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*In the [[Mega Man X]] [[videogame]] series, there's a character named Vile, while his japanesse name is "Vava" he is a tribute or is based of Boba Fett, since Vile resembles Boba, specially due the helmet. His name Vava was changed to Vile to avoid conflicts with George Lucas. |
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Revision as of 19:05, 12 December 2006
Boba Fett is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe. In the films, he is a bounty hunter hired by the Empire and Jabba the Hutt to track down and capture Han Solo and Chewbacca. He appears in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, and in the Special Edition of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
A clone of Jango Fett, Boba was created on the planet Kamino and raised as Jango's natural son, not undergoing the growth acceleration process applied to the Clone Army. Trained in the ways of the Mandalorians, he grew up to be a bounty hunter feared and dreaded throughout the galaxy, known for his subtle and cunning moves tracking down his prey. Fett commonly worked for the crime lord Jabba the Hutt, and held associations with Darth Vader and other political figures.
In books written before the release of the Star Wars prequel trilogy, he is not a clone, but a former Journeyman Protector named Jaster Mereel.
He is played by Daniel Logan in Attack of the Clones, and by Jeremy Bulloch in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, although Jason Wingreen provided his voice in Empire. His brief appearance in A New Hope was performed by Mark Austin. For the 2004 DVD release of Empire, his voice was replaced by Temuera Morrison (who plays Jango Fett) for better continuity throughout the series.
Characteristics
Boba Fett is garbed in traditional Mandalorian armor with a string of braided Wookiee pelts at his shoulder. His gauntlets also feature a wrist-mounted flame thrower, sonic beam weapons, dart shooter, several blades, and a fibercord whip with a grappling hook. Other weapons include a jetpack with a miniature concussion rocket launcher, rocket dart launchers, grenades, gas pellets, and a pulse cannon. Tools include a lock breaker, battle computer, HUD system, macrobinocular viewplate, gauntlet control panel, and a motion sensor. The antenna on his helmet serves as a radio receiver/transmitter. His main weapons are a EE-3 blaster rifle and his father's modified Westar34 pistols. Boba Fett owns a variety of specially-modified and well-armed starcraft bearing the names Slave I through Slave V. Despite his weapon-laden suit of armor, Fett is a subtle hunter and relies as much on his cunning and intelligence as on pure muscle and combat skill. Fett is known to have an astromech droid, the same type as R2-D2.
Speaking with a raspy, gravelly voice, Fett allows few to see his face and even fewer to know his origins, giving the hunter an intended mysterious aura and a psychological edge over his prey.
Fett is usually in peak condition (he is strong enough to hold off against massively strong foes such as Bossk), as seen in the Bounty Hunter Wars Trilogy. His face remains hidden; it is given that he looks more or less like his father, bar the scars and other facial damage resulting from a hard life, particularly after his encounter and subsequent escape from the Sarlacc.
Hero or Villain
Many debate whether Boba Fett is to be considered a hero or a villain in the Star Wars universe. While he is usually at odds with the other characters in the story (most notably Han Solo), in most stories centered around him, Fett is portrayed as honest and morally driven, as well as ruthless and violent.
It has been stated and hinted at throughout many stories (most notably in the story No Disintegrations, Please in Tales From the New Republic) that Fett has a soft spot for children. In the aforementioned story, Fett lets a bounty go after facing an entire Imperial garrison to get him when he discovered the man now took care of orphans. He even donated a large sum of money to help him support them. In further examples of this, Fett risked his life to save a group of children in a burning school on Ryloth after being paid to kill a band of slavers (The New Star Wars Sourcebook, Lyn Me's character description), and he spared a Jedi trainee when he learned he was the single parent of a young child (a situation similar to his position in comparison to his father's death in a story in Star Wars Tales) and it has been stated that Fett actually donates to various charities and orphanages (most notably in the story Twin Engines of Destruction in which he kills Jodo Kast).
Boba Fett has also performed some more heroic acts in the Expanded Universe, including taking a job to stop a group of pirates from wiping out an entire race for 100 credits (which was all they could afford) and it was hinted at that Fett actually returned their money.
In the Young Jedi Knights series starring Jacen and Jaina Solo, Fett delivered the location of a virus to the Diversity Alliance, then proceeded to help the heroes by decimating the Alliance's thugs. This, however, can be argued, as some say Fett did it because he was paid (which is essentially true) but many believe Fett would have done it anyway, as he has turned on employers after being paid, as he sees that the business relationship is then done.
The long-standing feud between Fett and Han Solo was revealed to have never existed at all. From Fett's perspective, Solo was only a job or in the way of a job. As shown in events in Last Man Standing in Tales of the Bounty Hunters and Fett's comments to Solo in The Unifying Force.
Finally, Fett's comments (again in The Last Man Standing) regarding justice and his personal mission subtly state that Fett is not evil, just harsh in his sense of justice. (To view the quote, see link at bottom of this page)
Though there are points to both sides of the argument, it can be said that Fett remains an ambiguous character in the morally clear-cut Star Wars universe. This is a large part of what makes him an antihero.
Appearances
Attack of the Clones
Boba Fett's origins are revealed in Attack of the Clones. He is revealed to be the son of legendary bounty hunter Jango Fett, one of the last of the Mandalorians; more specifically, Boba is a clone of his father. Jango Fett is hired by Darth Tyranus to be the template for an entire army of clones, all of which are altered to be docile, obedient, and grow at twice the rate of normal men. Boba is the only unmodified clone and is raised by Jango to learn the Mandalorian ways on the stormy planet Kamino, home of the master cloners.
However, books predating Attack of the Clones state that Boba Fett was not a clone. According to these sources, Fett was once known as Jaster Mereel and served as a Journeyman Protector on the planet of Concord Dawn, from which he was ultimately exiled for killing a fellow Protector. After his exile, he adopted the name Boba Fett and decided that he would "bow to no one." These aspects of his past have been extensively retconned since the release of Attack of the Clones. It was later written that Fett took the name of his father's mentor, Mandalore Jaster Mereel, and became a Journeyman Protector on his father's homeworld of Concord Dawn shortly after the events of Revenge of the Sith.
When Fett was only ten, Obi-Wan Kenobi arrived on Kamino to investigate an assassination linked to Jango, and the Fetts fled to Geonosis to join Count Dooku in the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Kenobi, along with Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala, were to be executed in the Geonosian arena. The young Fett watched with interest, but the ceremonies were interrupted by the arrival of several Jedi led by Mace Windu. In the ensuing battle, Jango Fett was beheaded by Windu. Boba buried his father on Geonosis and took his armor and ship to start his own life as a Mandalorian bounty hunter.
Live-action TV series
George Lucas has hinted around that he is interested in bringing actor Daniel Logan, who played the young Boba Fett in Attack of the Clones, to reprise his role in the upcoming Star Wars: Live-Action TV Series, scheduled for release in 2008.
Droids
Fett appeared in the fourth episode of the 1985 Star Wars animated series, Star Wars: Droids. In the episode, entitled A Race to the Finish, Fett is hired by Tig 'tiggy' Fromm to track down the then-masters of C-3PO and R2-D2.
A New Hope
When the special edition of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope was released in 1997, a restored scene with Han Solo confronting Jabba the Hutt was added to the film. Boba Fett is shown standing by Jabba's side in Docking Bay 94 where the Millennium Falcon is temporarily docked. This scene was presumably added to improve the trilogy's continuity and to give a nod to all the Fett fans who were disappointed in Fett's untimely "death" in Return of the Jedi. The new footage of Fett was shot with ILM animator, Mark Austin, in the Fett costume, and the footage was digitally inserted along with a Return of the Jedi stylle Jabba into the original footage filmed during A New Hope. Boba Fett has no dialogue in this scene, but pauses and nods directly at the camera as Jabba and his other bounty hunters leave the hangar. It is interesting to note that Boba's shoulder armor is reversed in this new scene and the logo which is usually seen on his left shoulder is absent.
