Wicket Wystri Warrick

"You're a jittery little thing, aren't you?"

- Leia Organa

Wicket Wystri Warrick was an Ewok scout, warrior, and later ruler of Bright Tree Village on the forest moon of Endor. The great grandson of Erpham Warrick, Wicket was the third son of Deej and Shodu Warrick, following Weechee and Willy, and was the older brother of Winda.

Wicket led an adventurous life, even from a very young age. He and his friends, namely Teebo and Princess Kneesaa, continually protected their village and the surrounding forest from those who would do them harm, such as Morag the Tulgah witch, the Duloks, and other threats from Endor and beyond. Wicket aided the Towani family when they crash-landed on Endor, and later assisted Noa Briqualon in the battle against the Sanyassans. Wicket also played an instrumental role in helping the Rebel Alliance defeat the Galactic Empire during the Battle of Endor.

After the death of Chief Chirpa, Wicket Warrick and his bride Kneesaa together ruled over Bright Tree Village.

Early childhood
Wicket was born and raised in Bright Tree Village, located in Happy Grove on the forest moon of Endor. Early on, he exhibited a sense of adventure; though his father Deej did not understand where it came from, Wicket's mother Shodu knew that he was simply taking after his father. Wicket developed close friendships with Teebo, Princess Kneesaa, and Latara. He and Teebo played games, like seeing who could hit a burr ball the farthest.



One spring morning, Wicket joined his older brother Weechee as he went off into the woods for archery practice. But when Wicket lost Weechee's arrows and broke his new bow, Weechee castigated his young brother. Wicket fled to the base of his Soul Tree and sulked all day, deciding that if he ever had a younger sibling, he would not be mean to them. (He eventually did gain a baby sister, Winda.) Eager to grow up, Wicket was continually saddened when he wasn't allowed to go on expeditions with the older Ewoks. He was thrilled to no longer be considered a wokling when he officially gained his hood at the Festival of Hoods.

On one occasion, when Wicket and Kneesaa were picking berries in the forest, they stumbled upon two creatures attempting to cut down the forest's trees. When the two got back to their village, they told Chief Chirpa of the giants, which they learned were called Phlogs. Wicket later recounted the story before the Council of Elders, an opportunity he had never had before. Unsatisfied with the decision of the Council, the young Ewoks turned to the shaman Logray, who told them the history of the Phlogs of Simoom and what a threat they posed. Logray gave them a white powder which they were able to use on the Phlogs to make them run back to their own land and leave the Ewoks' forest alone. During the celebration that day, both Wicket and Kneesaa were made honorary members of the Council of Elders.

When the day of the Harvest Moon Feast arrived, Wicket invited Kneesaa, and the woklings Nippet and Wiley she was babysitting, to join him for a picnic in the woods. Along the way, Wicket kept an eye out for rainbow berries, which had been particularly hard to find that summer. When the Ewoks arrived at their place by the river, Wicket decided to teach the woklings all about fishing. As Wicket caught the fish, he handed them off to the woklings to place them in a basket. Wicket later found that the baby Ewoks had been dumping the fish back into the river. Just when Wicket began to think that babysitting wasn't so hard, the woklings had another mishap involving bees and honey, forcing the four Ewoks to jump into the river. As they dried off later, Wicket and Kneesaa decided to hang out in a tree and left the woklings to play hide-and-seek. When Wicket and Kneesaa got down, they saw that the woklings were covered in berry juice, for they had discovered some rainbow berry bushes. The Ewoks then gathered berries which were later made into rainbow berry pies for the Harvest Moon Feast, and the woklings' mother thanked Wicket and Kneesaa for making the event so special.

