[an0n]

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.

[Carl]

he's a slug alien. isn't that enough?

[redmenace]

originally Jaba the Hutt was a human. But in ROTJ they decided to make him a obease slug creature.

[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?

[Turnsky]

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?

[Black Wolf]

What's wrong with a non humanoid alien anyway?

[Carl]

I always thought that Hutt was some kind of family or clan name he had.

[HeX]

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.

[Cyker]

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!

[HeX]

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.

[Ghostavo]

[Petrarch of the VBB]

an0n has a point though, even the most exoctic of aliens in SW tend to have two arms and two legs.

[HeX]

Like I said, watch the Mos Eisley Cantina scene again in the first movie. There's more then one non-humanoid exotic alien

[HeX]

Example
http://images.google.ca/images?q=tbn:BEdvC4x7rnQJ:http://www.starwars-tw.com/story/character/aliens/cantina/nadon.jpg

[Petrarch of the VBB]

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.

[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.

[Turnsky]

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.

[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.

[NGTM-1R]

Ithorians. *waves around Character Guide he got when he was still seriously into Star Wars.*

[JR2000Z]

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.