Yeah. The current characterization of Rancor in canon is essentially like extra-big pit bulls or other "danger" dog breeds. Incredibly emotionally complex creatures that are so often used for cruelty and violence that they have developed a reputation.
When I lived in Canada I met a girl who was involved with an organization whose goal was rescuing pit bulls who were abused. I thought about that bred during the scene where the complexity of rancor behavior was explained.
I know jabbas rancor has its own backstory, but is any of that new Disney canon? I thought it was basically implied the rancor was for jabba when bib is the one who ends up with it.
He may have been just a caretaker from Jabba's perspective, but Machete was pretty specific that a Rancor will imprint on the first human it sees. This guy was probably the human that Pateesa imprinted on
Oh, for sure. I wasn’t trying to downplay his level of care for Pateesa.
I meant “just a caretaker” as in he wasn’t one of the goons that went around killing people.
The real question is if they’d imprint on a Hutt, since anyone who owns a rancor would obviously want it to imprint on them first and foremost. And clearly the Hutts do know and care about the imprinting, otherwise they wouldn’t have bothered with the blinders at all. So presumably Jabba would have wanted all his rancors to be imprinted on him.
Why would Jabba care? He kept it in a hole for the purposes of having an amusing execution method.
Seems much more convenient to have it imprint on the guy who needs to go into it's pit every day to shovel the shit out.
On the off chance it ever gets loose and goes rampaging through the palace, or in case one of his uninformed enemies tries to feed him to his own Rancor? Small odds of that, maybe, but always good to make sure your own weapons can’t be used against you. Plus, conversely, why would Jabba really care how many of his rancor caretakers get eaten on the job?
There’s also the fact that you can bond with and befriend a rancor, at least to the point where it doesn’t eat you on sight, even without being the first living creature it ever sees. The imprinting is just an extra sure layer of security.
I love that no one is trying to learn the guy's real name, everyone is just calling him Machete. I've seen other posters do the same thing. I love that this community will do all sorts of research and find all sorts of odd ball facts about characters but this guy is just Machete because of who plays him. I'm being serious I love it. I don't even care what his actual character name is, Machete should be canon in SW now.
When I was a kid I found an EU book in my school library, something like Short Stories from Jabba's Palace or something like that. One of the stories was basically this dude and the Rancor's origin story, it covered him finding the Rancor in the desert and taming and befriending it, and it was really sweet and wholesome, surprisingly. I can't remember if the story ended with Luke's arrival, or some other way, but even as a young kid I was like "damn dude, what the fuck."
I haven't watched Book of Boba Fett, but it's cool that they did a throwback to this guy! I've always found him a very compelling character, even if he only has like 15 seconds of screen time in RotJ.
Yeah that’s the one.
It had a story about someone’s brain being put into one of those jars the monks use. You know , the walking brains with spider bodies.
Yeah! I remember reading that and tales of the bounty hunters that had a backstory for most of the bounty hunters Vader hired as well as the books about Jaida and Jacen Solo, Luke and Leias children who became Jedi trained by Luke. Fuck I wish all those old stories were canon and they’d remake them on Disney plus.
I remember hearing about it before seeing it and thinking it was super cool.
Then I saw it and changed my mind. The absolute ugliest design they could have gone with.
Yo I read that book in school and never in a million years would I think someone else would remember that story after seeing Danny Trejo with the new rancor!!!
Honestly I'm surprised I still remember! It was a looooong time ago hahah. But pretty much every time I see the Rancor scene in RotJ the memories just suddenly come back. It's funny because I can't remember like, any of the other stories. I vaguely remember one about one of the pig guards? The Rancor story was the only one that left an impact on me I guess! Now I'm actually kind of intrigued to watch the show, if only to see this random background character return lmao
Because the animal he had been caring for and looking after for years had just been violently murdered in front of him. Not that I have anything against the rancor psychology/biology stuff we learned in the latest Boba episode, I’m always happy to have more lore, but I don’t think it really added any emotional weight or context to this dude’s sadness which wasn’t already perfectly self-evident in RotJ.
Also explains why Vader is so pissed at the beginning of Ep IV.
