An extraterrestrial or alien is a lifeform that did not originate on Earth. The word extraterrestrial means "outside Earth". Extraterrestrials are a common theme in modern science-fiction , and also appeared in much earlier works such as the second-century parody True History by Lucian of Samosata .
120-616: The Max Rebo Band is a fictional alien pop music band in the Star Wars franchise, first appearing in the 1983 film Return of the Jedi as a three-piece group performing the song "Lapti Nek" for crime lord Jabba the Hutt . The original lineup consists of the blue-skinned Ortolan organist Max Rebo , the plump Kitonak woodwind player Droopy McCool , and Pa'lowick lead singer Sy Snootles , while additional members were inserted into
240-507: A Jedi Master , and raises three children with Han: Jaina , Jacen and Anakin Solo . The 1991 New York Times bestselling novel Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn began what would become a large collection of works set before, between and especially after the original films. The bestselling Thrawn trilogy (1991–93) by Timothy Zahn begins five years after the events of Return of
360-668: A bassoon . He is the estranged older brother of Figrin D'an, and resents the success of his brother's band, The Modal Nodes . He travels to Tatooine to join the Nodes, who are nowhere to be found after his arrival. Barquin stays to perform with local musicians and eventually joins the Max Rebo Band; unaccustomed to the depravity he witnesses in Jabba's Palace, he flees after Oola 's gruesome death. After Jabba's demise, he quits music altogether and starts an import/export business. Barquin
480-573: A 12-inch club mix, a dub mix, and a cover by Meco —as well as a later recording by vocalist/lyric writer Joseph Williams as Urth, which incorporates lyrics he wrote for Return of the Jedi ' s " Ewok Celebration ". The original members of the Max Rebo Band make several appearances in Star Wars Expanded Universe literature. Max, Droopy, and Sy are featured in John Gregory Betancourt 's short story And
600-414: A 1980s icon , a feminist hero and model for other adventure heroines. She has appeared in many derivative works and merchandising, including the now-noncanonical Star Wars Expanded Universe , and has been referenced or parodied in several TV shows and films. Her "cinnamon bun" hairstyle from Star Wars (1977) and metal bikini from Return of the Jedi have become cultural icons. Fisher was nominated for
720-478: A Rebel base and evades Vader as she falls in love with the smuggler Han Solo . In Return of the Jedi (1983), she helps to rescue Han from the crime lord Jabba the Hutt , and is revealed to be Vader's daughter and the twin sister of Luke Skywalker . Leia is portrayed by Carrie Fisher in the original film trilogy and the sequel trilogy . The 2005 prequel film Revenge of the Sith reveals that Leia's mother
840-501: A brief flashback scene. Her face was digitally replaced by Fisher's, using imagery from Return of the Jedi . In the film, Leia continues to lead the Resistance while guiding Rey in her Jedi training; a flashback presented later reveals that Leia abandoned her own Jedi instruction with Luke after seeing a vision of her son's death. While Rey and Ren duel on Kef Bir , Leia uses all of her remaining strength to reach out to Ren through
960-444: A cafe, he sings along. Impressed with his voice, Orbus signs Yowza, who performs for food and shelter, while Sy gives him his new stage name. After Orbus's death, Yowza joins the band on Tatooine after a successful audition for Jabba. The group disbands after Jabba's death and Yowza travels to Mos Eisley, where he finds a job on a small passenger liner and performs with its house band in exchange for free food and transportation throughout
1080-417: A canine-like snout and hooded eyes. He works as a spy and a guard for Jabba while performing as a drummer with the Max Rebo Band, and stays behind at Jabba's palace during the failed execution of Luke, Han and Chewbacca. After he is free following Jabba's death, Umpass-stay elects to become a servant for another Hutt household. Like Ak-rev, Umpass-stay's drumming was inspired by Taiko. His Special Edition actor
1200-835: A deep depression that causes a rift between him and Leia. They reunite after Leia is gravely wounded at the Battle of Duro in Kathy Tyers' Balance Point (2000). She is targeted by a deadly Voxyn slayer in Troy Dennings' Star By Star (2001), and though she manages to evade death, her son Anakin is later killed during a mission to prevent more Voxyn from being cloned. The Vong are finally defeated in The Unifying Force (2003) by James Luceno . In Denning's The Dark Nest trilogy (2005), Leia, Han, and several Jedi become involved in an escalating border dispute between
1320-467: A dream of Anakin's in which Padmé dies in childbirth; later, Luke and Leia watch a clip in which Padmé is talking to Obi-Wan Kenobi about Anakin. Tenel Ka , Queen Mother of the Hapes Consortium, has a daughter, Allana , secretly fathered by Jacen. In The Swarm War (2005), Luke and Leia view holoclips of their mother's death, and Leia is promoted to Jedi Knight. The bestselling Legacy of
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#17327760007351440-468: A founding member of Evar Orbus and His Galactic Jizz-wailers, but after Orbus's death, he was elected the group's new leader. Like other Ortolans, Max is a glutton ; he ecstatically accepts a lifetime contract from Jabba that is paid in endless meals instead of money, which angers the rest of the group. With their contract terminated following Jabba's demise, Max and Sy team up as the Max Rebo Duo in
1560-555: A growing mistrust toward the Jedi, and the situation is worsened by a Force-induced psychosis that begins afflicting individual Jedi, sending them on violent rampages. In Millennium Falcon (2008) by James Luceno, set between Legacy of the Force and Fate of the Jedi , a mysterious device hidden inside the eponymous spacecraft sends Han, Leia and Allana on an adventure to investigate the ship's past before it came into Han's possession. Troy Denning's Crucible (2013), set after Fate of
1680-574: A lot of fun killing Jabba the Hutt . They asked me on the day if I wanted to have a stunt double kill Jabba. No! That's the best time I ever had as an actor. And the only reason to go into acting is if you can kill a giant monster. Introduced in Star Wars (1977), Princess Leia of Alderaan is a member of the Imperial Senate and a leader in the Rebel Alliance. She is captured when Darth Vader boards her ship, demanding that she reveal