The annual midsummer festival was another special time for the Ewoks, as they would participate in contests to show what they could do best. Wicket encouraged Kneesaa to enter the basket-weaving contest, but she felt that she would rather enter a competition in which she wasn't so experienced. When she expressed interest in the archery contest Wicket became upset, as this was an event which he had intended to win. However, Kneesaa entered the contest anyway despite Wicket's protests. Determined to compete in the festival, Kneesaa next entered the vine-swinging contest and then inadvertently got herself into the dangerous Log Ride Contest... and won. This impressed Wicket, so much so that he apologized to Kneesaa for his remarks, realizing that girls could in fact be competitive at sports. Kneesaa then suggested that Wicket might perhaps win the next year's basket-weaving contest.

Village scout
At a young age, Wicket became a scout for Bright Tree Village, as did his friend Teebo. Wicket learned how to use the stars to guide him in his travels.

On one berry-picking occasion, Kneesaa stepped on a fatally poisonous nightshade thorn. Unwilling to accept Kneesaa's fate, Wicket and Teebo sneaked into the Council Hut and stole the rainbow crystal that created the forbidden rainbow bridge which they used to cross over the Gorge of Fire into the land of Zandor to attempt to take the glowing nectar from the cave of Gantu the Ogre. A confrontation with Gantu ensued, and the Ogre's bowl of nectar was spilled and the rainbow crystal destroyed, their passage home along with it. However, the spilled nectar immediately caused new nectar-producing sunnydew flowers to sprout from the ground. The local Zandor Rockers, grateful to the Ewoks for their allowing the plants to flourish again, dug an underground tunnel for the Ewoks to travel back to the village. There Wicket gave Kneesaa a sunnydew flower which instantly brought her back to health.

Early scouting missions
Wicket and Teebo spent several weeks training a baby bordok as a gift for Kneesaa's birthday, but they ended up being stuck with scouting duty on the day of her party. Fortunately for the village, the two were the first to spot the return of the Zorbian space pirates. While Teebo was captured, Wicket escaped, although he was knocked from his post high in the tree and had to struggle his way back to the village to warn the Ewoks. Injured and exhausted, Wicket was bedridden while Kneesaa and the women of the tribe saved the village from the Zorbians. Wicket recovered soon enough, although he kept his right arm in a sling for a while.

Chief Chirpa later declared Wicket, Kneesaa, and Teebo the guests of honor for the harvest ceremony. The distinction allowed them journey to a location on Endor where the mountains and the forest met, a location Wicket had scouted before, to harvest the special light wood the Ewoks used to make their hang gliders. Upon their arrival, they discovered that the trees had already been harvested by the Quorks. Upon trying to escape, Wicket was captured by a devil beast. The Quarks then presented Wicket and the harvested wood as gifts to their king, Marlox. The king ordered Wicket to build a glider for him, but Wicket refused and insulted the king. Wicket was then sentenced to solitary confinement in a cell with no food or water. Before Wicket was even put into his cell, his two friends attempted to rescue him, but they failed and were instead imprisoned along with Wicket. Marlox later forced the Ewok boys to build him a glider by threatening Kneesaa's life if they didn't. The Ewoks outsmarted the king by building a him a glider that would not fly, and they rescued Kneesaa and returned home with the sacred wood for the harvest ceremony.

Wicket and Teebo were soon sent on another scouting mission, several days' journey away from the village. When Teebo suggested a shortcut for their return trip, the two were captured by Joddar and the Lizard Warriors. When Wicket heard the name of the warriors' Ewok leader, Graak, he knew they were in trouble, for Graak had been banished from Bright Tree Village by Chirpa many years earlier. The scouts tried to sneak out, but Graak would not let them get away so easily. Instead, he made the two participate in a most dangerous game: he would allow them to go home through the valley if they could escape the Lizard Warriors who would be hunting them as prey. But Wicket and Teebo managed to outsmart the warriors at every turn and even saved Joddar from an Endorian swamp beast. However, after they escaped the valley, Graak went back on his word and refused to let the Ewoks leave. When Graak began to strangle Teebo with a whip, Wicket took matters into his own hands by grabbing a forked stick and pinning Graak to the ground. When it seemed Wicket had the upper hand, Graak threw dirt into Wicket's eyes and lifted a giant boulder, intending to crush the blinded scout to death. But Wicket was saved by Joddar, returning the compassion the young scouts had shown him. As the scouts headed back home, Wicket remarked that while the shortcut had taken days off of their journey, he felt as if it had taken years off of his life.

