Jabba the Hutt is a fictional character in George Lucas's space opera saga Star Wars. He made his first appearance during the third film, The Return of the Jedi, where he was introduced as an evil gangster who had a bounty hunter capture Han Solo who owed him money for dumping an illegal cargo. An odious mass of greasy, insect ridden flesh with a sadistic love of torture, Jabba served as a minor antagonist throughout the initial series, where he was shown abusing his many cohorts, putting a bounty on Solo's head, attempting to kill Luke Skywalker and kidnapping Princess Leia for use as a sex slave.

In The Phantom Menace, Jabba can be seen starting off the Boonta Eve Classic Podrace where Anakin Skywalker beat Sebulba and all of the other contestants. In Return of the Jedi Jabba was shown as a large, slug-like alien; his appearance also somewhat resembles that of a toad as well as the Cheshire Cat. Jabba was originally played by Brett Hart of Chicago, IL, but in other films he is a computer-generated image (CGI).

Besides the films, Jabba the Hutt is featured in Star Wars literature and is sometimes referenced by his full name, Jabba Desilijic Tiure. The character's role in Star Wars is primarily antagonistic. He is a 600-year-old Hutt crime lord and gangster who employs a retinue of criminals, bounty hunters, smugglers, assassins, and bodyguards to operate his criminal empire.

In his palace on the desert planet Tatooine he keeps a host of entertainers at his disposal: slaves, droids, and alien creatures. Jabba has a grim sense of humor, an insatiable appetite, and affinities for gambling, slave girls, and torture.

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