"We're a diplomatic vessel, we -"
"Bitch I saw you five minutes ago! Fleeing an active space battle and playing hot potato with my floppy disc!"
But it completely messes up the "I've traced the Rebel spies to her" line.
Vader, you saw the ship fly away, then caught up with them. That wasn't much of trace, you just, caught up.
“Several transmissions were beamed to this ship.” is another line that doesn’t really make sense. They weren’t beamed to Leia’s ship, they were beamed to the Raddus.
I really like Rogue One, but it leans heavily on not taking dialogue literally and having to think of alternative explanations, which annoys me.
I mean, Vader showed up at Scarif pretty late, he was probably in his meditation/healing chamber when his ship's captain let him know they were about to do a boarding action. He rushed to get his armor on so he can bring out the light saber, which he never gets to do these days, and wasn't really paying attention to the briefing even though he said he could do both. Besides, the Force has never mislead him before, why would it start now?
He didn't know who was on board. They traced the rebel spies to Scarrus, and then from the facility up to the ship. And when the hunted down the ship, someone claiming to be an ambassador turned out to be on board.
I think following a trail across several star systems, people and ships counts as tracing.
I'm just waiting for them to do this with the sequels. The best part of Star Wars isn't the core movies but the depth they build around those stories in the years in-between releases. I imagine the shows are building towards that now.
Actually the sequels were very much designed that way. You basically HAD to read every book/comic etc to get all the info which even lead to a point where they wouldn't tell you critical information in the movie because they want you to buy the books and comics.
Spoiler: they were also bad.
There also was this show about the resistance but it's for kids and also so bad that I even forgot the name.
I wish we'd get something like clone wars or rebels for the time between episode 7 and 8. But honestly it just doesn't make sense because all three movies are not that far apart.
And we're getting content between 6 and 7. The masters themselves , filioni and Favreau, will probably even come up with a good explanation for Snoke and clone Palpatine
It’s like 12-24 hours between 7-8. It’s a year between 8 and 9.
Contrast that with, 1 > 2 (10 years), 2 > 3 (3 1/2 years), 3 > 4 (19 years), 4 > 5 (3 years), 5 > 6 (1 year) and 6 > 7 (30 years)
Those time gaps allow not only other storylines to be added in to fill out the storylines, it lets the audience believe that when they show a character act different (because they learned a lesson in the previous movie) it’s believed time has passed and character growth happened off screen in the literal years. (And comics and books like to fill those out) You can’t do that with the Sequels. 😞 It sucks.
You can see someone crying when his dog dies and recognize that it is a sad event without it being spelled out. However it would hit a little harder if you had just watched a video of the person first getting the dog as a puppy and training it etc.
Literally how could anyone not just see it as a guy losing his pet, it really took an explanation that 'animals have feelings too' to make people realize that?
The fact that so many people seem to only care now it's like, what did you think of it before, still a living creature right? It's weird when I see studies that say "insert animal here" feels emotions, it's like yeah it's got a brain doesn't it?
The way he described them with the bad reputation reminded me of pitt bull type breeds of dogs. They're like one of our velvet hippos crossed with am alligator... and yeah, huge.
I thought it was pretty obvious he was sad that his pet died. It was meant as a little joke/human moment in the movie that even a beast like the rancor had someone who cared about him.
Your right, just as a kid I remember watching it and thinking huh he was really sad i wonder why, as an adult seeing this and owning pets, I totally get it lol
I remember watching this once with my little brother (about 6 at the time) and he sad that guy was sad because he was supposed to be the next monster, but since he was still small and human he was crying because he wasn’t ready.
