Welcome to Day 16 of my NaBloPoMo Challenge, during which I randomly choose a card from the Star Wars Chat Pack.
Today’s question asks: What is the scariest creature in Star Wars?
That’s a tough one, because there’s so many! Hmmm, will I choose….
The Rancor?
We encountered the rancor for the first time in Return of the Jedi at Jabba’s Palace; then we saw another one again in The Book of Boba Fett (and Muchi, the adolescent female in The Bad Batch). They are indeed ferocious creatures, apparently easily angered, and look as if they’ll tear you from limb to limb with those huge sharp claws. Or will I choose…
The Rathtar?
Rathtars are in The Force Awakens; Han and Chewie are delivering them to some Prince who collects such things. They’d had a bigger crew, but it’s implied the creatures ate them as they rounded them up. They get loose on their ship and wreak havoc; we don’t actually see too much of them, except a big round mouth full of sharp teeth and plenty of long tentacles to pull you into said mouth. Okay, pretty scary. But so is…
The Wampa
So this guy nearly killed Luke Skywalker on the planet of Hoth. The creature whacked him across the face, killed his tauntaun, and dragged him back to his lair. Luke hung upside down, his feet encased in ice, until the beast was ready to eat him. Meanwhile, the Wampa was feasting on something else, presumably his tauntaun. Luckily for Luke, he woke up in time and used the Force to get his lightsaber and got away.
As scary as these creatures are, I think I have to go with…
Bor Gullet
Bor Gullet is a Mairan, a slimy, tentacled creature from Rogue One that can read minds, both thoughts and emotions, in its victims. Saw Gerrera uses the creature on Bodhi Rook to find out if he’s telling the truth. It’s repulsive. As it sidles toward Bodhi and wraps its tentacles around him, it just absolutely creeps me out. It may not kill you, but it can make you lose your mind. I think I’d rather die, lol.
There’s plenty of monsters to choose from in Star Wars: the Sarlaac, the Krayt Dragon, the Zillo Beast, the Dianoga, the prequel creatures on Geonosis, the Leveler and the Drengir from the High Republic, and let’s not forget those terrible spider creatures from both Rebels and the Mandalorian. And others I can’t even think of right now.
So which creature do you think is the scariest? Let me know in the comments and we’ll talk about it!
Star Wars and Other Obsessions 
Hi Tina, halfway through the month huh? Well in answer to today’s question I would suggest something a little more insidious. It comes from Geonosis too and it is the Brain Worms that infected the clone troopers of Tango Company. They are sorta scary because they can attack quietly while you sleep and you never wake up after being turned into a zombie (<though these sound awfully similar to Ceti Alpha Bug larvae from Star Trek).
But…. the Wampa isn't scary…least not the one I met….
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Well, FT, that’s because it didn’t dare mess with a Jedi armed with a lightsaber, lol. Cool pic! But yes, I thought about those brain worms, too, and they are quite hideous. Just thinking about something squirmy like that getting inside your head through your nose and turning you into a zombie…well, that’s horrifying! Good choice. And yep, halfway through the month and I’m not even sick of it. Yet, lol. We’ll see how I feel on day 30.
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Yes Brain Worms are potentially dangerous and Wampas are armless…..sorry HARMLESS really! (and this particular Wampa is perfectly safe).
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I think i’d go for the Rathtar because of how dangerous and deadly they appear to be, however i will give a Legends shoutout to one of the few trilogies I’ve read: the Jedi Academy Trilogy. They had a kind of crystal creature that was killing miners on Kessel which sounded super creepy, and the mines being so dark meant that you couldn’t even see it
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Ooh, those sound weird and creepy. I haven’t read many Legends myself, and the ones I have, I can’t remember any monsters. And sometimes it’s scarier what you can’t see–even with the rathtar, it’s so quick you only get glimpses of tentacles, and hear it roar.
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