1800-473: A passerby that her name is "Rey Skywalker." Leia makes a brief appearance in the final scene of the 2016 film Rogue One . She receives the stolen plans for the Death Star as a lead-up to the beginning of Star Wars . Since Rogue One takes place just prior to the original trilogy, a young Leia was required. To create this effect, a computer-generated image of a young Carrie Fisher was superimposed over
1920-487: A princess and an old general. The second version involved a father, his son, and his daughter; the daughter was the heroine of the film. Now the daughter has become Luke, Mark Hamill 's character. There was also the story of two brothers where I transformed one of them into a sister. The older brother was imprisoned, and the young sister had to rescue him and bring him back to their dad. The character Princess Leia went through various changes as George Lucas wrote and refined
2040-404: A slave and forced him to join his band due to Snit's musical talents. Following Orbus's death, he is freed and given his familiar stage name by bandmate Sy Snootles. After the band flees Jabba's barge following his death, Droopy quits the group and wanders off alone into the desert to search for other members of his race. He is never seen again, but rumors among Tatooine's moisture farmers claim that
2160-514: A son named Ben Solo, who turned to the dark side and became the First Order warlord Kylo Ren . In The Rise of Skywalker (2019), it is revealed that Leia was trained as a Jedi by Luke sometime after the events of Return of the Jedi . Leia is now the mentor of Rey , the last remaining Jedi. Leia dies towards the end of the film but returns as a Force spirit alongside Luke. One of the more popular Star Wars characters, Leia has been called
2280-474: A ten-year-old child in the 2022 live-action series Obi-Wan Kenobi , portrayed by Vivien Lyra Blair . Of Blair's casting, series writer Joby Harold said the show wanted an actor who would embody a young Carrie Fisher, and Eric Deggans of NPR later wrote that Blair "practically channels Carrie Fisher's subversive, wisecracking spirit". Leia makes her first literary appearance in Star Wars: From
2400-410: A twin sister. She and their mother were "sent to the protection of friends in a distant system. The mother died shortly thereafter, and Luke's sister was adopted by Ben's friends, the governor of Alderaan and his wife." Fisher explained in 1983: "Leia's real father left her mother when she was pregnant, so her mother married this King Organa. I was adopted and grew up set apart from other people because I
2520-458: A twin sister—not Leia—who would be the focus of another episode. Following the production of Empire , Lucas was burnt out and decided not to make his planned sequel trilogy . Needing to explain the identity of the other potential Jedi mentioned by Yoda , Lucas decided that Leia would be revealed as Luke's twin. In the second draft of the Return of the Jedi screenplay, Obi-Wan tells Luke he has
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#17327760007352640-588: Is Senator Padmé Amidala of Naboo , who dies after childbirth. Her father is Anakin Skywalker, a Jedi who falls to the dark side of the Force and becomes Darth Vader. After her mother's death, Leia is adopted by Senator Bail Organa of Alderaan and his wife, Queen Breha . In the sequel trilogy , Leia is a founder and General of the Resistance , which fights against the First Order . She and Han have
2760-667: Is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. Introduced in the original Star Wars film in 1977, Leia is a princess of the planet Alderaan , a member of the Imperial Senate , and an agent of the Rebel Alliance . She thwarts the Sith Lord Darth Vader and helps bring about the destruction of the Empire's superweapon, the Death Star . In The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Leia commands
2880-433: Is a play on the words " cerulean elephant." He was portrayed by Simon Williamson in both versions of Return of the Jedi, and the character was a puppet constructed from the waist up by ILM. Sy Snootles is a robust female Pa'lowick who is the lead vocalist and original member of the band. She had an affair with her Yuzzum groupie, Clayton. She is angered at Max's acceptance of Jabba's contract, and after attempts to rework
3000-531: Is actually using them as pawns in an assassination attempt against Bingo after they discover explosives hidden inside their speakers. They make their getaway by superimposing holograms of themselves from a past performance onto the stage, which Bingo realizes just as the explosives detonate. Though Jabba had blatantly endangered their lives, the band nonetheless chooses to avoid his wrath by returning to Tatooine. In Dave Cooper 's Stop That Jawa! (part of Star Wars Tales 2 published by Dark Horse Comics in 2000),
3120-651: Is also a point-of-view character in the 2015 novelization of The Force Awakens by Foster. Foster's 1978 novel Splinter of the Mind's Eye was commissioned by Lucas as the basis for a potential low-budget sequel to Star Wars should the film prove unsuccessful. In the story, Luke and Leia seek a crystal on a swampy planet and eventually face Vader in combat. Leia appears in the Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens line of novels and comics, which were introduced to connect The Force Awakens with previous films. She
3240-435: Is also trying to find her brother Luke, who disappeared years earlier. After a battle on the planet Takodana, she reunites with Han. They discuss their son, Ben Solo, who left Jedi training and fell to the dark side of the Force, becoming the First Order warlord Kylo Ren . Leia believes Ren can be brought back from the dark side, and urges Han to bring him home. When Han encounters Ren on Starkiller Base , he asks him to abandon
3360-535: Is derived from the Japanese art of Taiko . His Special Edition actor was David Gonzalez. Doda Bodonawieedo is a green-skinned Rodian musician who plays a slitherhorn, a fictional wind instrument similar to a heckelphone . Orphaned at a young age after his family was killed by bounty hunters, Doda held an affinity for classical Rodian music and crime. His connections with the Tatooine underworld led him to Jabba
3480-412: Is featured in the young adult novel Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure (2015) by Cecil Castellucci and Jason Fry, which is set between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi , and Claudia Gray 's novels Star Wars: Bloodline (2016) and Leia: Princess of Alderaan (2017). The former is set six years before The Force Awakens , while the latter features a 16-year-old Leia before
3600-502: Is frozen in carbonate by Zorba. Mission from Mount Yoda (1993) finds Ken's father Triclops alive and willing to join the Rebels against the Empire. Leia, now engaged to Han, is captured by Zorba in Queen of the Empire (1993). Trioculus is revived and seizes Leia before Zorba can kill her. Leia is rescued and replaced with a lookalike droid decoy, which kills Trioculus. In Prophets of
