Characters / Star Wars - Bo-Katan Kryze

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Lady Bo-Katan Kryze

"I see negotiations have gone as planned."

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Species: Human

Homeworld: Mandalore

Portrayed by: Katee Sackhoff, Caitlin Dechelle (body/stunt double)

Appearances: The Clone Wars | Rebels | The Mandalorian

"Mandalore will survive. We always survive."

Pre Vizsla's lieutenant in the Death Watch, and leader of a small commando force known as the Nite Owls and later the Mandalore Resistance. She is also Duchess Satine's sister. Nearly two decades after the rise of the Empire, Bo-Katan led Clan Kryze as part of the Mandalorian resistance against the Empire and was proclaimed the new leader of Mandalore. Although the resistance defeated the Imperial occupation forces, the Empire soon struck back and carried out a purge led by Moff Gideon, who bombed Mandalore with fission weapons.

With their homeworld left uninhabitable and millions dead, Bo-Katan and the rest of her people scattered across the galaxy. After the Empire's defeat, she began to gather loyal warriors in the Outer Rim, hunting Gideon to reclaim the darksaber and reclaim her place as Mandalore.

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• 24-Hour Armor: For all her mockery of the Children of the Watch for refusing to remove their helmets, she wears the rest of her armor just as much and usually has the helmet close by. This includes when she's depressed and moping around a castle, clearly expecting neither friend nor foe to visit her.
• Ace Pilot: Bo-Katan is no slouch with her Gauntlet starfighter, she pulled out some impressive maneuvers against the TIE interceptors that engaged her in an Aerial Canyon Chase.
• Achilles in His Tent: At the start of Season 3 of The Mandalorian, Bo-Katan, having lost her followers' support when she failed to recover the Darksaber, spends her days lounging around her castle on Kalevala, cynically disregarding Mandalore as a lost cause. It's only when the need arises to save Din's life that she shakes herself out of her depression.
• Action Girl: In The Mandalorian where she finally left the "dark" part aside. She is just as good as a fighter as she was in her youth, showed by defeating the Alamites, when Din couldn't, and Axe Woves when she challenges him for the leadership over the Mandalorian fleet stuck on Plazir-15.
• A Friend in Need: Even after her quest to reacquire the Darksaber after the Purge ends in failure and her forces abandon her for it, she still clings to the notion of solidarity with other Mandalorians and helps Din repeatedly. Through this she finds kinship with the Children of the Watch sect, whom she dismissed as zealots before, and this notion is instrumental for her regaining her faith in the Way of the Mandalore.
• All for Nothing: Her quest to find the Darksaber becomes for naught when Din Djarin defeats Moff Gideon in battle, and thus becomes the new owner of the lightsaber and the new ruler of Mandalore. Although Din was more than willing to relinquish the Darksaber to her, she refuses to accept it without challenging him to combat first. The Book of Boba Fett reveals the Darksaber is cursed, and anyone who doesn't win it in combat will be doomed to failure. The fact she doesn't appear in the episode indicates she's given up on trying to earn it, at least for now, as Din still has it in his possession. Subverted in Season 3 of The Mandalorian, where Din, having been rescued by Bo-Katan while exploring Mandalore, makes a show of surrendering the Darksaber to her without them needing to fight.
• Alliterative Name: Bo-Katan Kryze.
• Amazon Chaser: Gender inverted example. She tosses her hair flirtatiously after Obi-Wan takes the jet pack and the challenge of using it in stride.
• Ambiguously Bi: One of the closest things to romantic interest she's shown in someone is when she slapped Ahsoka’s bottom. The other is when Obi-Wan eagerly takes to the skies in a jet pack, welcoming the challenge, and she seems charmed. As of season 3 of The Mandalorian, she seems to have struck up a quasi-romantic partnership with Din, almost never being apart from him, but many fans see something in her interactions with the Armorer, who explicitly says she "walks both worlds".
• Ancestral Weapon: When Din accuses her of not being a true Mandalorian for taking her helmet off, Bo-Katan claims that her armor has been in her family for three generations.
• Animal Motifs: Owls.
• Anti-Hero: Although she starts off openly villainous, turning into an Anti-Villain in The Clone Wars' fifth season, and then becoming one of the "good guys" after that, she still has her moments of moral questionability.
  • In The Clone Wars, Bo-Katan never denounces the late Vizsla's violent views (and in fact, his death at the hands of Maul was what spurred her to break off into her own group as opposed to realizing the implications of handing an entire army to a former Sith) despite the fact that Death Watch turns into a "heroic" resistance movement. She also doesn't quite take up responsibility for her part in Death Watch's crimes, as shown in "Old Friends Not Forgotten" when she claims that the whole coup on Satine was solely Maul's fault.
  • In Rebels, she nearly does Sabine in upon learning she made a genocide-level superweapon targeted at Mandalorians, although shortly afterwards, she comes to respect her for taking up responsibility for it in working to have it destroyed.
  • In The Mandalorian, she takes advantage of Din needing her to tell him where to find a Jedi by dragging him into a resistance-related mission in exchange for the info, then alters the deal midway through in spite of the dangers and essentially tells him to suck it up since he has little choice in the matter.
• Anti-Villain: She starts out as a straight villain in The Clone Wars, evolves into an Anti-Villain in Season 5, then undergoes a Heel–Face Turn by Season 7 and Rebels.
• Arc Hero: Of The Mandalorian, Season 3. She becomes the deuteragonist, and her long Myth Arc to unite her people and rebuild Mandalore from the other shows is finally paid off by the end of the season, her story coming to a final conclusion.
• Art-Shifted Sequel: She's probably one of the best demonstrations of the differences between the art styles of The Clone Wars and Rebels, with her facial design, hair, and helmet being the most notable design changes.
• Ascended Extra: In "A Friend in Need" (her first appearance), she was originally just supposed to be a Death Watch lieutenant. However, the writers decided to expand her character by having her be Satine's estranged sister (which was apparently planned all along by Filoni) and becoming the next leader of Death Watch/the leader of the Mandalore Resistance, including the creation of a backstory involving the Kryzes. She gets elevated further in The Mandalorian as a Greater Scope Jerkass Big Good of sorts, and even becomes the Deuteragonist in Season 3, having her own arc and receiving tons of Character Development by becoming The Atoner for her past sins.
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Pre Vizsla's second-in-command, and easily (at least) the second-best fighter of Death Watch. In The Mandalorian, Bo regains the leadership of her fleet after defeating her former subaltern, Axe Woves, in a challenge that she initiated.
• The Atoner: In The Mandalorian, after being abandoned by her own team, sulking alone and depressed in her castle for months, witnessing a living mythosaur and being accepted by Children of the Watch as one of their own, Bo-Katan shows that she was deeply humbled by those experiences and regrets what she has done in the past. She gave up on her aspirations to rule Mandalore, vehemently refuses to fight Din and take the Darksaber from him (she receives the sword back only because Din found a way to make use of Loophole Abuse), and to spill Mandalorian blood again, as shown when she spares Axe Woves.
