Jubnuk

Jubnuk was a Gamorrean who served the crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure at his palace on Tatooine. However, Luke Skywalker's arrival at Jabba's Palace and subsequent fight againt Jabba's Rancor, ended up being what sealed Jubnuk's comeuppance for his actions.

Biography
At some point, he was hired by the crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure and became one of the many guards which patrolled his palace. Shortly before the Battle of Endor, Jubnuk presenced Luke Skywalker's arrival at Jabba's Palace with the intention of negotiatie with Jabba in order to free his friend Han Solo and his sister Leia Organa, who infiltrated before dressed as the bounty hunter Boushh. As Jabba was not interested in Skywalker's proposal, he opened the trapdoor of the room in which they were and Skywlaker fell into the pit of Pateesa, the Hutt's pet rancor. Unfortunately, Jubnuk was near to Skywalker when the trapdoor was opened, and fell into Pateesa's pit. The rancor, who had previously killed Jabba's dancer Oola, was still hungry. Jubnuk tried to escape, but was devoured by the Pateesa, while Skywalker ultimately managed to kill the beast and avoid Jubnuk's fate.

Behind the scenes
Jubnuk was portrayed by puppeteer Simon Williamson in Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi, who also portrayed Max Rebo, but his role was uncredited.

Before the reboot of the Star Wars canon by The Walt Disney Company in order to explore new storylines as a Sequel Trilogy, some details of Jubnuk's early life were explored in Jabba's Palace Pop-up Book. The book showed Jubnuk having a wife and a son and also surviving his encounter with the rancor, escaping from him after the beast's stomach was cut. Holocron continuity database keeper Leland Chee stated that he didn't knew about this until he was notified by a Wookieepedia user. However, after the Expanded Universe was subsequently rebooted into the Star Wars Legends brand, so Chee stated in his Twitter account that Jubnuk's death has been left ambiguous.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi