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Din Grogu ("The Child")
Species: Unnamed species (same as Yoda)
Homeworld: Unknown
Voiced by: David Acord (vocalizations)
A male 50+ year old Force-sensitive infant from the same species as Jedi Master Yoda. He's wanted by Moff Gideon a few years after the battle of Endor, and Mandalorian bounty hunter Din Djarin ended up taking him into his personal care instead of leaving him in the hands of Gideon's Imperial remnants. The Mandalorian thus became Grogu's surrogate father per his clan's rules.
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- Affectionate Nickname: He's sometimes referred to as a "womp rat" by Mando and Peli. As of The Mandalorian Season 2, Mando has started referring to the Child more as "kid", and occasionally "buddy". Peli has also occasionally called him "bright eyes".
- Ambiguously Absent Parent: Whatever happened to Grogu's biological parents before joining the Jedi, they're no longer a part of his life. In "The Return", The Armorer acknowledges that they don't know if his parents are even alive anymore.
- The Apprentice: He becomes Luke's padawan for a few months and they train together, but when Luke brings the matter of choosing between becoming a Jedi and returning to Mando, he chooses the latter. In Season 3, he is considered a Mandalorian foundling and trains with the other foundlings.
- Audience Surrogate: Grogu is kind of a Wish-Fulfillment character for children to relate to, who gets to go in many adventures.
- The Baby of the Bunch: Grogu is older than almost everyone in the show because he comes from a very long-lived alien species, but at the same time, he is still a baby. He is the smallest and at least mentally, the youngest character, which is why everyone who is not a villain is very protective of him.
- Baby's First Words: In Season 3, Grogu tries for the first time to say his first words, or at least, other words than "patu" and "baba". He mumbles something to Peli upon meeting her again, making her very happy that he said his first words to her, and in Chapter 19, he tries to pronounce "This is the way" after listening to Din and Bo Katan saying the creed.
- Badass Adorable: The infant may be an adorable green elf-looking creature, but he can wield the Force and shows immense strength in this ability despite his young age and brief time in training. This makes him one of the most powerful beings in the universe.
- Badass in Distress: By default for being a toddler who is still learning to use Force. His interventions are crucial during battles, but in most situations, he is overwhelmed and easily falls a victim to kidnapping, Moff Gideon being the most successful.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: The main reason the Child seems so attached to Mando is likely because he can tell Mando means him no harm and genuinely wants to protect him. So in turn, the Child does anything in his capabilities to protect Mando (and his allies and friends) as well.
- Big Damn Heroes: Grogu versus the stormtrooper with flamethrower. Just about when Cara, Din and Greef seemingly resign they cannot escape the stormtroopers, Grogu uses the Force to repel the attack of the stormtrooper who was about to incinerate everyone at the orders of Moff Gideon.
- Big Eater: For his size at least. Anytime he sees a (living) critter (or eggs in the case of the poor Frog Lady in The Mandalorian Season 2), he feels an irrepressible need to eat it.
- Bald Mystic: Played With. Despite being a baby, he is bald with a few white strands of hair like Yoda, and is a sci fi Child Mage with a great potential with the Force.
- Bulletproof Vest: In The Book of Bobba Fett, unknowingly to Grogu, Din visits him on Ossus and leaves a beskar chainmail as a gift for him. Ever since he chose the chainmail over the lightsaber, Grogu wears it 24h out of 24 under his Jedi robes.
- Character Catchphrase: "Patu!"
- Cheerful Child: He is very friendly, constantly giggling, empathetic, and more than willing to help someone in need, whether they're a friend or foe.
- Child Mage: Grogu is the cute alien infant and his ability to use the Force is explicitly seen by several characters as him doing "magic hand things".
- Child Prodigy: Though he's over 50 years old (by human standards), Yoda's species is Long-Lived and (by such aging) Grogu is still a young child. And he can already use the Force to highly impressive effects that even older (not to mention more trained) Force users struggle with.
- Child Soldiers: Grogu was a Jedi padawan on Coruscant before the 501st Legion began slaughtering the Jedi at the Temple. After that tragic event, he was forced to hide for years.
- Children Are Innocent: Since he's still a baby, he's constantly amazed at the world around him and even starts to mimic Mando and his character traits.
- Clingy Child: Grogu is very attached to Din, and he often expresses his affection by clinging to his father's leg.
