12/20/2023 0 Comments Stripes cast characters![]() In one of the season’s more poignant interludes, we find out that Kuiil has rebuilt assassin droid (and Mandalorian competitor) IG-11 and taught the droid to become selfless and aware. Kuiil teaches him how to ride a beast and, in the second episode, helps him broker a deal with Jawas after they strip his ship (The Razorcrest). The Mandalorian meets Kuiil, a former indentured servant to the Empire, on Arvala-7, where he is initially tasked with bringing home the Child. Kuiil (voiced by Nick Nolte and performed by Misty Rosas) is an Ugnaught, a small, pig-like race you probably remember as the characters who nearly incinerate a dismantled C-3PO on Bespin in The Empire Strikes Back. One of the more oddly touching characters in the first season. This time around she’s even more front-and-center in the marketing materials, and unlike last year, we think she’ll probably be there from the jump. While Carano was a part of the first season’s pre-release promotional push, she didn’t end up appearing until halfway through the season. Karga even offers her a job with the bounty hunters. At the end of the final episode, she was firmly established as someone the Mandalorian could turn to for help and guidance and you got the sense that he gave her something she was searching for too - a sense of purpose and a reason to continue the fight. (We also find out that she was from Alderaan, the peaceful planet destroyed by the first Death Stara in the original Star Wars.) Dune wound up becoming an integral part of the very weird nuclear family that was built up around the Child and its protection. Later on in the season, the Mandalorian recruited her to help liberate imperiled planet Navarro from Imperial involvement. She gamely helps and establishes herself as a fierce warrior and a more-than-capable ally. He enlists her to help save an embattled village (including a woman the Mandalorian has the hots for – more on that in a minute). ![]() She is similarly adrift, drowning her sorrows on a backwater planet, when the Mandalorian meets her. That would be Cara Dune (played by Gina Carano), a former shock trooper with the Rebellion (she has the Rebel insignia tattooed on her cheek) with a deep hatred for the Empire. In Episode 4 of the first season, the Mandalorian finally met a warrior on his level. But judging by previews of this new season, its origins will be explored fully and will perhaps involve other Force-users… But who or what the Child is remains to be seen (we don’t even know how he wound up on that backwoods planet for the Mandalorian to find him). The Mandalorian realizes that the Child has certain abilities (seen from the second episode on) that are strange and unusual and clearly everyone in the galaxy wants the Child for this very reason. ![]() (Initially, the creature was described as “50 years old” but assassin droid IG-11 is quick to point out that different species age differently.) Clearly the Mandalorian and the Child have an instant bond and throughout the season they come to appreciate each other more and more. Where that will take him, we have no idea…Ĭlearly the breakout star of the first season, the Child was introduced at the very end of the first episode, when The Mandalorian finds out what he has been chasing for the better part of the episode: a small child, in a floating, egg-shaped bassinet. ![]() At the end of the first season, the Mandalorian has committed to returning the child to his race. This child melts the Mandalorian’s cold exterior and teaches him that his tribe can come in many different forms. The Mandalorian’s entire life is through into chaos when he accepts a job from an oily, unnamed client ( Werner Herzog), who surrounds himself with somewhat decayed-looking Stormtroopers and tasks Mandalorian with retrieving a very special package.Īs it turns out, his assignment involves kidnapping a small alien known as The Child or The Asset but which the world has rightfully embraced as “Baby Yoda.” He feels a connection to this child and decides to turn his back on his assignment and protect it at all costs, traversing the galaxy together. The story is set in the lawless post- Return of the Jedi period where the Empire has been thwarted but Imperial loyalists still remain and many of the planets are still trying to process and organize in the midst of extreme disarray. He even uses the carbon-freezing technology that Boba Fett improvised for Han Solo on Bespin (a weird plot point that still doesn’t make much sense). When the story starts, the Mandalorian (or “Mando,” as he’s referred to by some) is a bounty hunter, hunting down wanted criminals and other ne’er-do-wells across the galaxy. ![]()
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