Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker introduced again many notable characters from SW historical past, from the grand return of Palpatine to these vocal cameos at its climax. There’s one which even essentially the most hardcore fan could be hard-pressed to select up on, although. Partly as a result of they’re solely briefly on display screen within the background of 1 scene, however largely as a result of they give the impression of being nothing like they did the final time we noticed them.
The character in query is Dengar, one of many bounty hunters employed by Vader in The Empire Strikes Back (as performed by Morris Bush). Inspecting the photographs beneath, you wouldn’t assume this creepy-looking cyborg with the emaciated inhuman face was the identical individual because the humanoid hunter from the Authentic Trilogy. However yup, that’s what’s closely implied by the film’s Visible Dictionary.
A loopy Star Wars factor is {that a} character that briefly appeared in The Rise of Skywalker is Dengar, one in every of Darth Vader’s bounty hunters from The Empire Strikes Back. pic.twitter.com/dwGGBLPB9e
— Alan Johnson (@TheAlanJohnson) January 7, 2020
The tie-in e book falls wanting spelling out the connection, however Rothgar Deng, as he’s labelled, is closely implied to be Dengar. The character description calls him an “previous and skilled Corelian bounty hunter” who’s presumed to be residing “beneath an alias.” The motive for his a lot modified bodily type is as a result of he’s been “subjecting himself to cybernetic replacements” at “black-market surgical clinics” in a bid to make himself immortal. Because the Visible Dictionary succinctly places it, “poor resolution making has led to his ghastly look.”
In a e book that’s stuffed with revelatory details that weren’t truly clarified on display screen in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, like Jannah being Lando’s daughter, that Palpatine was a clone and even the names of the Knights of Ren, this weird biography of Dengar/Rothgar Deng nonetheless manages to be essentially the most shocking. Now that that is canon, although, now we have to see how Dengar turned himself right into a monstrous cyborg in some future Star Wars media. The Mandalorian season 2, anybody?
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