Unkar Plutt

Unkar Plutt was a male Crolute on the remote, lawless world of Jakku approximately 30 years after the Battle of Endor. The Crolute was a junkboss who bought scraps of Rebel and Imperial ships which had crashed during the Battle of Jakku. The ruthless Unkar used hired thugs to enforce his stranglehold on barter, sending them to punish any scavenger who dared dabble in unauthorized trades or negotiated too aggressively. The Blobfish&mdash;as scavengers called him behind his broad back&mdash;had collected all manner of weapons, gears, and ships over the years, including a battered Corellian freighter he kept under a tarp on the outskirts of Niima Outpost.

Junkboss of Jakku
About 30 years after the Battle of Endor, Unkar was the junkboss of the planet Jakku, doling survival rations out to scavengers, among them the human scavenger Rey, in return for salvage from the Graveyard of Giants. After seeing BB-8 accompanying Rey, Unkar offered 60 survival rations in exchange  for the droid, but Rey refused it, taking only what Unkar offered for some of the salvaged scrap she had found. Unkar dispatched two of his thugs after Rey to retrieve the droid for him anyway, but Rey easily subdued them.

After the First Order sent TIE fighers to attack Niima Outpost and to retrieve BB-8, Rey, the defecting stormtrooper Finn, and the droid hijacked the Millennium Falcon, which Unkar kept covered under a tarp and seemingly unused for several years. Rey and Finn managed to take down the TIE fighters and left Jakku.

Unhappy about Rey's taking the Millennium Falcon, he followed her to Maz Kanata's castle and confronted her, along with a group of his thugs. There, he assaulted her physically and tried to get the ship back, but the commotion he made caught the attention of the Wookiee Chewbacca. When Chewbacca indicated that he would fight him if he did not release Rey, Plutt laughed it off, wondering what a lone Wookiee could do against him and his thugs. Chewbacca demonstrated succinctly why it wasn't wise to upset a Wookiee by ripping off one of Plutt's arms.

Behind the scenes
Unkar Plutt was portrayed by Simon Pegg in Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens. Pegg had also worked with director J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot Productions on Mission: Impossible III, Star Trek, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Star Trek Into Darkness, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, and Star Trek Beyond. Plutt is Pegg's second Star Wars role; he had previously provided the voice of Dengar in two episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

Appearances

 * Before the Awakening
 * Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens
 * Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens novelization
 * Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens junior novelization
 * Rey Meets BB-8

Non-Canon Appearances

 * Disney Infinity 3.0