| General Hux | |
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| Star Wars character | |
 Domhnall Gleeson as General Hux in The Force Awakens (2015) | |
| First appearance | The Force Awakens (2015) |
| Last appearance | The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special (2020) |
| Created by | J. J. Abrams |
| Portrayed by | Domhnall Gleeson |
| Voiced by | Domhnall Gleeson Ben Prendergast (Star Wars Resistance, season 2,The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special) |
| In-universe information | |
| Species | Human |
| Gender | Male |
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| Family |
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| Homeworld | Arkanis |
General Armitage Hux[1] is afictionalcharacter in theStar Wars franchise. First introduced in the 2015 filmStar Wars: The Force Awakens, he is portrayed by Irish actorDomhnall Gleeson.[2] He is an unpleasant military commander in a power struggle withKylo Ren for theFirst Order leadership, and being exceeded only bySupreme Leader Snoke.[3] The character first featured inThe Force Awakens media and merchandising, and returned in the film's sequels,The Last Jedi (2017) andThe Rise of Skywalker (2019).
Hux was born on Arkanis and was rumored to have been sired from an affair between his father, Commandant Brendol Hux of the Arkanis Academy, and a kitchen worker. Hux and his father are rescued from the Academy when it is about to fall to theNew Republic near the end of theGalactic Civil War. When the war ends with the Battle ofJakku and the signing of the Galactic Concordance, the young Hux and his father are part of the Imperial Navy forces who retreat into the Unknown Regions.[4] These forces later emerge as the First Order. The Republic believes that the First Order is just an unimportant band of Imperial holdouts, but Hux's training methods forge a formidable military that effectively overthrows the Republic and turns thegalaxy into a dictatorship even more brutal than theGalactic Empire of theoriginalStar Wars trilogy. He serves as the right hand of the First Order'sSupreme Leader Snoke (Andy Serkis), second in authority only toKylo Ren (Adam Driver), with whom he has a fierce rivalry. He is dedicated to destroying theResistance, an army that grew out of theRebel Alliance and is led by GeneralLeia Organa (Carrie Fisher). Hux believes that the Republic is a threat to galactic stability, and that it is his destiny to rule the galaxy.
Hux first appears inThe Force Awakens as a high-ranking general in theFirst Order. Hux is part of a mission toJakku to recover a map toLuke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), the lastJedi. After the battle, he learns fromCaptain Phasma of the desertion of a formerstormtrooper,Finn (John Boyega). To destroy the Resistance, Snoke orders Hux to use theStarkiller Base superweapon against the New Republic's capital world ofHosnian Prime. Hux gives a speech before the First Order army about the end of the Republic before Starkiller Base fires on Hosnian Prime under his command, killing billions of people in the destruction.
Hux reports to Snoke that Kylo Ren has stopped the search for the droidBB-8, which has the aforementioned map, so Snoke orders him to turn the Starkiller weapon towards the Resistance base on D'Qar. Before Hux can destroy the planet, however, an attack squadron led by Resistance CommanderPoe Dameron (Oscar Isaac), with ground support fromHan Solo (Harrison Ford), Finn, and the Jakku scavengerRey (Daisy Ridley), destroys Starkiller Base. Hux is ordered by Snoke to flee the planet and bring Kylo Ren to him.
