History Series / TheBookOfBobaFett

* FearInducedIdiocy: During a raid on a Chaos Dwarf fortress, Wulfrik's men find statues enchanted to cause fear in anyone who looks at them. Being Norscans, they don't flee as mere southerners might... but since what they do is charge the statues and attack them, tiring themselves out and blunting their weapons, it's not much better. Even Wulfrik killing one doesn't stop them, and the dwarfs use the distraction to attack unimpeded until Wulfrik gets Zarnath to break the spell.

* OddlySmallOrganization: At the beginning of Chapter 7, Boba is only really in command of Fennec, two Gamorrean guards, four {{Scooter Riding Mod}}s, Black Krrsantan, the Rancor, and its keeper. Din Djarin is merely lending temporary assistance. Boba does note that he's short on manpower, but you'd expect him to have dozens if not hundreds or more under his control to maintain control of a city, let alone [[SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale an entire planet]].

* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Boba Fett announces his intent to be a crime lord in Tatooine, but in practice he isn't actually seen doing anything beyond collecting protection money. Fennec does reference the spice smuggling aspect of Hutt's former criminal enterprise, but [[DrugsAreBad Fett decides to abandon it as well]], stating he wants to be a different breed of crime lord, eschewing the more violent and sadistic aspects of the position. In the finale, he seems to be treated by the people of Mos Espa as an actual lord, not the criminal type.

* HoverBike: The [[Recap/TheBookOfBobaFettS1E2TheTribesOfTatooine second episode]] has Boba single-handedly thrash all the members of a swoop gang on Tatooine and steal all their bikes to employ in a plan to help his adoptive Tusken tribe overcome a speeder train that frequently terrorizes them while traversing the Tusken tribe's territory. He later hires an entire swoop gang, the Mods, who have decorated swoops and show off their skills riding them while hunting down someone.

** The mayor's majordomo sideswipes and crashes his land speeder into a wall in Chapter 3, resulting in it being filled with produce à la Biff Tannen having his car filled with manure in ''Film/BackToTheFuture''.

* ChaseScene: Boba's new hires pursue the mayor's majordomo through the densely-packed streets of Mos Espa on hovercycles and in a land speeder, respectively. The chase is noticeably not as fast as is usual in typical action movies, but these are after all a bunch of kids and a bureaucrat doing this in a crowded urban environment.

** [[spoiler:When a group of Pyke goons attempt to surprise-draw on Cobb Vanth, they find themselves woefuelly outgunned, as he takes three of them out in a single second, two using [[OneHitPolykill only one shot]]. The fourth, caught reaching but without his hand on a weapon, surrenders almost immediately.]]

* DueToTheDead: The Tusken Tribe has a distinct funeral ritual involving gathering the dead and their belongings for a pyre. After the train initially blasts through the tribe in "The Tribes of Tattoine" they gather their dead for the ceremony. In "The Streets of Mos Espa," [[spoiler:when Boba discovers the tribe massacred, he works into the night to perform the ceremony and put the dead to rest]].

* {{Interquel}}: Like ''Series/TheMandalorian'', the show is set between the events of the original trilogy and the sequel trilogy. It's ambiguous, but Boba's escape from the Sarlaac and his time with the Tuskens suggests that the events of the Mandalorian take place just a few years after the destruction of the Death Star[[note]]When he goes back to the Sarlaac pit to recover his armor with Shand, Boba notes that he was trapped there "all those years ago".[[/note]], while Boba's time in Mos Espa is a few years after that.

* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Boba Fett announces his intent to be a crime lord in Tattooine, but in practice he isn't actually seen doing anything beyond collecting protection money. Fennec does reference the spice smuggling aspect of Hutt's former criminal enterprise, but [[DrugsAreBad Fett decides to abandon it as well]], stating he wants to be a different breed of crime lord, eschewing the more violent and sadistic aspects of the position. In the finale, he seems to be treated by the people of Mos Espa as an actual lord, not the criminal type.

* TookALevelInKindness: For Boba Fett, clearly, on a quest to find a life other than being a feared bounty hunter, but also for Tattooine. It was introduced as the place farthest from the bright center of the galaxy, with hostile natives, thieving scavengers, and cities that are wretched hives of scum and villainy. The prequels double down, showing that it engages in routine blood sports (the pod races) and society-wide slavery. ''The Mandalorian'' started redeeming it with Cobb Vanth and Mos Pelga (now Freetown), but this series keeps the focus on the planet and shows that the majority of its inhabitants are just regular people who keep their heads down and want nothing more than for all the crime lords to just ''go away'', and prove willing to fight when their backs are against the wall.

