WMG / The Mandalorian

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In General

The events of The Mandalorian will directly play into the fate of the Jedi in Rise of Skywalker

A Force-sensitive baby of Yoda's species is far too significant for him to only be relevant to the series. As The Mandalorian is set around the time Luke was first beginning his attempts to rebuild the Jedi Order, something must prevent Luke from learning about him, however that doesn't mean there's not a role left for him to play, since Rey has taken it on herself to pick up the pieces after Luke's passing.

• Somewhat confirmed. Force Healing is used in it.
• Additionally, Luke himself appears in Chapter 16, taking Grogu in.

Luke knew about the child...

...but with the First Order's rise, Luke knew that a child of Yoda's species could be in great danger. Perhaps the Mandalorian decides to deliver him to the Jedi, but Luke rightly predicts the First Order would never stop hunting or attempting to destroy him, so decides the only way to protect him is to take him into hiding. The Mandalorian, who has forged a bond with the child, agrees to go into exile with him.

• Apparently Jossed. While Luke does respond to Grogu's call through the Force in Chapter 16, it's never established whether Luke was aware of him before.

The Mandalorian and Cara Dune will become a Battle Couple

Pascal and Carano had quite good chemistry together on screen, and their first encounter could certainly play as a hyper-violent Meet Cute.

• Jossed so far. The relationship between Cara and Din remains strictly platonic.

The Mandalorian will take off his helmet for the Child.

• Confirmed...kind of. He does take off his helmet, but only so IG-11 can heal him. But IG did heal him so he can go with the rest and help protect The Child.
• Confirmed in the Season 2 finale. Din takes off his helmet for Grogu when they say goodbye after Luke arrives to train him.

Din Djarin will raise the Child as his son and as a full-fledged force-sensitive Mandalorian.

Mandalorian isn't a race; it's a creed.

• Jossed
• Not necessarily, there is a possibility that Grogu for whatever reason is returned to Din and even if Din dies (due to an enemy or old age) there are plenty of other Mandalorians who could take him in. Do you really think Disney is going to let their biggest cash cow potentially get murdered by Kylo Ren/Ben Solo?

Moff Gideon will be one of the founders of the First Order.

• Jossed. Gideon's experiments with Grogu's blood may be connected to the Emperor's resurrection, and part of the larger movement that eventually becomes the First Order. Gideon himself, however, will be sitting it out in a New Republic prison after Chapter 16.
  • No, he won't. He got busted out before he even arrived at the New Republic prison. Gideon is member of the Shadow Council, although him having a hand in forming the First Order is doubtful.

Baby Yoda will eventually become a Jedi Knight.

But not in Luke’s short lived Order. Baby Yoda will eventually join a Jedi Order led by Rey post Sequel Trilogy.

The series will eventually reveal who some of the non-human (though humanoid) Mandalorians are.

As already noted, the Mandalorians are a creed, not a species. I'll bet some of the ones we've already seen are, in fact, not actually humans but members of other humanoid species. I wouldn't be surprised if that Armorer, for instance, were actually a Devaronian; from what we've seen of how tough and relentless the Devaronian in episode 6 was, that would go a long way toward explaining why the Armorer is still standing after the Imperial remnant forces wiped out so many of her fellow Mandalorians, and why she's still standing after their latest attack.

For any such reveals, moreover, we don't actually have to see the Mandalorians without their helmets; losing a glove during a scuffle, for instance, might be enough if that Armorer is a Devaronian. (According to the Legends continuity, Devaronian females have a nice thick coat of fur all over their bodies.)

• Another possiblity is Mandalorians who's skull structure is such the classical helmet must be adapted to their forms. Such as Twi'lek, Ithorian or for that matter Zabrak. This would allow them to keep to whatever traditions they wished, while still getting the point across. (also give the art, props, & costuming departments something cool to do)
  • Given that there are four horns on her helmet the Armorer may be a Iridonian Zabrak. Who in contrast to their Dathomiri cousins, all have horns.

We'll learn a lot of interesting things about Yoda's species, but who and what exactly they are will be left unrevealed.

Given that Yoda and Yaddle and this series' infant are the only members of the species we've ever seen, and they were all highly Force-sensitive, it seems likely this is a common trait of their species, but that (since we don't see a lot of them among the Jedi) they're also endangered. It could be that at this point, they have no home world and nobody knows what members of the species called themselves. In homage to the franchise's creators (and the rather vague answers they gave when questioned about Yoda's people), we might even hear characters say things like "Well, my people always called them elves, but nobody really knows what the proper name for their kind is supposed to be."

The Child has had the Mandalorian in a psychic hold since their first meeting.

The Child is using an advanced form of the Jedi Mind Trick that doesn't depend on verbal communication or the subject being weak-minded. Like its other force powers, it seems to do this not out of conscious thought, but out of whim or survival instinct. Note the almost trance-like way Mando is standing and staring at the Child when he fries IG-11. The strength of this hold varies depending on the Childs attention and Mando's willpower, but it's a deep-rooted seed in Mando's mental and emotional core that will ensure his thoughts and actions center back to the Child's well being.

Moff Gideon was a Mandalorian

He was the latest Mandalorian to inherit the Dark Saber not long before defecting to the Empire.

• Jossed. The Darksaber is won, not passed down. You have to defeat the person wielding the darksaber in combat or it is not “legitimate possession”. This is shown in the Season 2 finale.

Moff Gideon is trying to become Force-sensitive and become, for lack of better words a figurative Darth Vader Expy.

This troper first saw this on Screenrant, but it holds credence. The reason Gideon was after the Child is to somehow transfer his Force sensitivity to himself, allowing him to wield the Force. Further credence is that this isn't the first time we've seen Force related cloning in the franchise.Dr. Pershing was likely involved due to the cloning procedures. And the Darksaber is likely because it was the only lightsaber that was quote-unquote free at the time. Add his armor visually resembling Vader's suit + the First Order seemingly not founded yet, this troper believes this is the ultimate goal of Gideon and why he wants the child so much.

• Given that they need the child alive, extracting midichlorians seems to be the most likely experiment. If they can be measured, they can be separated. If they can be separated, they can be injected.

• As of the fourth episode of season 2 he is clearly up to something needing the Child’s blood. They appear to be trying to create an army.

The Child is related to Plagueis' ability "to create life".

He's around the same age as Anakin would be if still alive, and the remnants of the Empire are interested in him. Perhaps the Child was the life that Plagueis/Palpatine created, and angered at its power being usurped like that the Force created Anakin to take out those responsible for upsetting the balance. Being a member of Yoda's species is because either the Sith thought Yoda would be a good model for a powerful Force user, or maybe Yoda's species are naturally force sensitive and it's a good place to start. Baby Yoda may be as powerful as Anakin, but being a baby isn't going to show significant Force potential for a while.

The Child is a time-displaced baby Vandar Tokare.

There is something up in the New Republic.

I have been thinking, but there are a few things making me think there is something fishy going on here with the New Republic. The New Republic or at least someone in a high position of authority in the New Republic might be up to no good. Okay. I do not have much evidence, but hear me out.

In, Chapter 8 Cara Dune mentions that Moff Gideon has been executed for war crimes. Yet he is still alive. Perhaps he made a deal with someone that pulled some strings, let him go and officially marked him down as dead.

Also in the second season trailer there is a scene with two X-wing fighters surrounding the Razor Crest in space, then shows the Razor Crest being chased by them through a planet’s atmosphere. Why might they be chasing after the Razor Crest? Could they be after something? Or someone? Like a certain green little one.

I am personally going for it is someone in the New Republic rather than the New Republic actually being Evil All Along. Especially with it getting destroyed in The Force Awakens, it just does not seem likely that would they set someone up like that. Whether they are a man behind the man, a former imperial spy that was never caught or just someone who is allied with Moff Gideon, only time will time.

• Well, according to outside sources, Ex Empire members/Empire Sympathizers have infiltrated the New Republic, some of whom leaked Luke and Leia’s parentage, leading to the deaths of their political careers. This theory has credence.

The Mandalorian is mildly force sensitive, or the Force has big plans for him.

There are points in the series when Mando subconsciously seems to use the force. He also seems to be guided towards people/places that need help, especially with protection and/or fighting.

• After giving the baby to the empire, Greef gives him his pick of bounty pucks, and Din chooses one at random... which just so happens to be “the best of the lot.”
• He manages to pull some impressive piloting feats, including landing a Heavily damaged Razor Crest on a planet when said damage included barley (or no) heat shielding.
• He also notices Koska Reeves on a crowded dock.

The Child isn't a clone, but *Yoda* was!

Yoda was training Jedi for 800 years, and died of old age at about 900, meaning he was presumably an adult or close to it at 100. The Child, on the other hand, is fifty years old and only a toddler. Now, we've seen that clones can be subjected to accelerated maturation and thus accelerated aging, but we've never heard of a clone being given slower aging or an extended lifespan. If one of them is normal and the other isn't, then rather than saying the Child is a clone, perhaps we should be thinking that it's Yoda who was created as a clone, with accelerated maturation and aging. If the Child is a normal example, their species lifespan is likely more like two or three thousand years!

War for the Darksaber

With the release of "The Heiress," we now know that Bo-Katan survived whatever incident led to the loss of the Darksaber, and is determined to get it back. However we also now know that not all of the Mandalorian coverts are philosophically aligned. Din Djarin's clan, the Children of the Watch, are The Fundamentalist to Bo-Katan's more liberal interpretation of The Way, to the point that upon meeting Bo-Katan he declares her to not be a true Mandalorian. Bo-Katan in turn dismisses Djarin's people as a splinter cult, though she's more bemused by this than hostile. We also know that Boba Fett survived his encounter with the Sarlacc and is still out there, along with who knows how many other factions. Learning that the Darksaber is in play will lead to a conflict between them all over who is the rightful owner of the weapon, and Djarin will be caught right in the middle.

Someone will take "This is The Way" literally.

When either Din or another Mandalorian says it, someone with them in the current situation will look around and ask something like, "Wait, which way?"

Alternatively, a Mandalorian will say it literally, but someone will assume they are talking about the Mandalorian Way

What? It could happen.

The reason the Empires is gunning for the Child (Grogu) and not Luke and/or Leia is because...

Their political power and the spotlight protects them. Assuming they have similar... "M counts" as their father, it seems strange Grogu is the one they're gunning for, until you realize even if their parentage is revealed The (seemingly) last Jedi Luke or the high profile Senator Organa randomly disappearing would bring attention to the Empire that they can't afford.

Greef's "Disgrace"

Moff Gideon breaks Greef by talking via bringing up his being a "Disgraced" Imperial magistrate. Considering how he is cleaning up Navarro by the time of Chapter 12, his disgrace certainly wasn't due to a lack of acumen in civic administration. His disgrace was probably more along the lines of having developed a conscience... which is a liability among the likes of the kinds of people that end up as Imperial governors.