3720-482: Is how she appears in the finished film. Carrie Fisher was 19 when she was cast as Princess Leia. She was cast over Karen Allen , Glenn Close , Farrah Fawcett , Anjelica Huston , Amy Irving , Jessica Lange , Terri Nunn , Linda Purl , Meryl Streep and Cindy Williams . Jodie Foster was offered the role, but turned it down because she was under contract with Disney. In his early story development for The Empire Strikes Back , Lucas intended for Luke to have
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3840-555: Is presented with an advantageous political marriage to Prince Isolder of the planet Hapes. A jealous Han abducts Leia and takes her to the planet Dathomir; Luke and Isolder follow, and there they all find the hidden forces of the Imperial warlord Zsinj. Defeating him, Han and Leia marry. The 2003 novels A Forest Apart and Tatooine Ghost by Troy Denning are set immediately after The Courtship of Princess Leia . The newly married Leia fears that any children she has may succumb to
3960-712: Is set within a year after Return of the Jedi . In The Glove of Darth Vader (1992), the self-proclaimed son of the defeated Emperor Palpatine , Trioculus , seeks the titular glove to cement himself as the new Emperor. Entranced by Leia's beauty in The Lost City of the Jedi (1992), Trioculus vows to make her his queen. He captures her in Zorba the Hutt's Revenge (1992), but Jabba the Hutt's vengeful father, Zorba , offers to trade his own prisoner Ken —Palpatine's real grandson whom Trioculus has been seeking—for Leia, his son's killer. But Leia and Ken are rescued and Trioculus
4080-486: The Star Wars Databank as a "less-dated piece of music". In both versions of the film, the group follows the singing number with festive instrumental tunes, during which only Max is shown up close. The fate of the trio is unclear following the explosion of Jabba's sail barge after his attempted execution of Luke Skywalker , Han Solo , and Chewbacca . Other versions of the song "Lapti Nek" exist, including
4200-588: The Chiss and the insidious insectoid Killiks, and Leia makes a bitter enemy in the Twi'lek warrior Alema Rar . In The Joiner King (2005), Leia asks Saba Sebatyne to train her as a Jedi Knight. R2-D2 malfunctions in The Unseen Queen (2005) and shows Luke a holoclip of his father Anakin and a pregnant woman, whom Luke learns is his and Leia's biological mother, Padmé Amidala. Anakin and Padmé are discussing
4320-462: The Saturn Award for Best Actress for Star Wars and Return of the Jedi . She also received Saturn Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress for The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi , the latter being a posthumous nomination. Leia was created by Star Wars creator George Lucas , who in 1999 explained his early development of the main characters: The first [version] talked about
4440-468: The Star Wars screenplay. In one early draft, she is the spoiled teenage daughter of King Kayos and Queen Breha of Aquilae. In a later version, she is Luke's cousin and the daughter of Owen Lars and his wife Beru . A subsequent story synopsis establishes her as Leia Antilles, the child of Bail Antilles from the peaceful world of Organa Major. In the fourth draft, she is Leia Organa of Alderaan, which
4560-526: The Thrawn trilogy. Next in the timeline is the Callista trilogy: Children of the Jedi (1995) by Barbara Hambly , Darksaber (1995) by Anderson and Planet of Twilight (1997) by Hambly. In The Crystal Star (1994) by Vonda McIntyre , young Jacen, Jaina and their three-year-old brother Anakin are kidnapped in a plot to restore the Empire, but are rescued by Leia and Chewbacca. Leia struggles with
4680-460: The 2017 sequel to The Force Awakens. When Leia's ship is attacked by the First Order, she is expelled into space, but uses the Force to pull herself back onboard. After recovering, she shoots and stuns the Resistance pilot Poe Dameron , who mutinied against Vice Admiral Holdo . From his self-imposed exile on Ahch-To , Luke uses the Force to project himself to the Resistance stronghold on Crait . He reunites with Leia and apologizes for Ben's fall to
4800-524: The Adventures of Luke Skywalker , the novelization of the original 1977 film Star Wars , which was released six months before the film in November 1976. Credited to Lucas but ghostwritten by Alan Dean Foster , the novel was based on Lucas' screenplay. Leia later appeared in the novelizations The Empire Strikes Back (1980) by Donald F. Glut and Return of the Jedi (1983) by James Kahn . She
4920-678: The Band Played On." He was the eponymous founder of Evar Orbus and His Galactic Jizz-wailers , in addition to purchasing Kitonak musician Snit (later Droopy McCool) as a slave and adding him to the lineup. The quartet agrees to play a gig at the Mos Eisley cantina, which leads to a conflict with incumbent group The Modal Nodes . After Orbus is killed by Figrin D'an, the band is then renamed after new leader Max Rebo. Extraterrestrials in fiction The 2nd century writer of satires, Lucian, in his True History claims to have visited
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5040-488: The Band Played On: The Band's Tale, from the 1995 anthology Tales from Jabba's Palace . According to the story, the band begins as a quartet called " Evar Orbus and His Galactic Jizz-wailers." They arrive on Tatooine in three years after the Battle of Yavin depicted in A New Hope , one year before the events of Return of the Jedi , for a gig at the Mos Eisley cantina, but regular in-house band,
5160-590: The Corellians in Aaron Allston's Exile (2007), but Alema reappears to exact her vengeance on Leia. Sacrifice (2007) by Karen Traviss finds Leia and Han on the run, hunted by Jacen as traitors to the Galactic Alliance. He kills Luke's wife Mara Jade as his final sacrifice to become Darth Caedus, the new ruler of the Sith. In Inferno (2007) by Troy Denning, Han and Leia are faced with
5280-587: The Dark Side (1993), Leia looks forward to her wedding to Han and has a vision of their two children. Matthew Stover 's 2008 standalone novel Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor picks up the story soon after, as Luke, Leia and the Rebels fight the Sith Lord Shadowspawn. In The Courtship of Princess Leia (1994) by Dave Wolverton , set immediately before the Thrawn trilogy, Leia
5400-468: The First Order. Ren refuses and instead kills his father. Leia senses Han's death through the Force, and later shares a moment of grief with the scavenger Rey , who viewed Han as a father figure. Although Leia appears as a Jedi in various Star Wars Legends works, she is not depicted that way in The Force Awakens . The film's director, J.J. Abrams , explained that Leia's decision to lead
