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Inquisitorius
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"The Inquisitorius. A project of mine, long planned. Slaves to the light side once, now awake. Hunters, one and all."
Darth Sidious

A group of former Jedi trained in the Dark Side who are tasked with hunting down surviving Jedi and apprehending or recruiting Force-sensitive individuals.

Though many were seen as potential replacements for Darth Vader, should he have failed Darth Sidious or died, the Inquisitorius was disbanded sometime before the Battle of Yavin, with Sidious seemingly believing that the group had served its purpose.


    In General 
  • 24-Hour Armor: None of them seem to have clothes other then their Inquisitorius uniforms, as they are never shown wearing anything else. Even while relaxing and having a drink at their home base, the most any of them do is remove their face-covering helmets.
  • Ace Custom:
    • Their lightsabers have all been personally customized by and fitted to the liking of their Inquisitor. This ranges in small changes like size and handle shape, to having extra abilities installed, like the Eighth Brother's razor wheel, or the Tenth Brother's unique dual Shoto blades.
    • Their piloting skills and senior position in the military command structure grant them the privilege of flying the rare TIE Advanced v1, though the Second Sister seems to favor an early version of the TIE Interceptor and the Ninth Sister uses a larger TIE Reaper instead.
  • Always a Bigger Fish: No matter how strong or skilled any of them become, none of them will ever reach a level close to Sith Lords and they get beaten and/or killed easily by them, as shown when Vader and Maul do so.
  • Ambiguous Situation:
    • It is currently unknown how many Inquisitors there are, but All There in the Manual has stated that there are as many as twelve.
    • In Uprising, the Smuggler can take an optional series of sidequests that will turn them into a Jedi. However, the NPCs mention the presence of "The Inquisitor" nearby and that the Smuggler will have to fight them soon (though with the game's cancellation, this never happens). It's unknown if this is considered canon to the actual story, as the only reason why these sidequests exist is because of Rule of Cool for players.
    • Dark Lord of the Sith shows the Inquisitors first introduced in Rebels looking the same as they did a decade and a half ago. Could either be a case of Bizarre Alien Biology since none of them are human, or The Ageless (or they at least age very slowly) through unknown causes.
    • invoked It was implied in Rebels and by Word of God that the Inquisitors had roots as former Jedi, but was vague enough to be interpreted as not applying to all of them. It wasn't clear until Dark Lord of the Sith, where it gets outright confirmed that yes, all of the Inquisitors were former Jedi.
    • In an interview regarding "Twilight of the Apprentice", Dave Filoni stated that all of the Inquisitors are now dead. Whether or not he means all of the Inquisitors present at Malachor or the entire organization is unknown.
  • An Arm and a Leg: After being introduced to the Inquisitors, Vader removes parts from each of their bodies, such as hands, arms, and eyes, except for the Grand Inquisitor's, in order to teach them loss, just as he had learned it.
  • Arc Villain: When an Inquisitor turns up, it's usually as one of these. Overall, they were the main Dark Side users that Order 66 survivors had to contend with in the interim period between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope.
  • Artifact Name: No matter how their numbered naming system works, be it a rank based off ability or when they joined, it never changes no matter how many of them are picked off. For example, despite the Ninth Sister outliving the Second by over five years, she is still identified as the Ninth by the time of her rematch with Cal.
  • Artificial Limbs: Many of them had parts of their body dismembered by Vader so that they can learn what loss feels like and subsequently replaced with cybernetic prosthetics. They can also get these prosthetics when they lose body parts in the field, as Ninth Sister got her right leg replaced after Sixth Brother betrayed her and chopped it off and got her right hand replaced when Cal Kestis chopped it off during their duel on Kashyyk.
  • Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Implicitly, rank is tied to ability. After the death of the Grand Inquisitor, the Seventh Sister comments that they've been searching for the Jedi responsible, presumably to take his place by bringing them in.
  • Awesome, but Impractical: Their double-ended, rotating lightsabers. The circular hilt is a huge target that more than once is destroyed by the Inquisitor's enemy, and being only the length of a single blade hilt removes the leverage that a standard double-ended saber would allow. They also have a single-blade mode where the circle retracts to a simple finger guard on the hilt; in theory this allows them to switch modes depending on the situation, but once they're in double mode they almost never switch back.
  • The Brute: Most, though not all Inquisitors tend to be this. Compared to Vader or even their leader, most Inquisitors tend to be blunt instruments, decently capable of taking on Jedi, especially with the Empire's backing, but totally lacking in finesse or any deeper understanding of the dark side.
  • Being Tortured Makes You Evil: This is a staple for the franchise, and canonically a method used to turn Jedi to the Dark Side and get them to join the Inquisitorius. Second Sister and Tualon Yaluna were successfully turned, and the attempt was also made on Cere Junda.
  • Body Horror: In Dark Lord of the Sith, Vader makes all of them lose a body part. Ninth Sister lost one of her eyes, for instance.
  • Canon Immigrant: The Inquisitiorius originated in Star Wars Legends, where they were Force-sensitive Dark Side agents that also served with Imperial Intelligence. Rebels brings them back into the canon, though alters some aspects of the organization such as adding the Brother/Sister naming convention, giving them spinning saberstaffs and a semi-armored black uniform, and putting greater focus on their status as Jedi hunters.
  • Cold-Blooded Torture: Confirmed by Jedi: Fallen Order to be a large contributing factor to their Face–Heel Turn. Second Sister and Ninth Sister admit to still being bitter over it.
  • Cool Helmet: Just about every Inquisitor gets their own custom helmet, often with a mask. They appear to be modeled upon Vader's, although in the Inquisitors' cases, they aren't necessary for their survival.
    • The Grand Inquisitor has a unique fighter pilot helmet that he wears when piloting his personal TIE Advanced v1. And he has a white helmet as the Sentinel.
    • The Second Sister has a helmet bearing a strong resemblance to Darth Vader's.
    • The Sixth Brother has a helmet with a blast shield.
    • The Seventh Sister's has a retractable mask.
    • The Eighth Brother's bears some similarities to both Darth Vader's and Kylo Ren's.
    • The Ninth Sister's is a light helmet with three protrusions: one at the top of her head, and the others on the side of her head, at eye level. Additionally, she sports some cool shades.
    • The Thirteenth Sister has a visor that covers her eyes and nose.
    • Marrok has a helmet with a passing resemblance to Eighth Brother, and seemingly takes inspiration from the helmet of a medieval knight.
    • Averted with the Third Sister who goes without any headgear, the Fifth Brother, who has a hat similar to a montera or kasa; the Tenth Brother, who goes without any headgear at all; and Tualon Yaluna, whose headgear only protects his lekku, the sides of his face, and has a breathing mask.
  • Cool Starship: They fly TIE Advanced fighters, similar that of Darth Vader. Beforehand, they made use of a variety of other TIE models.
  • Curb Stomp Cushion: Although the Fifth Brother and Seventh Sister were easily outmatched by the former Padawan Ahsoka the first time they fought, in the season two finale they were able to give her something resembling a real fight.
  • Cyborg: Many of them had their limbs hacked off and replaced with cybernetic ones by Darth Vader in order to teach them loss.
  • Dark Action Girl: All of the female Inquisitors or "Sisters" are naturally this.
  • Dark Is Evil: Their black outfits compliment their use of The Dark Side well.
  • Death by Adaptation: By the time of the Battle of Yavin in the current canon, all known Inquisitors are deceased (with the exception of Marrok) and the organization is disbanded. In Legends, the Inquisitorius still existed by the time of the New Republic and even menaced Luke's New Jedi Order, though they ended up vanishing before the Yuuzhan Vong War.
  • Deck of Wild Cards: As revealed on Obi-Wan Kenobi, the Inquisitorius is not above vying for the title of Grand Inquisitor. Members like the Third Sister and the Fifth Brother each seek the position, each willing to go above each other's heads and report to Vader himself—he even encourages it, though it's mostly to see if they'll actually be worth keeping around.
  • Determinator: Failure is not an option for them. They're extremely persistent in their pursuit of the Jedi, and Ezra had to accept that nothing short of killing them is going to stop them.
  • Doomed by Canon: Dave Filoni states that the Inquisitorius organization would be no more by the time of A New Hope, as Tarkin states in that film that Vader is "all that's left of [the Jedi's] religion," which Filoni believes also includes the Dark Side of the Force (the Emperor's status as a Sith Lord is kept a secret to most of the Empire).
  • Double Weapon: Inquisitor lightsabers are specially designed so that the user can wield them with a single or double blade, though the Tenth Brother seems to use a pair of smaller single-bladed lightsabers instead.
  • Dumb Muscle: When compared to higher-skilled Jedi or the likes of Vader. They're not stupid, but intelligence wasn't what the Empire was primarily concerned about, especially since having too intelligent Inquisitors would pose a direct threat to the Emperor, meaning their fighting and Force techniques tend to be very basic and unrefined.
  • Equal-Opportunity Evil: The notoriously xenophobic Empire employs Inquisitors of various species. To boot, five (nearly half of the canonical Inquisitors revealed) are women.
  • Evil Power Vacuum: Downplayed, but technically happens twice: First when the Grand Inquisitor is temporarily incapacitated in Obi-Wan Kenobi, and again after he is Killed Off for Real in Rebels. In both instances, the other Inquisitors seek to claim the position of Grand Inquisitor for themselves, but Darth Vader asserts direct control of the Inquistorious to keep them focused.
  • Evil Wears Black: Inquisitor armor tends to be rather dark in color.
  • Face–Heel Turn:
    • Many Inquisitors were once Jedi themselves, having willingly forsaken the Order and the Light Side in exchange for their lives and servitude to the Empire. As revealed in "Shroud of Darkness", the Grand Inquisitor was one such Jedi.
      Dave Filoni: I would imagine that coming out of the prequel era — fans might not believe this, but I think it’s true — that there were some Jedi that were so affected by the Clone War that they would try to barter their life for loyalty to the Dark Side. I don’t think it’s out of the question. I think it’s perfectly in play, though we haven’t done that at this point. Mostly because it gets into kind of gray areas and I worry we’d have to be very clear about why and who is doing that.
    • Dark Lord of the Sith confirms that yes, every Inquisitor we've met thus far was a Jedi who likely turned to the Dark Side of their own free will.
      Grand Inquisitor: The Inquisitors are formidable fighters. They are former Jedi.
      Darth Vader: And they fight like it. Defensive. Moving to attack only when there is no other choice. The Jedi taught that a battle could be counted a victory even if both parties survive. This error has infected the Inquisitors' tactics.
    • Their mooks, the Purge Troopersnote , were clone troopers from the final production line.
  • From Nobody to Nightmare: All of them. Before they were the feared Jedi hunters, they were just like the run-of-the-mill Jedi they preyed on before the Empire.
  • Go Mad from the Isolation: In Jedi: Fallen Order, the Ninth Sister mentions that Cold-Blooded Torture, isolation, and mutilation were some of the things they had to endure in becoming an Inquisitor.
  • Hero Killer: As seen by the number of preserved corpses in the Fortress Inquisitorius, they've killed many Jedi. Among the list is Coleman Kcaj and Tera Sinube.
  • Hunter of His Own Kind: An organisation of Jedi defectors who hunt down and kill their former compatriots at the Empire's behest.
  • Instant Flight: Just Add Spinning!: "Twilight of the Apprentice" shows that they can fly short distances by using their spinning sabers as helicopter rotors. However, Word of God makes clear this is only possible in Dark Side hotspots.
  • In-Series Nickname: The Inquisitors are usually referred to as "Red Blades". Maul was even mistaken for an Inquisitor by a Rebel Trooper because of this.
  • Knight of Cerebus: The only reason the Inquisitorius exists is to hunt down Jedi who survived Order 66, and are far more dangerous than macerate Imperial mooks. They're trained by Darth Vader himself.
    Pablo Hidalgo: We all took care to make sure our villains have real presence and our heroes just can't walk all over him. This isn't like cartoons I grew up with in the 80s where you’d have the villain lose every week and yet every week we'd have to believe he's some sort of threat. When The Inquisitor shows up, it means something significant and it's a definite challenge for our heroes.
  • Known Only by Their Nickname: Thus far, most Inquisitor have been referred to only by their titles, or even simply as "The Inquisitor" (which makes sense for the leader, because he's not just an Inquisitor, he's the Grand Inquisitor). Sixth Brother, Ninth Sister, and Tenth Brother are the exceptions to this rule in canon thus far, with Ferren Barr having revealed their names in order to turn their clones against them. Fallen Order also gives us the identity of Second Sister, as well as her backstory. The Third Sister is often referred to by name, Reva, which emphasizes that her fellow Inquisitors do not consider her to be one of them.
  • Laser Blade: They all wield red double-bladed lightsabers with circular hilts that allow the blades to spin. Some of them have different variations as seen with the Eighth and Tenth Brother.
