Jango Fett is a Star Wars Legends limited comic series, focusing on the title character 5 years before his appearance on Attack of the Clones. The story was continued in its sequel Star Wars: Zam Wesell.
Tropes in this series include:
- Affably Evil:
- Antonin, the Black Sun Vigo whom Jango is tasked with killing, is jarringly cordial with the bounty hunter when he storms his lair and kills his escort, offering him a drink and showing flattery for his nemesis for sending the best bounty hunter out there to kill him.
- Ashaar Khorda is an Omnicidal Maniac who wants to blow up a highly populated planet, but he's never anything but polite with his aides (whom are also going to die for the cause), and sees the ordeal as Necessarily Evil. He also kills the Gran driver who took him down to the mines but tips him anyway.
- Asshole Victim: Anyone who has read Star Wars: Republic knows Dreddon the Hutt won't be missed. The only reason Jango is upset is because he owed him for Antonin's bounty.
- Ax-Crazy: Ashaar Khorda is a complete madman even by Jango's standards, who delusionally believes his quest to destroy a planet to hurt the government to be an honorable one.
- Badass in Distress: On Seylott, Zam is attacked by a giant arthropod and has to be saved by Jango. However, she doesn't go out without a fight, and eventually kills the thing with her explosives.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: Jango and Zam. They have multiple Gunpoint Banters and occasionally clash over conflicting bounties, but they have a mutual respect for each other, and Zam is not above flirting with him to get on his nerves.
- Big Bad: Ashaar Khorda is a revolutionary terrorist aiming to destroy Coruscant as an attack on the Galactic Republic. He hires both Jango Fett and Zam Wesell to retrieve the artifact that he plans to use as a weapon. The duo later realize what the artifact's potential was and strive to put an end to his plot.
- Big Damn Heroes: Yarael Poof, Jango and Zam all equally save Coruscant from the Infant of Shaa. Jango kills the Big Bad Ashaar Khorda and The Dragon Fernooda, Zam stops the idol from falling to its doom using her shapeshifting abilities to stretch her arm, and Master Poof disables it permanently with the force.
- Call-Back:
- In the sequel, Jango briefly comments on how he was rescued and adopted by Jaster Mereel after his parents' demise.
- During the search for Khorda, Jango compares him unfavorably to his previous nemesis Montross.
- Yarael Poof's cremation and funeral is done in the same fashion as Qui Gon's from The Phantom Menace.
- Call-Forward: Several to Return of the Jedi.
- Zam Wesell kills her target Dreddon the Hutt by strangling him with one of his ornaments while wearing a slave girl attire. The diference between this scene and the iconic one is that Leia was actually Made a Slave by Jabba, while Zam got Dreddon with a Honey Trap.
- This won't be the last time a Fett would do bounty work for a Hutt only for that Hutt to die from a third party.
- Yarael Poof scares off some bullies by projecting a vision of a Rancor (identical to Jabba's) through the force.
- Character Death: Master Yarael Poof is stabbed in the chest by Ashaar Khorda while he was concentrating his force powers on retrieving the artifact without detonating it.
- Continuity Nod: Dreddon the Hutt, Jango's first employer in the story and Zam's bounty, previously appeared in the comic book Star Wars: Republic.
- Contrived Coincidence: Turns out that Vigo Antonin and Dreddon the Hutt placed bounties on each other's heads, which ended up being collected simultaneously by Jango and Zam, ending with neither of them collecting any money since both their employers were dead.
- The Dragon: The Dug Fernooda is this for Ashaar Khorda. He's the one to hire Jango and Zam to retrieve the artifact for his master.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: This comic emphasizes how much Jango dotes on his son Boba, and he cares for Zam as well to a lesser extent.
- Even Evil Has Standards:
- Zam Wesell has no problem killing people for money, but when she finds out that the artifact that she tried to retrieve for Fernooda was a planet-killer, she strives to put an end to his plot out of genuine regret, because she doesn't want to have the blood of billions of people on her hands. Jango's reaction is much more subdued, but once he sees a glimpse Khorda's carnage with his own eyes, he becomes quite discomforted.
- Despite Jango's hatred for Jedi, he still tries to save Yarael Poof from Khorda when he sees him get stabbed. He also saves Zam twice throughout the story despite how disillusioned he can be with her.
- Femme Fatale: Zam is a Clawdite (a shapeshifter species) who prefers to take the form of an attractive female human to woo her bounties before killing them.
- Friendly Enemy: Jango and Zam both work alone, making them rivals in the bounty hunting line of work, but they're as prone to flirting as threatening each other when they have an encounter. They also have their backs when a third party threatens them, such as when he saved her from the Seylott creature.
- Heroic Sacrifice: After being fatally stabbed, Yarael Poof uses the last strain of force that he still has to deactivate the idol permanently.
- Hero Killer: Ashaar Khorda kills Master Yarael Poof.
- It's Personal with the Dragon: Though his target is Khorda, Jango has a personal hatred for Fernooda (his then-employer) for "forgetting" about pivotal elements concerning his mission three times. First, that the thief of the artifact was a force user, then that he sent a second bounty hunter (Zam) on the mission as insurance, and finally, that the artifact has the concealed power to destroy a planet when used properly. The next time he sees him, he targets him first and breaks his neck.
- Mutual Kill: By proxy, but still counts. Both Dreddon the Hutt and Antonin placed high bounties on each other's heads. Both got collected simultaneously, leaving both hunters without pay since their employers were dead.
- Oh, Crap!: Jango when he realizes Zam has killed his employer. Zam also has one when she realizes he had killed her employer too.
- Pet the Dog:
- Jango allows his target Vigo Antonin to down one last glass of wine before shooting him dead.
- He also spares the punk who has an accomplice challenge him on "The Twirling Twi'Lek", though he does shoot said accomplice dead first.
- When tasked to retrieve the artifact, he also gives the Seylott who was guarding it a chance to hand it over peacefully.
- Smug Snake: Zam taunts Jango after killing his employer, telling him to "choose his contacts more carefully". Jango then casually reveals that he had killed her employer as well, and her grin vanishes.
