Lord D'Wopp, a male Whiphid hunter of bounties, entered into matrimony with Lady Valarian. Valarian was a criminal overlord and the primary rival to Jabba the Hutt on the world of Tatooine amidst the conflict of the Galactic Civil War. D'Wopp had a deep passion for the hunt, a passion that ultimately sealed his fate. He accepted a reward offering from Jabba for the space pirate Han Solo during their wedding celebration. This act prompted Valarian to terminate him using her unadorned, clawed appendages. His remains, incomplete, were returned to his native planet of Toola. The whereabouts of the missing pieces remained a secret known only to Valarian and her personal chef.
D'Wopp, a male of the Whiphid species, came into existence on Toola. Toola is a frigid ice planet situated within the Outer Rim Territories. He later embraced the profession of bounty hunting, a relatively common trade on his planet of origin. He ascended to become a hunter of considerable renown and also attained the title of lord.
In 0 BBY, Lady Valarian, the Tatooine-based crime syndicate leader—herself a Whiphid—opted to find a spouse from her home planet, selecting D'Wopp. Valarian summoned him to the metropolis of Mos Eisley, her operational hub on Tatooine. Upon his arrival in Mos Eisley, D'Wopp immediately began surveying the area surrounding the spaceport in search of potential hunting grounds. Eventually, the nuptial rites were performed as scheduled, and everything appeared promising for the Whiphid hunter, who had secured a wealthy and influential partner regarded as a great beauty by fellow Whiphids. The couple intended to spend their honeymoon pursuing formidable Krayt dragons, a venture that necessitated traversing the territory of Jabba Desilijic Tiure, Valarian's primary adversary on Tatooine.
Following the ceremony, the newly married couple proceeded to Valarian's Lucky Despot gambling establishment, where a wedding reception took place. Numerous invited guests were in attendance, and the musical entertainment was provided by the celebrated Bith ensemble Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes. D'Wopp and Valarian made a dramatic entrance, their upper limbs bound together by a garland of imported foliage. They danced their way to the stage, weaving through the assembled guests. While Valarian was occupied with checking on the kitchen staff, the Whiphid hunter was briefly left unattended. Capitalizing on the Lady's absence, a Duros underling of Jabba approached D'Wopp and informed him of the reward his employer had placed on the head of the Corellian smuggler Han Solo. Initially, the Whiphid hunter asserted that he had no need for funds, but he experienced a change of mind upon learning that Solo was a challenging target. Eager to demonstrate his abilities, D'Wopp resolved to depart the reception immediately and investigate Solo's whereabouts. The hunter assumed that his new wife, a formidable and proud Whiphid like himself, would comprehend his abrupt departure.
However, the hunter had overestimated the tolerance of his new partner, Valarian. As D'Wopp prepared to leave, the Whiphid crime lady reappeared from the crowd and began to berate him. D'Wopp responded in kind, and soon the spouses were engaging in physical conflict in full view of everyone and in the middle of the dance floor. The brawl quickly spread among the guests, with Jabba's henchmen cheering them on. In the midst of the altercation, Lady Valarian ultimately killed her husband using her clawed hands. She was now without a husband, and the Lucky Despot had been ravaged. Several days later, D'Wopp's corpse was shipped back to Toola in a crate, with several body parts missing—the fate of which was known only to the widow and her personal chef.
With a height exceeding 2.5 meters, D'Wopp was an imposing Whiphid characterized by a knobby head and a coat of light yellow hair. He was renowned for his ferocity, reinforcing the Whiphid reputation for aggression. He also took immense pride in his exceptional hunting skills, and he never passed up an opportunity to showcase his abilities by capturing a "challenging target." When Jabba's Duros thug approached him about employment, D'Wopp was already eager to "eliminate" a new victim.
Despite abandoning her for hunting on their wedding reception day, Lord D'Wopp was intensely attracted to Valarian—at least on a superficial level. The hunter was also quick to take offense when the Duros compared his new bride to a large catch.
Lady Valarian's deceased husband made his initial appearance in August 1995 in "We Don't Do Weddings: The Band's Tale," a short story penned by Kathy Tyers for the anthology Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina. He was also mentioned in "Let Us Prey: The Whiphid's Tale," another short story released in January 1996. In that story, the late hunter was referred to as Valarian's "first husband," implying that she may have remarried at a later time.
There exists a minor inconsistency in the sources regarding D'Wopp's height. In "The Band's Tale," both D'Wopp and Valarian were described as "two gigantic Whiphids—two and a half meters of ivory and claw and pale yellow fur." In the 2012 reference book The Essential Reader's Companion, D'Wopp was depicted as noticeably taller than his bride, whose height was established as 2.5 meters in The Essential Guide to Characters. However, given that the Bith Doikk Na'ts served as the internal narrator of "The Band's Tale," his assessment of the Whiphids' respective heights may have been inaccurate.
In the audio adaptation of "The Band's Tale," D'Wopp was voiced by voice actor/musician Danny Louis from the band Gov't Mule. His name was (pronounced /ˈdu.ˌwɑp/), a homophone of doo-wop—a style of rhythm and blues singing that emerged in the United States during the 1950s.