The article discusses the ancestors, parents, and uncle of Jabba the Hutt as well as his four cousins, The Twins, and explores the role of The Mandalorian & Grogu in revealing more of Jabba's family members.
Warning! This post contains SPOILERS for The Mandalorian & Grogu For decades, Jabba the Hutt has been one of the Star Wars galaxy's biggest and most iconic gangsters.
Having debuted in the original trilogy of films, Jabba became a central figure in the galactic underworld, ruling a vast network of criminal operations across the Outer Rim from his large palace on Tatooine. However, Jabba is just one of an entire slug-like species, and many of his family members have become quite notable as well.
Overall, Jabba the Hutt's family tree has become quite relevant following recent Star Wars projects and especially following the release of The Mandalorian & Grogu, which brings more than one member of Jabba's family back into the spotlight. As such, a good understanding of Jabba's genealogy is actually pretty helpful when it comes to understanding some of the key dynamics at play during the New Republic Era in the wake of Jabba's death.
While there are several different Hutt clans and families involved with the mighty Hutt Syndicate, this post will focus on Jabba's family in particular, one of the most influential of all the clans in the official Star Wars canon. With that in mind, here's our full breakdown of Jabba’s relatives, cousins, heirs, and the somewhat confusing continuity that's emerged following the release of The Mandalorian & Grogu.
Jabba The Hutt’s Clan Is Named Desilijic, One Of The Oldest Hutt Clans In the official Star Wars canon, Jabba the Hutt's full name is Jabba Desilijic Tiure, with “Desilijic” referring to his family clan, one of the oldest and most powerful Hutt bloodlines. Existing thousands of years before the rise of the Galactic Empire or even the Republic, the Hutts operated as ancient crime families controlling trade routes, smuggling operations, and entire sectors of space in the Outer Rim, with Clan Desilijic having long been one of the most influential.
By the time of the Skywalker Saga, Jabba had risen to become one of the most powerful Hutt gangsters, while also being a member of the Hutt Grand Council. The Hutts were so influential that they collectively maintained a strong level of political independence even in the midst of major conflicts like the Clone Wars.
However, the Galactic Civil War did see Emperor Palpatine ordering Darth Vader to kill the majority of the Hutt Grand Council, leaving Jabba alone to rule the syndicate ahead of Return of the Jedi, where Jabba himself was then killed by Princess Leia Organa. Naturally, Jabba's death resulted in a rare major power vacuum during the subsequent New Republic Era, explaining why more of Jabba's family members are taking the spotlight in newer Star Wars projects like The Mandalorian & Grogu.
Jabba the Hutt's Grandparents, Parents, And Uncle Ziro Explained At the top of the known members of the Desilijic clan are Mama and Papa the Hutt , the matriarch and patriarch of the entire family. Together, they had three children: Ebor, Jabba’s unnamed father, and Ziro the Hutt. Of those relatives, Ziro is easily the most well-known.
Debuting in 2008's Clone Wars movie and later appearing throughout The Clone Wars animated series, Ziro operated as a dangerous crime lord out of Coruscant with secret ambitions to claim his nephew's power. Initially, Ziro secretly worked with the Separatists early on in the Clone Wars to orchestrate the kidnapping of Rotta, Jabba’s infant son.
The Separatists would then frame the Republic and Jedi as Rotta's captors, making an alliance with Jabba far more likely while also creating conflict with the Republic, which Ziro hoped would allow him to claim the family empire. However, Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano rescued Rotta and exposed Ziro’s involvement with the help of Senator Padmé Amidala, leading to Ziro's arrest.
In the Clone Wars series, Ziro escaped prison with help from bounty hunters, though he was ultimately assassinated by Sy Snootles, his former lover. Interestingly, Ziro's final appearance briefly featured Mama the Hutt, Jabba's grandmother, revealed to still be alive on the Hutt homeworld of Nal Hutta . Jabba’s Four Cousins Explained, Including The Twins Jabba the Hutt canonically has four cousins in the official Star Wars continuity.
The most famous are the Hutts known only as The Twins, the brother-sister duo first introduced in The Book of Boba Fett. After Jabba's death, The Twins tried and failed to claim Jabba's former criminal empire and palace on Tatooine from Boba before eventually resurfacing as primary villains in The Mandalorian & Grogu.
