10 Star Wars Fates Worse Than Death

If we are to just go by the films canon (we're not, bear with me), then Boba Fett has what is potentially one of the worst (and biggest damp squib) endings from that original trilogy. This fearsome bounty hunter was enough to make Han Solo roar with surprise... and is then immediately, and accidentally, knocked into the maw of the Sarlacc, doomed to spend the rest of his life being slowly digested.

However, the character proved to be more popular than this fate would allow - but he now exists in an entirely different kind of limbo. With thanks to the expanded universe, he was given many more adventures, escaping the Sarlacc and the indignity of that ending. Lucasfilm even saw fit to expand upon Boba's origins as a bounty hunter, with the character appearing again on-screen in the Clone Wars TV show.

And then he was killed again, but this time by the studio. Ahead of the sequel trilogy's release, the entire EU was deemed non-canon, which dropped Fett back into the belly of the Sarlacc. Escape, only to be returned to his doom.

There is a sliver of hope though - after several teases that Fett may have dodged his gruesome fate, Temuera Morrison (who played Jango Fett and the Republic's Clone Army in Attack of the Clones), has been heavily rumoured to appear as Boba Fett in the second season of The Mandalorian.

This should hopefully correct the mistake of leaving him on Tatooine, bringing this character back to life - even if it's only to receive the send-off he deserves.