• Badass and Child Duo: Briefly in "Chapter 18: The Mines of Mandalore", when she teams up with Grogu to save Din. She fights the Alamites and the cyborg who kidnapped Din, leaving Grogu awestruck by her martial skills.
• Badass Boast: When questioned on how the ship she was on with its weapons disabled could defend itself, she responded "A Mandalorian with a jetpack is a weapon." She then proved it by blowing up a pursuing TIE fighter—not even using the built-in missile found on Mandalorian jetpacks but rather by catching the TIE, opening its cockpit, and throwing a thermal detonator in before flying away.
• Badass Normal: She fought Ahsoka hand-to-hand, and initially had the upper hand. For the record, Ahsoka is skilled and strong enough to fight Trandoshans hand-to-hand.
• Became Their Own Antithesis: Bo-Katan is introduced in The Clone Wars as a member of Death Watch, reactionary terrorists and thugs who insist that their way is the only true path for Mandalorians as a whole. By late in Season 3 of The Mandalorian, she has matured considerably, now looking to a future where her people's factionalism is a thing of the past, allying herself with those she once scoffed at and growing into a much more heroic figure, essentially serving as a more martial version of her late sister, Satine.
• Battle Couple: In "The Return", Bo-Katan comes to Din's aid against Moff Gideon, and they battle him together, with Grogu joining them too.
• Big Damn Heroes: She saves Din just in time from being killed by a cyborg creature in the Mines of Mandalore.
• Big Fancy Castle: Bo-Katan owns a huge castle on Kalevala, a reminder of her status as royalty. It's bombed into a smoking ruin by Imperial Remnant forces during "The Convert".
• Big Good: She is perceived as such by the Mandalorians who follow her because they genuinely believe that she can unite them all and rebuild Mandalore under her rule. She is especially sustained by the Armorer and Din.
• Black Swords Are Better: The Darksaber, a symbol of Mandalorian rulership. Bo-Katan puts up quite the spectacular fight with the sword against Moff Gideon, but he destroys the sword at the end of The Mandalorian, season 3..
• Blatant Lies: In order to paint Satine as a Dirty Coward and ruin her reputation among Mandalorians, in "Shades of Reason". Bo-Katan claims about her own sister that she "fled in cowardice" when they needed their leader the most, when in reality, Pre Vizsla had her thrown in prison.
• Blood Knight: A given for any Mandalorian warrior.
• Blue Is Heroic: By the time of Rebels and The Mandalorian, her Heel–Face Turn gave a new meaning to the navy blue armor Bo is wearing.
• Bolivian Army Ending: In "The Lawless", she's last seen engaged in a desperate shoot-out with the Mandalorians loyal to Maul. It turns out she ended up relatively fine, since she and the other loyalists were to return in the Siege of Mandalore arc, and presumably Rebels as well.
• Boyish Short Hair: She sports a chin-length bob-cut.
• Break the Haughty: In Season 2 of The Mandalorian, she is a prideful and arrogant leader of the Mandalorian Resistance, dismissing Din as a brainwashed cult member and only using him as a pawn for her plans to reclaim Mandalore. But when Gideon derails her plans by tricking Din into winning the Darksaber in combat, Bo-Katan's forces all abandon her for being a failure of a leader. As a result, she becomes disillusioned by Mandalorian traditions, seeing them as the reason why her people are scattered and weak. Ironically, this causes her to see the values that Din and the Children of the Watch hold, symbolized by her encounter with the Mythosaur.
• Broken Bird: When Din visits her in "Chapter 17: The Apostate", Bo-Katan is sulking depressed in her castle, having been abandoned by her allies after failing to retrieve the Darksaber from Moff Gideon.
• Broken Pedestal: She and Satine are unjustly seen as this by some factions of Mandalorians. Din himself confesses that that's what many were taught, that she was a selfish Dirty Coward who fled during the Great Purge, when in reality, Bo-Katan simply tried to bargain for the lives of her people when victory was not possible for Mandalore anymore.
• Bullying a Dragon: Belittling a Sith Lord when he's standing right next to you. The end result is predictable, though given her smirk at Viszla after Maul leaves, Bo-Katan may have been deliberately provoking Maul to get him to show strength and prove that he's a worthwhile ally.
• The Bus Came Back: In the second season of The Mandalorian, Bo-Katan returns to the screen after last being seen ruling over Mandalore in Rebels, having been exiled from her home since then, trying to rebuild her forces after the Empire's Purge on Mandalore.
• Cain and Abel: Implied with Satine, although by the time they share any screen time, they have a common enemy in Darth Maul.
• The Chains of Commanding: Bo-Katan is one of the most unfortunate leaders in Star Wars. Despite her potential as a great leader, the existence of the Empire and the Mandalorian factionalism were always a thorn in her back, being the very reasons she quit her regency twice. By the time she is chosen a third time to rebuild Mandalore, she is exhausted by her people's endless feuds, grudges and prejudices against each other and laments to Din that the Darksaber might not be enough to moderate multiple Mandalorian factions.
• Child of Two Worlds: Bo-Katan has been both a less traditional Mandalorian and a Child of the Watch. Previously, Child of the Watch accepted Bo-Katan as a convert—she was allowed to stay only so long as she adhered to their orthodoxy. Now, the Armorer declares there is value in Bo-Katan's mixed background: it makes her the ideal person to unite all of Mandalore. To highlight this, the Armorer even grants her dispensation to walk around without her helmet.
  The Armorer: Mandalore must all come together. You have walked both worlds. You are the one who can unite us.
• The Chosen One: At least in the eyes of the Armorer, she is the right person to unite all Mandalorians again for being the only one seeing a living and breathing mythosaur, a creature that should exist only in legends. She considers this a sign of a new beginning for the Mandalorians and sends Bo-Katan on a mission to search for other Mandalorians.
• Contrasting Replacement Character: To Cara Dune. Even since Gina Carano's departure from the show, Bo-Katan took Cara's place as the recurring female character.
  • Cara Dune is a character who made their first debut in The Mandalorian, whereas Bo-Katan Kryze is a character with a rich and complicated history behind her, appearing for the first time in The Clone Wars.
  • Cara is a well-built Amazonian Beauty and the physically strongest character in the series, where Bo-Katan has a more feminine hourglass-shaped figure.
  • Both women lost their home planets to the Empire is some way, but while Alderaan is completely gone, Mandalore still exists, and in Season 3, Bo and Din discover it still has breathable atmosphere.
  • Din and Cara were definitely Platonic Life-Partners, whereas Din and Bo-Katan have some Ship Tease going on.
• Cool Helmet: A variation on the Mandalorian standard; hers is modeled after a bird of prey.
• Cool Starship: After the Empire's remnants destroy the Kryze Castle, she is only left with the Gauntlet starfighter.
