135 Fun Facts About The Mandalorian

Which actor plays The Mandalorian's title character, his face hidden for almost the entire series?

Pedro Pascal plays Din Djarin, though with the helmet always on, body doubles often wear the armour on set, and one whole episode was shot without him.

Grogu, the Child, belongs to the same never-named species as which Jedi Master?

Yoda's species has never been named, a mystery kept on purpose ever since his first film; Grogu looks like an infant of it but is already about fifty years old when the series begins.

What was Din Djarin's battered gunship called, the one destroyed by an orbital strike from Moff Gideon's cruiser in season two?

The Razor Crest is destroyed from orbit by Gideon's cruiser in Chapter 14, stranding Din while Gideon's troops carry Grogu off; the Ghost is the ship from Star Wars Rebels.

In what substance does Din Djarin freeze his captured bounties aboard his ship?

Carbonite, the deep freeze once used on Han Solo: Din's ship has its own freezing chamber, and in Chapter 1 he cuts short a talkative captive by pushing him into it.

Who runs the Bounty Hunters' Guild on Nevarro and hands Din Djarin the job that turns out to be Grogu?

Greef Karga, a disgraced former magistrate, begins the series handing out Guild bounties and ends it restored to office as Nevarro's High Magistrate.

Who composed The Mandalorian's theme music and scored its first two seasons?

Ludwig Göransson wrote the theme and the first two seasons' scores; because Din's face stays hidden, Favreau wanted the music to carry the expressions the helmet covers.

Before the Empire rose, Grogu was raised at the Jedi Temple on which planet?

Coruscant's Jedi Temple was Grogu's home until the Empire rose and he was hidden away; Ahsoka tells Din he has masked his powers ever since in order to survive.

Which filmmaker was photographed cradling the Grogu puppet during a visit to The Mandalorian's set?

George Lucas dropped in on the series built on his galaxy; Jon Favreau posted the photo of him holding the puppet in January 2020 and it spread across the internet.

Series creator Jon Favreau directed which Marvel film years before The Mandalorian?

Iron Man (2008) was Favreau's film, and he pushed hard for Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark when the actor was far from the studio's obvious choice.

What species is Kuiil, the vapor farmer who helps Din on Arvala-7?

Kuiil is an Ugnaught; sold to the Empire as an indentured worker, he says he bought his freedom with the labor of three human lifetimes.

The former Rebel shock trooper who joins Din in season one hails from which planet?

Alderaan, the planet the Death Star destroyed, was her home, which is why she hates the Empire; asked about it in season two, she says only that she lost everyone.

Which droid is reprogrammed by Kuiil to become Grogu's nurse and protector?

Kuiil rebuilt IG-11, the assassin droid Din had shot on Arvala-7, and patiently taught it to walk again before retraining it as Grogu's nurse and protector.

Who portrays the Imperial officer Moff Gideon?

Giancarlo Esposito plays Moff Gideon, an Imperial security officer everyone believed had been executed for war crimes until he turns up alive on Nevarro.

Under his tribe's strict creed, what must Din Djarin never do with his beskar helmet?

Take it off in company and you are no longer Mandalorian, by the covert's rules; Bo-Katan's Mandalorians go bare-headed without penalty, which season three turns into the plot.

Which ancient Mandalorian weapon does Moff Gideon wield?

Moff Gideon wields the Darksaber, the black-bladed Mandalorian lightsaber; he first reveals it cutting out of his crashed TIE fighter in Chapter 8, and Din takes it from him in the season two finale.

Which Jedi arrives in The Mandalorian's season two finale and takes Grogu away to be trained?

Luke Skywalker, digitally de-aged, cuts through Gideon's droids in Chapter 16 and takes Grogu away for training; Ahsoka had earlier refused to train him because of his attachment to Din.

Who portrays the Mandalorian warrior Bo-Katan Kryze?

Katee Sackhoff plays Bo-Katan Kryze, having voiced her in The Clone Wars and Rebels before making her live-action debut in Chapter 11; Bo-Katan became a central character in season three.

Which piece of gear is Din given in The Mandalorian's season one finale and told to practise with before trusting it?