Grogu's Future

Right now, it is uncertain if the Disney Sequel Trilogy of Star Wars films are going to remain canon or not, as reports have been conflicting about whether or not it still counts as canon. But if the destruction of Luke's Jedi Academy as seen in the films comes to be, many fans have begun to worry due to the fact that he has left with Luke at the end of Season 2 of the show. However, whether or not the films remain canon, Grogu will remain safe until his training is complete under Luke. Luke tells Din that Grogu isn't safe until he learns how to control his abilities. After Grogu completes the training, he will leave the Jedi Academy to look for Din and will be able to protect himself with his training. If the films remain canon, Grogu will leave before the Academy is destroyed. If not, the Academy will remain standing and Grogu will still be gone before any new canon story that catches up to the timeframe presented in the Disney Sequel Trilogy. Either way, Grogu will be safe and away from the Academy, no matter which canon version is used.

• There are plenty of problems with the Sequel triology, but it seems very unlikely that Disney would allow billion-dollar movies with generally favorable critical reviews be Exiled from Continuity. Media reports otherwise are probably just sensationalism. That being said, Grogu will probably be fine. He's too big a marketing draw for him to be killed by Kylo Ren.

Grogu knew R2

They both were at the temple at the same time, so their paths may have crossed briefly.

Boba's escape from the Sarlacc had something to do with the Krayt Dragon of Chapter 9

In Chapter 9, Din hears from the Tuskens that the Krayt Dragon ate the Sarlacc. Boba was trapped in the Sarlacc. Perhaps, if we put two and two together...

A future season of the show will incorporate more Kenner toy designed vehicles as canon.

The Imperial Troop Transport started it's existence as just a toy-only design by Kenner that did not have a filmed version it's based on (much like the X-Wing and TIE-Fighter), Kenner explaining that the vehicles were in the films, but were just off screen. Since the Troop Transport had been used in other SW tie-in work, it finally reached it's live action debut in the show. More Kenner designed toy vehicles may turned up in the show (such as CAP-2 Captivator and MTV-7 Multi-Terrain Vehicle), finally getting their live action debuts like the Troop Transport had.

A Jedi will join Din

For one reason or another (maybe to continue training Grogu without separating him from his primary caregiver or because they’re studying/interested in the Darksaber) they join Din. Maybe they could help train him in lightsaber combat and/or become a ruler (assuming Din wants to lead the mandalorians) a la Merlin and King Arthur.

The Darksaber is haunted (or the Star Wars equivalent of Haunted)

The Darksaber has a thousand years of blood on it, and considering things like force ghosts exist, maybe any force users who held the blade are connected to it. Also Kyber crystals are also sentient to some degree (they choose the Jedi who wields them unless bleed, which the Darksaber never was) so maybe that can have a connection to how it could be haunted.

At some point Din will find the Helmet of Mandalore the Ultimate

While the Darksaber has been established as a weapon that’s been used to Rule Mandalore, the helmet of Mandalore the Ultimate has been used for longer. It would be poetic considering Don’s Sect’s focus on keeping their helmets on and potentially more comfort if he decides to keep it and/or rule.

Grogu is will become the next Tarre Vizsla

By that I mean he will become what Tarre may have represented during his time, a bridge between the Jedi and the Mandalorian people as a child of both worlds. And the show will end with a Rebels-style epilogue where Rey Skywalker is called to a rebuilt Mandalore to have an audience with an older Mand’alor Din Djarin to discuss both continuing Grogu’s training in the ways of the force and forging an alliance between the Mandos and the Jedi, with Grogu as a symbol of the two factions new unity (thus ending the generations long rivalry between them).

• Given how many similarities the show is drawing between the Mandalorians and the Jedi, both are sects of legendary fighters with a deep reverence to their ways of life that were nearly wiped out by the Galactic Empire/the Sith, it feels logical that this plot tread concludes with the two realizing that they need to adapt, cooperate, and bury old grudges if their way of life is going to continue, let alone thrive once more.

At some point Din will deal with Project Blackwing in a future season

While it may be a little gory for Star Wars, Pershing and Gideon’s relationship to the empire, genetic modification and dark troopers may lead to a reveal that they were also working on Project Blackwing before things went south, leading to Din having to clean up their mess.

Grogu was frozen in carbonite or other form of suspended animation. That's why it still looks like a child despite being over 50 years old.

We are shown Grogu's memories from the Jedi Purge where he looked not much younger than when Din Djarin found him. Also, there's still a 20+ year gap in development physically and with the Force. Perhaps his growth was stunted through artificial means as he went into hiding since technologies like carbon freezing and statis fields exist in this universe.

Bo Katan will lose Mandalore for a third time

Considering her previous track record of leading Mandalore and the looming threat of the First Order, she’s going to lose the planet again.

Season 1

The Starviper-Class Attack Platform will be seen in action

The Starviper-Class Attack Platform will be in the hands of the Mandalorian, and it will be seen in space battle dogfighting Rebel Starfighters, or Imperial TIEs.

The Madalorian will undergo Equipment Upgrade during the first season

The trailers show the title character wearing to different sets of armor: one the looks old, worn, cobbled together and scarred, and another that is brand new and can resist direct blaster and vibroblade hits without so much as a scratch. This, coupled with the scene from the Celebration footage showing that the imperials are offering to pay him in beskar, gives us a pretty good idea that at some point in the first season the Mandalorian will use that beskar to forge a new and better armor.

• Confirmed. The process starts in the very first episode, when the Mandalorian has a pauldron forged for his armor out of a beskar ingot. By the third episode, he has a whole suit of shiny beskar, which comes in very handy for the rest of the series. In the finale, he gets a jetpack.

The Mandalorian will spend some time traveling with a loudmouthed and irreverent criminal sidekick, possibly before selling him out

As with Boba Fett, I expect this Mandalorian to have a bit of "Man With No Name" about him, so he'll need a Tuco.

• Happens in the prologue of the first episode.
  • I think they meant longer. term than that...and for said character to not be a bounty who only appears once.

Agents of the First Order, possibly using another name at this point, will appear

Possibly they'll be tracking down Imperial war criminals who have gone into hiding, maybe even murdering them for betraying the cause by not joining up.

Related to the above: Werner Herzog's character is one of the founders of the First Order

We see him surrounded by Imperial remnant stormtroopers in early footage, after all. And, in one of the trailers, he says "it's good to restore the natural order of things". Natural, as in original, or first? The First Order?

• Jossed: The Client is killed in episode 8.

The Armorer is Force-sensitive.

When the Mandalorian and Paz had a scuffle. While it might just be The Mandalorian and Paz acknowledging their philosophy and refusing to actually harm each other. The way they stopped mid-stabbed seemed to indicate some exertion as their knife hands were shaking. This was also when the Armorer spoke up.

• The knives were shaking because they're vibroblades.

Cara deserted from the New Republic out of cynicism

Cara is a veteran through and through, regardless of her young age. She's battled enough warlords to know that the unrest won't stop any time soon, and probably knows enough about how the Empire rose, following the clone wars; to correctly predict history repeating itself. She decides she'd rather waste her time picking off the rest of the old war-lords until that happens, than waste it with even more pointless diplomacy.

Jon Favreau will find some way to include a Shout-Out to Cowboys & Aliens in an episode he's directing

Hey, Lucas snuck ET in there.

The name of the bounty

will turn out to be...... Yoz, as a reference Frank Oz.

The Mandalorian will double-cross The Client

We already know that the Mandalorian comes in conflict with Imperial troops from the trailers. This will result from him reneging on the bounty. It will either be driven either because he learns just what the Client intends to do with the child, because he knows the Client plans to Leave No Witnesses, or simply because the Mandalorian goes Papa Wolf.

• Confirmed in Chapter 3.

The Client manages to get hold of the child anyway

However despite the double-cross, the Mandalorian still loses the child to the Client. This leads him to assembling a Badass Crew from the friends and enemies he's met along the way, (particularly Cara, Kuiil, and Fennic, along with a repaired and rebuilt IG-11) to storm the Client's fortress and rescue him.

• Jossed, at least as Fennic goes, as she's likely killed off at the end of her first episode.
• However largely confirmed otherwise in Chapter 7: The Mandalorian assembles Cara, Kuiil, and a rebuilt IG-11 as part of a plan to get the bounty off his and the Child's heads by killing the client, after receiving a proposal from Karga. The plan goes sour, and the Empire manages to capture the Child.

Time Travel will be introduced, which means the child is actually Yoda

.After a few episodes, there will be some method of time travel introduced and the child will be sent into the distance past. We will then be treated to a montage of the child growing up as a Jedi over several years, culminating into The Reveal.

• The World Between Worlds?

Bo-Katan's rebellion failed, leading to the Great Purge.

Considering what they later did to Alderaan it would certainly fit with Imperial doctrine to simply wipe out the entire society after a revolt.

• Seemingly confirmed at the end of Episode 8; Moff Gideon, who was a notable participant of the Great Purge, holds the Darksaber.

Dr. Pershing will undergo a Heel–Face Turn

Pershing is already quite surprisingly not a For Science! Mad Scientist. Although his direct superiors explicitly want the Child alive, Episode 3 reveals that his concerns over the child's safety extend beyond that. He argues with the Client over disposing of them, and when the Mandalorian arrives to rescue him, Pershing misinterprets his presence as being there to kill the Child and is even willing to shield him with his own body to protect him. Whatever his superiors want, Pershing is going to have a change of heart and defect to the Mandalorian's side.

• Confirmed-ish. Pershing doesn't take much convincing at all to spill the beans on Gideon's cruiser, where they're holding the child, or warning them about the full capabilities of the Dark Troopers.

The Trandoshans the Mandalorian fought were Half Human Hybrids (and brothers)

Them being the result of an Interspecies Romance would explain why they look a tad different from "normal" Trandoshans. Such a relationship is bound to have happened somewhere in the Galaxy. Before you say it's impossible, recall that this is Star Wars, and this setting can get weird.

Cara Dune is lying about why she was on Sorgan

Cara Dune tells the Mandalorian that she deserted the New Republic military over her frustration and boredom as a peacekeeper and (apparently especially) bodyguarding politicians, and that this was why she attacked him at the cantina; she thought he was a bounty hunter coming for her. However for someone who's trying to lay low on a backwater planet, she sticks out like a sore thumb (though to be fair so does the Mando himself). To say nothing of how she knew about the other bounty hunter that arrived, and was able to position herself for a Conveniently Timed Attack from Behind. This is because her story is all a lie. A couple possibilities:

• 1) Cara really is another bounty hunter, as the Mandalorian initially suspected, and tracked him and the baby to Sorgan. She intended to collect the bounty, but reneged after the events in the village led her to strike up a friendship with her intended targets.
• 2) Cara is a New Republic Intelligence agent. Either Sorgan was her posting and her encounter with the Mandalorian was pure chance, or NRI got wind of these goings on, (the sudden appearance of an entire company of armed Mandalorian warriors would certainly be of interest) and dispatched her specifically to investigate. She then tracked him or predicted he would head there. In either case, her story about being a deserter was a cover to hide her reasons for being on the planet.
• Jossed... ish... for now anyway. If Cara was something else than she claims it is likely that Gideon, who seems to have pretty extensive files on our protagonists, would've known and dropped the bombshell on Mando during the standoff in episode 8. Then again, maybe her cover is THAT good.