5520-507: The Force series (2006–08) chronicles the crossover of Han and Leia's son Jacen to the dark side of the Force while the Jedi, Solos, and Skywalkers fight against his growing power. In Betrayal (2006) by Aaron Allston , Jacen turns to the dark side, believing that it is the only way to save the galaxy from the chaos brewing among the member systems of the Galactic Alliance. Jacen realizes in Bloodlines (2006) by Karen Traviss that
5640-496: The Force. Rey impales him while he is distracted, then heals his wound as Leia dies. During the climactic battle on Exegol , a transformed Ben Solo utilizes the remainder of his life force to revive a comatose Rey, then vanishes into the Force at the same time as his mother. Rey travels to the Lars homestead on Tatooine and buries the lightsabers that had belonged to Leia and Luke. As the Force spirits of her two mentors look on, Rey tells
5760-400: The Hapes Consortium. Multiple novels in the series made The New York Times Best Seller list . The nine-volume Fate of the Jedi series (2009–12) by Aaron Allston, Troy Denning, and Christie Golden finds Han and Leia become caught up in the intensifying conflict between the Galactic Alliance and the Jedi. In the wake of Darth Cadeus' death, the now-peaceful Galactic Alliance harbors
5880-541: The Hutt and the Max Rebo Band. Doda remains at Jabba's Palace during the execution at the Sarlacc; when he hears of Jabba's death, he steals several valuable statues from the palace and disappears. Nelson Hall played Doda in the Special Edition, but was not included in the credits. Barquin D'an is a Bith musician from the planet Clak'dor VII who plays a Kloo horn, a fictitious wind instrument that resembles
6000-560: The Jedi (1983), Leia infiltrates Jabba the Hutt's palace on Tatooine disguised as the Ubese bounty hunter Boushh. She frees Han from the carbonite, but they are both recaptured by Jabba, who chains Leia and outfits her in a metal bikini. After Luke arrives and kills Jabba's rancor , the crime lord sentences Luke, Han and Chewbacca to be fed to a Sarlacc , a deadly ground-dwelling beast. The group overpowers their captors, and Leia strangles Jabba to death with her chain. The companions then escape
6120-580: The Jedi during the scenes set in Jabba's palace on Tatooine . In the original version, the trio performs a Huttese-language pop song titled " Lapti Nek " (Huttese for "Fancy Man"); the English lyrics (by composer John Williams 's son Joseph Williams ) are about dancing; Hardware Wars creator Ernie Fosselius helped arrange the song. The track was replaced in the Special Edition with " Jedi Rocks ", written by jazz musician Jerry Hey and described in
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#17327760007356240-631: The Jedi and the last novel to date in the Star Wars Legends chronology, reunites Leia, Han and Luke with Lando as they aid him to thwart a vast criminal enterprise threatening his asteroid mineral refinery in the Chilean Rift nebula . Leia's youth is depicted in the Star Wars Tales story The Princess Leia Diaries . Leia develops a disdain for the Empire, as well as a conflict with Tarkin. She discovers and decides to support
6360-524: The Jedi , Leia is searching for Boba Fett to find a captive Han. She is bewitched by the crime lord Prince Xizor using pheromones, but Chewbacca helps her elude the seduction. Allegiance (2007) and Choices of One (2011) by Timothy Zahn are set between Star Wars: A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back , and feature Leia and her cohorts seeking new allies for their Rebellion against the Empire. Razor's Edge (2013) by Martha Wells and Honor Among Thieves (2014) by James S. A. Corey take place in
6480-424: The Jedi . Princess Leia depicts Leia training in martial arts on Alderaan and explores her reaction to the destruction of the planet, while Shattered Empire portrays her as a skilled pilot who undertakes a dangerous mission alongside Poe Dameron 's mother. Leia also appears in Star Wars #12. Leia appears briefly in the 1978 television film The Star Wars Holiday Special as a leader and administrator of
6600-526: The Jedi . In Heir to the Empire (1991), Leia is married to Han and three months pregnant with twins. Noghri commandos repeatedly attempt to kidnap her as part of Grand Admiral Thrawn 's plan to restore the Empire and crush the New Republic. In Dark Force Rising (1992), Leia realizes that Darth Vader and the Empire deceived the Noghri to secure their allegiance, and by revealing the truth she turns
6720-472: The Jedi training of Jacen and Jaina. In The Truce at Bakura (1993) by Kathy Tyers , set one day after the ending of Return of the Jedi , Leia establishes New Alderaan, a sanctuary for the destroyed planet's surviving inhabitants. The spirit of Anakin Skywalker appears to Leia and pleads for her forgiveness, but she angrily banishes him. The six-volume Jedi Prince series (1992–93) by Paul Davids and Hollace Davids, later contradicted by other novels,
6840-459: The Max Rebo Band." Star Wars creator George Lucas stated that the scene featuring the band was intended to be an elaborate production, but the crew "never really had the time" to film it. Lucas commented, "I thought [it] would be funny [to have a musical number] in the middle of a Star Wars film." The original band members—Max, Sy, and Droopy—were puppets designed by Phil Tippett of Industrial Light and Magic 's Creature Shop. Timothy D. Rose
6960-484: The Modal Nodes , objects to the presence of a second group, and Orbus is killed by Nodes leader Figrin D'an following a scuffle aboard an airbus. Droopy and Sy elect Max as their new bandleader, and the trio secures an audition with Jabba the Hutt, who is pleased with their performance of "Lapti Nek". He offers the band a lifetime contract paid in food instead of money, much to Max's delight and Sy's disdain. However,
7080-585: The Moon when his ship was sent up by a fountain, which was peopled and at war with the people of the Sun over colonisation of the Morning Star. The way people have thought about extraterrestrials is tied to the development of actual sciences. One of the first steps in the history of astronomy was to realize that the objects seen in the night sky were not gods or lights, but physical objects like Earth. This notion
7200-529: The Outer Rim. Joh Yowza appeared as a computer-generated image, but his voice actor was uncredited. The Yuzzums were originally slated to appear as a second race on Endor in the original version of the film, but were axed due to high production costs. Only one Yuzzum puppet was constructed, and was included in the background of Jabba's palace. Evar Orbus is an eight-tentacled, beak-mouthed Letaki singer and musician who made his first canon appearance in "And
