History Series / TheMandalorian

** In "The Convert," Elia says: "Taungsdays, am I right?". In ''Legends'', Taungs were the original indigenous inhabitants of the world that would become Coruscant, but eventually migrated from there to form - appropriately enough - the Mandalorian culture, under Taung leader Mandalore the First.
** The [[spoiler:cloning technology Moff Gideon uses to make his Phase 4 Dark Trooper is markedly different from the Kaminoan design, but does bear a marked similarity to descriptions of [[Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy Spaarti cylinders]]. Each tank is freestanding with a cover plate on top, tubes and pipes to feed nutrient solutions to the growing clones, and control panels near them. While the time frame is a little unclear, they also seem to be able to produce full-grown clones in days with a full set of skills, like Spaarti cylinders and flash-learning. Though no ysalamiri are present to facilitate this rapid growth while staving off clone madness, which would appear to be observed false.]]

* TwentyFourHourArmor: As part of the Tribe's adherence to the ancient tenets of Mandalorian culture, they ''never'' remove their armor or helmets in front of others, even if it means not eating or bathing for extended periods of time. And if necessary, they will resort to violence to prevent the removal of their helmets. [[spoiler:In season 2, Djarin meets Bo-Katan and her crew; since they are not part of his extreme fundamentalist group, they obviously do not adhere to this rule and casually take off their helmets, causing Djarin to have a mini FreakOut and a NoTrueScotsman attitude towards them before the situation is explained more.]]

* AgainstMyReligion: When asked to drop his weapon during parley, the Mandalorian objects in a deadpan that, "I'm a Mandalorian. Weapons are part of my religion." He relents in the interest of smooth negotiations. He tries using the line again in ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'', and in Seaon 3 a planet that normally forbids armed persons in the city permits Din and [[spoiler:Bo-Katan]], because the planet's laws also enshrine respect and tolerance of differing cultures and religions, ergo Mandalorians can be armed because weapons and armor are intrinsic to their culture. Far more seriously, the Mandalorians have several different sects of varrying "devoutness" in terms of "wearing armor," the one the progagonist belongs to is so orthodox it is forbidden for him to remove his helmet around any living being. [[spoiler:Din is forced to do so for a few reasons, and has to complete a ritual to redeem himself in the eyes of his variation of Creed.]]

** The Mandalorians make a very big deal of never letting anyone see their faces without their helmets after they get their first armor. When the helmet finally comes off in the last episode of the first season, it's... Pedro Pascal. What else would anyone have suspected? (Even if you don't know the actor or recognize his name in the credits, it was already shown in several flashbacks that he was an ordinary looking human child, so there wasn't even any question if he could be some kind of alien.)

* BadGuyBar:
** Djarin grabs his latest bounty in one in the BatmanColdOpen.
** Greef Karga runs his business out of another on Nevarro, mostly frequented by bounty hunters looking for work.
** The bar at the black market port on Trask is another example.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Paz Vizla realizes that the Mandalore away team will never make it to safety unless Gideon's away team is held off, so he blocks their escape route and holds the line while they flee. He proceeds to take down a whole squad of stormtroopers singlehanded before being finished off by Praetorians.]]

** The flying Raptor becoming ensnared and pullled under in the jaws of the giant gator is like the scene of the Pteranodon caught by the Mosasaur in ''Film/JurassicWorld'', only without a human victim included.

* {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler:Bo Katan mocks Djarin for supposedly being a part of an extremist Mandalorian splinter faction, despite the fact she helped found the splinter faction that possibly gave rise to Djarin's, and Djarin's group is transparently dedicated to honoring their roots compared to Death Watch's terrorism.]]
** In a rather stunning example of just how indoctrinated Imperials are, an imperial pilot accuses the rebellion of killing millions on the Death Stars, and almost in the same breath claims that destroying Alderaan (to make a point mind you) was a move to "rid the galaxy of terrorism." This lends little credence to the pilot's earlier claim to not have a [[TooDumbToLive death wish]], considering he knows full well who he's talking to. No one in universe or out is at all surprised when [[ItsPersonal Cara Dune]] practices her pistol marksmanship on his face.