A jetpack: minutes after receiving it, Din flies up to Moff Gideon's attacking TIE fighter, plants explosives on it and brings it down.

What creature does Din Djarin learn to ride on Arvala-7?

Din learns to ride a blurrg from Kuiil because the way to his bounty is impassable without one; two blurrgs had attacked him when he first landed.

Who plays the mercenary Fennec Shand?

Ming-Na Wen plays Fennec Shand, who is shot and left for dead in 'Chapter 5: The Gunslinger', then returns alive at Boba Fett's side in season two.

Which blunt phrase does Kuiil use to end every argument?

'I have spoken' is how Kuiil closes any debate, including Din's offers of a reward and a place on his crew, both of which he turns down.

Who voices the bounty droid that is later reprogrammed as Grogu's protector?

Taika Waititi voiced the droid and also directed the season one finale, which opens with his character snatching the Child back from two scout troopers.

What did Jon Favreau promise Carl Weathers for playing the Nevarro guild boss?

That he could direct episodes if the show won a second season: Favreau kept his word, and Weathers directed 'Chapter 12: The Siege' and 'Chapter 20: The Foundling'.

Which zealous sect of Mandalorians, sworn to the Way, does Din Djarin belong to?

Din belongs to the Children of the Watch, which Bo-Katan in Chapter 11 calls a cult of religious zealots that broke away from Mandalorian society to restore the ancient way.

Mistaking an arm-wrestling match for a fight, Grogu uses which Force power on Din's opponent in Chapter 7?

Force choke, the move Darth Vader made famous: Grogu throttles Din's friend until Din tells him to stop, then later in the episode uses the Force to heal a poisoned wound instead.

In 'Chapter 9: The Marshal', Cobb Vanth keeps order in which Tatooine town?

Cobb Vanth is marshal of Mos Pelgo, a remote Tatooine mining town the Mining Collective seized after the Empire fell; The Book of Boba Fett later renames it Freetown.

What large creature do Cobb Vanth and Din Djarin team up to defeat on Tatooine?

Din and Cobb Vanth rally the townsfolk against a krayt dragon in Chapter 9; Din kills it by letting it swallow him along with a bantha packed with explosives, then escaping and setting them off.

In The Clone Wars, the Nite Owls were an elite unit within which Mandalorian faction?

The Nite Owls were Bo-Katan Kryze's elite unit within Death Watch, the armed faction that seized Mandalore from its pacifist government in The Clone Wars to restore the old warrior ways.

What replacement ship does the Tatooine mechanic give the Mandalorian after he loses his gunship?

The Tatooine mechanic rebuilds a Naboo N-1 starfighter for Din in The Book of Boba Fett; the heavily modified Phantom Menace-era fighter replaces his destroyed gunship throughout season three.

Which gold-helmeted figure leads Din's covert and intones 'This is the Way'?

The Armorer is the covert's leader and its smith: she melts Din's Imperial beskar into new armour for him and sets the rest aside for the tribe's foundlings.

On what planet does Ahsoka Tano make her live-action debut in The Mandalorian?

Ahsoka makes her live-action debut on Corvus, a forest world strangled by Magistrate Morgan Elsbeth's rule; Dave Filoni modelled its dead, burnt forest on the aftermath of Northern California's wildfires.

Which Imperial scientist drew Grogu's blood for experiments?

Dr. Pershing, the Imperial remnant's scientist, draws Grogu's blood for experiments, yet when Din storms the lab in Chapter 3 he begs for the child's life, saying he kept him alive.

What colour are the twin lightsabers Ahsoka Tano wields in her live-action debut in The Mandalorian?

White: Ahsoka's blades are colourless on purpose, to show that she is neither Jedi nor Sith after walking away from the Jedi Order.

What precious cargo does the Frog Lady carry in a canister in 'Chapter 10: The Passenger'?

The Frog Lady carries her eggs, the last of her line, to be fertilised by her husband; Grogu keeps eating them on the way, yet befriends the first tadpole once they hatch.

Which Imperial does Din hand the Child over to in 'Chapter 3: The Sin'?

The Client pays Din a camtono of beskar for the Child; Din's unease at leaving him there sends him back to storm the safe house.

Who provides the voice of Kuiil, the vapor farmer of Arvala-7?

Nick Nolte voices Kuiil, who rescues Din on Arvala-7 and dies protecting Grogu in Chapter 7; a separate performer wore the suit on set.

Which actor plays the marshal Cobb Vanth?

Timothy Olyphant plays Cobb Vanth, a character from Chuck Wendig's Aftermath novels; in the show he agrees to give up his armour in return for Din's help saving the town.

Which species is the bounty Din Djarin captures at the start of Chapter 1?

The Mythrol, played by Horatio Sanz, is the blue-skinned fugitive Din captures in Chapter 1; he returns in season two as a bookkeeper, working off his sentence.

Which performer physically plays The Mandalorian's Kuiil on set, beneath the animatronic mask?

Misty Rosas performed Kuiil in the suit while three off-camera puppeteers worked the mask's mouth and eyebrows to match the recorded voice; she also played the Frog Lady in season two.

On which planet does Grogu sit on an ancient seeing stone to reach out through the Force?

Ahsoka sends Din to Tython, where Grogu meditates on the seeing stone in Chapter 14 so that another Jedi might sense him; the visit ends with Moff Gideon's forces carrying him off.

In season three, which astromech droid does the Tatooine mechanic sell to the Mandalorian?

The mechanic sells Din R5-D4, the red astromech that blew its motivator in A New Hope, in Chapter 17; Din sends the droid ahead to test whether Mandalore's atmosphere is toxic.

In season three, Bo-Katan Kryze broods alone in her family's castle on which planet?

Bo-Katan sits alone in her family castle on Kalevala in Chapter 17, having given up on Mandalore after her followers drifted away; TIE bombers level the castle in Chapter 19.

Which Saturday Night Live alumnus plays a scout trooper who punches the Child in The Mandalorian's season one finale?

Jason Sudeikis plays one of two bickering scout troopers guarding the captured Child; he later said he had forgotten the punch until the episode aired and Twitter erupted.

Which actress directed episodes in each of The Mandalorian's first three seasons, starting with 'Chapter 4: Sanctuary'?

Bryce Dallas Howard directed Chapter 4, came back for Bo-Katan's live-action debut in Chapter 11 and again for season three's Chapter 22; only one other director worked on all three seasons.

Which actress played the character Cara Dune?

Gina Carano played Cara Dune in the first two seasons; Favreau wrote the part for the former mixed martial artist and auditioned nobody else.

The Mandalorian's first season was still airing when which Star Wars film opened in December 2019?

The Rise of Skywalker opened on December 20, 2019; Disney+ released Chapter 7 two days early that week, on a Wednesday instead of the usual Friday.

Which character is a mechanic on Tatooine who helps Din Djarin with his ships?

Peli Motto runs a Mos Eisley hangar with a crew of pit droids; she later sells Din an astromech and rebuilds him a new starfighter.

In 'Chapter 2: The Child', which creature's egg must the Mandalorian retrieve?

The mudhorn batters Din nearly to death before Grogu lifts it with the Force; the scavengers crack the egg open and eat it on the spot, and the fight later gives his clan its signet.

Who strips the Mandalorian's ship for parts while he hunts his bounty on Arvala-7?

Jawas strip Din's ship for parts on Arvala-7 in Chapter 2; Kuiil brokers the trade to recover them, and Jawas are also the ones who sell Cobb Vanth his armour in Chapter 9.

The Mandalorian begins five years after the events of which Star Wars film?

Return of the Jedi ends with the Emperor's fall; five years on, the series finds Imperial holdouts still clinging to outlying worlds while the New Republic struggles to police them.

What do Mandalorians call the Empire's devastation of Mandalore, which drove survivors like Din's tribe into hiding?

The Great Purge saw the Empire slaughter most Mandalorians and carry off their beskar, so when Din brings home bars paid by Imperials, a fellow warrior turns on him for dealing with the enemy.

Which effects company developed the StageCraft video-wall technology for The Mandalorian?

