Dark Souls 2’s Covetous Demon was nicknamed Jabba the Hutt by the developers
It's no big surprise that developers have internal naming schemes for the characters in the games they're working on, but something about the Dark Souls franchise inspires a kind of reverence - each major enemy (and many of the minor ones!) have reams of lore behind them, and so it's amusing to learn that FromSoft's developers seem to have created in-house nicknames for them based on other pop culture franchises.
Not to demystify things too drastically or anything, but that is indeed what seems to have happened. Players scouring through the code for the original Dark Souls II on PC have unearthed several internal names for bosses, and the results are highly amusing.
Twitter user Meowmaritus posted a short thread of some examples. The Japanese kana for the Covetous Demon are pronounced jaba za hatto - or, Jabba the Hutt. That's a pretty fitting nickname for old Covetous, who definitely has a Jabba-style body (and the face of one of those guardian dogs from Ghostbusters). Executioner's Chariot, a boss who appears in Undead Purgatory in the Scholar of the First Sin edition of Dark Souls II, was apparently nicknamed Silver Chariot after the character from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
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