In between scouting assignments, Wicket was out with Kneesaa in the forest one day when they were encountered by Dooni, a baby foonar who had been separated from his mother. As they went to search for the missing mother, Wicket fell into large hole in the ground and injured his ankle. The hole, he surmised, was intended for foonars; they soon found further evidence with a prodding rod, although Wicket was able to use the rod as a crutch to relieve his injured ankle. The Ewoks soon discovered the ship of the foonar-capturing invaders, and Wicket quickly climbed up the outside of the ship and observed the goings on inside. But the ship's thin viewport was not only unable to block sound waves, but it also could not withstand the weight of a small Ewok, for Wicket shattered the window and fell though it and into the ship. After a quick skirmish with the aliens, Wicket was able to escape through the window from which he came. The aliens decided that one Ewok was no threat to them, but they had underestimated Wicket Warrick. He knew all about the aliens' plans to utilize the foonars to power their "harvester" to cut down the trees of the forest. Wicket and Kneesaa wasted no time in hijacking the harvester machine, and Wicket demonstrated his technological prowess by engaging the blade and pointing the machine towards the invaders' own ship. As the aliens fled the moon, Dooni's mother destroyed the harvester and was reunited with her child, and Wicket's heroism was celebrated once again.

The sorcerer's apprentice


During one winter season, Wicket spent much of his time at Logray's hut. One night, he asked Logray if he would take Wicket on as an apprentice so that he could one day become a medicine man. But Logray dismissed the idea, for he didn't feel that Wicket was ready for such things. Later in the night, Wicket passed by the hut of his friend Latara and saw Logray rushing in. Wicket learned that Latara was ill, and he overheard Logray and Warok saying that they needed a fuzzynettle plant to make more medicine for her, although they would wait until the next morning to retrieve it. Knowing exactly where the fuzzynettles grew on the far side of the forest, Wicket retrieved Baga, the bordok he had trained, and headed out into the frozen forest, the stars as his guide. Wicket found the fuzzynettles and returned to the village with the plants the next morning at dawn. Logray used the plants to create a healing powder, giving Latara a quick recovery. Logray decided that Wicket was indeed very brave and that he would make a good medicine man, so the next day, he began to teach Wicket as his apprentice.

One day, as Wicket began to learn Logray's magic, he once stole the sorcerer's staff to show off to his friends. Unbeknownst to Wicket, the Ice Demon Stagorr was watching the young Ewoks via his magical ice mirror. Stagorr tricked Wicket into summoning an a wind tunnel from Ice Mountain and inadvertently transporting himself into the heart of the mountain. There Wicket learned that Stagorr intended to steal Logray's staff to seek revenge on the sorcerer who confined him to the palace of ice long ago. Stagorr put Wicket under a spell and sent him to use Logray's own staff as a weapon against him. While the spell took over Wicket's body, his mind remained intact, and he was able to warn Logray when he arrived at Ice Mountain. His plan failing, Stagorr reclaimed the staff from Wicket and prepared to battle Logray again. But with some help from Logray, Wicket was able to recall some magic his master had taught him before. He used fire crystals to melt a portion of the icy ceiling onto the Ice Demon; the water hit Stagorr and froze on contact, trapping him by his own power. On their journey home, Wicket apologized to Logray for stealing his staff and decided not to pursue studying sorcery.

A tale of Sorrow
Taking a break from harvesting honey melons, Wicket and Kneesaa decided to take a dip in their favorite swimming hole while Teebo opted to wander off and write poetry. Ready to head back to the village after their swim, Wicket and Kneesaa looked for Teebo, but were unable to find him. This was particularly upsetting, since they had to carry back Teebo's basket of melons in addition to their own. They found Teebo soon enough when the aspiring poet bowled a honey melon at them, spilling all their baskets and knocking the Ewoks over. Wicket determined that Teebo was under a spell and hurried off to the village for the sake of his friend. Wicket found Teebo in the Council Hut, already affecting the elders with his spatially contagious spell. Even Wicket was affected when he tried to stop Teebo. Then Logray told of a possible cure: a being at the top of Mount Sorrow whose tears could reverse the spell. Wicket and Kneesaa did not give it a second thought; they took Teebo and headed to the top of the mountain. Once there, Wicket humbly approached the being, who was in fact the tip of the mountain itself, and began to plead for some tears for his friend. But when Teebo approached, his spell began to affect the mountain, who became offended and exhaled a wind which would blow Wicket and Kneesaa of the mountain and to their doom. But Teebo grabbed a rope and saved the lives of his friends. When Teebo told the two that he would rather live with the spell for the rest of his life than risk losing his closest friends again, Mount Sorrow was so moved that he wept for Teebo and cried him a plethora of healing tears.

The rise of Morag
As if their mountaintop wind-blown flight was not enough, Wicket and Kneesaa were soon blown about the air in their own village in a storm summoned by Morag, the Tulgah witch who was once the slave master of Logray. And it was Logray who saved the two Ewoks from again nearly falling to their demise. Then Morag created a sort of Force-apparition of herself and spoke to the Ewoks while her thieves sneaked into the village and stole the crystal eye of the kreegon, a beast which Chirpa's father has slain many years before. With the eye in her possession, Morag had the power to bring the beast back to life; it was for this reason Chirpa chose to journey to Morag's lair at Mount Thunderstone to try an stop her. After his departure, Logray's crystal image spinner revealed that Morag was already resurrecting the kreegon beast. Kneesaa decided to go after her father, and Wicket insisted on joining her.

As they journeyed to Mount Thunderstorm, Wicket spotted the chief's bordok and became concerned that Chirpa was no where near. They feared even more when they say a path of cleared trees leading back toward their village. When they reached the mountain, they found Chirpa and freed him for Morag's restraints. Heading back to the village with the kreegon hot on their trail, Wicket proposed that the Ewoks make a stand against the beast. Though their attempt to kill the beast in the molten sulfur pits did not go as planned, they were able to fool Morag into using her own magic to bring down the beast. Although her plot was foiled, this would not be the last time Morag would threaten Wicket and his village.

The magnificent duo
Out on a sailing trip across Sunshine Lake, Wicket and Teebo searched for pearls in the water. Wicket spotted a flying dragon bird, and felt that it was surely a bad omen. As Teebo return from a dive with a rare blue pearl, Wicket's fears were realized when the two were attack by a devil serpent and forced from their boat and into waters. When Teebo never surfaced, Wicket swam underwater to find his unconscious friend, but Wicket also blacked out before he reached Teebo. They would have likely perished, had they not been retrieved by an Underwater Dweller and taken to their Underwater Kingdom. Back to a conscious state, Wicket and Teebo met Squik and the others of his species. The Ewoks were taken aback by the plethora of pearls among the dwellers' kingdom. The pearls, the Ewoks learned, were the primary food source for the creatures, and it was their prized red pearl which gave off a glowing light that caused the other pearls to grow. The dwellers kept this red pearl hidden, and the Ewoks soon saw firsthand just why: Orcon, an underwater dweller roughly twice the size of the others, arrived mounted upon his devil serpent to steal food pearls, as he often did. Wicket and Teebo, unafraid of Orcon, stood up to the so-called "evil tyrant" but ended up only further enraging the bandit and causing him to unleash the wrath of his devil serpent via his controlling trident. Orcon then discovered the red pearl and, believing it would make him invincible, stole it and fled the cave.



