Questions tagged [star-wars-rebels]
Star Wars Rebels is an American animated television set 14 years after Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and 5 years before Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Always use in conjunction with the [star-wars] tag.
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Why did this character accept the Darksaber?
spoilers for TCW, Rebels, and Mandalorian season 2
The Darksaber is established as being forged by Tarre Vizsla and then passed down through the Vizsla clan. This shows that the Darksaber can be ...
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Was Lothal fully liberated from the Empire after the end of Star Wars:Rebels?
In the last episode of Star Wars:Rebels, the planet that the show has often been based on, Lothal, is apparently "liberated" from the Empire's rule by:
My question is, was Lothal actually ...
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Did Leia ever meet Ahsoka through the Rebellion?
Spoiler warning for Rebels.
This is about when Ahsoka was working with the Rebellion, not after Rebels.
In the Ahsoka novel, there is a brief scene where Ahsoka hears Bail talking to a young Leia. ...
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Was this person an owner of the Darksaber?
Spoilers for TCW, Rebels, and season 2 of The Mandalorian
The history of the Darksaber is that it was passed down through Clan Vizsla for years until Maul won it from Pre Vizsla in a duel. This made ...
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Did Ahsoka ever see Obi-Wan after TCW season 7?
I feel like the answer to this is fairly obvious, but I'm curious if there's any evidence that says otherwise.
spoilers for TCW season 7 and Rebels and Mandalorian season 2
At the end of season 7 of ...
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A question about ownership of the Darksaber
In the final episode of season 2 of the the Mandalorian (“Chapter 16: The Rescue”) Moff Gideon makes a big thing of the fact that…
Why then it was previously passed from Sabine to Bo-Katan — during ...
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Has this spider been seen before?
In season 2 episode 2 of The Mandalorian, a vicious, spider-like species plays heavily into the story.
I instantly recognized them as very similar in appearance to the krykn found on Atollon in the ...
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How did Ezra save Ahsoka in “World Between Worlds”?
I just saw the episode "World Between Worlds" of Star Wars: Rebels and I am confused as how exactly Ezra saves Ahsoka. So from Vader's point of view, when he is about to strike, does he just ...
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Why can’t The Mandalorian from The Mandalorian take off his helmet, while animated mandalorians like Sabine and Pre Vizsla can?
In The Mandalorian they make a big deal of Mando never removing his helmet in front of others, yet characters like Sabine do it casually all of the time. Is this a contradiction, unexplained, or is ...
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What happened to Commander Wolffe after Rebels?
As we all know:
Gregor died fighting for what he believes in
Rex got promoted to 'Commander' and fought in the Battle of Endor
But for some reasons, we never get to know what happened to the leader ...
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Is there anything wrong with Thrawn?
In Star Wars canon, Grand Admiral Thrawn appears to be an infallible, near-perfect character. Although there are people in the Empire who hate him because of his race or because he was seemingly ...
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Darth Maul Timeline Inconsistencies
So the original Star Wars movies had Darth Maul killed in the fight with the Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon. We later find out that he survived, which was depicted in Star Wars The Clone Wars animated series, ...
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How can Rex take multiple hits from blaster bolts?
In season 3 episode 6, Rex is shown taking multiple hits
one to his shoulder, and one to his helmet. In the Clone Wars TV show, when a clone trooper is shot, they go down. Even if they are just ...
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Shielding in Star Wars: X-Wing vs new TIEs
As we can see in this fragment of an X-Wing during the trench run:
An X-Wing with shields set to "all power to rear" is able to block a few shots. After this, it must be evacuated or will be ...
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Why was Rukh spared in the episode DUME?
Are there any in-universe justifications for why Sabine Wren and Zeb Orrelios spared Rukh in the episode DUME? The rebels have demonstrated that they have no problem killing imperial agents like ...
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Why did Ezra stay behind?
In the series finale of Star Wars Rebels, we see Ezra stay behind on Thrawn's Star Destroyer as the Pergil carry the ship into Hyperspace.
My question is, why exactly did he stay behind? All he ...
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At the end of Star Wars Rebels, how could these characters survive?
