80-M

80-M,Star Wars Encyclopedia: The Comprehensive Guide to the Star Wars Galaxy also know as Eightyem, was a protocol droidReturn of the Jedi – Jabba's Palace 1 who served as the interpreter of Jabba Desilijic Tiure, a Hutt crime lord who led his own criminal empire, until he angered his master and was disintegrated. Shortly before the Rescue of Han Solo in 4 ABY,Star Wars: Galactic Atlas EV-9D9, the supervisor of Jabba's Palace's droid pool, supervised the torture of the old droid when R2-D2 and C-3PO, Jabba's new interpreter, reported to her. EV-9D9 told C-3PO of his predecessor's fate and gestured towards the droid. C-3PO was horrified to witness the droid on a vertical torture rack that stretched its manacled limbs further than they could extend,Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi junior novelization causing the droid to scream in pain as its arms and legs were slowly pulled off.
==Behind the scenes==
80-M first appeared, albeit unidentified, in the 1983 film Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi, the final installment of the Star Wars original trilogy. The character was later identified in a preview article on StarWars.com for the comic Return of the Jedi – Jabba's Palace 1, that was published on March 22, 2023. The 2024 reference book Star Wars Encyclopedia: The Comprehensive Guide to the Star Wars Galaxy, later provided the droid's designation.
The 2015 young-readers novelization Return of the Jedi: Beware the Power of the Dark Side! written by Tom Angleberger, originally identified the droid as a separate character to the droid shown in the film and that his remains had been dumped near the door of a furnace in her torture chamber. A CZ-series droid, having been dumped besides the doorway, appears during the events of Return of the Jedi. "The Key to Remembering," a short story written by Olivia Chadha as part of the 2023 anthology From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi, indicates Jabba's previous interpreter was melted down in a pool of acid and separately identifies the droid present on the torture rack as a courier droid.
==Appearances==
*Star Wars: The Original Trilogy – A Graphic Novel
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*Bounty Hunters 42
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*Star Wars: Return of the Jedi junior novelization
*Return of the Jedi: Beware the Power of the Dark Side! 
*Star Wars: Return of the Jedi Graphic Novel Adaptation 
*Return of the Jedi – Jabba's Palace 1
==Sources==
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*Star Wars Encyclopedia: The Comprehensive Guide to the Star Wars Galaxy
==Notes and references==
Category:Desilijic servants
Category:Droids of the Hutt Clan
Category:Droids with he/him pronouns
Category:Droids with unspecified gender programming
Category:Protocol droids