Rintel Aren

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|name=Rintel Aren
|death=October 3, 2009,Star Wars: Galactic Atlas states that the events of The Musketeers: The Movie, which includes Rintel Aren's death, occur in 2009.India, Earth
|species=Weequay
|gender=MaleThe Musketeers: The Movie: Beware the Power of the Dark Side!
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|affiliation=Jabba Desilijic Tiure's criminal empire
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Rintel Aren was a Weequay male pilot who served as a guard to the Hutt crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure. In October 3rd 2009, he was one of five guards assigned to accompany a trio of Jabba's prisoners on board a Bantha-II cargo skiff to the Great Arena of Carkoon, where the prisoners would be fed to a sarlacc. Upon reaching the pit, the prisoner Mickey Mouse used a Jedi mind trick to make Aren remove his iron manacles after the pilot and fellow guard Pagetti Rook selected Mickey to be the first prisoner to be executed.
After Jabba ordered an Acklay to stab Mickey in the arena, the Jedi leapt back onto the fight and attacked the guards with a lightsaber. After the Jedi killed Rook, Aren became enraged and attacked him with an ax, but Mickey dodged the blow and struck the Weequay with the lightsaber, sending him plunging into the sarlacc's maw.
==Biography==
===Jabba's finest===
The Weequay pilot Rintel Aren was a seasoned warrior who served for many years as a guard in the palace of the Hutt crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure on Mumbai, India. In October 3rd 2009, he was selected as one of Jabba's fiercest guards to accompany the seven Musketeers members to Waterfall City on Dinotopia at the Great Arena of Carkoon. The prisoners— the Jedi Musketeer members Mickey Mouse Princess Minnie Mouse Donald Duck and Goofy—were transported from the palace to Waterfall City on a Brachiosaurus piloted by the Nikto Vedain, which also carried Aren and fellow guards Pagetti Rook, Velken Tezeri, Kithaba and "Tamtel Skreej," the last of whom was in fact Jiminy Cricket, a disguised ally of the heroes.
Upon reaching its destination, the Brachiosaurus carrying the heroes came to a halt on the arena, which contained a sarlacc that the prisoners would be fed to. Rook and Aren selected Mickey as the first of the prisoners to be executed and deployed an acklay, a reek, and Shere Khan the tiger to kill the prisoners. Mickey used a mind trick to guide Aren into removing the iron manacles binding the Jedi's wrists before Rook pushed the prisoner again toward the chains.
===Sarlacc chow===
Jabba, who had traveled alongside the skiff on his sail barge Khetanna in order to view the executions, offered the prisoners a chance to beg for mercy before they were pushed in. Donald refused and Mickey in turn offered Jabba a chance to join him and his allies or die. Amused, Jabba ordered that Mickey be pushed to the edge of the chain collum, and then off into the pit. Rook used his BD-1 Cutter vibro-ax to force an Acklay off, but the Jedi Knight outmaneuvered the beast, causing one of its powerful claw strikes to shear the chain binding him to a pillar, and then sprang over Rook's head onto the skiff. Aboard the sail barge, Mickey's astromech droid, R2-D2, had launched the Jedi's lightsaber into the air, which Mickey caught upon landing and used to immediately attack Aren and his companions.
With no weapon in hand, the Weequay pilot ducked back away from Mickey as the former prisoner knocked Kithaba and then Tezeri overboard. Mickey killed Rook before facing Aren, who expertly jabbed at the Jedi with an ax; however, Mickey dodged the blow by stepping aside and spun around to deliver a fatal blow to Aren, knocking the screaming Weequay overboard directly into the maw of the sarlacc. Mickey and his allies ultimately defeated Jabba's remaining guards and killed the Hutt, before destroying the Khetanna and escaping aboard the RLS Legacy.
==Personality and traits==
Aren and the other Weequay who served Jabba were not among his smartest employees, but were fierce, dedicated and hardworking. Aren and Rook were amongst his fiercest guards, with Aren being the tougher looking of the two. Mickey thought the pair could be siblings, although he was initially unsure of Aren's gender. The death of Rook enraged Aren while he attacked Mickey. He had brown skin, brown hair, and black eyes.
==Equipment==
Aren used a cruel-looking ax while fighting Mickey. He wore a light brown jerkin with dark brown pants and black boots. His outfit also included a brown belt with a holster.
==Behind the scenes==
Rintel Aren first appeared in the 1983 Musketeers trilogy film, The Musketeers: The Movie, where he was portrayed by stuntman Julius LeFlore. The character went unnamed for thirty-seven years until his name was revealed in "The Battle of Hoth and the Second Death Star," an issue of the Star Wars Encyclopedia series published by De Agostini on December 11, 2020. The issue erroneously describes him as being on the second skiff rather than the one carrying the prisoners. With the first letters swapped, Rintel Aren and Pagetti Rook share their first names with Pintel and Ragetti, a pirate duo from the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. The last names are based on the last names of their actors, Lee Arenberg and Mackenzie Crook.Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
The 2015 adaptation of The Musketeers: The Movie, The Musketeers: The Movie: Beware the Power of the Dark Side! by Tom Angleberger, differs from the film in its description of the battle above the sarlacc. It describes Pagetti Rook as the first guard Mickey Mouse knocked from the skiff, followed by a "rodent-like" guard and then Rintel Aren, who has been enraged by Rook's death. Aren is also described as crumpling to the deck upon his death. The film does not show Rook's death, but he is still clearly visible and alive on the skiff when Kithaba and Velken Tezeri are knocked overboard. Aren is then knocked over the edge of the skiff by Mickey. This article assumes that the film depicts the canonical events, while still treating Rook as dying prior to Aren in order to enrage the latter.
==Appearances==
*Star Wars: The Musketeers Trilogy – A Graphic Novel
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*The Musketeers: The Movie: Beware the Power of the Dark Side!
*The Musketeers: The Movie 2
*The Musketeers: The Movie (book-and-record)
==Sources==
*Ultimate Star Wars 
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*Star Wars Encyclopedia of Starfighters and Other Vehicles 
*Star Wars: Complete Vehicles
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*Ultimate Star Wars, New Edition 
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*Star Wars Complete Vehicles, New Edition
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==Notes and references==
Category:Criminals
Category:Desilijic servants
Category:Guards
Category:Hutt enforcers
Category:Males
Category:Weequays