7320-568: The Rebellion. During the events of the comic series Dark Empire (1991–92), Palpatine has been resurrected in a clone body. As part of his plan to restore the Empire, he seduces Luke to the dark side of the Force. Leia resists Palpatine's attempts to turn her as well, and escapes with the Jedi Holocron , an artifact he needs to secure his power. When Luke pursues her, Leia manages to turn him back. Luke and Leia then fight Palpatine with
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#17327760007357440-534: The Resistance instead of training as a Jedi was "simply a choice that she made". Nevertheless, he affirmed that Leia's strength with the Force is an intrinsic part of her character. Asked to describe Leia in the film, Fisher said she is under "a lot of pressure" and is likely feeling "somewhat defeated, tired, and pissed." Fisher was nominated for a 2016 Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance. Fisher returns as Leia in The Last Jedi ,
7560-570: The Sith discipline will require him to kill one of his loved ones, which he decides is an acceptable sacrifice to save the galaxy. In Troy Denning's Tempest (2006), Han and Leia thwart the assassination of Tenel Ka and Allana but become caught up in a Corellian conspiracy. They are almost killed when the Millennium Falcon is attacked by a Star Destroyer controlled by an increasingly powerful Jacen—who knows that his parents are on board. With Han injured, Leia and Lando further investigate
7680-563: The Weequay god of thunder before moving to Tatooine to serve as one of Jabba's skiff guards, simply in order to mingle with other members of his race. He becomes a part-time drummer for the Max Rebo Band, and after Jabba's death, Ak-rev and fellow percussionist Umpass-stay attempt to flee to Mos Eisley, but the pair is ambushed by Tusken Raiders and Ak-rev is beaten to death. According to the Star Wars Databank , his musical style
7800-524: The acquisition of Lucasfilm by The Walt Disney Company in 2012, most of the licensed Star Wars Expanded Universe material produced between 1977 and 2014 was rebranded as Star Wars Legends and declared non-canon to the franchise. In the Legends narrative universe, Leia battles remnants of the Empire after the events of Return of the Jedi . She becomes the chief of state of the New Republic and
7920-571: The alien race to the side of the New Republic. At one point, she remembers her adoptive parents on Alderaan, implying that the "mother" she discussed with Luke on Endor was Queen Breha. In The Last Command (1993), Leia gives birth to the twins Jaina and Jacen Solo on Coruscant during Thrawn's siege. Leia, now the Chief of State of the New Republic, is a minor character in the Jedi Academy trilogy (1994) by Kevin J. Anderson , set after
8040-460: The aliens made by the Hills, with oversized heads, big eyes, pale grey skin, and small noses captivated the public imagination and was later used by TV shows and films. This started the grey alien archetype. According to Wade Roush, a science and technology writer, "The standard depiction of aliens at that point became the little grey man. So, when Steven Spielberg came along and made probably what are
8160-522: The animated series Star Wars: Droids titled "The Lost Prince", in which they performed in Doodnik's Café on the mining planet of Tyne's Horky. The trio also featured in the video games Star Wars: Demolition (2000) and Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005). In May 2003, nearly six years after the rerelease of Return of the Jedi , Star Wars Insider published brief biographies of the band's new members for an article called "Jabbapalooza: Who's Who in
8280-454: The band at Jabba's palace. She meets her hero but is later enraged at his death during the skirmish at the Sarlacc pit. Lyn and Greeata head out into the desert on a stolen landspeeder and rescue Max, Droopy, and Sy from Tusken Raiders before making off with their Banthas. She initially vows to take revenge on Han, Luke and Leia for their part in Fett's death, but then drops her vendetta. Lyn Me
8400-481: The band's rescue by driving off a group of Tusken Raiders and stealing their Banthas , which they ride to Mos Eisley. Greeata was played by Smuin Ballet creative director Celia Fushille in a Rodian bodysuit and mask for the Special Edition. Lyn Me is a blue-skinned female Twi'lek dancer and backup vocalist in the Max Rebo Band. She becomes infatuated with Boba Fett and follows him to Tatooine , where she joins
8520-435: The band. Following a brief gig for Lady Valarian, Sy dissolves her relationship with Max and begins her solo career, but her subsequent recordings sell poorly and she is relegated to touring Outer Rim dives under different stage names. During production, Sy Snootles' nickname was "Ms. Snooty." In the original version of the film, the character was a marionette -like puppet operated by puppeteers Mike Quinn and Tim Rose; Quinn
8640-517: The base to pay off Jabba, he tries to make Leia admit that she has romantic feelings for him. When Imperial forces arrive and assault the base, Leia leads an evacuation. She then flees with Han, Chewbacca and C-3PO in the Falcon . While hiding in an asteroid field, Leia and Han share a kiss. With the ship needing repairs, Han seeks out his old friend Lando Calrissian in Cloud City . Lando welcomes
8760-420: The criminal in a sabacc game and frees them from slavery. After relocating to Tatooine, she joins the Max Rebo Band as a backup vocalist and dancer. Rystáll is briefly seen flirting with Boba Fett prior to the arrival of Boushh . Rystáll was portrayed by Canadian dancer Mercedes Ngoh in full-body makeup, which took four hours to apply for her lone day of shooting. Umpass-stay is a Klatooinian drummer with
8880-519: The dark side like her father. During an adventure on Tatooine in Tatooine Ghost , she discovers the diary of her grandmother Shmi Skywalker and meets some of young Anakin's childhood friends. When she learns of Anakin's childhood as a slave and the traumatic death of his mother, Leia learns to forgive her father. In Shadows of the Empire (1996) by Steve Perry , the only Star Wars novel set between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of
9000-477: The dark side of the Force and becomes Darth Vader, Padmé gives birth to Luke and Leia on Polis Massa and then dies. Leia is adopted by Senator Bail Organa of Alderaan and his wife, Queen Breha. Leia returns in The Force Awakens (2015), which takes place thirty years after the events of Return of the Jedi . She is the leader of the Resistance, an organization she formed to fight the First Order. She
