How Boba Fett Came Back… The First Time Round

Boba Fett is useless no extra, lengthy dwell Boba Fett! Next week, The Book of Boba Fett will kick off a brand new journey with Temuera Morrison’s legendary Bounty Hunter, paving a brand new means ahead for his felony empire whereas exploring simply how he cheated his (relatively goofy) dying in Return of the Jedi. But that is Star Wars: in fact, this isn’t the primary time we’ve seen Boba do that.

How Boba Fett Escaped the Sarlacc

Blessed be the Star Wars expanded universe as a result of there are literally two moments Boba escaped the sarlacc within the basic continuity. The lesser-known, and far funnier unique story got here within the pages of Marvel’s unique Star Wars comedian. Star Wars #81—hilariously subtitled, “Jawas of Doom”—launched in late 1983, it noticed Han and Leia return to Tatooine shortly after the occasions of Return of the Jedi, as Han… effectively, Han was making an attempt to get his financial institution to acknowledge the truth that he was now not in Carbonite, and wanted his account re-opening. Yeah.

Anyway, it seems a roving Jawa Sandcrawler nabbed Boba after he managed to spice up his personal means out of the sarlacc pit, pondering that the masked man was truly a droid they may scrap. After the identical Jawas kidnapped R2-D2 from below Han and Leia, the duo chase after them, with Han diving into the Sandcrawler and discovering for himself that Boba Fett lived. The excellent news for Han, nevertheless, was that Boba had “I’ve been partially digested” amnesia, and didn’t acknowledge him. Too kind-hearted to desert the hunter who had no concept he’d made Han’s life depressing for the previous few years, the 2 labored collectively to flee the Sandcrawler with R2. Alas, it wasn’t to be: Leia’s repeated yelling of Han’s title exterior the Sandcrawler jolted Boba’s recollections again simply as he and Han have been about to make it out, inflicting him to instantly go for his blaster in a bid to finish Han’s life as soon as extra. Han leaped away with R2, and poor Boba—and the roaming Sandcrawler—fell again within the sarlacc. Because how else would he be in there to get out once more?

How Boba Fett Escaped the Sarlacc (Again)

Shortly after being again in digestive jail, Boba hatched plans to flee from a thousand years of agony as soon as extra. As depicted in “A Barve Like That: The Tale of Boba Fett,” the J.D. Montgomery quick story within the basic 1996 anthology Tales From Jabba’s Palace, Boba started utilizing the inner techniques of the sarlacc itself to make a telepathic connection to one in every of its different victims, an alien being named Susejo. After the 2 traded recollections, of each the various victims of the sarlacc that got here after Susejo and Boba’s personal exploits as a bounty hunter, Boba realized that Susejo was all however one with the sarlacc itself. Goading the alien’s ideas right into a convulsive response from the sarlacc’s innards, Boba managed to get the creature to contort round his jetpack—crushing it and igniting its propulsion techniques, grievously wounding Boba and blowing him freed from the creature’s tendrils.

Still, with barely sufficient energy to make it out of the creature’s maw because it tended to its wounds, Boba lapsed out and in of consciousness—Boba was found as soon as extra. This time, not by Jawas, however a rival bounty hunter: none aside from Dengar. Exploring the salvage left behind from the explosive destruction of Jabba’s sail barge, the Khetanna, Dengar found Boba’s physique and nursed his one-time skilled rival again to well being. Dengar was assisted by a younger dancer from Jabba’s palace who had survived her grasp’s downfall, Neelah—whose reminiscence had been wiped earlier than being offered into servitude, and believed that Boba had some connection to unlocking her previous.

What Boba Fett Did After Escaping the Sarlacc

After Boba recovered sufficient to flee Tatooine with Dengar and Neelah in tow—who found that she was truly the high-born Kateel of Kuhlvult from the planet Kuat, house to the well-known Kuat Drive Yards starship manufacturing facility—Boba grew to become mates with Dengar, and the duo shaped an unlikely early partnership. After abandoning the Slave I to go on a mission of vengeance towards the chief of Kuat Drive Yards, Kuat of Kuat (sure, actually), Boba left the remaining shipmaking amenities to the management of Kateel and rejoined Dengar as a hunter. For a time, he leveraged the anonymity gained by folks believing he had perished on the sarlacc pit, taking jobs in secret with Dengar. It could be one other 4 years till Boba re-emerged on the galactic stage, making himself identified to Han Solo after trapping the Alliance normal on the moon of Nar Shaddaa in one other try and get vengance towards his former goal. From there… effectively, let’s simply say Boba went on to have a protracted, wacky life within the previous EU.

No doubt The Book of Boba Fett will give us one other alternate retelling of this occasion, now to be canonized because the “official” story in Disney and Lucasfilm’s period of all-canon, on a regular basis. But it’ll be attention-grabbing to see what beats and concepts—and the emotional affect it might need on a personality we all know much more as a mysterious cipher than as an precise individual—it echoes from the variations of Boba’s rebirth we bore witness to up to now. We’ll discover out when the collection begins streaming on Disney+ Wednesday, December 29.

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