![]() But I can’t seem to place a name to this now-hideous monstrosity of low-budget-augmentation who we might have seen during the Clone Wars and chasing the Millennium Falcon after Hoth. confirmed that the severely altered Dengar can be found in the Thieves’ Quarter on Kijimi in The Rise of Skywalker: “Hanging out in the lair of the ne’er-do-wells known as the Thieves’ Quarter in Kijimi City is a bounty hunter with many cybernetic parts…We get hints here of someone we ought to know. It’s clear those “black-market surgical clinics” are no match for Imperial scientists, though. In the Legends timeline, Dengar was equipped with prosthetic eyes and ears that vastly improved his senses, which might be what’s happened here. Why his face was so hideously altered is anyone’s guess. While Rothgar Deng no longer wears Dengar’s iconic turban, the character still wears the rest of the bounty hunter’s beat-up metal armor, although his arms (and possibly his legs) have been replaced with robotic limbs. You’re not ready for this cybernetic nightmare: We’ve not seen much of Dengar since Aftermath, but a cryptic entry in the Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Visual Dictionary suggests that the bounty hunter is actually in the final chapter of the Skywalker Saga in hideously altered form and operating under the alias “Rothgar Deng.” Remember those cybernetic implants from Legends? Well, in the Disney canon, it looks like Dengar has taken the cybernetic makeover to the extreme in an attempt to live forever, and the result is absolutely grotesque. In those books, which are set a little while after Return of the Jedi, Dengar plays a part in the final battles between the New Republic and the Empire, witnessing another major power shift in the galaxy. Dengar is also a side character in the Aftermath series of novels by Chuck Wendig. He shows up in a few issues of Marvel’s Star Wars and Darth Vader comics as the bounty hunter you’ve come to expect, although the cybernetic brain backstory seems to have been excised. ![]() Since he’s always been more a side character, not much has changed for Dengar as far as the Prequel and Original Trilogy eras go. It’s this ruthless killer we meet in The Empire Strikes Back and follow throughout the Legends timeline, although he would eventually regain some of his old self in later adventures. Imperial scientists implanted cybernetic implants in Dengar to save what was left of his damaged brain, turning him into an emotionless killer. ![]() ![]() Although his first chronological appearance in The Clone Wars (voiced by Simon Pegg) shows him as a cocky and flirty bounty hunter who thinks he has a chance with dark side assassin Asajj Ventress, an accident while swoop racing left him completely altered. In fact, he had a reputation for being even more ruthless than Boba Fett himself. But the character’s most lasting legacy is probably as the butt of the joke, appearing as a quirky and dim-witted villain in parodies such as the Robot Chicken Star Wars specials.ĭengar was not the galaxy’s funny guy within the Star Wars universe, though. Jeter, which shows how Dengar nursed a severely wounded Boba Fett back to life after the events of Return of the Jedi. In the now non-canon Legends timeline, Dengar’s further adventures were explored in Marvel’s classic Star Wars comics as well as books like The Mandalorian Armor by K.W. Movie fans might only recognize Dengar from the famous bounty hunter line-up scene in The Empire Strikes Back, but those who have delved into the Expanded Universe of books and comics have probably seen the character pop up a few times since 1980. This Star Wars article contains spoilers.Īlthough he never quite enjoyed the celebrity status of fellow bounty hunters like Boba Fett, Corellian mercenary Dengar is one of the original stars of Star Wars‘ criminal underworld. ![]()
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