The Most Annoying Character in ‘Star Wars’ History Gets Secretly Killed (for a Second Time) in ‘The Mandalorian’

From Men's Health

Spoiler Alert: The following story contains only the most minor of spoilers for the first episode of The Mandalorian, though it does have spoilers for Return of the Jedi. If you haven't seen that 36-year-old movie, stop reading now!


  • You might blink and miss it, but The Mandalorian had some fun 'killing' one of the most annoying characters in Star Wars history.

  • Salacious Crumb from Return of the Jedi is seen roasting on a pike.

  • It might be him, it might be a relative, it all counts, folks.


Sure, Jar-Jar Binks gets all the hate, and some heartless monsters might dislike Ewoks, but the truly most annoying character in Star Wars history is one Salacious Crumb, the Kowakian monkey-lizard (as per StarWars.com) who laughs at every and anything in Jabba the Hutt's palace in Return of the Jedi. Clearly, The Mandalorian and creator Jon Favreau agrees with his utter unbearableness, because he's roasting on a pike in the first episode of the show.

OK, fine—maybe it's not actually him, but at the very least it's a few members of his same species. In an early moment in the episode, just after The Mandalorian (Pedro Pascal) met with The Client (Werner Herzog) to get his assignment, we see a shot of one monkey-lizard roasting away like a duck or a chicken, and another holding onto the bars of a cage for dear life.

Photo credit: Disney
Photo credit: Disney

Even in just one 40-minute episode, The Mandalorian has already managed to nicely weave itself into the Star Wars world. Between referencing one of the universe's most powerful substances, a universe-bending twist ending, and clearly establishing it's timeframe (The Mandalorian says early on that the empire is no more, firmly placing it between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens), The Mandalorian already feels just as legitimate as movies like Rogue One or Solo.

Photo credit: Disney
Photo credit: Disney

The Mandalorian wasn't the first Star Wars property to threaten retcon action against an annoying character, though it is the first to really follow through. In the lead-up to The Force Awakens, J.J. Abrams joked about a visual gag in his movie that would prove that Jar-Jar Binks was no longer among the living. “I have a thought about putting Jar Jar Binks’s bones in the desert there,” he said in an in-depth Vanity Fair story. “I’m serious!...Only three people will notice, but they’ll love it.”

Jar-Jar's bones, as far as we can tell, never made it into The Force Awakens. But we'll continue to keep our eyes out.

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