Star Wars Reveals New Alien Babu Frik for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Star Wars and Lucasfilm unveiled a brand new alien named Babu Frik for the upcoming Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker film.

Babu Frik is described as a “tiny Anzellan droidsmith.” Frik “works among the Spice Runners of Kijimi and can reprogram or modify virtually any droid – regardless of the security measures protecting its systems.”

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The reveal of the character and his abilities seem to lend credence to the rumors surrounding C-3PO.

Those rumors indicated that C-3PO would play an essential role to the plot of the film as the Resistance attempts to acquire a device called the Wayfinder that will give them the location to a weapons cache that was hidden in deep space by Emperor Palpatine before the fall of the Galactic Empire. The rumors from August detail that C-3PO’s old memory unit contains the location of the Wayfinder and thus the key to the weapons cache.

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However, the old memory unit is located in an abandoned Imperial blockade. After retrieving that unit, the memory unit needs to be unlocked using a decommissioned droid factory. However, the wrong memory unit is uploaded into C-3PO and he adopts an aggressive persona even stealing Chewbacca’s bowcaster.

Official Star Wars posters confirmed C-3PO will be wielding a bowcaster.

Here’s a better look:

And one more for good measure.

The idea that something will happen with C-3PO’s programming was heavily hinted when the droid appeared with red eyes in a teaser trailer clip from Disney D23 Expo.

It’s quite possible Babu Frik might be key in returning C-3PO to the way he was before. Or he might be the one who actually reprograms C-3PO with the aggressive persona rather than an old memory unit.

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I could even see them trying to have Babu Frik attempt to unlock C-3PO’s old memories in order to find the location of the Wayfinder. However, this new alien makes a mistake and turns C-3PO into a wannabe Terminator.

What do  you make of this new Star Wars character? What kind of role do you think he will play?