• Cool Sword: The Darksaber. She receives the sword from Sabine Wren only to lose it to Gideon Moff during the Great Purge and spends years trying to reclaim the sword. Moff tricks Din into defeating him and take the sword from him, knowing that Din is not aware about great significance of the sword. Bo refuses to take the Darksaber from Din because she would have to kill him for it. In Season 3, based on a technicality in which Din lost the sword and she saved his life with the sword, Din gifts the sword to Bo-Katan in front of her former fleet, cementing her role as their rightful leader.
• Custom Uniform: Has more white on her armor than other female Death Watch members.
• Daddy's Girl: When she relates to Din about the history of Mandalore and encourages Grogu to give his best against Ragnar, she implies she was very close to her father.
• Dark Action Girl: A highly skilled and dangerous member of Death Watch.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Implied. Obi-Wan stated in "Voyage of Temptation" that most of Satine's people were killed in a civil war. Since Bo-Katan is Satine's sister, it can be assumed that she went through much of the same ordeals. Given that she wound up with Death Watch, Bo may have even had it worse than Satine. Apparently, it goes all the way back ever since they were six years old.
• Deadpan Snarker: After seeing Vizsla, Maul, and Savage emerge from their meeting with the Hutts under fire.
  Bo-Katan: I see negotiations went as planned.
• Death Glare: Before her Heel Faceturn, she used to have a perpetual frown on her face.
• Defector from Decadence: After Darth Maul took over Mandalore and Death Watch, Bo-Katan refused to accept his rule, stating that no outsider would ever rule Mandalore. After the Sith Lord ordered for the Nite Owls to be killed, she and those who escaped the carnage, flee from Sundari.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: She returns in Season 3 of Mandalorian as an abrasive Tsundere, but after saving Din's life several times and seeing a living mythosaur, she has a change of heart and treats him more nicely. She also has become more accepting of Mandalorians that are part of different factions after joining the Children of The Watch.
• Designated Girl Fight: In "A Friend in Need", she had to fight Ahsoka.
• Deuteragonist: Season 3 of Mandalorian is about her atonement and earning her right to rule the Mandalorians instead of taking everything for granted just because of some birthright.
• Divergent Character Evolution: She originally was just a Death Watch lieutenant, but Lucas and Filoni liked her enough to expand her character beyond that, including making her the sister of Satine.
• Divine Right of Kings: Bo-katan has supernatural signs attached to her case of being the rightful heir to the throne of Mandalore, she is a Moses Archetype, witnesses a living mythosaur beneath the Living Waters, a supposed extinct creature that was tamed only by the first man who become the first ruler of Mandalore, and having the Dark Saber, a legendary sword that became the symbol of power for Mandalorian rulers.
• The Dragon: She seems to be Pre Vizsla's top lieutenant. She wasn't the only lieutenant, however, as there were at least two or three others (though only one out of them all had a speaking role).
• Dragon Ascendant: After Maul kills Vizsla, Bo-Katan takes over command of the Death Watch soldiers who refuse to follow Maul.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: After years spent in exile and decades of fighting to rebuild Mandalore, Bo-Katan finishes the Season 3 of The Mandalorian, earning her right to rule Mandalore and sees her people finally united and capable of putting their differences aside, looking forward to a bright future.
• Easily Forgiven: In her first appearance, "A Friend in Need", Bo-Katan gleefully took part in burning down a village of innocents, an atrocity Ahsoka witnessed first hand, and almost got killed after she tried to stop it, and exposed herself as a Jedi in the proccess. While not addressing her role in Satine's death and Maul's coup (which could be explained by Ahsoka not knowing about it), there is the fact that Ahsoka sees Bo as a trustworthy mentor by the end of the Siege of Mandalore without ever even acknowledging the genocide is rather jarring, especially because Ahsoka's much less understanding with the Jedi Council (who's worst sin is being gullible and tactless) and her entire reasoning for teaming-up with Death Watch is to protect innocent lives.
• Eating Lunch Alone: Children of the Watch always eat their food alone even when is dark and cold outside, a rule she must also obey, but she is given the right of sitting by the fire camp as the leader of the mission.
• Enemy Mine:
  • With Obi-Wan Kenobi and Satine against the Mandalorian Death Watch loyal to Darth Maul. She even lampshades it with the classic "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" line.
  • She and Ahsoka become associates during the Siege of Mandalore. Bo-Katan and her Mandalore Resistance join forces with Ahsoka and her 332nd Company to initiate the Siege of Mandalore in order to fight against Maul and his Mandalorian Supercommandos.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Her sister Satine, whose death clearly saddened her.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Subverted. She condemns Maul and Savage as "monsters" and is clearly uncomfortable aligning with them. However, this seems to be more for racist reasons than true moral standards.
  • Originally, she almost tried to help Vizsla up after he was defeated by Maul and, according to the Legends novelization Darth Maul: Shadow Conspiracy, she would've attempted to interfere earlier in the fight between Maul and Vizsla by firing at the former, but is stopped from doing both by another supercommando, because it is forbidden.
  • She considers the Children of the Watch to be nothing more than religious zealots, evidently unimpressed with their desire to restore Mandalore to the ancient ways.
  • She is clearly horrified at Pre Vizsla's brutal defeat and death at Maul's hands.
• Evil Redhead: Before her face was even revealed on-screen, a supplementary drawing by Dave Filoni had already revealed Bo-Katan to be a redhead. This makes her quite a rarity among the blond-haired Mandalorians.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: Between season 2 and 3, her bob-cut is slightly longer, signifying the lack of activity since her own fleet left her.
• Fallen Princess: Bo-Katan just keeps on zig-zagging this trope.
  • In The Clone Wars, Bo-Katan is introduced as The Dragon of the Mandalorian Big Bad, but it turns out that she is the estranged sister of Big Good Duchess Satine as well as the second daughter of the late Duke Adonai. It is implied the two had lost contact, but Satine had told their nephew Korkie to seek out Bo-Katan in the event of an emergency, which he does towards the end of the show and leads to the two sisters doing an Enemy Mine. After her sister's demise, she is elected as the new Regent of Mandalore only for the Empire to interfere and force her to abdicate.
  • Rebels reveals that Bo-Katan carries guilt over not being able to hold her position as Mand'alor and believes she is an inadequate successor to her sister, but many Mandalorians still believe that she is the rightful ruler of Mandalore.
  • In The Mandalorian, she is fighting again to claim her rightful place, than gives up her goals once she loses the Darksaber to Moff Gideon, then decides again she should be the Mand'alor, but this time, only because the other Mandalorians are insistent about it.
• Fantastic Racism:
  • In The Clone Wars, she claims that Darth Maul has no right to the Mandalorian throne because he is an outworlder despite that not technically being an essential element to the Mandalorian warrior tradition of the strongest shall rule.
  • As shown in The Mandalorian, she looks down on Jango clones, especially Boba. She dismisses Boba as a "real Mandalorian" (which doesn't faze Boba) and claims that his father is "his donor" (which does faze Boba). Interestingly, she seemed neutral about clones back in The Clone Wars Siege of Mandalore episodes, which implies it’s a grudge stemming from clones helping the Empire subjugate Mandalore.