  • Later-Installment Weirdness: Bar the exception of the Grand Inquisitor, most members of the Inquisitorius in the current canon were only known by their numbered designations and rejected their original names on the occasions they were brought up. While they still tend to go by these codenames, later works refer to them by their real names more often.
  • Loophole Abuse: Their existence is an organized way for the Sith to have Dark Side servants and bypass the Rule of Two, as they're technically not Sith, nor are they be trained to the power level of a real Sith.
  • Malevolent Masked Men: Most of them wear masks, and they're all definitely pretty bad individuals. Even the more sympathetic members are still willing to commit atrocities for little reason.
  • Mind over Matter: Being former Jedi, all of the Inquisitors are Force-sensitive and are capable of moving objects and people with their minds.
  • Mutant Draft Board: Aside from their task of killing fugitive Jedi, the other purpose of the Inquisitorius is to take in young Force users to raise as future Inquisitors (or something else...), and these children are often taken in by force.
  • Mysterious Past: We know almost nothing about them other than that Palpatine has been planning it for a while and he somehow got a hold of Force-users that used to be in the light. We can't even assume that it's been around ever since two years into the Clone Wars (as the Grand Inquisitor was still the Sentinel at the time and was present during Ahsoka/Barriss's trial), because who knows where the other Inquisitors came from and when. Fallen Order does give us a full backstory for Second Sister, while Obi-Wan Kenobi shines the light on the Third Sister, in addition to Fifth Brother during Jedi Battle Scars, and Inquistor: Rise of the Red Blade give backstories to Iskata and Tualon Yaluna, who were previously unidentified in Dark Lord of the Sith.
  • Non-Uniform Uniform: The Inquisitors all wear similar black armor in their own styles.
  • Noodle Incident: In Ahsoka, the Grand Inquisitor reports to Vader that they've "found another Jedi" after the late Sixth Brother's encounter with Ahsoka. Ahsoka takes place only a year after the fall of the Republic, and the Inquisitors have had very minimal experience with Jedi in this point of the timeline as well. Turns out he may be referring to Jocasta, who they had confronted shortly after the rise of the Empire.
  • Not Brainwashed: Initially, it was implied that the Inquisitors were at least brainwashed to some extent, but Dark Lord of the Sith would later reveal that most if not all of them are aware they were former Jedi and knowingly left the Order to join the Dark Side, such as Fifth Brother during the events of Jedi Battle Scars. Why they fell in the first place, however, is whole other matter that has yet to be answered at the time of this writing — other than how the Grand Inquisitor was a willing recruit, whereas some others like the Ninth and Second Sisters are Tragic Villains who have furiously spoken about how completely and utterly broken they were by the Empire to force them to become what they were, with all manners of torture, mutilation and something terrible being implied to have happened to the Ninth’s friends.
  • Obviously Evil: As if the fact that they're employed by the Galactic Empire wasn't clue enough, they're trained in the ways of The Dark Side, they wield red lightsabers, they wear black uniforms and headgear (although custom-made ones), and they're accompanied by ominous music.
  • Oddly Small Organization: Excluding the Purge Troopers, there are only thirteen known Inquisitors that form the backbone of the entire Inquisitorius organization. Granted, this is due to the fact that there are so few Jedi left that had survived Order 66 leaving the only untrained Force-Sensitives to actually pose a challenge to them.
  • Ominous Latin Chanting: Their Leitmotif is composed of this. Fitting, really.
  • The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: The Inquisitorious does not appreciate when other Imperials try to root out and kill Jedi out from under them.
    • In Rebels, Fifth Brother calls Konstantine off the pursuit of Phoenix Squadron to deprive Kallus of critically needed air support that could’ve defeated the crew and their new clone allies, all so he can make an impression and later take on the crew himself.
    • The Ninth Sister kills Senator Sejan after surmising he intended to use Cal as a bargaining chip to gain favor with the Emperor, simply accusing him of harboring a traitor. Later, Vader kills Lank Denvik for hoarding the location of Cere Junda and her Path cell on Jedha after being baited by Bode.
  • Overshadowed by Awesome: The Inquisitors are the most feared Jedi Hunters in the galaxy. And they are absolutely next-to-nothing in terms of power or ruthlessness compared to their boss, Darth Vader, who can make even the most hardened of their members quake in fear. The Grand Inquisitor is Driven to Suicide because he knows what the price of failure in Vader's eyes is., and Reva, for all her ambition, learns firsthand that Vader saw right through her little scheme and decimates her without even bothering to ignite his own lightsaber. For their own sake, no Inquisitor dares to get on Vader's bad side. Finally, as shown in Rebels, none of them could even hold a candle to the only other Sith surviving outside the Empire: Darth Maul.
  • Power Limiter: Not a device, but their training. Vader and the Emperor want them to be strong enough to hunt Jedi, but they're never permitted anywhere near the strength of Vader and the Emperor. According to Filoni, the Grand Inquisitor was a bit weaker than Ventress, which indicates that if he were a bit stronger he could be seen as a potential threat.
  • Pragmatic Villainy: Along with Grand Admiral Thrawn, the Inquisitors are (thus far) the main exception to the Empire's Fantastic Racism. The Empire espouses racism against nonhumans. It's noted that Agent Kallus looks upon them with disdain (for other reasons, not because of their species), yet all Inquisitors to this point have been aliens (with the exception of Second and Third Sisters). This is likely because they are individuals who possess exceptional skill and are capable of using the Force. They even have the authority to commandeer other Imperial forces, if need be.
  • Properly Paranoid: They may cut the legs out from underneath other Imperials trying to kill Jedi, but considering what the Empire does to people they no longer need, it’s justified that they don’t want anyone taking their prey from them.
  • Red and Black and Evil All Over: With their black uniforms and red lightsabers, the Inquisitorius make it obvious to all that they're a less-than-benevolent organization.
  • Shrouded in Myth: The Inquisitorius is a highly secretive organization, with few knowing of where they actually came from. Dark Lord of the Sith reveals that at least ten Inquisitors existed shortly after the Clone Wars ended, suggesting that — unless Darth Sidious trained them rather quickly — the Inquisitorius as an organization may have been around for longer than the foundation of the Empire. Some of this could be explained by the fact that the Grand Inquisitor defected from the Jedi Order and joined their ranks around the time of Order 66, and it is implied that others followed suit.
  • Sigil Spam: Most of them feature copious Imperial sigils all across their sets of armor. The Third and Thirteenth Sisters are the only exceptions, while the others have two on either shoulder / forearm, except for the Second Sister and Unknown Brother, who feature several on their capes.
  • Small Role, Big Impact: Despite being The Heavy for Rebels as a whole, the Inquisitorius make few real appearances. The creators stated they did this on purpose so they don't feel like 1980's cartoon villains that fail every week. Instead, they rarely appear, because when they do, it's a major challenge to the heroes: they're arc villains, not enemies of the week. The Grand Inquisitor only appears for a little over half of the first season before biting the dust, but his death drives the plot of the series forward as more Inquisitors are sent after the Ghost crew. In addition, he inadvertently helps Ezra tap into the Dark Side and makes Kanan completely accept his role as Ezra's master.
  • Sorting Algorithm of Evil: Inverted. The Grand Inquisitor who was the leader and strongest of the group was the first to be officially introduced in Rebels.
  • Spectacular Spinning: Their lightsabers can spin on an axis. This is less impressive than it sounds. While it's great for intimidation of inexperienced Jedi (who form the majority of the galaxy's surviving Jedi as it is), it's not too practical in a battle against a seasoned Jedi. The Grand Inquisitor learns this the hard way when at the end of the first season of Rebels, Kanan overcomes his fear of him and bests him almost the moment he tries the spinning tactic.
  • Spin to Deflect Stuff: While their lightsabers are spinning, it serves as an effective blaster bolt shield.
  • Standard Evil Organization Squad: They're an organization with a dedicated purpose, (semi) similar uniforms, and a standardized hierarchy.
  • Sticks to the Back: Inquisitors typically carry their sheathed lightsaber hilts on their backs.
  • Swiss-Army Weapon: Their lightsabers' spinning mechanism can be used to not only intimidate Jedi and other opponents, but also to fly short distances in Dark Side hotspots and easily protect against blaster fire. Their double-edged lightsaber's ability to split into two means that it can also be used for Jar'Kai (Dual Wielding lightsabers) and a regular single-bladed lightsaber. Unfortunately, most of the Inquisitors are not at a skill level to make use of all of these, which makes it Awesome, but Impractical.
  • That Man Is Dead: They all feel this way about their old Jedi identities, and any reminders about the heroes they once were only serve to be disregarded or enrage them.
  • Tragic Villain: Many of them are people — either young Padawans or once heroes themselves as Jedi — who have lost everything, even themselves as the Empire has completely and utterly broken them into its tools. Trilla herself pleads for Cal and Cere to "avenge us" before her own boss murders her.
  • Training from Hell: All Inquisitors are trained by Vader himself, whose regimen includes mandatory mutilation, physical and emotional torture, isolation and rigorous training.
  • Throwing Your Sword Always Works: Completely justified, as their lightsabers are spinning discs and they have the Force to control it.
  • Technician Versus Performer: The Performers to Vader and Palpatine's Technicians, by design. They've got flashier weaponry, and are quite terrifying for most Jedi and ordinary people to encounter. But skill-wise, all except the Grand Inquisitor and Marrok really are quite mediocre, relying on that fear to win their battles for them. Vader and Palpatine, on the other hand are fully-fledged Dark Lords of the Sith who don't need any tricks to achieve their goals, certainly outranking every Inquisitor combined in levels of power.
  • Unskilled, but Strong: They're naturally very powerful thanks to being Force-sensitives and their double-bladed lightsabers are incredibly deadly weapons. Unfortunately, the majority of them were only Younglings and Padawans before they became Inquisitors, so their skill and training are incomplete, resulting in them only having passable-to-average swordsmanship and having very basic force techniques.
  • Villains Out Shopping: At one point in the Darth Vader comic, they're all seen brooding around in the break room while two of them do a drinking game for every Jedi they've killed.
  • We ARE Struggling Together: The Inquisitorius is a competitive environment, with each of them being out for themselves first and foremost. While some get along better with others, as a whole, they either snipe at each other or actively compete to capture their prey or rise in status, with such competitions occasionally endangering their overall success.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: After the events on Malachor, Vader and the Inquisitors mysteriously stop chasing after Kanan and Ezra. Apparently, the Inquisitorius is still active at this time according to Word of God, and early on in Season 3, Kanan and Ezra imply that they haven't seen any Inquisitors go after them since then. If the novel Thrawn is of any indication, the Emperor let Thrawn take over the Rebel problem, relieving Vader and by extension, the Inquisitorius.
  • Would Hurt a Child: As far as the Inquisitorius is concerned, age is no object: as long as you're a target or in the way, your life is expendable.
    • In Obi-Wan Kenobi, a Jedi Youngling is among the corpses in the tomb inside Fortress Inquisitorius.
    • In their first battle, the Grand Inquisitor makes it clear he intends to kill Ezra if the boy doesn't submit.
      "I do so admire your persistence. Ready to die?"
    • The Seventh Sister hunts Ezra and Sabine in her debut appearance, then tortures Ezra and threatens to mutilate him if he doesn't give her information about Ahsoka Tano. Later, she relishes the thought of slowly torturing both Ezra and Sabine to death.
    • When Ezra and Sabine accidentally run into the Fifth Brother, he simply ignites his lightsaber and gives them a Slasher Smile. He also indicates a willingness to slit Sabine's throat with his lightsaber unless Ezra fakes a distress call to lure in Kanan and Ahsoka.
    • The Eighth Brother was definitely going to cut Ezra's fingers off to take the holocron, child or not.
    • Iskat held Eeth Koth's child by the head, and while not as actively malicious as the previous examples, that could hurt the baby.
  • You Are Number 6: With the exception of the Grand Inquisitor, they're referred to by number. "The Future of the Force" indicates it's a ranking system, as the Fifth Brother emphasizes "Seventh" when he insists on leading the search, to the Seventh Sister's annoyance. Supported by implications in "Twilight of the Apprentice", when Seventh and Fifth decide to let Eighth confront the Jedi so to serve as bait. Seventh discusses this right after he leaves and both smirk, suggesting that they look down on him for being lower-ranked.
    • The other exceptions are Third Sister and Marrok, the former of whom is referred to by her name, Reva, suggesting they don't view her as truly one of them due to her lower class birth. In Part V of Obi-Wan Kenobi, we learn that they despise her and look down on her because they know she survived Order 66 and joined the Inquisitors to get revenge. She truly isn't one of them. In the case of the latter, Marrok is always referred to by name, with no look down upon him by his allies.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Heavily implied to be their ultimate fate, as by the Battle of Yavin they are no more. By the time of the First Order, Palpatine simply reflects they were outdated and irrelevant in Secrets of the Sith.

