Jabba the Hutt is a fictional character in George Lucas's
space opera film saga Star Wars. He is first mentioned in
the first film, A New Hope, where he was referred to as a
gangster who had a bounty on Han Solo who owed him money
for dumping an illegal cargo. The 1997 release of a New Hope
reinserted previously omitted scenes of Jabba—supplanting
CGI images on the original "human" actor to fit
with his depiction in later films. His first cinematic
introduction was in the third film Return of the Jedi
(1983) as an odious mass of greasy, insect-ridden flesh with
a sadistic love of torture. Jabba served as a minor
antagonist throughout the initial series, where he was shown
abusing his many cohorts, putting a bounty on Solo's head,
attempting to kill Luke Skywalker, and enslaving Princess
Leia Organa who eventually kills him.