Industrial Light & Magic built StageCraft's wraparound LED walls, which suit Din's mirror-bright armour: it reflects the scenery on the walls, where a green screen would leave green reflections to clean up.

Which comedian plays the Tatooine mechanic who repairs Din's ship and minds Grogu?

Amy Sedaris plays the Mos Eisley hangar boss, who is taken hostage with Grogu at the end of her first episode and goes on to appear in The Book of Boba Fett too.

Which actress plays New Republic colonel Ward in the 2026 film The Mandalorian and Grogu?

Sigourney Weaver plays Colonel Ward, who enlists Din and Grogu for the film's mission; Lucasfilm made the film in place of a fourth season that Favreau and Filoni had already written.

Which chapter finally gives the Mandalorian's real name, Din Djarin?

Moff Gideon is the first to speak the name Din Djarin, in 'Chapter 8: Redemption', the season one finale; the show's star had let it slip in an interview that November, weeks before it aired.

One of the performers inside the Mandalorian's armour is the grandson of which Western film legend?

John Wayne's grandson Brendan Wayne shares the suit with stuntman Lateef Crowder; the two doubles carried all of Chapter 4, which its director shot without the lead actor on set.

What does a full-power shot from Din Djarin's forked Amban rifle do to its target?

Disintegrates it: the rifle's forked barrel can also deliver an electric shock at close range, and Din turns the long-range blast on a Trandoshan ambusher in Chapter 2.

Which wrestler, a WWE star when cast, plays Koska Reeves, the Nite Owl who fights beside Bo-Katan?

Sasha Banks, credited under her real name Mercedes Varnado, made her acting debut as Koska Reeves; in the season two finale Koska squares up to Boba Fett over whether he counts as a Mandalorian.

Who did Jon Favreau first pitch his idea for The Mandalorian to in 2017?

Favreau pitched the series to Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy in 2017; she suggested he meet Dave Filoni, who had been developing a similar idea, and Filoni became an executive producer and director on the show.

Which Clone Wars Mandalorian did Jon Favreau voice years before the series?

Jon Favreau voiced Pre Vizsla, the Mandalorian warlord of The Clone Wars, beginning in 2010; he later voiced the heavy-infantry Mandalorian Paz Vizsla in his own series.

A Grogu plush floated as the zero-gravity indicator aboard which company's crew capsule in 2020?

SpaceX's Crew-1 astronauts chose the toy to signal weightlessness, and it drifted free in their Crew Dragon once they reached orbit on the way to the International Space Station.

Jon Favreau wrote the first Mandalorian scripts in his spare hours while directing which Disney remake?

The Lion King kept Favreau so busy that he wrote four Mandalorian scripts before Lucasfilm had even hired him, and could not direct an episode himself until season two.

What nickname did The Mandalorian's crew give the LED-walled soundstage where much of the series is shot?

The Volume borrows a motion-capture term for any tracked space; its curved wall of screens shows the scenery live, so desert, forest and ice worlds could all be shot on one Los Angeles stage.

Which game engine was the StageCraft video wall first built on?

Unreal Engine, made by Epic Games, rendered StageCraft's backgrounds in real time on the LED wall, shifting them in step with the camera's position.

In the 2026 film The Mandalorian and Grogu, Din is sent to rescue Rotta, the son of which crime lord?

Jabba the Hutt's son Rotta, the baby nicknamed Stinky in The Clone Wars, has grown up to be a champion pit fighter who would rather not be rescued.

Which instrument was digitally manipulated to build The Mandalorian's main theme?

A bass recorder: the composer, who played recorders as a child, bought a set and improvised the opening notes himself, then feared they were too simple for Star Wars.

The Mandalorian's original composer won an Oscar for scoring which Marvel film?

Black Panther's score took him to Senegal to study traditional instruments; it won the Oscar in 2019, when he was already at work on The Mandalorian.

Which classic samurai manga did Jon Favreau cite as an influence on The Mandalorian?

Lone Wolf and Cub, Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima's manga, follows a wandering assassin who pushes his infant son in a cart, the pairing echoed by Mando and the Child.

Which announced Mandalorian spin-off was shelved without ever reaching production?

Rangers of the New Republic was announced in December 2020 but never got as far as scripts; a year later Lucasfilm said its ideas would probably be folded into The Mandalorian instead.

Which two creators developed the spin-off Skeleton Crew?

Jon Watts and Christopher Ford, the team behind Spider-Man: Homecoming, sold Lucasfilm on Skeleton Crew as an Amblin-style adventure about lost children, in the spirit of The Goonies.

In The Mandalorian's first finale, what does the covert's leader declare Din and the foundling to be?

A clan of two is the status she gives them, marking it with a signet on Din's pauldron; he is to raise the Child as a father until it comes of age or rejoins its own kind.

Which season one director made both 'Chapter 3: The Sin' and 'Chapter 7: The Reckoning'?

Deborah Chow directed both, including the raid in which Mando breaks the Guild code to take the Child back; Lucasfilm later handed her an entire Star Wars series of her own to direct.

On which forest planet does 'Chapter 4: Sanctuary' take place?

Sorgan is the forested backwater where Mando hopes to lie low; instead he and Cara Dune end up training its villagers to fight off Klatooinian raiders.

What do the villagers Mando defends in 'Chapter 4: Sanctuary' harvest from their ponds?

Krill, netted in baskets from the village ponds; raiders have been stealing the harvest, which is why two of the farmers come looking to hire Mando as protection.

In 'Chapter 5: The Gunslinger', what does Mando hand the Tusken Raiders in exchange for safe passage?

A pair of binoculars: Mando bargains in Tusken sign language, then gives away his rookie partner's brand-new set without asking him.

Which members of The Mandalorian's crew cameo as the three X-wing pilots in 'Chapter 6: The Prisoner'?

Directors: three of season one's own play the pilots who blast the space station, and one of them was directing this very episode.

Which comedian voices Zero, the droid pilot in 'Chapter 6: The Prisoner'?

Richard Ayoade voices Zero, who goes hunting for the Child with a blaster while the crew is busy double-crossing Mando, and is shot down just in time.

In Chapter 3, Din learns every Guild hunter was handed which device for the Child?

A tracking fob went to every hunter in the Guild, not only Din, which is how they corner him so quickly once he takes the Child back.

What creatures swarm Mando's crash-landed ship in the frozen caves of 'Chapter 10: The Passenger'?

Ice spiders of every size pour out after the Child helps himself to a snack from their nest, and they overrun the ship until two New Republic X-wing pilots shoot them off the hull.

To which estuary moon must Mando ferry the Frog Lady in 'The Passenger'?

Trask is the estuary moon where the Frog Lady's husband waits; her fragile cargo cannot survive a hyperspace jump, so Mando has to fly the whole way at sub-light speed.

Which species crews the trawler whose captain drops the Child into a mamacore's cage in 'Chapter 11: The Heiress'?

Quarren sailors offer Mando passage, then feed the Child to their captive mamacore and try to kill Mando for his armour, until three other Mandalorians drop in to save them both.

Which actress plays the Armorer in The Mandalorian?

Emily Swallow plays the Armorer, who admits Bo-Katan to the covert in season three once she too has bathed in the Living Waters.

What does the Child steal with the Force from a classmate in 'Chapter 12: The Siege'?

Blue macarons: the Child asks a classmate to share, is refused, and floats the packet over with the Force while the droid teacher is busy with the lesson.

Which director helmed 'Chapter 14: The Tragedy', featuring Boba Fett's return?

Robert Rodriguez directed 'Chapter 14: The Tragedy', which brought Boba Fett back into the story; he went on to executive produce and direct The Book of Boba Fett.

In season two, Migs Mayfeld is serving his sentence at what kind of New Republic work site?

A scrapyard, the Karthon Chop Fields, where inmates strip old Imperial ships for parts; Cara Dune pulls Mayfeld out because only an ex-Imperial can get them into the Empire's systems.

On which planet is the Imperial rhydonium refinery Mando infiltrates with Mayfeld?

The Imperial refinery is on the jungle planet Morak, where Mando and Mayfeld drive a rhydonium transport through the base to reach its terminal and find Gideon's cruiser.

