Perhaps the most intriguing character in Star Wars: The Last Jedi is DJ played by Benicio Del Toro. In the movie, we first meet DJ in a holding cell on Canto Blight. DJ stands for "Don't Join" and in the movie, DJ lives up to that moniker when he betrays Resistance fighters Rose Tico and Finn to the First Order in exchange for his freedom and credits.
The story in the one-shot comic DJ - Most Wanted starts with DJ in a casino gambling as he loses a lot of credits. It turns out this is a ruse and he is utilizing his slicing skills to steal more credits from the casino. As the story unfolds, a series of troublesome events occur which DJ is able to continually escape and in the end DJ allows himself to be apprehended by the Canto Bight security to prevent a casino thug from catching him. Hence the reason he is in the cell when Rose and Finn first meet him.
Star Wars: DJ - Most Wanted #1a - Marvel Comics, U.S. (January 2018)Star Wars: DJ - Most Wanted #1b - Marvel Comics, U.S. (January 2018) Dave Johnson and Mike Spicer variantStar Wars: DJ - Most Wanted #1c - Marvel Comics, U.S. (January 2018) Rod Reis variantStar Wars: DJ - Most Wanted #1d - Marvel Comics, U.S. (January 2018) photo variant
Since so little is known about him, if the comics do fill in the era between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens, it would be nice to revisit this character. In many ways, DJ is the opposite of Lando; a scoundrel that actually follows through on his scumminess.
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