Jar Jar Binks
Jar Jar Binks is a good-hearted but bumbling Gungan from the planet Naboo. After getting exiled for being a colossal fuckup, he ran into the Jedi Knight Qui-Gon Jinn and his Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi. Since Qui-Gon saved him from being run over by a tank, Jar Jar owed him a life debt and decided to tag along with the Jedi on their mission to defeat the Trade Federation - despite them really not wanting him to. However, the Gungan turned out to be more helpful than expected, becoming a hero to his people. From there, he got mixed up in a world of politics, assisting Padmé Amidala after she became Naboo’s senator as the Gungans’ representative. While he had that job, he might’ve maybe given a certain secret Sith Lord emergency powers, which might’ve maybe given him the platform he needed to destroy the Republic, massacre the Jedi, and eventually subjugate the entire galaxy and bring it under Imperial rule. Jar Jar made a surprise reappearance in the novel Aftermath: Empire’s End. It’s revealed that, after his stint working in the senate, people blamed him for giving Palpatine the power he needed to conquer the galaxy. An outcast once more, he found work as a clown at an orphanage, where he could give joy to the only people who could stand him: little children. In the new canon, that’s the last we ever see of Jar Jar Binks, and I’ve got a feeling that’s where his story ends.
General Info
- Height is 1.96 meters / 6 foot 5 inches; amphibious with powerful calf muscles for swimming; tight trouser ends keep out swamp crawlies. (source)
- Databank entry confirms height of 1.96 meters / 6 foot 5 inches. (source)
- Gungan species is amphibious with hardy lungs for extended breath-holding, flexible cartilaginous skeletal structure, tough flexible bills for burrowing and rooting food, long muscular tongues for scooping mollusks and lesser amphibians. (source)
- Gungans are naturally powerful swimmers. (source)
- Gungans have powerful teeth to crack shellfish and tongues 1 meter / 3.2 feet long. (source)
Physicals
- Strength - Swings around a Gungan shotput thing pretty fast, but only ends up throwing himself backwards. (source) (TPM)
- Strength - Holds on to another Gungan riding a kaadu until blown off by an explosion. (source) (TPM)
- Strength - Holds on to the barrel of a droid tank even as it spins around. (source) (TPM)
- Strength - Stays on the back of a crab droid even as it tries to buck him off. (source) (S1E8)
- Strength - Carries a stack of plates and cups. (source) (S3E3)
- Strength - Knocks out a few cultists with a polearm weapon, though not intentionally. (source) (S6E8)
- Strength - Knocks a guy to the ground with a diving sucker punch. (source) (S6E9)
- Strength - Knocks the guy down again. (source) (S6E9)
- Strength - Frees Queen Julia from metal restraints. (source) (S6E9)
- Strength - Knocks around a cultist with punches, then strangles him and holds him in place. (source) (S6E9)
- Durability - Gets bucked off a kaadu and is back up really quick. (source) (TPM)
- Durability - Gets blasted through the air by an explosion and is pretty much fine after landing on the barrel of a droid tank. (source) (TPM)
- Durability - Falls off a ledge while on the back of a crab droid and climbs back up, just fine. (source) (S1E8)
- Durability - Gets launched into the air after the tank he’s on gets blasted by another tank. He’s pretty much fine after crashing on the ground. (source) (S1E12)
- Durability - He’s alright after getting his tongue caught in some gears, falling over a table, and stumbling into a shelf hard enough to make it domino some other shelves over. (source) (S1E17)
- Durability - Gets strangled by a cultist, then caught in the middle of a large Force explosion that creates a huge shockwave and wrecks a structure. He’s fine. (source) (S6E9)
- Speed and Agility - Does a kip-up. (source) (TPM)
- Speed and Agility - Jumps up high into the air and does a somersaulting dive. (source) (TPM)
- Speed and Agility - Jumps down to the floor below from a balcony, possibly leaping from one balcony to another before jumping down. (source) (TPM)
- Speed and Agility - Dodges a thrown fruit. (source) (S1E8)
- Speed and Agility - Takes cover while under fire from a few battle droids. (source) (S1E8)
- Speed and Agility - Takes cover while under fire from a crab droid. (source) (S1E8)
- Speed and Agility - Evades blaster fire from a few battle droids while hanging on a ledge. (source) (S1E8)
- Speed and Agility - Evades blaster fire from two more droids. (source) (S1E8)
- Speed and Agility - Dances to avoid fire from two droidekas. (source) (S1E8)
- Speed and Agility - Catches on a ledge after getting dropped down a pit. (source) (S6E8)