The Star Wars Holiday Special
Boba Fett's first appearance on-screen was in a popular animated segment, which was a part of The Star Wars Holiday Special when it aired in 1978. This animated segment spawned the initial popularity and interest in Fett. His popularity and mystique are also contributed to by the fact that Kenner released a Boba Fett action figure not long after the special's airing, which was before The Empire Strikes Back was released in 1980. The cartoon can be viewed here.
Boba Fett is a major character in this animated segment and has more dialogue than he does in all of the Star Wars films combined. He is introduced as a mysterious figure that befriends and aids Luke Skywalker, Chewbacca, C-3P0, and RD-D2; but it is eventually revealed that he is in reality working for Darth Vader and the Empire and that his friendship was a mere ruse. Chewbacca was the only character never to have been fooled by Boba, claiming, through the aid of C-3P0's translation, that the false-friend "didn't smell right."
The Empire Strikes Back
Fett receives his first live-action dialogue in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. He is asked to track down Han Solo and the crew of the Millennium Falcon, along with other bounty hunters. He is the only hunter to deduce how the Falcon eluded the Imperials by hiding on the hull of a Star Destroyer (a strategy which, according to the Attack of the Clones audio commentary, he is purported to have deduced after Obi-Wan Kenobi eluded Jango in the Geonosian asteroid rings). He then requests his ship to be placed in the Star Destroyer's garbage, in order to be hidden in it when the warship jettisoned the mass before departing, anticipating that the Falcon would use the waste as cover when itself detached from its hiding place. Fett's hunch is correct and he tracks the ship and surmises that Han Solo is likely headed for Cloud City on Bespin. He presumably reports the Falcon's destination to the Empire, allowing Vader to arrange a deal with Lando Calrissian to secure the capture of Solo and the crew. Fett stays at Vader's side as the Sith Lord tortures Han Solo in an attempt to draw Luke Skywalker into a trap. In addition to the reward for Solo's capture from the Empire, Vader allows Boba Fett to take Han Solo, frozen in carbonite, back to Jabba to receive an additional reward, claiming two bounties on the same job. In later Expanded Universe material, it is revealed that Fett charged Jabba a larger amount than the original bounty price. He was able to do this by explaining that the frozen Solo was the unique work of art created by Darth Vader.
Return of the Jedi
In Return of the Jedi, Boba Fett is at Jabba the Hutt's palace when Luke, Princess Leia, and Chewbacca rescue Han from his carbonite prison. Fett remains on guard but entertains himself, even laughing along with Jabba as Luke battles the vicious rancor. When Luke kills the monster, an outraged Jabba sentences Luke, Han and Chewbacca to be cast into the Pit of Carkoon where the Sarlacc lives. Luke stages his own rescue and Fett attempts to stop them along with several of Jabba's hapless guards. While the bounty hunter is focused on Skywalker, Han accidentally strikes him with a vibro-axe and activates Fett's jet pack, rocketing him against the sail barge. The jet pack deactivates on impact, and Fett falls into the waiting maw of the Sarlacc. (Coincidentally both father and son were defeated by jet-pack malfunction). As Fett falls toward the Sarlacc, he utters his fifth 'line' of the original trilogy - a "Wilhelm" scream, a piece of archive sound used as an in-joke by sound designers and inserted into all Star Wars movies.
Expanded Universe
Despite the fact that Lucas originally intended Fett to die, the Expanded Universe has made Fett's survival canon. The Star Wars Essential Guide to Characters reveals Fett used his grenade launcher to escape the Sarlacc barely alive and with extensive damage physically and mentally, before being collected by Dengar. Fett managed to summon the will to recover and resume his career.