- Constantly Curious: Whenever Mando takes him somewhere and he's allowed to explore, he's always looking at or inspecting something that catches his eye.
- Contrasting Sequel Main Character:
- Obviously, contrasting Master Yoda. While both of them are Force-sensitive Little Green Men belonging to the same cryptic species, there are several key differences between them.
- Yoda made his debut in a movie, The Empire Strikes Back, already being at the end of his life, while Grogu is barely a toddler making his debut in a TV show.
- Yoda was always a well-meaning Jedi Master, but he was very dogmatic and conservative, believing any sorts of attachment will only lead to the Dark Side and expecting of others to religiously follow the Jedi Order's beliefs just as he does, despite this line of thinking biting him in the ass more than once. Grogu, on the other hand, has such a strong attachment to Mando that it could even lead him to the Dark Side one day. He also refuses in the end to become a Jedi, showing that he would rather stay with his loved ones, thus becoming part of the Mandalorian people, who value family and attachment above all.
- Yoda was said to be the greatest Jedi warrior in the Galaxy of all times, only matched by Darth Sidious in skills. Grogu has a huge potential with the Force too, but he is too young to even say his first spoken words, let alone mastering the Force.
- Even Anakin Skywalker. Both were born in same year -41 BBY- and are introduced as Child Prodigies falling in love with two people who came to mean the world to them: Padme and Din. Ahsoka refuses to train Grogu because his attachment to his father figure is so powerful that he could easily fall to the Dark Side. She never mentions the reason why this is a bad idea, but she was clearly referring to what happened to Anakin. And in the end, Anakin ended becoming a Sith, where Grogu joined the Mandalorians, becoming the first force-wielding Mandalorian in centuries.
- Obviously, contrasting Master Yoda. While both of them are Force-sensitive Little Green Men belonging to the same cryptic species, there are several key differences between them.
- Cuteness Proximity:
- Some reactions he gets from others is this. Mando's head-tilt upon seeing him indicates he was possibly charmed by the kid's cuteness instantly. Winta and the other village children immediately go up to greet him and coo over him, instantly charmed. Others like Peli get excited when she sees the Child is still with Mando and jokingly says she'd buy the kid off his hands and would happily pay for the child's offsprings if he ever has any.
- He has this reaction toward the Anzellans for being smaller than him. He can't help but hug them.Anzellan: Bad baby! No squeezie!
- The Cutie: Within days of his first appearance, he became well-known for being one of the most adorable characters in the Star Wars franchise. He's a sweet and curious little alien baby, with big floppy ears and huge eyes.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Grogu has not had a happy life. He started out as a Jedi youngling who was being trained at the Temple on Coruscant at the end of the Clone Wars. Then Order 66 happened and the Temple was massacred, which he survived by hiding and was Forced to Watch as numerous Jedi were gunned down in front of his eyes. Master Kelleran Beq rescued him from the Temple and, because of his awesome Force abilities, put him into hiding. In order to survive on his own, he was forced to hide his powers and spent the next several decades scared and alone. It seemingly wasn't until shortly after the Galactic Civil War that he found some semblance of a family/protector again, when Din Djarin found him.
- Defiant Captive: Just because Grogu is a baby, doesn't mean he wont fight back. He uses the Force against two stormtroopers and slams them across the room while he is held captive on Gideon's ship. He tries to attack Gideon himself, but gets too tired after dealing with the troopers.
- Deuteragonist: Grogu is Mando's kid sidekick and adopted son, and they go in many adventures together.
- Dissonant Serenity: The baby can have some odd reactions with all the death surrounding him, when he should be scared and certainly not happy and constantly giggling. He approves Mando's shooting the Jawas, giggles when IG-11 drives into the town on a speeder bike and shoots at every stormstooper, and in another occasion, when Mando attacks the Starfighters with the Razor Crest, he even looks like he is celebrating their death by eating and raising his tiny hands in the air every time Din destroys a ship.
- Don't Think, Feel: Luke teaches Grogu that he needs to feel the Force all around him in order to find his own balance.
- Drama-Preserving Handicap: While he has powerful Force abilities, he only has the stamina to pull off major feats once or twice a day, enough to only deal with a fraction of the peril per episode.
- Earthy Barefoot Character: Several official conceptual arts and dolls show Grogu being barefoot. Downplayed, he is not exactly a Nature Hero, but Grogu is connected to nature and all living things through the Force, and he is shown befriending several animals when he is not outright eating them.
