The Most Terrible Things That Boba Fett Has Ever Done

For a generation of Star Wars fans, there's no character quite like Boba Fett. This is in spite of the fact that the bounty hunter didn't do very much in the original trilogy. Instead, he was precursor to cool-looking but not very active Star Wars baddies like Darth Maul or Captain Phasma. 

But Fett's distinctive costume and the fact that even Darth Vader thought he could get too vicious ("No disintegrations!") captured the minds of kids everywhere. Thus, Fett has continued to be a constant presence across Star Wars media, whether it's in his origin story in the prequels, his widely praised reappearance in the second season of The Mandalorian, or him getting groovy on the dance floor in Kinect Star Wars.

However, through the majority of his appearances, both in the Star Wars movies and outside of them, Fett has exuded a wide array of slick and memorably ruthless behavior. This has ranged from slaughtering interrogation subjects to concocting bombings to even threatening other fan-favorite Star Wars characters. Maybe Fett didn't do much in movies like Return of the Jedi, but looking at his unforgettably merciless actions across all Star Wars media, it becomes clear that this guy has done a whole lot of terrible things.

A few seasons after his first appearance in Clone Wars, Fett returned, a little older but still just as dangerous. In season 4's "Bounty," Fett had become a hardened soul thanks to an extended prison sentence. No longer just seeking revenge for his father, Fett was now inching close to his portrayal in The Empire Strikes Back by making a living as a bounty hunter. To pursue this goal, Fett secured a squad of fellow hunters to work with, gotten a mask to conceal his identity (albeit not one from Mandalorian culture), and had taken a job delivering a large chest to the powerful ruler Otua Blank.

While on his delivery mission, it was revealed that the chest didn't contain jewels or weapons, but instead, it held a young woman named Pluma Sodi, who was being sent to Blank as a forced bride. Upon realizing the cargo she was protecting, Asajj Ventress, who'd briefly joined Fett's crew for this assignment, began to express hesitation over the mission. But while the former Sith apprentice had a crisis of conscience, Fett demonstrated his growing grimness by remaining firmly committed to the task at hand. Whereas Fett's previous Clone Wars appearances had seen him express uncertainty over hurting innocents, the agony of Pluma Sodi fell on deaf ears here. Fett's ruthlessness sometimes manifests in shooting adversaries, and other times, it emerges in ignoring the cries of the helpless.

Jhordvar isn't an incredibly famous character in Star Wars lore. Only appearing in a flashback in the now non-canonical book Boba Fett: A New Threat, it's hard to imagine even the ironic fandoms that have emerged for throwaway Star Wars characters like Dexter Jettster or Constable Zuvio sprouting up around Jhordvar. If the character does have one claim to fame, though, it's being at the center of one of Boba Fett's more memorable kills.

In A New Threat, it's recalled how Fett tracked down Jhordvar for Jabba the Hutt. Upon finding Fett, Jhordvar incurred the bounty hunter's rage by calling him "lackey." A fight broke out between the two, and though Jhordvar was a formidable fighter in his own right, it was only a matter of time before Boba Fett killed him. The nastiness of Jhordvar's demise doesn't end there, though. Both Fett and Jhordvar's corpse were caught in a sandstorm right after their fateful confrontation. Once it was finished, Fett only saw fit to take back Jhordvar's hands to Jabba, leaving the bounty hunter's corpse desecrated and left to rot in the desert. 

In this encounter, Boba Fett's lack of respect for the living is show to extend to the dead, as well. It's also demonstrated that, among his many other abilities, Boba Fett can lend something memorable to even an extremely throwaway Star Wars character like Jhordvar.

While it may seem like The Empire Strikes Back was the first instance of Boba Fett and Darth Vader crossing paths, media outside of the movies has made it apparent that the two characters had many prior encounters before the fifth Star Wars film. One such encounter was the impetus for the comic Star Wars #5, which saw Boba Fett being hired by Darth Vader to track down a figure who'd worked alongside Obi-Wan Kenobi during the events of A New Hope. Now on the hunt for his bounty, Fett was willing to achieve his goal by any means necessary ... including murder.

While trying to track down this individual, Fett encountered a number of people, including Rodians and a group of moisture farmers, that he interrogated for information regarding his target. Once they told Fett what he needed to know, they weren't released back to their humdrum lives but promptly killed by Fett himself. To Fett, the value of these people was judged by their worth to him. Once they had nothing to offer him, he properly disposed of them. This approach even extended to an unnamed farmer at the Mos Eisley Cantina who, after being viciously interrogated, dropped a bombshell revelation to Fett that the man he was looking for was named Luke Skywalker. In one of his earliest missions for Darth Vader, Fett was on a hot pursuit that left a long trail of corpses behind him.

In The Empire Strikes Back, Darth Vader is a man on a mission. He's been chasing after Luke Skywalker and company for quite a while, but the good guys keep eluding his grasp. So the villain decides to hire a little extra help, sending out a call for a crew of bounty hunters. Among those answering the call are ruffians like Dengar, Bossk, and of course, Boba Fett in his first live-action appearance. He isn't onscreen for a full minute before Vader turns to Fett and orders him to refrain from disintegrating his quarry. The prowess of Fett is firmly established here, as the deadly Sith has to reign this bounty hunter in.

Fett lives up to this reputation throughout the rest of the movie as he slickly tracks an unwitting Han Solo through space and later places the frozen space pirate on his ship, Slave I. Fett doesn't even blink at his mission here, with his only moment of real hesitation coming when he thinks Solo might be killed in the carbonite freezing process. This isn't because he's worried the process is too cruel. Instead, his only concern is how it'll impact his finances. "He's no good to me dead," Fett observes, referring to the large bounty that Jabba the Hutt has put on somebody bringing Solo back alive. Fett's inclination to put money over people and his ability to keep a cool head are both exemplified throughout his mission in Empire Strikes Back.

Everyone loves Grogu. That little guy formerly known as the Child has quickly become one of the most beloved Star Wars characters of all time. In the process of spawning more memes than you can shake a wampa at, he's also helped to put The Mandalorian on the map. And only 14 episodes into the show's run, audiences had become totally captivated by Grogu ... which made him the perfect target to emphasize the cold-hearted nature of Boba Fett.

When Fett first meets Din Djarin, the lead character of The Mandalorian, he's not there purely to shed more blood. Fett, having emerged from the sarlacc pit, wants to get his Mandalorian armor back. To instill some leverage into the scenario, Fett remarks that he's got an ally, Fennec Shand, poised with a sniper rifle nearby. While Djarin notes that his armor would protect him from any sniper blast, Fett clarifies that Djarin wouldn't be Shand's target. Instead, at Fett's signal, the sniper would shoot and kill Grogu, who's sitting down a short distance away, meditating so that he can call out for any other Jedi in the galaxy.

By the time this episode aired, Boba Fett had existed in pop culture for over four decades, and his ruthless reputation was well-known. But by threatening to kill a beloved character like Grogu, Fett's cold-hearted nature was taken to a whole other level and established for a whole new generation of Star Wars fans.