While it's unknown who their parents are, it's been heavily theorized that they might be the children of Ziro, seeing how they also plot to murder an adult Rotta in a bid to take full control of their family's empire, as seen in the brand-new Star Wars movie. Jabba’s other cousins include Hiro the Hutt and Crakka.
A confirmed son of Ziro, Hiro the Hutt is a rather unique member of Jabba's family with connections to Galaxy's Edge, running a radio talk show called"The Hutt Hour" on Black Spire Outpost. Less is known about Crakka the Hutt, other than the fact that she was estranged from Jabba after threatening to kill him. Likewise, Crakka also met a fate"worse than death" after crossing paths with the B'omarr Monks patrolling Jabba's Tatooine Palace.
Rotta the Hutt is Jabba's Sole Heir Jabba’s only confirmed child is Rotta the Hutt, nicknamed “Stinky” by Ahsoka Tano during the Clone Wars. Originally introduced as a kidnapped infant during the 2008 Clone Wars movie, Rotta has surprisingly returned as a full-grown adult in The Mandalorian & Grogu, voiced by The Bear's Jeremy Allen White.
Having no love for his father nor the shadow he cast, Rotta has become an enormous and physically imposing gladiator fighting on Shakari under the control of Lord Janu Coin, an Imperial Remnant warlord. Unlike most Hutts, Rotta appears completely uninterested in inheriting Jabba’s criminal empire, wanting to be cheered for his own accomplishments in the ring rather than feared as his father was.
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“The Force will be with you. Always. ” 🗡️Jedi OrderLight-side guardians ⚡The SithRule of two ⚙️The RebellionA new hope 🪓Bounty HuntersThis is the way 👑The EmpireOrder 66 PUNCH IT! → QUESTION 1 / 8A NEW HOPE 01 The original Star Wars film — later retitled Episode IV: A New Hope — opened in just 32 American theatres and proceeded to become the highest-grossing film of its era, redefining what summer blockbusters could be.
In which year did it premiere? A1975 B1977 C1979 D1980 ✓ Correct! 1977 — specifically May 25. 20th Century Fox had so little faith in the project they only opened it in 32 theatres at first; queues quickly stretched around the block, and the film expanded to over 1,000 screens within months. It earned $307 million in its initial domestic run, won six Academy Awards and inverted Hollywood’s economics for the next 50 years. ✗ Wrong.
The answer is 1977. 1975 is when the script was being shopped around. 1979 is when Star Trek: The Motion Picture released as a Star Wars-shaped countermove. 1980 is The Empire Strikes Back. The original Star Wars is May 25, 1977.
NEXT → QUESTION 2 / 8THE CREATOR 02 A New Hope’s writer-director was a then-32-year-old American Graffiti veteran who’d struggled to get the project greenlit and famously took back-end profit and merchandising rights in lieu of a higher salary — the deal that would build a billion-dollar company. He returned to direct the prequels but stepped away from the original-trilogy sequels. Name him. ASteven Spielberg BGeorge Lucas CFrancis Ford Coppola DIrvin Kershner ✓ Correct!
George Lucas. The merchandising rights he kept became the financial bedrock of Lucasfilm and the basis of the modern toys-and-licensing megabusiness. After A New Hope, Lucas produced but didn’t direct Empire Strikes Back or Return of the Jedi , then directed all three prequels . He sold Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012 and stepped away from creative control of the sequels.
✗ Wrong. The answer is George Lucas. Steven Spielberg was Lucas’s close friend but never directed a Star Wars film. Coppola was Lucas’s mentor at USC and at American Zoetrope.
Irvin Kershner directed Empire Strikes Back. The original is Lucas’s.
NEXT → QUESTION 3 / 8THE TWIST 03 In 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back, Darth Vader delivers cinema’s most-misquoted line at the climax of his Cloud City duel with Luke Skywalker. Vader severs Luke’s hand and reveals their relationship. The exact line is — for the record — “No, I am your father. ” What relationship does it confirm?
