EV-9D9

"Ah, good. New acquisitions. You are a protocol droid, are you not?''" "I am C-3PO, human-cyborg&mdash;" "Yes or no will do." "''Oh. Well, yes."

- EV-9D9 and C-3PO

EV-9D9 was a sadistic supervisor droid who oversaw the droid pool in Jabba the Hutt's palace, torturing her fellow droids with the assistance of the smelter droid 8D8 to keep them in line. When R2-D2 and C-3PO arrived as gifts for her master from the Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker, she assigned them positions in her master's droid pool.

Biography
"How many languages do you speak?''" "I am fluent in over six million forms of communication and can readily&mdash;" "Splendid. We have been without an interpreter since our master got angry with our last protocol droid and disintegrated him." "''Disintegrated? Oh!"

- EV-9D9 and C-3PO

A supervisor droid manufactured by MerenData, EV-9D9 suffered from a programming quirk that caused her to enjoy tormenting and dismembering of other droids. MerenData placed a recall on her, but she was acquired by the crime lord Jabba the Hutt, who placed her in charge of his palace's droid pool. She converted a dank work area in the murky depths of the palace's dungeons into a grim torture chamber where 8D8, an 8D-series smelter droid who was reprogrammed for sadism, assisted her in terrorizing Jabba's droid pool into submission.

After her master received the droids R2-D2 and C-3PO as gifts from the Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker, they were escorted down to her torture chamber so she could assign them positions in the droid pool. A protocol droid, EV-9D9 assigned C-3PO to be her master's new interpreter, as he had his last one disintegrated after he had angered him. She then had the protocol droid fitted with a restraining bolt and taken to Jabba's main audience chamber, and assigned the feisty R2-D2 to serve drink aboard Jabba's sail barge, the Khetanna. However, secretly containing his master's lightsaber within himself, R2 was actually tasked with infiltrating Jabba's droid pool so that he could assist in the rescue of Skywalker's friend Han Solo from the Hutt's clutches, a mission that ultimately resulted in her master's demise.

Characteristics
"Guard! This protocol droid might be useful. Fit him with a restraining bolt and take him back up to His Excellency's main audience chamber.''" "''R2, don't leave me! Oh!"

- EV-9D9 and C-3PO

EV-9D9's corrupted programming caused her to enjoy tormenting and dismembering other droids, leading her to use torture to keep her droid pool in line. She was quickly annoyed with the antics of C-3PO, cutting him off whenever she got the answers she wanted or when he started to stray from the question at hand. When R2-D2 started to get feisty with her, she assigned him to her master's sail barge to teach him respect.

A gangly bronze-colored mechanical, EV-9D9 stood at 1.9 meters in height and had three yellow photoreceptors. She spoke with a grating mechanical voice, and whenever she communicated a flap located at the base of her head opened and closed, simulating the movement of a mouth.

Behind the scenes
"[Whistle-Beep-Bleep]''" "''You're a feisty little one, but you'll soon learn some respect. I have need for you on the master's sail barge, and I think you'll fill in nicely."

- R2-D2 and EV-9D9

EV-9D9 made her first appearance, albeit unidentified, in Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi, though she was not identified as such in canon until the publication Star Wars in 100 Scenes, a 2014 reference book written by Jason Fry.

On set, director Richard Marquand provided his voice to the droid puppet, which was later redubbed during post-production.

EV-9D9 appeared as early as the rough draft of the Revenge of the Jedi script, where she was known as U-8D8. In the revised second draft, she was renamed EV-8D8. In the third draft, she received her final name and her smelter droid assistant instead inherited the name 8D8.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi