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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: an0n on September 20, 2004, 01:02:01 am
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Seriously.
It's one of those things that's been pissing me off for years.
Everyone else is at least vaguely humanoid, but him and his boys are all big ****ing slug things.
I don't get it.
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he's a slug alien. isn't that enough?
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originally Jaba the Hutt was a human. But in ROTJ they decided to make him a obease slug creature.
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Yeah, I know. He was a big Macbeth looking mother****er with a furry jacket.
But still, Lucas usually has some background developed for all the **** in his films, so I gots to wonder: What the **** is Jabba?
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Originally posted by an0n
Yeah, I know. He was a big Macbeth looking mother****er with a furry jacket.
But still, Lucas usually has some background developed for all the **** in his films, so I gots to wonder: What the **** is Jabba?
aparrently, a hutt, seriously tho, that's what his kind is called.. i'll see if i can dig up some info from the quagmire that is starwars.com
EDIT: http://www.starwars.com/databank/species/hutt/index.html a gastropod, aparrently.. so.. a slug?
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What's wrong with a non humanoid alien anyway?
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I always thought that Hutt was some kind of family or clan name he had.
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Actually if you look around in Mos Eisley (sp?) in the first movie you see more then one non-humanoid aliens. There was that big, flat slug-like one, the purpled-headed one with the big mutlifaceted eyes...quite a few.
And Hutts are a species. They always include "The Hutt" in their name. Hutts have egos bigger then their bodies.
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I think it was originally, but they changed it's meaning ;)
It is pretty daft 'tho. You never hear anyone being called Han the Human or Ackbar the Mon Calimari...
And it's pretty freakin' obvious he is a Hutt...
"What? Oh *that* Jabba! I thought you meant the Quarren!"
Duh!
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Like I said, Hutts have an enormous ego. I think I read someplace that their species survived only because they were worshipped as gods on their home planet.
That'd give anyone a swelled head....and body to match apparently.
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(http://www.starwars.com/databank/species/hutt/img/bts_sm.jpg)
:wtf:
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an0n has a point though, even the most exoctic of aliens in SW tend to have two arms and two legs.
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Like I said, watch the Mos Eisley Cantina scene again in the first movie. There's more then one non-humanoid exotic alien
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Example
http://images.google.ca/images?q=tbn:BEdvC4x7rnQJ:http://www.starwars-tw.com/story/character/aliens/cantina/nadon.jpg
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Apart from the head he (Momaw Nadon, is it?) still has a basic humanoid frame though. Two legs, a torso, two arms, and a head.
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Really? Huh...can't tell from that shot.
And Nadon is right according to the pic caption.
Left my Species guide at home. Needed some idea material, book is crammed full. Though I think there are a few other non-humanoid races in it.
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Originally posted by HeX
Really? Huh...can't tell from that shot.
And Nadon is right according to the pic caption.
Left my Species guide at home. Needed some idea material, book is crammed full. Though I think there are a few other non-humanoid races in it.
play kotor sometime, there's one in it, ithonians, i think.
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Played KotOR, beat it darkside, still haven't got off my but and done the lightside.
Don't remember the Ithonians...been a while since I played.
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Ithorians. *waves around Character Guide he got when he was still seriously into Star Wars.*
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Originally posted by HeX
Played KotOR, beat it darkside, still haven't got off my but and done the lightside.
Don't remember the Ithonians...been a while since I played.
They're all over the skyline streets in the first planet.
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(http://www.starwars.com/databank/species/ithorian/img/movie_bg.jpg)
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Had a flick through the Character Guide, and apart from Jabba, the only race I can find that isn't vaguely humanoid is the Ssi'ruuk.
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Frankly, I'm surprised half of the Star Wars species survived the evolutionary lottery. Wookies? Gimme a break, Chewbacca is the dumbest piece of **** ever to brave the stars. And as far as I'm concerned, all the Ewoks should have suffered in eternal slavery at the hands of the Empire.
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Well, let's face it, humans aren't exactly the shining example of evolutions grace when you boil it down ;)
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I personally think we kick ass when compared with the other species in Star Wars. And the point is moot in real life because we have no basis for comparison at all.
Also, did anyone else get the impression that all Twi'leks in the galaxy exist purely to suck dick? (Figuratively in Bib Fortuna's case.)
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I don't know, that one Twi'lek Jedi in Episode 2 kicked ass. Bib was not a prime example of his species.
http://www.starwars.com/databank/species/twilek/?id=eu
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Originally posted by Ford Prefect
Frankly, I'm surprised half of the Star Wars species survived the evolutionary lottery. Wookies? Gimme a break, Chewbacca is the dumbest piece of **** ever to brave the stars. And as far as I'm concerned, all the Ewoks should have suffered in eternal slavery at the hands of the Empire.
Weren't the wookies basically enslaved by the Empire? And don't bring up Ewoks. They're midget Wookies with what Lucas evidently thought was a clever name, but is truly just a rather cheap derivation of Wookie. Not to mention their entire existence is a marketing gimmick...
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I wouldn't imagine an ewok to be a very good slave, though. Maybe a nice cushion, blanket or rug, though.
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Jabba the Hutt is what Jar Jar Binks becomes after eating too much.
naaa i don't know what the hell Jabba the Hutt is, but i do remember that his family was very well-known and respected (remember they judged the pod race in episode 1)
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Respected? He's a gangster.
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Fear, respect, it's all good.
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He's respected within his profession. (Gangster/the-power-on-Tatoonie.) Or was, anyways.