Leadership

    Darth Vader 

Darth Vader (Anakin Skywalker)

See his separate page.

    Grand Inquisitor 

The Grand Inquisitor (The Sentinel)

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"Jedi cannot help what they are. Their compassion leaves a trail."
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Species: Pau'an

Homeworld: Utapau

Voiced by: Jason Isaacs
Played by: Rupert Friend
"I do so admire your persistence. Ready to die?"

A former guardian of the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, the man who would become the Grand Inquisitor questioned his faith in the Jedi Order upon learning of Barriss Offee's justifications for bombing the sanctuary of the Jedi Order. He eventually fell to the Dark Side and willingly joined the Empire to advance their cause. He held the rank of Grand Inquisitor, making him the highest-ranked of the Inquisitors at the time.

The Grand Inquisitor would directly serve under Darth Vader himself on several occasions, but was also tasked with disciplining the others beneath him — who, like himself, were disaffected Jedi who disavowed their previous ideology. In the years leading up to the Galactic Civil War, this Inquisitor was directly tasked by Darth Vader to hunt down any remaining Jedi after Order 66, which would make him put him in conflict a Rebel Cell formed by a Jedi named Kanan Jarrus and his own Padawan.


  • Aliens of London: He's a Pau'an who speaks with a pronounced British accent.
  • And I Must Scream: Issue #6 of the 2020 run of the main comics reveals what he meant by "some things are more frightening than death": As punishment for his failure in Rebels, Vader used a Sith technique to bind his ghost to the Jedi Temple on Tempes to fight any Jedi stragglers trying to find answers there. Vader won't let him free until he redeems himself for his failure, and this being Vader (not to mention that the issue has Luke overcome him), it isn't happening any time soon. The Grand Inquisitor laments that he'll never be free of his punishment.
  • Ambiguous Situation: With the way Inquisitorial rankings are considered in light of the events of Obi-Wan Kenobi, it's not clear if he was originally the "First Brother" or not.
  • Arc Villain: For the first season of Rebels. Although subordinate to Vader and Tarkin, he's the most prominent antagonist to the Ghost crew, especially Kanan and Ezra, until his death in the finale, "Fire Across the Galaxy".
  • Awesomeness by Analysis: He is able to surmise quite a bit of information about his opponent by simply fighting them, such as how he knew Kanan specialized in Form III of Soresu. It helps that he analyzes any available information about his opponents before any skirmish.
  • Badass Boast: The above quote, which is said to Ezra. In fact, most of his dialogue towards his opponents is some form of this.
  • Badass Cape: Wears one in Obi-Wan Kenobi. Generally averted elsewhere.
  • Bald of Evil: Justified. He can't really help it, since Pau'ans can't grow hair.
  • Be Careful What You Wish For: According to Palpatine, he fell because as the Sentinel, he was upset that someone of his skill still wasn't allowed access to the greater Jedi Archives, and he always wanted to do so because he wants to learn more. As an Inquisitor, no one is stopping him from learning more (except for Palpatine), but at the cost of getting badly reprimanded if he fails his new masters.
  • Better to Die than Be Killed: In "Fire Across the Galaxy", he commits suicide rather than incur Vader's wrath. Made even worse in the main comics, where it turns out his death was pointless: Vader turned him into a ghost, indefinitely bound to a trap for Jedi at the Tempes Jedi Temple as punishment for his failure until whenever Vader decides it's been enough.
  • Black Eyes of Evil: In Rebels, his sclera are jet black, all but marking him as an antagonist. He has regular white sclera in Obi-Wan Kenobi.
  • Boring, but Practical: He uses the Inquisitorius's gimmicky rotating lightsaber as just that, a gimmick to be used occasionally to get an advantage in certain situations. Normally, he relies on more standard swordplay to overcome his enemies.
  • Co-Dragons: With Alexsandr Kallus and Minister Tua to Tarkin when he arrives on Lothal, though the Grand Inquisitor is the most dangerous of the three.
  • Cold-Blooded Torture: He comes close to torturing Kanan to death with Kallus's help while under Tarkin's supervision.
  • Cold Ham: The Grand Inquisitor never raises his voice beyond a normal speaking tone in both Rebels and Obi-Wan Kenobi, yet both his actors gleefully chew scenery with extreme gravitas.
  • Combat Aestheticist: He fights using the elegant but precise lightsaber form Makashi, which was famously the form used by Count Dooku.
  • Combat Pragmatist: He's a skilled swordsman, but if it serves his purposes he's not beyond just Force-throwing his opponents.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: He was able to maintain the upper hand in his fight with Kanan without taking his opponent too seriously, although both Kanan and Ezra were able to escape.
  • Dark Is Evil: In contrast to Tion Medon, a Pau'an that was a heroic figure in spite of his creepy appearance, the Inquisitor is every bit as evil as he looks.
  • Disc-One Final Boss: He's the most powerful threat to the crew of the Ghost in the first season, but he is ultimately killed off as the rebels face larger threats — including Wilhuff Tarkin and Darth Vader.
  • Disney Villain Death: He drops himself into a burning reactor. The shot is angled from below, making sure his landing is off-camera.
  • The Dragon: He's essentially Darth Vader's attack dog, but in the Outer Rim, he answers to Tarkin. He gets the most respect from Tarkin during the final arc of the first season and serves as his most direct enforcer.
  • Dragon-in-Chief: While Tarkin has positional authority over him, he's a Non-Action Big Bad who abstains from direct combat while the Grand Inquisitor is treated as the more plot-relevant villain towards Kanan and Ezra. It's notable that the climax of the season's arc focuses on defeating him rather than Tarkin.
  • The Dreaded: Made very clear by Ezra's visions of him constantly attacking him and killing Kanan in "Path of the Jedi". He's also this to Kanan until the season finale, and once Kanan overcomes his fear, he's submitted to a Curb-Stomp Battle.
  • Driven to Suicide: See Better to Die than Be Killed.
  • Dual Wielding: He disarms Kanan at one point and wields his lightsaber along with his own.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: invokedWord of God was that he appeared in The Clone Wars masked as a Jedi Temple Guard, and was one of the guards who apprehended Barriss Offee and took her to Ahsoka's trial.
  • Elite Mooks: He has special forces units under his command, including his own squadron of TIE pilots with their own unique uniforms and noticeably improved combat performance over standard TIE pilots. There's the other Inquisitors as well.
  • Even Evil Has Standards:
    • He's pretty confused and angry when Palpatine gets him and Vader to meet by almost killing each other (or rather, almost killing the Grand Inquisitor) without explaining who the other is until Vader is about to finish off the Grand Inquisitor.
    • He protests against Vader chopping off the arms of the other Inquisitors, because he sees no point to it.
    • He also is unnerved by the Thirteenth Sister bringing back the heads of her enemies since the blood from them dirties up the mouse droids.
    • Even he's put off by the Third Sister's completely psychotic behavior. He's also angered by her kidnapping a ten year old Leia as bait to lure out Obi-Wan, presumably out of concern for the backlash if the Senate gets wind of it.
  • Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Promotional materials, and the official Star Wars Databank, simply refer to him as "the Inquisitor", even though his position is one that several others have. This is because he's the Grand Inquisitor.
  • Evil Brit: He is one of the few alien characters in Star Wars to have a British accent; undoubtedly because he's a relatively high ranking member of the Empire. Also, he's Obviously Evil, and voiced by Jason Isaacs in Rebels, and played by the equally British Rupert Friend in Obi-Wan Kenobi.note 
  • Evil Costume Switch: As the Sentinel, he wore white, pale grey, and gold armor, as opposed to the black and dark gray he wore as the Grand Inquisitor. His red facial tattoos were also an addition that followed his fall to the Dark Side.
  • Evil Genius: He is highly intelligent and well-versed in information about his opponents, which he is able to utilize in an extremely effective manner.
  • Evil Sounds Deep: Alternates between dulcet tones with elongated vowels, and a fiery menacing baritone.
  • Exact Words: Possibly. He tells Kanan that he knows about Depa Billaba's fighting style because "the Temple archives were quite complete." He doesn't actually say he learned it from those archives, however, and The Reveal that he used to be a Temple Guard means that he could have known Billaba personally.
  • Expy: His Awesomeness by Analysis trait often earns him comparisons with Grand Admiral Thrawn, except as a Sith acolyte. This is notable in that he isn't the only expy of Thrawn in Rebels, as Agent Kallus also shares traits with the Grand Admiral. Thrawn himself would later debut in the third season of Rebels.
  • Face Death with Dignity: When he is defeated, he accepts his death calmly and falls to his demise.
  • Facial Markings: He has red tattoos on his face. As the Sentinel, he only has the red marks on his cheeks, like other Pau'ans.
  • Fallen Hero: As revealed by "Shroud of Darkness", he was a former Jedi Knight, and a Jedi Temple Guard.
  • Fate Worse than Death: Well aware of this trope, and it's why he commits suicide rather than report back to Tarkin and Vader after being defeated by Kanan and causing the destruction of the former's Star Destroyer. In a cruel bit of irony, even death wouldn't prevent Vader from simply bounding the Inquisitor's spirit to a Jedi Temple on Tempes until Vader decides to let him go.
    Inquisitor: There are some things far more frightening than death.
  • Faux Affably Evil: Is rather polite when dueling with Kanan and Ezra, though it's far from cordial.
    Inquisitor: I do so admire your persistence. Ready to die?
  • Freudian Excuse: Being a Jedi Temple Guard. Not only were they basically stuck watching the Jedi Temple for most of their lives, they were also denied any sort of individuality, wearing identical masks and uniforms, never referred to by their given names, and given identical lightsabers. Not to mention many Jedi, including Temple librarian Jocasta Nu considered Temple Guards a lower kind of Jedi, and inherently "unworthy" of learning certain things.
  • From Nobody to Nightmare: Went from just another nameless Temple Guard to a highly efficient Jedi killer and leader of his organization, responding directly to Vader and Sidious themselves.
  • The Heavy: He's not the Big Bad, but still the biggest and most frequent threat to the heroes in Season 1.
  • Hero Killer: He's the one who murdered Luminara Unduli.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: He goads Ezra into tapping into the Dark Side, which Ezra then uses to help himself and Kanan escape.
  • I Hate Past Me: While he doesn't seem to remember everything, Wistful Amnesia kicks in when he sees a Jedi Temple Guard uniform, and he bitterly says that he remembers "lies".
  • Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: In Obi-Wan Kenobi, the Grand Inquisitor's contempt for Reva and attempt to steal credit for Obi-Wan's capture sees her ignite her lightsaber through his stomach. He survives, but is left incapacitated.
  • Ink-Suit Actor: His appearance in Rebels looks a bit like his voice actor, Jason Isaacs.
  • Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Inflicts this on Kanan in the last two episodes of Season 1.
  • Jedi Mind Trick: He has a forceful version that causes considerable pain while extracting information, which he attempted to use on Kanan. Kanan let slip a few vague details, but his will held when the Inquisitor tried to dig for specifics.
  • Join or Die: He's assigned to either corrupt any young Force sensitives he can find or kill them if he can't.
  • Just Toying with Them: He probably could have cut Kanan's head off if he really wanted to in his first duel with him, but he wanted him alive.
  • Kick Them While They're Down: In Episode 5 of Obi-Wan Kenobi, after Darth Vader defeats and seriously wounds the Third Sister after her failed attempt to assassinate him, Vader brings out the Grand Inquisitor, revealed to have survived her attempt to kill him, and both mock Third Sister for thinking they didn't already know who she was, what she was planning, and that they exploited her until they had no further use for her. The Grand Inquisitor further rubs salt in the wound by taking his badge of office from the wounded Reva and sneeringly mocks her dying in the gutter where she belongs in his mind.
    Grand Inquisitor: Your rage was useful. Now, it is tiresome. We will leave you where we found you...in the gutter, where you belong.
  • Lean and Mean: As a Pau'an, he's one of the tallest characters in Rebels. Zeb Orrelios is only taller than him by a tenth of a meter. Darth Vader is only taller than him by an inch, and that is fully armored.
  • Logical Weakness: Being a Makashi duelist, he lacks physical force in his blows. This makes him more vulnerable to being overpowered by more aggressive duelists as seen during his final fight with Kanan, who decides to fight more offensively instead of defensively like in their past duels and ultimately defeats the Grand Inquisitor.
  • Looks Like Orlok: Bald, bone white skin, with bad yellowish teeth. His Sith eyes certainly help.
  • Man on Fire: His spirit after death is perpetually on fire as a hangover of how he died.
  • Master Swordsman: Very knowledgeable regarding lightsaber-wielding, and initially effectively unbeatable in this regard.
  • Mean Boss: In Obi-Wan Kenobi, the Grand Inquisitor repeatedly talks down to Reva, calling her the least of the Inquisitors, criticising her reckless behavior (not unjustifiably), insults her for coming "from the gutter", and tries to steal the credit for Obi-Wan's capture from her. It gets him non-fatally, but painfully stabbed in the gut.
  • Meaningful Name: His flagship is the Star Destroyer Relentless, and relentless is what the Inquisitor is.
  • Memento MacGuffin: Defied. When he sees a Jedi Temple Guard uniform on display, he is reminded of something from his past, but he walks away and bitterly says that he only remembers "lies", so he's not too entirely keen on looking back at his life.
  • Menacing Stroll: Something he shares with Vader, though he is capable of running when he needs to.
  • Mook Lieutenant: He holds the position of Grand Inquisitor, making him the highest-ranked of the Inquisitors, which would mean he was the boss of the other inquisitors shown. After his incapacitation, there's a kind of power vacuum where the other Inquisitors try to usurp his title.
  • Monochromatic Eyes: As the Sentinel, his eyes are pale grey.
  • My Death Is Just the Beginning: Makes it very clear to Kanan that he has no idea what he has unleashed by triumphing over him and the Empire.
  • Mysterious Past: We don't even know his name, much less how he came to be in service of Vader. "Shroud of Darkness" clears up a bit of his story, but not much: he was once a Jedi Knight and a temple guardsman, although his fall to the dark side and rise to the position of Grand Inquisitor remain a mystery. Word of God says that his disillusionment can be traced back to him witnessing the proceedings of Ahsoka Tano's trial. In the comics, he cites the Jedi's "lies" as why he defected.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: His backstory of falling because the Jedi refused to let him access the archives in full. As usual, the Order's tendency to suppress everything that might even remotely lead to the Dark Side comes back to bite them in the ass.
  • Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: He essentially causes this in "Fire Across the Galaxy" by seemingly killing Ezra, then gloating about it to Kanan's face.
    Kanan: That was a mistake.
    Inquisitor: Why? Because you have no one left to die for you?
    [Kanan, using the Force, summons his lightsaber to his hand and ignites both of his weapons]
    Kanan: No… because I have nothing left to fear!
  • No Name Given: His real name is never mentioned — and as a vision that Kanan faces, he is only known as "The Sentinel".
  • Obviously Evil: While not all Pau'ans are bad, they tend to be unnerving in appearance. The Inquisitor, however, is every bit as evil as he looks. We find out he was turned, and that he used to be a noble Pau'an Jedi.
  • Off with His Head!: On Tarkin's orders, he beheads Aresko and Grint for their failures.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: "The Grand Inquisitor" is all we have.
  • Politically Incorrect Villain: In Obi-Wan Kenobi, he is openly scornful of Third Sister because, unlike the rest of the Inquisitors (who are largely fallen Jedi), she came "from the gutter". He derides her ambition, saying nothing she does can "cover the stench" of her origins. Her power grants her a place in the Inquisitorius, but her origins mean she will never be allowed to rise in their ranks. He also mocks the Third Sister after being mortally wounded by Vader for dying in the gutter where she belongs.
    Fifth Brother: [scornfully] She thinks she will gain favor by capturing Kenobi.
    Grand Inquisitor: Whatever power you are craving, it will not change what you are.
    Third Sister: And what is that?
    Grand Inquisitor: The least of us. You came to us from the gutter. Your ability gave you station, but all the power in the world can't mask the stench beneath.
  • The Power of Hate: Attributes this to how he survived being stabbed by the Third Sister.
    Grand Inquisitor: Revenge does wonders for the will to live, don't you think?
  • Pride: According to Palpatine, as a Sentinel, he believed he had enough skill to be merited entry into the greater Jedi Archives, which contributed to his fall to the Dark side.
  • Red and Black and Evil All Over: The Inquisitor has gray skin with red Facial Markings, wears black armor, and wields a double-bladed red lightsaber.
  • The Rival: He serves as a recurring obstacle for Kanan that he has to overcome in the first season.
  • Royal Rapier: When using only one blade, his sword looks like this and his fighting style (Makashi, the same one practiced by Count Dooku) resembles fencing.
  • Scary Teeth: As a Pau'an, he has a bunch of needle-sharp teeth. Justified in-universe as Pau'ans are mostly carnivorous.
  • Soft-Spoken Sadist: He has a very smooth, calm voice.
  • Starter Villain: He was a credible threat in the beginning, but mostly because of his resources. He's nowhere near as dangerous as Darth Vader, who had similar resources but was also far more skilled and frighteningly intelligent than the Grand Inquisitor.
  • Stereotype Flip: Though they look like bad guys, Pau'ans are generally a benevolent and peaceful race of people. Grand Inquisitor, however, is genuinely as malevolent and devious as his appearance would have you believe.
  • Supernatural Gold Eyes: Symbolic of his allegiance to the Dark Side of the Force, he has yellow irises. They used to be grey.
  • Virtue Is Weakness: The Grand Inquisitor describes a Jedi's compassion as their biggest weakness, as it makes them easy to track for the likes of the Inquisitorius.
    Inquisitor: In actuality I would say the Jedi hunt themselves. Do you know the key to hunting Jedi, friend? It is patience. Jedi cannot help what they are. Their compassion leaves a trail.
  • Wicked Cultured: Surprisingly so. Despite his job and general appearance, he speaks with a refined British accent, spends all his free time furthering his own knowledge and even fights with the most "refined" lightsaber form — Makashi, which bears a heavy resemblance to classic European fencing.
  • Would Hurt a Child: One of his primary duties, aside from Jedi hunting is to locate Force-sensitive stormtrooper cadets, and force them into joining the torturous Inquisitor training program instead. Not to mention the whole "trying to kill a 14-year old Ezra Bridger"-thing.
  • Worthy Opponent: At the end of the season, he relishes that by this point, Kanan and Ezra will be a fight worthy of his time. However, when Kanan faces him alone with dual lightsabers (and a pistol), the Inquisitor's slow smirk says it all about how he regards Kanan as this trope. Before their final clash, the Inquisitor gives Kanan the Makashi salute (much in the same vein as Count Dooku), a formal challenge of skill. Kanan returns it.
    Inquisitor: At last, a fight that might be worthy of my time!
  • Wrecked Weapon: Kanan splits his lightsaber in half. Turns out Vader did it a decade and a half ago too.
  • You Don't Look Like You: His design in Obi-Wan Kenobi looks very toned down and simplified from his Rebels design, making him appear more like a pale human instead of a Pau'an. See here for comparison.
  • Younger Mentor, Older Disciple: He's the only Inquisitor confirmed to be older than Darth Vader, as Vader was in his late 30s while he's in his mid-40s during the first season of Rebels.
  • Your Size May Vary: He's shown to be rather tall in Rebels. In fact, he is canonically listed as 1.98 meters tall, or roughly 6'6", making him nearly as tall as Darth Vader. In Obi-Wan Kenobi, he's portrayed by the 6'1" Rupert Friend, and is several inches shorter than Vader when they're seen standing side-by-side in Part VI.