AVader is Luke’s uncle BVader is Luke’s father CVader is Obi-Wan’s brother DVader is Han’s father ✓ Correct! Vader is Anakin Skywalker, Luke’s father. The reveal was so jealously guarded that Mark Hamill was only told the real line on set the day they shot it , and even James Earl Jones recorded the dub without knowing the full plot context.
The line — commonly misquoted as “Luke, I am your father” — rewrote what trilogies could pull off and is broadly considered cinema’s most famous twist. ✗ Wrong. The answer is that Vader is Luke’s father, Anakin Skywalker. The whole foundation of the Skywalker saga collapses to this single twist: Anakin becomes Vader after his fall.
Luke and Leia are revealed in Return of the Jedi to be his twin children, separated at birth. NEXT → QUESTION 4 / 8THE GREEN MASTER 04 Yoda — the green, ear-twitching Jedi Master — was puppeted and voiced from his Empire Strikes Back debut through the prequels and the sequels by a single Muppet-show-veteran performer who also voices Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear. Name him. AJim Henson BFrank Oz CSteve Whitmire DBrian Henson ✓ Correct!
Frank Oz — longtime Jim Henson collaborator and voice/puppet work on Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, Sam Eagle and Grover. Oz puppeted Yoda directly through The Phantom Menace before CGI took over for Attack of the Clones onward, but he’s continued to voice the character through the sequels and animated series. Yoda’s syntax was developed jointly by Lucas and Oz to feel old, foreign and hard-won. ✗ Wrong.
The answer is Frank Oz. Jim Henson was Oz’s mentor and collaborator but didn’t voice Yoda. Steve Whitmire took over Kermit after Henson’s 1990 death. Brian Henson is Jim’s son and runs the Henson company today.
Yoda is Frank Oz’s. NEXT → QUESTION 5 / 8THE DISNEY DEAL 05 In a deal that reshaped Hollywood, Disney acquired Lucasfilm Ltd. for $4.05 billion in cash and stock — bringing Star Wars, Indiana Jones, ILM and Skywalker Sound under the Disney umbrella. The deal also kicked off the sequel trilogy production. In what year did Disney close the acquisition?
A2009 B2010 C2012 D2014 ✓ Correct! 2012 — specifically October 30. The deal was announced with simultaneous reveal that a Star Wars Episode VII was being developed for a 2015 release. Lucas had been quietly preparing his exit from Lucasfilm for years; Kathleen Kennedy had been brought in as co-chair months earlier specifically to take over. The Force Awakens came out three years later, in December 2015, kicking off the modern era.
✗ Wrong. The answer is 2012. 2009 is when Disney acquired Marvel . 2010 is the year before Lucas began signalling exit plans. 2014 is when production proper began on The Force Awakens. Lucasfilm joined Disney on October 30, 2012.
NEXT → QUESTION 6 / 8THE MANDALORIAN 06 The Mandalorian launched as Disney+’s flagship original on November 12, 2019 — the day the streaming service itself launched. Created by Jon Favreau and run by Dave Filoni, the show centres on a helmeted bounty hunter who reluctantly becomes a foster father to “The Child” . What is the Mandalorian’s real name? ABoba Fett BCobb Vanth CDin Djarin DBo-Katan Kryze ✓ Correct!
Din Djarin — played by Pedro Pascal under the helmet . The Mandalorian is widely credited with reviving Star Wars on TV, popularising the StageCraft LED-volume virtual production technology now used across Hollywood, and turning baby Yoda — Grogu — into the meme-economy phenomenon of late 2019. Three seasons have aired with a feature film, The Mandalorian & Grogu, set for May 2026. ✗ Wrong.
The answer is Din Djarin. Boba Fett is the famous bounty hunter from the original trilogy, with his own Disney+ spinoff . Cobb Vanth is the Tatooine marshal played by Timothy Olyphant. Bo-Katan Kryze is the Mandalorian princess played by Katee Sackhoff.
The Mandalorian himself is Din Djarin. NEXT → QUESTION 7 / 8ORDER 66 07 Order 66 — the secret directive that turns the Republic’s clone troopers against their Jedi commanders and effectively ends the Jedi Order — is dramatised in the climactic third act of which prequel film? AEpisode I: The Phantom Menace BEpisode II: Attack of the Clones CEpisode III: Revenge of the Sith DRogue One ✓ Correct! Episode III: Revenge of the Sith .
