Djarin, where they are shown to respect individuals he vouches for. |
| 1000 | * PrimitiveClubs: A double-ended metal club called the gaderffii is the Tuskens' traditional weapon. The most prized gaderffii are made of [[FantasyMetals durasteel]] scavenged from spaceship wrecks. The wood haft for it is acquired in a [[MushroomSamba vision quest]] where they acquire a limb of hardwood from a source obscured by the hallucinations of the vision quest. In deft hands, a gaderffii is capable of brutalizing a whole squad of Imperial Stormtroopers. |
| 1001 | * ProudWarriorRace: From their perspective. As a RiteOfPassage, they were to kill a Krayt Dragon and take a pearl from its stomach as proof. Each warrior even makes their own Gaderffii stick. Even though the women aren't as encouraged to do most of the warrior-related activity, they are just as capable fighters as the men. |
| 1002 | * RapePillageAndBurn: While this is not a universal trait of their culture, many Tusken tribes resort to this lifestyle to survive the desert. Much of it is fueled by their [[FantasticRacism hatred for aliens]], in particular moisture farmers, who they consider water thieves. |
| 1003 | * TheRival: Shown in a deleted scene in Episode I, they and the Jawas compete in scavenging. |
| 1004 | * SchrodingersCanon: |
| 1005 | ** In ''Legends'', the valley where Anakin's massacre of the tribe that murdered Shmi occurred became a haunted site infused with the dark side of the Force, where other Tuskens would make sacrifices. Luke Skywalker felt deeply disturbed when he happened upon the site as a youth. |
| 1006 | ** ''Legends'' also gave the Tuskens a definitive origin -- they, along with the Jawas trace their ancestry to a mostly peaceful, technologically advanced civilization that lived on Tatooine back when it was significantly more habitable than it is in the present. |
| 1007 | ** ''Legends'' material also depicted unmasked Tuskens at several points, though what they're like under the mask varies widely, from something truly monstrous, with a gaping maw full of sharp teeth to somewhat feline-like humanoids. |
| 1008 | * StayInTheKitchen: The men do most of the warrior-related activity, and the women are normally told to stay in the village and rear the children, even if they are the most competent fighters in the clan. Some like Reirin choose to act independently and ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'' shows that not all Tusken tribes have this mentality. |
| 1009 | * TheUnintelligible: Their language is made of growls and grunts. It sounds like donkey brayings. When the Mandalorian communicates with them, he does so through a series of hand signs rather than attempting to speak their language. Come Season 2 of ''Series/TheMandalorian'', however, he demonstrates that it is possible to speak their verbal language when conversing with them, though he still combines it with hand signs. |
| 1010 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Their kidnapping and month-long torture of Shmi Skywalker is what ultimately set Anakin on his StartOfDarkness and we all know what that led to. |
| 1011 | [[/folder]] |
| 1012 | |
| 1013 | [[folder:A'Yark]] |
| 1014 | !!A'Yark |
| 1015 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ayark_sw.png]] |
| 1016 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 1017 | !!!'''Species:''' Tusken Raider |
| 1018 | !!!'''Homeworld:''' Tatooine |
| 1019 | |
| 1020 | %%->'''Portrayed by:''' |
| 1021 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''Literature/FromACertainPointOfView'' | ''Film/ANewHope'' |
| 1022 | |
| 1023 | The chief of a tribe of Tuskens whose territory borders that of Obi-Wan Kenobi's hut. |
| 1024 | ---- |
| 1025 | * AmbiguousGender: No pronouns are ever used for A'Yark.[[note]]In ''Legends'', the reveal that A'Yark was female came near the end of ''Kenobi''[[/note]]. |
| 1026 | * AscendedExtra: They are one of the Tuskens watching Luke during ''A New Hope''. |
| 1027 | * CanonImmigrant: In the ''Legends'' continuity, A'Yark was introduced in the novel ''[[Literature/StarWarsKenobi Kenobi]]''. John Jackson Miller took the opportunity to reintroduce them into canon with ''From a Certain Point of View''. |
| 1028 | * EyepatchOfPower: They are missing one eye and have replaced it with a red crystal that is visible even with their Tusken wraps. |
| 1029 | * SchrodingersCanon: In Legends, A'Yark met Ben shortly after his arrival on Tatooine and identified him as a Jedi due to her having been the sister-in-law of Sharad Hett, a Jedi who became a Tusken. After working together in an EnemyMine moment and a failed attempt to recruit him as a replacement for Sharad, A'Yark decided to leave him in peace as she knew he was too powerful to antagonize. |