Inquisitors

    Second Sister 

Second Sister (Trilla Suduri)

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"Tell your men to cease fire. I wish to meet our enemy."
Click here to see her without a mask 

Species: Human

Portrayed by: Elizabeth Grullon
"You cannot save them. Not from the Empire, not from the Dark Side, not from me."

A former Jedi, now a vengeful and deceptive Inquisitor, embittered by the failures of the Jedi Order that she had trusted. She is sent to apprehend Jedi Padawan Cal Kestis after his survival is discovered.


  • Ace Custom: Flies a TIE Interceptor prototype instead of the TIE Advanced x1 favored by her mentors.
  • Alliterative Name: Second Sister.
  • Ambiguously Brown: Has kind of a vaguely Middle Eastern appearance, but of course the actual Middle East is far far away.
  • …And That Little Girl Was Me: In the Imperial facility, she taunts Cal for trusting Cere, since she was such a failure that she got her naive Padawan killed. She then promptly reveals that she was in fact said Padawan.
    Second Sister: She was weak. Cracked in an Imperial torture chair and surrendered the location of her naïve Padawan. They would never have found me if it wasn't for her. She betrayed me!
  • Arc Villain: For Jedi: Fallen Order. Her arrival on Bracca forces Cal to reveal himself, which kicks off his adventure against the Empire. She remains the most persistent antagonist throughout the game, and her actions drive the main plot, but she is still reporting to the Grand Inquisitor and Darth Vader.
  • Badass Cape: She wears a red and black cape with the Empire's symbol printed on the sides.
  • Being Tortured Makes You Evil: She was a Jedi tortured into Imperial servitude.
  • The Blank: The faceplate of her helmet is nearly featureless.
  • Blunt "Yes": This exchange with Prauf.
    Prauf: I think it's time someone came forward. I've been working on this heap for a long time; way before the war. We refit and rebuilt ships. Best in the galaxy. Then came the Empire, and engineers became scrappers. The workers? They just started getting worked. But we all know the truth, we're just too afraid to say it: To the Empire, we're all just expendable.
    Second Sister: Yes, you are.
  • Book Ends: She's the first and last boss Cal fights in Fallen Order. Unless you count Vader.
  • Break the Cutie: She used to be a good person until Order 66. The Cold-Blooded Torture that she had to endure as a result of her master giving up the hiding place of her and a group of Jedi younglings turned her into the killing machine she is today.
    Cal: You are a monster!
    Second Sister: I am what Cere made me.
  • Cool Helmet: Her entire helmet is angular but also sleek and polished. Sadly, she does not wear it long after The Reveal.
  • Creepy Monotone: Due to being The Stoic, but the voice distortion compounds it.
  • Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: When unmasked, her eyes are creepily sunken.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: Her master, Cere, hid her and the younglings they were with while she went off to distract the clone troopers during Order 66. She was supposed to come back... except she was caught, and under the torture of Vader himself, she broke and gave away the location of their hiding spot. Trilla was caught and tortured until she fell to the Dark Side and became an Inquisitor. While the fate of the younglings is never stated, although she knows she failed to protect them.
  • Deadpan Snarker: She always has a dry remark to make right before she attempts to kill someone.
    Cal: I had a bad feeling I'd see you here.
    Second Sister: Oh? How eerily prescient of you. I thought your greatest virtue was your dogged persistence as you stumble from one debacle to the next.
  • Despair Event Horizon: She fell not only because she was tortured, but because it wouldn't have happened if Cere didn't give up the hiding place of her and the younglings, and it's implied that the younglings were killed, meaning she isn't just fallen to the Dark Side in general, but out of Rage Against the Mentor in particular.
  • Distaff Counterpart:
    • She's pretty much a female Darth Vader. Dark, shadowy presence, Serial Killer of Jedi, artificially deep voice, former Jedi who's turned to the Dark Side and fights their old master. Notably, however, she dies just at the cusp of being redeemed at the hands of Darth Vader himself, in another one of his many You Have Failed Me moments.
    • She also bears a number of similarities with Kylo Ren for many of the same reasons listed above. In particular, her turn to the Dark Side was driven by the belief that her former master had betrayed her, similar to how Kylo came to turn on Luke. Though in her case she was actually betrayed by her master, unlike Kylo who assumed Luke betrayed him and didn’t let him explain himself.
  • Dramatic Unmask: When she reveals herself to be Trilla. Notably, she never puts her helmet back on after The Reveal.
  • Early-Bird Cameo:
  • Et Tu, Brute?: She's bitter over being given up by her master to the Empire.
  • Evil Brit: Like many Imperials, she has an English accent.
  • Eviler than Thou: Ultimately for all her dark deeds and skill in combat, the Second Sister is a mere pawn of the Sith. Trilla is utterly terrified of Vader, the galaxy's most infamous Jedi hunter, and is casually slain by him when she fails to defeat Cal.
  • Evil Sounds Deep: Like Vader, she has a voice changer that deepens her voice. It also distorts it, similar to Kylo Ren but even moreso.
  • Face Death with Dignity: After losing against Cal for the final time and seeing Vader come up behind her to punish her for failure, she calmly accepts her fate after telling Cal and Cere to avenge victims like her.
  • Force and Finesse: Of the duo of Inquisitors pursuing Cal throughout Fallen Order, she is the fast, nimble, and graceful Finesse to the giant, brutish Ninth Sister's Force.
  • Forgiveness: After Cal defeats her on Fortress, Cere apologizes to her for failing her. Trilla just responds that she held so much hate for her, but Vader's arrival doesn't give her much time to properly accept or reject Cere's apology, though her last words as she accepts her death are telling Cal to avenge her, putting aside any animosity she had for him and possibly Cere.
  • Freudian Excuse: One of the many victims of Order 66.
  • Genius Bruiser: An expert lightsaber duelist with a preternatural ability to predict the behavior of her prey.
  • Half the Man He Used to Be: While not outright shown, it is quite strongly implied Darth Vader's killing blow against her resulted in this, given the nature of lightsabers.
  • Hartman Hips: She has a small waist with hips that are as wide as her shoulders.
  • The Heavy: Of Jedi: Fallen Order. While she is the main threat faced, it is abundantly clear to everyone involved that she is just the face of the larger threat of the Empire itself.
  • Heel–Face Door-Slam: After her defeat, she seems to seriously consider Cere's offer for redemption, only for her to be cut down by Darth Vader.
  • Leitmotif: Many of her scenes are accompanied with a sinister, high-pitched violin.
  • Ma'am Shock: It seems not even Dark Jedi are immune to this, though the Second Sister was more annoyed with not being addressed by her proper rank.
    Commander Atty: The planet has been pacified, but for some reason, there's one last pocket of resistance in this region. Nothing we can't handle, ma'am.
    Second Sister: [Force-chokes him] You will refer to me as Inquisitor. And if you could handle it, Commander, I would not be here.
  • Meaningful Name: "Trilla" means fall in Swedish.
  • Misery Builds Character: Invoked during her final duel with Cal, him having seen how she became an Inquisitor.
    Cal Kestis: Trilla, I saw what you went through. You've experienced great suffering, but it's not too late to let go.
    Second Sister: Let go? I'm stronger because of the pain!
  • Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Her cold-blooded murder of Prauf for disparaging the Empire ensures the Empire no longer has any leverage to force Cal to surrender and inspires him to join the fight against the Empire in honour of Prauf's sacrifice, with detrimental consequence for both the Empire and the Second Sister personally.
  • Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: She is a mere Inquisitor and doesn't even seem strong enough to compete for the title of Grand Inquisitor, but since the enemies she faces are Cal Kestis (a talented but inexperienced Jedi) and Cere Junda ( a Jedi Knight), she poses a great threat to both of them.
  • Oh, Crap!: She begins to have a nervous breakdown upon sensing Darth Vader's presence through the force a moment before his signature breathing can be heard by us, as she knows exactly what it means. She composes herself enough to die with some dignity, however.
  • Please, Don't Leave Me: During Order 66, when Cere goes off to distract the clones while Trilla and the younglings remain hidden, she cries out to her master not to leave them.
  • The Quiet One:
    • Compared to the rest of the Inquisitors, she doesn't seem to bother with the pleasantries and goes straight to trying to pursue and apprehend her targets. In her cameo appearance in Dark Lord of the Sith, she doesn't even say anything and leaves a room full of relaxing Inquisitors.
    • Subverted once she reveals her true identity, as she becomes surprisingly chatty in subsequent encounters with Cal, even going so far as to slice Cal's communication one mission just so she can gloat over the radio.
  • Rage Against the Mentor: The vast majority of her rage is geared directly at Cere Junda for her actions leading to Trilla's capture and torture in the first place.
  • Red and Black and Evil All Over: Her suit is very Vader-esque, but made unique with a red visor and red cape trimmings.
  • Redemption Rejection: Possibly. She definitely looks conflicted when Care apologizes and tries to appeal to her, but her last words to Cere are "I've carried so much hate for you" before Vader kills her.
  • Relative Button: She invokes the spirit of this by mocking Cal's late master, Jaro Tapal, and playing on Cal's insecurities that his master would disapprove of his actions.
    Second Sister: What would Jaro Tapal say?
    Cal Kestis: [furious] You have no right to mention his name!
    Second Sister: I wonder, what would he think if he could see his Padawan now? Skulking in the shadows with a betrayer, granting her access to a legion of impressionable students...
    Cal Kestis: No, I won't let anyone touch them.
    Second Sister: I thought the same thing once.
  • She Who Fights Monsters: Taunts Cal by telling him that he can't protect the Force-sensitive kids listed on Cordova's holocron because she couldn't protect the younglings she was with during Order 66.
  • Sinister Schnoz: Has a hooked nose similar to Kylo Ren.
  • The Smart Guy: She is described as such by Word of God.
  • Smug Snake: Weaponized. When fighting Cal, she condescendingly and casually critiques his fighting technique in order to trip him up. It's also clear she doesn't need to and she's just toying with her prey.
    Second Sister: I recognize that stance. Perhaps you've had some training after all. Who was your master, Padawan? Someone I killed, perhaps? What Jedi gave their life so that you might live?
  • The Starscream: Subtle and easy to miss, but it's implied that she hopes finding Cordova's holocron will curry enough favor with the Emperor that she can displace the Grand Inquisitor and Darth Vader as leader of the Inquisitorious.
    Cal Kesitis: You should have killed me on Bracca.
    Second Sister: A scant mercy. I wagered one meaningless Padawan against a prize that will win me the Emperor's favour.
  • The Stoic: Never raises her voice. Until her Villainous Breakdown.
  • Super-Persistent Predator: While pursuing Cal, she jumps onto his ship in mid-flight and attempts to bring it down with her Force powers.
  • They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: Insists on by addressed by her proper rank, not sir, and definitely not ma'am.
  • They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: Unlike the other alien Inquisitors introduced beforehand, Trilla is revealed to be a rather beautiful young woman underneath her helmet.
  • Together in Death: Five years after her death, when Cere is dying from her mortal wound at Vader's hand, her former master says her name, suggesting the two are about to be reunited.
  • Token Human: As Trilla, she is one of only two known human Inquisitors shown so far.
  • Villainous Breakdown: In Jedi: Fallen Order, she loses her composure when she is faced with Cere Junda, her former master, without her own helmet on after losing a duel against Cal.
  • Villainous BSoD: Seems on the verge of finally breaking through her conditioning when talking with Cere in Fortress Inquisitorius... but Vader makes sure she can't act on it.
  • Wake-Up Call Boss: Have you not gotten the hang of parrying yet? Well, Second Sister will make sure that you do.
  • Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: She's a ruthless Inquisitor, but it's hard not to feel bad for her considering that she was horrifically tortured by the Empire and sold out by her own master.
  • Yank the Dog's Chain: After Cere apologizes to her for leaving her no other choice but to become an Inquisitor, she's given the opportunity to return to the Light Side. Her ability to choose her destiny is promptly stolen away by Vader.
  • You Have Failed Me: Darth Vader executes her personally after she is defeated by Cal at Fortress Inquisitorius.