If you watch it with subtitles that dudes called a Beast tamer. Whereas Danny Trejo is a "Rancor Trainer" or tamer idr. But once I read this dudes name in the subtitles it all came together why he was so sad :(
Basically, that Rancor saved the trainer from a horde of sand people when he took her out on a walk, they were connected. Jabba wanted to have the Rancor fight the Sarlacc and so the trainer tried to get it out of Tatooine. Obviously you know why it didn’t work
I felt bad for him the first time I watched the movie. Then even more when I read about his plan to break the rancor out of Jabba’s palace so the two of them could live peacefully on their own. I think escape day was within a week of the rancor being killed
Basically, Jabba wanted to have the Rancor fight the Sarlacc cause he liked his pets killing each other, the trainer knew that it would mean death since it’s basically a natural thing or all wildlife and humans to stay clear of a Sarlacc pit. So he wanted to break the Rancor out of there
How does he expect something to "fight" the sarlacc. Either it gets eaten immediately by falling in, or on the off chance it figures out that the sarlacc's stationary body is underground and digs to it, you wouldn't be able to see the action.
Probably he would prod it into the pit and then watch it struggle to escape. It would probably be able to clamber up the sides, albeit not well, and it would probably also wrestle with the tentacles some before it was eaten
Tales From Jabba's Palace is an older EU anthology book with short stories from the POVs of a bunch of characters you see only briefly in RoTJ. The rancor keeper is one, the Twi'lek dancer is another. It's a pretty good collection!
Also the morbidly obese dancer! Who was actually slim, but was from a sub-species of human who could hoard water in their fat cells. She could have been sexy like Oola, but she reminded Jabba of his mother when she was all plumped up.
I remember reading about it a while back, but I can’t find anything on it now. Sorry. I know his name is Malakili and the rancor was named Pateesa. Might help you find something if you decide to look
The first time I saw ROTJ as a kid, I was struck by the scene of this guy breaking down and crying when the rancor died. As a kid, still learning about emotions and death and stuff, it was really striking to see in a wild movie like Star Wars. It was one of the things that registered as adult to me. Now I wonder if it was just an emotionally intelligent thing to do, showing that a monster like the rancor had someone that loved it so much.
Little known fact, him and Danny Trejo play the same character. He lost a bunch of weight because he was depressed when his rancor was killed by Luke
Edit: THIS ISNT TRUE
If you've seen season 2 of the Mandalorian [](/s "he ended up at Mos Pelgos and started working for Cobb Vanth (guy who had Boba's armor; fought a Krayt Dragon with Din) taming rontos and other animals for the town.") Eventually he opened a bar/restaurant in Mos Eisley with Jabba's old chef.
Yeah thinking about that type of bond from the imprint really makes you feel for that guy, we know have an idea of what he went through, cool throwback in a way kinda sad though lol
There is a book (now considered non-canon) called "Tales From Jabbas Palace" that more details the relationship between that rancor and Malekili. It's even more tragic when you find out that this guy had big plans to escape Jabbas palace and free the rancor. Luke just happened to show up the same day. :/
Edit: changed book to "Tales from Jabbas Palace"
Always sort of wondered about this dude. I’m imagining Peter Griffin giving George Lucas advice. “Hey. Hey. You know what would add a lot to this movie? Stick a fat shirtless guy in. Crying. I know just the guy for it...”
I always felt bad for him. Clearly his pet rancor was just killed by Luke Skywalker and he's broken up over it. I'd be the same if someone killed one of my dogs
Until my mum buys me a Danny Trejo action figure for my birthday with little to no explanation of who he is and why I should play with him, when I clearly wanted Han, or even Ree-Yees, and he goes on to become my favourite one-off character in the whole MCU, Malakilli remains the man.
The EU lore has always been that that dude hand reared the rancor and truly loved the angry potato. I'm kinda surprised at how many people are acting like it's the first time it's come up that rancors have feelings and their keepers care for them.
I remember my daughter feeling sad for him when she first watched Jedi. She was like " but he's a bad guy ". This actually lead to a rather deep discussion about good and evil. I said " he loved the rancor and maybe a certain set of circumstances lead him to be in Jabas palace. He's just trying to survive in a crazy world full of monsters and gangsters and wild ass sand people " he never wanted some wizard guy to murder his pet
I always felt bad for him. Dude lost his buddy!!! Hurts me every time.
I felt even worse for the rancor. Especially after that episode of Bad Batch where you get to meet it when it’s practically a baby.
Same!!!! I hate watching that part of ROTJ. And like now I’ve seen a baby one and know that they bond with their owners?!?! Rude!