Which droids defend Moff Gideon's cruiser in 'Chapter 16: The Rescue'?

Dark Troopers are droids rather than armoured men, which is why Din's punches barely slow one down; he only wins by running it through with his beskar spear.

In season three, Grogu pilots a droid frame whose controls let him say which two words?

Yes and No are all its voice box can manage: the droidsmiths could not revive the old bounty droid's mind, so they rebuilt its body as a walker Grogu steers from the chest.

Which Jedi Master, played by Ahmed Best, rescues young Grogu in season three?

Kelleran Beq spirits young Grogu out of the Jedi Temple during Order 66 in 'Chapter 20: The Foundling'; Ahmed Best, the performer behind Jar Jar Binks, first played him as host of the game show Jedi Temple Challenge.

Which actor guest-starred as Commissioner Helgait in season three?

Christopher Lloyd guest-stars as Commissioner Helgait, the planetary security chief behind the droid malfunctions in 'Chapter 22: Guns for Hire'; Tim Meadows appears as New Republic Colonel Tuttle.

Which planet do Jack Black's Captain Bombardier and Lizzo's Duchess rule?

Plazir-15 is the pampered planet where reprogrammed Imperial droids do all the work, so its rulers call in Din and Bo-Katan when the droids start to malfunction.

Which Star Wars Rebels character appears in live action in season three?

Zeb Orrelios, the Lasat from Star Wars Rebels, sits down beside pilot Carson Teva in 'Chapter 21: The Pirate' to warn him the New Republic will take weeks to answer a plea for help; Steve Blum voices him again.

In 'Chapter 23: The Spies', Captain Pellaeon assures the Shadow Council that which missing Imperial leader will soon return?

Thrawn's return, he promises, will herald the Empire's revival; Moff Gideon scoffs that the Grand Admiral is still nowhere to be seen and asks for reinforcements of his own instead.

Which other Star Wars series occupied the LA soundstages, delaying season three?

Obi-Wan Kenobi was still using the Los Angeles soundstages when The Book of Boba Fett wrapped in June 2021, so season three had to wait its turn and began filming that October.

Which broadcast carried the debut of a new trailer for The Mandalorian's third season in January 2023?

Monday Night Football carried the trailer on January 16, 2023; the broadcast's home, ESPN, belongs to Disney, just as Lucasfilm does.

Across the first three seasons, which is the only episode in which Grogu never appears?

'Chapter 15: The Believer' is the only episode in which Grogu never appears; he is Gideon's captive throughout, while Din and Mayfeld infiltrate an Imperial base to find the cruiser's location.

What full name does the Child receive when the Mandalorian formally adopts him in 'Chapter 24: The Return'?

Din Grogu, because Din is the family name and Djarin the given one; in the same breath he is named a Mandalorian apprentice.

Which actor, a close friend of The Mandalorian's lead, urged him to take the title role?

Oscar Isaac, the sequel trilogy's Poe Dameron, had been his friend since the two shared a New York stage in 2005, and told him to say yes.

Which Clint Eastwood character was a partial inspiration for Din Djarin?

The Man with No Name, Eastwood's drifter in Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy, was one model for Din; his actor prepared by watching Eastwood westerns and Kurosawa samurai films.

Which pacifist ruler of Mandalore was killed by Maul in The Clone Wars?

Duchess Satine Kryze, Bo-Katan's sister, kept Mandalore out of the war until Maul seized the planet and murdered her in front of the Jedi she loved, his revenge on an old enemy.

In season three, what legendary beast does Bo-Katan come face to face with beneath the Living Waters of Mandalore?

A mythosaur, the beast whose skull is the Mandalorian emblem and which was thought long extinct; old songs foretell that its rising will herald a new age of Mandalore.

What did Moff Gideon plan to do with Grogu's blood?

Imbue his clones with the Force: in 'Chapter 24: The Return' he reveals copies of himself, grown with the one gift he lacked, and Din destroys them in their tanks before they wake.

Moff Gideon first appears in which episode of season one?