| 1030 | * WorthyOpponent: Respectfully views Obi-Wan as a dangerous and crafty man and has forbidden their tribe from entering the territory around his house, knowing he has abilities the Tuskens cannot overcome. |
| 1031 | [[/folder]] |
| 1032 | |
| 1033 | [[folder:A'Koba]] |
| 1034 | !!A'Koba |
| 1035 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/akoba_sw.png]] |
| 1036 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 1037 | !!!'''Species:''' Tusken Raider |
| 1038 | !!!'''Homeworld:''' Tatooine |
| 1039 | |
| 1040 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Peter Diamond |
| 1041 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''Literature/FromACertainPointOfView'' | ''Film/ANewHope'' |
| 1042 | |
| 1043 | A young Tusken warrior who recently came of age and seeks to revitalize his tribe. |
| 1044 | ---- |
| 1045 | * AdaptationNameChange: Played with. His original name given by ''Legends'' was "[=URoRRuR'R'R=]". While the original name is still canon to some extent (the source for this being the 2015 sourcebook ''Ultimate Star Wars'', which frequently recycled from ''Legends'' when no other canon information was available at the time), A'Koba was given his name in ''From a Certain Point of View'' to not only mesh better with the other named Tusken characters in the Canon, but likely because the original name would just be [[TheUnpronounceable too hard to pronounce]] in any real-world language (plus, it would be a pain for the audio book narrators). If the ''Legends'' name is still valid, it may just be what his name sounds like in [[StarfishLanguage Tusken dialect]], and "A'Koba" is [[PragmaticAdaptation just a name for the convenience of non-Tuskens]]. |
| 1046 | * ADayInTheLimelight: He is a point of view character in ''From a Certain Point of View''. |
| 1047 | * OhCrap: When he hears a krayt dragon call emerging from Obi-Wan, he flees alongside his cousins. |
| 1048 | * TheStarscream: Plans on one day taking leadership of the tribe from A'Yark, and after noting how scared of going into Obi-Wan's territory she is, A'Koba thinks that day may come sooner than he was planning. |
| 1049 | [[/folder]] |
| 1050 | |
| 1051 | [[folder:The Chief]] |
| 1052 | !!The Chief |
| 1053 | !!!'''Species:''' Tusken Raider |
| 1054 | !!!'''Homeworld:''' Tatooine |
| 1055 | |
| 1056 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Xavier Jimenez |
| 1057 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'' |
| 1058 | |
| 1059 | The chief of the Tusken tribe that captures Boba Fett after his escape from the Sarlacc. |
| 1060 | ---- |
| 1061 | * LargeAndInCharge: The chief is the tallest member of his tribe. |
| 1062 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: |
| 1063 | ** He is savvy enough to figure out that it was Boba and ''not'' the kid now bragging who killed the desert monster in the first episode of Boba Fett's series, and tacitly acknowledges this by giving Boba a water-bearing black melon to drink from. |
| 1064 | ** He trusts Boba to come back after going off... somewhere to get something, and when Boba returns with a bunch of [[HoverBike swoop bikes]], approves Boba's plan to destroy and pillage the speeder train to assert themselves towards the Pyke Syndicate running the route and terrorizing them. |
| 1065 | ** He also impresses upon Boba that his tribe is not of the stereotypical savage raider type that Tuskens are viewed as, and inducts Boba into the tribe by granting him the right to carry a traditional [[CarryABigStick Gaderffii Stick]]. |
| 1066 | * TheStoic: He's much more reserved and calmer than the rest of his tribe, while at the same time clearly commanding their respect. |
| 1067 | [[/folder]] |
| 1068 | |
| 1069 | [[folder:The Warrior]] |
| 1070 | !!The Warrior |
| 1071 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_warrior_sw.png]] |
| 1072 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 1073 | !!!'''Species:''' Tusken Raider |
| 1074 | !!!'''Homeworld:''' Tatooine |
| 1075 | |
| 1076 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Joanna Bennett |
| 1077 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'' |
| 1078 | |
| 1079 | A skilled Tusken warrior of the tribe that that captures Boba Fett. She later trains him in the fighting style of the Tuskens. |
| 1080 | ---- |
| 1081 | * TheAce: She's the best warrior in the tribe. She trains Boba how to wield a gaffi stick as deftly as them, and also is one of the heavy-hitters on the speeder train heist. |
| 1082 | * ActionGirl: The most skilled warrior of the tribe; she easily defeats Boba in their first fight (though he was badly injured at the time) and can still regularly send him to the ground while sparring after he gets in better shape, and makes short work of a train car full of Pykes. She was also the quickest to get the hang of [[HoverBike swoop]] riding. |
