Which Billy Dee Williams character did Grand Admiral Thrawn face off again?
Grand Admiral Thrawn Grand Admiral Thrawn (full name Mitth'raw'nuruodo) is a fictional character in the "Star Wars" franchise. Introduced in the 1991 Timothy Zahn novel "Heir to the Empire", he is an Imperial military commander who has taken control of the Galactic Empire's remaining forces five years after the events of the 1983 film "Return of the Jedi". Thrawn faces off against classic "Star Wars" characters Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, Chewbacca, and Lando Calrissian in the "Thrawn" trilogy (1991–1993), but is ultimately defeated. He is seemingly resurrected in the "Hand of Thrawn" duology (1997–98), and his backstory is explored in various other novels, short stories, comics, and video games in the "Star Wars" Expanded Universe.
Pig Bodine Seaman "Pig" Bodine is a fictional character appearing in many novels written by Thomas Pynchon. Bodine appears in "V." (1963), and recurs in "Gravity's Rainbow" (1973). Characters named Bodine also appear in "Mason & Dixon" (1997) and "Against the Day" (2006). He also occurs in the short-story "Low-lands" (1960, 1984). A character called "Fender-Belly Bodine," presumably an ancestor of "Pig," appears as a seaman in "Mason & Dixon". First developed in "V." as sidekick and comic foil to protagonist Benny Profane, Bodine reappears (set a decade or more earlier) in "Gravity's Rainbow". Another seafaring Bodine, referred to only as "O.I.C." (Officer in Command), briefly makes a cameo in "Against the Day", again in an appearance with no obvious purpose besides as an intertextual in-joke.