Unwilling to accept such an injustice, especially one for which he felt responsible, Wicket devised a plan to take back the pearl from Orcon. Intending to travel underwater, Wicket found a nearby patch of bubble plants which produced hard, spherical "bubbles" which were conveniently just big enough to encase the head of a young Ewok and provide a small air supply but not so large that would let in any water around the neck. Donning their newfound natural scuba gear, Wicket and Teebo set off on a pair of water wallocks to Orcon's stronghold, their new friend Squik accompanying them. As the squeaked past the sleeping devil serpent, they entered Orcon's lair. With a quick attack, the trio retrieved the pearl from Orcon, but he soon grabbed his trident and summoned the devil beast. Wicket then was able to outsmart Orcon and take his trident, turning Orcon's own creature against him. However, the red pearl, which was used as a decoy in their counterattack, was destroyed in the process. This caused Wicket to feel remorse, but all was soon made well: on their way back to the underwater dwelling, Teebo found the blue pearl he had discovered when the whole incident began. He gave to to the dweller, who discovered that it was even more powerful than the red pearl they had before.

Helping the Towanis
In 3 ABY, Wicket and the others of Bright Tree Village encountered a group of Humans whose starcruiser had crashed in the forest nearby. At first, they encountered the youngest child, Cindel Towani, whom Wicket quickly befriended. After a misunderstanding with her brother Mace, the Ewoks, along with Cindel and Mace, returned to the village. Cindel soon grew sick, so the Ewoks, along with Mace, went into the forest to retrieve a magical liquid that would heal her. After she was better, she informed Wicket that they had been in their starcruiser, and had crashed.

Eventually, the Ewoks learned that the boy and girl's parents, Jeremitt and Catarine, were missing. Logray determined that the parents were being held by the Gorax in his lair, which was located in the Desert of Salma. So a group of brave Ewoks, along with Cindel and Mace, formed a caravan of courage to save the parents. They crossed the expanses of the Endor moon until they reached the Gorax's lair. Using their ingenuity, the group managed to kill the Gorax, and save the parents, who were being held in a cage, high above the ground. The group returned to the village where they celebrated being back together again. But the happiness was not to last.

Jeremitt soon began work on repairing the starcruiser. But one day, when his repairs neared completion and the family were soon to leave, the Sanyassan Marauders, led by King Terak, attacked the Ewok village. Catarine was soon killed by the Marauders. However, the method in which she died is unknown. Cindel and Wicket, who had been picking flowers in the forest, returned to the village when Wicket sensed danger. Cindel found Mace, who was helping the Ewoks defend the village. Mace instructed her to go find Jeremitt, and to get help. Cindel did as her brother said. Mace dragged his mother's body into a nearby hut, in hopes of evading blaster fire. But unfortunately, the hut was destroyed by Marauders, which brought Mace's life to an end.

The Marauders began capturing the Ewoks and loading them into wagons. Terak, assisted by Charal, a Nightsister, harassed Jeremitt. He ordered his men to tear the Towani starcruiser apart, as he was searching for "the power," which was the power supply from the ship. The Marauders had apparently crashed on Endor themselves and needed the power supply for their own ship. They eventually located the power supply on his ship, and stole it from him. He managed to escape, but not after being shot and wounded in the back by a blaster. He ran upon Cindel, who had been watching his encounter. He knew he would not survive, so he wished his love to Cindel, and told her goodbye, instructing her to run back to the village, and to find Deej and the other Ewoks. Jeremitt was soon killed by the Marauders when they located him in the forest.

Cindel ran, as her father had instructed. However, Charal, in her bird form, was flying after her. Charal caught up to Cindel and turned back into her Human form. After catching Cindel, Charal took her back to the village to Terak. Cindel was placed in the same Marauder wagon as Wicket, and the wagon headed for the Marauder castle. But Cindel and Wicket managed to escape into the woods, followed by a few of the Marauders, which they managed to evade. They wandered into a cave &mdash; high above the forest floor. After a cave in, they seemed to be stuck in the cave. But Wicket, using his Ewok ingenuity, managed to build a hang-glider out of materials in the cave. They escaped once again into the forest.

