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The Bounty Hunter Wars is a relatively old Star Wars Legends trilogy by K.W. Jeter that details what happened to Boba Fett after his fall in the Sarlacc, his recovery, and his partnership with Dengar. It has some overlap with a few of the stories found in the Tales of the Bounty Hunters anthology collection. Along with stories like Enemy of the Empire, it takes place before Fett was revealed as a clone and before the Mandalorian Proud Warrior Race Guy backstory was set in stone.There's also a parallel flashback storyline covering Fett's time in the Bounty Hunters' Guild, his one-sided rivalry with Bossk, a behind-the-scenes plot orchestrated by the Corrupt Corporate Executive Kuat of Kuat, and an ongoing subplot revolving around the rivalry between Darth Vader and Prince Xizor, leader of the Black Sun crime syndicate, which was also an important feature of the Shadows of the Empire multi-media Interquel.The trilogy consists of: The Mandalorian Armor (1998) Slave Ship (1998) Hard Merchandise (1999)
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Not-So-Harmless Villain
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Not-So-Harmless Villain: Bossk's Hair-Trigger Temper and Unwitting Pawn tendencies can make him seem like a borderline Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain. However, he still lives up to the ruthlessness of his Trandoshan heritage during his I'm a Humanitarian (see above) moments, and he gradually gets smarter with each encounter with Fett — culminating in Bossk stealing Kuat's fabricated evidence against Prince Xizor and leaving Fett with no choice but to buy it back for much more than it's really worth.
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Punctuation Shaker
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Punctuation Shaker: Kud'ar Mub'at, D'harhan, and the ex-Stormtrooper warlord Trhin Voss'on't.
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Professional Gambler
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Professional Gambler: One of the recurring characters is one. He's also a Knowledge Broker and uses his information to get rich by gambling on it. Manaroo ultimately bets with him that her beloved Dengar will survive his partnership with Boba Fett, winning enough money to finally clear all of their debts.
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I'm a Humanitarian
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I'm a Humanitarian: Bossk kills and eats Cradossk, his own father. All first-born Trandoshans also eat their siblings after hatching, which Bossk is happy to mention when someone describes Fett as his "brother" bounty hunter.
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Adaptation Expansion
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Adaptation Expansion: The series picks up a number of plot threads from Tales of the Bounty Hunters. Dengar and Manaroo rescuing Boba Fett from the edge of the Pit of Carkoon after he blasted his way out of the Sarlacc was previously established in "Payback: The Tale of Dengar", but the story just ended with Fett agreeing to be Dengar's best man at his wedding to Manaroo. Here they have a significant partnership while Fett recovers from his ordeal and fights off a series of assassination attempts.
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Shoot the Builder: In the Back Story, Gheeta the Hutt hired Emd Grahvess to design a spaceport to receive visitors to Gheeta's territory. Gheeta planned to murder Grahvess once the job was done so that the design would be unique. Grahvess anticipated this betrayal and hired Boba Fett to spirit him away once the job was done, humiliating Gheeta.
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Mistaken Death Confirmation
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Mistaken Death Confirmation: As part of his plan to capture Trhin Voss'on't, Boba Fett has the corpse of fellow bounty hunter Zuckuss on board his ship. Bossk checks the body and is chilled by Fett's ruthlessness — but he's far more upset when Zuckuss later gets up and pulls a gun on him. Turns out that Gand are able to slow down their vital functions so much that they appear dead.
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Tranquil Fury
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Tranquil Fury: When Crandossk gets like this, he can be The Dreaded to even Fett. But after trying and failing to invoke Offing the Offspring on Bossk, the latter ultimately turns this around on Daddy — to his dismay.
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Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
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Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: Craddosk's treacherous majordomo Ob Fortuna has several POV scenes in the first book, but in the second book, he dies in his first chapter.
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Crazy-Prepared: Fett takes this to some amazing heights, such as arranging to have a column with a hidden compartment built into a new palace years ago, and storing within it a reactor core compatible with D'harhan's weapon systems - just in case a bounty would turn up in the palace one day and he would have to go in weaponless.
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Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: Played straight with D'harhan, who thinks of himself as a weapon rather than a man. As he no longer has a head his view has some merit...
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Happy Ending Override: By the end of their story in Tales of the Bounty Hunters, 4-LOM had gone through a lot of Character Development. Most of that is undone in this trilogy's present day because 4-LOM was badly damaged in the interim and suffered memory loss, reverting to his mercenary old self.