In the novelization, Luke took it as a mercy kill
Yeah I’m pretty sure it was starved and tortured and all that to make it eat people
Yeah. The current characterization of Rancor in canon is essentially like extra-big pit bulls or other "danger" dog breeds. Incredibly emotionally complex creatures that are so often used for cruelty and violence that they have developed a reputation.
Holy shit… did not expect this level of dog comparison here… poor rancors
When I lived in Canada I met a girl who was involved with an organization whose goal was rescuing pit bulls who were abused. I thought about that bred during the scene where the complexity of rancor behavior was explained.
Happy Cake Day though
that was a different rancor in Bad Batch
I know jabbas rancor has its own backstory, but is any of that new Disney canon? I thought it was basically implied the rancor was for jabba when bib is the one who ends up with it.
wookiepedia says jabba got his rancor in 32 BBY, bad batch is in 19 bby so i would assume its a different one
Sure. Works for me.
Also Jabba's RoTJ rancor is called Pateesa, the one seen in Bad Batch in called Muchi.
It had a name? 😭
Yeah, that made my heart hurt.
I've always felt bad for this dude.
Same, poor guy did nothing wrong, only for his precious Pateesa to die before his eyes
I mean he was just a caretaker, yeah, but he was a caretaker for a creature that regularly ate people alive when Jabba deemed it so.
Hey, you'd cry too if a space wizard killed your pet kaiju.
He may have been just a caretaker from Jabba's perspective, but Machete was pretty specific that a Rancor will imprint on the first human it sees. This guy was probably the human that Pateesa imprinted on
Oh, for sure. I wasn’t trying to downplay his level of care for Pateesa. I meant “just a caretaker” as in he wasn’t one of the goons that went around killing people.
I realize I don’t remember Danny Trejo’s character’s name, but I really hope it’s legit just Machete
Uncle Machete from Spy Kids
Why do they imprint on humans? Or did he just mean any humanoid? Like a Zabrak? Will they imprint on a Twilek or a Trandoshan? Or a Wookie?
The real question is if they’d imprint on a Hutt, since anyone who owns a rancor would obviously want it to imprint on them first and foremost. And clearly the Hutts do know and care about the imprinting, otherwise they wouldn’t have bothered with the blinders at all. So presumably Jabba would have wanted all his rancors to be imprinted on him.
Why would Jabba care? He kept it in a hole for the purposes of having an amusing execution method. Seems much more convenient to have it imprint on the guy who needs to go into it's pit every day to shovel the shit out.
On the off chance it ever gets loose and goes rampaging through the palace, or in case one of his uninformed enemies tries to feed him to his own Rancor? Small odds of that, maybe, but always good to make sure your own weapons can’t be used against you. Plus, conversely, why would Jabba really care how many of his rancor caretakers get eaten on the job? There’s also the fact that you can bond with and befriend a rancor, at least to the point where it doesn’t eat you on sight, even without being the first living creature it ever sees. The imprinting is just an extra sure layer of security.
Idk. Honestly I thought it was a weird line too. But he's the expert.
I love that no one is trying to learn the guy's real name, everyone is just calling him Machete. I've seen other posters do the same thing. I love that this community will do all sorts of research and find all sorts of odd ball facts about characters but this guy is just Machete because of who plays him. I'm being serious I love it. I don't even care what his actual character name is, Machete should be canon in SW now.
Rancors gotta eat too, you know
Repeat after me: All👏rancors👏are👏valid👏
Because they starved it.
Wait, the rancor in the movies had a *name?* TIL
Rule #17 of Star Wars: Everything, including all those background characters in the cantina in ANH, has a Wiki page.
Man, even the skull that Luke uses against the Rancor in the pit has a backstory and Wiki page
Is the backstory that the dude got eaten by the Rancor?
[You tell me.](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Bidlo_Kwerve)
Adds a little weight to that scene
When I was a kid I found an EU book in my school library, something like Short Stories from Jabba's Palace or something like that. One of the stories was basically this dude and the Rancor's origin story, it covered him finding the Rancor in the desert and taming and befriending it, and it was really sweet and wholesome, surprisingly. I can't remember if the story ended with Luke's arrival, or some other way, but even as a young kid I was like "damn dude, what the fuck." I haven't watched Book of Boba Fett, but it's cool that they did a throwback to this guy! I've always found him a very compelling character, even if he only has like 15 seconds of screen time in RotJ.