Hux appears inThe Last Jedi as the primary general reporting directly to Supreme Leader Snoke. He attempts to respond to a transmission from Dameron, who mocks him by asking for a General "Hugs" and describing his complexion as "pasty". Hux then leads the subsequent battle, during which both sides sustain heavy losses. Snoke rebukes Hux for his failure to defeat the Resistance, but he tells him about a plan to track the Resistance. Hux subsequently oversees the bombardment of the remaining three ships of the Resistance, then on the lifeboats, and, along with Phasma, helps arrange the execution of Finn andRose Tico. Later, he discovers Snoke dead and Ren unconscious in the throne room of theMega-class Star DreadnoughtSupremacy, so he attempts to kill his rival but stops when Ren wakes up. He initially protests Ren's claim to be the new Supreme Leader, but is swiftly persuaded otherwise when Ren usesthe Force to choke him, proclaiming "Long live the Supreme Leader." At the end of the film, he accompanies Ren to the planet Crait in their attempt to finish off the Resistance. When Ren orders his men to fire on Luke, Hux gives the order to stop it soon after. After Ren wants to kill Luke himself, Hux admonishes him to focus on the escaping Resistance members; Ren silences him by using the Force to slam him into a wall, knocking him out. Hux is seen again when Ren and his troops invade the Resistance base and find it empty, giving Ren a sinister glare from behind.
By the time ofStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Hux has become embittered and jealous because of the lack of respect he receives and his rivalry with Allegiant General Pryde (Richard E. Grant), who constantly undermines Hux while vying for his job.Hux is even more upset to hear thatEmperor Palpatine has returned from the dead and that he was the one behind the creation of Snoke, as theSith Lord arranged for theSith Eternal's fleet ofXyston-class Star Destroyers, the Final Order, that can wipe out planets for the First Order. Hux is later revealed to have been a spy supplying information to the Resistance in order to undermine Ren in the hopes of taking his place as Supreme Leader (or at least seeing Ren falling along with the First Order if necessary).[5] He helps Finn, Poe andChewbacca escape Ren'sResurgent-class Star DestroyerSteadfast and has Finn shoot him in the leg so he can feign an effort to stop them. However, he is shot in the chest with a blaster by Pryde after the latter realizes Hux's treason through his cover story. Hux's decision to allow the rebels to escape is a major catalyst for the Resistance's victory in the Battle of Exegol.
A scene deleted from the film featured Hux and Pryde in the opening action sequence with Kylo Ren onMustafar.[6]
Hux briefly appears in segments ofThe Lego Star Wars Holiday Special set between the events ofThe Last Jedi andThe Rise of Skywalker. Upon walking in on a shirtless Kylo Ren with reports on the status of the First Order, Hux is left flustered by Ren's shirtless state, attempting to give his report without being distracted by him. After Ren is forcibly returned to the present from the past by Rey, Hux enters Ren's room to provide another report as he is destroying it with his lightsaber in frustration, silently immediately backing out of the room upon noticing Ren's wrathful state.
Hux appears via hologram in the first season finale of the animated seriesStar Wars Resistance. The episode takes place at the same time asThe Force Awakens and depicts First Order troops watching a transmission of Hux give his speech and the subsequent firing of Starkiller Base. He appears, in person, in the eleventh episode "Station to Station" of the second season and in hologram in the finale of season two, "The Escape", along with Kylo Ren.
Hux appears in two theme park attractions,Star Tours – The Adventures Continue andStar Wars: Rise of the Resistance with Gleeson reprising the role in each.[7]
Some details about the backstory of Hux and his father Brendol appear in the 2016 novelStar Wars: Aftermath: Life Debt byChuck Wendig.[1][2][4] Hux and Brendol are also characters in the 2017 novelStar Wars: Phasma byDelilah S. Dawson.[8]
Hux also is a playable Dark Side squad leader in an update to themobileMOBAStar Wars: Force Arena, released in late 2017.[9]
In his review ofThe Force Awakens, Henry Barnes ofThe Guardian wrote that Gleeson's "screechy pseudo-Nazi role" as General Hux is "not as colourful or as nuanced" asAdam Driver's part asKylo Ren, "but – given he's a functionary – Gleeson certainly makes an impression."[10] However, after the release ofStar Wars: The Last Jedi, andStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, some criticism was levelled at the use of the character to providecomic relief, particularly after having been introduced as a serious villain.[11][12] The character'sstory arc was also discussed. The revelation that he had become a Resistance spy and his subsequent "unceremonious" death was subject to some criticism.[13][14]
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