The Child will end up being adopted into the Tribe.

And the Armorer will forge it a wee little helmet with slots for the ears to stick out.

• Confirmed in the final episode, though no helmet.

IG-11 will become an official member of Mando's crew.

Because IG is all that left of Kuiil and he has nowhere to go now that Kuiil is gone. After he helps the Mando and the others in fighting Gideon and rescuing the Child, Mando decides to let him join him and the Child in both Kuiil's memory and to make use of his "guardianship".

• Jossed He self-destructed in a Heroic Sacrifice.

The mystery character at the end of Episode 5 was Boba Fett

Now that we have seen him still alive on Tatooine, it makes sense that having heard there was another Mandalorian on the planet he stopped by Fennec Shand's corpse to investigate Mando's activities.

• Confirmed in "The Tragedy".

Season 2

With the appearance of the Dark Troopers, Kyle Katarn will be the Jedi who answers Grogu's call

Why else go all the way to reference the game if they're not going to use the hero and Player Character?

• Jossed. It's Luke Skywalker.

The Child will become the new Tarre Vizla.

They both are Mandalorian Jedi or at least, The Child may be one day.

Djarin will show his face more often.

Now that Din Djarin and the Child are officially family, we'll see his face more often during scenes when it's just the two of them alone aboard Razor Crest.

Dr. Pershing will play a significant role in at least one episode of Season 2.

Currently, he's the only one left who knows why the Empire wanted the Child, so he's probably the best lead Mando has for information on the Child's origins.

• The Disney+ page for the Season 2 trailer adds fuel to this flame; if you tap "Details", Omid Abtahi has fifth billing in the list of actors.
  • Confirmed: Dr. Pershing makes an appearance as a holographic message in Chapter 12, alluding to experiments using Grogu's blood and confirming Moff Gideon's survival to Mando and the others. He appears again in Chapter 16, providing intel on Gideon and his Dark Troopers.

Paz Vizla will have turned out to have escaped the covert before the Imps could kill him.

The end credits of "The Sin" referring to Tait Fletcher as a "double" for Vizla instead of a "performance artist"^note the title given to Misty Rosas, who wore the Kuiil costume instead of Nick Nolte might imply that Jon Favreau donned the suit at some point, but such a point didn't occur during season 1.

• Maybe he even made it out with a few of the foundlings we saw running through the convert.
• And he will blame Din Djarin for the massacre and attempt to kill him.

• Confirmed, he duels Din for the darksaber in episode 5 of the Book of Boba Fett.

The announcement of Ahsoka and one of the Fetts being included is a smokescreen for another surprise character/race.

While Ahsoka and the Fetts may play a role in the series, news of them will cause less speculation on other characters or races that may turn up in order to keep the surprise.

• Perhaps Yoda, he will return as a force ghost like he did in The Last Jedi, He will talk to Ahsoka about the child.
• As of Chapter 9, Boba Fett has appeared if only for a moment. He may play a larger role in the season.
• CONFIRMED. Luke Skywalker himself makes an appearance in the Season 2 finale, rescuing Din and company from Gideon’s Dark Troopers, and taking Grogu to train as a Jedi

Cara Dune will become a Mandalorian

She did decide to stay behind on Nevarro, she can sympathize with their situation, and wearing a helmet 24/7 would be a convenient way to assume a new identity if the Remnant is still after her. If the Armorer will accept adults into the Creed she seems a prime recruit.

The “silicax oxalate” crystals that Cobb stole are types of lightsaber crystal.

Legends has different types of crystals that can help enhance a Lightsabers power. Maybe that’s why they were so valuable.

The Razor Crest will get an upgrade.

Look at how badly it's been wrecked throughout the show so far.

• Jossed, unless you consider "reduced to scrap metal and dust" an upgrade.

Sasha Banks's character is...

• A Mandalorian from the covert that Frog Lady knows about. She doesn't wear a helmet because her covert has different beliefs than the one on Nevarro.
  • Confirmed: She's a Nite Owl working alongside Bo-Katan in an effort to retrieve the Darksaber.
• A Jedi.
  • Jossed.
• An Acolyte of the Beyond.
  • Jossed.
• Sabine.
  • Jossed.

When Ahsoka sees the child she'll call it a "Baby Yoda."

• What better way to have a Fandom Nod?
• Jossed. Ahsoka identifies Baby Yoda by his real name: Grogu.

If Sabine is with Ahsoka, she'll paint something on the Razor Crest.

Maybe a cute chibi art of Mando and the Child.

• Jossed. The Razor Crest is destroyed on Tython by an orbital strike from Gideon’s Light Cruiser.

The Children of the Watch splintered off from Death Watch.

Alternatively, the Children of the Watch and Death Watch are both based on the same thing but are otherwise unrelated.

The attack that led to Din becoming a foundling was a setup by the Children of the Watch.

What purpose did the Separatists have in massacring a village? And Death Watch shows up just in time to save the day and the Republic is nowhere to be seen? Death Watch also aren't the type of group to be rescuing villages. Let it be reminded that Death Watch worked with the Separatists early in the Clone Wars and that they've also done False Flag Operations (namely turning the public against Satine in The Clone Wars Season 5). Perhaps the attack on Aq Vetina was just a ploy to add more foundlings to their ranks. This revelation could be the last straw for Din, causing him to re-evaluate his beliefs.

We will get a lightsaber duel between Ahsoka and Gideon.

So that we can see white lightsabers vs. the Darksaber in live-action.

• Jossed. Ahsoka is absent during the final confrontation with Gideon in Season 2 and Mando takes possession of the Darksaber

The season will end with The Bad Guys Win.

Season 1 ended on a mostly high note of Din and the Child evading Gideon's trap for now as well as the bounty on Din's head being lifted, but Season 2 could end with Din being struck with Heroic BSoD for some sort of failure, such as the Imperials getting a hold of the Child. This could also lead to Din taking up Bo-Katan's offer to join her resistance.

• It does not have to be a failure. If the WMG before the one above turns out to be true it will probably cause Din to have Heroic BSoD, if he finds out.

• Jossed. The Imperials captured The Child in chapter 14, and Mando and company board Gideon’s cruiser in 16 to get him back. There is a brief moment in which it looks like Gideon is going to win, but Deus Ex Machina saves the day

We will see Pershing again in the Nevarro episode.

• Confirmed... in a way. We see him as a hologram addressed to Gideon.

We'll eventually see non-humans as Children of the Watch.

Can't afford to be picky with foundlings...

• This seems likely considering The Child is one (at least until he is returned to the Jedi.)

Din thinks The Child/Baby Yoda's species is called Jedi, which will lead to some poor non Yoda Jedi explaining what the Jedi are.

While obvious, Din only recently learned about Jedi, and neither The Armorer nor Bo-Katan gave him any reason to doubt that his species is called that. This will lead to him being surprised the Jedi are a diverse group of people that follow a code.

Going with the above, there will be a joke where Din is surprised to see that Ahsoka is a Togruta.

Because he thought she would look like a bigger Baby Yoda. Also, Rule of Three for Din being caught offguard by people unmasking themselves this season.

• Jossed. He identifies Ahsoka within seconds of meeting her, and doesn't seem surprised that she's not the same species as the Child.

The Child eating the Passenger's eggs was not as bad as it seems.

Everyone who has viewed the episode may consider The Child eating the eggs a bad thing. However, he may have sensed that some of the eggs wouldn't hatch, explaining as to why he was eating one at a time instead of getting two at a time. The Child somehow sensed that certain eggs wouldn't be capable of being fertilized, so, he specifically chose the ones he felt wouldn't hatch and ate them so that it increased the odds of the others becoming fertilized. So, the reason why Baby Yoda was initially sad upon the Frog Lady and Frog Man's reunion wasn't that he was seeing food get away, but was because he knew he wouldn't be able to see the end result. So, when Din brought him to them to babysit the Child while he was away, the Child got to see one of them hatched and didn't want to leave when Mando came back because he wanted to see all of them hatch.

The black armored stormtroopers at the end of chapter 12 will be played by...

Temuera Morrison! We already seen him at the end of chapter 9 seemingly playing a scarred and disfigured Boba Fett, as evident by Morrison's age being closer to Fett's canonical age of 41 than the Clone Trooper's biological age of 80, but what if those black armored stormtroopers are the canon version of the Dark Trooper Phase Zero from Legends, wherein aged and crippled clone troopers were brought back into Imperial service by way of advanced cybernetics? It's entirely possible for there to still be clones alive in the galaxy, though they wouldn't be in fighting shape. Not problem with advanced technology.

• Going a step further, one of these troopers could be none other than Echo. We don't know what affect the Techno Union cybernetics could have on his age rate, and it would be a neat connection to the upcoming Bad Batch animated series.
• Jossed. Pershing identifies them as Third Generation battle droids.

The medallion that Captain Teva left Cara is a Membership Token

It is either a token that she can use in the New Republic to guarantee safe passage without being arrested for desertion, or perhaps a token that Teva carries to show he is a fellow Alderaanian.

• A few episodes later, it is clarified to be a New Republic Marshall's badge.

Ahsoka will be the one to finally give Baby Yoda a name

Or at least she will be shocked that he does not already have one. Going off of the a WMG above about her calling Baby Yoda as Fandom Nod, she will name him Yoda.

• Sort of, but Jossed in specifics. Ahsoka was able to learn the name he already had (Grogu) from his memories, as opposed to naming him herself.

Din will meet another Jedi on Moff Gideon's Star Destroyer/Imperial Cruiser.

Whether a new Jedi or one we've seen before, they either got captured or snuck on board to find out what's going on. They will meet Mando (and maybe Ahsoka) in the middle of their missions and decide to team up to save the child and find somewhere safe to keep him.

• Gideon doesn't have a Star Destroyer as far as we seen. What you're thinking of is a light cruiser; Star Destroyers don't have that narrowing near the stern.
• Confirmed. Luke Skywalker rescues the gang from the Dark Troopers and takes Grogu as a padawan.

Gideon infused himself with the Child's blood.

The one volunteer that survived was Gideon himself, seeking to have the Force power to complement his Darksaber. Ahsoka then has to face him, but the surprise is short lived, becuase Ahsoka has Jedi training and has crossed lightsabers with enemy Force wielders before, and Gideon... doesn't and hasn't.

One or two other younglings survived the Corasant temple massacre with Grogu

Sensing something was wrong with Anakin, they grabbed Grogu and remained hidden when the others came out to ask him for help. Anakin, drunk on power, kills all the children who came out and doesn’t bother checking to see if he got all of them. The 501st are confident Anakin got all of them and also don’t bother going inside. They remain hidden until Obi-Wan and Yoda fight their way through the clones, and after their experience with Anakin, don’t reveal themselves to the two masters. They escape while they are destructed and eventually are found either by some Jedi sympathizers or Jedi unrelated to Anakin.