| 1083 | * CarryABigStick: She knows her way around a Gaderffii Stick, and teaches Boba how to wield one. |
| 1084 | * DreadlockWarrior: Her headscarf has thick loose bands that give the impression of dreadlocks. |
| 1085 | * NeverFoundTheBody: Unlike with The Chief and The Kid, [[spoiler:the audience doesn't know if The Warrior managed to survive the attack on their village by the Pyke Syndicate and simply left before Boba returned in Episode 3]] |
| 1086 | [[/folder]] |
| 1087 | |
| 1088 | [[folder:The Kid]] |
| 1089 | !!The Kid |
| 1090 | !!!'''Species:''' Tusken Raider |
| 1091 | !!!'''Homeworld:''' Tatooine |
| 1092 | |
| 1093 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Wesley Kimmel |
| 1094 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'' |
| 1095 | |
| 1096 | A Tusken youngling of the tribe that captures Boba Fett. |
| 1097 | ---- |
| 1098 | * AmbiguouslyRelated: While there is a heavy implication that he is the Chief's son, there is no confirmation that they are indeed paterfamilias and child. |
| 1099 | * BrattyHalfPint: At first, he's pretty cruel to Boba, beating him for fun and forcing him to dig for black melons. By the time of the second episode this is downplayed as he starts to warm up to Boba and eventually starts looking up to him. |
| 1100 | * CanineCompanion: Is usually accompanied by his pet massiff. |
| 1101 | [[/folder]] |
| 1102 | |
| 1103 | !!Other |
| 1104 | |
| 1105 | [[folder:[=R5-D4=]]] |
| 1106 | !!R5-D4 |
| 1107 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/r5d4_sw.png]] |
| 1108 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 1109 | |
| 1110 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ANewHope'' | ''Literature/FromACertainPointOfView'' | ''[[VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefront2015 Battlefront]]'' | ''Series/TheMandalorian'' | ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'' |
| 1111 | |
| 1112 | ->''"This R2 unit has a bad motivator. Look."'' |
| 1113 | -->--'''Luke Skywalker''' |
| 1114 | |
| 1115 | A faulty astromech droid who was captured by the same Jawas as R2-D2 and C-3PO. He malfunctioned just in time to allow Owen Lars to acquire R2-D2 in exchange, keeping him with C-3PO. |
| 1116 | ---- |
| 1117 | * TheBusCameBack: He reappears in live action in [[Recap/TheMandalorianS1E5Chapter5TheGunslinger Episode 5]] of ''The Mandalorian'' at the Cantina, then in "[[Recap/TheMandalorianS2E1Chapter9TheMarshal The Marshal]]" at Peli Motto's hangar. |
| 1118 | * ButtMonkey: He's unwillingly sold to Din Djarin and made to travel to the dreaded [[DeathWorld Mandalore]], and is battered by the storm clouds in the descent. Upon arriving, he's forced by Din to scout ahead, and is quickly attacked by Alamites, needing to be rescued. Small wonder that, after leading Bo-Katan back to the planet, R5 opts to stay aboard her ship. |
| 1119 | * ChekhovsGunman: In [[Recap/TheMandalorianS3E2Chapter18TheMinesOfMandalore episode 18]] of ''The Mandalorian'', Peli Motto talks up R5's time in the Rebel Alliance to entice Din Djarin to buy him. Three episodes later, Carson Teva is able to track down Djarin through R5 and deliver Greef Karga's message about the pirates. |
| 1120 | * CowardlyLion: |
| 1121 | ** He's terrified when Din purchases him for his trip to Mandalore. Despite this, R5 manages to get the air sample needed to prove that Mandalore's atmosphere is safe, and he gets Grogu to Bo-Katan when Din gets captured. |
| 1122 | ** He's once again nervous when Din has him infiltrate the Imperial base on Mandalore, but overcomes his fear to get a layout of the base to Din and later assist him by taking control of the barrier shields in the hall leading to Gideon's command center. |
| 1123 | * EarnYourHappyEnding: Possibly. R5 was desperate to be bought, but sacrificed his chance to allow R2-D2 to complete his mission by "blowing his motivator". However, by playing dead, he survives the stormtrooper attack on the sandcrawler, and with his Jawa owners dead, he went for the nearest settlement to look for a new master (and he'd be free to claim, too). By season two of ''The Mandalorian'' he's now working for Peli Motto who seems to be treating him pretty well. Come season three, he is now Din Djarin's droid, helping to scout Mandalore and later playing an important role in liberating it from Moff Gideon's forces. |
| 1124 | * FaithInTheFoe: R2-D2 is his competition for being sold to Owen Lars, and R5 is hesitant to believe him when he explains his mission. But when R2 begs for his help after the sale is completed, R5 puts his faith in R2's words and blows his motivator. The later stormtrooper raid confirms to him that R2 was telling the truth. |