9120-503: The dark side. Leia says that her son is gone, but Luke assures her that nobody is ever truly gone. While Luke distracts Ren and his troops, Leia and the remaining Resistance forces escape in the Falcon . The filming of Fisher's scenes was completed shortly before her death on December 27, 2016. Following Fisher's death, Variety reported that she was slated to appear in The Rise of Skywalker (2019). However, Lucasfilm stated that it
9240-443: The deal prove futile, Sy resorts to secretly spying for over a dozen of Jabba's enemies to earn credits, but then works as a double agent by giving them false information provided by Bib Fortuna . She was also not above getting her hands dirty when she killed Ziro the Hutt to obtain for Jabba a book containing dirt on the other Hutt leaders. She teams up with Max as the Max Rebo Duo following Jabba's death and Droopy's departure from
9360-519: The events of A New Hope . She also leads in Beth Revis ' Star Wars: The Princess and the Scoundrel which is set immediately right after Return of the Jedi . Leia appears in the limited series Star Wars: Princess Leia (2015), which takes place immediately after Star Wars . She is also featured in the four-part series Star Wars: Shattered Empire (2015), set immediately after Return of
9480-485: The execution of Han, Luke, and Chewbacca at the Great Pit of Carkoon descends into chaos as Jabba is fatally strangled by Princess Leia , and the band escapes from Jabba's barge sans instruments just before it explodes. Droopy quits the group on the spot after wandering off into the desert to join fellow Kitonaks he hears playing in the distance, and Sy and Max join forces as the Max Rebo Duo. The book's epilogue describes
9600-410: The face of the actress Ingvild Deila . Archival audio of Fisher was used to voice the character. A teenage Princess Leia, voiced by Julie Dolan, appears in a 2016 episode of the animated series Star Wars Rebels , which is set between Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars . In the episode, Leia is sent on a secret mission for the Rebel Alliance. Dave Filoni , the executive producer of Rebels , said
9720-499: The film's first act. In the Star Wars: The Clone Wars series, she is voiced by Nika Futterman . Droopy McCool is the stage name of a slow-minded Kitonak musician and original member of the Max Rebo Band. He plays a chidinkalu horn, an instrument that resembles a clarinet . Droopy's actual birth name is a series of unpronounceable flute-like whistles, but he was renamed Snit by Orbus, who purchased him as
9840-520: The film, and was nicknamed "Jedi Rapper" by the filmmakers during production. Rystáll Sant is a colorful female "near-human" singer and dancer from Coruscant. Her mother was human, and her father a Theelin , but Rystáll is orphaned as a small child without ever knowing them and she is taken in by Ortolan musicians. She and her adoptive family are enslaved by a lieutenant in the Black Sun criminal organization, before Lando Calrissian wins them from
9960-503: The first, second, and fourth episodes of the television series The Book of Boba Fett , which takes place five years after Return of the Jedi . He was shown to have survived the destruction of Jabba's sail barge. The original band has made minor appearances in other Star Wars media. The unfinished 1982 David Tomblin mockumentary Return of the Ewok showed them in Jabba's palace, and they briefly appeared in an October 1985 episode of
10080-406: The group graciously, but has betrayed them to the Empire. He turns them over to Vader, who hopes to use them as bait to capture Luke. Leia confesses her love for Han as he is frozen in carbonite and handed over to the bounty hunter Boba Fett . As Lando, Leia, and Chewbacca escape from Cloud City, Leia senses that Luke is in trouble, and she orders Chewbacca to turn the ship around and rescue him. He
10200-480: The intention was to show Leia developing her leadership abilities. He added that in the series, Leia is "part of the Empire. She doesn't believe in the Empire, but she is acting the part, almost a double agent." Leia also appears in the web series Forces of Destiny (2017–2018) voiced by Shelby Young , and in Star Wars Resistance , voiced by Rachel Butera and Carolyn Hennesy . Leia appears as
10320-551: The later-edited Special Edition of the film . A great deal of further information about the band and the personal histories of its members is found in various literature of the now-noncanonical Star Wars Legends universe. The group are classified as "jizz-wailers", which, according to the Star Wars Encyclopedia , refers to a "musician who plays a fast, contemporary, and upbeat style of music." Max and Droopy were portrayed by actors in bodysuits, while Snootles
10440-492: The location of stolen architectural plans for the Death Star, the Galactic Empire 's battle station. Before her interrogation, Leia hid the plans inside the droid R2-D2 , and sent him to find one of the last remaining Jedi, Obi-Wan Kenobi . Vader takes Leia to the Death Star and tortures her, but she offers him no information. The Death Star commander Grand Moff Tarkin threatens to destroy Alderaan unless she reveals
10560-557: The location of the Rebel base. She provides the location of an abandoned headquarters on Dantooine, but Tarkin obliterates Alderaan anyway. Leia is rescued by Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Chewbacca . They escape aboard Han's ship, the Millennium Falcon . After analyzing the Death Star schematics, the Rebels find a small weakness in the battle station, which allows Luke to destroy it with torpedoes launched from his X-wing . After
10680-464: The new Rebel Alliance base. She and C-3PO contact Chewbacca's wife Mallatobuck for assistance in finding Chewbacca and Han. Leia also appears in the animated segment at a different base in an asteroid field, and at the Life Day ceremony at the end of the film. Fisher also appeared in and hosted the November 18, 1978, episode of Saturday Night Live that aired one day after the special. Following
10800-402: The new characters, "Lapti Nek" was replaced with "Jedi Rocks." Lucas insisted that the revised sequence added more atmosphere and quality to the film. Max Rebo is the stage name of Siiruulian Phantele , a stocky Ortolan keyboardist and eponymous leader of the Max Rebo Band. He plays a Red Ball Jett keyboard, which is similar to a circular reed organ with clavinet characteristics. Max was
10920-662: The new standard. This is especially noticeable in the Star Trek franchise; this would later be explained in-universe as a result of an ancient spacefaring humanoid civilization “seeding” its DNA across countless planets including Earth. This changed again since the 1990s with the advent of computer-generated imagery (CGI), and later on as CGI became more effective and less expensive, as it allows to generate bizarre lifeforms without being constrained to actors with costumes or mechanical effects. Princess Leia Princess Leia Organa ( / l eɪ . ə / or / l iː ə / )