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Originally posted by Black Wolf
Respected? He's a gangster.
*sighs*
and would you consider Gangsters NOT respected?
didn't think so. kthx.
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Hey, don't dis the Ewoks!
They managed to take down an entire garrison of Stormtroopers, who had ATSTs an speeder bikes, using only rocks and ****!
Ph33r t3h fuzzy b3rz! :D
... bah, no, I still hate them too...
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Well, I saw the bit where they used rocks............ :nervous:
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Am I the only one who thinks Ewoks are cool?
Yes, I do hate Jar-Jar, so don't even ask :p.
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What's the best Star Wars race then?
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Empire, you get to wear cool uniforms and blow stuff up :D
Apparently Stormtroopers get all the girls ;)
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Stormtroopers get laid, but not me man.
If I want some loving I've got to go into Mos Eisley and pay five bucks for a wookie prostitute...
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Who might accidentally tear your arm off and probably has half the veneral diseases known to the SW universe, but hey...
Join the Alliance. Become a fighter pilot. Get transfered into and out of Rogue Squadron. Have all the girls you could ever possibly want.
'Course, you gotta live through it first.
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Originally posted by Cyker
Hey, don't dis the Ewoks!
They managed to take down an entire garrison of Stormtroopers, who had ATSTs an speeder bikes, using only rocks and ****!
yeah, good to know that the emipre builds their AT-ST walkers out of materials that can smashed by two logs swinging on vines. even cheap aluminum can take more punishment than that. Those imperial engineers must have gotten force-choked for that one.
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Christ, for a bunch of nerds, you guys scare me with your lack of solid Star Wars knowledge.
Jabba is a Hutt, his father is Zorba. They all go by their name, and then "the Hutt." They migrated from their planet after they royally ****ed it through polition or something to their current home planet, Nal Hutta (IIRC). The Hutts are a race, and they actually control a good portion of space (Hutt Space, incidentally) and have various crime rings and organizations. They live to be 900 years old or so.
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Originally posted by Flipside
Empire, you get to wear cool uniforms and blow stuff up :D
Apparently Stormtroopers get all the girls ;)
If they're all clones, that might cause a fair bit of confusion on a lively Saturday night........
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Stormtroopers ain't all clones. Not the ones in the original trilogy at least.
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Jabba Desilijic Tiure
one of the galaxy's most infamous crimelords, Jabba was a slug-like Hutt. He was sired by Zorba the Hutt on the planet Nal Hutta, about 600 years before he set up shop on Tatooine. Like most Hutts, Jabba had a huge, bloated body which must be moved on repulsorlift devices. This made Jabba appear immobile and defenseless, but he was also highly resourceful and cunning. During his early years as a thief and smuggler, Jabba worked with Ephant Mon, and once saved Ephant's life during an Imperial raid. When his father was imprisoned for improper business conduct, Jabba became the heir apparent to the Desilijic leader, Jiliac. They worked trielessly to expand Desilijic's horizon, but Jiliac's untimely pregnancy stalled Jabba's ambitions.
When Durga the Hutt challenged Jiliac to combat under the Old Law, Jabba used the opportunity to assassinate Jiliac's offspring just as the old Hutt was killed by Durga. Jabba the assumed control of Desilijic. At the height of the New Order, Jabba had become the Outer Rim's most notorious crime lords, controlling most of the smuggling, spice shipments, loan sharking, and murders in that territory. He was a major player in the illegal movement of glitterstim spice, and was constantly in powerplays with Moruth Doole over command of the market. During the years leading up to the Battle of Naboo, Jabba was one of many entitied that funded the arming of the Trade Federation's droid armies. Jabba had a working relationship with Han Solo, which centered around the delivery of smuggled spice from Kessel. When Han had to dump a shipment and escape from the Imperials, he could not repay Jabba, and so Jabba placed a death mark on Solo's head. Jabba employed his own set of bounty hunters to find Solo, thus keeping most of the reward money in-house. It was also during this time that Jabba funded Bria Tharen's raids on Ylesia, in an effort to eliminate the Besadii kajidic's spice factories there. When Boba Fett returned Solo to Jabba, in a block of frozen carbonite, Jabba was ecstatic, and had the frozen Solo hung as a wall decoration. This capture of Solo led to a reprisal from Solo's new-found friends on the Alliance, and Jabba was killed when he tried to have Solo and Luke Skywalker put to death in the belly of the Sarlacc which resided in the Great Pit of Carkoon. Luke used the Force and a little luck to rescue Han, while Princess Leia strangled Jabba with the chain he kept linked around her neck. Following Jabba's demise, no one could find his will, and his palace was left empty. It was overrun with Ranats, until Zorba the Hutt returned to take ownership of it and Jabba's other possessions. At his largest, Jabba measured 3.9 meters in length. Jabba was voiced by Larry Ward in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi.
Got that from here:
http://www1.theforce.net/cuswe/search.asp?search=Jabba
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Originally posted by Liberator
I don't know, that one Twi'lek Jedi in Episode 2 kicked ass. Bib was not a prime example of his species.
No no. I meant "suck dick" quite literally, except in the case of Bib Fortuna, whose undying devotion to Jabba could be metaphorically described as "sucking dick."
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Ok, just have to point out one iddy biddy inconsistency there, which is that Jabba saved Ephant Mon's life during his early years from an Imperial raid. But I thought the Empire only lasted 20-30 years at best?
Just me nit-picking ;)