- Elective Mute: Deconstructed. Is implied over the course of the show that Grogu might suffer from some form of Psychogenic mutism or childhood disintegrative disorder caused by severe emotional trauma that stunted his growth. At 50+, despite his Proportional Aging in conditions Yoda started training Jedi at 100, he should already be capable of pronouncing words, when all he does is cooing and muttering things that only sounds like words. Moments like him stopping Paz Vizla and Axe Woves from killing each other, show that Grogu, despite his shenanigans, is very perceptive and emotionally intelligent.
- Emerald Power: He is a tiny Force-sensitive green infant belonging to Yoda's species.
- Et Tu, Brute?: He has this reaction when he realizes that Mando just handed him over to the Imperials in Season 1. He leaves out a long pained cry and keeps staring at Mando as he is taken away. Luckily for him, Mando had enough conscience to rescue him.
- Even the Loving Hero Has Hated Ones: Implied, Grogu is an extremely Cheerful Child, friendly to most people and animals when he can't eat them, but over the course of the show, he shows he holds some sort of resentment for the stormtroopers because of Order 66. He cheerfully acclaims whenever Mando shoots their ships on Nevarro, and when Moff Gideon kidnaped him, he was shown being uncharacteristically violent against two stormtroopers, torturing them by force-chocking one and crushing the heart of the other, and slamming them on the walls. The stormtroopers are not his only antagonists or kidnappers, yet he always shown his violent side only to them.
- Expressive Ears: His big ears are upright when he's happy and droop when he's sad or scared.
- Extremely Protective Child: He has become so protective of his adoptive father that he Force chokes Cara when he thinks their friendly arm-wrestling match is her actually hurting Mando.
- Extreme Omnivore: With his lack of self-preservation, Grogu is more than often seen eating living, uncooked creatures like alien frogs, eggs from sapient frogs, spider-like insects that look like they came out of a Xenomorph egg, and the octopus-like creature from the moon Trask.
- Fed to the Beast: When he and Din take a trip on a ship run by some unsavory Quarrens, poor Grogu is fed to the mamacore by the sailors. It swallows him in his pod whole, but he is saved by Koska.
- Forced Sleep: Grogu uses The Force to induce Boba Fett's rancor, who was rampaging in Mos Espa, to sleep in the middle of the street. And then he takes a nap too right next to the beast.
- Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke: In The Mandalorian Season 1, the Mandalorian theorizes that he's the product of a genetic engineering experiment, explaining his strange powers and why no one recognizes what species he is. This theory is shut down by Kuiil, who previously worked in Empire gene farms, when he identifies him as a naturally-evolved species due to his "ugly" appearance and slow aging. "The Jedi" confirmed that he is a natural member of Yoda's species, and is not genetically engineered. However, "The Siege" reveals Moff Gideon intends to use Grogu's blood to engineer his own personal army of Force-sensitive Super Soldiers.
- Genocide Survivor: Grogu is one of the younglings from the Jedi Temple on Coruscant who somehow survived Order 66, as discussed by fellow survivor Ahsoka Tano.
- Given Name Reveal: Chapter 13 of The Mandalorian reveals that his name is Grogu.
- Glass Cannon: He has extremely powerful Force abilities, but absolutely no stamina due to his young age. One good use of the Force is enough to knock him out, making his power a strict one-shot use only in battle.
- Goo-Goo-Godlike: He's just a baby and already has some awareness of how to effectively use the Force, which is explained in The Mandalorian Season 2; he received training at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant by many Jedi masters before the rise of the Empire. He knows enough to lift a raging Mudhorn off the ground and heal physical wounds (including fatal ones). However, because he's so young (at least by the standards of his species), the strain from these forays initially causes a Power-Strain Blackout that puts him to sleep for several hours. Later, he is able to Force-choke Cara without any sign of physical stress. He does tiredly slump to the ground after healing Greef Carga's arm and protecting the group from a flame thrower attack, but doesn't actually pass out. In The Mandalorian Season 2, it's revealed the reason Moff Gideon wants him so badly is because of his extremely high midichlorian count. Apparently, his "m-count" is so high it's doubted they're going to find another Force user with such a high number, making him an invaluable tool to their plans.