- Speed and Agility - Gets under cover while under fire from a blaster turret. (source) (S6E9)
- Speed and Agility - Jumps from one large droid to another. (source) (S6E9)
- Speed and Agility - Gets out of the way before Mother Talzin can fire an energy beam attack. (source) (S6E9)
- Speed and Agility - Runs across a bridge that’s breaking beneath him. (source) (SWA)
- Speed and Agility - Jumps way up in the air, seemingly repeatedly. (source) (EE)
Gungan Traits
- Tongue - Snatches an apple with his tongue. (source) (TPM)
- Tongue - Snatches a little frog thing hanging from a bar with his tongue, then spits it out with enough force to send the bar spinning and launch the frog thing off. (source) (TPM)
- Tongue - Attempts to snatch up a bug with his tongue from a nearby table; misses but demonstrates long tongue length. (source) (S1E17)
- Tongue - Grabs Mace Windu’s lightsaber with his tongue, then spits it through the air to him. (source) (S6E9)
- Tongue - Snatches a cave bat out of the air with his tongue, wrapping it around it. (source) (SWA)
- Tongue - Catches a fish that slips out of his hands with his tongue. (source) (EE)
- Aquatic Capabilities - Swims down from the surface of a lake to the Gungan city below. (source) (TPM)
- Aquatic Capabilities - Slips underwater to flee from some battle droids. (source) (S1E8)
- Aquatic Capabilities - Outswims a homing missile fired at him by a Super Battle Droid. (source) (S1E8)
- Aquatic Capabilities - Can talk underwater. (source) (S4E2)
- Other - Sniffs out an insect across the room. (source) (S1E17)
- Other - While underwater, seals up a crack in Padmé’s helmet with his spit. (source) (S4E3)
- Other - Sucks water into his mouth and makes it spray out his ears. (source) (EE)
Skill
- Weaponry - Briefly shown using a blaster pistol. (source) (S1E18)
- Weaponry - Possibly received some blaster training from the Republic army, offered by Obi-Wan on behalf of Padmé. (source) (S1E18)
- Weaponry - Carries a Gungan electropole when entering a battle. (source) (S4E2)
- Weaponry - Uses a hand-held Gungan booma thrower weapon against General Grievous. (source) (S4E4)
- Weaponry - Briefly uses a polearm weapon stolen from a cultist. (source) (S6E8)
- Weaponry - Grabs an energy gun from a large droid and uses it to blast another large droid, taking it down; continues using it to blast several cultists with one beam. (source) (S6E9)
- Weaponry - Briefly uses a lightsaber picked up off a dead Jedi, slicing through three battle droids before dropping it. (source) (AoR)
- Weaponry - Fights droids with Captain Rex after being given a blaster rifle. (source) (AoR)
- Intellect - Appears to have some degree of technical ability, helping Anakin build his podracer. (source) (TPM)
- Intellect - Swings around a magnetic lift to smash some droids. (source) (S1E8)
- Intellect - Thinks to hide in an acid geyser after clones are attacked by pirates, noting local beasts avoid geysers before they blow to determine when to climb out. (source) (S1E12)
- Intellect - Pretends to trip and fall, causing a pirate to crash his tank into another, destroying the electrical grid; later hijacks the tank to fight another pirate tank. (source) (S1E12)
- Intellect - Gathers cups and plates to make an interpretive art piece to distract Trade Federation guys from supply ships heading off Rodia without permission; juggles plates, lays out cups with leg, spins plate on finger. (source) (S3E3)
- Intellect - After being thrown on top of a large droid by Mace Windu, jumps from droid to droid, causing them to attack and destroy each other. (source) (S6E9)
- Other - Scales a high tower. (source) (S1E8)
- Other - Befriends a giant slug monster to swallow him and block an incoming missile explosion; later brings the slug to fight for him in the final battle. (source) (S1E8)
- Other - As a swamp native, brought along to Mimban to help clone troopers interface with local Mimbanese. (source) (AoR)
- Other - Can juggle and do tricks. (source) (EE)
Dumb Luck
- Unintentionally takes down several battle droids by flicking around the upper half of a battle droid tangled around his foot that’s still firing its blaster. (source) (TPM)
- Unintentionally takes down a droid ship by accidentally opening a carrier ship full of Gungan booma bombs. (source) (TPM)
- Accidentally takes down a battle droid with a Gungan booma grenade thrown to him. (source) (TPM)
- Unintentionally stops a magnetic lift right before it crushes C-3PO. (source) (S1E8)
- Snags his leg on a vine after falling off a ledge, saving himself. (source) (S1E8)
- Stumbles on the villain’s lair after tripping on a stick. (source) (S1E17)
- Accidentally takes down a few cultists while wielding a polearm weapon. (source) (S6E8)