Lucas has stated that he has "no problem" with Fett surviving, and for the 2004 DVD version of Return of the Jedi, Lucas reveals in the commentary that he considered adding a shot where Fett escapes the Sarlacc, as a form of fan service. Lucas confesses that had he known Boba Fett would become so popular, he would have given him a more spectacular death back in 1983. Lucas explains that he eventually decided against the new shot because at that point in the movie, the main point of focus is the death of Jabba the Hutt, and he felt that the 'resurrection' of Fett would draw away from that.
Young adult Boba Fett series
In a young adult novel series set shortly after Attack of the Clones, Fett seeks out Darth Tyranus to claim the rest of his father's payment. He spends a short amount of time in the custody of the Sith Lord before venturing on his own to begin his career at an early age, already making modifications to both the Slave I and the Mandalorian armor inherited from his father and his father's mentor, Jaster Mereel.
He meets his future employer, Jabba the Hutt, fights the Separatist supreme commander, General Grievous and loses, due to being badly outnumbered as well as relatively young and inexperienced, and has several minor bounties under his belt before the age of 13. Fett found Jabba with a holobook, left to him by his father, with a series of videos explaining what to do and where to go.
Boba was one of the few beings in the galaxy to know the major secret of the Clone Wars. His father had advised him never to mention this to anyone, but on a Separatist banking clan planet Fett revealed that the clone army had been built by Count Dooku. This bought him time as he was being chased by Aurra Sing.
Young Boba also got the chance to face the man he hated most, Jedi Master Mace Windu. Fett tracked Mace to Chancellor Palpatine's waiting room and engaged him in combat. Neither could overwhelm the other, and the fight ended in a stalemate.
The clone rebellion (Battlefront II)
In the early days of the Empire, the clones being developed on Kamino were spiked so that they rebelled, forcing the Empire to send the 501st Legion of Imperial Stormtroopers, led by the young Boba Fett back to Kamino, with orders to to destroy the rogues, acquire biological information on them and capture the cloning technology used to make Fett Clones. After their clones were destroyed the rogue Kaminoans attempted to escape the planet in several Republic LAAT Gunships, only to be shot down and destroyed by the Imperial forces in orbit. Before the battle started however, one Kaminoan commander, Kau Wan, managed to safely evacuate a few thousand of his people using Acclamator assault ships left behind by a few of the rogue Kaminoans. Kau Wan and several hundred Kaminoans fled from Kamino, where they started a new life elsewhere on a distant, uncharted planet. Those Kaminoans who were left behind on Kamino, were subjected to imperial rule, effectively becoming slaves, and forced to make new clones to be integrated into the Imperial Stormtrooper corps. Boba Fett met Taun We, and before leaving Kamino apologized and explained himself to his old friend. After the battle was won, Fett left for Tatooine in search of Han Solo.
The Last of the Jedi
In the young adult series The Last of the Jedi, Boba Fett, at the early age of fourteen, is hired by Imperial Inquisitor Malorum to investigate Padmé Amidala's death at the request of Lord Darth Vader. Fett traveled to Polis Massa and Naboo to gather this information. Polis Massa is the asteroid field where Padmé gives birth to Luke and Leia Skywalker shortly before her own death. We can only assume that Vader was not satisfied with Emperor Palpatine's explanation of Padmé's demise. In addition to this investigation, Fett is also commissioned to find and capture a former Jedi by the name of Ferus Olin. Ferus, recovering from a leg injury, is being protected by an old friend, Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi. Fett and Kenobi battle from afar, but Fett doesn't get a good look at Kenobi and can never report to Malorum with any certainty the identity of this powerful Jedi survivor. These events take place a year or two after Revenge of the Sith.