• Fascinating Eyebrow: In live action, she always raises her eyebrow in an amused manner.
• The Fettered: After years spent as a terrorist doing many immoral acts -including but not limited to killing her own people- Bo-Katan decides she doesn't want to kill any more Mandalorians, which is why she spares Axe Woves's life in their duel, when she had every right to kill him for getting defeated by her. She is still not the Suicidal Pacifist her sister was.
• Fiery Redhead: Even though she's usually calm, she's still rather aggressive due to being part of a Mandalorian splinter group.
• Fighting for a Homeland: Bo-Katan spent at decades trying to take back her home world after she was usurped. By time of The Mandalorian, she is trying to recruit people for her cause.
• Fire-Forged Friends:
  • With Ahsoka. They met as enemies while Bo-Katan was working for Pre Vizsla, but when Bo seeks out Ahsoka's help to fight Darth Maul, they go from an uneasy alliance to a solid partnership. By the time of The Mandalorian, they're close enough that Ahsoka keeps Bo-Katan apprised of her whereabouts.
  • With Din. They initially clash over their cultural differences, but during the course of the show, Bo and Din become close if not at least comfortable with each other enough to go on missions together. Now they mostly indulge themselves with friendly bickering.
• Flat-Earth Atheist: In a galaxy full of space wizards that she fought against and even allied with, for some reason, she finds it hard to believe that the Living Waters of Mandalore might have something magic or divine about them, or that the mythosaur, a legendary beast that is the symbol of power for Mandalorians, has existed in the past. Justified, she is clearly in denial from depression when she tells all those things to Din.
• Flirtatious Smack on the Ass: In her debut scene when she first meets Lux and Ahsoka, she slaps Ahsoka's bottom when Lux claims that they're betrothed.
• Foil:
  • To her sister, Satine. They're opposites in almost every way, from appearance (Satine is blonde and dresses regally, while Bo is a redhead who wears body armor) to personality (Bo's Blood Knight vs. Satine's Actual Pacifist). Also, while Satine rules her people, Bo-Katan loyally serves Pre Vizsla until his death. However, they're both strong-willed women dedicated to their ideals (which are not necessarily compatible with Mandalorian tradition) who find themselves in leadership positions on Mandalore and becoming allies with Jedi (they've even fought alongside the same Jedi, Obi-Wan, at different times). They also both prove to be affectionate towards children; Satine is infuriated, almost to the point of violence, when she realises that innocent children have been harmed by black market goods, while Bo takes the time to comfort two frightened children during Death Watch's staged defeat of the Shadow Collective. Bo also seems attracted to Obi-Wan, whereas her sister was his one true love.
  • To Sabine. Both have a Dark and Troubled Past that consists of a well-known noble family being broken apart when they were at a young age due to Mandalorian politics, which results in the both of them joining an enemy faction in the shape of terrorists in an attempt to cope and in belief that the current leadership of Mandalore is inappropriate to Mandalorian standards. However, Bo-Katan was from the Big Good family and had a Face–Heel Turn, while Sabine was from a Big Bad family and had a Heel Realization/became a Defector from Decadence. Sabine also reconciles with her family when she personally meets them again (with their siblings initially not recognizing them with their helmet on), Bo-Katan and Satine only met once again on Enemy Mine terms and were unable to reconcile before the latter's death. Bonus in that both Bo-Katan and Sabine are presumably the youngest children of their family, one of their parents is their clan's leader, and their sibling became a prominent figure against them.
  • To Din Djarin. Both of them are of Mandalore, but he was adopted into the creed, while she was born into it. Both of them do fight for their people, but Din is far more concerned with upholding the traditions of his people, while Bo, while initially fighting to restore Mandalore to its warrior roots, ends up fighting against those who have taken the planet for their own ends (first Maul, then the Saxons, then Moff Gideon). His creed comes from the Children of the Watch, a religious extremist group, so removing his helmet in the presence of others is practically a sin, whereas Bo has no qualms about taking it off in front of others. Then, by Chapter 16 of The Mandalorian, he happens to end up with the Darksaber, making him the ruler of Mandalore when he clearly has no interest in being such, while she, who has wielded it twice and lost it twice, cannot take it back unless she fights him for it. In Season three, they finally work over their differences and Bo-Katan is even accepted as a member by the Children of the Watch.
• Force-Choke: She is on the receiving end from Darth Maul after badmouthing the Sith in front of him, comparing them negatively to the Jedi. After he lets her go, she is shown smiling, a sign that she was intentionally taunting Maul to get out a reaction from him.
• Form-Fitting Wardrobe: As is common among Mandalorians, her armour seems to have been built to match her figure.
• Freudian Excuse:
  • Bo-Katan's backstory is implied to similar to Satine's, losing most of their people in a civil war. However, it seemingly has the opposite effect on Bo that it did on Satine; while Satine become a staunch pacifist, Bo-Katan became an equally dedicated Blood Knight.
  • Bo-Katan's Fantastic Racism towards clones, especially clones of Jango Fett, is due to her experiences with the Clone Troopers who helped liberate Mandalore who, with a near-literal flip of a switch, became an Imperial occupying force and removed Bo-Katan from power mere days after her hard-won victory.
• Friend to All Children: Even back when she was a villain, she was shown being merciful toward children and in present she falls victim to Grogu's tendencies to collect aunties all across the universe. He even gets to sit on her lap as she pilots the Light Crusader.
• Frontline General: She is the princess of her people, but also leading the battles.
• Good Running Evil: After many struggles and battles, Darth Maul is removed from the throne of Mandalore, the anti-heroic, but still infinitely more heroic Bo-Katan is installed as regent by the Jedi.
• Guns Akimbo: While covering Obi-Wan's escape in "The Lawless".
• The Gunslinger: She owns dual blaster pistols, and is a crackshot with them.

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• Heel–Face Turn: By Rebels, Bo-Katan has gained a more moral mindset when it comes to being a warrior. Back then, she was just a ruthless Blood Knight who violently opposed her sister's pacifistic ways. Now, she finally understands that her sister Satine was an honorable person, a virtue that she starts to emphasize. As such, Bo-Katan will go as far as to honor her sister's memory by making sure the revived Resistance fights with honor against the Empire.
• Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: Until "The Lawless", in which she joined the "good guys", she had never been shown fighting without her helmet on. In that episode, she was almost never seen wearing it. When she challenges Axe for command of her old squad, she and he both fight without their helmets.
• The Homeward Journey: In Season 3, with Din's help, she manages to convince the Mandalorians is time to take their home planet back after discovering it has breathable atmosphere. They finally land on Mandalore in episode 7, after years spent in exile.
• Heroes Prefer Swords: She is the only Mandalorian owning a sword on screen, The Darksaber, and leads the fight against Moff Gideon.
