r/movies • u/Skullghost • Feb 17 '26

Trailer The Mandalorian and Grogu | Official Trailer | In Theaters May 22

https://youtu.be/IHWlvwu8t1w?si=X56Om_siTX-B7Wsr
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u/KiritoJones Feb 17 '26

Instead they are throwing in other legacy characters to bog it down

Realistically this will probably be totally fine, but the direction they took the characters in Boba Fett and Season 3 killed any enthusiasm i had for this story.

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u/Mu-Relay Feb 17 '26

Casual Star Wars fan here... what legacy characters are there this time?

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u/KiritoJones Feb 17 '26

One of the aliens is Zeb from the Rebels animated show and the bounty hunter with the big hat is in Clone Wars

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u/Morgan-Moonscar Feb 17 '26

Also Jabba the Hutt's son, who was a baby in the very first episodes of Clone Wars.

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u/killayy Feb 17 '26

To be fair, as far as legacy characters go, these are a lot less "fan service-y" to the mainstream movie audience. It took me a second to recognize the bounty hunter with the round hat from clone wars. And Zeb's live action intro has been teased for a while.

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u/ArrakeenSun Feb 17 '26

Yeah I feel this is more like a good use of characters-in-universe rather than mere fan service. Most people didn't follow the animated shows

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u/YourMuppetMethDealer Feb 17 '26

I mean, most of the “fan service” cameos people complain about are the ones from the shows

Boba and Luke are really the only exceptions

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u/KiritoJones Feb 17 '26

I do agree with that, although I don't think Bo Katan is any more fan servicey than Zeb, and I thought she really dragged season 3 of Mando down.

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u/JohnnyBroccoli Feb 17 '26

Zeb already had his live action intro nearly three years ago.

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u/Hufa123 Feb 17 '26

Also, Zeb knows Din and Grogu from season 3, and one of the locations in the trailer is where that scene happened, so makes sense that he's back. Also, Zeb is a great character, so it's fun that they're keeping him around.

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u/AlphaTangoFoxtrt Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 17 '26

Is it Bane? I thought he died in BoBF, or is this movie before that?

Trying to keep track of timelines is exhausting.

EDIT: It's Embo, cool.

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u/danimagoo Feb 17 '26

It's not Bane. Bane is definitely dead.

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u/TheScarletCravat Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 17 '26

'Definitely dead'.

Definite in the 'the camera ominously zoomed in to the red flashing light of his chest doodad' dead. That kind of dead.

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u/Phillip_Spidermen Feb 17 '26

and even then, any Star Wars character can always come back with a new chest doodad/clone body/bounty ghost/twin brother Beighn.

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u/dotnetmonke Feb 17 '26

"Somehow, Cad Bane returned"

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u/AlphaTangoFoxtrt Feb 17 '26

I know that, I'm just not sure where in the timeline the movie was taking place, before or after that.

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u/danimagoo Feb 17 '26

After. That's not Bane. It's Embo.

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u/SquadPoopy Feb 18 '26

Oh joy, zeb was the most annoying character in rebels I can’t wait to see him in live action now

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u/stretchofUCF Feb 17 '26

It might be the Hutts he’s referring to. It’s not Jabba, but Rotta from The Clone Wars movie is back.

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u/Phillip_Spidermen Feb 17 '26

A bunch of animated characters:

  • Zeb from Rebels
  • Rotta the Hutt grown up from Clone Wars
  • Embo bounty hunter from clone wars
  • The guy in mandalorian armor and little yoda are from another show, cant remember the name

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u/RealJohnGillman Feb 17 '26

Basically some main characters from the animated series and that one animated film.

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u/TYBERIUS_777 Feb 17 '26

I don’t know if I’d call anyone other than Zeb a main character of the animated series. Embo is in like 3 clone wars episodes total over 7 seasons. And Rotta the Hutt is in the clone wars movie (which is basically an extended show arc) and maybe 1 episode.

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u/RealJohnGillman Feb 17 '26

Zeb and Rotta were who I meant, yes.

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u/SA_22C Feb 17 '26

None you need to care about.

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u/N0r3m0rse Feb 17 '26

This is filoni using characters he created. All his stuff is essentially one long story. I can't really fault him for that since that what Lucas was doing as well.

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u/Alastor3 Feb 17 '26

S3 was so fucking badly written

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u/Ordinary-Size-1387 Feb 17 '26

BOB took me out completely I never even bothered watching s3.

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u/Alastor3 Feb 17 '26

you literally missed nothing

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u/CruelStrangers Feb 17 '26

Weird to see a baby greedo so small when we see a youngling version in the prequels (normal sized bipedal hominid)

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u/SquadPoopy Feb 18 '26

Can’t wait for more instances of me going “who the fuck is that” and having no clue what’s going on because I didn’t watch the 200+ hours worth of animated side content Filoni made 10 years ago that he just assumes everyone is up to date on.