Boba Fett
Boba Fett is a male film character who features in Star Wars.
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Biography
Clone Wars
Boba Fett as a male clone of the bounty hunter Jango Fett who operated in the waning years of the Galactic Republic. Fett was approached by Count Dooku who sought him to be the genetic donor for a Republic program to create the Clone Troopers. In exchange for his support, Jango requested that one of the resultant clones would be given to him so that he could raise a son. This led to Jango Fett being stationed on Kamino where the planet's famous cloners created Boba Fett for him. The child stayed by his side as he checked in on the clone production and their training to serve in the Grand Army of the Republic.
Sometime later, Boba joined with a team of bounty hunters, including Aurra Sing, Bossk, and Castas to carry out his revenge against Windu for Jango's death. Together, Boba and the bounty hunters crafted a plan to assassinate the Jedi Master aboard the Republic vessel Endurance. Boba posed as a young clone cadet, with the nickname Lucky, using the fact that he was genetically identical to the other young clones to his advantage; no one onboard Endurance was aware of his true identity. Once aboard the Endurance, Boba and the other clones were greeted by Windu and Anakin Skywalker, before being put through tactical training. Each clone was able to engage in target practice, and they all missed their targets—except for Boba who was able to use the skills his father taught him to his advantage. Later, while on a tour of the ship, Boba slipped away from the other clones and found his way to Windu's quarters, where he quietly installed a bomb that would be triggered by a laser tripwire in the doorway. Windu did not enter his quarters, however, but a clone trooper did, killing the soldier in Windu's place and forcing the entire ship into alert status. Sing instructed Boba via comlink to sabotage the Endurance's reactor core, thereby killing everyone on the ship, but Boba was reluctant to kill everyone. His only goal was to kill Windu. Nonetheless, Boba did as instructed, sneaking away from his fellow clones once again, before being caught by a clone trooper who called for security. The two engaged in a brief scuffle near the core before Boba was able to stun the clone with the trooper's own blaster. He also shot at the core command console. Much of the hull was immediately destroyed in the ensuing explosion, while Windu and Skywalker were nearly sucked into space and killed before the hull breaches were sealed. With the Endurance critically damaged, the crew began to abandon ship. Boba, whose identity was not yet discovered, and the other young clones were sealed into an escape pod and jettisoned into space, but Boba sabotaged the pod in order to separate himself and his fellow pod inhabitants from the other escapees. The pod was intercepted by Slave I, led by Sing and Bossk, which revealed Boba as the traitor who destroyed the Endurance. Boba was given the choice to either stay with the clone cadets or leave with the bounty hunters, and Boba somewhat reluctantly chose to leave with the bounty hunters.
After leaving the escape pod, Boba and the other bounty hunters made their way to the nearby planet Vanqor, where the Endurance had crashed after the explosion. Once there, they killed several clone troopers and captured Admiral Shoan Kilian, the ship's commanding officer, as well as Clone Commander Ponds and another officer. Hoping to set another trap for Windu, Boba rigged his father's old helmet as an explosive on the ship's bridge, which would be detonated if Windu came looking for any survivors. The Jedi Master, with Skywalker, arrived shortly thereafter. The helmet exploded just after Windu noticed it, and remembered that Jango had a son—deducing that Boba was the one attempting to kill him. Windu and Skywalker did not die in the ensuing explosion, but were caught within the rubble of the quickly-deteriorating vessel. As Boba and the other bounty hunters watched the explosion, he assumed that Windu had been killed and wanted to recover his body. Some of his companions objected, however, believing that their three prisoners were already enough to earn a sizable fortune from Count Dooku if they were turned over to the Separatists, but Sing sided with Boba, and the team set out to find Windu's body. As they entered the ship, they encountered R2-D2, Skywalker's personal astromech droid, who attempted to slow their advance by throwing debris at them and closing doors in their path. Unable to make it to the bridge, Sing made the decision to use Slave I to destroy the remainder of the Endurance, ensuring that Windu would perish. Before using Slave I, the bounty hunters overheard an explosion caused by R2-D2, who had been attacked by gundarks and used one of the Jedi starfighters to kill a gundark. The bounty hunters believed that meant Windu had survived and jammed all communication, hoping to prevent the Jedi from requesting help. R2-D2 was able to escape in the other starfighter, however, and survived a brief firefight with Slave I before jumping to hyperspace for Coruscant, where he successfully found help at the Jedi Temple and was able to bring a team of Jedi and clones to rescue Windu and Skywalker. The bounty hunters, meanwhile, decided to use the hostages to lure Windu into a trap.
