#Bounty hunters star wars series#

All this is before we meet him in live action, though.)īounty Hunters are a part of Empire before Boba Fett and Co. He rides a creature of some kind and wields a rifle with a tuning fork stuck in the tip - a weapon that will appear in The Mandalorian. (Technically, Boba Fett made his debut in an animated cartoon as part of the Star Wars Holiday Special, which Lucasfilm pretends doesn't exist. This includes the most famous bounty hunter in Star Wars, Boba Fett. In Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, we meet some real bounty hunters, characters who would go on to define the profession for us. Even so, he's our introduction to Star Wars' galaxy of bounty hunters. This is usually a defining trait in a bounty hunter, because their prizes are almost always no good to them dead. He definitely works for Jabba, but he doesn't seem all that interested in taking Solo in alive. Greedo (a Rodian) is not necessarily a bounty hunter only, as Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 3 reveals that he also dabbled in kidnapping and other criminal enterprises. Greedo thinks that he's lucky because he found him first, but he's not lucky at all - he doesn't survive the scene. Solo owes 'Jabba' a lot of money and Greedo has come to collect, telling Solo that Jabba put a price on his head so large that every bounty hunter in the galaxy is going to be coming after him.

#Bounty hunters star wars series#

The first time the term appears in the series is in Tatooine's Mos Eisley cantina, shortly after Greedo points a blaster at Solo right as he's about to shuffle off to Docking Bay 94. BOUNTY HUNTERS IN THE ORIGINAL TRILOGY - FAVORITE DECORATIONSīounty hunters first appear in Star Wars thanks to everyone's favorite scoundrel, Han Solo.