11040-641: The octopean Martians from The War of the Worlds (1898), the Selenites from First men in the Moon (1901), the birdlike Tweel from A Martian Odyssey (1934) and even a sentient star in Star Maker (1937). The Barney and Betty Hill incident took place in 1961 when the couple claimed that they were abducted by aliens and subjected to invasive experiments. It was the first recorded claim of an alien abduction , soon followed by others. The description of
11160-432: The original script, when Luke and Han arrive to rescue Leia, she is unconscious, her eyes are yellow and she is hanging upside down, imagery which alludes to the 1973 horror film The Exorcist . Fisher explained that the scene was changed because Chewbacca would have had to carry Leia for an extended period of time. In The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Leia is commanding the Rebel base on Hoth . As Han prepares to leave
11280-504: The pair splitting up; Sy flops as a solo act while Max joins up with the Rebellion and uses his musical talents to entertain the troops. In the 2000 Dark Horse release A Hot Time in the Cold Town Tonite!, Jabba sends the puzzled trio to the frozen planet Hoth to play for a rival crime lord, Bingo Mehndra, who threatens to feed the band to his pet Wampa if he suspected any kind of trickery. The group soon discovers that Jabba
11400-413: The planet and return to the Rebel base. Later, they travel to the forest moon of Endor to disable a shield protecting the second Death Star. There, Luke reveals to Leia that he is her twin brother and that Vader is their father. After joining forces with a tribe of Ewoks , the Rebels manage to destroy the Death Star and defeat the Empire. Following the release of Return of the Jedi, Fisher commented on
11520-500: The reality that their son, now Joint Chief of State, is the enemy. Leia attempts unsuccessfully to manipulate Jacen in Aaron Allston's Fury (2007) so that the Jedi can both thwart him and neutralize Alema. Finally, in Invincible (2008) by Troy Denning, Jaina kills Jacen in a lightsaber duel. At Tenel Ka's request, Leia and Han adopt Allana, disguised with the name "Amelia" to protect her from any future vengeance against Cadeus or
11640-600: The responsibilities of her position in The Black Fleet Crisis trilogy (1996) by Michael P. Kube-McDowell . In The New Rebellion (1996) by Kristine Kathryn Rusch , she avoids an assassination attempt and then aids in the defeat of the Dark Jedi Kueller, whom she shoots to death. The Corellian trilogy (1995) by Roger MacBride Allen finds Han and Leia swept up in a civil war while visiting his homeworld of Corellia with their children. In
11760-613: The same time period and also chronicle the adventures of Leia and Han. In the New Jedi Order series (1999–2003), Leia resigns as Chief of State, and on the heels of her warnings before the Senate, the alien Yuuzhan Vong invade the galaxy. They destroy system after system and defeat both the Jedi and the New Republic forces in countless battles. Chewbacca dies in Vector Prime (1999) by R.A. Salvatore , which sends Han into
11880-444: The segment was reduced in comparison to the original film. Visual effects supervisor Dave Carson described the process of creating Sy and new character Joh Yowza as similar to sculpting clay models, adding that CGI characters were more like puppets than cartoons and that animators "constantly find limitations: [the] characters don't bend right, or their mass isn't right," problems he claimed that confronted puppeteers. In addition to
12000-410: The sound of Kitonak pipes have been heard from the far reaches of the desert. Droopy was played by Deep Roy in a full bodysuit for both versions of Return of the Jedi. The following characters were added to the 1997 Special Edition version of the film. Ak-rev is a leathery-faced Weequay skiff guard and drummer from the planet Sriluur. He had played the sacred drums in a monastery devoted to
12120-558: The trio has their instruments "salvaged" by Jawa scavengers outside the Mos Eisley cantina. They are then pursued by a droid bounty hunter who earlier overheard Sy badmouthing Jabba in the cantina. The bounty hunter is revealed at the conclusion to be a Derfian musician named Tik Tali Talosh, who pressures the Jawas into returning the instruments before proclaiming his adoration of the group and requesting an audition. Max Rebo appears in
12240-574: The two Hand of Thrawn novels by Timothy Zahn (1997's Specter of the Past and 1998's Vision of the Future ), Leia tries to hold the New Republic together as Moff Disra conspires for its volatile factions to destroy each other. Leia appears periodically in the Young Jedi Knights series (1995–98) by Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta . The 14-volume young adult fiction series covers
12360-554: The two most influential movies about aliens – Close Encounters of the Third Kind , and ET the Extra-Terrestrial – the aliens and those movies were both basically variations on the 1950s and 1960s little green or little grey man image". The advent of TV and films, with extraterrestrials played by actors, toned down the fantasy. For budget reasons, humanlike aliens with just some specific non-human body features became
12480-409: The unpleasant desert environment, even though his small size places him in constant danger of being eaten. Rappertunie leaves Tatooine to continue his career after Jabba's death, but his knowledge of computer technology leads him to employment as an engineer for a manufacturer of MSE-6 droids. Rappertunie was an 0.3 meter (0.98 foot)-tall puppet digitally composited into new and existing footage of
12600-508: The victory, Leia honors Luke, Han and Chewbacca for their heroism. In 2015, Alyssa Rosenberg of The Washington Post praised Leia's courage and resiliency while experiencing imprisonment, torture, and the destruction of her home planet. Rosenberg also notes that while Han is almost immediately attracted to Leia, they end up in conflict because she insists on asserting command and he automatically resists, even as she proves herself to be worthy of it. Fisher told Rolling Stone in 1980 that in
12720-529: The wake of Droopy's departure. After performing for Lady Valarian , the pair splits. Max joins the Rebel Alliance to entertain the troops, one reason being that "the Rebellion has the best food." After the Galactic Civil War , he quits the music business and opens a chain of successful restaurants throughout the galaxy. He retires to a life of wealth and luxury on Coruscant . In a nod to his physical appearance, Max's real name, Siiruulian Phantele,
