The entire introductory sequence of Return of the Jedi It is a string of iconic moments. Richard Marquand’s film takes us to the arid lands of Tatooine, the planet where Luke Skywalker grew up, to show us the protagonists’ attempt to recover Han Solo. After all, the smuggler had been frozen in carbonite in the final stretch of The Empire Strikes Back.
At first, both C-3PO and R2-D2 are introduced into the lair of the boss of the galaxy’s underworld, Jabba the Hutt. The palace of the enormous being is full of criminals, who laugh at a hologram of the Jedi’s demands to free their friend. Both droids are captured and shortly after we can see how an enslaved dancer is thrown into a pit where there is a gigantic rancor, which does not take a second to devour the girl.
After a second failed attempt by Chewbacca and Leia to get Solo out of the building, it is finally Luke who makes an appearance. He tries to impose his demands, although he is also sent along with the Rancor to his misfortune. The confrontation is uneven, but the young man manages to win the game by grabbing a skull, throwing it against a button to break it and get a large hatch to fall on top of the rancor. Thus he escapes a fatal fate, although he still has more serious problems to deal with.
Return of the Jedi It continues without making any further mention of that skull and in fact there are only a couple of plans of it, so many of us have forgotten its existence and even our memory could remember it as a simple stone. Who the hell would care about that part of the skeleton? Well, the truth is that all the material that expanded George Lucas’ universe for years, which is now no longer part of the canon and is categorized by Disney as Legends.
It was in The Star Wars Sourcebook when the owner of that skull was first mentioned and in This Crumb for Hire from Dark Horse Comics in 1996, we got to see the face of Bidlo Kwerve. That is the name of one of Jabba the Hutt’s employees, who served his master and lord with great devotion until the fateful day he died. With an extremely bad-tempered character, this human belonging to Corellia did not allow anyone to be above him.
Any insult was responded to with violence, which earned him a constant confrontation with Han Solo and his usual jokes. After a life dedicated to the dirtiest businesses, he ended up as Jabba’s worker and with the firm goal of becoming the Hutt’s new butler. He wanted to replace Naroon Cuthus, who was no longer in a position to provide adequate service, but He ran into opposition from Bib Fortuna to take that position.
Both were fighting to impress the gangster and it seemed that Kwerve had the upper hand after managing to get hold of a live rancor in the Tatooine desert. He managed to transport him to the palace with the help of Fortuna and Jabba was totally impressed, so he offered two gifts: one of them would be his new butler, while another would receive “the greatest honor”. Believing that such a reward would be even better, Kwerve agreed and was simply sent along with the rancor to become its first victim.
Was Star Wars Customizable Card Game, a card game from the late 90s, which linked the skull with the smuggler. So, that’s why his skull is in the pit where Luke uses it to kill the monster, so you could say that in the end Kwerve had posthumous revenge on him. Of course, Star Wars: Complete Locations finally mentions him, so his current existence is completely canon in Disney’s eyes.
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