In the last episode of Star Wars Rebels "Family Reunion - and Farewell: Part II" we see that:
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Is the hyperspace tracking technology in The Last Jedi the same as the one seen in Star Wars Rebels? [duplicate]
In The Last Jedi we have the First Order tracking the Resistance through hyperspace, and this is treated as brand new cutting edge technology previously thought to be impossible.
But in the Star Wars ...
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Do Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda know these characters are alive during the time of the Original Trilogy?
In the series finale of Star Wars Rebels,
However, the entire driving force of the Original Trilogy is that Luke, Obi-Wan, and Yoda are the only Jedi left, and it is up to Luke to overthrow the ...
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Did Palpatine have the ability to time travel?
In Rebels final episode, "Family Reunion - and Farewell", we could see that:
Was this just an illusion with Sith sorcery to break Ezra, or did Palpatine have the ability to time travel? I suppose he ...
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Why did this character abstain from fighting?
As of the end of Star Wars: Rebels, we see that
Further, at some point after the defeat of the Empire, but likely before the rise of the First Order, she seems to have returned to Lothal to meet ...
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Why didn't the Emperor and Vader learn from the encounter with Ahsoka?
In Rebels Season 4 Episode 13 Vader is about to kill Ahsoka
But later both the Emperor and Vader are confident that Kenobi died on Death Star 1, although
Why didn't they learn from this ...
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How does the Emperor know about, and get to, this place?
In Star Wars Rebels, Season 4 Episode 13: "A World Between Worlds", it is revealed that
But how does the Emperor
Mere scenes earlier, the Emperor is shown talking to Minister Hydan,
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Jedi and Lothal Temple
In episodes 12 and 13, Season 4 of Rebels TV series, Jedi Temple on Lothal is depicted not only as a powerful nexus of the Force,
Since Jedi presumably built the place, they should have ...
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Where does Leia, Princess of Alderaan take place in relation to Star Wars Rebels?
The book Leia, Princess of Alderaan begins when Princess Leia Organa turns sixteen years old. It seems to take place over a matter of months, or a year even. Leia is around sixteen when we see her in ...
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Do the Inquisitors break the Rule Of Two?
In the Phantom Menace, we learn about the Sith Rule Of Two.
Always two there are, no more, no less.
This has been further expanded in various canon and non-canon works.
But in Star Wars Rebels we ...
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Where did the inquisitors get their lightsabers?
In Star Wars rebels and the new Darth Vader comic we see a lot of the Emperors inquisitors and all of them have their own lightsabers (I think they are all double bladed?), but where did they get them?...
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Why did Maul bother fighting Kanan
In the Star Wars Rebels Season 2 Finale, we find out that Darth Maul is alive, and he helps Ahsoka and Kanan kill the Inquistors, and helps Ezra get a Sith Holocron. He eventually betrays Kanan, ...
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Why isn't Vader more involved with hunting down the Ghost crew during the Thrawn arc?
Kanan and Ezra have already encountered Vader (along with Ashoka) so he's aware of two Jedi (or at least Force-users) working with the Rebellion. However, after the encounter on Malachor, Vader seems ...
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How long after the defeat of Nightswan does the final chapter of “Thrawn” take place?
The final chapter of Star Wars: Thrawn gives me the distinct impression that something has happened to the Grand Admiral. There's talk of his legacy. And Eli is reading a journal that's never ...
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Why does Ezra have to run for Kanan to force-throw him?
In several of the Rebels episodes, in order to cross a chasm or gap of some sort Ezra will run towards the gap and jump at which point Kanan uses the force to augment Ezra's jump and throw him across ...
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Why did Yoda tell the Rebels to go to Malachor?
When the Rebels decided to fight back against the Inquisitors and sought Yoda's advice for help, Yoda told them to go to Malachor.
Why there of all places? Surely not so they could employ the Sith ...
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Is there an explanation for the inconsistency in the Mandalorians between the Clone Wars and Rebels?
Pre-Disney, the Mandalorians were a warrior people living on the planet Mandalore and several other locations. They were the instigators of the Mandalorian War.
From Wookieepedia:
Mandalorian was ...
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Why didn't the Emperor deploy the Sith superweapon on Malachor?