- Happily Adopted: Grogu doesn't seem to mind that Mando has taken the role of his parental figure. In the Mandalorian Season 1 finale, the Armorer declares Mando the official adopted father of Grogu by Mandalorian creed and culture. However, Mando will only remain his adopted father until the little guy comes of age or is reunited with his own kind, which Mando is encouraged to do. Either way, Grogu is declared an official Foundling in his care. The Mando also gives him his Mandalorian pendant, which identifies him as being a part of a Mandalorian clan. When the two of them meet Ahsoka, she directly states that Grogu sees the Mandalorian as a father-figure. The adoption becomes official in Chapter 24, when he is formally recognized as Din Djarin's adopted son and apprentice.
- Healing Hands: His first attempt to use the Force to help heal the Mandalorian's arm wound is rebuffed; Mando puts him back in his crib before he can do anything, not realizing what the Child is trying to do. He later heals Greef Karga's arm after a nighttime attack by venomous pterosaur-like creatures, curing him of their fatal poison.
- Heartwarming Orphan: Grogu's status as a foundling is a plot device in the show, but he is officially adopted by Din by Season 3.
- Hidden Depths: "The Jedi" reveals his innocent baby façade conceals some pretty deep trauma. Grogu was once a Jedi Youngling before the rise of the Empire, and had to go underground and conceal his powers in order to survive. Ahsoka senses great fear in him and a strong attachment to the Mandalorian as a father-figure. She notes that these traits could lead him to The Dark Side if he was trained in the ways of the Force.
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- I Choose to Stay: After initially leaving at the end of The Mandalorian's second season, in The Book of Boba Fett's 6th episode, Luke gives Grogu a choice; take a gift of Yoda's lightsaber and begin truly training as a Jedi, but let go of his attachments to Din and the friends he'd made, or take Din's gift of a beskar chainmail undershirt and embrace life as a Mandalorian foundling, but forever close himself off to the path of the Jedi (save the training Luke helped him refamiliarize himself with). In the next episode, Grogu is delivered to Tatooine by R2-D2, wearing Din's chainmail and ready to rejoin his adopted father's life.
- In a Single Bound: After training for some time with Luke, Grogu learned to do some Force-enhanced acrobatics and can jump huge distances. For his size, anyway.
- Incompletely Trained: What he turns out to be. He received Jedi training from several masters at the Temple on Coruscant, then it all came to a decades-long halt after Order 66 once he had to hide from the Empire. It wasn't until five years after the battle of Endor that he would have a new master to finish his Jedi training, Luke Skywalker. He then abandons that training to go back to Mando after Luke forces him to choose between staying or going back.
- Innocent Aliens: He's a non-bratty alien baby, so it's a given. While he can be highly dangerous with his great power, he's not at all malicious and only wants to help and protect those he cares about.
- Innocent Prodigy: Grogu is a Force-sensitive prodigy, and a 50+ years one at that, but he is still a toddler both physically and mentally, dependent on the adults around him to survive. In Season 3, he is gifted with a pilotable suit for Grogu made of Ig-11's body, which only has Yes and No commands. Din refuses to receive this gift for Grogu because he is too young, while Greef Karga insist he is old enough and puts the baby in it. Grogu learns immediately to operate it, but to Din's exasperation, the first thing Grogu does is to spam the heck out of the Yes button just for the sake of it.
- Interspecies Adoption: The Armorer (the elder of Din Djarin's tribe) considers him a foundling, and Din (a human Mandalorian) has to act as his Parental Substitute.
- Irony: Grogu was present at the Jedi Temple when Darth Vader massacred his fellow Jedi. Decades later, Vader's son, Luke, rescues Grogu and his father figure from being killed by the Empire.
- Junior Counterpart: To his adoptive father figure. Grogu has a similar Dark and Troubled Past to Mando, Din losing his parents and home to a droid attack, while Grogu lost his Jedi Masters and home to the 501st Legion. In Season 3, his own painful memories are triggered same way it happened to his father in Season 1, when the Armorer was forging the beskar to make armor pieces. Just like his Mandalorian adoptive father before him, Din himself adopts Grogu and grooms him to become a Mandalorian.
- Kid-Appeal Character: Grogu is a Token Mini-Moe created to fulfill this role both in and out Universe. What can be more appealing than a cute alien infant with big floppy ears who constantly invokes a feeling of protectiveness from anyone kind-at-heart who meets him, makes human baby noises all the time, is a Badass Adorable Force user and occasionally serves as a source of amusement?
