Some people are acting surprised by the gender non-binary queersexuals in the game, thinking this is the first time Disney has pandered to tumblr genders. If anyone remembers my previous posts, Disney has been doing this crap since 2015 starting with Chuck Wendig who introduced Chaos genders to SW.
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Disney shills are resorting to the usual "-phobic" retorts while fence-sitters claim that the troon is an alien so it doesn't count despite the fact Mirialans are just a different race of humans with green and yellow skin in both canons. Also the who gender snowflake bs of the game was something I knew would be in their from the start when they decided to make it a tie-in to LGBTQIAlphabet Squadron. Either way, if Chuck Wendig weren't angry at Disney, I'm sure he'd be creaming his pants right now.
I think I may have something in the digital storage, but I'll have to check later.
Yeah, some of the nicknames from the film productions like Yak-Face, Hammerhead, Squidface, Three-Eyes, Starfish, pig-lizard, etc were kept as either nicknames in-universe for some or racial slurs for others. That way every species gets an N-Word.
Anyway, back to ROTJ.
Some more concept art of Jabba's introduction scene where he was far smaller.
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About only R2's height and with his tail length being only around the same size as 3PO's height.
Some more of a more adequately sized Jabba.
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An uglier corpse-like Jabba.
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One of Luke speaking with a skinnier Jabba.
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Thinner Hutts would be introduced into the lore as regular civilians or those serving under other Hutts, although they were rarely seen outside of novels and sourcebooks.
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With the fattest hutts being those who gained some level of influence, as being a fat tub of lard was considered a sign of wealth and power among hutts.
Pretty much this, so the majority were fat because of this desire to showcase their "godhood", as even their god Boonta was a super fat Hutt and warlord who was said to have ascended to godhood because of his great power and worshipers. So Hutts would naturally emulate this fat sack of corruption since its partly because of him that the Hutts were able to re-establish an empire of sorts. Although not all Hutts were inherent pricks, but the vast majority of them were (like 95%) because they had a chosen race/god complex due to that their history claims that they once ruled over the universe before a great calamity ruined the omnipotent Hutt Empire, then Boonta stepped up to try and fix shit for the Hutts but just barely. Another issue with them is that attaining success by any means is considered "honorable", especially when you have others do the work for you, so their overall culture seems normal to them but quite toxic to anyone who's not a Hutt. However good Hutts did exist, but they were almost as rare as skinny ones, with some Hutts running fancy hotels and spas with no ulterior motive or some serving as managers at spaceports or trade businesses, or some who ran some criminal pursuits but were considered generous and very lenient. The most notable good Hutts were Blotus and Azzim the Hutt.
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Blotus served as Supreme Chancellor of the Old Republic before the KOTOR era and was remembered as the greatest chancellor in Republic history.
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And Azzim was the owner of a luxury spa who detested violence and turned his private planet into a sanctuary for Mon Cala refugees centuries after ROTJ. Was also a humanoid-loving deviant who preferred happy strippers over miserable slaves.
Also speaking of Hutts, here's that finalized Hutt maquette by Tippett that is now being sold as a bust.
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The only piece of Disney crap that's even remotely interested me.
Anyway here's some more art of the palace by McQuarrie.
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The archway in the middle was used in TFA for Rey's planet, one of the few designs by McQuarrie to make it into Disney shit alongside the nu-X-Wings... KK and JJ's idiots would've benefited from using more than just a handful of pieces of art instead of shitting out whatever they wanted. And that was your regular dose of mandated griefing.
Some unused Banthas for ROTJ .
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These were drawn with rather long legs and skinnier frames. They would later be incorporated into lore as "Dune Banthas".
An unused part of Jabba's palace which would've served as the Gamorrean district or "clan-town".
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For all the gamorrean guards and their kin. Jabba sure seemed generous with room and board. Then again, did he even pay his stupider guards?
And speaking of Gamorreans... while Dave Carson's fantasy orc design was chosen as the final design, McQuarrie made his own Gamorrean designs.
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These designs looked a bit more like modern scifi, with blasters and more alien armor. They were also more reptilian, resembling Trandoshans like Bossk from ESB or the Saurins from the Chalmun's cantina scene in ANH but with hairier bodies. These designs though were rejected. The ugly butt-faced design on the bottom right of the third pic may be based on an unused alien bounty hunter design from ESB by McQuarrie as well.
The next are another race of guards and are ones I covered before in the Monsters and Aliens Guide, however the ROTJ art book has more pics of them. Conceived by Jamero.
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I just call them rhino-faces since these things never got a name or even a nickname and went completely unused in the film which is a shame since I always liked their design. Despite this lack of use, a lone member of their unnamed species was introduced into lore in a supplement for the SW RPG courtesy of Joe Corroney, who was an illustrator for Lucasfilm, working on magazines, comics, etc.
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Kanarak was simply called an alien pirate but he was described as very violent and with a refusal to obey orders, only interested in gutting his enemies. Strangely, he was the only one of the crew whose species and origins remained vague. Still its possible something matching its description existed in a text-only guide, but that'd be impossible to remember.
Some sort of rejected crustacean design by Jamero.
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Maybe a palace visitor or a rejected design for Jabba? I don't recall this one ever being used.
A rejected guard design for another species that would've made its home at Jabba's and would've functioned as his couriers as well.
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These guys I discussed before in the M&A guide however I didn't remember if they were used in lore then, but after seeing the drinking one and the shoes on the others it hit me. These actually did get used in lore and were re-introduced by none other than Genndy Tartakovsky for the Clone Wars miniseries in the form of Nilo the Rodisar.
