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Jabba the Hutt is a fictional character in George Lucas's space opera saga Star Wars. He made his first appearance during the first film, A New Hope, where he was introduced as an evil gangster seeking money from Han Solo after he helped him hide some illegal cargo. An odious mass of greasy, insect ridden flesh with a sadistic love of torture, Jabba served as a minor antagonist throughout the initial series, where he was shown abusing his many cohorts, putting a bounty on Captian Han Solo's head, attempting to kill Luke Skywalker and kidnapping Princess Leia Organa for use as a slave.
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The character's role in Star Wars is primarily antagonistic. He is a 600-year-old Hutt crime lord and gangster who employs a retinue of criminals, bounty hunters, smugglers, assassins, and bodyguards to operate his criminal empire. In his palace on the desert planet Tatooine he keeps a host of entertainers at his disposal: slaves, droids, and alien creatures. Jabba has a grim sense of humor, an insatiable appetite, and affinities for gambling, slave girls, and torture.
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