The penultimate, Chapter 7, 'The Reckoning', ends with his entrance: his death troopers gun down the Imperial who hired Din, and he surrounds the survivors on Nevarro to demand the Child.

Which actress first voiced Ahsoka Tano in the 2008 animated film The Clone Wars?

Ashley Eckstein voiced Ahsoka from that film through Rebels, and went on to found the fan-fashion label Her Universe; Rosario Dawson plays the character in live action.

Of which species is Ahsoka Tano?

Togruta such as Ahsoka Tano have striped, horn-like montrals and head-tails; in The Clone Wars, Zygerrian slavers carry off the whole Togruta colony of Kiros.

Boba Fett made his screen debut two years before The Empire Strikes Back in which TV production?

The Star Wars Holiday Special introduced Boba Fett in a cartoon segment in 1978; The Mandalorian tips its helmet to it in its first episode, where a doomed bounty frets about missing Life Day.

Which actor mainly portrayed Boba Fett in the original trilogy?

Jeremy Bulloch wore the armour in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi; his half-brother, who worked on the films, tipped him off to the part, and the costume happened to fit him.

In The Book of Boba Fett, Grogu must choose between a Jedi's lightsaber and what gift from Din Djarin?

A beskar chain-mail shirt, forged from the spear Din once fought with; Grogu picks it over the lightsaber, ending his Jedi training to go back to Din.

StageCraft's LED walls grew from Greig Fraser's work on which Star Wars film?

Rogue One's shoot gave him the idea of building large LED screens into the set; the idea grew into StageCraft, and he returned to photograph episodes of The Mandalorian's first season on it.

The Mandalorian's composer shared two Grammys for which Childish Gambino single?

This Is America won both Record of the Year and Song of the Year in 2019; the partnership went back to the sitcom Community, which he scored while Donald Glover starred in it.

On which Nickelodeon series did Dave Filoni work before Lucasfilm hired him in 2005?

Avatar: The Last Airbender had him directing in its first season; when Lucasfilm rang in 2005, he nearly hung up, sure the job offer was a prank.

The actress behind Bo-Katan in The Mandalorian is best known as 'Starbuck' in which series?

Battlestar Galactica cast her as Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace in its 2004 remake, a reworking of the Lieutenant Starbuck who had been a man in the 1978 original.

The actor behind Moff Gideon in The Mandalorian rose to fame as which Breaking Bad character?

Gus Fring, the drug kingpin of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, made his name as a screen villain; Jon Favreau, who had worked with him before, wrote the Moff with him in mind.

Which NFL team did the actor behind The Mandalorian's Nevarro guild boss play for before acting?

Oakland Raiders linebacker Carl Weathers played for the team in 1970 and 1971; auditioning for Rocky, he asked for a real actor to read with, unaware his partner was its star, Sylvester Stallone, and still won the part of Apollo Creed.

The actress behind The Mandalorian's Armorer played Amara, 'The Darkness', on which long-running series?

Supernatural cast her as Amara for its eleventh season; in The Mandalorian she is the Armorer's voice and presence, while stuntwoman Lauren Mary Kim handles the fights.

Werner Herzog, a guest star of The Mandalorian's first season, is known for films with which volatile actor?

Klaus Kinski starred in five Herzog films, among them Aguirre and Fitzcarraldo; on The Mandalorian's set, Herzog called the producers cowards for considering a digital stand-in for the Child puppet.

Temuera Morrison first found fame on which New Zealand soap opera?

Shortland Street made him Dr Hone Ropata from its first episode in 1992, where a colleague's put-down, 'You're not in Guatemala now, Dr Ropata', became one of New Zealand television's best-known lines.

Which two designers first conceived Mandalorian armour as 'super troopers'?

Ralph McQuarrie and Joe Johnston first conceived Mandalorian armour for a squad of Imperial 'super troopers' during The Empire Strikes Back's development; the idea shrank into a single bounty hunter, Boba Fett.

Which bounty hunter seemingly kills Fennec Shand in her debut episode?

Toro Calican, the rookie hunter, shoots Fennec Shand and leaves her for dead on Tatooine in 'Chapter 5: The Gunslinger'; Boba Fett later saves her, and she gets cybernetic replacements.