- Kiddie Kid: He is genuinely a baby by the standards of his species, but compared to how Yoda was around his age, it's implied that Grogu is more child-like than he should be by this point. Yoda says that, at 900, he has trained Jedi for 800 years, meaning he started at 100, but Grogu can't even speak yet despite being half that age. That said, that could imply that this species has a comparatively long infancy.
- Kids Driving Cars: Well, kid driving spaceships anyway. He knows the basics of driving a spaceship due to Mando's teachings, and they come in handy when Din sends Grogu to Kalevala to ask Bo Katan for help in Season 3. Thankfully, R5-D4 was plugged in to the astromech socket to handle the technicalities of piloting and navigation. Peli lampshades this when he shows up to Mos Eisley delivered in an X-wing by R2, joking that he’s already been taught how to drive.
- Kid Hero: He is an infant with Force powers and the deuteragonist of the show. He can pull some impressive hits, but is still protected by the adults in his life.
- Killer Rabbit: He quickly latches onto Mando as his father figure and grows very attached to him. He will use the Force on anyone he thinks is a threat to Mando, whether it be lifting them into the air, or choking them. "The Tragedy" shows him throwing around Stormtroopers attempting to hold him like ragdolls, and he violently chokes and throttles them as well.
- Knighting: In chapter 22, he is knighted by the Duchess of Plazir-15 as a knight of the Ancient Order of the Independent Regencies for his cuteness.
- Last of His Kind: Yoda and Yaddle were both dead before The Mandalorian began, and as no other member of their species has been introduced, it seems Grogu may be the only one left.
- Late-Arrival Spoiler: The Mandalorian Season 3 trailers spoil Grogu choosing to return to Din's care at the end of The Book of Boba Fett.
- Leitmotif: Snacks
. - Limited Wardrobe: He's been wearing the same beige, vaguely Jedi-esque robe since the first episode of The Mandalorian. During The Book of Boba Fett, he starts wearing the shirt of beskar chainmail that Din had made for him, but since he wears it under the robe, it doesn't change his overall look. In chapter 20 of The Mandalorian, he receives a beskar chest plate. So it would appear that they are slowly expanding the little man's wardrobe.
- Little Green Man: Grogu is one of the cutest and smallest examples to be created.
- Long-Lived: He can likely live for many centuries, just like Yoda did.
- MacGuffin Super-Person: His very existence drives the plot of The Mandalorian Season 1, since an Imperial holdout apparently feels threatened by his Force abilities and wants him dead. Season 2 then dials this up by revealing that the Imperials need his blood for special projects, and are even more determined to catch him.
- Master-Apprentice Chain: From Yoda, who trained Count Dooku and Luke Skywalker, who then trained Grogu for a while, but Grogu chose Mando over his Jedi teachings, possibly breaking any future Master-Apprentice Chain for him.
- Meaningful Name: His given name, Grogu, rhymes with "goo-goo", accenting his youth and innocence.
- Meaningful Rename: When Din Djarin formally adopts him as his apprentice, he is renamed Din Grogu as an adopted foundling.
- Mid-Season Upgrade: In "The Spies", IG-11's body has been repurposed as a pilotable suit for Grogu, making it easier for him to keep up with the others and express his desires.
- Mind over Matter: He can use Force telekinesis to lift a rampaging Mudhorn, which is essentially a rhino at double the size and strength. However, the strain of doing so knocks him out for a couple of hours and he requires rest to recuperate. Although, as the series progresses, it appears he is gradually getting stronger in his Force abilities — even trained Jedi couldn't always manage to shield themselves from flamethrower fire and send it back at their enemy.
- Muggle Foster Parents: Grogu is a Force-sensitive foundling who is Happily Adopted by his Badass Normal guardian, Din Djarin. In season 3, Bo-Katan also acts occasionally like a surrogate mother to him.
- Mundane Utility: Sometimes, Grogu will use the Force for his own entertainment, like stealing blue biscuits from another kid and making a chair he sits on to spin.
- Mysterious Past: While we do know his Dark and Troubled Past, we don't know what kind of life he had before he ended up at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. Same as Master Yoda, his background is completely cryptic.
- Mystical Waif: As Sci-Fi male example, Grogu is this to Din. He is a 50+ years old mysterious alien toddler, from an even more mysterious species which can live for centuries. His appearance in Din's life is what introduces him from an insignificant life of a bounty hunter to the big powers that try to decide the fate of the Galaxy, like the remnants of the Galactic Empire and legendary figures like Luke Skywalker, Ahsoka Tano and Bo-Katan. For the first two seasons, Mando's role was mainly to protect Grogu, because different factions were actively hunting him down for his huge potential with the Force.