Palpatine’s “Execute Order 66” comm to the clone armies leads to the methodical, planet-by-planet liquidation of the Jedi Order — one of the saga’s most operatic sequences, scored to John Williams’ “Anakin’s Betrayal” cue. The same film features Anakin’s fall to the Dark Side, the Mustafar duel with Obi-Wan, and his rebirth as Darth Vader in the suit. Widely re-evaluated as the best of the prequels. ✗ Wrong.
The answer is Revenge of the Sith. Phantom Menace ends with Qui-Gon’s death and the unveiling of Darth Maul. Attack of the Clones ends with the Clone Wars beginning. Rogue One is set just before A New Hope, after Order 66 has long since happened.
The Order 66 sequence is the climax of Episode III. NEXT → QUESTION 8 / 8ANDOR 08 Andor is widely regarded as the most adult, politically literate Star Wars project ever made — a slow-burn prequel to Rogue One charting Cassian Andor’s radicalisation against the Empire. The series was created and showrun by a writer/director best known for the original Bourne trilogy and Michael Clayton. Name him.
ATony Gilroy BRian Johnson CJon Favreau DDave Filoni ✓ Correct! Tony Gilroy. He’d previously been brought in for extensive Rogue One reshoots in 2016, and Lucasfilm gave him near-total creative independence on Andor. Season 1 is widely regarded as Star Wars’ finest dramatic writing ever; Season 2 closes the gap to Rogue One’s opening scene.
Gilroy’s prior credits: Bourne Identity / Supremacy / Ultimatum / Legacy, plus directing Michael Clayton . ✗ Wrong. The answer is Tony Gilroy. Rian Johnson directed The Last Jedi .
Jon Favreau created The Mandalorian and is Lucasfilm’s Disney+-era animation/live-action lieutenant. Dave Filoni runs the Filoniverse . Andor is Tony Gilroy’s. REVEAL MY RATING → The Force Has Spoken · Final Tally Your Galactic Standing 🗡️ / 8 Jedi Master — or moisture farmer on Tatooine?
⤴ ANOTHER GO After Rotta is saved by Din Djarin and Grogu from The Twins, who sought to kill their"nephew" to cement their hold over Jabba's empire, The Mandalorian & Grogu's ending sees Rotta choosing to join the New Republic on Adelphi Base. Rotta also has two known cousins: Gorga and Graballa, though their parents are unknown.
Gorga served as an accountant for the Hutt Grand Council during the Clone Wars, and Graballa was loyal to his Uncle Jabba, appearing in the animated series LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures. Why Do The Twins Call Rotta Their Nephew In The Mandalorian & Grogu?
Despite Jabba the Hutt's family tree being fairly clear in the Star Wars canon, The Mandalorian & Grogu did add an interesting wrinkle with The Twins referring to Rotta as their nephew, and Rotta referring to them as his aunt and uncle. However, The Book of Boba Fett confirmed that The Twins were Jabba's cousins, not his siblings. If that's still true, they'd actually be Rotta's first cousins once removed.
While it's not the galaxy's biggest continuity error by any means, it's quite possible that Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni chose to retcon The Twins as Jabaa's siblings to simplify their family relationship to Rotta on-screen. Then again, it's just as possible that familial terminology among Hutts works differently than it does for humans.
Either way, Star Wars fans will probably need to wait for an official visual dictionary for The Mandalorian & Grogu before getting a definitive answer one way or the other. The Mandalorian & Grogu is now playing in theaters from Lucasfilm. 6.3/10 7/10 The Mandalorian and Grogu 10 stars 9 stars 8 stars 7 stars 6 stars 5 stars 4 stars 3 stars 2 stars 1 star Like Follow Followed PG-13 Sci-Fi Adventure Action Release Date May 22, 2026 Runtime 132 Minutes Director Jon Favreau Writers Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni, Noah Kloor Producers Ian Bryce, Jon Favreau, Kathleen Kennedy Cast See All Prequel The Mandalorian Sequel Dave Filoni's Untitled Mandalorian Movie Franchise Star Wars Powered by Expand Collapse
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