* UndyingLoyalty: The greatest asset of Fett's style of rule is his ability to inspire this. He manages to convince Fennec first before he formally made his claim, and then the two Gammorean guards, and then the Mod gangs, and then even fearsome Black Krrsantan (who was previously hired to assassinate him) to follow him. [[Series/TheMandalorian Din Djarin]] decides to throw down for him in the battle against the Pykes pro bono too. And even the notoriously independent Freetown Militia are willing to cast their lot in with him as well. His secret is that he understands the necessity of reciprocating loyalty: Fennec was the first that he promised a piece of the spoils in his lordship, the Gammoreans were spared the execution block if they bent the knee, Black Krrsantan was simply let free instead of sold as a slave when the Hutt Twins abandoned him to Boba, the Mods and Krrsantan were both offered employment as Boba's henchmen, and the Freetowners were rewarded by having their beloved Marshall, Cobb Vanth, made whole again via a bacta tank dunk and some Mod-style cybernetic reconstruction on Boba's dime after he was on the wrong end of Cad Bane's quickdraw. Din signed up readily for free because Boba previously creatively interpreted an agreement with Din made under more adversarial circumstances to say he still owed Din in "ensuring the Child (a.k.a. Grogu) was safe" after he recovered his armor from Din's possession and the Imperial Remnant abducted Grogu.

* VirtueIsWeakness: An absurd amount of the troubles Fett endures through the season come down to all of the other criminals in [[WretchedHive Tatooine]] seeing his decision of offering alliances [[HonorAmongThieves with no funny]] (and [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse deadly]]) business as weakness, and "[[UnderestimatingBadassery he should be easy to kill and rob]]" weakness at that.

* InCameraEffects: In [[Recap/TheBookOfBobaFettS1E5ReturnOfTheMandalorian "Return of the Mandalorian"]], TheOner in which Din takes the elevator up to the bar and goes back down shows off the capabilities of the ILM [=StageCraft=] volume. Instead of building a working elevator, the crew can build a one-level set and animate the entire background to simulate the elevator going to different floors.

* UndyingLoyalty: The greatest asset of Fett's style of rule is his ability to inspire this. He manages to convince Fennec first before he formally made his claim, and then the two Gammorean guards, and then the Mod gangs, and then even fearsome Black Krrsantan (who was previously hired to assassinate him) to follow him. [[Series/TheMandalorian Din Djarin]] decides to throw down for him in the battle against the Pykes pro bono too. And even the notoriously independent Freetown Militia are willing to cast their lot in with him as well. His secret is that he understands the necessity of reciprocating loyalty: Fennec was the first that he promised a piece of the spoils in his lordship, the Gammoreans were spared the execution block if they bent the knee, Black Krrsantan was simply let free instead of sold as a slave when the Hutt Twins abandoned him to Boba, the Mods and Krrsantan were both offered employment as Boba's henchmen, and the Freetowners were rewarded by having their beloved Marshall, Cobb Vanth, made whole again via a bacta tank dunk and some Mod-style cybernetic reconstruction on Boba's dime after he was on the wrong end of Cad Bane's quickdraw. Din signed up readily for free because Boba previously creatively interpreted an agreement with Din made under more adversarial circumstances to say he still owed Din in "ensuring the Child (AKA Grogu) was safe" after he recovered his armor from Din's possession and the Imperial Remnant abducted Grogu.

** The Rancor trainer mentions tales of the Witches of Dathomir riding rancors into battle. In ''Legends'' (more specifically, in the ''Literature/YoungJediKnights'' series), they indeed did.

* UndyingLoyalty: The greatest asset of Fett's style of rule is his ability to inspire this. He manages to convince Fennec first before he formally made his claim, and then the two Gammorean guards, and then the Mod gangs, and then even fearsome Black Krrsantan (who was previously hired to assassinate him) to follow him. [[Series/TheMandalorian Din Djarin]] decides to throw down for him in the battle against the Pykes pro bono too. And even the notoriously independent Freetown Militia are willing to cast their lot in with him as well. His secret is that he understands the necessity of reciprocating loyalty: Fennec was the first that he promised a piece of the spoils in his lordship, the Gammoreans were spared the execution block if they bent the knee, Black Krrsantan was simply let free instead of sold as a slave when the Hutt Twins abandoned him to Boba, the Mods and Krrsantan were both offered employment as Boba's henchmen, and the Freetowners were rewarded by having their beloved Marshall, Cobb Vanth, made whole again via a bacta tank dunk and some Mod-style cybernetic reconstruction on Boba's dime after he was on the wrong end of Cad Bane's quickdraw.

* TheStinger: For the season 1 finale's second-to-last scene, Boba says he can't jump in his bacta tank because someone's using it. The astute viewer may remember that Boba promised Black Krrsantan he could use it, but the Wookiee saunters up seconds later. An oversight? [[spoiler:Nope, the stinger reveals Cobb Vanth survived his encounter with Cad Bane and is now healing up in the bacta tank, and the modder who fixed up Fennec is getting ready to work on him.]]

* BlackAndGreyMorality: While Boba is still a crime lord, he is one that rules with respect, looks for ways to settle conflict without resorting to violence, and makes sure everyone involved in his operations benefits. The other crime lords, as well as the Pykes, on the other hand, are unabashedly evil and ruthless. This is one of the reasons he has difficulty uniting the former against the latter, [[spoiler:and he ultimately fails to do so when the lords turn on him in Chapter 7.]]