• His Story Repeats Itself:
  • There are several repetitive elements going on with Bo-Katan's ruling her people. She becomes a regent right when Emperor Palpatine comes into power; naturally he sends his troops toward Mandalore demanding their allegiance. Bo-Katan refuses, and is usurped by the Saxon clan. In Rebels, almost 2 decades later, she is still active, and with the help of Sabine Wren who gives her the Darksaber, she comes into power again. At some point, Moff-Gideon attacks Mandalore and Bo-Katan is forced again to make same hard choice. This time, she accepts to surrender and give him the Darksaber in exchange for the life of her people, only for him to turn Mandalore into a wasteland anyway. Years later, she is ambushed by Gideon again on Mandalore, but having been Taught by Experience, Bo-Katan assures the escape of her people and regroups.
  • She receives the Darksaber back twice from people who don't want to have anything with ruling Mandalore, Sabine and Din.
• Honor Before Reason: Like the typical Mandalorian that she is, Bo-Katan firmly believes in You Kill It, You Bought It, and therefore she cannot just accept the Darksaber back from Din, even when this results in being abandoned in your huge, lonely castle by your own fleet.
• Humble Pie: Being left behind by her own fleet was a huge blow to Bo's ego, and a needed one for her growth into a better person and leader.
• Humiliation Conga: She has an extended one following her stint on Rebels. She attempts to lead Mandalore after the rebellion, only to get crushed by the empire, lose the Darksaber to Moff Gideon, and see the planet carpet bombed into glass. She then spends years hunting Gideon in hopes of recovering the Darksaber and regaining her claim to the throne, only for Din to defeat Gideon in battle and unwittingly claim it himself. This causes all her remaining allies to abandon her, leaving her alone and bitter in her family palace, lost in the shell of dead glory.
• Hypocrite:
  • She condemns the Mandalorians who side with Maul as "traitors" when, in Mandalorian tradition, slaying the old boss makes you the new boss. Technically, she and her Nite Owls are the traitors. This is addressed in the episode commentary, which explains that Bo-Katan's loyalties are towards Pre Vizsla and Mandalore as a planet rather than the Mandalorian code of honor, which is why she kicks off the Mandalorian Civil War.
  • Even before that, she looks down on the Shadow Collective for being criminals. While she is right, it's pretty rich coming from someone who took part in the slaughter and burning of an innocent village because the timid natives dared to ask for their kidnapped women back.
  • And again in Season 7, when she goes to the Republic for aid in the Siege of Mandalore, she calls out Obi-Wan's reluctance to take part by reminding him that Maul murdered Satine - the woman he loved. While this is true, she herself served Pre Vizsla with Undying Loyalty until his death and he made many, many attempts on Satine's life.
  • She mocks Din Djarin's sect of Mandalore, noting that they were nothing more than extremists trying to force the planet back into its ancient ways. She herself was part of a terrorist group that tried to force Mandalore to end its reign of pacifism and return to its historic roots as warriors. Then comes Chapter 16, where their positions are flipped — Bo-Katan feels obliged to fight Din for the claim to the Darksaber, and after spending the whole season questioning his beliefs, Din just wants to give it her. Neither of them are happy with the idea of fighting each other, although The Book of Boba Fett reveals she has to take the Darksaber in honorable combat, since it's cursed to anyone who doesn't. (It's not entirely clear if Bo-Katan truly believes this or if her mission to reunite Mandalore requires that she earn the support of people who do.)
  • She often talks about uniting Mandalore, yet spends a significant amount of time mocking any Mandalorians who don’t fit into her view of what a Mandalorian should be (just look at Din, Boba and Maul's examples).
• Hypocrite Has a Point:
  • While her dismissal of Mandalorians who don't fit her ideal goes against her supposed mission, at least two of the people she decries as not being true Mandalorians wouldn't hesitate to agree with her; Maul only ever saw the Death Watch as convenient allies to be used or discarded as necessary and never embraced Mandalorian culture for himself, while Boba is dismissive of Mandalorian ideals, his only concern for the culture being it's value to his late father.
  • She again makes a valid point in Season 3 to Din Djarin when he acted surprised that she gave up on Mandalore. She states that the Children of the Watch and many other factions gave up and fractured Mandalore long before the Purge while she was trying to hold the things together.
• Iconic Sequel Character: She makes her depute no earlier than season 4 of The Clone Wars, and in The Mandalorian, she appears in season 2.
• Ink-Suit Actor: Her appearance is based off that of her actress, Katee Sackhoff. It's more noticeable in Rebels. This trope, plus having a lot of screen-acting experience, made it very easy for Sackhoff to reprise her role in The Mandalorian.
• It's All My Fault: She considers that her own selfishness is what allowed the Purge to happen.
• It Is Beyond Saving: Bo-Katan now holds this mindset about Mandalore for a while after losing her own army, though it's implied she's just bitter, rather than making any rational assessment. Din even calls her out for it.
  Bo-Katan: Go home. There's nothing left.
• It's Personal with the Dragon: With Moff Gideon, He is The Heavy villain of the show, but he destroyed Mandalore under Palpatine's command, and season 3 reveals that Grand Admiral Thrawn is pulling all the strings of the Imperial Remnant.
• Jet Pack: Standard issue for Mandalorian warriors.
• Kick the Dog:
  • In "Shades of Reason", Bo-Katan publicly smears Satine's reputation by claiming that she "fled in cowardice", knowing that Pre Viszla had her imprisoned upon seizing power. The lie becomes even nastier with the following episode's reveal that Satine is Bo-Katan's own sister.
  • Upon meeting Boba Fett in The Mandalorian, she dismisses him as a "real Mandalorian". When he counters that his father was one, she maliciously corrects him, saying Jango was his donor. She also lumps him in with the other clones she knew, something that's a Berserk Button for him.
• Knight in Sour Armor: Bo-Katan return in Season 3 of The Mandalorian as a jaded Broken Bird, tired of all the politics and traditions that come with being Mandalorian Royalty, but still tries to be an honorable person and is willing to help others if they ask for her help.
• Lady and Knight: She is the princess of Mandalore. In Season 3, Din swears his loyalty to her and calls her for the first time "Lady Kryze".
• Last of His Kind: She reveals to Din when they first meet that she is the "last of her line". What this means is not clear, but as she fought in the Great Purge, this may mean that the rest of Clan Kryze had been wiped out.
• The Leader: She is the levelheaded type because has behind several decades of fighting and ruling.
• Living Legend: She has quite the controversial reputation among her people. Sabine Wren tells her that her comintment to free Mandalore from the Empire is legendary, the Armorer considers her a "cautionary tale", and other believe she was a Dirty Coward who left Mandalore to its fate.
• Loner-Turned-Friend: In season 3, after sulking alone for who knows how long in her castle, she joins and befriends the very group of people she named an extremist cult.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: Obi-Wan finds out that she's related to Satine after the latter's death.
• Malevolent Masked Men: Back when she was a terrorist, she would rarely take her helmet off.