    Third Sister 

Third Sister (Reva Sevander)

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Species: Human

Played by: Moses Ingram, Ayaamii Sledge (child)
Appearances: Obi-Wan Kenobi

"The Jedi are cowards. They failed you, abandoned you. There is no point in protecting them."

An Inquisitor tasked with finding Jedi on Tatooine. She dedicates her time to find Obi-Wan Kenobi, in hopes of gaining favor with Darth Vader.


  • All for Nothing: She willingly gave into the Dark Side and spent years committing atrocities and allowing her hatred to fester so that she could get close to Vader and kill him. When she finally gets the chance to, Vader reveals that he always knew about her plan and quickly disposes of her, not even considering her a threat.
  • Ambition Is Evil: She is driven to hunt Kenobi. At first it is unclear how personal her hatred for Kenobi is, but at least one strong motive is she's doing it because she wants to curry favor with Vader by bringing him Kenobi. Part V reveals almost all of her actions are indeed to get close to Vader, so that she can kill him.
  • Ambiguous Situation: Reva's motivations for her actions in Part VI of Obi-Wan Kenobi leave a lot to interpretation. Did she put it together that the boy Owen Lars is raising is Darth Vader's son, and targeting him to get Revenge by Proxy, or is she unaware of the connection and targeting him simply to make Obi-Wan Kenobi suffer for his failure to stop Anakin Skywalker's fall to evil? Nothing Reva says or does makes this clear, particularly since she didn't seem to know about Owen's relationship with Luke to begin with, was unaware of any connection between Luke and Anakin, and only seems to know that he's adopted, on top of only targeting Leia because she knew that Obi-Wan and Bail were close friends.
  • Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Deconstructed. Reva has made it up the Inquisitors' ladder due to her abilities, but is barely tolerated due to her background as a Street Urchin and her trigger-happy behavior getting in the way of finding Jedi. Then it turns out that Vader knew she was planning on using those skills to get close to him and kill him, which gets her a lightsaber through the torso for her troubles.
  • Ax-Crazy: Even the other Inquisitors disapprove of her violence and recklessness. While questioning the townspeople of Anchorhead, she cuts off a random woman's hand just to make a point, and threatens to slaughter Owen Lars and his family to try and make a crowd of people surrender some information.
    Third Sister: You protect your family. I like that, Owen. It's important... You think you could protect them from me?
    Owen: Hm.
    Third Sister: TELL ME WHERE THE JEDI IS OR THIS MAN AND HIS FAMILY DIE!
  • Batman Gambit:
    • She hires a bunch of spice runners to kidnap Leia in the hopes that Bail Organa will call on Obi-Wan to help his beloved daughter. Having dug through obscure archives to get the information necessary to do so. The plan works, but the criminals underestimate Obi-Wan and Reva's argument with the Grand Inquisitor allows him to escape.
    • Her entire scheme for the series is this—curry favor with Vader, then get close enough to kill him, by using Obi-Wan as a distraction, knowing he hates the man with such a passion that he'll drop everything to kill the one responsible for his current condition. It fails miserably, as Vader knew what she was up to all along.
  • Be Careful What You Wish For: She sought to curry favor with Vader as part of her ambitions, clearly hoping to have a close working relationship with him. All so she could get close enough to kill him, but despite having the perfect opportunity, it’s not enough. Vader easily defeats her and mockingly wonders how she ever thought she could trick him.
  • Big Bad Wannabe: Fancies herself a No-Nonsense Nemesis for Obi-Wan and other Jedi, aggressively pursuing any target she comes across to the point she orchestrates a kidnapping of Leia just to draw Obi-Wan out of hiding. It becomes clear she's little more than just another cog in the Empire's machine. Played with in the sense that she was never interested in actually serving the Empire, but wanted an opportunity to get close to Darth Vader and kill him for what he did to her and her friends. She also ultimately fails at trying to betray and kill Vader, for whom it takes barely any effort to subdue and severely wound her. It’s also revealed that both Vader and the Grand Inquisitor had been playing her from the beginning and she didn’t succeed in offing and replacing the latter like she thought she did. In the end, the only times she comes off as threatening are when she's up against powerless civilians, dispirited Jedi, or children.
  • Bifurcated Weapon: Reva's lightsaber can be split into two functional weapons, though this feature is only used once, and even then, it's against Reva; after disarming her, Vader splits her lightsaber and gives her half so she can try to fight him blade-to-blade.
  • Break the Haughty: She thought herself to be an excellent manipulator who managed to worm her way up to the position of Grand Inquisitor with only some minor hiccups. Then she tries to enact her true plan to assassinate Vader and Vader throws it in her face that she was never in control. Vader spends the entire fight toying with her before stabbing her and leaving her for dead, considering her not even threatening enough to finish off.
  • Crazy-Prepared: Despite the sheer unlikelihood of escape from Fortress Inquisitorius, the Third Sister is cunning enough to implant a tracking device in Leia's personal droid LOLA so she can be tracked after Obi-Wan rescues her. It's literally the only thing that keeps Vader from killing her for letting Obi-Wan escape.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: On the receiving end of it. When she tries to kill Vader, he's barely even phased as she angrily charges at him. As he considers her beneath his notice, he only snaps her saber in half and uses it to break her defensive line in less than a minute, stab her, and reveal that he knew what she was up to from the beginning.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: She is the sole survivor of the younglings killed by Anakin Skywalker. She faked being dead and hid under the bodies of her friends. It's also implied that she spent time afterwards homeless due to the Grand Inquisitor's derogatory comments about her coming from "the gutter".
  • Determinator: She won't stop until she has achieved her goal of killing Darth Vader and avenging her friends who died during Order 66.
  • Didn't Think This Through: In her attempt to assassinate Vader, Reva assumed that the Sith Lord would be too distracted by Obi-Wan's escape to notice her, and tried to kill him by igniting her lightsaber and trying to cut him down from behind. Unfortunately for Reva, Vader saw it coming a mile away, having always known of her motives. To her credit, she doesn't give up without a fight, but given Vader's own might (already proven to dwarf Reva's), said fight is very much not in her favor.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: She usually responds to all slights against her person with violence, and if she doesn't, it's because she's planning to inflict harm later. This is best seen by how Reva dismembers a woman who claims the Empire doesn't have authority in the Outer Rim Territories. This tendency to immediately resort to violence is one of the reasons why the other Inquisitors can't stand her.
  • The Dog Bites Back: Downplayed; while some of the Grand Inquisitor's criticisms of Reva are spot-on, his insulting her standing and origins is uncalled for, and Reva repays this snobbery by stabbing the Grand Inquisitor in the second episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi. The Grand Inquisitor survives, but it's a painful reprisal all the same. She tries to do this to Vader in revenge for his attack on the Jedi temple and killing her friends, but it does not go well at all.
  • Doomed by Canon:
    • Ultimately subverted. Reva survives through to the end of Kenobi, complete with her going through a Heel–Face Turn at the end. Though whether or not she'll survive from her wounds remains to be seen.
    • Played straight with her plan to kill Darth Vader. Given how the series is a prequel to the original trilogy where Vader is a major character, her plan was never going to succeed. To make matters worse, Vader knew of her plan all along and was only using her to track down Obi-Wan.
  • Enemy Mine: Advocates using bounty hunters and criminals to flush Obi-Wan into the open for the Inquisitorius.
    Third Sister: I want every bounty hunter and lowlife to squeeze him.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Despite her propensity toward violence, even she is deeply disturbed at the depths of Vader's sheer cruelty as he casually slaughters villagers, including children, in order to draw Obi-Wan out of hiding. Considering her past and her true goals, and her inability to actually kill Luke despite having him at her mercy, it's likely her earlier threats were empty and meant for intimidation.
  • Evil vs. Evil: She may have been once a Jedi who wishes to slay Darth Vader, but her desire for revenge and impulsiveness makes her a pretty villainous and ruthless person, far from the Jedi ideas she was once training towards, and she has no qualms with harming innocents to get what she wants.
  • Fatal Flaw: Single-mindedness and impulsiveness. She has a razor focus on a goal which can result in her acting very impulsively as well as disregarding potential consequences of her attempts to achieve it. More often than not her plans ultimately end up being undone by her own rash behavior. She also arrogantly lets herself believe that her status as an Inquisitor means she can do whatever she wants regardless of consequences. Vader shows her otherwise, and she's left for dead as a result.
  • Faux Affably Evil: While talking to Owen, Reva turns on the charm, complimenting him on his desire to protect his family. She then openly threatens to slaughter said family if a crowd of people doesn't speak up on a Jedi's location.
  • From Nobody to Nightmare: Came from the "gutter" to being a terrifying force for the Empire.
  • The Friend Nobody Likes: The rest of the Inquisitorius barely tolerates her loose cannon nature, constantly warning her not to punch above her weight and noting she's only made it this far because of her talents. This contempt more stems from her lower class background, as she came "from the gutter", judging from the contemptuous "you can never be rid of the stench from whence you came" comment in Episode 2 of Obi-Wan Kenobi. Worth noting is that both the Grand Inquisitor and Fifth Brother have each referred to her by her given name (as opposed to every other Inquisitor, who is addressed by either their rank or as simply "Inquisitor"), emphasizing their opinion that she isn't really one of them.
  • Genius Bruiser: While her ambition and pride can get in the way, Reva over the course of Obi-Wan Kenobi pulls off several Batman Gambits which have far more success than anyone else over a decade has had against Obi-Wan. She is also able to discretely implement a tracking device on a droid and she has a good at picking up when someone isn't telling her the truth, even if understandably not necessarily the details of the lie.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: While the Grand Inquisitor is okay with violence and torture "within reason", the Third Sister tends to resort to the very violent stick before offering the reward of a carrot as a first resort. When they find a hidden Jedi, she has to be physically stopped from just cutting him in half on the spot without interrogation. The rest of the Inquisitors spend more time in the first two episodes trying to hold her back than actually doing the job. The reveal that Reva never wanted to serve the Empire in the first place and only sees her duties as a means to an end brings the possibility that she wanted to Mercy Kill the renegade Jedi — who was certainly doomed, surrounded by Inquisitors — instead of being taken in for a painful interrogation and execution.
  • Harmful to Minors: The root cause of her psychotic personality in the present is the childhood trauma of watching the newly christened Darth Vader slaughter all of her friends during Order 66, forcing her to hide among their corpses to survive.
  • The Heavy: Her drive to find Obi-Wan sets into motion the events of his eponymous series, as most of the Inquisitorious' efforts to hunt Vader's former master result from her ingenuity.
  • Heel–Face Turn: When given the chance to kill Luke, Reva ultimately decides to spare the boy, having come to terms that she'd be no better than the man that ruined her life all those years ago. Obi-Wan's words of encouragement also get through to her, concluding with her leaving behind her Inquisitor lightsaber and moving on to make her own luck.
  • Her Own Worst Enemy: She is actually cunning enough to be a dangerous tracker, employing tactics that the other more straightforward Inquisitors wouldn't consider. Fortunately, her Hair-Trigger Temper and pride mean that she winds up giving those she's pursuing the openings they need to escape, as her patience flies out the window the moment she's close enough to what she wants.
  • Hoist by Her Own Petard: Vader defeats her by stabbing her in the chest with her own lightsaber at the end of their fight, never bothering to use his own lightsaber because, unlike with Obi-Wan, he doesn't see her as a worthy opponent.
  • Hunter of His Own Kind: Implied to be a turncoat Jedi Youngling or Padawan, judging the derisive comments from the Grand Inquisitor concerning the "stench" of her origins; her mockingly shouting "Anakin Skywalker is still alive!" is further proof that she knew who Lord Vader was before his fall from grace due to her having grown up in the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. Turns out that she was a Youngling who witnessed Anakin slaughtering her friends. She willingly became this trope so that she could get close to Vader and kill him in revenge.
  • Inferiority Superiority Complex: Very prideful, but feeling like she had been left to die as a child and the scorn she has received ever since has clearly had an effect on her.
  • It's Personal: She hunts Obi-wan because of two reasons. One, it's a quick way to earn Vader's trust and two, he is one of two people she blames for the fall of the Jedi and the death of her friends, with the second person being Vader himself who she also plans on killing.
  • Laser-Guided Karma:
    • After she fails to assassinate Vader, he stabs her through the gut in the same position she had stabbed the Grand Inquisitor. Downplayed, since for all her crimes, Reva is ultimately a victim of the Empire and the Grand Inquisitor was far more evil than she is.
    • Almost on the giving end with Vader's son, Luke. As a child, she was hunted down and nearly killed by Anakin Skywalker. Thus, it's tragically poetic that as an adult, she hunted down and nearly killed Luke Skywalker as a child. However, her decision to spare Luke rather than give in to her hatred sparked a greater karma for the galaxy, as Luke would be the one to ultimately redeem Vader back to the Light and bring down the Empire.
  • Lone Wolf Boss: By the end of Obi-Wan Kenobi, she's overplayed her hand against Darth Vader and outlived her usefulness, costing her the support of the Empire and the Inquisitorus. In her final battle, she's basically a lone renegade madwoman attacking the Lars homestead to spite Obi-Wan.
  • Misplaced Retribution: Her hatred of Obi-Wan becomes this when her past is revealed: she blames him for not only failing to come to her and her friends' rescue but as Anakin's master places almost as much blame on him as she does Anakin for the death of the only family she knew. This is despite the fact that Obi-Wan was off-world at the time and didn't know what Anakin had done until well-after the massacre had already happened. That said she had absolutely no way of knowing Obi-Wan’s being off world or extent of ignorance, with her directly asking as an adult where he was when everything happened.