- Mystical White Hair: Despite being a baby, at least by the standards of his own species, he has some white hair on him, and has incredible potential with the Force.
- No Name Given: For the first season and a half of The Mandalorian, his given name is never revealed, and he is simply referred to by nicknames such as "kid" or "the child". "The Jedi" reveals his given name is Grogu.
- Offscreen Teleportation: He does this often when Mando tells him to stay behind, or he appears whenever his protector seems to be in danger. After some time, Mando just rolls with it. In "The Prisoner", he makes use of his small size to do this while Zero is searching the Razor Crest for him.
- Older Than He Looks: He may be an infant, but he's a fifty-year-old infant. This is because his species is Long-Lived, Yoda managing to last a full 900 years before passing away, making him about 5 in his species' lifespan compared to a human's.
- One-Track-Minded Hunger: If Mando doesn't keep a close eye on him, he'll wander off and eat anything he can get his hands on, especially if it's frog eggs. Almost every other scene of The Mandalorian Season 2 that he's in shows him eating something.
- Out of Focus: While not without his Character Focus moments, Grogu's place as Deuteragonist was taken by Bo-Kotan in season 3. Grogu is sometimes left behind for his safety, while Din and Bo go on missions, like when they went to rescue Ragnar and trying to solve the droid problems on Plazir-15.
- Parents in Distress: When Din gets captured by a cyborg creature, Grogu is sent to asks for Bo-katan's help. He accompanies Bo-katan to guide her where Din is held captured.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: He's not currently capable of manipulating the Force the way Yoda could, but he's still able to lift up a Mudhorn to stop it from rampaging against Mando and perform feats older Force users struggle to do. His abilities also continue to grow, as he's soon able to easily Force-choke Cara (when briefly mistaking her for an enemy) and hold back a flamethrower attack that only tires him for a moment. Gideon later comments on how the kid is "extremely gifted" and Luke Skywalker also says that Grogu is strong with the Force and his talent must be properly trained to let him further excel.
- Plucky Comic Relief: Between his shenanigans like disrespecting Mando's orders, unwillingly provoking cuteness aggression to anyone who meets him, and endless Running Gags, Grogu provides most of the comedic scenes in the show.
- Pointy Ears: He has huge elf-like ears. Grogu seems to like being caressed on them.
- Power-Strain Blackout: Using the Force to lift the Mudhorn for a few seconds causes him to pass out, and he needs to rest for several hours afterward. He's still young compared to someone like Yoda who could lift an X-Wing without collapsing afterward, given that he was much older and had centuries of mastery of the Force behind him. Though he starts to get better and better stamina with wielding the Force, he then goes and learns/remembers some new and even greater Force ability that then leaves him spent after performing the feat (such as lulling Boba's rampaging Rancor to sleep in the aftermath of the urban fight against the Pykes and then checking out for a nap himself right next to the snoring rancor calf).
- Prefers Raw Meat: He loves eating small creatures while they're alive. Especially frogs. He ate a lot of the Frog Lady's eggs, which Mando has to repeatedly stop him from gorging on.
- Proportional Aging: As IG-11 notes, species age differently. Grogu's species seemingly takes a long time to grow into adulthood (and compensates with a lifespan that can last several centuries), as he's still very much an infant at 50+.
- Psychic Children: Putting aside that he is a Long-Lived 50+ being, Grogu is the youngest child in the franchise to use Force abilities. He mastered abilities like telekinesis, Telepathy and psychic healing before even saying his first words.
- Psychic Strangle: He mistakes a friendly arm-wrestling competition for something more serious and begins Force-choking Cara when she appears to be beating Mando. He talks the kid down, but Cara is understandably disturbed. In "The Tragedy" he's able to do this to two Stormtroopers at the same time while being held prisoner.
- Puppy-Dog Eyes: When Grogu was designed, he was given human-like eyes like Yoda at first, but it did not work in Grogu's favor design-wise, because he looked too uncanny valley. Jon Favreau opted for him to have dog-like eyes, with giant dark pupils instead, and no long after, Christian Alzmann, one of the illustrators, came with his signature look.
- Raised by Rival: Completely accidentally from Din's part because he had no idea Mandalorians and Jedi were enemies in the past, as the Armorer informs him.