| 1125 | * FakingTheDead: After blowing his own motivator, R5 plays dead for a while. This allows him to survive the later Jawa massacre, as the stormtroopers overlook him. |
| 1126 | * HeroOfAnotherStory: Both Peli Motto and the ''Ultimate Star Wars'' reference book say that he served in the Rebel Alliance after his encounter with R2-D2. It's confirmed in [[Recap/TheMandalorianS3E5Chapter21ThePirate Episode 21]] of ''The Mandalorian'' when Carson Teva mentions that they served together. |
| 1127 | * HeroicSacrifice: He blows his own motivator after R2 begs him to do something that would allow him to be purchased instead, as R5 believed R2 was telling him the truth about being on an important mission to save the galaxy on behalf of the Rebellion. While he did survive, he also knew he'd be torn up for scrap afterwards and it's only due to the attack on the crawler that he escaped this fate. |
| 1128 | * HonestJohnsDealership: |
| 1129 | ** In ''A New Hope'', he's an old, run-down droid that had been rotting in the sandcrawler for four years. The Jawas hastily clean him up to try to sell to Owen Lars so R5 would be his problem instead of theirs. |
| 1130 | ** This happens to him again in ''The Mandalorian''; he's so battered that when Peli Motto offers him for sale to Din, one of his side panels falls off. |
| 1131 | * HopeSpot: |
| 1132 | ** He's wasting away in the sandcrawler, but one day the Jawas do their best to restore him to prep him to sell to Owen Lars. R5 becomes hopeful... and then R2-D2 is brought on board, dashing his hopes of being chosen. |
| 1133 | ** When Owen chooses him over R2, he's overjoyed at finally having a family, and swears to the best droid he can be for them, but then R2 begs him for help and he realizes that he has to sacrifice himself for the greater good. |
| 1134 | * MysteriousPast: Due to a memory wipe he does not remember anything prior to the Jawas acquiring him four years ago. R2 mentioning the Rebellion causes something deep inside his memory banks to stir, and R5 thinks he was once part of it. |
| 1135 | * ShooOutTheClowns: In the third season finale of ''The Mandalorian'', after helping Djarin, he flees the Imperial base just before the episode takes a darker turn. |
| 1136 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: |
| 1137 | ** Initially, Owen Lars purchases him rather than R2-D2. This would have left R2 and the Death Star plans in the possession of the Jawas, who were eventually found and slaughtered by Stormtroopers. His malfunctioning motivator causes Lars to purchase R2-D2 instead. |
| 1138 | ** Din Djarin only purchases R5 to have a droid that can test Mandalore's atmosphere. But later, thanks to his time in the Rebel Alliance, R5 helps Carson Teva track down Din and tell him about the pirate occupation of Nevarro, leading to the Mandalorians driving the pirates out and having new land ceeded to them to call home. |
| 1139 | * TookALevelInBadass: In the season 3 finale of ''The Mandalorian'', R5, who earlier in the season was afraid to simply roll away from the N-1 on Mandalore's surface, infiltrates Gideon's base and hacks the computers to assist Din and Grogu. He even zaps one of the Imperial mouse droids when it tries interfering with him. |
| 1140 | * UsedFuture: Unlike R2-D2, who is regularly cleaned and maintained, R5 has gotten little care over the years and is worse for wear. By the time of ''The Mandalorian'', he's covered in grime, parts are falling off, and he has a burn mark where his motivator burst. Thankfully, Peli Motto gives him an oil bath as part of his sale to Din. Although he doesn't look showroom-new, he does look a ''lot'' cleaner. |
| 1141 | * YouDontLookLikeYou: His CG model, first seen in ''The Book of Boba Fett'' and later used in the third season finale of ''The Mandalorian'', has his photoreceptors closer together than normal. |
| 1142 | * YourHeadAsplode: His "bad motivator" causes a small explosion inside his head. |
| 1143 | [[/folder]] |
| 1144 | |
| 1145 | [[folder:Laze Loneozner]] |
| 1146 | !!Laze "Fixer" Loneozner |
| 1147 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/laze_loneozner_sw.png]] |
| 1148 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 1149 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 1150 | !!!'''Homeworld:''' Tatooine |
| 1151 | |
| 1152 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Anthony Forrest (deleted scene), Skyler Bible |
| 1153 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ANewHope'' (deleted scene) | ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'' |
| 1154 | |