  • Moral Myopia: She wants revenge on Darth Vader for killing her fellow Younglings, whom she regarded as her only family, but she spends much of the series threatening other people's families. It’s when she fails and gives up on her revenge scheme that she realizes the error of her ways.
  • More Deadly Than the Male: Within the context of the Obi-Wan Kenobi series, she is far more volatile and aggressive than her fellow male Inquistors. She's also the only Inquisitor thus far who is willing to employ the services of those outside of the Empire, meaning her reach is far greater. It's downplayed in that she can be problematic to her own side, as she's entirely willing to undermine their efforts to further her own ambitions. Then again, Part V confirms that she never considered them her side but rather a means to the end for what she was really trying to gun for.
  • Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Her decision to stab the Grand Inquisitor just as he was about to flush Obi-Wan out of his hiding spot allows Obi-Wan to successfully escape, and it takes a powerful Inquisitor out of commission in the process. Part V provides new context to this, however, with the reveal that the hunt for Obi-Wan is a crucial part of her actual plan and reason to curry as much favour as possible, which the Grand Inquisitor's credit steal threatened to ruin her chances of if he had succeeded. For her to win she needed him down.
  • No-Respect Guy: Reva's aggressive tactics and reckless behavior earn her little esteem from her fellow Inquisitors. The Grand Inquisitor, in particular, is dismissive of her, tries to steal the credit for Obi-Wan's potential capture, and tells Reva to her face that he considers her the least of the Inquisitorius. That said it is outright said that she never had any before this, being insulted as having been found in the gutter — so a lot of the other behavior may well have started from that.
  • Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Being a Force-user in a galaxy nearly devoid of Jedi gives Reva an unbeatable advantage against most opponents, but against other trained Force-sensitives, she noticeably struggles; she only manages to disable the Grand Inquisitor (who can stop her mid-strike with little difficulty) through a sneak attack, Fifth Brother can telekinetically pin her without much trouble, and Vader is worlds beyond her in terms of power, with their duel being painfully one-sided in the Sith Lord's favor (by contrast, Obi-Wan, despite losing his initial fight with Vader in Part III, did manage to hold his own briefly, and pulled through to defeat Vader when they fought again in Part VI).
  • Not Worth Killing: On the receiving end of this trope. Vader and the Grand Inquisitor decide to leave her as they found her—in the gutter—because they knew she was trying to get close to the former and kill him out of revenge for killing her fellow younglings. Not only did they see it coming, they didn't even bother dealing with her until they had a poetic moment to punish her for her treachery. They don't even deliver a killing blow, showing just how little of a threat they consider her.
  • Older Hero vs. Younger Villain: The Younger Villain to Obi-Wan's Older Hero as she was only a youngling when Order 66 happened while Obi-Wan was a Jedi Master pushing 40 at the time.
  • Out-Gambitted: She thought she could outsmart Darth Vader and get close enough to kill him, using Obi-Wan as a distraction to cloud his judgement. She gravely underestimated him, as he not only knew what she was doing from the beginning, he considers her far beneath him to even bother using his own lightsaber against her when she tries her assassination attempt. He just wipes the floor with her and leaves her for dead, not even bothering to finish her off.
  • Plot Parallel:
    • Notably has some elements of this to Anakin himself. A prideful and stubbornly determined loose cannon with a dash of recklessness and impulsiveness. One whose performances/getting results saves her from consequences to her recklessness, that's said to have come from the gutter which looms over her and implied to feel greatly betrayed/let down by people she once trusted. Then there's how a lot of her fury is at loved ones lost. In addition there can be comparison made to her feeling she should be much higher ranked and treated better than she is, to Anakin's similar striving for the rank of Master (and poor reaction to being denied by it).
    • Additionally, she also shares some plot parallels with Cal Kestis, the main protagonist of Jedi: Fallen Order. Both characters were survivors of Order 66, with their mentors (and friends) slain before them, both characters are traumatized by the affair and have an inability to move on until they come face to face with their demons, their respective encounters with Darth Vader end in defeat (Cal being lucky that Cere and BD-1 were there to help him escape), and to top it all off, both also wield double-bladed lightsabers that can split apart at will. All the more interesting when her immediate predecessor, Trilla Suduri, was an enemy to Cal.
  • The Power of Hate: She was stabbed by Darth Vader at the Jedi Temple, but was able to survive due to this. Hatred and a determination to avenge her family and herself proceeded to then drive her for over a decade. History repeated itself a decade later on Jabiim during her attempted betrayal of Vader, who again stabs her and leaves her for dead and she survives that as well.
  • Pride: Reva is very arrogant, something the Grand Inquisitor strongly implies may be a coping mechanism for a disadvantaged background and considers power and prestige to be what she's "owed". Her desire to capture Obi-Wan for Vader is driven by her belief that doing so will win Vader's esteem and approval, and she's even willing to stab the Grand Inquisitor to make sure she gets all the credit for it.
  • Psychopathic Womanchild: What ultimately holds her back from using her actually impressive planning abilities to their fullest potential is the fact that she has the temper and impulse control of a moody teenager, as she quickly grows violent against slights in a way not dissimilar to throwing a tantrum. The way her confrontation with Vader concludes suggests that she never grew beyond the trauma of watching him slaughter her friends.
  • Redemption Earns Life: She cannot bring herself to murder Luke and shortly afterwards renounces her Dark Side ways, allowing her to leave the series with her life.
  • Revenge: In the end, this is the core of Reva's ambitions, seeking to kill Vader as retribution for the slaughter of her fellow younglings during Order 66. Unfortunately, in the pursuit of this, she wound up nearly as evil and cruel as the one she sought to destroy, and gets her own lightsaber to the gut for her efforts.
  • Revenge by Proxy: When she puts together that "the boy" on Tatooine is Vader's son, and that Vader is too powerful to kill, she goes after Luke instead, hoping to get some amount of "justice" for Vader's crimes. She gets to the point where Luke is unconscious on the ground in front of her, but can't bring herself to kill him, realizing that she has become what she hates the most.
  • Secret-Keeper: She's one of the few people who knows that Darth Vader is Anakin Skywalker. The reason why she knows this is revealed in Part V: She was a Youngling who witnessed Anakin slaughtering the Jedi at the temple and was stabbed in the gut by him.
  • Secret Secret-Keeper: Implied. When Reva hears of a boy Obi-Wan and Owen are protecting on Tatooine, she travels to Tatooine with the clear intention to kill Luke. While it's possible that she somehow figured out that Luke had a connection to Vader, it's also likely that she did it to spite Obi-Wan, the man who created Vader. She corners an unconscious Luke on Tatooine, her memories of Order 66 come flooding right back, and she starts seeing flashes of Anakin's face and her young self imposed on Luke's. If she realizes that the boy she's after is Vader's son, then it's a secret she's keeping to herself.
  • She Who Fights Monsters: She joined the Inquisitors so that she could eventually worm her way close to Vader and kill him in revenge for him slaughtering her friends. Unfortunately, in her impatient drive to get into his good graces, she willingly embraced the Dark Side, becoming almost as cruel and violent as the man she was trying to kill. Upon realizing she fell into this trope when trying to kill Luke Skywalker, she breaks down and gives up on the Dark Side, becoming the first on-screen Inquisitor to be redeemed.
  • Small Name, Big Ego: Reva considers herself worthy of leading the Inquisitorius, pursues legendary Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, and is willing to pull off such stunts as kidnapping a Senator's child and going over her superior's head to get what she wants. Despite this, however, Reva's fellow Inquisitors don't respect her and have nothing but disdain for her reckless brutality, while Obi-Wan doesn't even know who she is, and Vader only considers her efforts worth anything if it gets him what he wants. Turns out that she was never interested in a higher position for power's sake. She just wanted to get close to Vader so that she could kill him in revenge for slaughtering her friends. However, her belief that she could successfully kill Vader still places her in this category, as Vader was a fully trained Jedi Knight before becoming a Sith Lord, while Reva never advanced beyond being a youngling before joining the Inquisitorius.
  • The Starscream: Very clearly is eyeing to replace the Grand Inquisitor as part of her ambitions. She already took him out of commission by stabbing him while he was searching for Obi-Wan and is now seeking to curry favor with Darth Vader to ensure the Grand Inquisitor remains beneath her. Turns out that she was never interested in a higher position for power's sake. She just wanted to get close to Vader so that she could kill him in revenge for slaughtering her friends.
  • Suspiciously Similar Substitute:
    • To a certain extent, of Asajj Ventressboth were raised by Jedi until a tragedy when they were very young left them alone. They then became acolytes of the Sith Apprentice with the ultimate aim of becoming something greater (Asajj thought she could become a real Sith, Reva planned to kill Vader), until they realised that they were nothing but tools to be discarded. And finally after being left for dead by the Sith Apprentice, they both found themselves free and with the possibility of redemption.
    • She's also one to her late comrade, Trilla, the Second Sister. Both were the Token Human amongst the Inquisitors, share a history with Darth Vader (Trilla being tormented by him, Reva being stabbed by him as a youngling), face off against a Jedi who has cut himself off from the Force to survive (Cal for Trilla and Obi-Wan for Reva), are so blinded by revenge that they're willing to go to any lengths to get it, and both end up being stabbed by Darth Vader (in Reva's case, twice) for failing in the eyes of the Empire (Trilla for nearly undergoing a Heel–Face Turn and Reva because she was trying to kill Vader, which he saw through). Where the two diverge is that Reva gets to live, while Trilla dies begging for the fallen Jedi to be avenged. Bonus points for both Cal and Obi-Wan being hunted by Vader during both Inquisitors's respective arcs (though he only goes after the former at the end; the latter for him is much more personal).
  • Token Human: As Reva, she's one of only two known human Inquisitors shown in the canon so far, and is the only human Inquisitor seen in Obi-Wan Kenobi.
  • Tragic Villain: As a young child she survived the Order 66 genocide, which massacred who she describes as the only family she knew, by hiding with the bodies of those friends. Betrayed by Anakin Skywalker who they thought was going to help save them. After time living in “the gutter” she joins the Inquisitorous out of hatred for Lord Vader — plotting and giving in entirely to the dark side/hatred of him and doing heinous acts, including hunting her own people, just to gain a chance to curry enough favour to get a chance of killing him in revenge. And then it’s All for Nothing. The fight barely causes him any trouble at all, with the Sith Lord toying with and mocking her before stabbing her in the gut, leaving her back where she was as just a little girl all those years ago. Something flashbacks seems to indicate is exactly how she feels once again there as well.
  • Uncertain Doom: She survives the events of the series. However, she was impaled by a lightsaber shortly before her attack on the Lars farm and is visibly struggling to keep pushing forward throughout the final episode, due to not having received proper medical care. That, and the fact that she's nowhere to be seen in stories set after Kenobi make it ambiguous whether she actually recovered or ended up dying from her wounds on Tatooine.
  • The Unfought: Played with; Obi-Wan never fights Reva directly during his titular series, but Reva does directly contend with her real target, Darth Vader, as well as Owen and Beru Lars.
  • Unknown Rival:
    • To Obi-Wan. She's made it her life's mission to track him down and kill him, yet by all accounts Obi-Wan has zero clue who she even is beyond being an Inquisitor. Once Obi-Wan finally takes time to listen to her, he seems to consider her not as an enemy, but a potential ally.
    • Subverted with Vader. Reva's entire plan to kill Vader relies on her being this, as she plans to work her way up through the Inquisitorius and gain his trust to kill him in revenge for him slaughtering her Youngling friends during Order 66. However, it turns out that Vader knew exactly who she was all along and was just playing her so he could find Obi-Wan. Even so, he clearly doesn't consider her much of a rival, as he spends their entire "duel" toying with her and defeats her without even drawing his lightsaber. And when he defeats her by stabbing her through the gut (which she already survived once before) he doesn't even consider her worth finishing off.
  • Villainous Valour: Both combatants are Tragic Villains, but, to her credit, when her sneak attack on Darth Vader fails, Reva doesn't hesitate to fight him head-on despite being far out of her weight class.
  • What You Are in the Dark: She knocks out Luke in the canyons, and prepares to kill him as a proxy revenge against Obi-Wan (and Vader if she knows the truth about Luke). However, her memories of Anakin slaughtering her friends causes her to realize she's becoming Vader herself, and ultimately chooses to bring Luke back home safely to his uncle and aunt.
  • Would Hurt a Child: She abducts a ten year old Leia to force Obi-Wan Kenobi out of hiding, and when she has the young princess in her clutches, after threats and mind-tricks fail, she’s poised to actually torture Leia via some sort of horrific rack-like device before Obi-Wan and Tala rescue her. She also threatens to kill a ten year old Luke, along with his aunt and uncle. At the end of Part V she discovers that Luke is very likely the son of Vader himself and, in Part VI, targets the boy as a part of her revenge scheme against Vader. However, when presented with the opportunity to kill Luke, she ultimately can't go through with it.
  • You Can't Fight Fate: She invokes this, insisting Obi-Wan will never truly escape Darth Vader, given the latter's obsession with finding him. Anyone who's watched A New Hope will know she's right.
    Third Sister: You can't run, Obi-Wan! You can't escape him!
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Vader knew all along who Reva was, and allowed her to proceed with her plans to exploit her abilities and draw out Obi-Wan. Once she made her move against him, however, Vader stabbed Reva and left her to die (again). Reva managed to survive the attack, though the spirit of the trope remains intact.

