6 Interesting WaysThe MandalorianCould Handle Boba Fett’s Return

The Mandalorian is n’t just break usmore Baby Yodathan we are probably equipped to deal with when it returnsfor time of year two , but on the face of it more than a few conversant Star Wars faces . Last workweek , reports began whirlpool that one of those face is the arrival of a specter thathas hung overThe Mandalorian since it was first discover : theinfamous Boba Fett .

But wait , the last time we in reality interpret Boba Fett in Star Wars , he was haplessly careening into , and then off of , the side of Jabba the Hutt ’s canvass barge in Return of the Jedi , before tumbling into the Sarlacc orchestra pit for a thousand age of digestive play times . He was , seemingly , commit to his last . This is Star Wars , however , and a niggling affair like death , even an excruciatingly extend one , ca n’t stop a character frommaking a rejoinder — and in The Mandalorian ’s timeline , it ’s only been a few years since those events .

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“Boba Fett!? Boba Fett, where!?”

“Boba Fett!? Boba Fett, where!?”Image: Lucasfilm

Somehow , Fett has come back . Andif we mustdeal with that , then here are some potential ideas for how The Mandalorian could tackle the Fett Family ’s re - emergence on the astronomical stage . You might even say that they are , perhaps , the way .

He’s Still Bitter at the Power Structure of the Republic and the Jedi

While , chronologically speaking , the last time we saw Fett was that tumble to his now - not - so - seeming destruction in Return of the Jedi , the actual last fourth dimension we saw him in prescribed Star Wars medium was in Clone Wars , sound by his youthful Attack of the Clones ego , Daniel Logan . Clone Wars did n’t just begin tofill in the blanksabout Fett ’s way into bounty hunt , it also gave him a fascinatingly compelling arc in which , basically , he just really , really hated Mace Windu .

Which is fair , because Mace Windu discerp his pop ’s head off . But Clone Wars being Clone Wars , it became about so much more than that . We saw an angry young Fett game his revenge against not just Mace , but the establishment of the Republic itself , which had used his father as a pawn for grander schemes and then , from his point of purview , used the Jedi to criticize that pawn off the card the hour it stopped being useful . They claim his papa ’s brass , slap it on legion of the great unwashed like him , and send them to warfare under the control of the space whiz that had dispatch him . That ’s a great deal for a kid to deal with .

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An imprisoned Boba making a brief appearance in Clone Wars’ fourth season, after his whole Mace Windu Revenge Arc went sideways.

An imprisoned Boba making a brief appearance in Clone Wars’ fourth season, after his whole Mace Windu Revenge Arc went sideways.Image: Lucasfilm

So how ’s he dealing with it as an adult in a time where the Republic is on the face of it returning and the Republic That Was — the Empire — has fallen ? This is a fascinating opportunity to further enmesh the myriad eras of Star Wars together through a character who has the potential to be the transmitter for so many different voice of it . Plus , giventhe rumored arrivalof another Clone Wars character to The Mandalorian , who likewise had theirown all-inclusive hangupsabout the Republic , there could be some very interesting analogue .

He’s Presented as Mando’s Antithesis

Din Djarin may walk the Boba Fett walk and talk the Boba Fett talk , but he is unequivocallynot Boba Fett — or at least , the unacceptable badass image of Boba Fett we all adjure up in our heads ( and in the Expanded Universe ) to override the actuality of Fett ’s role in the movies .

What made Djarin ’s arc across the first season of The Mandalorian so fascinating were his genuine struggle — being dealt the curveball of want to be this warrior of his take over peoples , but instead having to be the male parent to a ostensibly people - less child . He had to pick up that the one thing he was kind of good at — shooting his way out of a situation — wasn’t just the only solution to everything in life , but actively could make thing bad for everyone around him . Djarin may have appeared on the beskar - enclothe surface to be cut from the same fabric as this perfect Bounty Hunter , but he was anything but , and that ’s what made him such a great protagonist .

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What would Boba Fett think of Din Djarin?

What would Boba Fett think of Din Djarin?Image: Lucasfilm

So what bump when he ’s literally confronted with that perfect Bounty Hunter ? Would he be an ally Djarin now has to live up to , or an ideologic hydrofoil , an ikon of Old Mandalore that Djarin now bonk is a mythos his all - but - purged the great unwashed had to wield as a deception ? It would n’t just be a compelling aroused throughline for our submarine sandwich , but a way for Star Wars totackle the metanarrativethat ’s built up around Fett ’s image over the years . What does having that legendary rep do to not just Fett himself , but the people coerce to walk in his trace , even in times of crisis ?

He’s Entirely Broken by the Scourge of Mandalore

Another every bit fascinating way to deal with that metanarrative would be to have Boba Fett , in some ways , be theLast Jedi Luke Skywalkerto Djarin ’s Rey : this on the face of it iconic icon of Mandalore , called back into action , only to recover that he is envenom , traumatized , and break by what has become of the galaxy around him . But while Luke ’s injury was derived from him feeling he could n’t live up to the standards of thehypocritical establishmentof the Jedi Order , Fett ’s could be derived from the trauma that the Mandalorian people as he know them are , at this point , all but gone , purge by the Empire .

