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Return of the Jedi

Boba's Rancor
In the first act of Return of the Jedi, Luke Skywalker defeats Jabba the Hutt's monstrous Rancor by bringing a spiked gate down on it.
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Timothy Lawrence
Snoke and Mirrors
In the Skywalker Saga, there are two characters who are dressed in gold while sitting on thrones: the protocol droid C-3PO in Return of the Jedi, and…
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Robert Brown
Saw Gerrera and Darth Vader
In "In the Name of the Rebellion: Part 1" (Rebels 4.3), Mon Mothma and Saw Gerrera butt heads over how to fight against the Empire.
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Timothy Lawrence
Rancor
In the first act of Return of the Jedi, Luke Skywalker encounters the monstrous Rancor in a pit beneath the throne of Jabba the Hutt.
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Timothy Lawrence
A Smuggler's Regress
In A New Hope, Leia Organa tells the “mercenary” Han Solo, “If money is all that you love, then that’s what you’ll receive.” She doubts “if he really…
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Robert Brown
Bib Fortuna
In Return of the Jedi, Bib Fortuna acts as majordomo to Jabba the Hutt and typically stands by the side of his master's throne, helping him deal with…
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Timothy Lawrence
Emerie Karr's Glasses
In The Bad Batch, Emerie Karr almost always wears a pair of glasses with red technical readouts in the lenses.
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Timothy Lawrence
The Father's Dilemma
In The Golden Bough, his influential study of comparative religion, Sir James George Frazer writes about the practice of child sacrifice in certain…
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Timothy Lawrence
Jabba the Hutt: An Oligarchic Soul
In Republic, Plato describes five types of soul.
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Robert Brown
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Salacious Crumb
In Return of the Jedi, Jabba the Hutt is always accompanied by his pet Kowakian monkey lizard, Salacious Crumb.
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Timothy Lawrence
So Uncivilized!
In the third film of each Skywalker Saga trilogy, a hero travels to a desert planet to pursue an enemy with animal associations: a villain made inhuman…
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Robert Brown
Evil Defeats Itself
In both the first and third acts of Return of the Jedi – the battle on Jabba the Hutt's sail barge and the battle of Endor – there are three instances…
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Timothy Lawrence
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