In the Star Wars Rebels episode Twilight of the Apprentice, a massive temple built by the ancient Sith was discovered on the planet Malachor. The temple held a colossal Kyber crystal and was in fact a ...
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What are the differences between the Canon character Thrawn and the one in Legends?
Grand Admiral Thrawn was introduced in the third season of Star Wars Rebels. As far as I know, he's the only major character adopted from Legends to Canon. He was cold-bloodedly restrained, very ...
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Was dual symmetric form especially significant to the Sith?
In Rogue One, we saw Vader's castle on Mustafar. It was a Sith shrine of two high towers, symmetrical to each other.
In Star Wars Rebels season 2 episode 21, "Twilight of the Apprentice", Ezra and ...
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Do Original Trilogy TIE Fighters now have Life support?
The Question is do Original Trilogy TIE Fighter's now have life support?
In Star Wars Rebels S3:E4, A TIE Interceptor Pilot is chasing a TIE Bomber and Corellian Corvette and the Corvette jumps to ...
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Who said Rebels are not necessarily dead?
I remember hearing something a few months ago, in which a [perhaps] Disney executive said basically:
Just because they were not in the Original Trilogy does not mean
they're dead.
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Was Governor Pryce's character inspired by Colonel Spalko?
Is there any official confirmation that the character of Arihnda Pryce, the governor of Lothal in Star Wars Rebels was inspired by the character of the KGB Colonel Doctor Irina Spalko in Indiana Jones ...
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Do we know what The Bendu is?
The Bendu is a self-proclaimed neutral force user that appears in Rebels. The only information on him appears to be from wikia sites. From new canon, do we know who or what he is, exactly?
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How much time passed between seasons 2 and 3
I just watched the first half of the first episode of Season 3 of Star Wars: Rebels. Ezra has grown quite a bit, and Kanan has a beard, so clearly more than a few weeks have passed.
How much time (...
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What are the benefits of removing solar collectors from a TIE fighter?
In the episode, "The Call" of the Star Wars Rebels TV series, there appears for the first time the yellow TIE fighters of the Mining Guild. They also had a notch cut in their stabilizers, giving them ...
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How did this happen to Maul so fast?
In The Clone Wars, Maul was a force to be reckoned with (also in the first film).
Obi-Wan and Maul have had prolonged fights... even sometimes Anakin and Obi-wan vs. Maul. And in the film Obi-Wan and ...
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Why did Maul’s power fail this time?
In the third season of Star Wars Rebels, Maul
There’s a great deal of thematic meaning to this, representing a transition from the flashy combat style employed by Obi-Wan in the prequels to the more ...
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How is Obi-wan Kenobi aware of those facts?
In the latest Star Wars Rebels episode Twin suns, we hear Obi-Wan say:
Moreover, throughout the conversation, we learn that
How did Obi-Wan ever learn about this name and this fact? As far as I know ...
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How was Ezra aware of this fact?
Be careful! Major spoilers ahead if you have not seen the latest Rebels episode Twin Suns1.
During this episode
and as a consequence Ezra says to his friends back at Chopper base:
This is of course ...
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What is the symbol on the pauldron of the storm troopers who guard Grand Admiral Thrawn's office?
In Star Wars Rebels Season 3 Episode 17 ("Through Imperial Eyes"), the stormtroopers that guard Grand Admiral Thrawn's office on his Star Destroyer have a black pauldron on their right shoulder with a ...
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Is the Mandalorian War canonical again?
My understanding of the Disney canon is that everything was purged. This would include all the Old Republic games and comics books associated with them that mentioned the Mandalorian War.
In the ...
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Has anyone else ever flown Sabine's TIE fighter from Star Wars Rebels?
I've only watched a few episodes of the Star Wars Rebels show but I have played an awful lot of the X-Wing miniatures game. The latest wave of figures for the game includes Sabine's delightfully ...
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Why was the “No Darkside Ghosts” rule broken with the Nightsisters?
Originally, the Expanded Universe featured some Dark Side ghosts. However, this story element seems to have been eventually retconned away.
This is stated pretty explicitly in Star Wars: The Clone ...