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And it ’s not like Fett would n’t have reasonableness to . Like Djarin himself , he ’s an adoptive kid of a Mandalorian culture that he , paradoxically , helped createwithin Star Wars ’ metatext . A culture now all - but - eradicated , shattered into disparate out of sight enclaves by the Empire ’s cruelty , one force to cloak its impuissance metaphorically and literally , slant on its former reputation for mystery and martial artistry to protect what short in reality remains . What does that do to Fett , whose kinship to Mandalore was already complicated enough given his position as the cloned tyke of someone who , themselves , was considered at times to not be “ truly ” Mandalorian ?

A literal reminder of what Mandalore has become in the wake of the Empire.

A literal reminder of what Mandalore has become in the wake of the Empire.Image: Lucasfilm

The Mandalorian ’s first season already dealt with the concept of what it meant to be part of a syndicate , unlawful as Djarin ’s clan of two was . What would all that mean for someone like Fett in the wake of Mandalore ’s purgation ?

He’s Entirely Broken by, Y’know, the Whole Sarlacc Thing

It turns out there are really so many ways you could completely go against Boba Fett .

The Mandalorian is jell only just a few short years after Return of the Jedi , in the earliest days of thefledgling New Republic ’s establishment . Which means that it has also been just a few brusque years since Fett , with a footling push from a mostly - blind Han Solo , went vaporize over the Pit of Carkoon , thwack bang into a delight barge ’s side , and then directly into said Pit of Carkoon . While for the audience Boba ’s untitled goal is presented as almost a moment of clowning — the Sarlacc literally burps after gulping him down , no matter which version of the film you watch — for the human race himself , it was credibly a lot less laughable .

Whether Boba was in the Inferno for a matter of days , weeks , months , or eld , we can only conceive of what the horror C-3PO identify — of being paralyzed within the intestine of this ancient animal as its stomach acids slowly but surely rust away at you to sustain that ancient existence through aeon of half - life agony — of the Sarlacc ’s digestive summons enact on his brain . What did he have to do to not just endure that but escape it ? What would it make a person become , not just physically , but mentally ? The boring choice would just to say he got better and moved on . But in a galaxy where multitude cuckold seeming and real decease quite a lot , why not take a moment to examine what cheating those deaths could actually do to a person ?

Sure, it looks a little goofy. But also, probably deeply traumatic?

Sure, it looks a little goofy. But also, probably deeply traumatic?Image: Lucasfilm

He’s Not Actually Boba Fett, But Another Clone Using His Identity

I mean , the joy of Star Wars is that Temuera Morrison did n’t just play Jango Fett — he make for every dang Clone Trooper in the procedure , and Boba was his cloned son . So what if Morrison ’s issue in The Mandalorian was n’t as Jango ’s choose minor , but just one of the sempiternal host of nipper the Kaminoans made of him ? And what if that child had , in the aftermath of Boba ’s end on Tatooine , taken on the Fett mantle for themselves , to continue the legendary legacy ?

Current Star Wars canyon has dropped a fewvery intriguing hintsat the likely conception of someone else picking up Fett ’s Sarlacc - acid - scar armor after the demolition of Jabba ’s cruise barge and using it for their own means . In Chuck Wendig ’s Aftermath novel , that someone is on the face of it a valet de chambre named Cobb Vanth , who procures a heavily damaged suit of Beskar implied to have been Fett ’s from some Jawa scavengers , before using it to become a lawman on Tatooine , evoking the fabled effigy of the Mandalorians in a noble light .

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One of these things is not like the others..sort of.

One of these things is not like the others..sort of.Image: Lucasfilm

We ’ve discussed beforethat the musical theme of Boba Fett is much more interesting than who he actually was as a fibre in the movies , and how that could be played with to evoke his imagery without actually have to use the fiber himself . That was in regards to the potential of a standalone movie , an idea that now seems unambiguously off the table — even more so with Fett apparently come to The Mandalorian . But the idea remains a captivating one , not just to encounter with our own hype - driven embrace of the quality as an ideal but , in this context , as a vector to examine what became of all these Clones , these distant child of Mandalore themselves , long after the Clone War end .

He’s Just Not Actually Boba Fett at All?

Okay , certain : the reports around Fett ’s intimacy in The Mandalorian said Morrison would be in short spiel him , but they also hint he could be play other roles . What if the Boba conniption are but a flashback — like the first time of year ’s recall tothe Clone Warsand the Mandalorian Deathwatch — and Morrison ’s actual role in the wider season is as someone else alone ?

This would go beyond him being a clone using Fett ’s identity as we just posited . Instead , Morrison could just be play a entirely dissimilar — yet adjacent — lineament to a member of the Fett clan in the first place . As we ’ve noted , we know at this head that Ahsoka Tano will be in the second season . What if Captain Rex mark along too ? What if it ’s just another Clone altogether , and the show begins totackle their placein Star Wars ’ galaxy after not just the Clone War and the ascent of the Empire but after the Empire ’s surrender , and their relationship to Mandalorian refinement in the wake of Mandalore ’s subjugation and apparent purging ?

Screw Boba Fett . I wanna know whatCut Lawquanegot up to after that whole “ So you left the Grand Army of the Republic to start a life of your own but you still had that whole brainwashing chip buried inside your oral sex ” dealio .

Thanks to cloning, Temeura Morrison maybe actually has the biggest role in the Star Wars galaxy.