    Fourth Sister 

Fourth Sister

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Played by: Rya Kihlstedt

A Jedi-turned-Inquisitor tasked with finding Obi-Wan Kenobi on Daiyu.


  • Amazing Technicolor Population: Her species appears to have yellow skin.
  • Bearer of Bad News: She informs the Grand Inquisitor, much to his fury, that the Third Sister has gone over his head and alerted every bounty hunter on Daiyu to Obi-Wan's presence, making the Inquisitorius' task that much more difficult.
  • Death Glare: Gives a seething one to the Third Sister when they meet on Daiyu, and again when Reva announces she has been given direct command of the hunt for Obi-Wan by Darth Vader.
  • Facial Markings: Her forehead is marked with a set of symmetrical brown tattoos.
  • Flat Character: Out of all the Inquisitors in Obi-Wan Kenobi she has by far the least amount of characterization, little screen time and speaks only a handful of lines. Even the Fifth Brother, who was a flat character in Rebels, gets more spotlight in this series than her.
  • Only Sane Woman: Following the Grand Inquisitor's incapacitation, rather than lower herself to squabbling for primacy like the Fifth Brother and Third Sister, the Fourth Sister just gets on with the task of hunting down Obi-Wan. Once Obi-Wan is learned to be hiding on Mapuzo, while the Third Sister and Fifth Brother argue over who gets to take the credit by informing Darth Vader, the Fourth Sister issues orders that Mapuzo's Imperial garrison are to lock down the spaceports and ensure no ships get off world.
  • Supernatural Gold Eyes: She has the red-rimmed yellow eyes of a Darksider.
  • Uncertain Doom: Explicitly noted in-universe as having an unknown fate. Rebel agent Lina Graf used the Fourth Sister's armor to impersonate her during a mission to rescue a spy from Vader's castle, possibly resulting in a case of Kill and Replace or Dead Person Impersonation.

    Fifth Brother 

Fifth Brother

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"That seat is mine, not yours. I am the next in line."
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Homeworld: Artemesium

Played by: Sung Kang

"I know my own truth, and the Force speaks it to me through the stars above and the gravity beneath my feet."

An Inquisitor of unknown species. After the Siege of Lothal, Vader charged him and the Seventh Sister to hunt down the crew of the Ghost.


