Toothy

For other uses, see Tooth.

"Another juvenile example of a species, this dianoga is named Toothy."

―Eloc Throno, Traveler's Guide to Batuu^[1]

Toothy was a dianoga pup that was purchased from the gangster Jabba the Hutt by the collector Dok-Ondar in 1 BBY and kept within a specialized tank in his store, Dok-Ondar's Den of Antiquities, on the Outer Rim planet Batuu. The Batuuan farmboy Julen Rakab was interested in the store as a child partially due to the presence of the creature.

Biography

«Wait, my lord…I will buy that lightsaber from you. If you throw it in with the dianoga pup you are selling me, I'll give you double.»

―Dok-Ondar negotiates with Jabba^[2]

Dok-Ondar offers to buy Toothy from Jabba.

Toothy was a juvenile dianoga purchased by the collector Dok-Ondar from^[1] the gangster^[3] Jabba Desilijic Tiure^[2] in 1 BBY^[4] as part of a deal, with Dok-Ondar offering to pay double the original price if the Hutt included the lightsaber of the late Jedi Ki-Adi-Mundi.^[2] The Ithorian kept Toothy inside of a^[1] specialized^[5] tank in his store, Dok-Ondar's Den of Antiquities, at Black Spire Outpost on the Outer Rim planet Batuu.^[1] The local Batuuan farmboy Julen Rakab found Dok-Ondar's store compelling as a child partially due to the presence of Toothy. When Rakab was nineteen years old,^[6] in 34 ABY,^[7] he corrected the young assistant Tap after the boy claimed people were fed to Toothy as punishment for crossing Dok-Ondar, instead claiming that the dianoga was only given ronto meat.^[6]

Also in 34 ABY,^[8] the historian Eloc Throno covered the shop, and mentioned Toothy, in his book Traveler's Guide to Batuu.^[1] Bina, the proprietor of the nearby Creature Stall^[9] in the Black Spire Outpost Market,^[10] included Toothy in^[9] her^[1] interactive book, Bina's Guide to the Creatures of Batuu.^[9]

Personality and traits

Toothy had brown skin.^[1]

Behind the scenes

Toothy was created as a prop for Dok-Ondar's Den of Antiquities, a retail location in the themed land Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge,^[11] which first opened on May 31, 2019, at Disneyland Park.^[12] The creature was first mentioned indirectly in a flashback in the second issue of the comic series Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, which was written by Ethan Sacks and published by Marvel Comics^[2] on May 22, 2019.^[13] The creature was first named in the D23 article "Creatures, Droids, and Aliens: Meet the Fantastical Figures of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge," published on May 29, 2019.^[12]

The original unpublished backstory for Toothy stated they were purchased from the Creature Stall, another store in Galaxy's Edge.^[5] However, the 2019 reference book Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge: Traveler's Guide to Batuu by Cole Horton and Galaxy's Edge 2 contradicted this detail by stating that Dok-Ondar purchased Toothy from Jabba the Hutt.^[1] This article treats the public sources as the canonical version of events.