What species is Jabba?

Jabba the Hutt was one of the galaxy's most powerful gangsters, with far-reaching influence in both politics and the criminal underworld. There were no second chances with Jabba, something Han Solo would find out -- though the slug-like alien would ultimately fall victim to his own hubris and vengeful ways.

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What kind of species is Jabba the Hutt?

Hutts were a large slug-like sentient species who were native to the planet Nal Hutta. They were well known as galactic gangsters whose Grand Hutt Council controlled the Hutt Clan crime syndicate. One famous Hutt was the crime lord Jabba, who ruled a massive criminal empire from his palace on Tatooine.
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Is Jabba the Hutt asexual?

Hutts are extremely long-lived and reproduce asexually, nursing their young in pouches like those of marsupials. Hutts have separate sexes in canon, no longer being hermaphroditic as they were in the Legends continuity. According to Legends, all members of the species are hermaphroditic.
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Are the Hutts a family or a species?

The Hutts were a sentient species of large gastropods with short arms, wide cavernous mouths and huge eyes, who controlled a large space empire in Hutt Space. The species was said to originally hail from the planet Varl, but no planet by that name appeared on any Imperial star charts.
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Was Jabba originally a human?

Before George Lucas digitally inserted a CGI Jabba the Hutt into the original Star Wars, the vile gangster was played by a human actor. Here's why. A human actor was originally on set to play Jabba the Hutt in Star Wars: A New Hope, but neither the actor nor the scene made the final cut in 1977.
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Can a Hutt be a Jedi?

Beldorion was a Hutt Jedi Knight serving the Jedi Order and the Galactic Republic roughly four hundred years before the founding of the Galactic Empire. After being sent to Nam Chorios, he fell to the dark side and established himself as the ruler of the planet.
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How do Hutts mate?

According to The Hutt Gambit Hutts don't mate with other Hutts. They are completely self contained {for a lack of a better term) sexual creatures. Jabba the Hutt basically says that Jilac (now his aunt) simply decided to become pregnant. This means that Hutts do mate with each other.
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Are Tusken Raiders human?

Biology and appearance. A'Sharad Hett stated, while on a mission to Aargonar with Anakin Skywalker, that Tusken Raiders were biologically incompatible with Humans. This implies that Tusken Raiders were a non-Human species.
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Who is Jabba the Hutt's wife?

Gardulla the Hutt | StarWars.com.
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Are there black Wookies?

And we'll even help you with that. Black Krrsantan - 'BK' or 'Black K' for short in Star Wars canon - is a black-haired Wookiee that is striking - in his presence, and for just how different he is from the most famous Wookiee, Chewbacca.
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What did Jabba the Hutt do to Leia?

When Jabba Desilijic Tiure captured Princess Leia Organa at his palace, he forced her to wear a dancing-girl costume and a chain. She strangled him to death with that chain, then exploded his sail barge as she escaped.
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Who is the largest Hutt?

Born sometime between 1000 and 900 BBY, Aruk Besadii Aora was a Hutt, part of the Besadii clan and its criminal enterprises, known as the Besadii kajidic. One of the physically largest Hutts alive during his life, Aruk was a prominent member of his clan and the underworld, and he took orders from few Hutts.
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Is there a Gungan Jedi?

Kin-Ya Dosun was a Gungan Jedi Knight who served the Jedi Order during the waning years of the Galactic Republic. Dosun trained the Jedi Padawan Kosa-Yin Hadu, a fellow Gungan.
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Is Mace Windu still alive?

For all intents and purposes, Windu was dead. He didn't appear in the original trilogy, so it was necessary for him to be gone before the end of Revenge of the Sith. Yet, Jackson held out hope for Windu's return.
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What species is Naare?

Naare was a Force-sensitive humanoid female Sith who was in league with the Galactic Empire. During the Galactic Civil War, she was tasked by Darth Sidious and Darth Vader with locating the Kyber Saber.
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Who is the Wookiee Jedi?

Gungi was a male Wookiee Jedi youngling who was training to become a Jedi in the Jedi Order during the Clone Wars.
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Can Toydarians walk?

While their stubby legs could support their body weight, Toydarians' primary mode of locomotion was their use of the wings on their upper back.
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How did Boba Fett take over Jabba?

At some point, he started wearing his dad's Mandalorian armor and became a bounty hunter, eventually taking a job with Darth Vader to help try to capture Luke Skywalker. In the process, Boba captured Han Solo, froze him in carbonite, and sold the Hansicle to the crime lord Jabba the Hutt.
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Why did they make Jabba CGI?

It's a sequence many would cut, raising the question as to why Lucas felt the need to put it in the special edition. There are a couple reasons why. It was always the plan for A New Hope to have the Jabba scene. During production, Lucas shot it with actor Declan Mulholland standing in for Jabba.
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Why did they change Jabba from a human?

George Lucas has stated his intention was to use an alien creature for Jabba, but the special effects technology of the time was not up to the task of replacing Mulholland. In 1997, the Special Edition re-releases restored and altered the original scene to include a computer-generated portrayal of Jabba.
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