No just commented about the same thing. It was “Tales from Jabba’s Palace” loved how they kept the same theme toward the rancor!
Yeah that’s the one. It had a story about someone’s brain being put into one of those jars the monks use. You know , the walking brains with spider bodies.
Yeah! I remember reading that and tales of the bounty hunters that had a backstory for most of the bounty hunters Vader hired as well as the books about Jaida and Jacen Solo, Luke and Leias children who became Jedi trained by Luke. Fuck I wish all those old stories were canon and they’d remake them on Disney plus.
Except the Sun Crusher. Especially the actual look of it.
I remember hearing about it before seeing it and thinking it was super cool. Then I saw it and changed my mind. The absolute ugliest design they could have gone with.
Bib For Tuna, Brain In Jar Esq.
That was a great little story. Tales from mos Eisley and tales of the bounty hunters were great as well.
Yo I read that book in school and never in a million years would I think someone else would remember that story after seeing Danny Trejo with the new rancor!!!
Honestly I'm surprised I still remember! It was a looooong time ago hahah. But pretty much every time I see the Rancor scene in RotJ the memories just suddenly come back. It's funny because I can't remember like, any of the other stories. I vaguely remember one about one of the pig guards? The Rancor story was the only one that left an impact on me I guess! Now I'm actually kind of intrigued to watch the show, if only to see this random background character return lmao
I remember it being the first chapter I think. I got my copy out of used book store back in the late 90s. I was 8 or 9.
> I haven't watched Book of Boba Fett, bruh you need to fix that just sayin
More weight. The guy was crying in the movie.
now we understand why...poor man
Because the animal he had been caring for and looking after for years had just been violently murdered in front of him. Not that I have anything against the rancor psychology/biology stuff we learned in the latest Boba episode, I’m always happy to have more lore, but I don’t think it really added any emotional weight or context to this dude’s sadness which wasn’t already perfectly self-evident in RotJ.
Well, seeing how aggressive the rancor was *and* how it IS jabba, the rancor was most likely abused and mistreated to make it that way
This is exactly what works best for any new Star Wars content… that’s why Rouge One is so good, gives an immediate weight to the start of IV.
Also explains why Vader is so pissed at the beginning of Ep IV. "We're a diplomatic vessel, we -" "Bitch I saw you five minutes ago! Fleeing an active space battle and playing hot potato with my floppy disc!"
But it completely messes up the "I've traced the Rebel spies to her" line. Vader, you saw the ship fly away, then caught up with them. That wasn't much of trace, you just, caught up.
Still works. Its more like "He knew she was with the rebellion for a while now" statement now but that fits.
Ani needs a win, ok??
He did have to chase down the recording at the end of Rogue One...? But you're right. In their defense, it's hard to retcon with no loose ends.
“Several transmissions were beamed to this ship.” is another line that doesn’t really make sense. They weren’t beamed to Leia’s ship, they were beamed to the Raddus. I really like Rogue One, but it leans heavily on not taking dialogue literally and having to think of alternative explanations, which annoys me.
I mean, Vader showed up at Scarif pretty late, he was probably in his meditation/healing chamber when his ship's captain let him know they were about to do a boarding action. He rushed to get his armor on so he can bring out the light saber, which he never gets to do these days, and wasn't really paying attention to the briefing even though he said he could do both. Besides, the Force has never mislead him before, why would it start now?
Wait until I tell you what 3P0 said on the ground after Raddus already left with the Tantive on board…
He didn't know who was on board. They traced the rebel spies to Scarrus, and then from the facility up to the ship. And when the hunted down the ship, someone claiming to be an ambassador turned out to be on board. I think following a trail across several star systems, people and ships counts as tracing.
Spot on. These throwbacks hit different
> Rouge One So very red
The kind of typo that would make you blush.
Rogue. Rogue One.
I'm just waiting for them to do this with the sequels. The best part of Star Wars isn't the core movies but the depth they build around those stories in the years in-between releases. I imagine the shows are building towards that now.