Sing took charge of setting the trap, and she sent a transmission to the Jedi Temple revealing that they were holding the Republic prisoners. Sing told Boba to personally execute Commander Ponds during the transmission, but he refused, as his goal was to kill Windu rather than other prisoners. Sing executed Ponds on her own, jettisoning him into space, and Boba's relationship with her and the other bounty hunters began to deteriorate. Boba objected to the treatment of the other prisoners as well, going so far as to show compassion by providing them with water. Nonetheless, the transmission to the Jedi Temple did end up putting the Jedi on their trail, only the Order sent Master Plo Koon and Padawan Ahsoka Tano rather than Master Windu. The group soon took refuge on Florrum, where Sing planned to seek the assistance of Hondo Ohnaka, a spice pirate and her former lover. Ohnaka was also a friend of Jango's, which Boba learned when Sing introduced them and when the pirate gave Boba his condolences for his father's death. Ohnaka declined to help her if the Jedi arrived on Florrum, but he also vowed not to stand in her way. Castas, however, contacted a fellow bounty hunter on Coruscant and offered to provide information on Boba and the others. Sing overheard his conversation and executed him, leaving Boba horrified as he began to realize he had made a mistake in teaming with the bounty hunters against Windu. Despite Castas' betrayal, it was his transmission to Coruscant that allowed the Jedi to discover Boba and the others on Florrum, as Tano had overheard the transmission. The two Jedi arrived on Florrum shortly thereafter, where Sing attempted to ransom the prisoners. Both sides ended up attacking one another, with Boba holding a blaster to Koon's head and Tano holding a lightsaber to Sing's throat. The bounty hunters created a diversion and attempted to escape, but Boba was captured while Sing fled on a speeder. Koon interrogated Boba, who refused to disclose the location of the hostages despite his reservations about their treatment. Ohnaka was able to convince Boba to tell the Jedi, however, by saying that Jango would have wanted his son to do the honorable thing. The hostages were rescued, while Sing managed to make it to Slave I and begin to flee, but Tano clung to the ship and damaged it enough to cause a crash. The ship went down in a fiery explosion and the Jedi assumed Sing had been killed, but she survived. Boba and Bossk, who was also taken into custody, were sent to Coruscant where they would be imprisoned. Windu met Boba upon his arrival, and Boba apologized for his actions and the destruction that he caused, but he vowed to never forgive Windu for killing his father.
Boba was imprisoned on Coruscant for his actions during the assassination attempts. During his time in prison, a Republic plan was put in motion aimed at preventing a suspected kidnapping plot against Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine. To do so, Obi-Wan Kenobi faked his death and disguised himself as Rako Hardeen, the suspect in the attempt on his life, and entered the same prison where Boba was being held. Kenobi teamed with Moralo Eval, a suspect in the suspected kidnapping plot, and bounty hunter Cad Bane to escape the prison in the hopes it would lead him towards the heart of the conspiracy. As part of the escape attempt, Bane paid and encouraged Boba to confront "Hardeen," and Boba claimed that Hardeen had cheated him out of a bounty. Boba and Kenobi briefly fought one another, before Bossk intervened and started a riot to defend Boba. Bane's plan was successful, and Kenobi eventually went on to help stop the plot against Chancellor Palpatine. After Bane's recapture, Boba called him out for having been recaptured so quickly after Boba's distraction. Bane then asked to tell him the story, to which Boba replied that he hoped it would end with Bane repaying him the money he promised for creating the earlier distraction. After asking further about their cut of the deal, Bane revealed that "Hardeen" had not actually killed Kenobi, before going into the story of what transpired from Bane's perspective. After hearing Bane's full recounting, Boba interjected his distaste for the Jedi before informing Bane of a plan he and Bossk had concocted which would involve Bane and the use of his blasters.
The Empire
Boba took his next job from Darth Vader, dropping a hunt for a Sullustan and instead giving it to a rookie hunter to meet up with the Sith Lord. He rendezvoused with the Executor in the Hoth asteroid belt. Five other hunters, including Fett's old allies Dengar and Bossk, were also gathered aboard the Star Dreadnought, though his two old partners were the only hunters he fully recognized. Though he realized they seemed familiar, Fett was unable to place the names of 4-LOM, Zuckuss, and IG-88B. Taking a twenty credit bet with Dengar, Boba correctly guessed their bounty would be Solo's ship, the Millennium Falcon. Vader intended to use Solo, as well as Leia Organa and Chewbacca, as bait to lure Luke Skywalker into a trap. Boba and the other bounty hunters were given permission to use any means necessary to capture Skywalker's friends, as long as they were captured alive. Vader singled out Boba and warned against disintegrations, to which Fett responded as the Sith Lord wished.