• Alternatively, Grogu may have been smuggled out of the temple by the droid Huyang. As one of the Jedi's droid professors, who had taught generations of Jedi younglings. It would have been logical for him to have tried to get at least one of the youngest and most vulnerable to safety.
• Maybe Tag and Bink saved them. They were recanonized in Solo, although their roles were cut from the final product.

Din's shiny new Beskar spear is a Chekhov's Gun.

Now that he has a melee weapon capable of withstanding strikes from a lightsaber, it's highly probable that he will use it in combat against someone wielding a lightsaber that is far less amicable than Ahsoka... or a certain someone wielding the Darksaber.

• Confirmed. The Beskar spear is shown to be the only weapon in Din’s arsenal that can damage a Dark Trooper, and he uses it against Gideon.

Din gets Grogu to Tython, he puts out his call...

...and the Ghost of Yoda will answer.

• Jossed. No sign of Yoda but Luke Skywalker shows up at the end of the season

Ahsoka talking about Anakin was Foreshadowing for what will happen to Grogu.

Either Din will die or, more likely, something will happen that makes Grogu think Din is dead. Grogu will fall the the Dark Side when he thinks his parent has died, much like Anakin did.

Alternatively to the above, Grogu will not fall.

If something happens to make Grogo think Din died (or Din actually dying), he will be around others who care about him, and their presence stop him from falling. Even if he wasn't as close to them as he was with Din, the fact that Din was able to befriend people who were willing to take care of the kid if something happened to him (Greef, Cara, Cobb, Peli etc.) will be enough to stop him. This will make him a neat Foil to Anakin.

• TL;DR Grogu won't fall because he will recognize he was left with people who will love him just as much as he (Din) did.

Jedi who heard Grogu on Tython and will meet him and Din in a future episode and maybe even help Din save him from Gideon.

• Luke Skywalker
  • Confirmed.
• Cal Kestis
  • Jossed.
• Mace Windu
  • Jossed.
• Yaddle
  • Jossed.
• Ezra
  • Jossed.
• Cere Junda
  • Jossed.
• One (or all) the younglings from the Gathering.
  • Jossed.
• A Random Jedi
  • Jossed.
• Any combination of the above.
  • Jossed.
• None of the Above (he chooses to not call the Jedi).
  • Jossed.
• Some kind of darksider, then?
  • Jossed.
• Ahsoka, she will change her mind.
  • Jossed.

When a Jedi appears, Moff Gideon will have an Oh, Crap! moment.

• In the event there will be a Darkest Hour moment, a Jedi appears thanks to Grogu contacting one back at Tython. Once Gideon and the Stormtroopers sees the light saber, they realize they'll about be in a world of hurt.
• Confirmed. Gideon’s Smug Snake attitude completely melts watching the security feed of Luke Skywalker tearing through his Dark Troopers.

Moff Gideon isn’t planning to drain Grogu of blood completely

The way he talks to him in his cell, showing interesting in his violent beating of his soldiers using the Force, combined with the way he talked to him about the Darksaber (“You aren’t ready to play with such things yet) makes it seem like his interest in him is more than just seeing him as a donor. While Gideon does plan to use his blood to create his super-soldiers, he doesn’t want to kill him. Instead, he’s planning to train him into becoming a loyal soldier of the Empire and to become The Dragon to him.

Din's new ship will be a Mandalorian Kom'rk starfighter.

Gauntlet starfighters can be seen in concept art. Bo-Katan could give one to him as a thanks for his trouble.

• Jossed. He ends up flying (of all things) a heavily modified Naboo starfighter in episode 5 of the Book or Boba Fett.

The conservative Mandalorian sect that adopted Din Djarin is not a cult.

The "Children of the Watch" were called a cult by Mandalorian Bo-Katan, but Bo-Katan "Keeps getting into fights with other Mandalorians over their not being Mandalorian enough to rule Mandalore" Kryze is an unreliable narrator. So far Din's Mandalorian covert has been shown to prioritize group safety over personal freedom, be wary of outsiders, and have strict rules for religious head coverings; none of this makes them a cult, especially as they are recovering from genocide. This Mandalorian tribe also prioritizes honorable conduct and caring for adopted foundlings, and many tribe members willingly sacrificed their lives to protect Din Djarin and his baby foundling from Imperial capture.

• Even further, the "Children of the Watch" was what Death Watch was meant to be. Eventhough they opposed Satine's way of pacifism, the "Children of the Watch" never resorted to actions like terrorism, banditry etc and are willing to enact talks with the Duchess. However, Pre Vizla and his followers broke away, choosing to form the group called the Death Watch that are more willing to perform extreme actions to get what they want. This act would caused Pre to be shunned by his own family including Paz Vizla.

Mando's team for the season 2 finale.

Mando, Boba, and Fennec are coming for Grogu and Moff Gideon, but taking on an Imperial cruiser is a tall order for two Mandalorians and a cyborg mercenary. They need help. So Mando calls in every one he can, forming a rescue party rounded out with:

• Cara Dune: Cara is already with them on Slave I, so it's a simple matter for her to accompany them to get Grogu back.
  • Confirmed.
• Greef Karga: Karga has formed something of an attachment towards Grogu himself, and jumps to come to his rescue.
  • Jossed.
• Ahsoka: Ahsoka has a vested interest in seeing Grogu protected from the Empire, even if she demures on training him as a Jedi herself. Gideon's experiments with the Force are also of great concern to her, and she intends to shut them down. Additionally, Ahsoka is hunting Thrawn. If the Magistrate of Corvus was unable to provide a solid lead as to his whereabouts, someone as highly-placed as Gideon may have more information.
  • Jossed.
  • Sabine Wren: When last we saw Sabine, Ahsoka had arrived on Lothal to recruit her aid finding Ezra Bridger. Since Ezra and Thrawn both disappeared into hyperspace together, finding Ezra also ties into Ahsoka's hunt for Thrawn. With the final scene of Star Wars Rebels is set in roughly the same timeframe as The Mandalorian, and Word of God suggesting that Chapter 13 may have preceeded Rebels' ending, Ahsoka may have left Corvus to pick up Sabine, and the two respond to Djarin's call for help together.
    • Jossed.
  • The Crew of the Ghost: Hera is still active with the Republic at this time and also has ties to Ahsoka and Sabine. If Ahsoka brings Sabine, Sabine may call in Hera, Zeb, and Rex for backup assaulting Gideon's cruiser.
    • Jossed.
• Bo-Katan: If any one person has more of a reason to come for Gideon than Djarin, it's Bo-Katan. She's first and foremost there to reclaim the Darksaber, but also responds to the needs of a fellow Mandalorian. Her actions, along with Fett, could also finally convince Djarin there is indeed hope of a united Mandalorian people reclaiming their homeworld once more.
  • Confirmed.
  • The Armorer and Paz Vizla: Since her encounter with Djarin, Bo-Katan has been seeking out the scattered Mandalorian diaspora. She located the Armorer, Paz Vizla, and the rest of the surviving Children of the Watch, and has already recruited them into her forces. They accompany Bo-Katan.
    • Jossed.
• Cobb Vanth: Cobb and Djarin established a strong mutual respect and the beginnings of a genuine friendship. When Vanth learns he's in trouble, he comes to his aid.
  • Jossed.
• Mayfeld: Rather than taking advantage of his freedom, Mayfeld's most recent encounter with Djarin leads him to decide to stop running for his life and try to make a difference. He returns to join the crew.
  • Jossed.
• Carson Teva: Carson gets wind of the pending assault, possibly being tipped off by Djarin through Cara Dune or Hera. As he's tasked with routing out Imperial holdouts, he agrees to lend his X-wings to provide cover for the assault for a chance to take out a high-profile target like Moff Gideon. Trapper Wolf, Sash Ketter, and Jib Dodger will accompany him to round out the flight.
  • Jossed.
• Grogu managed to send out a signal on Tython, so while not initially part Din’s assault some Jedi may provide back up if things go bad.
  • Luke Skywalker: There's been sporadic rumors of a potential appearance by Luke, so perhaps Luke himself responds to the call.
    • Confirmed.
  • Ezra Bridger: If Thrawn is back in play, then Ezra may be as well. Ezra hearing the call may lead to a reunion with Ahoska and Sabine.
    • Jossed.

Worst-case scenario

Mando may not be able to call everyone above, and fail to get Grogu back. He would probably believe his immediate associates (Boba, Fennec, Cara) to be enough, or just not have the time to find everyone. So his rescue attempt fails, setting up the third season.

• Jossed.

Alternative Worst-case scenario

Whether or not Din recruits more people to help him get back Grogu, he has already failed. Since he has warned Gideon he is coming, Gideon will be ready when Mando and his friends arrive.

• Jossed.

If a (random) Jedi does find Din and Grogu...

They will recognize that separating them is a bad idea, but are still willing to train him, so they join them (they also don’t want a repeat of Anakin). They may even ask some force ghosts of Jedi for help training him with Din around. (specifically Qui-Gon since this was essentially his original plan for Anakin and his mother.)

• Jossed.

"Jeans Guy" is Tobias Funke.

His friend Carl Weathers directed the episode, and was able to land him a job on set. An amateur actor himself, Tobias was mesmerized by Carl's acting talent and forgot to move out of the shot.

The experiments with Grogu's blood were for Palpatine

As of the end of the second season we know it wasn't for Gideon's super soldiers; those were his Dark Trooper droids. Why else would the Imperial Remnant need a creature with a large "M Count" to transfuse into a human host? For Palpatine's clone. If this is ever confirmed, it would have to be through comics or something, is my guess.

