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TheStar Warsuniverse is get a brand new adventure inThe MandalorianTV series . But as fans stay to marvel about the possible connection between the show ’s ' gunslinger ' fighter and the most iconic bounty huntsman , Boba Fett , it ’s becoming clear that most have draw a blank : Boba Fett is n’t in reality a Mandalorian at all .
That is n’t a personal opinion , aMandaloriantheory , or even a trifle that trifle - lovingStar Warsfans can use to one - up the more casual lover . Even if his Mandalorian armour seems to be all the proof fans want of his lineage , his role as a pretender is n’t up for argumentation . The newStar Warscanon has stated it as a simple fact that Boba Fett , like his founder Jango , is not a member of the Mandalorian people .
So we ’re doing our part to keep this misconception from being spread , once the warrior finish is lunge into the spotlight when detail come out ofThe Mandalorian ’s gore at Star Wars Celebration . There ’s no better time for lover to infer WHY Boba Fett does n’t measure up .
Jango Fett: Officially Not a Mandalorian
If devotee want to take exception to the call that neither Jango nor Boba Fett are straight Mandalorians , then they should take it up withStar war : The Clone Warsdirectly . It ’s important to remember that before facts were perpetrate to canon , both Boba Fett and his father Jango Fett wereassumedto be true Mandalorian warrior base exclusively on their iconic armor . Obi - Wan Kenobi made that exact deduction in the animatedClone Wars , specifically Season 2 , Episode 12 . When heading to the planet to investigate " The Mandalore Plot , " Obi - Wan object to the claims that the ' New Mandalore ' is a far war cry from its violent , warrior past tense . He uses Jango Fett as an example , and learns that the world ’s reputation is known by Prime Minister Almec who angrily spits that"Jango Fett was a unwashed bounty huntsman . How he acquired that armour is beyond me . "
To some , this will seem like an unnecessary line of dialogue – basically throw out Jango Fett ’s integral expanded population history . But in the show ’s defending team , it was George Lucas himself who first made the call to do on the button that . The longtimeClone Warsdirector Dave Filoni made no arcanum of the fact that George Lucas inform him the Fetts were not Mandalorian , no matterwhat stories the expandedStar Warsuniversehad do up with . So as unsatisfying as it may be to go for , thisClone Warsconfirmation that Jango Fett only looks like a Mandalorian is hard to dispute ( without disputing Lucas personally … and he did cook up the intact thing ) .
But fine : Jango Fett is n’t technically a Mandalorian , for reasons that are intentionally left wide open for interpreting . That does n’t mean theBoba Fettis evenly indispose , just be being his son , does it ? In all satin flower , it would still be possible for Boba Fett to bring together the Mandalorians on his own … butStar Warsfans already know that he did n’t .
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Boba Fett Never Learned The Mandalore Way
There is elbow room for fan theories to spin an account for Jango Fett being dissolve by Mandalore . TheClone Warsmay have introduced the fact from George Lucas ' direct input , but with his lead role in theStar Warslore no longer a given , thereasonfor Jango ’s exclusion can be revealed at a late date . The same goes for how he came to own his Mandalorian uniform , if he did n’t acquire it through traditional religious rite of passage . And while we ’re at it : no , Boba Fett ’s armour is n’t Jango Fett ’s either .
On the one hand , Jango being a true Mandalorian would n’t actually make Boba one by nonremittal . In the version of Mandalore explore in the now - legend cartoon strip , novels , and video recording secret plan , the culture was n’t like most in theStar Warsgalaxy ( or our own ) . If a man , char , or any other being want to become a Mandalorian , they could – no matter what folk , planet , or coinage they fall from . So the account for Boba Fett not being Mandalorian is even simpler , because … he never became one .
Boba Fett Became an Outlaw, Not a Mandalorian
While rooter can assume that Jango reach on some of his culture and Mandalorian way to his " son " before he was kill , Boba Fett was forced to find his own track . But alternatively of take away a footprint into the Mandalorian elbow room of life , Boba Fett convey up with cutthroat bounteousness hunter and engage guns , instead ( a childhood chronicled inClone Wars ) . For George Lucas , that might actually be the life and legacy that Boba was intend to keep abreast , since Jango never comes across as ' epic ' in the celluloid . So we suppose there is some verse in Boba actually growing up to become"a common amplitude hunter"just like father . And the kind of grampus thattrueMandalorians , like the one now convey his ownStar WarsTV show , would see as an imposter in a more honorable warrior ’s armor .
At their best , the Mandalorians are a a warm , thinking , and honorable re - imagining of the iconic gunslingers , samurai , or sellswords of modern caption . The code of honor that dictated those path of life also shaped the Mandalorian agency . And if you believethe rumour plot ofThe MandalorianTV show , the unexampled submarine sandwich may be on his own foreign mission to reestablish those very values to the Mandalore of theStar Warsfuture . It ’s an incredibly promising box of theStar Warsuniverse to explore , but one that fans should recognise has absolutely no connective to the amplitude huntsman Fetts whatsoever .
These head and countermine prospect would possibly have been addressed inthe now - canceledBoba Fettorigin movie , or possibly even in thelong - canceledStar Wars 1313video game , also star a immature Boba Fett . With two down , rooter must now hope thatThe MandalorianTV show can extend some insight or fuel for devotee theories … and pray that a third bang wo n’t mean the end of Boba Fett ’s legacy all told .
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