Jabba Desilijic Tiure,better known as Jabba the Hutt, is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. Initially performed by Declan Mulholland as a human in the original Star Wars film, Jabba first appeared properly in the 1983 film Return of the Jedi as a large, slug-like crime lord of the Hutt species. In the film, Jabba was voiced by Larry Ward and depicted by a one-ton puppet operated by several puppeteers. In 1997, Jabba's deleted scene was restored in the original Star Wars film's Special Edition – retitled A New Hope – where Mulholland was replaced with computer-generated imagery. Jabba made his third film appearance in the 1999 prequel film The Phantom Menace, with Jabba being credited as portraying "himself". Jabba's voice actors in A New Hope and The Phantom Menace are unknown.

Jabba lives in a palace on the desert planet Tatooine. He places a bounty on the smuggler Han Solo, and sends bounty hunters to capture him. After Darth Vader freezes Solo in carbonite, the bounty hunter Boba Fett delivers the frozen Solo to Jabba, who puts him on display in his palace. Solo's friends then save him, but are captured by Jabba; he enslaves Princess Leia and plans to feed Luke Skywalker, Chewbacca, and Solo to a Sarlacc. After they enter to the Sail Barge, Leia strangles Jabba to death, and the group destroy the Sail Barge and escape from Tatooine.