* ISurrenderSuckers:
** In Chapter 13, Lang tries to win his MexicanStandoff with Djarin by pretending to surrender, only to pull his sidearm. Unfortunately for him, Djarin is quicker on the draw.
** In Chapter 16, [[spoiler:Moff Gideon, now alone after the heroes have killed his henchmen and taken control of his ship, holds Grogu hostage with the Darksaber. He pretends to have gotten everything he needs and claims he will let Djarin take Grogu and leave peacefully... then tries to cut him down from behind when Djarin turns away from him. Thankfully, Gideon was unaware that lightsabers can't cut through beskar, and his blade just bounces off Djarin's armor.]]
* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine:
** Pedro Pascal and Creator/EmilySwallow previously met first through the New York theater district, and again on the set of ''Series/TheMentalist''.
** Creator/MingNaWen, Creator/TitusWelliver, Creator/SimonKassianides, Katy M. O'Brien, Thomas E. Sullivan, and Brendan Wayne all previously portrayed recurring characters in ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''. Chapters in which the Mandalorian interacts with either Fennec Shand or Axe Woves reunited Wayne with either Wen or Kassianides. Both shows have Molly Pinto as their casting director.
%%** Season 3 reunites Pedro Pascal with Sophie Thatcher -- his co-star from another space Western, the 2018 movie ''Film/{{Prospect}}''.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Almost every episode is named "The [single-word noun]".

* KillerRabbit: Jawas are surprisingly tough customers. The Mandalorian tries to fight them, but their Sandcrawler is surprisingly hard to penetrate and when he finally does, they overwhelm him with numbers that ignore armor and he is forced to negotiate instead.

** As of Chapter 24, [[spoiler:Gideon himself meets his demise this way. He ordered the bombardment of Mandalore duing the Empire's heyday; so he gets a taste of his own medicine when Axe Woves directs a falling cruiser straight into his base of operations.]]

** [[spoiler:Djarin would rather die than let any living being see his face and break his vow to the clan, but he's obviously dying of a terrible head wound that needs to be healed. So what's the solution? IG-11, a droid, points out he's not a "living thing" and proceeds to remove Djarin's helmet and apply Bacta spray to save his life. Either Djarin was too weak to stop it, or he considered that a good enough loophole to keep going]]
** He does it again in Season 3. [[When Axe Woves points out that Bo-katan cannot just expect to rule the Mandalorians again without the Dark Saber and that he won't accept Din either, Din decides to give Bo-katan the sword back without the need to fight her, by exploiting the technicalities of how he lost the Dark Saber. He explains that he lost the sword while fighting a cyborg creature on Mandalore, and that Bo-Katan killed the creature with the Darksaber and rescued him.]] After several confused looks, Axe and his comrades accept the explanation.

* NoTrueScotsman:
** Due to being raised in a traditionalist and secretive commune that strictly adheres to the ancient ways of Mandalore, our hero is more than a little shocked when [[spoiler:he meets Bo-Katan and members of her clan, who are decidedly more casual in attitude. Djarin is so dismayed by how they casually disregard ancient customs like always wearing helmets in public that he can just barely refrain from declaring them traitors to the Mandalorian Way, even though Bo-Katan ''was once acknowledged as '''the''' Mandalore''. To be fair to Djarin, he'd encountered people wearing looted Mandalorian armor just a few episodes ago, so it was probably on his mind.]]
** Later flipped around with [[spoiler:Boba Fett, who does not consider himself as a Mandalorian despite being the son of Jango Fett, but ''is'' accepted as one by Djarin when he learns that Jango was a foundling and Boba his son — not to mention how very Mandalorian Boba acts!]]
** Bo-Katan also falls under this trope, and accuses Boba of not being a true Mandalorian.[[note]]While he doesn't claim to be a practicing Mandalorian, the fact his father was a foundling means he's still ethnically a Mandalorian, and seems to follow or at least understand a fair number of the tenets.[[/note]]
* NoTranshumanismAllowed: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted.]] The series mentions "strandcasting," that is the process of creating organisms gene by gene from the ground up. That's about as transhuman as it gets. It seems that there must be some sort of downside that makes this sort of thing less common.

