Editing Jar Jar Binks (section)

====''The Phantom Menace''====
Jar Jar Binks first appears in ''[[Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace]]'' as a bumbling, foolish [[Gungan]] from the planet [[Naboo]] who is banished by his tribe as punishment for his clumsiness. He is nearly killed by a [[Trade Federation]] transport, only to be saved at the last minute by [[Jedi|Jedi Master]] [[Qui-Gon Jinn]] ([[Liam Neeson]]). Qui-Gon and his [[Jedi Padawan|padawan]], [[Obi-Wan Kenobi]] ([[Ewan McGregor]]), persuade Jar Jar's tribe to release him to their custody as a guide. He later goes with the Jedi and [[Padmé Amidala]] ([[Natalie Portman]]) to the planet [[Tatooine]], where he meets and befriends nine-year-old slave [[Darth Vader|Anakin Skywalker]] ([[Jake Lloyd]]).

Jar Jar later appears in the film's climactic battle scene, where he leads his fellow Gungans, as a general in the Gungan army, in defeating the Trade Federation. After the battle, he appears at the funeral of Qui-Gon Jinn and in the ending parade with his fellow Gungans.