Season 3

Din Djarin, Bo-Katan, and the Darksaber

Going into Chapter 16, Bo-Katan was determined to face Moff Gideon and reclaim the Darksaber. She explicitly told Din that Gideon was hers upon agreeing to help him rescue Grogu, and even came into conflict with Cara Dune, who wanted Gideon taken alive. However we soon learn that Gideon had other plans, arranging it so that Din was the one to face him and ultimately defeat him. At the end of the episode, we see Bo deeply disappointed and more than a little miffed by this turn of events, and Din distressed because he didn't want the the thing and what it represents in the first place, and would gladly hand it all over. With Grogu safely in the hands of Luke Skywalker, Season 3 will therefore focus on the restoration of Mandalore, the central conflict of which will be Din and Bo-Katan's own conflict over the Darksaber. Possible resolutions:

• Bo challenges Din to single combat, with the outcome deciding the matter once and for all. Neither actually want to kill each other, with the loser graciously supporting the other.
• Din loses the Darksaber to someone else, and Bo is able to reclaim it.
  • This has happened as of Chapter 18, "The Mines of Mandalore." Din loses the Darksaber after he is taken prisoner, Bo picks it up during her fight to rescue him, using it to kill his attacker, and then he takes the saber back with his other belongings. As of Chapter 22, "Guns for Hire," Din tells the Nite Owls of these events and hands the Darksaber to its rightful owner, backing her bid for leadership of the Mandalorians.
• Bo ultimately relinquishes her claim, and acknowledges that Din is the best hope for a restored Mandalore and the reunification of their people. Perhaps because she respects Din's reluctance and understands that he didn't want it, or even intend for this turn of events. However grudgingly, she instead relegates herself to grooming Din to rule by acting as an advisor or the military leader backing him.
• Din and Bo hook up. While Din is ostensibly the ruler of the Mandalorian people, it still puts Bo in a position of influence as his consort. Additionally, the fact that Bo already has the secular dynastic claim to the throne through her sister would further strengthen Din's position. Especially if Bo is still widely respected by the rest of the diaspora.
• No one ends up with the Darksaber. It's permanently lost or destroyed during the conflict, and the Mandalorian people must find a new path.
  • Din deliberately loses or destroys the Darksaber to force this result, as he recognizes that the Darksaber has become emblematic of everything that destroyed his people in the first place.
  • Din will return the Darksaber to the Jedi. The Mandalorians love to complain about the Empire stealing their Beskar, but their biggest symbol was stolen too. Maybe to improve Mandalore, they have to make this right too.
  • Din, Grogu and Bo-Katan will return the Darksaber to it's creator Tarre Viszla, by placing the Darksaber in his tomb.
  • Din falls in battle, only for his attacker to be defeated by Grogu, who takes the Darksaber and becomes Mandalore.
• As a former leader of Death Watch and former minion of Maul, Bo seems like she might be subject to the death equals redemption trope. Din, or Grogu, might inherit the claim to Darksaber and thus, the title of Mandalore.
  • While she was a lieutenant in the Death Watch, and comes across as a total Jerkass in The Mandalorian, Bo-Katan was never a "minion of Maul". She literally rebelled against him the second he won the Darksaber in ritual combat with Pre Viszla.

• Another Mandalorian, such as Sabine Wren or Boba Fett, ends up with the Darksaber. Sabine connected with it in Rebels, and Boba was Mand'alor in Legends. Both of them could claim a right to the title, and Din would be willing to give either of them the saber.

The Book Of Boba Fett IS Season 3

At the time of this writing, most of what we know about The Book Of Boba Fett is speculation, including whether it is a spinoff or the next season. However, given that The Mandalorian's episodes are titled as Chapters, and that the very first episode called the story arc of these past two seasons "Book One", it's very (albeit not DEFINITELY) possible that The Book Of Boba Fett is the next story arc for The Mandalorian itself.

• This has already been Jossed. The Book of Boba Fett is a separate spinoff series that will be running alongside Season 3 of The Mandalorian.
  • To reduce possible confusion (and to make up for this troper's own jumping of the gun in creating this WMG), this article should help clarify the issue that yeah, it is in all likelyhood a separate series.
  • Yeah, about that... Turns out that a good chunk of the last three episodes actually does encompass some important things in Din's story.

Boba and Fennec will raise Rotta

Rotta could still be a baby at this point, and maybe Bib was just a regent until he grew up. Since Children Are Innocent, Rotta could be spared from Boba's purge. This would give The Book of Boba Fett its own cute sidekick resembling an iconic character.

The newly announced Disney+ Series are setting up a canon retelling of the The Thrawn Trilogy

Ahsoka dropping Thrawn’s name in season 2, and the fact that the Empire is still strip mining entire planets implies that he’s up to something big. Dave Filoni has hinted that Ahsoka’s episode in season 2 may have been before the final scene of Star Wars Rebels, so perhaps instead of Sabine enlisting Ahsoka to help find Ezra, Ahsoka enlisted Sabine to help find Thrawn. This may be explored in The Mandalorian season 3, or in Ahsoka’s new series, or both. Further evidence to support this theory:

• Pershing is confirmed in Chapter 16 as a clone specialist. The Thrawn Trilogy had the titular character attempt to create an army of clones.
• Gideon isn’t against working with non-humans, as he had a Mimbanese agent on Nevarro.
• Gideon attempted to blow his brains out instead of be taken into New Republic custody. It’s implied all the other Imperials we’ve seen do this throughout the season did so because they were afraid of what Gideon would do to them. Who is Gideon afraid of?
• Gideon demonstrates superior tactical knowledge and the ability to turn his enemies against each other, much like Thrawn.
• The timeline adds up: both The Mandalorian and The Thrawn Trilogy take place in or around 9ABY.

How this ties explicitly to The Mandalorian instead of just Ahsoka:

• Din and Boba Fett both say that Mandalore doesn’t exist anymore. After seeing what Thrawn’s Protege did to Corvus, could it be that Thrawn has set up his base of operations on Mandalore? This would explain why Din says no one that goes there lives: Thrawn doesn’t want any witnesses.

The “Luke Skywalker” who took Grogu wasn't actually Luke.

• It was Darth Maul in Luke holo mask. That's why the CG was not great.
  • Jossed, Maul died, for real this time, more than ten years before this show started.

The “Luke Skywalker” who took Grogu was actually Luuke Skywalker, a clone of Luke made by Thrawn.

What, dumber stuff has been canonized and Thrawn is still out there.

The Darksaber’s future

• Because of its uniqueness (being one of a kind and all) the diffrences between it and “normal” lightsabers will be explored like it was in TCW and Rebels, especially since it appeared to heat up Dins Beskar spear where as Ahsokas lightsabers did no such thing to the same spear.
  • This troper would be more interested in learning more about its past. For better or worse, Din won the Darksaber in combat, making him the new Mand’alor. Instead of fighting him for it, Bo-Katan recognizes his character growth from taking off his helmet to say goodbye to Grogu in front of others, and decides to groom him for the role. This could be an opportunity to give us flashbacks to important moments in Mandalorian history, dating back to Tarre Viszla, The Mandalorian Wars, and perhaps the sacking of Coruscant. Similar to Ahsoka’s episode, this could be done as a backdoor pilot for a Knights of the Old Republic series.

Bib Fortuna didn't escape the sailbarge's destruction unscathed.

• Proof of this is in how different he sounded during his brief appearance. His voicebox may have been damaged so badly by the explosion that Luke and Leia caused, that it may have been replaced.

The Children of the Watch will be further fleshed out

• They follow The Way of Mandalore, with the Armorer making a direct reference to a “Mandalore The Great” who waged war against the Jedi. Legends had Mandalore the Ultimate lead the Neo-crusaders against the Jedi backed Republic in The Old Republic Era.

If Mandalore the Great is a canon version of Mandalore the Ultimate, it’s possible he also wore the Mask of Mandalore, which held the same cultural significance as the Darksaber does in the “modern” era of Star Wars. It’s noteworthy that as of yet, no media has mentioned Tarre Viszla as having held the title of Mandalore, only that he was the first Mandalorian Jedi, and that the Darksaber only became a symbol of status among the Mandalorian people after a member of Clan Viszla stole it during the Sacking of Coruscant, by which event in Legends, the Mask had disappeared. It’s possible that the Children of the Watch place such a heavy emphasis on helmets because they worship Mandalore’s Mask and reject the rule of any Mandalore who wields the Darksaber as illegitimate as Tarre Viszla was never Mandalore. This would explain why Din Djarin had seemingly never even heard of the Darksaber before, and possibly sets the Armorer against him in season 3.

• Tarre was definitely Mand'alor, it's said in the Forces of Destiny "Art History" short which is available on YouTube.
  • Actually, Art History never explicitly called Tarre Viszla Mand’alor. Sabine called him an “Ancient Mandalorian ruler,” and at the end the characters say that they did the right thing for Mandalore, but I saw that as meaning more that they did the right thing for the planet and their culture by removing the imperial outpost on the statue, and not necessarily that they did it “For Mand’alor.”
  • What is an "Ancient Mandalorian ruler" if not a Mandalore?
    • I see your point. Given the Mandalorian’s penchant for war, it’s not impossible that he went against the standing Mand’alor of his day in a particularly nasty civil war which led to the Mask being destroyed, or he was simply denounced by his people because he was a Jedi and Mandalorians tend to look down on that. Going another direction with my original WMG, the Children of the Watch could just view him as illegitimate because he was a Jedi.

A mythosaur of Mandalore

Din Djarin and Grogu will encounter, tame, and ride a living mythosaur that has been hibernating in the living waters beneath the mines of Mandalore.

Bo-Katan is going to unite Mandalore…

Against herself. Considering she lost Mandalore twice, the second time leading to the destruction of their home, once Mandalorians hear she’s trying to get the Darksaber again they’ll be pissed and revolt.

Bo-Katan will discover that she isn't the daughter of Adonai Kryze...

According to Lucasfilm, Bo-Katan was a teenager during the Clone Wars. Presumably Satine was in her late 30s during that time as well, since she is likely around the same age as Obi-Wan (who was born 57 BBY). So Bo Katan would probably not be the daughter of Adonai if he died several years prior to the Phantom Menace. So what if Bo Katan realizes Satine isn't her sister, but her MOTHER?! And as for her father, well, who do we know who could've been involved with Satine during that period of time...?

Din will return to Tatooine to visit Boba Fett

He needs parts for repairing and restoring IG-11, and the new Daimyo once had close dealings with another IG series assassin droid, IG-88. Boba may have in his possession the remains of IG-88, or he may know who does. We could be seeing one or more of the original six bounty hunters introduced in The Empire Strikes Back: Perhaps Bossk, Zuckuss, 4-LOM, and/or Dengar will make an appearance, and Din will have to either deal or fight with them to get the parts of IG-88 he needs. Or perhaps it'll turn out IG-88's not disassembled at all....

The "traveler" who retrieved the crystals from the surface of Mandalore was Doctor Aphra

Considering what a Breakout Character Doctor Aphra turned out to be, it's not inconceivable that she might finally make her live-action debut in Season 3 of The Mandalorian (particularly since Black Krrsantan made the jump from comics to live-action in The Book of Boba Fett). And in the Season 3 opener, Din seems awfully cagey about the identity of the person he got those crystals from, possibly hinting that their identity is meant to be a plot twist—which might mean that they're a pre-established character. And since Doctor Aphra is an Adventurer Archaeologist by trade, she would be a likely guess.

Din will recruit several other Mandalorians to follow him and they have a Big Damn Heroes moment for Nevarro.

In preview materials, an urban battle is being shown as several Mandalorians do an air drop into the bedlam. Bo-Katan hints that all Din needs to do to rally Mandalorians to him is to "wave around the Darksaber". Nevarro is short a Marshall, and is now accruing ire from High Magistrate Karga's former associates in a Space Pirate gang for making Nevarro go legit. He rallies some Mandalorians, saves Nevarro and racks up even more gratitude debt from Greef, and reminds the galaxy who the Mandalorians are.

• Partially confirmed. No Darksaber flaunting was involved, but Din, Bo-katan, and the best warriors in the Covert stage the Big Damn Heroes against the seemingly superior Pirate forces that terrorize Nevarro in Chapter 21. The covert hits the Karmic Jackpot as well, as Karga grants them land on Nevarro to call their own as thanks.
• Din does wave the Darksaber around in Chapter 22... to hand it over to Bo-Katan, while explaining how he lost it in the Mines of Mandalore and she rightfully won it while rescuing him. This convinces the Nite Owls to join the Children of the Watch under Bo-Katan's banner.