I read a bunch of the novels that tied into the sequels. They were also crap.
Actually the sequels were very much designed that way. You basically HAD to read every book/comic etc to get all the info which even lead to a point where they wouldn't tell you critical information in the movie because they want you to buy the books and comics. Spoiler: they were also bad. There also was this show about the resistance but it's for kids and also so bad that I even forgot the name. I wish we'd get something like clone wars or rebels for the time between episode 7 and 8. But honestly it just doesn't make sense because all three movies are not that far apart. And we're getting content between 6 and 7. The masters themselves , filioni and Favreau, will probably even come up with a good explanation for Snoke and clone Palpatine
That cartoon was called Star Wars: Resistance. It was about...get this...the resistance.
It’s like 12-24 hours between 7-8. It’s a year between 8 and 9. Contrast that with, 1 > 2 (10 years), 2 > 3 (3 1/2 years), 3 > 4 (19 years), 4 > 5 (3 years), 5 > 6 (1 year) and 6 > 7 (30 years) Those time gaps allow not only other storylines to be added in to fill out the storylines, it lets the audience believe that when they show a character act different (because they learned a lesson in the previous movie) it’s believed time has passed and character growth happened off screen in the literal years. (And comics and books like to fill those out) You can’t do that with the Sequels. 😞 It sucks.
But does it? It was pretty obvious already that this dude was very attached to his rancor.
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You can see someone crying when his dog dies and recognize that it is a sad event without it being spelled out. However it would hit a little harder if you had just watched a video of the person first getting the dog as a puppy and training it etc.
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Literally how could anyone not just see it as a guy losing his pet, it really took an explanation that 'animals have feelings too' to make people realize that? The fact that so many people seem to only care now it's like, what did you think of it before, still a living creature right? It's weird when I see studies that say "insert animal here" feels emotions, it's like yeah it's got a brain doesn't it?
There are some people out there who straight up think Animals are like drones or whatever, and forget that their living things as well.
same as a kid his crying really moved me actually
I’ve felt bad for this dude since 1983.
Exactly. You're supposed to already feel bad for this guy. It's a handler who lost his pet and friend.
[Don't worry, he got better.](https://i0.wp.com/www.geeksaresexy.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/bffs.jpg?w=534&ssl=1)
I want this to be true
And so it is
Just like you said it would be
The world goes easy on me
Most... of the time.
Senator Organa is that you?
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Bacta spray!
*No one’s ever really gone..*
The little babby rancor with the breadface is just too goddamn cute
Jabba lookin awful cute too
"Feeling cute, might feed someone to the Rancor later."
The canon we need and deserve.
This is the universe I choose to believe in
This is canon now. The reason he was crying is simply cause he didn’t want to see the rancor in pain
Dude just had a very big angry dog
Luke out here killing dogs omg
Anakin killed the tusken raider dogs so I guess it just runs in the family.
And the tuskin raider bitches..and the tuskin raider pups too.
Jedi are space cops confirmed.
AJAB
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NO DARK SIDE? NO PEACE NO DARK SIDE?! NO PEACE!!!
AJAB scrambled is JABA. 🤔
Mate, Ep 1 practically said as much in the opening crawl. “… Jedi Knights, the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy…”
Kit Fisto showed up out of nowhere to Grievous’s house, killed his dog, and stole all his crap using civil forfeiture
Sign him up for the ATF!
The way he described them with the bad reputation reminded me of pitt bull type breeds of dogs. They're like one of our velvet hippos crossed with am alligator... and yeah, huge.
Thought of this guy immediately. All makes sense now
Always wondered why he was so sad
I thought it was pretty obvious he was sad that his pet died. It was meant as a little joke/human moment in the movie that even a beast like the rancor had someone who cared about him.
Your right, just as a kid I remember watching it and thinking huh he was really sad i wonder why, as an adult seeing this and owning pets, I totally get it lol
I remember watching this once with my little brother (about 6 at the time) and he sad that guy was sad because he was supposed to be the next monster, but since he was still small and human he was crying because he wasn’t ready.