- Rapid-Fire "No!": While intervening in the fight between Pax Vizsla and Axe Woves, he uses the IG-12 suit to repeatedly say "No."
- The Reveal: The Mandalorian Chapter 13 reveals that his name is Grogu, and that he was trained by the Jedi and kept hidden for several years.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: Ticks all the boxes for this: he's the same species as the diminutive Yoda so he's tiny, has massive ears and big round eyes, stubby little hands and feet, and sounds just like a human baby. He also waddles in order to keep up with the Mando as he walks around in public, adding to his cuteness.
- Running Gag:
- He seems to enjoy hunting critters and swallowing them alive whenever he can.
- Whatever food that he notices being eaten nearby, he's certain to also be having some of it soon.
- He also likes to not follow Mando's instructions whenever possible, preferring to tag along instead of staying behind.
- His Offscreen Teleportation turned into one. Kid can move.
- Grogu and Din witnessing the Nite Owls removing their helmets provokes a few instances of the Child curiously staring at his father's head, longing to see how he'd look without his helmet. Din willingly satisfies his curiosity by the end of The Mandalorian Season 2.
- Whenever a fight is about to break out, Grogu presses a button on his pod to close and hide in it until the fight's over.
- Smarter Than You Look:
- Despite still being a baby, he seems to have a better understanding of situations than given credit for. Specifically, he seems to have a firmer grasp of cause and effect than a human infant would, being able to puzzle out the effect of guns on beings along with what the ship does in a simplistic fashion. However, his social understanding is a tad lacking.
- In The Mandalorian Chapter 2, he tries (twice) to heal Mando of an injury. Mando misinterprets this and just keeps returning the Child to his pram.
- In The Mandalorian Chapter 6, he's able to recognize Zero as a threat before the droid even made his intentions to harm him clear. He then easily outmaneuvers Zero as he searches for him, who earlier boasted about having high intelligence. He also realizes when the droid is going to shoot him and prepares to use the Force to defend himself until Mando saves him.
- He appears to try and steer the ship away from meeting up with Greef in The Mandalorian Chapter 7 after listening to Mando and Cara discussing their plan to do so. In the same episode, he realizes when Greef has been poisoned and needs help, all by simply observing the group tending to him. He then walks up to him, places his hand directly on top of his wound and heals him. However, he's still a child, and can't tell the difference between Cara and Mando having a friendly arm-wrestling competition to her actually putting Mando's life at risk.
- In The Mandalorian Chapter 8, when the group is pinned in the bar and about to be burned alive by a stormtrooper wielding a flamethrower, he realizes the exact danger they're in. He steps forward and uses the Force to divert the flames away from them and back onto their enemy.
- The Mandalorian Chapter 9 has him realize that violence is about to ensue, and closes up his pram before anything else can happen (although given what the Mando gets up to, this may be simple pattern recognition).
- In The Mandalorian Chapter 10, he alerts Mando to the fact that the Frog Lady has left the ship with her eggs by babbling and pointing. When that doesn't work, he goes out of Mando's view, knowing he'd follow him and would see her trail of footprints.
- In The Mandalorian Chapter 11, he immediately closes his pram before being swallowed by the Mamacore.
- In The Mandalorian Chapter 13, Ahsoka states that Grogu realized the terrible danger all Force-users were in after Order 66 and the fall of the Jedi, and thus learned to hide his abilities to draw less attention to himself.
- In The Mandalorian Chapter 16, he's aware without being told that Luke Skywalker has arrived, is there to take him in to complete his Jedi training and that he must go with him for the better good. However, he's aware his departure may hurt Din and wants his okay to do so.
- In The Book of Boba Fett Chapter 6, he's shown to be an apt learner with Luke when Luke goes to train him. Luke seems well-aware of this and treats Grogu as if he's an around 10- or 12-year-old human, rather than a literal baby as his appearance and lack of speech makes everyone else think, and Grogu comprehends him every step of the way (though this might be Luke communicating partially through the Force, which would give him an advantage Din and the others couldn't have). Season 3 of The Mandalorian follows this as Din and Bo have both realized Grogu is not the helpless baby they thought he was, and begin speaking to him as more of an older child as Luke did; and Grogu follows along pretty well with what is being said to him.
