History Recap / TheMandalorianS2E5Chapter13TheJedi

** "Governor Wing", the villager who helps Mando, is played by [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_T._Chao Wing T. Chao]] (Wing Tao Chao), a former Disney Imagineer who was [[https://www.laughingplace.com/w/news/2020/11/27/wing-t-chao-mandalorian-cameo/ instrumental]] in building Disney's international parks and hospitality businesses. Chao was inducted into UsefulNotes/DisneyLegends in 2019, alongside ''The Mandalorian'' series creator Creator/JonFavreau and [[Recap/TheMandalorianS1E5Chapter5TheGunslinger previous]] guest star Creator/MingNaWen.

** Elsbeth has two HK droids. In the 30,000 years since Revan had one, they've been upgraded. 40 times. She has HK-87 droids, Revan had HK-47.

** Ahsoka recommends that Din go to the ruins of a Jedi temple on the planet Tython. Tython appeared in ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'', as the original homeworld of the Jedi Knights and it did indeed feature a Jedi temple.

** Ahsoka recommends that Din go to the ruins of a Jedi temple on the planet Tython. Tython appeared in ''VideoGame/TheOldRepublic'', as the original homeworld of the Jedi Knights and it did indeed feature a Jedi temple.

[[caption-width-right:350:''A Live-Action appearance 12 years in the making.'']]

This episode was written and directed by Creator/DaveFiloni.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Elsbeth can wield a beskar spear well enough to put up a fight against Ahsoka, even managing to disarm her of one of her lightsabers, though Ahsoka ends up victorious.

** Ahsoka states that Morgan’s people were massacred during the Clone Wars. ''Series/{{Ahsoka}}'' will later reveal that [[spoiler:Morgan is a descendant of the Nightsisters, who indeed were massacred by General Grievous during the war as punishment for aiding Asajj Ventress’s attempts on Count Dooku’s life.]]

* CrapsackWorld: Corvus is a planet filled with lush forests and has small but secure villages where people live their lives. Sounds neat, right? The thing is, Morgan Elsbeth and her small army have burnt the forests to a crisp, and are forcing the villagers they have to either live quietly in fear, or be used as human batteries to power the place up. Although with Morgan being driven out and Governor Wing being restored to power at the end, perhaps Corvus will be able to escape this trope. The air outside the city is so bad (presumably, some kind of forcefield keeps the air inside the city breathable, that Elspeth's guards have to wear gas masks.

*** The last two examples have now been shown to take place before ''Rebels'' DistantFinale.

** To the ending of ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Rebels]]''. Ahsoka is looking for Thrawn, which may be a part of her and Sabine's search for Ezra (who disappeared with Thrawn) ''or'' is a part of something that happened during/after they found Ezra.

* BladeOnAStick: The Magistrate owns a spear made entirely of beskar. She offers it to Din as payment if he kills Ahsoka, and later uses it in battle against Ahsoka. Din ends up being gifted the spear by Ahsoka after she defeats the magistrate in combat.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: If you look closely, the HK-87 droids bear the insignia of the Imperial Navy's Seventh Fleet -- Thrawn's command -- hinting at who is really in charge behind the scenes.

* CombatPragmatist: Lang, evidently aware that a Mandalorian in blaster-proof beskar is out of his league, tries to lure him into a false sense of security before pulling an ISurrenderSuckers gambit. It just gets him killed.

* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: For the ''Ahsoka'' live-action series, announced two weeks after this episode aired.

* ActionPrologue: There is no anticipatory buildup to the big guest star reveal, the episode just goes straight to Ahsoka making corpses out of GasMaskMooks with a MookHorrorShow seconds after the episode begins in earnest. Filoni knew what the fans wanted to see right away.

* BadassNormal: The Magistrate, Morgan Elsbeth, doesn't seem to have any powers or augmentations, but can hold her ground in a melee fight against a trained and experienced Force-user like Ahsoka, though this is downplayed as during their fight [[IAmNotLeftHanded Ahsoka avoids using the Force]], mostly fights with a standard grip form rather than her usual ReverseGrip Form, and is deliberately trying to avoid killing Elsbeth, since Ahsoka is trying to get information that likely only Elsbeth knows.

* ActionPrologue: There is no anticipatory buildup to the big guest star reveal, the episode just goes straight to Ahsoka making corpses out of GasMaskMooks with a MookHorrorShow. Creator/DaveFiloni knew what the fans wanted to see right away.

* ActionPrologue: The episode immediately starts with Ahsoka taking down the Magistrate's goons as she makes her way to the village entrance.

** Ahsoka says that the only other member of Grogu's kind that she's known is Yoda, another Jedi. There's also Jedi Master Yaddle from ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', but [[spoiler:[[Recap/StarWarsTalesOfTheJediS1E4TheSithLord Dooku killed her]]]] when Ahsoka was very young, so Ahsoka wouldn't have personally known her.

** Ahsoka in the ActionPrologue counts, using a combination of the Force to create diversions, turning off her lightsabers to hide in the fog and quickly ambush the Magistrate’s goons before disappearing again.

** Ahsoka says that the only other member of Grogu's kind that she's known is Yoda, another Jedi. There's also Jedi Master Yaddle from ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', but she most likely stepped down or died (which was the case in ''Legends'') when Ahsoka was very young, so Ahsoka wouldn't have personally known her.

Following Bo-Katan's directions, the Mandalorian arrives on Corvus in search of the Jedi. Problems arise though as Mando learns the planet is under a tyrannical Imperial rule, and upon reaching town, the Magistrate tasks him with killing the person he has come to find: Ahsoka Tano, the former padawan of Anakin Skywalker.

** Speaking of ''Dune'', Elsbeth's soldiers' uniform looks a tad like the Sardaukar uniform in Creator/DavidLynch's [[Film/Dune1984 adaptation]].