Editing Boba Fett (section)

===Skywalker saga===
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====Original trilogy====
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Fett's theatrical film debut was as an unnamed bounty hunter in ''The Empire Strikes Back'' as the "next major villain" beside Darth Vader.<ref name="protofett2">{{cite web |url=https://www.starwars.com/episode-v/bts/article/f20061019/index.html?page=2|title=Proto-Fett: The Birth of Boba|last=Vilmur|first=Pete|date=October 16, 2006|publisher=[[Lucasfilm]]|page=2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110825002942/http://www.starwars.com/episode-v/bts/article/f20061019/index.html?page=2|archive-date=August 25, 2011|access-date=December 13, 2014}}</ref> He is one of six bounty hunters assembled by Darth Vader, who promises a reward to whoever captures the crew of the ''[[Millennium Falcon]]''. Fett tracks the starship to Cloud City, where Vader captures its passengers and tortures its captain, [[Han Solo]]. Aiming to collect the bounty Jabba the Hutt has placed on Solo (established in the original film), Fett questions Vader regarding the carbon freeze, which Vader intends to use on his true target, Luke Skywalker. Vader promises that the Empire will compensate Fett if Solo dies, but the smuggler survives and Vader turns him over to Fett, who leaves to deliver him to Jabba in his ship, the ''[[Slave I]]''.

''Return of the Jedi'' features Boba Fett at Jabba's palace on [[Tatooine]], where Han Solo's friends are captured while trying to save him. Fett aims his weapon at [[Princess Leia]] (disguised as bounty hunter Boushh) when she threatens Jabba with a thermal detonator, and he later travels on Jabba's [[sail barge]] to the Great Pit of Carkoon (home of a sessile carnivorous creature known as a sarlacc) to witness the prisoners' execution. When the prisoners revolt and fight back, Fett flies over and briefly fights Luke. Chewbacca later warns Solo, who is still blind after being frozen in carbonite, that Fett is near. As Solo turns around, he inadvertently hits Fett's rocket pack, setting it off and propelling Fett into the side of the sail barge, from which he falls into the sarlacc's mouth. The 1997 Special Edition release of the film includes an additional scene of Fett flirting with some of Jabba's female dancers.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|last=Spry|first=Jeff|date=2014-11-17|title=Image of the Day: Vintage helmet-less Boba Fett|url=https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/image-of-the-day-vintage-helmet-less-boba-fett|access-date=2020-12-15|website=SyFy Wire|language=en|archive-date=January 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121215221/https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/image-of-the-day-vintage-helmet-less-boba-fett|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In the 1997 Special Edition of ''A New Hope'', Fett briefly appears in [[Changes in Star Wars re-releases#Jabba the Hutt|a reintroduced cut scene]] outside the ''Millennium Falcon'' while Jabba confronts Han Solo.<ref name="starwars_bobafett" /> The character had yet to be created during the filming of the scene and was thus superimposed onto the image.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web|last=Agar|first=Chris|date=2020-07-27|title=Star Wars: Why George Lucas Added Jabba the Hutt & Boba Fett Into New Hope|url=https://screenrant.com/star-wars-jabba-boba-fett-lucas-changes-reason/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-17|website=[[Screen Rant]]|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802215019/https://screenrant.com/star-wars-jabba-boba-fett-lucas-changes-reason/ |archive-date=August 2, 2020 }}</ref>

====Prequel trilogy====
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A preteen Boba Fett (played by Daniel Logan) appears in the 2002 prequel film ''Episode II – Attack of the Clones'', which reveals that he is an unaltered clone of the bounty hunter Jango Fett (Temuera Morrison),<ref name="Variety201Cast">{{cite web|last=Thorne|first=Will|date=October 30, 2020|title='The Mandalorian' Season 2 Premiere: Is That 'Star Wars' Character Back From the Dead? And More Burning Questions|url=https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/the-mandalorian-season-2-premiere-boba-fett-burning-questions-1234819615/|access-date=October 30, 2020|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref> who had him created on [[Kamino (Star Wars)|Kamino]] to be raised as his son as part of his price to serve as the template for the Grand Army of the Republic's [[clone trooper|clone army]].<ref name="starwars_bobafett" /> Boba helps Jango escape from [[Obi-Wan Kenobi]] and accompanies him to [[Geonosis]], where he witnesses Jango's death by beheading at the hands of [[Mace Windu]] during the first battle in the Clone Wars.<ref name="starwars_bobafett" /> After the battle ends, he is last seen mourning over his father's helmet, which he takes and places in front of his head, foreshadowing his future as a bounty hunter wearing his father's armor.