Jar Jar Binks

Key events in Jar Jar Binks's story

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32 BBY - Banished from Otoh Gunga

Boss Nass exiles Jar Jar from the underwater city for crashing his personal heyblibber submarine.

32 BBY - Meeting Qui-Gon Jinn

While Jar Jar is foraging, he runs into the Trade Federation's invasion force. Qui-Gon Jinn saves his life, and Jar Jar declares a life debt and leads the Jedi to Otoh Gunga.

32 BBY - Through the Planet Core

Jar Jar guides Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan Kenobi by bongo submarine to Theed. They survive an opee sea killer and a colo claw fish on the way.

32 BBY - Journey to Tatooine

Jar Jar escapes Naboo with Queen Amidala, the first time he has left his world. In Mos Espa he gets into trouble with Sebulba and meets Anakin Skywalker.

32 BBY - The Gungan Grand Army

The Senate fails to help Naboo on Coruscant. Jar Jar tells Amidala about the Gungan Grand Army and leads her to the Gungans' Sacred Place, where the two peoples agree to an alliance.

32 BBY - Battle of Naboo

Boss Nass promotes Jar Jar to Bombad General, and he leads Gungan forces on the Great Grass Plains. Anakin then destroys the Droid Control Ship. Jar Jar attends Qui-Gon's funeral and the victory celebrations.

~32 BBY - Hunt for the Blobball

Jar Jar and Queen Amidala follow a map from Boss Nass to a supposed Gungan relic. It turns out to be an old delicacy.

~32–22 BBY - Junior Representative

Padmé brings Jar Jar into the Naboo delegation to the Galactic Senate as a Junior Representative.

22 BBY - Emergency Powers

While standing in for Senator Amidala, who has gone into hiding, Jar Jar proposes that Chancellor Palpatine receive emergency powers. The motion passes and the Grand Army of the Republic is created.

22 BBY - Mission to Toydaria

Jar Jar distracts Senator Lott Dod at a banquet so that Bail Organa can load relief supplies for Ryloth.

22 BBY - Mission to Rodia

Separatist droids take Jar Jar for a Jedi. He befriends the Kwazel Maw Bogey and helps rescue Padmé and C-3PO from Nute Gunray.

22 BBY - Ransom on Florrum

Senator Kharrus dies in a shuttle crash, leaving Jar Jar in charge of the surviving clones. He defeats Turk Falso's pirates, and the power blackout he causes helps free Kenobi and Anakin.

22 BBY - Blue Shadow Virus

Jar Jar helps expose Dr. Nuvo Vindi's secret laboratory on Naboo and helps keep the virus from escaping.

~21 BBY - Battle of Mimban

After Jedi Master Laan Tik is killed, Jar Jar takes command and uses Tik's lightsaber to save Captain Rex.

~21 BBY - War on Mon Cala

Jar Jar persuades the Gungan High Council to send the Grand Army to Mon Cala. When Riff Tamson cracks Padmé's helmet, Jar Jar seals it with his spit.

~20 BBY - Capturing Grievous

Jar Jar impersonates the mind-controlled Boss Lyonie to call off a Gungan attack on Theed, and helps capture General Grievous. Roos Tarpals is killed in the fight, and Grievous is later traded for Anakin.

~20 BBY - Mission to Bardotta

Jar Jar and Mace Windu rescue Queen Julia from the Frangawl Cult and Mother Talzin on Zardossa Stix.

19 BBY - Birth of the Empire

Jar Jar welcomes Palpatine back after the Battle of Coruscant and is in the Senate chamber when the Republic becomes the Galactic Empire.

19 BBY - Padmé's Funeral

Jar Jar walks with Boss Nass among the chief mourners at Padmé Amidala's funeral on Naboo.

~19 BBY–4 ABY - Second Exile

Gungans and Naboo shun Jar Jar again for his part in Palpatine's rise to power.

5 ABY - Street Clown of Theed

Jar Jar now performs in Theed's Plaza of the Catalan. There he befriends Mapo, a burned refugee orphan, and agrees to teach him to be a clown.