Constable Zuvio Is Missing

This Mystery Is Important

Do you think about Constable Zuvio?

Of course you don’t.

I do. I do a lot. I do more than I should.

I bought this action figure at midnight in the Twin Cities as I rifled through Jakku Reys and Masked Kylo Rens and Finns. He was among the first wave of action figures for The Force Awakens and I was in a feeding frenzy, buying toys surrounded by other lunatics. (My younger brother David was there, watching me behave this way. I think this gave him a real opportunity to reassess his respect for me.)

I got this toy, I hovered over this toy, I read the description on the back of this toy.

“A vigilant law officer on a mostly lawless world, the tough and humorless Constable Zuvio keeps order in a frontier trading post.”

And I saw the image of him released in, I think, Entertainment Weekly when The Force Awakens promotion was in high gear.

And I thought he looked pretty cool! I liked his color scheme. I liked his hat. I liked his big puppet-y eyes. I liked his whole deal. His design excited me about the look and feel of the first Star Wars movie in 10 years.

But.

He was not in the movie.

He did not have a cameo in the movie.

I am going to assume footage of Zuvio exists. I am going to assume it was not destroyed. I am going to assume someone was in the Zuvio costume and scenes were shot with Zuvio. I covet this missing storyline. I think about the missingness of Constable Zuvio.