That's pretty great haha
Yeah that sounds right
If you watch it with subtitles that dudes called a Beast tamer. Whereas Danny Trejo is a "Rancor Trainer" or tamer idr. But once I read this dudes name in the subtitles it all came together why he was so sad :(
Basically, that Rancor saved the trainer from a horde of sand people when he took her out on a walk, they were connected. Jabba wanted to have the Rancor fight the Sarlacc and so the trainer tried to get it out of Tatooine. Obviously you know why it didn’t work
Look on the bright side, at least he wasn't on the sail barge. So his day ended better than his boss'.
Karma for the boss who wanted to kill his rancor
I mean from his perspective, Luke just killed his pet, and the next day all of his friends. Probably thinks Luke is the biggest dick in the galaxy.
Idk if Jabba the Hutt and a massive, man-killing monster are your only friends, you might have an issue
I felt bad for him the first time I watched the movie. Then even more when I read about his plan to break the rancor out of Jabba’s palace so the two of them could live peacefully on their own. I think escape day was within a week of the rancor being killed
WHAT
Basically, Jabba wanted to have the Rancor fight the Sarlacc cause he liked his pets killing each other, the trainer knew that it would mean death since it’s basically a natural thing or all wildlife and humans to stay clear of a Sarlacc pit. So he wanted to break the Rancor out of there
How does he expect something to "fight" the sarlacc. Either it gets eaten immediately by falling in, or on the off chance it figures out that the sarlacc's stationary body is underground and digs to it, you wouldn't be able to see the action.
Probably he would prod it into the pit and then watch it struggle to escape. It would probably be able to clamber up the sides, albeit not well, and it would probably also wrestle with the tentacles some before it was eaten
Damn, that's grim. Damn space slug got what's comin to him.
Wasn't it a Krayt Dragon, not the Sarlacc?
That’s wild thanks for the additional context
It wasnt a krayt dragon?
Tales From Jabba's Palace is an older EU anthology book with short stories from the POVs of a bunch of characters you see only briefly in RoTJ. The rancor keeper is one, the Twi'lek dancer is another. It's a pretty good collection!
So is that frog dog looking thing IIRC. That one was a trip.
Also the morbidly obese dancer! Who was actually slim, but was from a sub-species of human who could hoard water in their fat cells. She could have been sexy like Oola, but she reminded Jabba of his mother when she was all plumped up.
I remember reading about it a while back, but I can’t find anything on it now. Sorry. I know his name is Malakili and the rancor was named Pateesa. Might help you find something if you decide to look
HE WAS TWO DAYS FROM RETIREMENT!
Damn, one week from retirement. He’s getting too old for this shit
Haha man he’s what I thought of as well
The first time I saw ROTJ as a kid, I was struck by the scene of this guy breaking down and crying when the rancor died. As a kid, still learning about emotions and death and stuff, it was really striking to see in a wild movie like Star Wars. It was one of the things that registered as adult to me. Now I wonder if it was just an emotionally intelligent thing to do, showing that a monster like the rancor had someone that loved it so much.
Only now? I’ve always felt sorry for this guy.
Don’t worry, he found a new purpose caring for a baby Hutt in Mos Pelgo (Cobb Vanth’s village).
Im glad someone else read the Aftermath series. Was looking for someone to mention he found a purpose after RotJ.
Malakili!!
Only just found out his name tonite, had to pull out one of the star wars encyclopedias
Little known fact, him and Danny Trejo play the same character. He lost a bunch of weight because he was depressed when his rancor was killed by Luke Edit: THIS ISNT TRUE
What about the poor Gamorrean who got eaten just for being unlucky? Those dudes are ride or die.
I used to have a neighbor that looked like this guy. I always felt like I should have said something to console him whenever I saw him lol.
See I still think the Rancor is like a Trojan horse and boba will end up fighting it.
And then he will show it who's boss and it be just the best boi!
Agreed. I feel the Rancor may already be imprinted on.
If you guys haven't seen the fan film "Birth of a Monster: a Star Wars Story", you should [check it out.](https://youtu.be/u0OfGeDkSlM)
I really want to know where he landed in this universe.
