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Star Wars: The Dianoga, Explained

Written by Joshua Kristian McCoy
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The tentacled beast that threatened the rebels in the trash compactor scene has a bit more going on than it seemed.

No element of the Star Wars universe is safe from the peering eyes of hardcore fans. The original trilogy dropped a lot of details on the audience without much context, but it provided everything fans needed to get the gist. The prequel trilogy unpacked a lot of the details, but the smaller figures still raised interesting questions. One weird minor example involves the tentacle monster that attacked Luke, Leia, Han, and Chewie in the Empire ship's trash compactor. That creature was called a dianoga, and it does slightly more than live in garbage.

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