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One of Ventress' opponents during her first appearance in the arena. The Rodisars were described as primitive and war-like, engaging in "Winter Wars", with Nilo having been kidnapped from his homeworld to compete in the alien arena. And in case it wasn't obvious, Nilo and his species were named after their creator, Jamero himself, full name Nilo Rodis Jamero
*wink wink-nudge nudge*.
Dozens of wonderful miniatures by Tippett and Seeds.
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A few here never actually made it into the movie, however the unused maquettes all found their way into lore with the exception of the four-armed humanoid Jabba with the Fu Manchu face.
And here we have the many designs of Salacious B. Crumb, Jabba's faithful jester and spy.
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View attachment 1639789Conceived and named by Phil Tippett, first design by Jamero, numerous head designs by McQuarrie (all of which were rejected), and the puppet by Tony McVey. Some designs looked Goblin-like while others were more alien and were never used again outside of background characters in the old Marvel comics, although the more goblin-esque design may have served as a basis for Pic, a mutated member of Crumb's species from the Dark Forces games. Salacious B. Crumb himself got his rather complex name during one of Tippett's many drunken stupors with his fellow craftsmen. After leaving the bar, he bent down to tie his shoelaces and garbled out "gotta tie my soolayces", he and the drunk crew were then hit with inebriated inspiration and decided to name the puppet "Soolayces". George was not to keen on the name, instead he jumbled it a little into "Salacious" and gave him the last name B. Crumb, in honor of R. Crumb, creator of Fritz the Cat. Possibly because of this reference, Crumb was given a very perverted personality, as displayed through his constant oggling and even more so in a deleted scene involving him and the dancer Jess, as well as his habit of spying on the palace women when also doing spy duty for Jabba. His unique laugh was provided by Tim Rose who also did dear old Ackbar fyi.
So as you can see, for a stupid court animal, Crumb had a very complex history both irl and in-universe.
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As for in-universe lore, Crumb is a Kowakian Monkey Lizard who snuck aboard Jabba's ship during a business trip years ago. The little vermin helped himself to Jabba's food which angered the Hutt upon finding him. He then ordered his majordomos to kill the little runt. However Crumb ended up making fools of Jabba's top two in a rather comical way. Jabba was so amused that he decided to keep the obnoxious lizard as his jester. He later realized the creature was far more intelligent than it let on and had him act as his spy in the palace.
And to finish off for now, here are three iconic aliens fathered by Chris Walas which would become part of the common background cast.
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Unlike the Ishi Tib and Elom, these three much like Yak-Face, did not receive species or individual names from their creator apparently due to time constraints. Instead he gave them the nicknames Tooth-Face, Squidface and Three Eyes, with their species and individual names first being conceived in the 1987 and 1989 sourcebooks, and the 1995 anthology Tales from Jabba's Palace.
View attachment 1639869*First off is Toothface/J'Quille who would later receive the proper name of J'Quille in 1995 and his species name was received in 1989 in the Galaxy Race guide which dubbed them Whiphids, however Toothface would remain as a species slur. JJ and his moronic crew for Plan IX used J'Quille's design as the basis for the
horse aliens in the stupid cavalry scene because they thought the designs went unused... They sure knew their stuff eh? That concludes another mandated griefing. J'Quille's lore in 1995 established him as a lover of Lady Valarian (pictured right), a fellow Whiphid who succeeded Gardulla the Hutt after her death, and J'Quille now acted as her spy at Jabba's where he worked for Jabba as a bounty hunter. He didn't accompany Jabba aboard the sailbarge, but he suffered a fate worse than death when the B'omarr monks took out his brain to "purify" him.
View attachment 1639863*Second is Squidface/Tessek who later received his name in the 1990 galaxy guide where he was called Tessek from then on. However his species name the Quarren would come first in the 1987 sourcebook. Tessek much like the Gamorreans was another fantasy-inspired species, specifically the robed
Mind Flayers of D&D lore (first introduced in 1975) who Gygax based on the book
The Burrowers Beneath which was itself based on Lovecraft mythos. However, aside from appearance, the similarities end there, other than being very xenophobic, having a superiority complex and having a love for dark places. The Quarren are from the same planet (Dac) as Ackbar's species the Mon Calamari, and both have had a long standing feud, and have remained the most recurring background aliens alongside Ithorians before Disney screwed them over until Mandalorian came around. Tessek himself was described as Jabba's accountant who was also a spy for Lady Valarian, with plans to kill Jabba then take control of his businesses and sell half to Valarian, so you can imagine how much joy he got when Luke and the gang were able to do the work for him. He was one of the lucky few to survive the sail barge explosion, however he was also fucked over by the B'omarr monks.
View attachment 1639918*Thirdly is Three-Eyes/Ree-Yees who was the only one of the three that Walas had time to give a real name to, "Ree-Yees", an obvious anagram of Three Eyes. His species name though was given later in the 1990 galaxy guide, "Gran" which would also become one of the most recurring species and probably the ugliest spotlight alien, being closest to matching Disney aliens, but since he's surrounded by so many colorful and less deformed faces, he stands out in a good way. His design is mostly meant to be a mix of alien and goat, and overall he resembles the aliens from Mac&Me but with three eyes and antenna. His costume in ROTJ gave him oversized hoof-like hands with tiny fingers, but future media and the prequels would depict the Gran as having humanoid hands with six fingers, with a later guide labeling Ree-Yees a deformed genetic throwback. His species were also essentially fucking communists, and he was exiled after murdering a relative. He then found a home among Jabba's court where he was made the caretaker of Jabba's pet, Bubo, the big ugly frog-dog and he also had a hostile relationship with Tessek who he called Squidface. He later died a gruesome death aboard the sailbarge because he was drunk...
All that's left now are three alien guards, the Sarlacc and Sand Barge/Skiff concepts before moving on to Endor and the Death Star
