10 Star Wars Characters That Came Back From The Dead (And How)

10. Bib Fortuna

Since the release of Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi in 1983, many had rightly believed that Jabba the Hutt's right hand Twilek, Bib Fortuna, perished when the sail barge was incinerated, thanks to the heroics of Luke Skywalker and his friends.

Now, we know that not to be the case. There had initially been some material in which the Twilek survived his encounter on the sail barge, with the 1995 comic, Of The Day's Annoyances: Bib Fortuna's Tale, explaining that he had escaped the explosion and became a spider-esque monk known as a B'omarr Monk. That comic was then shoved into the Legends category when Disney purchased the franchise in 2012, and so Fortuna was once again presumed dead.

However, Bib Fortuna surviving the events of Return of the Jedi has once again become canon. In the final scene of the second season of The Mandalorian, a fat Fortuna has taken Jabba's palace for himself after escaping a fiery death near the Great Pit of Carkoon (also known as the Sarlaac Pit).

The Twilek's rule was not as long as he would have hoped for, as he was soon shot dead by Boba Fett, who then took the throne, and Tatooine's criminal empire with it.