Greedo/Legends

Greedo the Younger, son of Greedo the Elder, was a Rodian bounty hunter. Although his father had been an esteemed hunter, and the chief rival of Navik the Red, the younger Greedo had little of his sire's prowess and was killed easily by Han Solo in Chalmun's Cantina on Tatooine.

Biography
Greedo fled his home planet at the age of three, along with his pregnant mother, Neela, her two older brothers, Nok and Teeku, as well as the remnants of the more peaceful Tetsu clan, who were being annihilated by Navik the Red. They left in three large silver ships and settled on a jungle world. When Greedo was fifteen, he and his younger brother Pqweeduk discovered the ships in the jungle and persuaded their mother to explain what happened.

Navik eventually found them, destroying one of the ships. Greedo's family and the surviving 20 Tetsus that came with them escaped in the Radion to Nar Shaddaa where they began a new life in Level 88 of the Corellian sector.

Greedo saved the lives of two bounty hunters Spurch "Warhog" Goa and his partner Dyyz Nataz when they were attacked by the cyborg Gorm, becoming the only being ever known to have actually hit the towering droid. In return, the pair of hunters cut Greedo in on a bounty for killing a rogue Imperial spice inspector and, as a thank you Greedo told them about a rebel enclave in level 88. With the Imperial reward Greedo bought his own ship the Manka Hunter but decided to lessen the price by stealing some power couplings from another ship. Unfortunately those couplings were for the Millennium Falcon and an angry Chewbacca caught him in the act. As restitution Han Solo took Greedo's Rancor skin jacket. Greedo threatened revenge.

Goa taught Greedo to be a bounty hunter and Greedo thought he would become a great one, learning from a "master". Soon enough, though, he started to regret his decision when the Imperials attacked the rebels in level 88. Greedo, Dyyz and Goa escaped in Goa's ship the Nova Viper just as level 88 exploded, Greedo's whole family with it.

They flew to Tatooine and found work with Jabba the Hutt. Although Greedo's death was on Solo's hands, it was actually Greedo's "mentor" Warhog Goa, who tricked an over-matched Greedo against Solo after he had received a payoff from two Rodian bounty hunters tracking Greedo, who should be credited with his death.

After Greedo's death, Wuher and his new droid companion, C2-R4, claimed the bounty hunter's body and ground it up into a powerful liquor. All that remained of Greedo afterwards was his head, which Wuher (having taken a dislike to Greedo while he was still alive) impaled on a spike.

Behind the scenes
In the 1997 re-release of the film, Greedo gets a badly-aimed shot at Solo before Solo kills Greedo. George Lucas has said that this change is to enhance Solo's overall heroism. This was a controversial decision and in the 2004 version both now pull the trigger at the same time.

In a deleted scene from the The Phantom Menace DVD release, a character named Greedo is seen fighting in the street with a young Anakin Skywalker. After the fight is broken up by Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn Greedo is warned by a fellow Rodian that some day his actions will get him shot. The Expanded Universe has clarified that this Rodian is in fact Greedo the Elder - the father of the Rodian seen in Chalmun's Cantina.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
 * Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina
 * We Don't Do Weddings: The Band's Tale
 * A Hunter's Fate: Greedo's Tale
 * Hammertong: The Tale of the "Tonnika Sisters"
 * Be Still My Heart: The Bartender's Tale
 * Empire Blues: The Devaronian's Tale
 * Trade Wins: The Ranat's Tale
 * Soup's On: The Pipe Smoker's Tale
 * Shadows of the Empire

Audio clips
[[Media:Greedo ANH.ogg|Hear Greedo the Younger]] (Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope)