Star Wars: 10 Expanded Universe Characters We Hope To Never See Again

2. Ziro The Hutt €“ The Clone Wars

Star Wars Ziro The Hutt

When you think of Hutts, you immediately think of Jabba sending dancers to the Rancor pit or pledging his forces to Darth Maul. What you don€™t picture is Jabba€™s uncle Ziro. A Hutt who is bright purple, sounds like Truman Capote, and is camper than Louie Spence. These characteristics combined with the fact that Hutts are hermaphroditic has led to various internet critics and fans dubbing him €œGay Uncle Ziro€. Because when a character is a flamboyant bright purple hermaphrodite covered in jewellery, feathers, and yellow body paint, nobody€™s ever going to reach any other conclusion. The idea that Ziro is gay was later quashed by the Clone Wars episode The Hunt For Ziro, which revealed that he€™d been in a relationship with Sy Snootles, the yellow singer with the huge mouth from Return Of The Jedi. Though the idea that those two were romantically involved is even more hideous than Ziro himself. There€™s enough horrifying fanfiction on the internet without the official canon trying to rival it. But I digress. Every Hutt before Ziro has been a kind of grungy dark green colour and spoke in Huttese, a language that, combined with the guttural delivery from Hutt voice actors, generates a very menacing and, dare I say it, frightening image. As mentioned, Ziro is bright purple and speaks English in slightly effeminate Texan drawl. It doesn€™t matter if you are a crime lord, there is no way possible to be intimidating with that kind of appearance and demeanour. No wonder he€™s the black sheep of the Hutt Families.
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JG Moore is a writer and filmmaker from the south of England. He also works as an editor and VFX artist, and has a BA in Media Production from the University Of Winchester.