It might be him, it might be a relative, it all counts, folks.Salacious Crumb from Return of the Jedi is seen roasting on a pike.You might blink and miss it, but The Mandalorian had some fun 'killing' one of the most annoying characters in Star Wars history.If you haven't seen that 36-year-old movie, stop reading now! Not everything needs a purpose.Spoiler Alert: The following story contains only the most minor of spoilers for the first episode of The Mandalorian, though it does have spoilers for Return of the Jedi. He's just there to be a space jerk, and by golly, that's exactly what he is. Crumb does not have a single effect on the larger Star Wars story. Not because these things are important to Star Wars, but because they represent why the Star Wars world is so cool. You walk away from that film just dying to learn more about the pig guards, the fleshy thing wrapped around Bib Fortuna's head, what a cute, baby Rancor might look like, and above all, what's up with Salacious B. However, the film's real bounty is a ton of great new Star Wars characters. At this point, we've all had time to process Return of the Jedi 's lacking urgency and learn to love what it does offer: Han Solo's rescue, Lando's redemption, and Luke's off-screen transformation into a badass (or just a cooler outfit it's hard to say). Crumb offers a ton of fun Star Wars flavor in a dish that we probably didn't need to eat. Like so much of what we get on Jabba's Barge, Salacious B. But Salacious is special to us, and that's all that matters. Which means Salacious isn't even unique among them. They generally serve as pets to criminals and are known for their obnoxious laughter. According to Star Wars lore, Salacious is a Kowakian monkey-lizard (c'mon Star Wars, pick one). His main thing is simply to laugh at people, perhaps hoping that contagious laughter will save his hide. Making it over a dozen years indicates some skill on Salacious' part, but we see no evidence of it. Fail to make Jabba laugh even once and he dies. Their relationship is simple: Salacious makes Jabba laugh once a day in exchange for as much food and drink as he wants.
He's basically Jabba's court jester, having been in Jabba's employ for a dozen years by the time of Return of the Jedi. But then you have a guy whose whole job is to be obnoxious: Salacious B. You have the Rancor, Bib Fortuna, and Jabba himself. Jabba's Palace is filled with a lot of jerks. Among all the new creatures, Jabba's Palace hosts one of Star Wars ' most pleasantly obnoxious aliens: Salacious B. If you just have to spend an hour-long story layover somewhere, you could do a lot worse. Before we even get to the Ewoks, Jabba's barge is a fascinating place to hang out, filled with all kinds of new Star Wars weirdos to ogle, including Jabba himself. What Return of the Jedi lacks in storytelling, it more than makes up for when it comes to new characters. And then the film arrived and spent a significant amount of running time. For those of us who are a bit younger, it's hard to imagine how torturous and exciting those three years between films were for Star Wars fans, the galaxies of possibilities they conjured for what Return of the Jedi had in store for them. Not only did audiences learn Darth Vader was Luke Skywalker's father, but their favorite rogue and smuggler, Han Solo, ended that film frozen in carbonate and captured by the bounty hunter Boba Fett. A few years prior, you left the Star Wars galaxy with a couple doozies to consider. (Welcome to The Galaxy-Wide Star Wars Character Guide, where we give proper due to the smaller figures in Star Wars history.) Imagine it's 1983.
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