The Marvel Comic series
As revealed in the Star Wars Marvel Comics series, Boba Fett is believed to have served with a group of Supercommandos from the planet Mandalore towards the end of the Clone Wars. According to reports, only three Mandalorians survive: Boba Fett, Tobbi Dala, and Fenn Shysa. However, it is later revealed that this "Boba Fett" is not Boba Fett at all, but a rogue ARC trooper, Alpha-Ø2, nicknamed Spar, who has become obsessed with returning the Mandalorians to their former glory. Spar becomes Mandalore, the traditional title given to the leader of the Mandalorians, and later becomes known as "Mandalore the Resurrector."
Shadows of the Empire
- NOTE* Shadows of the Empire is looked at by George Lucas to be an official part of the Star Wars saga. So its tale is canon.
Boba Fett also plays a prominent role in the comic book version and video game version of Shadows of the Empire, and has had several comic book miniseries.
In "Shadows of the Empire", Fett is tracked down by Dash Rendar, attempting to stop the Bounty Hunter from bringing Han Solo to Jabba the Hutt. Dash Rendar manages to confront Boba Fett before he leaves for Tatooine. Fett bested the mercenary in hand-to-hand combat and eventually escape. Fett then boards Slave I and takes off.
Dark Horse Comics
For a brief period, a young man named Jodo Kast poses as Boba Fett, by wearing a Mandalorian armor similar to Fett's. His motives are clear: gain the reputation of an infamous bounty hunter, and profit from this new profile. Kast's life is cut short, however, by the hands of Fett himself. During an attempt to collect a bounty, Kast is ambushed by Fett and his fellow bounty hunter Dengar.
A scuffle ensues and Kast collapses from the power of a poisonous dart.
Fett rigs Kast's jet pack to explode and places the antidote for the poison just beyond his reach. However, Kast does not capture the antidote in time and is buried in the rubble from the explosion. Kast appears in a series of comics titled Bounty Hunters, published by Dark Horse comics, and the Sony Playstation game, Star Wars: Masters of the Teräs Käsi. Grand Admiral Thrawn, who first appeared in the Timothy Zahn novel Heir to the Empire, disguises himself as Jodo Kast in a story by Timothy Zahn and Michael A. Stackpole in the anthology Tales From The Empire.
Dark Empire comics
Boba Fett plays a prominent role in the miniseries Dark Empire, where it is revealed that he has survived the Sarlacc and continues his hunt for Han Solo. The story of Boba's first escape and recovery (there are three of them) is documented mainly in the Bounty Hunter Wars trilogy and the anthology book Tales From Jabba's Palace. Interestingly enough, Fett is found lying outside the Sarlacc pit by a fellow bounty hunter named Dengar, whom Boba had previously left to die earlier on in the novel Tales of the Bounty Hunters.
Jedi Academy
During one of the missions on this game, Fett makes a brief cameo, as he steals a Rebel weapons cache, and Jedi Knight Jaden Korr is sent to eliminate them. Obviously disturbing his plans, Boba Fett threatens Jaden to leave or die. When Jaden refuses, he is forced to run throughout the ruins to destroy the caches while fending off Boba Fett and his array of weapons, which included the standard blaster rifle, a high-powered sniping rifle, a flamethrower, and deadly portable missile launcher. Once the caches were all destroyed, Jaden Korr ran to his ship and confronted Boba Fett one last time. Now without any distractions, Jaden Korr and Boba Fett battled head-on. Given that Korr was among the third greatest and most powerful Jedi in the Order behind Luke Skywalker and Kyle Katarn, Boba Fett was unable to overwhelm the young Jedi Knight. The two fought from afar for a long period of time, until it came down to what would be a life and death struggle when Fett casually looks at Korr and says: "No bounty on you. A shame." At that, he activates his jet pack, and flies away as Jaden escapes.
The New Jedi Order
During the Yuuzhan Vong War, Boba Fett returns to the galactic scene as Mandalore, leading a new group of Mandalorian Crusaders and restoring their legacy to the galaxy.
