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Dais Johnston

26 Years Later, Darth Vader Just Murdered The Weirdest Star Wars Baddie

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Star Wars has had more than its fair share of weird guys with even weirder reputations. The sequel trilogy had Klaud, the slug-like creature who fans turned into a meme soon after his debut in The Rise of Skywalker. The original trilogy has beloved jizz-wailer Max Rebo. In between, the prequel trilogy gave us dozens of weird guys, from Jar Jar Binks to Dex Jettster to Boss Nass.

But the ultimate complicated weirdo is Watto, the Toydarian junk dealer, slave owner, and vague antisemitic stereotype who owned Anakin Skywalker and his mother Shmi on Tatooine. Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan freed Anakin from bondage in The Phantom Menace, but Shmi remained.

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