• Menacing Stroll: Bo-Katan often cat-walks menacingly during ambushes, and even in her normal days, she sways her hips when she walks.
• Mirror Character: Bo-Katan and Satine, despite the drastically different paths their lives took, both prove willing to go against Mandalorian tradition in favor of their own ideals. They're also both fond of and protective towards children.^note  Or at least preteens.
• Missed Him by That Much: If only Moff Gideon would have sent his forces several hours earlier to attack her on Kalevala, he could have completely eliminated the problem that Bo-Katan represents. Chances are, the TIE receptors' surprise attack, could have killed her if they got to her while she was still in her castle, sitting around depressed and unprepared for a battle.
• Missing Mom: She always talks fondly of her father, Adonai Kryze, but never mentions her mother.
• Modest Royalty: Despite being royalty, Bo-Katan always wear same old and rusty armor, making her to look undistinguished from her subjects. Her sister with her Unlimited Wardrobe and Din with his shining beskar armor look fancier and more pristine that she does.
• Moses Archetype: Season 3 shapes her role in the story after the Abrahamic figure. She returns to in the story as a depressed woman abandoned by her own allies. Din getting into troubles on Mandalore and requiring her help leads to her witnessing a living mythosaur beneath the Living Waters, something that the Armorer interprets as a divine sign that is time for the Mandalorians to return home, and Bo-Katan is The Chosen One who could finally unite them. After proving herself and Din giving her the Darksaber back, her former fleet accepts her as their leader again and decides to follow her orders to establish a camp on Mandalore. Heck, the episode where she and her people finally return to Mandalore is titled The Spies, after The Twelve Spies, from the Book of Numbers. And she is basically a Space Jew princess, whose people got genocided by an Evil Empire, scattering then all across the galaxy. One cannot get more on the nose that this.
• Mr. Exposition: Bo-Katan is very knowledgeable about the history of the Jedi and Mandalorians. She occasionally provides crucial information to Din and Grogu, like telling them where they can find Ashoka, or explaining different things about Mandalore to Grogu on their way to save Din, and offering to guide Din to the Living Waters of Mandalore.
• Mysterious Past:
  • It is currently unknown exactly how the pacifist Duchess' sister wound up as a loyal member of Death Watch. Satine also references "a time when we weren't enemies", a line that has likewise yet to be clarified. According to Word of God, Satine and Bo-Katan's backstories go all the way back to when they were six years old.
  • How and why the Purge happened and how she lost the Darksaber to Moff Gideon. In Season 3, she finally clears up what happened; the Mandalorians under her fought the Empire until their forces were annihilated in the Night of a Thousand Tears. With their defeat imminent, she was contacted by Moff Gideon. She agreed to surrender and hand over the Darksaber to him in exchange for him sparing her people. Once he had what he wanted, he went back on his word and burned Mandalore to the ground, before sending the security droids to massacre anyone that was left.
• Mythical Motifs: The Mythosaur has become this for her after witnessing a living one underneath the Waters of Mandalore and having an existential crisis for it. When she confesses this to The Armorer, the later believes it is a sign that a new era for Mandalorians has come, and Bo-Katan is the one who must reunite their people. Bo-Katan even asks the Armorer to imprint the mythosaur symbol on her new pauldron.
• The Needs of the Many: "The Spies" reveals how Moff Gideon got the Darksaber from her; after the Night of a Thousand Tears, Gideon offered to spare what was left of Mandalore's cities and people if Bo-Katan surrendered to him and gave him the Darksaber. Bo-Katan accepted the offer, swallowing her pride for the sake of her people. Gideon, however, resumed the Purge once he had what he wanted, setting off the feud between him and Bo-Katan that continues into the post-Imperial era.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: In the final reading, her character arc comes off looking surprisingly like a gender flipped version of Robert the Bruce's rise to power, fitting Karen Traviss's portrayal of the Mandalorians as a Fantasy Counterpart Culture to the Scots: she switches sides several times, is repeatedly defeated, but always somehow manages to rise back up. And eventually, in season 3 of The Mandalorian, she finds the right combination of luck and skill, ultimately succeeding in retaking Mandalore from the Imperial Remnant and becoming Mand'alor in her own right.
• No True Scotsman: In a way, Bo-Katan represents the biggest problem with Mandalorian society, and that is she’s the ideal Mandalorian in her own mind. Anybody that has an opposing viewpoint is fair game, from Dutchess Satine, her own sister whose pacifism she opposed, Maul, who was an outsider but won the Darksaber in ritual combat, to Din Djarin, whose sect of Mandalore she dismissed as a cult, to Boba Fett, who was the son of a foundling and thus Mandalorian, but she dismissed as just another clone trooper and a disgrace to his armor. By the time of The Mandalorian, she’s preparing an offensive to retake Mandalore, but she’s awful quick to dismiss potential allies, and come Chapter 16, she even refuses to take the Darksaber from Din peacefully because of tradition, yet she badmouthed his traditional upbringing just five episodes ago. It may be that she doesn't truly believe in the tradition but needs the support of the traditional Mandalorians to retake Mandalore, however much she dislikes them. After Chapter 18, she is severely shaken by witnessing the Mythosaur in the living waters of the mines beneath Mandalore, and spends the entire subsequent episode with her helmet on, and even ends up being accepted into the Children of the Watch at the end because she has - intentionally or not - followed their fundamentalist stricture about helmets.
• Noodle Incident: "Heroes of Mandalore" hints that she and Rau have previously worked together in the past, due to their familiarity with each other.
• Oh, Crap!: Has this look on her face when Darth Maul decapitates Pre Vizsla and becomes the leader of Death Watch.
• Older Than They Look:
  • When she appeared in Rebels, she looked barely any different than she did in The Clone Wars, despite the fact that The Clone Wars takes place nearly 20 years before Rebels.
  • Likewise, in The Mandalorian, she looks pretty spry for someone who is apparently in their late forties at least — her actress was forty years old at the time of filming.
• One-Woman Army: She can take down several troopers on her own, and fighting Alamites is basically child play for her.
• Orcus on His Throne: By the time of The Mandalorian's third season, she's been reduced to lounging around in her castle on Kalevala thanks to her forces scattering after she returned to them without the ownership of the Darksaber. It takes having to rescue Din on Mandalore to get her active again.
• Pet the Dog:
  • She takes the time to reassure two scared children in "Shades of Reason". Death Watch was in league with the reason those children were scared in the first place, but it's still a kindness she didn't necessarily have to show.
  • She smiles as Sabine and her father reunite after they rescue the latter from Imperials.
  • After Din Djarin helps her and her crew capture a Gozanti cruiser, she uses the Watch mantra "This is the way" as means of thanking him for his efforts. However, she puts unsubtle emphasis on "This", ie: that her way is actually "the way", and not that of the Watch, like Din has been led to believe up to that point.
  • She does show some concern when Din reveals that Gideon has kidnapped Grogu, though it’s quickly outweighed by her realizing she has a shot at the Moff.