Boba Fett also makes a cameo appearance in The Unifying Force, the conclusion of the New Jedi Order series, in which, unmasked, he briefly meets Han Solo and later (with the aid of more warriors in Mandalorian armor) aids in a fight against Yuuzhan Vong attackers. Later, he jokingly tells Solo (over ship-to-ship communications) that his bounty hunting of him was not personal, but just a job, and that his feud was always with the Jedi (a clear reference to his feelings about the fate of his father).
Legacy of the Force
During the conflict between the Galactic Alliance and Corellia, Fett discovers that he is slowly dying due to cloned body, and the only way to stop the process is to discover Kamino's lost knowledge of cloning and age modification. With the knowledge that he may die soon, Fett reflects upon his life and the mistakes he had made in it. He tries to find his daughter, Ailyn Vel, only to discover that she had died at the hands of Jacen Solo, and makes amends with Mirta Gev, his grandaughter. Fett slowly begins to adopt paternal and Mandalorian values and decides to return to Mandalore with Mirta and use his position to restore the Mandalorians to their former power and glory, after finding a way to prevent his death, something that he has shown himself to be pretty good at doing in the past.
Han Solo Trilogy
In A. C. Crispin's "Han Solo Trilogy" (released in 1996-1998), Boba Fett's original accepted backstory was released to the public. In this trilogy, as well as in Tales of the Bounty Hunters, "The Last One Standing: The Tale of Boba Fett"(released 1996 but later on the SW timeline) it is stated that Fett formerly was a Journeyman Protector named Jaster Mereel. Jaster was exiled from his home planet of Concord Dawn after he killed a man; so he adopted the name Boba Fett and became a bounty hunter. After Attack of the Clones, this information was retconed as a cover story Fett spread after the Clone Wars even though it was explained as a direct memory from Boba Fett in the Han Solo Trilogy.
Other Expanded Universe appearances
In addition to those mentioned, Boba Fett is a prominent figure in many other Star Wars novels, comics (including one where he single-handedly took down an entire World Devastator), games, and fan-made films. He is also one of the most sought after toys in the Kenner range of Star Wars figures, especially on his original cardback from 1979.
Star Wars Trilogy Arcade
After two stages, the player will face Boba Fett. Boba Fett fires a blaster at the player, who must deflect it with a lightsaber. Occasionally, a deflected shot (shown in green arrow marks) will hit Fett. If the player deflects all of them back, Fett will fall; otherwise, Fett will shoot the player, knocking him or her down, and then shoot again to knock the player out.
Star Wars: Galaxies
Boba appears in Jabba's palace on Tatooine and the Tutorial level in the Cantina. He can be interacted with, and will supply players with set missions culminating in a trip to the Death Watch Bunker. Boba Fett has also appeared during at least one live event in the game. More missions are available if the player is also a Bounty Hunter.
Ties
There is a long-standing belief among fans that Darth Vader and Boba Fett have an unspoken mutual respect for each other. The bounty hunter is sometimes considered to be the closest thing Vader has to a right-hand man, even though they are frequently at odds with each other. In the Enemy of the Empire storyline (taking place a few years before A New Hope), Vader and Fett come to blows with a cask containing the decapitated-but-still-living head of an Icarii soothsayer. On Maryx Minor, Fett and Vader fight one-on-one for the cask. At one point, it seemed as if Vader had won, but Boba kicked the cask over the edge of a cliff, momentarily turning Vader's attention away from him. Fett then had a clear shot at Vader, but chose to retreat instead, knowing that if he killed Vader, the Empire would trouble him to no end. Thus the fight ended in a draw, and the two set aside their differences. At one point before A New Hope, Fett is hired to capture Han Solo just after Solo betrays the Empire as deserter, but Vader decides to bring him in himself. Vader and Boba face-off just as Fett is about to capture Solo, Fett doesn't want to lose the bounty money. The two then actually get into a lightsaber duel, Fett surprising Vader with a saber he had collected from a dead Jedi. Fett loses the duel, but Vader allows him to leave with his life, and they again part ways.