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Broad Strokes
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Broad Strokes: The trilogy draws heavily on the stories and characters of Tales of the Bounty Hunters but it discards some details. Notably, Boba Fett was stated to have had part of one leg eaten by the Sarlacc before he escaped, which is dropped completely. It also undoes most of 4-LOM's Character Development (justified by him having suffered memory damage) and portrays Zuckuss as significantly less spiritual. Boba Fett also had an amicable relationship with the Bounty Hunters' Guild, whereas in this story he's partly responsible for its collapse.
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Hero of Another Story
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Hero of Another Story: Dengar's Love Interest Manaroo disappears from the trilogy early on as he leaves to partner up with Boba Fett. She reappears in the epilogue after having had some interesting adventures of her own, in which she gambled on Dengar's survival and won enough money to clear all their debts.
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Black-and-Grey Morality: Within the Bounty Hunters' Guild, you've got people like Fett and Zuckuss, who are interested in money and adventure respectively, and people like Bossk, who's more or less a serial killer, cannibal and slaver. And from the X-Wing Series, a cop killer, too. The Big Bad, Kuat, is willing to do some ruthless things... because he's Properly Paranoid about the future of his corporation, (loyal) employees, etc.
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Ace Pilot: N'dru Suhlak is a hotshot pilot who washed out of the Rebel Alliance for insubordination and makes a living transporting wanted fugitives away from bounty hunters. Prior to the events of Slave Ship, he's eluded or destroyed the ship of very bounty hunter who pursued him.
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Missing Mom: Bossk's antagonistic relationship with his father is a main theme of the first book. His mother, meanwhile, is never even mentioned.
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Shoulder Cannon: An extreme variation with the mercenary D'harhan, an old partner of Fett's who has replaced his entire head with a laser cannon powerful enough to penetrate the armor plating on small star ships.
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Villain Has a Point
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Villain Has a Point: Kuat is The Unfettered at trying to keep control of Kuat Drive Yards... But given how the other candidates seem to lack his Even Evil Has Standards and Pragmatic Villainy for the corporation, and the risk of hostile takeover by people like Prince Xizor, he kind-of has to be. That he's shown to be a Universally Beloved Leader for the dockworkers doesn't hurt, either.
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Covers Always Lie
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Covers Always Lie: Darth Vader appears, but has little direct role in the story, which takes place mainly in the background of Return of the Jedi. The blurb on the back of Slave Ship has next to nothing to do with the story itself.
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Repetitive Name: Kuat of Kuat. For extra points, the second part refers to his family name, not his homeworld, so he's actually Kuat of Kuat of Kuat.
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Patricide: Bossk kills his own father Craddock, taking over the Bounty Hunters' Guild by doing so.
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The Big Bad, Kuat, is willing to do some ruthless things... because he's Properly Paranoid about the future of his corporation, (loyal) employees, etc.
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Alas, Poor Villain: Despite his efforts, Kuat is indeed removed from power over the Drive Yards. So he, having lost his life's work, decides to Suicide Attack the docks rather than let the business be turned into what he sees as a shell of itself; but not before ensuring that all his loyalists evacuate first. And the cherry on top is his final scene: his alien pet refuses to abandon him, and he comforts it before they're blown up.
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Contract on the Hitman: Basically the premise of the entire plot. Everyone always wants Fett dead.
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Anti-Villain: Kuat is more-or-less a Corrupt Corporate Executive version of Grand Admiral Thrawn.
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Reset Button
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Reset Button: Most of 4-LOM's Character Development from Tales of the Bounty Hunters is undone by this book, by way of him having suffered damage to his memory hardware in a fight.
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Crew of One
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Crew of One: At the end of the third book, Fett somehow manages to pilot an Imperial Star Destroyer — a mile-long ship that normally has a crew of over thirty-seven thousand — by himself. (Albeit he only fires the engines to get it and himself away from Kuat Drive Yards before Kuat of Kuat self-destructs the place.)
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Determinator: Boba Fett personified. Kuat even lampshades this a few times, always insisting that he'll find a way to come back.
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Groin Attack: Neelah does this to Dengar when they first meet.
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The Starscream: Kud'ar Mub'at was this to his progenitor, and his own progeny Balancesheet is it to him. He does see it coming, but still gets outmaneuvered — Balancesheet simply makes his move far sooner than Mub'at anticipated.
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Great Offscreen War: The backdrop of the series is a bloody civil war amongst the Bounty Hunters Guild that the Empire and Xizor are benefitting from. Practically none of the actual conflict is shown. Aside from the bounty hunters from The Empire Strikes Back (several of whom don't take a side), only four guild members (Craddosk, Ob Fortuna, D'harhan, and Gleed Ontondon) appear in the trilogy, and two of them die before the conflict starts.
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Dude, Where's My Respect?: Zuckuss complains that in spite of his long, successful career and considerable skills as a hunter, everyone else treats him like a novice who's "lucky" to be included in the Guild.
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