In the forest, they encountered Teek, who was named after his species. Teek led them to a house in the woods. Cindel and Wicket liked the place, and planned to stay. But soon they encountered Noa, an old hermit who's ship had also crashed in the forest &mdash; long ago. After some apprehension, Noa allowed them to stay and grew fond of them.

One day, Cindel heard a voice, and was lured to a woman in the woods. The woman turned out to be Charal, the evil witch that Cindel had encountered previously. Charal took Cindel to Terak, who expected Cindel to provide him with "the power." Back at Noa's house, Teek noticed Cindel was gone. He awoke Noa and the two left for Terak's castle to rescue Cindel. Once at the castle, they made their way inside. They eventually managed to take back the power supply, and escaped the castle. In the process, they held back the marauders and rescued the Ewoks. They headed back to Bright Tree Village... followed by the Marauders.

Back at the village, Noa, Cindel, Wicket, and the Ewoks battled the Marauders once they arrived. Noa took the power supply to his ship, and installed it. His ship now had power. He and Wicket defended the ship using the ship's turrets, while Cindel took watch.

Terak eventually captured Cindel, and demanded Noa to give him the power... otherwise he threatened to kill Cindel. Noa and Terak fought &mdash; Noa with his walking stick, and Terak with his sword. Wicket finally used his sling to shoot a rock at Terak, which knocked the crystal out of his chest. Terak began to burn from the inside. After a few moments, Terak turned to ashes. He was dead. As a consequence, the Marauders were defeated.

Noa reinstalled the power supply into his ship again, and, after a sad goodbye, he and Cindel lifted off of Endor, and off into the galaxy once again.

The Battle of Endor
One day while out on an Ewok scouting mission during the Battle of Endor, Warrick encountered Alderaanian Princess Leia Organa and helped save her life from an Imperial scout trooper. This made Warrick the first Ewok to make contact with the Rebel Alliance during the Battle of Endor. Although he was initially fearful of her, Warrick eventually took Organa to his village. It was not long before the rest of the Rebels arrived, having been captured and nearly used as food by the other Ewoks.



C-3PO, whom the Ewoks thought was a golden god, convinced the Ewoks to aid the Rebel strike team. The Ewoks and the Rebels successfully held off the Galactic Empire's stormtroopers and destroyed the shield generator protecting the second Death Star. After the superweapon was destroyed and the Emperor dead, the Rebels and Ewoks celebrated together in the forests of Endor.

Post-Endor
Sometime after the fall of the Empire, Wicket married his longtime friend, Princess Kneesaa, and became chief of the village with her when Chief Chirpa, Kneesaa's father, died.

Behind the scenes



 * It was initially planned that Kenny Baker would play the part of the Ewok who befriended Princess Leia in Return of the Jedi, however, when the day came to start filming his scenes, he was unable to because of an illness. As a result, Warwick Davis' Ewok, at that time named simply Warrick, was used as a replacement. Davis' Ewok eventually became Wicket Wystra Warrick, while Baker's became Paploo, the Ewok who stole an Imperial speeder bike. This discrepancy can be seen in Marvel's comic book version of the movie, which shows Wicket taking the bike rather than Paploo. Davis reprised the role in the television movies Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure and Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, in which Darryl Henriques voiced the character.
 * Since the events of these two films take place prior to the Battle of Endor, much fan debate has arisen over what language Wicket's companion, the aforementioned Cindel Towani, speaks. While in the films it appears as though she is speaking Basic, this cannot be the case; Wicket becomes fluent in Cindel's language as per The Battle for Endor, yet doesn't understand Leia in Return of the Jedi. The current retcon is that Cindel is not speaking Basic, but some other language "dubbed" for the benefit of the audience.
 * Wicket was the main character in the animated television series Star Wars: Ewoks. Like most of the characters, he changed slightly between the first and second seasons. In the first season he wore an orange hood and was voiced by Jim Henshaw (and sounded more like he did in the Ewok movies). In the second season, he wore a green hood and was voiced by Denny Delk.