10 Background Star Wars Characters With Ridiculously Convoluted Backstories

Aurra Sing briefly appeared in the galaxy far, far away during the Boonta Eve podrace in Episode I - The Phantom Menace.

And from that little glimpse at the pale alien being, it was safe to assume the gun-boasting figure was a bounty hunter of sorts. But Sing was actually so much more than that.

You see, before turning to a life of capturing and killing for money, Sing was born on the planet Nar Shaddaa, with the Palliduvan never knowing her father and having a spice-addicted mother. Her Force-sensitivity eventually led to her becoming a part of the Jedi Order, however, only for Sing to then walk away from it all to become a bounty hunter instead.

Before showing up in The Phantom Menace, the top-class sniper would work alongside the likes of Jango Fett and Cad Bane, too, and even interacted with Darth Maul before he was famously sliced in two by Obi-Wan Kenobi.

In the time post-Episode I, she'd also act as a questionable mentor to Boba Fett as the son of Jango attempted to get revenge on Mace Windu during the Clone Wars for killing his pops.

That's a hell of a history for a character with a grand total of two seconds of Skywalker Saga screen-time.