Questions tagged [jabba-the-hutt]
A fictional antagonist in the Star Wars universe.
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Did Luke use the Force to forcefully lift up the large gate of Jabba's palace?
I have always wondered if Luke Skywalker had used the Force to forcefully lift up the large gate of Jabba's palace, or if he had used the Force to access the gate's control unit and manipulated it so ...
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Whatever did happen to Jabba the “Hut”?
From Marvel Comics’ web article, “Star Wars: The Unexpected Story of the Wrong Jabba the Hutt”
Yes, that’s the way it was spelled in the issue (whether a Marvel mistake or the Star Wars gang still ...
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Do other Hutts consider Jabba a sexual deviant?
I recall pre-Disney sources stating that Jabba's "attraction to humanoid females was something of a personal fetish, the other Hutts considered it abnormal"- does this hold up in the new ...
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Is Zorba still Jabba's father?
In the Jedi Prince book series Jabba is the son of Zorba the Hutt, who seeks vengeance on Leia and Han for his offspring's death. Given the animosity so many people feel for this series and much of ...
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How many Hutts are there?
Around the time of the Battle of Yavin, how many Hutts are there in the galaxy? Having seen the Grand Hutt Council in The Clone Wars which included Jabba and hearing about Gardulla from a young Anakin ...
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What made Jabba immune to Jedi mind tricks?
As I learned from the answers to this question: In what adaptation of Return of the Jedi did Jabba brag about killing Jedi in the old days?, in the novelization of Return of the Jedi, Jabba the Hutt ...
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How did Jabba kill Jedi "Back in the old days"?
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In what adaptation of Return of the Jedi did Jabba brag about killing Jedi in the old days?
We establish that Jabba did kill Jedi back in the old days (or at least claimed that ...
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In what adaptation of Return of the Jedi did Jabba brag about killing Jedi in the old days?
For this answer, Where did the Millennium Falcon learn to communicate?, I remembered a bit of extra dialogue that was not in The Empire Strikes Back but was added for the radio play.
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Who cares if it takes 1,000 years for Sarlacc to digest you? [duplicate]
C-3P0 informs Luke et al before they are thrown into the pit of Sarlacc that:
"In its belly, you will find a new definition of pain and suffering as
you are slowly digested over a…thousand years."...
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What would happen if the Hutt Clans had joined the Separatists?
In the Clone Wars movie, the Republic does its best to ensure Jabba the Hutt allow the Republic safe passages through its territory. But how much difference would it have made if Jabba had instead ...
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Is Jabba the Hutt: The Art of the Deal's title a deliberate reference?
Disclaimer: Please keep this as apolitical as possible while still answering the question.
The Dark Horse graphic novel Jabba the Hutt: The Art of the Deal was released 11 years after the more well ...
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How does Jabba the Hutt survive on Tatooine?
Business reasons aside, why would Jabba the Hutt live on Tatooine? According to the Wookieepedia page, he's a gastropod, and we know that salt kills slugs. Tatooine is a desert with two nearby suns, ...
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Why did Jabba keep Han around?
When Han arrived before Jabba, he was carbon-frozen and thus a very suitable wall display as a trophy for Jabba and a warning to visitors of his palace of the folly of incurring the great Jabba's ...
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Why did Jabba's ships have to hover?
Jabba's hovering sail barges just seem so stupid. Is there any reasonable motivation Jabba might have had for using hovering ships when he could just use sandcrawlers or something, which I assume are ...
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Why did Jabba's skiffs have magnets on them?
In Return of the Jedi, after escaping from Jabba's Sail-Barge, R2-D2 land in the Tatooine sand. Luke and the others pick them up with the skiff's magnets.
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Why the fake desert landscape in Return of the Jedi?
At the end of the battle against Jabba and his henchmen, which was set in (what appears to be) a real desert, the two droids are lifted out of the sand, feet first, against a very fake looking ...
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What did C-3PO mean about Chewbacca never returning from Jabba's palace?
From Return of the Jedi (emphasis mine):
A lonely, windswept road meanders through the desolate Tatooine
terrain. We HEAR a familiar BEEPING and a distinctive reply before
catching sight of ARTOO-...
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What is the origin of "Desilijic", Jabba's clan name?
Is there an explanation for the origin of Jabba the Hutt's clan name? Namely, the Desilijic name, the full family name being Desilijic Tiure.
I know that the name Jabba has its roots in Indo-European ...
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What was Jabba's status among other Hutts?
So we know that Jabba the Hutt was leader of a vast criminal empire. In fact, according to Legends canon, Jabba's organization was apparently the Outer Rim equivalent of Black Sun, or nearly so. He ...
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How did Jabba get his tail injured in/before "Return of the Jedi"?
Trying to answer this Q, I just re-watched the HD version of ROTJ and noticed that Jabba the Hutt had an injury on his tail.
Originally, I thought it was from a blaster bolt shot by Luke as he was ...
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Did Jabba let slave Leia sleep?
Did Jabba let Leia sleep? Because when Luke enters, she appears to be be sleeping but I'm not sure if she's just lying down.
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