Though falling into the sarlacc, Boba was still alive but had been unconscious for some length of time. His armour came to protect him from the acids that looked to digest him. Upon regaining consciousness, he found the remains of a Stormtrooper who had died in the pit where he used their air supply to replenish his own. Once done, he then activated his flame thrower in order to burn himself through the sarlacc's hide and dug out of the pit. The sheer effort combined with his injuries left him exhausted forcing him to fall unconscious in the wreckage by the Great Pit of Carkoon. It was then that he was come upon by a group of Jawas who began to strip him of his armor with Fett unable to stop them as they ended up knocking him out when he tried to stop their theft and leaving him for dead. Unknown to him, the armor was later acquired by a Tatooinian sheriff by the name of Cobb Vanth. Within the sands, he remained within a sandstorm when he was found by a Tusken Raider tribe that took him prisoner. They forced him to travel long distances on foot whilst being tied by chain to a bantha that was ridden by members of the tribe. Boba came to suffer from the pain of his injuries, exhaustion, and dehydration as he remained a captive of the Tusken Raiders.
Finding the badly wounded Fennec Shand, he decided to rescue her and helped nurse her back to health. This included the addition of cybernetics to replace her destroyed torso thus allowing her to function. For his aid, she vowed a debt of loyalty to Boba Fett who later came to find the location of his armour that had been taken by Cobb Vanth who was serving as a marshal at Mos Pelgo where he used the Mandalorian armour to scare off people trying to prey on he town. Before he could recover it, Vanth had given the armour to Din Djarin for his aid in hunting a Krayt dragon that was preying on the town. Boba Fett and Fennec Shand then used Slave I where they tracked the Mandalorian bounty hunter Djarin to the planet Tython. Fett had Shand take up a sniping position where she was set to kill Djarin's companion the child Grogu if he refused the request to hand over the armour. Djarin at the time had refused to hand over the armour as it went against the tenets of the Mandalorian Creed as he did not believe Fett to had been part of the tribe. Their standoff came to an end when Imperial dropships landed on the planet where Stormtroopers were dispatched to acquire the child from Djarin. This led to the two sides working together against the Stormtroopers where during this time he came upon Djarin's ship the Razor Crest and boarded it. Once inside, he recovered his armour which he used to deal with the Stormtroopers thus saving Djarin's life and forcing the Imperial forces in retreat. However, an Imperial cruiser destroyed the Razor Crest from orbit and Imperial Dark Troopers were used to recover the child. Boba Fett used Slave I to pursue the enemy but Djarin requested that he not fire as he did not want Grogu to be hurt. Whilst high in the clouds, Fett sighted the Imperial cruiser which later departed the planet with their prize. He and Shand then remained as Djarin surveyed the ruins of his former vessel with Boba showing the chain code in the armour that indicated that it belonged to his father Jango Fett who had been a foundling taken in by the Mandalorian tribe. Despite recovering the armour, Fett believed he owed a debt to Djarin and had decided to help him in recovering the child from the Imperial Remnants.
The group later met with one of Djarin's friend Cara Dune where he requested her help in using her position as a New Republic marshal to release the mercenary Mayfeld. The former Imperial sharpshooter was recovered from his job at a prison scrapyard in order to use his former clearance to get the location of Moff Gideon's cruiser. Mayfeld revealed that he would need access to a terminal at an Imperial facility and noted that a remnant refinery was located on the planet Morak. Thus, the group made their way to the planet where the organised a plan to infiltrate the site and access the terminal.