12840-488: The way Leia is depicted: "[She] gets to be more feminine, more supportive, more affectionate. But let's not forget that these movies are basically boys' fantasies. So the other way they made her more female in this one was to have her take off her clothes." In the prequel film Revenge of the Sith (2005), Anakin Skywalker's wife Padmé Amidala is pregnant with twins near the end of the Clone Wars . After Anakin turns to
12960-425: Was a princess." Anthony Breznican of Entertainment Weekly described Leia as a diplomat, spy, warrior, and undercover agent. Fisher told Rolling Stone in 1983: There are a lot of people who don't like my character in these movies; they think I'm some kind of space bitch. She has no friends, no family; her planet was blown up in seconds ... so all she has is a cause. From the first film [ Star Wars ], she
13080-601: Was changed by the 1859 book On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin , which proposed the theory of evolution . This book caused a revolution in fiction as much as it did in science, as authors began to imagine extraterrestrial races completely different from human beings. With the rationale that evolution in other worlds may take completely different directions than on Earth, aliens began to be described as creepy monsters. Usually, authors used features from other animals, such as insects, crabs, and octopuses. Some such aliens are
13200-409: Was even the recipient of a 1983 Apex Award . For close-up shots, Sy's mouth was articulated using a nearly-invisible wire connected to a microphone stand. The puppet was replaced with a computer-generated image for the Special Edition re-release. The CGI was spliced in with shots of the original puppet and created a continuity error with the puppet Sy's headdress feather appearing and disappearing during
13320-566: Was followed by the one that celestial objects should be inhabited as well. However, when people thought about such extraterrestrials, they thought of them simply as people, indistinguishable from humans. As people had never considered a scientific explanation for the origin of mankind or its relation with other lifeforms, any hypothetical rational lifeforms had by necessity to be humans. Even in mythology, all deities are mostly humanlike. For example, Voltaire 's Micromégas features people from Saturn , who are simply of higher proportions. This
13440-572: Was just a soldier, front line and center. The only way they knew to make the character strong was to make her angry. In Return of the Jedi , she gets to be more feminine, more supportive, more affectionate. She said in 2014: I would rather have played Han Solo. When I first read the script I thought that's the part to be, always wry and sardonic. He's always that. I feel like a lot of the time Leia's either worried or pissed or, thank God, sort of snarky. But I'm much more worried and pissed than Han Solo ever was, and those aren't fun things to play ... I had
13560-409: Was not planning to create a digital version of Fisher for the film. Several months later, Fisher's family granted Lucasfilm the right to use previously-filmed footage of her in the film; it was later announced that Fisher would appear using unseen footage from The Force Awakens . Fisher's daughter Billie Lourd , who portrays Lieutenant Connix in all three sequel trilogy films, stepped in as Leia for
13680-510: Was operated by two puppeteers stationed above and beneath the set. For the 1997 Special Edition of Return of the Jedi , the original Snootles puppet was replaced with a computer-generated version, and nine new band members were added with live actors and computer animation digitally composited into new and existing footage. "Lapti Nek" was additionally replaced with a new track titled "Jedi Rocks". The Max Rebo Band made their debut in Return of
13800-544: Was portrayed by Don Bies in an uncredited role. Greeata Jendowanian is a female Rodian dancer and backup vocalist for the Max Rebo Band. She gets her start playing the Kloo horn on a luxury starship called the Kuari Princess, where she befriends Sy Snootles. They become a duo and eventually join up with Max Rebo. After Jabba the Hutt's death and the band's escape into the desert, Greeata and fellow singer Lyn Me come to
13920-436: Was portrayed by ballet dancer Dalyn Chew. Rappertunie is the stage name of Rapotwanalantonee Tivtotolon , a frog-like, potbellied Shawda Ubb musician who plays a harmonica -like instrument called a growdi, which is described in the Star Wars Databank as a cross between a water organ and a flute . He comes from the swamp planet of Manpha , and joins the band on Tatooine, but he confines himself to Jabba's palace due to
14040-531: Was stationed on scaffolding and controlled her upper body, while Rose moved her legs from beneath the set. The character's oversized ruby lips were suggested by George Lucas, who referred to them as " Mick Jagger lips." Sy was voiced in the original version of Jedi by Lucasfilm sound engineer Annie Arbogast, who also wrote the Huttese-language lyrics to "Lapti Nek." The track was recorded at Lucasfilm's Sprocket Systems (currently Skywalker Sound ), and
14160-488: Was the puppeteer for Sy. Lucas was not entirely pleased with the scene, saying that the puppets were too static and motionless. Special Edition producer Rick McCallum concurred that the requirements of the scene were too complex, even for animatronics . For the 1997 rerelease of Return of the Jedi , Sy Snootles was recreated entirely in CGI and nine new musicians and dancers were added, while Max and Droopy's screen time during
14280-479: Was uncredited. Joh Yowza is the stage name of J'ywz'gnk Kchhllbrxcstk Et'nrmdndlcvtbrx , a short, furry Endorian creature known as a Yuzzum , as well as a lead singer in the Max Rebo Band. After he unknowingly stows away on a star freighter while searching for food, the captain keeps him aboard for cooking, cleaning, and other menial tasks. In return, Yowza is well-fed and taught Galactic Basic . While watching Evar Orbus and His Galactic Jizz-wailers perform at
14400-530: Was wounded during a lightsaber duel with Vader, and used the Force to contact Leia. Commenting on Han's attempt to pry a confession of affection out Leia, Rosenberg asserts that "Han's not wrong that if Leia doesn't figure out that she's a person with needs, she's going to burn out ... In a way, it's an early confession of love: Han's anxious about the bounty hunters who are still pursuing him ... But he would stay and give his love and support to Leia if she could just acknowledge that she needs him." In Return of
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