History Recap / TheMandalorianS1E2Chapter2TheChild

[[caption-width-right:350:''The Child that started it all'']]

This episode was directed by Rick Famuyiwa.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Jawas don't just have a "finders keepers" approach to ownership, but apparently believe that a Mudhorn egg ("SOOGA!) is such an exceptional delicacy that it is worth a fortune in spaceship parts and granting forgiveness to the Mandalorian for killing some of their people when he found them scavenging his ship. Kuiil also claims that they may steal, but they don't destroy.

* NoBodyLeftBehind: Anyone shot by the Mandalorian's disruptor rifle is instantly disintegrated, with nothing but a few scraps of clothing left behind. He has to reload it after every shot, which is one reason he didn't bust it out during the shootout with IG-11, but it's a hell of a sniper rifle.

* AnAxeToGrind: A group of Trandoshans armed with vibro-axes ambush the Mandalorian in the second episode.

* RantInducingSlight: While he's angry at having his ship stripped, The Mandalorian seems more pissed off that the Jawas made off with his armory.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Jawas don't just have a "finders keepers" approach to ownership, but apparently believe that a Mudhorn egg is such an exceptional delicacy that it is worth a fortune in spaceship parts and granting forgiveness to the Mandalorian for killing some of their people when he found them scavenging his ship. Kuiil also claims that they may steal, but they don't destroy.

* MadeOfIron: The Mandalorian takes a ''lot'' of punishment over the course of the episode, starting with falling from the top of a rather tall sandcrawler, and ending with getting smacked around by the Mudhorn.

* BewareTheSillyOnes: The episode shows that while Jawas are not the most dangerous or obvious threat in the galaxy, they are still not to be trifled with. Their sandcrawler functions like a mobile fortress and is difficult to assail alone even with beskar armour, and it's made worse when they drop things on Mando or snipe at him from windows. Even when he gets to the top, the Jawas on the roof all blast him with their StunGuns, at which point he falls off.

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* BewareTheSillyOnes: The epusode shows that while Jawas are not the most dangerous or obvious threat in the galaxy, they are still not to be trifled with. Their sandcrawler functions like a mobile fortress and is difficult to assail alone even with beskar armour, and it's made worse when they drop things on Mando or snipe at him from windows. Even when he gets to the top, the Jawas on the roof all blast him with their StunGuns, at which point he falls off.

!!Tropes in this episode include:

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Jawas don’t just have a “finders keepers” approach to ownership, but apparently believe that a Mudhorn egg is such an exceptional delicacy that it is worth a fortune in spaceship parts and granting forgiveness to the Mandalorian for killing some of their people when he found them scavenging his ship. Kuiil also claims that they may steal, but they don't destroy.
* CallBack: The [[Film/AttackOfTheClones last time]] a Mandalorian got in a fight involving a Rhinoceros-like creature and a force user, [[OffWithHisHead it did not end as well]]...

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The Child keeps trying to touch the Mandaorian's wound on his arm. It comes across as child-like innocence now, but the true meaning behind this won't be revealed until the season finale.

* HitAndRunTactics: The Mandalorian is ambushed by Trandoshans while returning to his ship--although they quickly lose the advantage of surprise to him. After killing some of them, he discovers they also have tracking fobs.

* JerkAss: The Jawas not only strip the Mandalorian's ship to the bone for no reason other than that it's there, but also mock his attempts at speaking their language when he tries to get his stuff back.

* RealityEnsues: Played for laughs. Having successfully scaled the side of the Jawa sandcrawler with great effort and to epic music, dodging attacks and flung objects all the way, the Mandalorian reaches the top, pulls his blaster, promptly gets shot by half a dozen Jawa tasers, and falls backwards over the edge to slam hard into the dirt below.

* {{Foreahadowing}}: The Child keeps trying to touch the Mandaorian's wound on his arm. It comes across as child-like innocence now, but the true meaning behind this won't be revealed until the season finale.

* BaseOnWheels: Jawa sandcrawlers were always implied to be such, but here we see it really ''is'' a fortress, complete with holes for them to stick their heads out of to shoot at invaders or drop junk on them. After an arduous one-man StormingTheCastle scene, the Mandalorian gets stunned and thrown off the top, and he's forced to admit it's impregnable. (The one the Stormtroopers destroyed in ''Film/ANewHope'' was probably thwarted by them having an ''army''.)