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War of the Bounty Hunters introduced a devastating weapon that’s too gruesome to appear anywhere else in the Star Wars Universe.
WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters: Jabba the Hutt #1 from Marvel Comics, on sale now.
The latest chapter in the War of the Bounty Hunters just dove deep into the dangerous web that has ensnared the Star Wars galaxy’s greatest bounty hunters. Before he was tasked with capturing and bringing Han Solo back to Jabba’s palace, Boba Fett was sent on a mission that teamed him up with the deadly Deva Lompop, Along the way, Fett encountered a weapon too horrifying for anywhere else in the Star Wars franchise in the form of a flesh melting hand grenade in Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters: Jabba the Hutt #1 by Justina Ireland, Ibraim Roberson, Luca Pizzari, Edgar Delgado, Giada Marchisio and VC’s Ariana Maher.
Not long ago, Jabba the Hutt introduced Deva and Boba Fett to one another while bringing to their attention his problem with Jarm Brock. In his work for Bokku the Hutt, Jarm had run afoul of Jabba’s organization and disrupted his operation on Mos Entha. Despite their respective objections, Boba Fett and Deva traveled together to Tatooine to deal with the problem, only to discover their target much better prepared for an attack than they expected. What looked like an obvious trap turned out to be just that as Jarm Brock and his soldiers came crashing down upon the bounty hunters in full force. Of course, Deva is prepared to be caught in a firefight thanks to a particularly nasty device the likes of which has never before been seen in the Star Wars Universe.
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After Deva lobs a grenade, Jarm immediately recognizes the device for what it is, calling out to his men not to let the gas emanating from it get near them. Unfortunately, it’s too late for some of his soldiers. In an instant, the flesh is gruesomely wrested free from his body, melting away to leave little more than scraps of bone and cloth behind where the soldier once stood. This would be a harrowing sight to behold in any franchise, but in the world of Star Wars, it stands out as especially shocking.
While the franchise might not be a stranger to brutal demises or impossibly powerful weapons, the display of chemical warfare exhibited here is a far cry from what most fans would associate with the series.
It is also something that, despite its only recent introduction, is immediately recognizable as a game-changer. Where the Death Stars stood as weapons of mass destruction capable of eradicating entire worlds in a single shot, it’s entirely incapable of any sort of precision targeting. It’s unable to leave anything of particular value behind in their wake, whereas the bomb utilized by Deva Lompop here seems to only affect the organic matter it comes into contact with — though that doesn’t do much good against any awaiting droids or cyborgs. This alone makes it one of the most powerful, if not the absolute least ethical weapon that the Star Wars Universe has seen to date. Unfortunately, the chances of seeing it make waves anywhere else are slim to none.
Fans have seen the like of Darth Maul be cut down in a horrifying fashion on the silver screen, as well as all-out wars unfold throughout nearly every chapter of the Star Wars franchise. Still, there isn’t likely to be any place on any screen for the introduction of a flesh melting gas — at least not as long as the House of Mouse is keeping a close eye on how their stories unfold. Even The Mandalorian, with its fast-paced, high-intensity action set pieces set among uncharacteristically bleak backdrops, doesn’t seem like a proper fit for anything so gruesome.
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