Hondo Ohnaka will make his live-action debut

Exactly What It Says on the Tin. With the increased presence of Weequay Space Pirates in Season 3, it only makes sense that the most popular of them all will at long last make his live-action debut, either as someone on Din's side or an antagonist. Probably both. As a bonus, they'll use the same method to bring him in as they did with Maul and Cad Bane: Another actor will portray him physically while Jim Cummings will dub him over.

• Christopher Lloyd is confirmed to be guest-starring in an as-yet-unrevealed role. Given that Hondo has gotta be pretty darn old by 10 ABY and that Lloyd has much experience portraying screwballs like Hondo, it's possible that this is his role.
  • The point on Christopher Lloyd is unfortunately jossed, as he plays a totally new character, but a possible appearance by Hondo should still be considered on the table.

The method used to test if the Living Waters...

The Armorer was using simple in-universe chemistry on the sample Din brought to detect trace amounts of beskar particulate and mithosaur urine.

Elia Kane is a clone

It's hard to ignore how much she resembles a young Jango Fett, and she doesn't delve into her past when talking to Pershing. The season two finale of Star Wars: The Bad Batch shows that Omega wasn't the only female clone. Plus it would add significance to her interest in cloning (even though she's likely interested in it for the Imperial remnants).

• She also gets blasted when the Amazon Brigade storms the bridge of Gideon's cruiser in "The Rescue" and doesn't show any sign of being alive for the duration of the episode.
  • I meant she's a Jango Fett clone. Not a clone of the original.
  • She is a clone of Jango's sister Death Watch member Arla Fett who will become a Canon Immigrant.

The Resistance March musical cameo has significance to Pershing, Kane, or both.

Star Wars is typically pretty methodical in its use of leitmotifs. It is curious to play the theme of one of the heroic factions in a scene featuring a character who is evidently a villain and a character who meets his Uncertain Doom in the same episode. Somehow one of (or both of) these characters will go through a character arc that finds them opposing the First Order, as befits the title "The Convert."

Bo Katan will stage a martial or political coup of the Watch

She lost all her followers, and doesn't have the Darksaber, the Cheat Code for securing the loyalty of Mandalorians. Her dream is dead. Except that now she's become an accepted member of the Watch, a militant and blindly loyal sect of her people. So Bo will spend the rest of S3 trying to usurp the Armourer as the leader of the Watch, turning their slavish devotion to her own ends, until she finally has the private army of Mandalorians she's been after the whole time.

Furthermore, it ties into the themes of the show so far, of Din having to face up to the fact his rigid Mandalorian creed is doing more harm than good. He's getting out when Bo Katan is just getting in.

The introduction of Kelleran Beq, beyond giving a background to Grogu's past, might also be establishing a link to another plot-relevant character — Gideon.

While it is unlikely that Kelleran Beq became Gideon in the present, there might be a twisted possibility (especially due to passing resemblances between Ahmed Best and Giancarlo Esposito) that they are related. (It's probably not coincidental that the previous episode dealt with a significant amount of Coruscant backdrops that involved Gideon's underlings [Pershing and Kane]—the better to emphasize his lingering menace.) In the same way Obi-Wan Kenobi once mentioned he has a long-forgotten brother in his solo series (not to mention the angsts Uncle Owen had with Anakin), Gideon may be a relative to Beq who, having been exposed and indoctrinated by the anti-Jedi Empire, nonetheless developed an obsession about Force lore (what with his Vader cosplaying, previous possession of the Darksaber and sponsoring of research on Grogu's Force abilities). This also gives Dramatic Irony in that Grogu's savior during Order 66 has a relative who did him much harm.

By the end of the season, we'll hear Grogu talk

They've been foreshadowing it pretty heavily. Between Peli asking "was that his first words?", Grogu clearly trying to say "This is the Way" after Din and Bo both say it, and Din telling Ragnar that Grogu is too young/small to speak the code, they keep circling the idea of Grogu talking pretty hard.

The "Never take off your helmet in public" rule is a direct result of Duchess Satine's reign

Din says in "Sanctuary" that the he swore the Creed when he was a little kid shortly after the Clone Wars (right after Satine Kryze was murdered by Maul and the Mandalorians split into factions) meaning that the Way is not a result of the Purge. Real Life examples of societies clamping down on religious conservatism have often seen a resurgence in said traditionalism, often to greater levels than were previously present (i.e. Iran pre-1979, Turkey under Ataturk, Afghanistan pre-1996, etc.) Satine wanted to get rid of beskar'gam all together, seeing it as the remnants of a decadent past - the Children of the Watch responded by refusing to *ever* take it off.

The rogue Death Watch members were the ones to extract Gideon

Judging by the strong evidence Carson Teva finds in the wreckage of Lambda T-4a shuttle at the end of Chapter 21, suspecting Mandalorians is totally plausible. Of course, only the rogue Mandalorian faction - the Death Watch - immediately comes to mind of the viewer; remnants of the terrorist faction could've freed Gideon from his capture after learning that he was in possession of the Darksaber.

• These extractors could have been Imperial Super-commandos (former DW Mandalorians who aligned with the Empire as an elite unit of Stormtroopers). Even after the Purge, a few of them probably stayed pro-Imperial and worked for Gideon, especially seeing how he held the Darksaber and knows quite a bit about Mandalorian culture.

"Death Watch" and "Children of the Watch" are interconnected, but not identical

Tying into the previous WMG for this one. Many of the things we see the Children of the Watch do aren't consistent with the actions of Death Watch as shown in Star Wars Legends and The Clone Wars. The COTW take the "never remove your helmet" rule very seriously, but are never shown doing something as extreme as staging false flag operations, murdering political rivals through deception, or starting a civil war over the ownership of the darksaber (indeed, they seem to mostly view it as an interesting historical artifact, but not much else). Their goal is to reestablish 'the Way' a religious creed which former DW members like Bo-Katan admit to only paying lip service to and seeing as something meant for pacifying the masses. Maybe this way of things was the original mission of the 'Watch; and the ones we see in Clone Wars broke away from it all in the pursuit of power, not really caring about religious orthodoxy.

Bo-Katan will either betray Din or be betrayed

Now that she has the Darksaber she has no need to battle Din and will attempt to attack him publicly or in private. If she doesn’t then one of her ex allies (Most likely Axes or Koska) will challenge her again or betray her in such a way where they or someone they “approve of” becomes Mand'alor.

Some villain will shoot Grogu at some point.

And Din won't be able to throw himself between it to take the hits on his beskar chest plate. The Armorer forged Grogu a beskar roundel marked with Din's Mudhorn skull sigil, which becomes an impromptu chest plate at his size. At some later point, a villain will turn their blaster on Grogu and blast him. In a panic after their MamaBear/PapaWolf reprisal, Bo and/or Din will discover that Grogu is distraught but otherwise okay because the roundel took the hit.

Season 3 Was a Parallel to Real Religious History

Season 3 is drenched in religious imagery, but most notable it is the story of a religious/cultural minority who is fractured by orthodox and cultural members of the faith reconciling their differences after a holocaust, to join up together to defeat the fascist invaders who kicked them from their holy land. The parallels to the real life history of the Jewish diaspora are impossible to ignore especially considering Jon Favreau's mixed Jewish & Italian Catholic background, and The Empire's long recognition as a parallel to real world Nazism. The 12 Spies in "The Spies" who go down to Mandalore parallel the 12 Spies Moses sent in Canaan as well, while the destruction of the Darksaber can be seen as similar to the destruction of the Brazen Serpent for its idolatry influence despite having been a symbol created by Moses himself, and the need for Mandalore to move beyond the idolatry of the Darksaber as a symbol created by Tarre Vizla.

• In addition the season draws heavily from Christian themes of baptism. We get both baptism by immersion and baptism by sprinkling water onto the recipients head to really cross off both commonly recognized forms of practice in Christianity. In addition when Din Djarin asks for Grogu to take up The Creed we hear the Armorer's response that he is to young to understand the covenant he is taking up, which parallels practices in faiths such as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormonism) which refuses to baptize children until they are 8 years old using very similar logic to what the Armorer used to refuse Grogu entering The Creed. Another Christian parallel that occurs with Bo Katan and the 12 Spies is them sitting at a table for a final meal before the battle to retake Mandalore, establishing her role as a Messianic figure for the Mandalorians, although its not exactly a "Last Supper" Steal because she doesn't die in the coming battle, but her "disciple" Paz Vizla does. Overall the themes of the season deal with religious sects fractured by differences in beliefs reuniting over their shared heritage to retake their ancestral Holy Land, and its expressed with Judeo-Christian references.
• To really strengthen the religions parallels the Mandalorians symbolically retaking Mandalore by re-lighting the Great Forge parallels The Bible's books of Ezra and Nehemiah which tell about the Jews returning from captivity in Babylon to rebuild Jerusalem and resuming religious rites at the temple. Also, The Armorer's discussions on Mandalorians being formed "at the forge" as a metaphor for their character being shaped by adversity parallels Isaiah 1:25 and Isaiah 48:10 which both use the refiner's forge in a similar tone.
• Furthering the religious parallels, Mandalorians are a stateless people who some see as a ethnicity and others see as a religion, their main symbols (mythosaur and darksaber) are those of an ancient military leader, and there are various 'tribes' with different customs, who you could even think of as the "12 Tribes of Mandalore." In Legends they even had an equivalent word for "goyim" to refer to non-Mandalorians and explicitly stated that the coming of age ceremony we see Ragnar partake in occurs on a child's thirteenth birthday.
  • So Ragnar's taking the creed was effectively a Mandalorian version of the Bar Mitzvah?

Moff Gideon used to be an Imperial Supercommando

Moff Gideon is VERY interested in Mandalorian culture to the point of having a suit of beskar'gam custom fitted to his form, personalized with the same horns that the pro-Darth Maul Mandos wore in [1], not to mention understanding the importance of the darksaber and knowing about the Nite Owl/COTW split. He's old enough to have fought in the Siege of Mandalore during the Clone Wars; maybe he got transferred to the I.S.B. at some point, but always felt a nostalgic twang for his heritage, even while remaining pro-Imperial. If he was a former Imperial Supercommando it would certainly explain how he knows to forge new suits of beskar armor and why the new Dark Troopers very much resemble IS Cs.

Season 4

Axe Woves will be seen in Season 4 making his way across the Galaxy like Din, with an apprentice of his own.

After the victory to reclaim Mandalore, Axe decides to get back to Mandalorian Basics himself and sets off like Din. In honor of Paz Vizsla, the man with whom he shared admonishment over spurring a knife fight over a board game and who then later made a Heroic Sacrifice to ensure the scouting party's escape from the Imperial base, he takes on Ragnar Vizsla as his apprentice.

Plazir is a more valuable ally than they seem.