- When the blood-draining cyborg with a spider mini-mecha has captured Din in the ruins of the planet Mandalore, he tries in earnest to rescue Din from the gibbet he's trapped in, and successfully conveys the urgency and destination he wants to R5-D4 in the Hotrod N1 after Din tells him to go get Bo-katan to the rescue. He then leads Bo back to the site of Din's predicament as well.
- So Proud of You: When Din pities Grogu against another kid for training, Bo Katan encourages him by telling him that his father is simply proud of him.
- Squishy Wizard: Grogu might be a capable Force wielder, but he is still an infant, and gets often overwhelmed and kidnapped because of his physical disadvantages and young age.
- Tagalong Kid: Despite being told to stay put for his safety, he stubbornly insists on following the Mandalorian everywhere he goes. Mando eventually accepts this and lets the kid follow him around, even to places where it's noted to be "no place for a child". However, he also acknowledges that his life isn't safe for a baby and plans to part ways with the kid as soon as he can find a safe place for him to grow up without being hunted.
- Telepathy: The way Ahsoka communicates with him and learns of his past (including his name) in the Mandalorian season 2 episode "The Jedi". Din asks if he's somehow talking to Ahsoka, to which she says they are specifically feeling each other's thoughts. It's implied that he communicates with Luke Skywalker the same way.
- Token Mini-Moe: Whenever The Mandalorian is on a mission with other bounty hunters or anyone else for that matter, he stands out to be smallest one among them. Justified since he's a kid.
- Token Nonhuman: Among the Mandalorians and their Foundlings, he is the only non-human one. He can't even wear yet a helmet because he is too damn tiny and physically different from human children.
- Token Wizard: Downplayed since he isn't the only Force user who appears in the show, but Grogu is the only one who is a main character in a show where the recurring characters are all Badass Normals.
- Took a Level in Badass: Between Season 2 and 3, Grogu was trained by Luke in the way of the Force. When he returns to Mando in The Book of Bobba Fett, he is more physically independent and better at using the Force.
- Toy-Based Characterization: Grogu's favorite toy is a shiny gear knob from Razor Crest.
- Trauma Button: Watching the hydraulic press pounding the beskar is enough to trigger Grogu's anxiety and to make him vividly relive how the clones slaughtered the Jedi at the temple.
- Trauma-Induced Amnesia: Ahsoka tells Din that Grogu's memories become "dark" for the time period after he was removed from the Jedi Temple, indicating that whatever happened to him was so horrible he doesn't want to remember it anymore. In The Book of Boba Fett, Luke Skywalker looks further into his thoughts and sees a memory of Grogu watching the 501st Legion slaughtering the Jedi during Order 66.
- True Companions: Along with Din, Grogu comes to love Greef Karga and Peli Motto as something of extended family members or friends of the family. By Season 3 he’s outright hopping into Peli’s arms to greet her.
- Undying Loyalty: Toward Din, to the point where his attachment to his father figure could make him fall for the Dark Side. Grogu goes where Mando goes, and is shown in many occasions he would do anything for his caretaker, even protect him from his own friends and refuse to become a Jedi.
- The Unintelligible: He's currently unable to talk in Basic, making baby noises or uttering things that almost sound like words ("Patu!") instead, likely due to the speech ability taking a while to develop in his species (Yoda talked, but he was several hundred years old) or not having had people to teach him how to speak when he was hiding. In Season 3, this is why he is permitted to live with the Children of the Watch without a helmet, as Din explains he is too young to speak (and understand the implications of) the creed. He's definitely trying, however; when Din and Bo recite "this is the way", Grogu splutters something that is obviously his attempt to say it too. He gains some limited ability to communicate through his IG-12 suit, able to express "Yes" or "No" depending on which button he presses.
- Watching Troy Burn: In his Troubled Backstory Flashbacks, Grogu can only watch helplessly as the clones killed his Jedi masters and destroyed his home on Coruscant.
- What Does This Button Do?: He's known to enjoy touching and playing with the controls of Mando's ship, specifically the glowing buttons by where Mando puts him or the lever with the silver nob on top. When he's left alone in the cockpit for a minute, he immediately finds his way to the flight stick and starts messing with it.
- Younger Mentor, Older Disciple: He has this dynamic with almost anyone who becomes his ward, from Luke to Din, simply for being a 50+ years old baby.
- You Remind Me of X: While taking a walk with Grogu, Luke tells him he reminds him of master Yoda, and starts to describe what a great Jedi Yoda was, small like Grogu, but with a huge heart and powerful with the Force.
