![]() ![]() Pegg’s Star Wars enthusiasm shows as he fills the once tabula rasa Dengar with a salty, badass personality. Better yet, Dengar is voiced by lifelong Star Wars lover Simon Pegg ( Shaun of the Dead, Star Trek), and you just know that when Pegg was a wee lad he took his Kenner Dengar figure on many adventures. Dengar plays a secondary role in this episode (doesn’t he always) to Fett and Ventress, but when Dengar springs into action, he truly shines. That honor goes to the season four episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars entitled “Bounty.” In this toyetic installment of Clone Wars, an aimless Asajj Ventress joins up with a band of roguish bounty hunters that includes a teenage Boba Fett, Bossk, and the grizzled, weathered Dengar. Read More: Star Wars Movie and TV Release Date Calendarīut Wolverton’s hyper-readable story isn’t our Expanded Universe essential Dengar pick. Wolverton makes Dengar’s vendetta against the captain of Millennium Falcon very personal. Of course, that rival was none other than a young Han Solo. ![]() Anderson-edited Tales of the Bounty Hunters anthology (get ready, this isn’t the only time I’m going to mention this collection in this article), author Dave Wolverton related Dengar’s origin in a short tale entitled “Payback.” In this piece of essential Dengar fiction (yes, such a thing exists), Wolverton details that Dengar used to be a swoop bike racer who was injured as a teenager by his racing rival. According to Prowse, that is Bush’s foot you can see kicking Obi-Wan’s cape after Luke’s mentor is struck down by the Dark Lord of the Sith.īut where can you read about ‘ol Diaper Head? In the 1996 Kevin J. Interestingly enough, Bush worked as a stand in for David Prowse in Star Wars (1977). Dengar was played by Morris Bush, an actor who also appeared in Hammer’s Scars of Dracula (1970), the Christopher Lee pot boiler Creeping Flesh (1973), and the bizarre Ringo Starr musical comedy Son of Dracula (1974). Dengar was front and center when Vader gave the bounty hunters their marching orders and could also be seen chilling out in Jabba’s Palace in Return of the Jedi. We promise there will be no disintegrations as we turn back time and examine the coolest bounty hunter stories of the Star Wars galaxy: DengarĪh Dengar, we know kids of the 80s probably referred to you as Diaper Head, but you are still badass. ![]()
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