Jar Jar Binks's role in Star Wars progressively diminished with each new prequel film — so much so that he can only be seen briefly at the end of Revenge of the Sith. He appeared at Padmé Amidala's funeral on Naboo and, according to a novel released over 10 years later, likely never left the planet after that.

Chuck Wending's 2017 Star Wars Aftermath: Empire's End included a brief interlude featuring Jar Jar on Naboo. The Gungan, now a street performer in the planet's capitol city, tells a young boy he made mistakes in the past that can't be forgiven. The author implies everyone, including Jar Jar himself, blamed him for the galaxy tumbling into darkness.

An excerpt from the interlude reads:

"The clown, they called him. 'Bring the clown. We want to see the clown.' ...The adults, though. They don’t say much about him. Or to him. And no other Gungans come to see him, either. Nobody even says his name."

While the implications for the character's lonely, sad end all but guarantee we'll never see Jar Jar on screen again, the same can't be said for the actor who portrayed him in the prequels.