  • Despite her overall uncertain relationship with Din, she immediately comes to his and Grogu's aid when Din is captured on Mandalore in Season 3, and spends the rest of that episode gradually warming up to him.
• Pride: According to Katee Sackhoff, Bo-Katan's greatest flaw is her big ego, blinding her from seeing that she needs to change. Her journey in Season 3 is all about humbling herself and learning to see things for other's people angles.
• Princess Protagonist: In season 3, she is heavily featured, while Din takes a sit back as the Supporting Protagonist helping her to find her own Mandalorian way.
• Princesses Rule: Played With. As next in line and heir to Duchess Satine, Bo-Katan should also hold the title of Duchess, but she is always referred as princess.
• Proud Warrior Race Girl: She's a Mandalorian warrior. It's part of the package.
• Psychotic Smirk: A couple times in "Eminence" and once in "Shades of Reason".
• Rebellious Princess: House Kryze is the pacifist duchy of Mandalore, yet somehow, she threw in her cards with the warriors of Death Watch and became one of their top lieutenants. As it ends up, being a leader of Death Watch and the daughter of a Kryze duke seems to be the perfect resumé for uniting the Mandalorians against Maul's leadership and the Empire. The Mandalorian even has her debut episode titled "The Heiress" and Boba sarcastically calling her a "princess".
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red (a staunch warrior traditionalist) to Satine's blue (a staunch pacifist), since it was revealed that she was Satine's sister. It also helps that she has red hair.
• Reluctant Ruler: In Rebels, 2 decades after the Empire took over Mandalore, Bo-Katan came to see herself as someone who failed her people, and was reluctant to accept the Darksaber from Sabine Wren. When they part ways, Sabine Wren insists again that she should take the Darksaber because she has the wisdom of a ruler.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: While provoking Maul in "Eminence", Bo-Katan questions his worth as an ally on the grounds that he had been defeated by the Jedi before and that Death Watch's previous alliance with a Sith Lord ended badly. She's right that allying with Maul is a bad idea, but not because he's weak; rather, he proves too ambitious, cunning, and powerful to be the pawn Vizsla hoped he'd be, and the alliance ends with Vizsla dead, Maul ruling Mandalore, and Bo-Katan forced to run when she refuses to submit.
• Rightful King Returns: She is this to the Mandalorians that survived the Purge on the planet and waited for her return.
• Royal Blood: She is the younger sister of duchess Satine, is referred as Lady Bo-Katan be several characters, and her official status is the one of a princess.

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• Scars Are Forever: Has a scar on her forehead, above her right eyebrow.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: With Satine; Satine is a blond pacifist with an aristocratic title who rules Mandalore, while Bo-Katan is a redheaded soldier with no title who is willingly subservient to Vizsla.
• Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: She stands out as one of the few Mandalorians who isn't blonde, even though her sister is.
• Significant Name Shift: When Din wakes up after passing out while Bo-Katan was fighting the spider-like cyborg creature, he calls her just "Bo" for the first time, indicating their friendship has become more intimate. Several episode later after learning how she lost the Darksaber to Moff Gideon, he pledges his loyalty to her, and calls her "Lady Kryze".
• Silver Fox: Bo-Katan aged surprisingly well for some who is past their first prime, not that the fandom complains about her good looks.
• She's Back: She crossed a Despair Event Horizon between Season 2 and Season 3 of ''The Mandalorian, but after seeing a mythosaur and being taken in by the Children of the Watch, she is being back at being a confident warrior, if humbled by those experiences and a new perspective in life.
• Ship Tease: Gets several moments with Din in season 3 of The Mandalorian:
  • When he offers to join her in retaking Mandalore the first time, she huffily turns him down and essentially says he can go get himself killed in the mines for all she cares. But when Grogu returns alone and in distress, she freaks and demands coordinates from the droid and has Grogu lead her to Din, where she kills the cyborg-vampire creature that's captured him and then offers him soup as he recovers from blood loss.
  • Immediately after this, he takes to calling her "Bo" and she's on a First-Name Basis with him when he rarely gives anyone his name. When her castle is destroyed, he brings her to the rest of his covert as his guest, where they basically end up joined at the hip (granted, he's the only one she knows there, but she hasn't seemed shy about new people in the past).
  • She's extremely motherly to Grogu, which is no small help in winning over Din. At the very least, they're Platonic Co-Parenting; whether or not Winning Over The Kid wins over the father as well remains to be seen.
  • They sit unnecessarily close during a covert meeting, shoulders touching and their hands below the camera so we can't see if they're Holding Hands or just Almost. Paz even refers to them as "these two" when only Din has publicly made the suggestion that they save Navarro in exchange for a new place to live (and neither ever objects that they are not a two).
  • When the Armorer sends her on a quest to reunite all Mandalorians to retake the planet Mandalore, Din goes with her. We aren't shown how this arrangement comes about (did she request his company? did he volunteer his help? did the Armorer send him off with her?). It simply is and is treated as the natural course of things.
  • When she asks for volunteers to scout Mandalore and find the Great Forge, he waits to see if anyone else will volunteer first, hoping to cement her status as leader, but when they remain silent, he firmly says he will go with her. He later privately pledges to follow and serve her "until her song is written."
• Short-Lived Leadership: Bo-Katan is really not very lucky when is comes to ruling Mandalore. Her first regency ended quickly, losing her position after being betrayed by clan Saxon for refusing to follow the newly appointed Galactic Emperor Palpatine. Her second stint as ruler, during the Imperial Civil War, came to a violent end at the hands of Moff Gideon, who razed Mandalore and left Bo-Katan's people scattered throughout the galaxy.
• Shoulders of Doom: She loses her right pauldron while trying to save Ragnar from the raptor. She later asks the Armour if she could wear a new one with the mythosaur symbol printed on it.
• Secretly Selfish: When Din tells Bo-Katan that he and other were thought that she was just a selfish coward who chose to flee and abandon her people, Bo admits that she was indeed selfish and that her people are in this state because of her selfishness.
• Skeptic No Longer: After dismissing so much of Mandalorian lore and Din Djarin's almost child-like innocence in his faith in the Creed, Bo-Katan has her world up-ended when she finds out that the iconic Mythosaurs that the Mandalorian national symbol is based on are no mere legend. Because she saw one..
• Slave to PR:
  • Subverted. While her sister Satine was more of a politician and so cared a lot about having the support of the people Bo-Katan couldn't care less about what the people think of her. When she is warned that trying to overthrow the current Mandalorian government with Republic help would lead the people of Mandalore to see her as an enemy her response is "I'm fine with that". For Bo-Katan, achieving her goals matters more than being popular.
  • This is implied to have bitten her back in the ass, as by the time of Rebels, she laments that her claim to leadership was stolen by Gar Saxon and she was unable to rally the Mandalorians, with The Mandalorian later adding another layer that she needs to win the Darksaber in proper combat or else people will still see her rule as illegitimate as they may have did when Sabine merely gave her the Darksaber. The Book of Boba Fett reveals that the weapon is considered cursed, and anyone who doesn't earn it outside of honorable combat is doomed to fail, explaining why she wouldn't take it without a fight.
