Greedo Greedo was a male Rodian bounty hunter who grew up on Tatooine in Mos Espa . During the Clone Wars , he was hired by the Trade Federation to kidnap Chi Eekway Papanoida and Che Amanwe Papanoida , the daughters of Chairman Papanoida , but was forced by the chairman to lead him and his son Ion to them . He was occasionally hired by crimelord Jabba the Hutt for various mercenary jobs , including the capture of Han Solo , who killed the luckless Rodian . Biography . Early life . Originally hailing from the swamp planet of Rodia , during his youth , Greedo relocated and lived on the desert planet of Tatooine . After the slave boy Anakin Skywalker won the famous Boonta Eve Classic , beating the renowned Dug racer , Sebulba ; Greedo jumped to the conclusion that he had cheated . Angered by the false accusation , Skywalker consequently found himself entangled in a fight with the young Rodian . Wald warned Greedo that if he continued to pick on fights , he would eventually have a bad end . Criminal career . By the Clone Wars , Greedo was employed to Jabba the Hutt as a bounty hunter . At some point in the war , he and another mercenary were hired by the Trade Federation to kidnap Chairman Papanoida ' s daughters , Che Amanwe and Chi Eekway , to use as leverage for Pantora to join the Confederacy of Independent Systems . In the ensuing struggle , Che struck Greedo with an idol , covering it with the Rodian ' s blood . After finding this blood sample while investigating his daughter ' s kidnapping , Chairman Papanoida and his son Ion tracked the bounty hunter to Jabba ' s Palace and presented the evidence to Jabba and his son Rotta . Greedo was forced to bring the Pantoran s to the cantina in Mos Eisley where Che was being held . In the ensuing firefight , Greedo managed to slip away while the family gunned down the rest of Che ' s captors . Later , while continuing his work for Jabba , Greedo captured Figrin D ' an of Figrin D ' an and the Modal Nodes and delivered him to Jabba , after which D ' an and his band entered into indentured servitude under Jabba , due to D ' an being in heavy debt to him . During their time there , the group kept tabs on Greedo using their superior hearing abilities , seeing how he would bring in small - time criminals , help them to escape , then bringing them back to re - collect the bounty . At one point , they discovered Greedo bringing in one unfortunate Jawa three times . Upon gaining enough money to free themselves , the band told Jabba of these events , which made him furious . This resulted in a grudge between Greedo and the band . Death . Greedo hunted Han Solo for the bounty Jabba placed on his head after the smuggler dropped a large shipment of illicit cargo owned by the Hutt to avoid arrest . Greedo was humiliated briefly at the Mos Eisley cantina when he was tripped by a piece of the instrument used by a member of the Model Nodes . He decided to ignore the insult , seeing payback against Solo as sweeter than revenge on the Nodes . He challenged Solo at the Mos Eisley Cantina , where , threatening Solo with his gun , he demanded that he pay the money to Jabba and / or to Greedo himself ; or hand over the " Millennium Falcon " . When Solo replied that he would rather die than give up his ship , Greedo said that was the idea before announcing that that was something he had been looking forward to for a long time . As Greedo pulled his trigger , Solo shot Greedo dead from beneath the table with his readily prepared blaster . Greedo , being a poor shot , missed Solo completely . He had not originally planned to confront Solo alone , but was forced to improvise . His original plan , to use the thugs Cornelius Evazan and Ponda Baba as hired muscle , was shattered when Obi - Wan Kenobi retaliated with his lightsaber after they threatened Luke Skywalker . Personality and traits . As a boy , Greedo was noted for his temper and tendency to pick fights with others , which his friend Wald warned would lead to trouble . In adulthood , Greedo was overconfident and slow on the uptake , and something of a poor shot with a blaster . He thought highly of himself as a " big time " bounty hunter due to his employment to Jabba the Hutt , though others saw him as unremarkable . He was a frequent customer of Chalmun ' s Cantina , considering it his base of operations and preferred venue for death deals . He was known for rotten luck , and that proved true for the main time of his life . Behind the scenes . Paul Blake played Greedo in the shots that feature both Greedo and Han Solo in the same frame . For Greedo ' s close - ups , a new articulated head was built for pickups at the end of the shoot , and Maria De Aragon was enlisted to play the Rodian . During pickups , Greedo ' s costume vest changes significantly , as do his hands . In the original shoot , Greedo has long , suction - cup tipped fingers , and in pickups , he has swollen knuckles and shorter fingers . In " " TV series he was voiced by Tom Kenny . The Greedo mask and tunic are currently on display as part of the " Out of this World : Extraordinary Costumes from Film and Television " in the Science Fiction Museum & Hall of Fame in Seattle , WA . Greedo ' s manner of death has been subject to a number of retcon s over the years . The most famous involves the question of who shot first , for in the original 1977 release of the film , as well as the script , Greedo did not shoot at Han at all . In the 1997 re - release of the film , Greedo gets a badly - aimed shot at Solo before Solo kills him . George Lucas has said that this change is to enhance Solo ' s overall heroism , making him seem less of a killer and more of a " cowboy " to viewers . This was a controversial decision and in the 2004 version the two shots are almost simultaneous , with Greedo shooting first . In " " , there is no mention of Greedo firing a shot and author Alexandra Bracken , when asked , stated that Solo fired before Greedo could get off a shot . Oddly , Greedo speaks Galactic Basic in " Star Wars : The Clone Wars " but seems to be speaking Rodian in the original series , possibly proving that he prefers to speak in his native tongue rather than Galactic Standard . However , in " Star Wars : Battlefront " he speaks Huttese similarly to some of the playable alien species in the game .