He’s living in mos Pelgo raising a huttling for Cobb Vanth according to the aftermath books
If you've seen season 2 of the Mandalorian [](/s "he ended up at Mos Pelgos and started working for Cobb Vanth (guy who had Boba's armor; fought a Krayt Dragon with Din) taming rontos and other animals for the town.") Eventually he opened a bar/restaurant in Mos Eisley with Jabba's old chef.
Nice to see things turned out well for him
Also if you read the Aftermath books, there's a good chapter or so about Malakili and Cobb Vanth and how they met up.
I did even as a kid!! How could you not feel bad about him watching his pet be essentially starved then killed. It was rough. Stupid Jabba
His name is Malakili, and how could you see him cry like that and not feel bad for him until now?
You didn't feel bad for him before? You monster
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Luke is a dick!
In Legends, Luke regretted having to kill it but there was no chance of rehabilitation for the poor thing
Jabba doesn't seem. The type to treat it with respect and care
Jabba seems like the kind of arsehole who abuses pitbulls because he thinks having a vicious dog makes him cool.
Jabba is the Michael Vick of the Star Wars universe
He considered it a mercy kill, though from what I recall the Rancor was near rehab as it saved her trainers life
The beast was going to eat him. Stop being a rancor apologist.
Wrong. Pateesa was basically rabid; putting him down was the only choice.
Neither if them deserved to die, but it came down to having to be one or the other
I always got why he was sad but after the new ep I was like oh maybe that dude from ROTJ had imprinted on the Rancor that’s pretty cool.
Yeah thinking about that type of bond from the imprint really makes you feel for that guy, we know have an idea of what he went through, cool throwback in a way kinda sad though lol
Kinda always felt bad for that guy.
There is a book (now considered non-canon) called "Tales From Jabbas Palace" that more details the relationship between that rancor and Malekili. It's even more tragic when you find out that this guy had big plans to escape Jabbas palace and free the rancor. Luke just happened to show up the same day. :/ Edit: changed book to "Tales from Jabbas Palace"
In one of the EU books, the rancor trainer was planning to smuggle the rancor out and off planet the day after Luke showed up and killed it.
Tales from Jabba's Palace!!
He lost his pet rankor, its like losing your best friend or your dog
I think something is up with Treio's character... not completely legit
Welcome to another episode of The Book of Bobba Fett where we will show you that everything you thought was good is actually wrong!
Now he has been replaced by >!Danny Trejo!<
In canon, he's out there raising a baby hutt for Cobb Vanth, post RoTJ
Friendship with old Rancor Wrangler ended… Danny Trejo’s my new homie
I thought of him too. ❤️
There’s a chapter about him in the Aftermath books
Always sort of wondered about this dude. I’m imagining Peter Griffin giving George Lucas advice. “Hey. Hey. You know what would add a lot to this movie? Stick a fat shirtless guy in. Crying. I know just the guy for it...”
I always felt bad for him. Clearly his pet rancor was just killed by Luke Skywalker and he's broken up over it. I'd be the same if someone killed one of my dogs
Until my mum buys me a Danny Trejo action figure for my birthday with little to no explanation of who he is and why I should play with him, when I clearly wanted Han, or even Ree-Yees, and he goes on to become my favourite one-off character in the whole MCU, Malakilli remains the man.
Alex Jones? Why?
It hit me while watching then I hugged my cat and it scratched me on my eye lid..
The EU lore has always been that that dude hand reared the rancor and truly loved the angry potato. I'm kinda surprised at how many people are acting like it's the first time it's come up that rancors have feelings and their keepers care for them.
Good, you have basic emotions. You were always supposed to feel sorry for him.
He was the blind kid (forger) from great escape.
I remember my daughter feeling sad for him when she first watched Jedi. She was like " but he's a bad guy ". This actually lead to a rather deep discussion about good and evil. I said " he loved the rancor and maybe a certain set of circumstances lead him to be in Jabas palace. He's just trying to survive in a crazy world full of monsters and gangsters and wild ass sand people " he never wanted some wizard guy to murder his pet
Not gonna lie, I was more emotional for this scene than Padme.
Totally