Jabba the Hutt - Breaking the Mold
On the surface, Jabba the Hutt seems to reenforce many "fat" sterotypes: He's gluttonous, greedy, and he laughs a lot. However, Jabba the Hutt is far more than a jolly fat man.
Jabba has many things going for him. He is the leader of a major crime syndicate. That alone makes him really cool. Not only that, but he lives in a palace; not a hideout or a lair, but a palace. In the Star Wars universe, the only person that owned more real estate than him was the Empire and maybe the Ewoks.
Not only did he have this great empire and a cool palace, but he had groupies. Why else would all these people just come over to his place and hang out? They weren't doing any work, and although there was music and stuff it didn't look like much of a party. These bounty hunters and other assorted aliens were obviously just there in order to bask in the Hutt's glory.
Add to this his smooth attitude. He was superior to everyone, and he knew it. No matter what the situation or what you did, he'd just laugh at you like he was watching a man get hit in the groin on "America's Funniest Home Videos". Heck, you could dump a truckload of salt on him and as he shrivelled up he'd still go, "Ho,ho,ho...ha,ha,ha...". He even laughed off the Jedi Mind Trick. Now that's style.
On top of all this, Jabba the Hutt did something no one else could do: He was THIS close to wiping out all the main characters. Sure, the Empire came close with the second Death Star at Endor, but you knew at least some of them would escape. ON the other hand, Jabba had all of them together and in his grasp. He would have pulled it off, too, if it wasn't for those darned droids!
Best of all, Jabba went down in the way of a true celebrity: He died because of his womanizing. And I'm not talking just about Leia choking him to death with her own slave chain. Remember that dancer that he threw into the rancor pit? If he hadn't fed her to the rancor, then the rancor would have been that much hungrier when he met up with Luke and perhaps would have managed to eat him. On the other hand, one could argue that had Jabba fed the Rancor more dancers, he would have had the energy needed to catch Luke.(Unless it was that fat six-breasted dancer. She would have clogged the rancor's arteries so fast he'd die before you can say Ti-wanna-wonga.)
All in all, there's no denying that Jabba will always be a role model to all those pudgy youngsters who couldn't fit into a Boba Fett costume, but still aspired to greatness.
