Two of them went after Fett but the last remaining IG-88, get this now, downloaded itself into and took over the freaking Death Star. But there were still three IG-88s out there. Hey, remember the IG carcass in the background of the Ugnaught smelter sequence in The Empire Strikes Back, the one where the little pig people played keep away with Chewbacca? Yeah, this short story explains that carcass, as Fett blasts the IG unit to oblivion. Read More: Star Wars Movies Disney+ Streaming GuideĪfter IG sent that info to his duplicates, it tracked Solo to Bespin where it had a violent encounter with Boba Fett. IG-88 was built and operated by puppeteer and effects guru Bill Hargreaves, and by operated I mean that Hargreaves moved IG’s head a tiny bit in Empire. Fans only got one quick glimpse of this death machine, but it was enough to emblazon this oddly shaped engine of destruction in fans’ minds forever. IG-88 was all sharp edges with a surreal design and multiple big honking firearms. Yeah, we saw a few black imperial R2 and R5 units and a smattering of Death Star sroids, but IG-88 was a different mechanical animal all together. With a scant few seconds of screen team, IG-88 showed the world that not every droid in the Star Warsuniverse is cutesy. “Bounty” was a Dirty Dozen-like adventure through the underbelly of the Star Wars galaxy and finally gave fans a sense of who the bandaged badass of Star Wars truly is. Pegg’s Star Wars enthusiasm shows as he fills the once tabula rasa Dengar with a salty, badass personality. Better yet, Dengar is voiced by lifelong Star Wars lover Simon Pegg ( Shaun of the Dead, Star Trek), and you just know that when Pegg was a wee lad he took his Kenner Dengar figure on many adventures. Dengar plays a secondary role in this episode (doesn’t he always) to Fett and Ventress, but when Dengar springs into action, he truly shines. That honor goes to the season four episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars entitled “Bounty.” In this toyetic installment of Clone Wars, an aimless Asajj Ventress joins up with a band of roguish bounty hunters that includes a teenage Boba Fett, Bossk, and the grizzled, weathered Dengar. Read More: Star Wars Movie and TV Release Date Calendarīut Wolverton’s hyper-readable story isn’t our Expanded Universe essential Dengar pick. Wolverton makes Dengar’s vendetta against the captain of Millennium Falcon very personal. Of course, that rival was none other than a young Han Solo. Anderson-edited Tales of the Bounty Hunters anthology (get ready, this isn’t the only time I’m going to mention this collection in this article), author Dave Wolverton related Dengar’s origin in a short tale entitled “Payback.” In this piece of essential Dengar fiction (yes, such a thing exists), Wolverton details that Dengar used to be a swoop bike racer who was injured as a teenager by his racing rival. According to Prowse, that is Bush’s foot you can see kicking Obi-Wan’s cape after Luke’s mentor is struck down by the Dark Lord of the Sith.īut where can you read about ‘ol Diaper Head? In the 1996 Kevin J. Interestingly enough, Bush worked as a stand in for David Prowse in Star Wars (1977). Dengar was played by Morris Bush, an actor who also appeared in Hammer’s Scars of Dracula (1970), the Christopher Lee pot boiler Creeping Flesh (1973), and the bizarre Ringo Starr musical comedy Son of Dracula (1974). Dengar was front and center when Vader gave the bounty hunters their marching orders and could also be seen chilling out in Jabba’s Palace in Return of the Jedi. We promise there will be no disintegrations as we turn back time and examine the coolest bounty hunter stories of the Star Wars galaxy: DengarĪh Dengar, we know kids of the 80s probably referred to you as Diaper Head, but you are still badass.
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