• Smug Smiler: Most noticeably shown in The Mandalorian. Bo has a tendency to curl her mouth into a shit-eating grin whenever she speaks in an arrogant, condescending manner, which happens quite often.
• Statuesque Stunner: She is around 180 cm in the cartoons, but it gets averted in the live show because Katee is 168 cm.
• The Stoic: Her older self from the Mandalorian is more reserved and patient, rarely raising her voice and speaking in a refined and soft-spoken manner.
• The Strategist: Bo-Katan has a long his history of military expertise and is a capable leader and strategist. She came up on spot with a whole plan to infiltrate the Imperial Light Cruiser and rescue Grogu, using the information she got from doctor Pershing.
• Sword Pointing: She does this mid-air with the Darksaber while leading her troops against Gideon's forces.
• Symbolic Baptism: After rescuing him from a cyborg, Bo reluctantly agrees to lead Din deeper into Mandalore's subterranes for his pilgrimage, and ultimately into the mines, only to have to save him when he missteps, and is dragged into the deep. While down there, however, she sees a Mythosaur (the semi-legendary creature that Mandalorian venerate), which appears to have an extremely deep effect on her. In the aftermath, she declines to remove her helmet, even on her ship, which leads her to being welcomed into the Watch.
• Team Mom: Even since she joined Din and Grogu in their adventures, Bo-Katan behaves sometimes like a mother figure to Grogu, assuring him that Mando is just simply proud of him and questioning Din's decision to train Grogu with darts when the kid never used them before.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Bo-Katan is a Blood Knight who joined a terroristic group because she preferred the old, belligerent ways of Mandalore, whereas her older sister is a benevolent and pacifist ruler who brought an end to the warmonger era of Mandalore. She prefers her armor whereas Satine owns a wardrobe almost as never-ending as Padme's. Even the older Bo-Katan is still more assertive despite softening up significantly over the years.
• Tomboy Princess: By comparison with her more lady-like older sister. She prefers a good fight instead of diplomacy and wears mostly her armor instead of owning an Unlimited Wardrobe like Satine.
• Took a Level in Cynic: By Season 3 of The Mandalorian, Bo-Katan gave up all hopes of restoring Mandalore after failing to reclaim the Darksaber. All her followers have abandoned her, and she's left living alone in an abandoned castle. When Din offers to take her to Mandalore on his redemption quest, she coldly refuses and writes off Mandalore as an empty wasteland. However, she appears to have visibly gotten her mojo back after joining the Children of the Watch, even more so after the Armorer declares her intentions to finally retake Mandalore.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Her arc in Season 3 of The Mandalorian is about breaking her out of her cynicism through her association with the Children. It begins with her following Din into the Mines of Mandalore, where she cynically recounts her own childhood baptism in its waters, but is deeply shaken when she encounters a Mythosaur while rescuing him from its unexpected depths. Then the kindness and devotion she encounters while living among the children push her even further in reconnecting with her roots and the love she holds for her people.
• Tuckerization: Bo-Katan’s name is a nod to David Feloni's and his wife's, Anne, who nicknamed her cat "the boogie". Anne’s cat “the boogie”, became “boogie-cat-anne”, which became “Bo-Katan”.
• Tsundere: In season 3 when Din comes to visits her, she acts condescending and abrasive to him, dismissing his religious beliefs as child stories. As far as she is concerned, Din can just go and die on Mandalore for a lost cause, except the part where Grogu returns to ask for help and she instantly embarks on her Gauntlet to save Din.
• Tsurime Eyes: She has narrow eyes with distinct sharp points, in contrast to Ahsoka's big doe eyes. She is a seasoned warrior, older than Ashoka.
• Undying Loyalty: To Vizsla; when he's killed, she's visibly horrified and refuses to serve his killer even though he earned the title of Mandalore fair and square.
• Used to Be More Social: The Bo-Katan introduced in Season 2 of The Mandalorian is an outgoing and sociable woman, if stoic, hanging out with her squad for a drink. Next season, being abandoned by her own fleet and inner circle, she return as a withdrawn and depressed Ice Queen.
• Vague Age: While she looked to be around the same age as Satine (who would have been in her mid-to-late thirties) in The Clone Wars, she still looks relatively young during her appearances in Rebels and The Mandalorian (Katee Sackhoff was 39 during her appearances in Season 2 of The Mandalorian), the latter taking place nearly thirty years after The Clone Wars ended. It's possible that Bo-Katan was only a teenager while she was aligned with Death Watch, or she just aged remarkably well. At least according to Katee Sackhoff, Bo-Katan was in her teens when she was first introduced.
• Villainous Princess: She makes her debut as an antagonistic force looking to overthrow her own sister. She bitterly comes to regret this after Darth Maul becomes the ruler of Mandalore and kills her sister.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: Downplayed, Din and Bo-Katan are not an item, but have a lot of Ship Tease instead. Bo-Katan saves Din's life in many occasions, more than he saved hers. In season 3, she treats Din with cold indifference, yet when Grogu comes and asks for help she freaks out at the thought of Din being in danger.
• Waif-Fu: She largely depends on her agility when fighting, and with great success, given how easily she dispatched two Death Watch soldiers of Maul's section.
• Walking Armory: Her Mandalorian armour comes with gauntlet blades, jetpack, dual blaster pistols, plasma shield, whipcord launcher, a helmet with termo-vision, and ultimately, the Darksaber.
• Warrior Princess: She is akin to a princess to the Mandalorians, and is one of the best warriors in Star Wars.
• Winning Over The Kid: In season 3 of The Mandalorian, she begins bonding with Grogu and Din. Now, Grogu is a Ridiculously Cute Critter who tends to invoke parental instincts in everyone he meets, but she also seems to be winning over his adopted father at the same time; they become rather attached at the hip very quickly.
• Would Hurt a Child: She fights Ahsoka and Sabine (and at least one more Padawan in The Clone Wars supporting material in Legends), though said youths happen to be teenage warriors. She may have a soft spot for younger children, however, as seen in "Shades of Reason".
• You Can't Go Home Again: Her castle is bombed and destroyed in The Mandalorian, chapter 19, by TIE receptors sent by an unnamed warlord. Left without a home, she takes shelter with the Children of the Watch on Nevarro.
• Your Tradition Is Not Mine: During her first appearance in The Mandalorian, she makes it quite clear that she does not follow the ancient Mandalorian traditions of not removing your helmet like Din Djarin does, who only removes his helmet out of necessity, and even scoffs at those who does. This naturally enrages Din since he was raised by fundamentalist Mandalorians whose code is to never remove one's helmet in front of anyone, unless they are by themselves, or in front of family. This eventually gets subverted, as she comes to accept the ways of the Children of the Watch after coming face to face with a mythosaur, going so far as to take it as a signet on a replaced piece of armor.

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"I wish I was good at something other than war."