Any sense of partnership between Vader and Fett, however, is generally regarded as being the result of fan enthusiasm for these two iconic characters and is somewhat unrealistic, although in the book "Pursuit" (a book about the young Boba Fett), he does help out Anakin.
In The Empire Strikes Back, Fett is seen questioning Vader in an informal manner, a deed which would probably get an Imperial officer Force-choked.
Also, in the book Bloodlines from the Legacy of the Force series, Fett reveals that he had rather liked Vader, since he paid well and on time, and that he would never ask Fett to do anything he wasn't willing to do himself. Fett even admits that in some ways, he missed Vader.
Likewise, Fett had a long-standing professional rivalry against Han Solo. The rivalry was jointly "dropped" when the two found each other at gunpoint, deciding the rivalry had taken too much out of both their lives and wasn't worth dying for. Another factor in why he stopped was because the rivarly was only part of his job, and because there was nobody left to put a bounty on Han's head, Fett saw no reason to continue. Jaden Korr, Han Solo and Kyle Katarn are among the only people to "elude" capture by Fett on multiple occasions. Fett is notorious for completely disintegrating those whom he has been hired to track down and kill.
Boba has also been known to have a strong sense of friendship to the Kaminoan, Taun We, since she had always been like a "mother-figure" to him, and has always treated Boba as an equal, and not just another clone. After the Rebellion of Kamino, Boba apologized to Taun We for his actions there, seeing as she was the only Kaminoan in his lifetime, who had ever treated him more as an equal, even like a son.
Fett is revealed to have held a great hatred for the Jedi, at least in his younger years, because his father, whom he admired greatly, was slain by Mace Windu at the Battle of Geonosis. He had attempted to fight Mace prior to a meeting the Jedi Master had with Palpatine, unsuccessfully trying to kill him with a saberdart. This hatred for Jedi extends to the present timeline, and Fett regards any Jedi with contempt, especially Luke Skywalker and Jacen Solo.
Portrayals
Boba Fett has been portrayed by a total of eight actors throughout all the Star Wars productions and video games.
In his first chronological appearance, which was in Attack of the Clones, he was played by actor Daniel Logan, who is slated to reprise the role in the upcoming Star Wars television series. In the special edition of A New Hope, he is portrayed by ILM creature animator Mark Austin, though he was uncredited for the role. In both The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, Boba Fett is played by Jeremy Bulloch. In the original and special edition versions of both movies, he was voiced by Jason Wingreen (but his only line in Return of the Jedi was a scream).
In the 2004 DVD versions of Empire and Return, he was voiced by actor Temuera Morrison, who had portrayed Jango Fett in Attack of the Clones, and the voices of all the clones in Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. In Return of the Jedi, however, he only provided Fett's laugh, which was added in to match that made by the younger version of the character in Attack of the Clones; the Wilhelm scream (also used in the other movies) was retained for Fett's fall into the Sarlacc pit. The reason for the controversial decision of replacing Wingreen's voice was that, as a clone of Jango, Boba should sound like him as well (although this makes little logical sense, since an individual's way of speaking is shaped - and constantly changed - by the voices they hear around them).
In the special edition of Return, new shots of Boba were filmed. Both Don Bies and Nelson Hall played him in these shots. Bies had also voiced him in the Droids animated series and the animated portion of The Star Wars Holiday Special. The stormtroopers in Episodes IV-VI are not all clones of Boba's father, Jango, as revealed in Battlefront II. Though this has been established in Star Wars continuity, Lucas still has the ability to change this in a newer release of his films. He still may dub Morrison's voice over the stormtroopers in the original films.
Tom Kane voiced Boba Fett in the game Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy.
Trivia
- In the Mega Man X videogame series, there's a character named Vile, while his japanesse name is "Vava" he is a tribute or is based of Boba Fett, since Vile resembles Boba, specially due the helmet. His name Vava was changed to Vile to avoid conflicts with George Lucas.
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