** In Chapter 16, [[spoiler:the Mandalorian has a great deal of difficulty dealing with just one Phase Three Dark Trooper and would have been killed if he had not been wearing his beskar armor. When Luke Skywalker shows up a few minutes later Luke is able to quickly cut through all the remaining Dark Troopers with ease, and does not even break a sweat doing so.]]

** Cara Dune's "Son of a mudscuffer!" line uttered in Chapter 16 is quite [[GoshDangItToHeck the fancy way]] of saying "Son of a bitch!".

* PoweredArmor: Nearly all armor in ''Star Wars'' is "powered" to some extent, usually with built-in comlinks, vison enhancement, and so on, but the focus on Mandalorians brings this to the fore. Early in the series, we see Din's damaged non-''beskar'' chestplate as a lot of tech stuff in it, but what exactly it does is left unexplained. Mandalorian armor has all kinds of gadgets and gizmos included. [[spoiler:In Season 3, we see that some Mandalorians, like Bo-Katan and Paz Vizla, have an energy shield buckler built into their left bracer for added defense. Most notably, Moff Gideon's ''beskar'' Phase 4 Dark Trooper armor has very loud whirring sounds when he moves; this, combined with his performance in his fight with Din and Bo-Katan, indicate the armor is massively enhancing his physical strength.]]

* AgainstMyReligion: When asked to drop his weapon during parley, the Mandalorian objects in a deadpan that, "I'm a Mandalorian. Weapons are part of my religion." He relents in the interest of smooth negotiations. He tries using the line again in ''Series/BookOfBobaFett'', and in Seaon 3 a planet that normally forbids armed persons in the city permits Din and [[spoiler:Bo-Katan]], because the planet's laws also enshrine respect and tolerance of differing cultures and religions, ergo Mandalorians can be armed because weapons and armor are intrinsic to their culture. Far more seriously, the Mandalorians have several different sects of varrying "devoutness" in terms of "wearing armor," the one the progagonist belongs to is so orthodox it is forbidden for him to remove his helmet around any living being. [[spoiler:Din is forced to do so for a few reasons, and has to complete a ritual to redeem himself in the eyes of his variation of Creed.]]

* AgainstMyReligion: When asked to drop his weapon during parley, the Mandalorian objects in a deadpan that, "I'm a Mandalorian. Weapons are part of my religion." He relents in the interest of smooth negotiations.

* PrecisionFStrike: ''The Mandalorian'', like the rest of the ''Star Wars'', is not big on using swear words, yet it drops one of the most explicit ones in season 3 from an Anzellan who absolutely hates being and hugged by Grogu.

The show began airing exclusively on Creator/DisneyPlus as the platform's launch day flagship on November 12, 2019.
Three season have streamed with a fourth season being under production as of April 2023.

** In "The Convert," Elia says "Taungsdays, am I right?" In ''Legends'', Taungs were the original indigenous inhabitants of the world that would become Coruscant, but eventually migrated from there to form, appropropriately enough, the Mandalorian culture, under Taung leader Mandalore The First.

