10 Background Star Wars Characters More Important Than You Think

10. Willrow Hood 

Willrow Hood was - and still is - a bit of a meme among Star Wars fans. The character can be spotted once Lando Calrissian sends out the evacuation order across Cloud City near the end of The Empire Strikes Back, panicked and running with an ice cream maker (although it was obviously meant to be something else in Star Wars terms).

Because of the fact the prop was so obviously an ice cream maker, fans latched on to the extra and they were eventually named in the Star Wars Customisable Card Game, which released trading cards from 1995-2001. Hood was an old Tibana gas miner in Legends continuity, but was given a slightly different origin in the current continuity, revealed in the "Due on Batuu" short story from the second From a Certain Point of View Book released in 2020.

Now, hood was a disgruntled engineer who fixed pressure leaks, with dreams of making it to the big leagues as an adventurous smuggler. He eventually gets his wish, being paid a handsome sum to deliver a camtono (the ice cream maker from Episode V) to its intended recipient on the planet Batuu.

The story makes clear how Hood was in way over his head, and after almost losing the camtono in the confusion sparked by the evacuation (and a double cross from his hired Cloud Car pilot), the package gets destroyed anyway.