Afterwards, he and his new comrades managed to track down an Imperial shuttle carrying a clone engineer that was en-route to rendezvous with Moff Gideon's light cruiser. Using an ion cannon, they disabled the shuttle with Djarin and Dune managing to successfully capture the engineer. Din Djarin then went to recruit Lady Bo-Katan Kryze and Koska Reeves on the mission to recover the child though the two Mandalorians refused. Fett was not impressed with the two where he urged Djarin to leave them. This resulted in a confrontation between them and Boba where Bo-Katan told Boba that he was not a Mandalorian and unworthy of the armour. She also disparaged him for being a clone with this leading to a brief fight between him and Koska Reeves. Bo-Katan stopped the fight where she agreed to help after learning that they had the coordinates of Gideon's ship where she wanted to reclaim the Darksabre and use it to unite the clans on Mandalore. The gathered team then orchestrated a plan whereby they would stage an attack on the captured Imperial shuttle with Boba using Slave I to attack it where it would request an emergency landing on the cruiser. Once this was done, Fett was to depart the scene whilst his compatriots looked to take control of the ship, recover the child and claim the Darksabre. After completing the mission, Fennec re-joined Fett where the pair made their way to Tatooine with them targeting the palace of the slain Jabba the Hutt. The pair killed all the guards with Shand clearing the way for Fett to the throne room which was now inhabited by Bib Fortuna who had taken over his former masters operations. Arriving at the throne, Fett proceeded to kill the Twi'lek and took over as the new crime lord on Tatooine.
After becoming the Daimyo of Mos Espa, Fett modified his armor once again. In the following weeks, Fett experienced dreams of his past, though they temporarily stopped. News of the former bounty hunter's survival spread swiftly across the galaxy. On one morning, Fett healed himself in a bacta tank. During the healing process, he relived painful memories of his homeworld Kamino, the aftermath of his father's death, his escape from the Sarlacc, and his introduction to the Tusken Raider tribe he became so attached to. Eventually, Shand woke Fett up. As he rose from the bacta tank, Fett told Shand that the dreams were back. Shand told him to prepare for the guests about to arrive. Fett, with the help of his droids, suited up and prepared for his first public moment as Daimyo. Back on his throne, he was gifted with tributes by Garfalaquox and Dokk Strassi, who he noted as having previously worked for the latter. However, he was not paid tribute by Mayor Mok Shaiz, who instead sent his majordomo to demand tribute from Fett. Fett expressed his confusion at the situation, to which Shand explained the situation. She asked to kill the majordomo but Fett refused and Shand then allowed the majordomo to leave with the gift of 'unmolested'. When two Gamorrean guards were presented to Fett, he spared their lives and informed the torture droid who brought them before him that he had no intentions of harming them. After hearing of their loyalty to both Jabba and Fortuna, Fett recruited them to be his own personal bodyguards.
Later, Fett and Shand visited the Sanctuary, a local cantina and announced their claim to power to the cantina's owner, Garsa Fwip, who in turn gifted them with riches as tribute. While on their way back, they were ambushed by mercenaries dressed in red uniforms. Fett was beaten and had to be taken back to his bacta tank. Meanwhile, Shand tracked down two of their attackers, pushing one of them from the top of a building and taking the other as a prisoner. While in the bacta tank, Fett experienced memories of his time at the Tusken Raider camp. After healing, he interrogated the captured mercenary at his throne, though the assassin of the Order of the Night Wind refused to say anything. When 8D8 explained that the warrior would not answer him, Fett dropped him into the Rancor pit. Though it was now empty, the opening of the door alone was enough to scare the mercenary, revealing his employment by Shaiz. Fett and Shand returned to Mos Espa with the assassin and confronted Shaiz. Shaiz then had the assassin executed and paid Fett for delivering him. When Fett threatened Shaiz, he told Fett to return to the Sanctuary for more information. Upon returning to the Sanctuary, Fett and Shand were met again by Fwip, who informed them that the Twins—a Hutt brother and sister— had returned to claim their late cousin Jabba's territory through kinship. As Fett expressed disbelief over this, he was interrupted by the arrival of the Twins themselves, under the protection of Black Krrsantan. When the Hutts declared their ownership of Mos Espa, Fett asserted his position as the Daimyo of Mos Espa. Neither party acquiesced to the other's demands and Fett told the siblings they would have to kill him for his territory. The Twins reluctantly conceded for the time being, though the brother warned Fett to sleep lightly. Once they left, Fett told Fennec that they would likely have to kill the Hutts, to which Fennec said they would need permission to do so. Fett then return to his palace to heal some more in the bacta pod.
After learning about Mos Espa's three ruling families from 8D8, Fett was met by local water-monger Lortha Peel, who informed Fett that the Mods, a gang of cyborg bikers were stealing his inventory. Peel promised to double his tribute to Fett if he dealt with the bikers. In turn, Fett and Shand left with their Gamorrean guards to meet with the Mods personally. They quickly found the gang at a street corner and confronted them over stealing Peel's water. When one of the bikers, Drash, claimed that they had to steal due to there being no work, Fett offered to hire them himself for security. Peel angrily told Fett that they still owed him thirteen hundred credits, to which Fett gave him five hundred and told him he would have to accept it. The Mods then took Fett's offer and followed him back to his palace on their bikes. Fett then returned to his bacta tank and continued to heal. However, he was interrupted by Krrsantan, who pulled Fett from the tank and attempted to kill him. After a brief struggle with Fett, Krrsatan was confronted by the Mods. They fought the Wookiee out of Fett's chamber and into the palace throne room. While Krrsantan fought off the bikers and the Gamorreans, Shand opened the trap door beneath his feet and threw a knife at his hand as he held onto the edge, causing him to fall and trapping him in the Rancor Pit. Fett then told the bikers to get one of the Gamorreans to the bacta tank as Krrsantan roared in anger. Afterwards, Fett and Shand sat down to eat while they discussed sending a message to his enemies. They were then informed by 8D8 that the Twins had arrived to speak with him personally. Meeting Fett by the palace entrance, the Twins admitted they had made a mistake in sending Krrsantan to kill him, apologizing and offering him a rancor calf as an apologetic retribution. They also announced their departure from Tatooine, as they had learned that Jabba's former holdings had already been promised to another crime syndicate by the Mayor and they had no interest in starting a war over a "worthless rock". Fett offered the shackled Krrsantan back to the Twins, to which they allowed Fett to keep the Wookiee, as tribute, before leaving the palace. Fett then released Krrsantan and advised him not to take anymore jobs from the Hutts before the Wookiee ran off into the desert.
Overview
Personality and attributes
Due to being a clone, he shared the appearance of that of his genetic father Jango Fett and grew up to look like him. However, on Tatooine, he suffered grievous injuries as a result of falling into the sarlacc causing him to suffer heavy burns on his boy and being bald.
Boba was suspicious of Obi-Wan Kenobi upon the Jedi Knight's arrival on Kamino, recognizing him as a potential threat to both himself and Jango. He took pleasure in fighting Kenobi both on Kamino and in orbit of Geonosis, expressing joy at the thought that the Jedi had been killed.
As the years went by and the Clone Wars gave way to the reign of the Galactic Empire, Fett became known for his lethality.
He had said that he did not follow the tenets of the Mandalorian Creed.
As a child, Boba developed a strong bond with his father, learning much from Jango's years as a bounty hunter.
Powers and abilities
Fett was a human though in reality he was a clone of his father Jango Fett. Unlike the other Kaminoan clones, he was bred to be unaltered and allowed to grow naturally without having to undergo the accelerated life cycle the others did as they were drafted as clone troopers for the Republic.
Boba's talents as a bounty hunter were infamous across the galaxy, and he became well-known to galactic fugitives who had bounties on their heads. From a young age, Boba was trained by his father in combat skills, both in hand-to-hand combat and weapons, able to handle a blaster at a young age while being deadly in battle scenarios.
After surviving the sarlacc, he came to learn the fighting techniques of the Tusken Raiders whilst living with one of the tribes.
The armour contained a chain code that identified him as being its owner and that he inherited it from his father.
He piloted a powerful pursuit craft called Slave I that was once used by his father Jango Fett. After inheriting it, he began to use the aged but effective ship as part of his career as a bounty hunter. It was loaded with hidden defensive and offensive weaponry along with other equipment. The ship had a reputation that was earned from decades of successful missions that involved capturing fugitives across the galaxy.
Fett later looked to leave the life of a bounty hunter to become a crime boss. This saw him taking the title of Daimyo of the late Jabba the Hutt's empire on Tatooine and claimed his holdings on the planet.
Among his acquisitions was a pet rancor that was gifted to him by the Hutt Twins who looked to end any hostilities with the Tatooine Daimyo.
Notes
- Boba Fett was created by George Lucas where he made his first appearance in the Star Wars Holiday Special (1978).
Alternate Versions
- In the Star Wars: Legends continuity, the character had a different background and history of events. He later came to learn that he had a daughter from his brief relationship with Sintas Vel with his child being named Ailyn Vel. She in turn had a daughter of her own with Fett unaware of her existence with this granddaughter being named Mirta Gev.
In other media
Television
Video games
- In Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II, Boba Fett appeared in the story mode of the action video game sequel where he was voiced by actor Dee Bradley Baker.
- In Star Wars: Battlefront II, Boba Fett appeared as a playable character in the multiplayer mode of the 2017 video game where he was voiced again by actor Temuera Morrison.
Appearances
- Star Wars Holiday Special: (1978)
- Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back:
- Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones:
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars: (2008)
- The Mandalorian:
- The Book of Boba Fett:
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