During the second season in December 2020 it was announced that three spinoffs of the series had been ordered: ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'' [[note]](starring Creator/TemueraMorrison as [[Characters/StarWarsBobaFett Fett]], reprising his role from season two)[[/note]], ''Series/{{Ahsoka}}'' [[note]](starring Creator/RosarioDawson as [[Characters/StarWarsAhsokaTano Ahsoka Tano]], reprising her role from [[Recap/TheMandalorianS2E5Chapter13TheJedi "Chapter 13: The Jedi"]])[[/note]], and ''Rangers of the New Republic'', with the intention to have them eventually come together for a [[CrisisCrossover crossover event]]. However, on May 22, 2021, Lucasfilm announced that ''Rangers'' was "no longer in active development", followed by a statement from Kathleen Kennedy that they would try to work some of its story into future ''Mandalorian'' episodes instead. In April 2023, it was officially announced that Filoni would be directing the aforementioned crossover as a [[TheMovie feature-length theatrical release]], serving as a conclusion for these interconnected stories.

** The trailer and the poster for Season 3 imply that [[spoiler: the Darksaber]] will become a major part of Din's arsenal, showing him brandishing it proudly [[GunAndSwordInAccord alongside his blaster]]. In reality, he only uses it a handful of times (clumsily) due to its AwesomeButImpractical nature mentioned at the top of the page [[spoiler: and gets rid of it by giving it back to Bo-Katan the second he can think of an excuse that satisfies the Night Owl's traditionalist outlook on "earning" the blade.]]

* NeverTrustATrailer: The first Official Trailer seemed to imply that the series would be a grim and gritty, even horrific take on the ''Star Wars'' universe, what with the ominous music, oppressive editing, and [[DecapitationPresentation Stormtrooper helmets on pikes being one of the first images we see]]. No mention of Grogu was ever made, and certainly none of the more lighthearted, high adventure stuff.

* SeriesFauxnale: The third season finale serves as this as [[the BigBad of the series, Moff Gideon is finally killed, Bo-Katan starts her new path as leader of the reunited Mandalorian people and Din Djarin adopts Grogu as his son before settling down in their new home provided by Karga. He offers his services to the new republic as an AndTheAdventureContinues open ending.]]

* LaserGuidedKarma: Two scout troopers get a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown by the Child's "nurse droid" minutes after punching the Child in order to try to get him to stop making noise.

** [[spoiler:Moff Gideon in a nutshell really. He wasn't in charge of a particularly large contingent of the Empire and only has a light cruiser for a mobile command base. Compared to, say, Moff Tarkin, who was in charge of the Empire's crowing achievement the Death Star and had Star Destroyers to spare chasing down the plans, he doesn't have many resources. In a galaxy recovering from war and dealing with a single RagtagBunchOfMisfits he's an imposing problem even Boba Fett doesn't want to straight up fight. Chapter 22 would show this is something of a show. He has more resources and allies than first shown and only uses so much as to not draw to much attention to himself in front of the galactic republic.]]

* PardonMyKlingon: Dank ferrik, but the characters in ''Series/TheMandalorian'' seem to use the phrase "dank ferrik" a lot. It's the series' go-to when they want to have a character swear on family-friendly Disney+. It seems to be the equivalent of "Goddammit", and even has the emphasis on the same syllables.

* OnceASeason: [[spoiler:The Mandalorian removing his helmet in full view of the camera. In Chapter 8, he removes it so IG-11 can heal him with a bacta spray. During the events of Chapter 15, Djarin has to pass a facial scan; unlike the previous example, his helmet actually stays off for several minutes. Somewhat subverted in that he incongruously does it again in the very next episode, to say goodbye to Grogu.
** Subverted in season 3 - Din Djarin's helmet stays firmly on for the entirety of the season. ]]

* OnceASeason: [[spoiler:The Mandalorian removing his helmet in full view of the camera. In Chapter 8, he removes it so IG-11 can heal him with a bacta spray. During the events of Chapter 15, Djarin has to pass a facial scan; unlike the previous example, his helmet actually stays off for several minutes. Somewhat subverted in that he incongruously does it again in the very next episode, to say goodbye to Grogu.]]