What was the name of jabba the hutts creepy little animal sidekick?

Salacious B Crumb is Jabba the Hutt’s pet-cum-sidekick.

[Salacious B Crumb]http://www.timeout.com/london/film/star-wars-characters-list#tab_panel_2) is a diseased little rodent with big ears, a ravenous black beak and one of the coolest names in the series.

A Kowakian monkey-lizard with a shrill cackle, Salacious Crumb sat on Jabba's dais, stealing bits of food and mimicking the Hutt, his courtiers, and visitors. The Hutt's noxious pet was the palace's unofficial court jester, tolerated because his antics amused Jabba, and because of his unwavering support for his master.

Star Wars is the closest thing cinema has to a unifying faith: no cultural phenomenon has ever inspired such devotion, such passion, such – for want of a better term – extreme nerdiness. Even those of us who worship at the shrine of Skywalker find our devotion difficult to explain – but we reckon a lot of it has to do with the characters.

They can be heroic or evil, alluring or repulsive, robotic or cuddly – but they're always memorable. So here, in an entirely personal list, Time Out’s resident Gonk-geek Tom Huddleston presents the 50 best ‘Star Wars’ characters in order of greatness.

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Monday, December 21 2015