At first glance, Plazir 15 looks like a world full of pompous fops living a life of hedonism kept societally functional by the mass droid labor system they established. Beyond being a political advocate for their recognition, they don't seem to have much value as an ally. However... that droid automation system didn't appear out of nowhere. It was orchestrated by Captain Bombardier at his wife the Duchess's authorization. Mass refurbishment and centralized administration of a previously-used droid labor pool would be a great boon for any reclamation efforts on Mandalore.

A funding source for Din's hellraising among the Imperial Remnant's secret operations.

Din Djarin makes a deal with Captain Carson Teva of the New Republic Adelphi Rangers to cause havoc in the Imperial Remnant's machinations on the sly for bounties from the New Republic. Since the Republic wouldn't openly do so, alternate means of funding for this arrangement would need to be made. Cue a certain Alderaanian senator who also sees the patterns like Teva does: Leia Organa. She'll want to meet this Mandalorian in person, and does so in the Good-Guy Bar at Adelphi Ranger Base. She'll mention that he's already met her brother Luke and Honorary Aunt Ahsoka.

Tarre Vizsla will be further explored.

With a Force-sensitive Foundling, it feels inevitable that the series will eventually explore the Mandalorian Jedi. Perhaps future seasons will explore Tarre Vizsla-as well as the real truth behind their legend.

• Alternatively...

We will finally learn about The Mandalorian Wars.

Ever since Rebels mentioned that the Jedi "won the war with Mandalore", the franchise has always skirted around what exactly this version of the Mandalorian-Jedi War was. We have some hints-the Jedi and Mandalorians are ancestral enemies, the Mandos developed special equipment that could counteract the Jedi, and that a Mandalorian Jedi built the Darksaber-but we've never gotten the full picture. So now that the series has a Force-Sensitive Foundling, it would be a perfect time to explore the ancient past.

The Mandalorian

The Mandalorian has a nasty facial scar.

• Well, as of Chapter 8, he has one now unless it heals over.
  • Jossed - No signs of a scar as of Chapter 15.

The Mandalorian is from Clan Ordo.

Plus, Clan Ordo is already canon thanks to the Scum and Villainy book (source◊). This could be part of why his name has been kept a secret from the audience.

• Jossed: He's part of an ultra-orthodox sect called the "Children of the Watch."
  • There's no reason he can't be both...

The Mandalorian will be a Legends EU character associated with Boba Fett.

He'll either be Jodo Kast (a Boba Fett impersonator) or Jaster Mereel (Jango's mentor).

• Apparently Jossed, if Pascal's name reveal is correct.
• Jossed - He is Din Djarin, an orphan rescued from a Separatist droid attack by the Death Watch.

The Mandalorian's name will never be learned

He's the Mandalorian With No Name.

• Jossed, if Pascal's accidental reveal turns out to be true.
• Confirmed Jossed - His name is Din Djarin.

The reason the Mandalorian distrusts droids is because his family was killed by Separatist battle droids.

We know that he was a foundling, rather than being born into the clans, and he has an obvious distaste for droids. Given that we see Separatist gunships and B-2 battle droids in the trailer, there will probably be a flashback to his family being killed by droids.

• Partly confirmed. While the Mandalorian survived a Separatist attack on his village and the B2 super battle droids killed the villagers who were with him, none of the villagers were specified to be his family.

The Mandalorian's clan sided with Saxon in the civil war.

There has to be some reason that they're isolated from their people and homeworld and don't have a beskar source.

• Possibly confirmed if you notice the Blacksmith's customized Night Owls Helmet... it has horns... Maul. Very possibly former Deathwatch, which means they may have split off even earlier.

The Mandalorian's armor will be upgraded as he Took a Level in Idealism.

At the end of season 1, he will be effectively a Knight in Shining Armor.

• Partly confirmed; in episode 3 his armor has been fully upgraded to beskar with his payment by the Client, and his first act is a change of heart that leads him on a Roaring Rampage of Rescue to save the Child.

The Mandalorian isn't human

That's the reason for the permanent helmets, as the clan is largely foundlings it would make sense for them to be a lot more racially diverse than in the animated series. The helmets would ensure they all look the same. It would also be a move towards the Legacy Mandalorians who were pretty much species blind (and the founding race was actually long extinct). This would mean that the flashbacks are faking us out and the kid isn't actually him, though.

• This seems to be Jossed. The flashbacks we see clearly show the Mandalorian is a human child.
• Jossed - IG-11 removes Mando's helmet in episode 8, revealing that he is human.

The Mandalorian will become the Mand'alor.

• As of Chapter 16, he is now the reluctant owner of the Darksaber, having defeated Moff Gideon in combat.

Now that he's officially the Mandalorian's ward, the Child will receive a name

In a bit of Ascended Meme, he will be named Dito, derived from the "Yodito" nickname. It would make the Child and the Mandalorian a smaller scale Alliterative Family; Din and Dito Djarin.

• Jossed - The Child's name is Grogu.
• The Child will receive a extra name from Din, which will make the Child's name Grogu Djarin
  • Jossed - Grogu is re-named Din Grogu, as Din is the name given to all foundlings adopted into the Children of the Watch.

Returning Characters

Snoke will appear

Since The Last Jedi revealed nothing, this show could be an opportunity to explain him.

• Unlikely, as Rise of Skywalker revealed he was created by the Emperor to serve as a puppet figurehead of the First Order.
  • We could still get a glimpse of the initiative that led to his creation. The Emperor probably couldn't have put it all together on his own.
    • Confirmed... possibly. Chapter 12 has our heroes invade the last Imperial stronghold on Nevarro, believed by Greef Carga to be occupied by a skeleton crew and maybe a few Stormtroopers. What they find instead are several disfigured beings resembling Snoke floating in tanks, with a hologram from Dr. Pershing implying they are either clones created from the Child's DNA or people who were injected with his midichlorian rich blood.

Bo-Katan, Rau, and/or Clan Wren will appear.

Helps that Bo-Katan and Rau resemble their voice actors (and Katee Sackhoff has stated she was open to reprising her role as Bo-Katan in the show).

• Dave Filoni is also involved with the show and on the Lucasfilm Story Group who deals with these kinds of inter-property crossovers.
• By 5 ABY, Sabine is in her late 20's/early 30's. With the Darksaber in play again, there's a good chance that she could show up to reclaim it.
• Confirmed re Bo-Katan in "The Heiress".

Alphabet Squadron will make an appearance.

Hunting Imperial holdouts, of course. Which could lead to some friction with our "hero", as it were.

Ming-Na Wen's character is Ursa Wren.

• Jossed, it's a new character named Fennic Shand.

Ahsoka will make an appearance.

• Otherwise it would be the first Filoni show without her...
• Given the Child's apparently innocent use of Force-Choke in chapter 7, she could become the Child's first teacher to ensure the kid doesn't wander to the Dark Side
• Possibly Confirmed. According to Slashfilm.com, Rosario Dawson has been cast as Ahsoka.
• Highly likely as Bo-Katan told Djarin where to find Ahsoka.
• Confirmed as of Chapter 13.

Luke Skywalker

Now, I have no idea who they'd get to play a young Luke, but they found someone to play young Han when I wouldn't have expected it, so I maintain that this is still a possibility.

• They may not even need to recast, and could go the same route as Leia in Rogue One. Especially as the deaging effects tech has become increasingly refined.
  • This is confirmed. Luke appears using the same effects technology as used for Leia and Tarkin.
• Sebastian Stan bears more than a passing resemblance to a younger Mark Hamill.
  • Jossed. Mark Hamill returns using CGI to set his age.
• Perhaps Luke will tell Din about Yoda and the child will finally have a name. He will be (re)named after Yoda.
  • Jossed. Ahsoka tells Din about Yoda and determines his name, Grogu. Ahsoka does eventually lead Din to Luke.
• Considering the events of the first episode of season two it seems likely he at least knows about Din. Negotiating a truce between a settler village and a Tusken tribe and then blowing up a Krayt Dragon on Luke’s Home Planet of Tatooine is likely to draw attention, no matter how backwater it is. Just look what happened on Sorgan.
• Confirmed. Luke rescues Djarin and his friends from Gideon's cruiser and takes custody of Grogu.

The Armorer is Rook Kast.

The Armorer's helmet looks rather Night Owl-y, and Emily Swallow bears a passing resemblance to Rook Kast (their ages might be an issue, but it can't be too hard to make Swallow look older through the power of make-up). Kast could have taken up a level of humility after the Empire took over Mandalore and decided to reform the remnants of the Mauldalorians into a new tribe of Mandalorians that adheres to older traditions.

• Likely jossed because the Armorer apparently has never met any Force-users (let alone Jedi) before the Child, but Rook Kast has.
  • The Armorer says that she knows of such things, and that there are songs of Mandalore the Great and Jedi. Rook Kast is still in play.

Durge will be an antagonist

This one's a good amount of wishful thinking, but as a bounty hunter with a genocidal grudge against the Mandalorians, a former separatist commander, and a threat far beyond anything we've seen in the show thus far, he'd be a great way to up the stakes and have the Mando have a very personal enmity with a villain.

Boba Fett's escape from the Sarlacc will be re-canonized

And he will be a seasonal Arc Villain. During a confrontation between him and Mando, he will actually have the upper-hand and nearly beat him. However, when he sees the Child looking in horror, it reminds him of when he watched his own father's demise, leading to a My God, What Have I Done? moment.

• As of May 8, 2020, confirmed. They even got Temuera Morrison.
  • Boba Fett is shown watching the Mandalorian ride away with his armor in tow at the end of Chapter 9.

Boba Fett is a Pariah

Other Mandalorians despise or look down on Fett for working with the Empire (as already happened to the Mandalorian) and the likes of the Hutts.

• Kind of? It seems Boba isn't really engaged in Mandalorian culture, and Din initially doubts his claim to the Beskar armor.
  • Bo-Katan looks down on him less for working with the Empire and more for being a clone of Jango. Boba in turn acknowledges that he never considered himself to be Mandalorian.

Boba Fett is a joke

As a twist on his reputation in the Legends Expanded Universe, Fett will be revealed to be a halfway decent tracker, but beyond that is actually rather inept as a fighter and bounty hunter. His apparent demise at the Great Pit of Carkoon? That wasn't a fluke accident. He actually is that clumsy.

• VERY jossed. Boba is an incredible fighter, taking out a large group of heavily-armed Stormtroopers without even needing is armor.

Temuera Morrison is NOT playing Boba Fett

Morrison is a little older than Boba Fett would be at this point in the saga. Now, it's certain that the age can be excused by damage from the Sarlacc(or Krayt Dragon), but it could also be a red herring: The idea is that Morrison is playing a Clone Trooper, who is looking for Fett's armor as a way of connecting with his past. The story of the next or a following episode could be a conflict over what makes a Mandalorian, a who is truly worthy(Cobb or Boba/Clonetrooper) to wear the armor.