| 1155 | One of Luke's friends from Tatooine, who he frequently hung out with at Tosche Station. He is the boyfriend of Camie Marstrap. |
| 1156 | ---- |
| 1157 | * AcePilot: Downplayed. Not much to do on Tatooine for bored teenagers other than to hop in their land or airspeeders and engage in some reckless piloting. Fixer is the best in the group... except for Biggs and Luke. |
| 1158 | * AlliterativeName: '''L'''aze '''L'''oneozner. |
| 1159 | * CanonImmigrant: He originally appeared in a deleted scene for ''A New Hope''. He finally made a canonical on-screen appearance in ''The Book of Boba Fett''. |
| 1160 | * JerkJock: According to the deleted scenes (and expansions on them in other media), Fixer is a classic alpha male jerk who consistently "established dominance" over the other males in his peer group, especially Luke. |
| 1161 | * LaserGuidedKarma: Belittling Luke and Biggs out of his own inferiority complex does him and Camie little good, as they are stuck on Tatooine while the former two go on to join the Rebellion and play a part in liberating the galaxy from the Empire. When we see them in ''The Book of Boba Fett'', they look completely miserable at the mercy of some gangsters who've taken over Tosche Station. |
| 1162 | * OvershadowedByAwesome: His Topps card indicates that he felt overshadowed by Luke and Biggs, even before they joined the Rebellion. The NPR radio drama has Biggs state that Fixer is "just smart enough to know he's better off being a big noise in a small room." |
| 1163 | * TheRival: Luke and Biggs. Biggs was the only one who had the skills and confidence to challenge Fixer, and beat him often as not. Luke was even better, but a lot more meek and easily pushed around by Fixer. |
| 1164 | [[/folder]] |
| 1165 | |
| 1166 | [[folder:Camie Marstrap]] |
| 1167 | !!Camie Marstrap |
| 1168 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/camie_marstrap_sw.png]] |
| 1169 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 1170 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 1171 | !!!'''Homeworld:''' Tatooine |
| 1172 | |
| 1173 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Koo Stark (deleted scene), Mandy Kowalski |
| 1174 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ANewHope'' (deleted scene) | ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'' |
| 1175 | |
| 1176 | One of Luke's friends from Tatooine, who he frequently hung out with at Tosche Station. She is the girlfriend of Fixer. |
| 1177 | ---- |
| 1178 | * AlphaBitch: Downplayed. As Fixer's girlfriend, she's the dominant female (and the only female, actually). She sometimes enables and sometimes undercuts Fixer's more jerkish tendencies. In the NPR radio drama, Biggs describes her as "dumb enough to think she's made the prize catch hereabouts." |
| 1179 | * BelligerentSexualTension: One-sided, as far as we know. Luke imagining having married her in the novelization of ''The Last Jedi'' suggests that despite how adversarial she was, he was still attracted to her in his youth. |
| 1180 | * CanonImmigrant: She originally appeared in a deleted scene for ''A New Hope''. She finally made a canonical on-screen appearance in ''The Book of Boba Fett''. |
| 1181 | * FarmersDaughter: Her parents are hydroponic gardeners, who frequently bought water from the Lars family. This is how she knew Luke. |
| 1182 | * LaserGuidedKarma: Belittling Luke and Biggs does her and Fixer little good, as they are stuck on Tatooine while the former two go on to join the Rebellion and play a part in liberating the galaxy from the Empire. When we see them in ''The Book of Boba Fett'', they look completely miserable at the mercy of some gangsters who've taken over Tosche Station. |
| 1183 | * VitriolicBestBuds: She called Luke by the nickname "Wormie", making him question their friendship. |
| 1184 | * WhatIf: Luke has a dream sequence in the ''Film/TheLastJedi'' novelization where he never left Tatooine and ended up marrying her. |
| 1185 | [[/folder]] |
| 1186 | |
| 1187 | [[folder:Tatooine characters on other pages]] |
| 1188 | * Anakin Skywalker on [[Characters/StarWarsAnakinSkywalker his own page]]. |
| 1189 | * Luke Skywalker on [[Characters/StarWarsLukeSkywalker his own page]]. |
| 1190 | * Obi-Wan Kenobi on [[Characters/StarWarsObiWanKenobi his own page]]. |
| 1191 | * Biggs Darklighter on the [[Characters/StarWarsRedSquadron Red Squadron]] page. |
| 1192 | * Jabba the Hutt, his organization and court on the [[Characters/StarWarsTheHuttClan Hutt Clan]] page. |
| 1193 | * Boba Fett on [[Characters/StarWarsBobaFett his own page]]. |
| 1194 | * Fennec Shand on the [[Characters/StarWarsFettGotra Fett Gotra]] page. |
| 1195 | [[/folder]] |
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