It Is With a Heavy Heart We Must Inform You Nien Nunb Is Dead

Nien Nunb taught us it was okay to be weird.

Nien Nunb, a Star Wars character beloved by all and definitely not being frantically googled by you right now to put a face to a name, has been reportedly killed.

It's been confirmed that Nien Nunb was killed during the Battle of Exegol in #TheRiseOfSkywalkerhttps://t.co/DIP2MPqy8B pic.twitter.com/agqRngp0gx

— Star Wars Stuff (@starwarstuff) January 8, 2020

Spoilers for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker ahead.

According to Wookipedia and confirmed today by @starwarsstuff on Twitter, the Sullustan smuggler died during the Battle of Exegol in J.J. Abrams’ latest franchise instalment, The Rise of Skywalker.

He is best remembered for the reverse-jowl situation on his head, and for having a skull that definitely, definitely wasn’t designed to look like a male sex organ gone extremely wrong.

In the original Star Wars trilogy, he was introduced as co-pilot of the Millennium Falcon alongside Lando Calrissian (specifically during Return of the Jedi), and he continued to appear in numerous Star Wars projects and offshoots, up-to and including the recent Disney-owned features.

It was apparently Abrams' intention for Nunb to perish in The Rise of Skywalker’s climactic battle while flying General Leia Organa's command ship, the Tantive IV, as a result of Palpatine’s Force lightning strike.

(Per the 'pedia: "As the old consular vessel fell from the sky, riddled with blasts of lightning, Nunb and [co-pilot Urcos] Furdam were unable to regain control of their ship and perished as it exploded around them.")

But apparently it happened off screen, so @starwarsstuff had to announce his passing in a tweet of complete earnest sincerity.

Twitter responded by throwing themselves into Nunb’s open grave like an old Italian widow with jokes.

I feel nien numb right now

— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) January 9, 2020

When boys cried: When they killed Ben Solo 5 minutes after redeeming him

When men cried: When they killed Nien Nunb after 4 movies and his death is so shitty no one even knew if he died or not and we only guessed based on his absence at the end

— Grindalid (@grindalid) January 7, 2020

Just found out Nien Nunb apparently died off screen in rise of Skywalker... don't text pic.twitter.com/wASrr1bbmn

— Bryce (@BryceReifdotcom) January 8, 2020

Nien Nunb is survived by his former captain, Lando Calrissian, who didn’t mourn for a second and was already hitting on his own maybe-daughter before Nunb’s body was cold.

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