• The clones were produced close to forty years before the series and age twice as fast as normal humans, Morrison is only 59.
• The Clone Wars only started in 22 BBY, by which time Boba Fett was ten. By 9 ABY, he would be 41. So Morrison's age falls between Boba's age and approximately how old a Clone Trooper would look. I'm not saying Morrison can't be Boba Fett, I'm merely pointing out the possibility of Favreau and Filloni pulling a fast one on everybody.
• Still, Morrison looks nowhere near in his 80's, which would be how old the Clones sans Boba are.
• Jossed: Temuera Morrison makes his official return as Boba Fett in episode 14, and it is glorious.

Faux-ba Fett

This one's kind of a combo of the two above theories. The Boba Fett we see in season 2 is not the real Boba Fett. That guy got eaten by the sarlacc and is currently experiencing a new definition of pain and suffering as he is slowly digested over a thousand years. Think about it: he was shot by a blind man and then fell to his death. A man wearing a jet pack somehow managed to fall to his death. This does not line up with the level of deadly competence demonstrated by the "Boba Fett" seen in episode 14 of The Mandalorian. No, the way I see it, this guy is a Clone Trooper (possibly a former ARC Trooper given his insane skill and lethality) who thinks he's Boba Fett. Maybe he got knocked in the head, or maybe being brainwashed into killing his Jedi superior traumatized him; whatever the case may be, this particular clone retreated into a dissociative personality, that of Boba Fett, in order to survive.

• How did he get the scars and on Tatooine? And wouldn’t the clone troopers be 80+?
• Would a random Clone Trooper even be aware of Boba Fett?
• Jossed. It's totally Boba Fett.

The Emperor

The reason the Client and Pershing were so eager to retrieve the Child is to further the Sith cloning experiments that will eventually lead to Emperor Palpatine's resurrection for Rise of Skywalker. They need a Force sensitive subject, and the Child fits the bill. The Emperor himself will appear either to show that they succeeded.

General Pryde

Towards the end of Rise of Skywalker, Pryde mentions that he served the Emperor during the Galactic Civil War. A younger Pryde will appear in Moff Gideon's service with the fledgling New Order.

Doctor Aphra in her first live appearance

She's on the criminal fringe, so she's someone Mando could plausibly bump into professionally.

Warlord Zsinj, in his first live appearance

And he'll hire the Mando to take out some Republic X-Wing pilots giving him trouble.

Bo-Katan is alive.

In Resistance Reborn, a quote says that killing someone would just make a martyr out of them, but no one would follow them if they were kept alive but humiliated such as being imprisoned. She could have been imprisoned somewhere by Gideon as an act of Cruel Mercy and to prevent further rebellions on Mandalore.

• Confirmed in Chapter 11, "The Heiress."

Bo-Katan is the Armorer.

If nothing else, she was the leader of the Covert and had the fanciest armor. Including a helmet that looks kind of owl-like.

• Pretty much Jossed by "Redemption", which shows the Armorer having no personal familiarity with the Jedi and Force-sensitives in general, only vague stories passed down. Bo-Katan, on the other hand, has personally worked both with and against Jedi during the time of the Clone Wars.
  • Jossed

Cad Bane will return.

• Jossed.

Sabine will appear alongside Ahsoka in Season 2.

• Jossed.

Michael Biehn's character is Valance.

Valance's appearance is already based on Biehn, and it would be ironic given that Valance is basically a Terminator.

Carnor Jax will appear as an Evil Counterpart to the Mando

Thrawn will appear or at least be mentioned

Mentioned directly in Episode 13, and he certainly seems to be back in action.

Revan and/or the Exile (and maybe even Canderous or other party members involved in the Mandalorian Wars) will be mentioned

Since The Armorer mentioned the Jedi as being ancient foes, maybe it’ll be expanded upon, however briefly.

Cal Kestis (and/or Cere) will appear in a future season

• Assuming they survived until the end of the rebellion, they could have seen the child’s name on the Jedi holocron and spent all that time looking for him or at least the moment the empire was gone.
  • Alternatively, they will be the Jedi that either joins Mando, or the ones he reunites the Child with.
• Maybe Cameron Monaghan could digitally aged up in a reverse of the typical use of such special effects, so he can reprise his role as Kestis.

Rahul Kohli will actually play Ezra.

In the same way Rosario Dawson got cast as Ahsoka because she was a popular fancast.

Should Ezra appear, he will initially be unidentified.

His identity will be revealed to those already familiar with the character by means of him sarcastically identifying himself as "Jabba the Hutt".

Fennec Shand will be revealed as a character from Legends.

Fennec Shard will be revealed to be an alias, her real name will be Sintas Vel.

Boba is no longer angry with the Jedi Order

Considering he didn't react when Din mistook him for a Jedi and was willing to help Grogu, this looks very likely.

Hondo Ohnaka will turn up

Everyone's favorite fast-talking Weequay pirate will turn up for an adventure, possibly connecting Din Djarin with Ahsoka and Sabine's search for Ezra and Thrawn.

• Interest may be piqued by the announcement that Christopher Lloyd will be in a guest role in Season 3. It seems like a role that'd fit him, and Hondo's getting up there in years by 10ABY too.
  • The point on Christopher Lloyd is unfortunately jossed, as he plays a totally new character, but a possible appearance by Hondo should still be considered on the table.

The introduction of Mara Jade

When Mara Jade first appeared in Legends, she was working as a major part of smuggler Talon Karrde's crew. What better place for her to make her debut appearance in live action than in a series that largely focuses on the Galactic fringe. Especially since Favreau and Feloni have hinted The Mandalorian and its spinoffs are building to something big, and that we now know that we've not seen the last of Luke Skywalker in the Disney+ shows.

The Twi’lek Fennec saved is Issa-Or, Cobb Vanth’s Co sheriff.

While there are a few flaws with this theory (mainly the Twi’lek at Jabba’s old palace had two normal Lekku, whileIssa-Or had one mangled one) the fact she goes unmentioned by Cobb is rather unusual. Maybe she even had an accident when in the Tatooine Desert.

Boba Fett is suffering from Clone Degeneration.

• Boba Fett looks significiantly older than he chronologically should be, almost 2 decades. This is because his cloning was flawed, resulting in Boba aging faster.
  • When dunked in stomach acid, look as good, you will not.

Tarre Vizsla will be revealed to have gone by a different name.

An ancient warrior that was considered a Mandalorian and a Jedi, wore a helmet, had a unique view of the force that caused their kyber crystal to take a form of light and dark. Given that their old title was canonized, and their true and origin was lost to time, I see one perfect candidate for the creator of the Darksaber. An ancient warrior that knew how the Mandalorians thought, one that is very much intermitted with their history, they inspired respect from the mandorlians, The Prodical Knight, Darth Revan. A man of many things, many titles.

• Many fans have speculated that Boba Fett repainted the stripes on his helmet from gold to red as a nod to the color associations that Mandalorians had in legends, with gold representing vengeance and red to honor a parent. Black represents justice, and Revan went to war seeking justice for the Cathar and all the other civilizations that were killed or subjugated by the Mandalorian crusaders. Revan and Tarre Viszla being one and the same also explains why Din Djarin doesn’t know what the Darksaber is, as the Children of the Watch seemingly worship the canon equivalent to Mandalore the Ultimate, who led the Neo-Crusaders against the Republic. The Children of the Watch likely descended from a group that see Tarre Viszla as a traitor for siding with the Jedi over his people.

There will be rumors of a final inquisitor after Grogu and Luke

And it will be revealed to be Starkiller who was trained by Darth Vader to be the ultimate Jedi Killer

We may see Iden Versio

The show could take place before Iden retires, maybe she's still active as a commander, and thus could be in the region, meaning she could be called in to deal with anything going south on the show, like perhaps the fate of Mandalore

Boba Fett was is partially responsible for what happened to Mandalore

In Legends, the Empire hired Boba for the attack on Kamino because he had knowledge of the inner workings of the cloning facility. Now that it’s been confirmed that Jango was a Mandalorian, it’s not impossible to suspect Boba had some information on Mandalore. This is why he insists that the Empire turned the planet to glass- he didn’t just hear about it, he saw it happen. This could also help explain Bo-Katan’s sudden Fantastic Racism (though admittedly the 332nd’s garrison and the rise of the Empire immediately following the siege of Mandalore might also have something to do with that), and why Boba won’t give a straight answer on whether he is a Mandalorian or not. Perhaps he carries guilt over the destruction of his father’s people.

Connections to Other SW Media

Cara will be a main character in Rangers of the New Republic.

• Perhaps alongside Captain Teva and his X-Wing squadron.
  • Jossed after her actress was fired due to a few offensive posts she made off-screen.
  • Articles that have popped up on online sources seem to indicate that she was to be part of the show, and that Hera Syndulla will be taking her place. As with all “news” articles that come before the work is released, that that with a grain of salt.

Gideon's experiments are part of the Shadowtrooper program.

• The timeline fits too. Gideon tries to use Grogu's blood on the test subjects floating in bacta tanks at the Nevarro Imperial base to infuse them with the Force. This was an attempt to create the Shadowtroopers commanded by Desann in Jedi Outcast. They have already reintroduced the Dark Troopers first seen in the same game series.

Book of Boba Fett will see Fennec and Boba trying to rule together on Tatooine

Boba sat on the empty throne of Bib Fortuna and Jabba the Hutt, maybe him residing over the sands would be his next goal?

Gideon is Inspector Thanoth's brother

Yes, that Inspector Thanoth from the first batch of Darth Vader comics by Marvel Studios. The characters are eerily similar in many aspects.

• Both are the senior Imperial officials - Thanoth briefly served as an adjutant for Vader himself, while Gideon is a former ISB agent.
• Both are incredibly competent and efficient at their job.
• Both earned their reputation as ruthless servants of the Empire.
• Both tend to know the confidential information other people don't - Thanoth is aware that Darth Vader is Anakin Skywalker, while Gideon is the first person who gives up the real name of the Mandalorian (Din Djarin).
• Both characters' likenesses are derived from famous movie stars - the unofficial dub of Darth Vader comics by Star Wars Audio Comics YouTube channel goes as far as to give Thanoth the voice similar to Morgan Freeman, while Gideon is portrayed by Giancarlo Esposito, an expert when it comes to stoic antagonism.
• The events of both the comic book and the TV show aren't that far apart from one another (roughly a decade between them) - the fact that doesn't deny the blood relation between characters.
• Different occupations which Thanoth and Gideon take during their Imperial tenure can be considered a plausible cause of sibling rivalry. Thanoth's high intelligence (coupled with tendencies to perform Sherlock Scan and analyzing the Star Wars equivalents of "crime scenes" on the fly) is what defined him as a top investigator among the Imperial ranks, while Gideon's ruthless approach and unshakable loyalty to the cause is appreciated within the Imperial Security Bureau.

Rey will encounter Grogu decades later.

• Decades in the future, while she works to revive the Jedi after the final end of Palpatine, Rey Skywalker encounters and makes allies with Grogu and other Mandalorian warriors. Though after this many decades, Djarin is since deceased.

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