How does the nurse droid clear the stormtroopers from the lava-river exit in The Mandalorian's first finale?

It self-destructs: sure they cannot shoot their way out, the droid walks into the ambush alone, telling a reluctant Din that it has never been alive.

The camtono that holds Din's beskar reward is modelled on which kitchen gadget, carried by an extra in The Empire Strikes Back?

An ice cream maker was the off-the-shelf prop a fleeing Cloud City extra clutched in 1980; fans made a cult of him, and The Mandalorian turned his gadget into a safe for valuables.

The Mandalorian's bounty-droid voice actor called his performance a cross between which two AIs?

Siri and HAL 9000 were his reference points for a droid he saw as innocent and direct, one that doesn't understand sarcasm or know how to lie: 'like a child with a gun'.

In The Mandalorian's season three finale, what job does the rebuilt bounty droid take on Nevarro?

City marshal is the post Din himself turns down in the season premiere; in the finale he hands Nevarro the rebuilt droid to do the job instead.

What name is given to the tiny guided missiles Din fires from his gauntlet in The Mandalorian?

Whistling birds are forged for him from part of his beskar payment in Chapter 3, in place of a signet he has not yet earned, with a warning to use them sparingly because they are rare.

Which comedian, previously a vocal Star Wars mocker, plays Migs Mayfeld?

Bill Burr had spent years mocking Star Wars and its fans on stage, which is exactly why Jon Favreau thought casting him would be funny.

Which ancestor of Paz was the first Mandalorian taken into the Jedi Order?

Tarre Vizsla built a one-of-a-kind blade about a thousand years before the series; it became the symbol of his house's claim to lead Mandalore.

Which red-armoured guards kill Paz as he covers the Mandalorians' retreat in 'Chapter 23: The Spies'?

Praetorian Guards, the crimson fighters first seen defending Snoke in The Last Jedi; Moff Gideon asks the Shadow Council for three of them, and they cut Paz down after he holds the door alone.

Which actor plays Jod Na Nawood, the Force-using pirate at the centre of Skeleton Crew?

Jude Law plays Jod Na Nawood, a pirate captain the lost children take for a Jedi because he can use the Force, though one of them soon suspects otherwise.

Whom does Boba Fett shoot to take Jabba's old throne in the post-credits scene of The Mandalorian's second season?

Bib Fortuna, Jabba's old majordomo, is holding court in the palace when Fett walks in with Fennec Shand, shoots him and sits down, the scene that sets up The Book of Boba Fett.

Which Imperial operation, launched after the Emperor's death, does Mayfeld confront his old commander about in season two?

Operation: Cinder had the Empire scorch worlds of its own; Mayfeld survived it at Burnin Konn, and when his old commander shrugs off the dead over a drink, he shoots him across the table.

On which 2020 date did Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian premiere on Disney+?

May 4 is Star Wars Day, from the pun 'May the Fourth be with you', which is why the making-of series launched then; its first season ran to eight episodes.

In which episode is the Child's name revealed to be Grogu?

Chapter 13: The Jedi has Ahsoka Tano reach the Child's mind through the Force and tell Din his name is Grogu, a year after the series began; she also learns he was hidden away when the Jedi fell.

Din Djarin and Grogu appeared as unlockable cosmetics in the Chapter 2 event of which battle royale game?

Fortnite's Chapter 2 Season 5, launched in December 2020, was themed on hunters recruited from other realities, so Din Djarin and Grogu arrived alongside Kratos and Master Chief.

Which Imperial walker do the raiders unleash on the village in 'Chapter 4: Sanctuary'?

The raiders' AT-ST is the two-legged scout walker of Return of the Jedi; Cara Dune's shots at its viewport bait it into a pond trap, where it topples and Mando finishes it with a thermal detonator.

Which original-trilogy star voices the bartender droid in 'Chapter 5: The Gunslinger' of The Mandalorian?

Mark Hamill voices EV-9D9, the droid tending bar in the Mos Eisley cantina, in an uncredited cameo that the making-of series Disney Gallery only revealed months later.