  • Aliens of London: The casting call for the Fifth Brother specifically called for someone who could do a Spanish or European accent, so this choice might mean that his species has Spanish/European influence. In Obi-Wan Kenobi, he speaks with an Asian dialect.
  • Always a Bigger Fish: He's killed by Maul.
  • Ambition Is Evil: He wants to be Grand Inquisitor. Not as obvious as the Seventh's, but it's there.
  • Animal Eyes: It's a Freeze-Frame Bonus, but his eyes have nictitating membranes. Unlike normal membranes, he has two instead of one.
  • Arc Villain: He hunts down Cal Kestis and the Crew of the Stinger Mantis, picking up where Second Sister/Trilla and Ninth Sister failed.
  • Blind Weaponmaster: Implied in Rebels, and confirmed by invokedWord of God. Though Obi-Wan Kenobi implies that the Fifth Brother may not have always been like this, as his eyes are shown to look normal, and he gives little indication that he has trouble seeing.
  • Blood Knight: He tries to kill Ezra without even bothering to interrogate him.
  • Brains and Brawn: The Brawn to the Seventh Sister's Brains. He's willing to kill Ezra right off the bat and has to be told why he's of more use alive.
  • Broken Pedestal: A loyal Jedi until some point after the Clone Wars began, when he became disillusioned with the Jedi Order. Their inaction to the sanctioned strip-mine of his homeworld Artemesium by the Senate led him to believe they were simply thugs for the highest bidder hiding behind a thin layer of mystic tradition and ceremony.
  • The Brute: He's the second largest Inquisitor after the Ninth Sister, and he generally prefers use of brute force over tactical thinking. The Seventh Sister mocks him for his lack of foresight. Physically, he can overpower Zeb.
  • Co-Dragons: With Kallus and the Seventh Sister to Darth Vader in season 2.
  • Cool Helmet: His unique set of triangular headgear, despite a Running Gag in Battle Scars being how unwieldly his adversaries think it looks on his head, is made of a lightsaber-resistant material and has some practical use in a fight.
  • Corporate Samurai: The Fifth Brother's 3-corner helmet vaguely resembles that of a samurai's, and he's a loyal Inquisitor who was trained by Darth Vader. He further begins to resemble this in Obi-Wan Kenobi, due to receiving an Asian actor.
  • Cutting the Knot:
    • Favors the simple, direct approach. While effective, this clashes with the Seventh Sister. His straightforward moves are often sabotaged by her overcomplicated plots, while his bluntness and hammering often ruins her machinations. Knowing them, this is probably at least partially intentional.
    • In Dark Lord of the Sith, he's not happy with the Thirteenth Sister taking extra time to mess with the enemy as opposed to just completing the mission right then and there. It's implied that he ended up twisting this story in his report to Vader to get her in trouble.
  • Dissonant Serenity: As Vader looms over Iskat and Tualon with lightsaber drawn, he and the other Inquisitors look on from the other side of the room. While everyone else in the room has a look of shock or concern, the Fifth alone stands behind them all with a small, content smile.
  • The Dragon: In Obi-Wan Kenobi and Battle Scars, he's the primary enforcer for the Grand Inquisitor, being the only one with some semblance of loyalty to him.
  • Dressed to Plunder: Downplayed, but his tricorn-like hat, spanish accent, and basket-hilted Inquisitor lightsaber give him a vaguely "age of sail" aesthetic.
  • Dumb Muscle: Downplayed. He isn't stupid, per se, but his straightforward "kill the target at the earliest opportunity" approach, while pragmatic and efficient, comes across as short-sighted next to the Seventh Sister's long-term cunning. That being said, he's far more level-headed and eloquent than most examples of the trope and comes across as more reasonable next to the impulsive Third Sister.
  • Establishing Character Moment: His introduction in Rebels has him pull Konstantine away from supporting Kallus during the hunt for the Ghost crew and the clone veterans, purely so he could make an impression and set himself up to take credit for eventually catching the rebels himself. This deprives Kallus of critically needed air support, foreshadowing that Fifth Brother is too bullheaded to actually be that competent.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: At least standards when it comes to pragmatism, rather than any moral boundaries. The Fifth Brother is deeply annoyed by the Third Sister’s loose cannon tendencies due to how much time it wastes. In Rebels he was portrayed more as Dumb Muscle, but in Obi-Wan Kenobi he’s downright zen compared to Reva. When Fifth Brother of all people is telling you that you’re too reckless…
  • Evil Duo: With the Seventh Sister.
  • Evil Is Bigger: Towers over every hero he confronts in Rebels, save for Zeb, who he is instead unique among the antagonists for standing eye to eye with the Lasat.
  • Flat Character: The Brute of the Inquisitors who was once a Jedi and is apparently blind, but that's all you'll get out of him. He's given a greater deal of characterization in Obi-Wan Kenobi, which establishes him as a bit more pragmatic, but just as hungry to seize power as Reva. He also receives a single POV chapter in Battle Scars.
  • Force and Finesse: The Force to the Seventh Sister's Finesse. He uses his lightsaber far less than her, and those times he does use it are for straightforward attacks. He prefers to use the Force to send his opponents flying.
  • Foreshadowing: He is blind and presumably uses the Force to see. Kanan ends up like this shortly after the Fifth Brother dies.
  • Good Cop/Bad Cop: Despite his brutish nature, he winds up being the good cop to Reva's bad cop, as she's quick to dismember a random civilian for speaking out against her and nearly murders Owen out of impulsive rage, forcing Fifth Brother to reel her in and leave the people with the promise of rewards for information on the Jedi.
  • Grenade Hot Potato: He uses the Force to disarm Sabine's grenades, then throws them back at Zeb and Sabine, rearming them when they get close.
  • Gutted Like a Fish: Maul kills him by slashing him across his stomach with his lightsaber.
  • Handicapped Badass: He appears to have some sort of cataracts, rendering him physically blind, but he can use the Force to sense others.
  • Hidden Depths: Despite his outside arrogance, he holds a great internal respect for the Force for allowing him to see in his own way. Unfortunately, he sees his personal appreciation for it as the only "true path" toward enlightenment, which he uses as further justification to hate the Jedi.
  • Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: He is significantly taller and wider than the Seventh Sister. He is perhaps the tallest humanoid adult character in Rebels while she is the shortest.
  • Informed Ability: He's the highest ranking Inquisitor introduced after Season One, implying him to be the most powerful. While he has a lot of brute strength, he's ultimately much less competent than the lower-ranking Seventh Sister, and fares extremely poorly against Ahsoka while his companion put up a small fight. Later media reveals that he IS a high ranking Inquisitor, since he was the Grand Inquisitor's primary enforcer, and that the official death of his master finally gave him a chance to become the new Grand Inquisitor.
  • Jerkass: Downplayed. Unlike the other Inquisitors, he doesn't bother with maintaining the illusion of being polite, instead opting to be blunt about whatever situation he's in. That being said, he doesn't go out of his way to be repulsive, either.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: His complaints are solely to get the Third Sister removed from (temporary) command of the Inquisitorius so he can take her place, but the Fifth Brother raises an accurate point to Vader that not only did she fail to capture Obi-Wan Kenobi, but the Third Sister taking Leia hostage resulted in colossal damage to Fortress Inquisitorius when Obi-Wan rescued her from captivity.
  • Large and in Charge: He is one of the highest ranking Imperials on the show and he is freaking huge, being almost as tall as Zeb. Admiral Konstantine, who is of at least average height, looks like he is good half meter shorter than him. To put that in perspective, Darth Vader is only taller than the Grand Inquisitor by three centimeters — and the Grand Inquisitor was a full two meters in height.
  • Monochromatic Eyes: Unlike most Darksiders, his eyes are a solid pale color. invokedWord of God is that he is blind, so they might be cataracts. Notably, his eyes do not have this color in Obi-Wan Kenobi, implying he wasn't always blind.
  • Mythology Gag: His design looks like it takes inspiration from the Legends comic series Dark Empire, as illustrated by Cam Kennedy. The hulking shape, sharp teeth, overall facial structure, sharp angles throughout, and color scheme resemble his signature style.
  • Nice Job Fixing It, Villain:
    • In "Relics of the Old Republic", Kallus and Konstantine had the Rebels in their grasp, until he ordered Konstantine's Star Destroyer to rendezvous with his shuttle for no apparent reason, leaving Kallus without air support, allowing the Rebels to defeat him and escape. This is particularly silly because his shuttle has a hyperdrive, so he could have gone to them with no trouble.
    • In a stunning case of Bond Villain Stupidity in the next episode, "Always Two There Are", he refuses help from Kallus and Konstantine, going on his own without the backup of the Star Destroyer. Then, when he manages to disable both Sabine and Zeb, he takes Sabine as a hostage but leaves Zeb to two of the Seventh Sister's droids, which results in Zeb escaping and saving Ezra and Sabine.
  • Not Brainwashed: While many of the other Inquisitor's required an element of torture necessary to fully corrupt them into their roles, he revels in having abandoned the Jedi Order on his own terms.
  • Oh, Crap!:
    • He briefly shows fear when he recognizes the Sentinel — that is to say, the Force vision of the Grand Inquisitor back when he was a Jedi — at Lothal's Jedi Temple.
    • He and Eighth were doing pretty well against Kanan and Ahsoka in "Twilight of the Apprentice", up until Maul shows up and practically corners him. And then he dies.
  • Pragmatic Villainy: Unlike the Seventh Sister or one of the female Inquisitors, he has little patience for them toying around with their victims and would rather get it over with it. He has a point, since it wastes time and gives their targets an opportunity to flee. On the other hand, he lacks subtlety, which makes things more difficult when they need to be planned ahead and performed more discretely.
  • Pride: His key flaw as a soldier is that he overestimates his own abilities, refusing help from others even when it would benefit him.
  • Race Lift: Goes from being Spanish-influenced in Rebels to having a more Asian appearance in Obi-Wan Kenobi, due to being portrayed by Sung Kang in the latter show.
  • Redemption Rejection: Cere offers him the same chance of redemption she offered her former padawan when he comes across them on Murkhana. Unfortunately, he fully rejects them as he made the choice to become an Inquisitor and came to consider the Jedi's virtue a weakness on his own.
  • Scary Teeth: His teeth look rather shark-like and when he smiles, the effect is unsettling.
  • Sensor Character: He was able to sense Ezra's presence on an abandoned space station some distance away from Kallus's Star Destroyer. Later on, when he was hunting Sabine, he was able to sense her and Zeb hiding behind some crates.
  • Slasher Smile: He silently introduces himself to Sabine and Ezra with one as he ignites his lightsaber.
  • Small Name, Big Ego: He called Konstantine's Star Destroyer away from an active mission just to tell him that he would deal with the Ghost crew on his own. He easily could have used lightspeed to reach the Star Destroyer itself, but he had them go to his presence just for the purposes of making an impression.
  • Smug Snake: He's usually smug and condescending, but get an angry Vader in the room with him and he's just as terrified as any rational person would be. He can barely even muster a smirk when Vader manhandles Reva, knowing damn well he could be next.
  • The Starscream: Subverted. He wants the position of Grand Inquisitor too, but he's not openly treacherous about it.
  • Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: He has a low opinion of Kallus and Konstantine. The feeling is mutual. He also considers the Third Sister's violent tactics counterproductive and resents her trying to usurp him in the Inquisitorius's leadership.
  • Took a Level in Badass: Severely downplayed, but still somewhat present; in his first encounter with Ahsoka, she defeated him effortlessly even with the Seventh Sister helping him, but in their second encounter, he manages to put up a better fight against her by himself.
  • Villain Ball: Calling an active Star Destroyer away from a manhunt just so he could make an impression with his own arrival was an unbelievably stupid military strategy that cost the Empire three AT-ATs and the opportunity to apprehend or kill several wanted rebels. Then again, he may have done this deliberately as he wanted the credit for capturing the Rebels instead of Kallus.
  • We ARE Struggling Together:
    • He and the Seventh Sister are not just hunting rebel Force users. They are also competing against one another for a promotion. One suspects that part of the reason he tries to kill Ezra after the Seventh Sister had captured him is so that she wouldn't get the credit.
    • It's implied that he told Vader that Thirteenth Sister let her target go (to screw with them before apprehending them) to her in trouble. This results in her and Tualon Yaluna dying.
    • He also openly clashes and tries to undermine the Third Sister in Vader's eyes over who takes command of the Inquisitorius in the Grand Inquisitor's absence.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: Gets little characterization during his tenure on the show besides The Brute. However, he has more screentime during Obi-Wan Kenobi and other media featuring him.
  • The Worf Effect: When he goes up against Ahsoka along with the Seventh Sister in "The Future of the Force", Ahsoka is able to send him flying twice with almost no effort.
  • Wrecked Weapon:
    • During his pursuit of the Stinger Mantis, Cere is able to seize his lightsaber with the Force during their duel, and deconstructs it into several small pieces.
    • Ahsoka slices his lightsaber out of his hand seconds before Maul kills him.
  • You Don't Look Like You: The Fifth Brother's appearance in Obi-Wan Kenobi is an even more striking contrast than the Grand Inquisitor's. His voice and facial features now appear to be more Asian than Spanish due to being portrayed by Korean-American Sung Kang, and his face color has changed from black/grey to a more greenish hue. Furthermore, his eyes are no longer solid white like they were in Rebels. It's also a case of "You Don't Sound Like You", due to him sporting an Asian accent instead of a Latin one, and his voice is modulated unlike in Rebels.
  • Your Size May Vary: He's quite tall in Rebels, towering over average-sized humanoids, but in Obi-Wan Kenobi, he's relatively normal sized (Sung Kang is 6', which is taller than average, but not significantly so.)

    Sixth Brother 

Sixth Brother (Bil Valen)

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"I have a sense for power. And you do not have enough to resist me for much longer, weaponless as you are."

An Inquisitor of an unknown species who fought Ahsoka Tano a year after the rise of the Empire.


  • The Brute: Described as such. He is said to swing wildly and is relying more on his strength than skill, so Ahsoka uses her Waif-Fu skills to its best use.
  • Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: While fleeing from their Inquisitor Troopers after Barr uses Order 66 on them, Sixth Brother slices off Ninth Sister's leg so that she can't run and leaves her for dead at the mercy of their troops.
  • Color Motif: He has grey skin and his uniform is mostly grey. The protagonists, who don't know what his title is, call him "the grey creature".
  • Cool Helmet: Has a black helmet with a blast shield, somewhat similar to the Eighth Brother's and the Grand Inquisitor's.
  • Depending on the Artist: The comics can't quite decide how grey his skin is supposed to be, alternating between a flat grey and a muted green-grey, sometimes even going for flat-out green.
  • Due to the Dead: When he dies, it occurs to Ahsoka that he may not be completely at fault in serving the dark side. She covers his face as an act of compassion.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: The solicitation for Issue #7 cover (the issue after his debut) showed his arm and lightsaber while the rest of his body is conveniently offscreen.
  • Expy: He looks similar to the Fifth Brother, having grey skin and being The Brute, as well as being of an unknown species. Mostly because of the Mythology Gag behind their designs.
  • Good Scars, Evil Scars: He is described as having some kind of ritual scarring on his face.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: Ahsoka messes up the structure of his lightsaber hilt when she reaches out for his kyber crystals, exploding his lightsaber in front of his face.
  • Icy Blue Eyes: Described as having such.
  • Irony: His helmet has a blast shield, which would've protected his face from nearby explosions. It would've been useful if he had kept it on when he fought Ahsoka.
  • Kick the Dog: His betrayal of the Ninth Sister is especially cruel because, as he even admits, their combined Force push would likely have been more then enough to keep the Purge Troopers away and give them time to escape. He only wished to have further insurance he could get away at her expense.
  • Mythology Gag: Like the Fifth Brother, he is based off of concept art of a Knight of Ren for The Force Awakens.
  • Pet the Dog: He makes a mental note of giving an Imperial officer a commendation in hopes of bettering the communicative relations between Imperials and Inquisitorius. He also factors in making the job easier for his Inquisitorius brothers and sisters.
  • The Stoic: Implied. The first thing we see him doing is meditating while the other Inquisitors spar, and is seen calmly standing when meeting with the Grand Inquisitor, the Emperor, and Darth Vader (in contrast to the Seventh's impatient stature, Ninth's alertness, Fifth's apathy, and Eighth's eagerness).
  • Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: His interactions with the other Inquisitors are sparse, but he seems to hold a specific spot of animosity for the Ninth Sister. He is the subject of her and the Tenth Brother's ribbing, and when the Purge Troopers attack them both, he severs her leg and leaves her for dead, snidely wishing her luck as he flees the building.
  • Terse Talker: He's not much of a talker, only speaking if he needs a report from an officer or such.
  • Underestimating Badassery: He feels he has nothing to fear from Ahsoka because she is just a Jedi Padawan. Fans of The Clone Wars will know that Ahsoka is far more than a Padawan, in fact before leaving the order she was offered a promotion to full Jedi Knight.
  • Walking Spoiler: His numerical rank reveals that there must at least be six Inquisitors already within a year of the Empire's establishment.
  • Would Hurt a Child: His first scene has him on Thabeska investigating a report of a Force-sensitive child, having difficulty finding them due to the sheer number of Fardi cousins, and he muses about organizing an "accident" to kill all of them, which he doesn't do solely due to his orders being retrieval.
    Sadly, he didn't kill children. He only retrieved them for his masters.
  • Wrecked Weapon: His lightsaber is destroyed when Ahsoka uses the Force to pull on the kyber crystals inside, causing it to explode.

    Seventh Sister 

Seventh Sister

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"Unexpected, but not unwelcome."

Species: Mirialan

Homeworld: Mirial

"As pretty as you are, I only need you alive. That doesn't mean in one piece."

An Inquisitor, the Seventh Sister utilizes ID9 seeker droids to hunt her prey and gain an advantage in battle. Ambitious for the rank of Grand Inquisitor, she joined the hunt alongside the Fifth Brother for the rebel Jedi without the spoken word of her master, Darth Vader.


  • Alliterative Name: Seventh Sister.
  • Always a Bigger Fish: She is killed by Maul.
  • Ambition Is Evil: The reason for her Big Bad Wannabe behavior is because she wants to be Grand Inquisitor, now that there's a power vacuum.
  • Big Bad Wannabe: At first, she seems to be building up as this, being the Inquisitor more focused on than the Fifth or the Eighth and is shown with more skill and brains than either, but this is ultimately for naught because Maul and Vader, the true Big Bads, get the spotlight after the former kills her.
  • Black Eyes of Crazy: Much like her predecessor her sclera are jet black during Rebels, all but marking her as an antagonist. However, during both of her appearances in Dark Lord of the Sith, her sclera are white, indicating that either an unspecified event caused the change suddenly, or that she really just got that much more evil and corrupted over time. In Twilight of the Apprentice, her sclera were white in coloration, and from up close right before her death, they were black.
  • Brains and Brawn: The Brains to the Fifth Brother's Brawn. She chastises him for trying to kill Ezra without thinking ahead.
  • Break the Haughty: The Seventh Sister, who has always thought highly of herself and laughed at Ezra's weakness for not killing enemies, ends up defeated by Maul and Ezra. Just when she gains a Hope Spot, Maul decides to finish her off himself.
  • Brutal Honesty: The Seventh Sister usually enjoys her job of hunting Jedi. But in a Freeze-Frame Bonus in her first appearance, she said that the "Jedi of old" are dead to Ezra as her prisoner. Her expression of saying that didn't appear to look happy when she tilted her head down, her tone even demonstrating this trope. Ezra foolishly counters about her saying that the Jedi are dead. Order 66 did destroy the Republic and kill off a handful of Jedi, but some survived such as her. That was for a brief moment.
    Seventh Sister: The Jedi of old are dead.
    Ezra: Not all of them!
  • Co-Dragons: With Kallus and the Fifth Brother to Darth Vader in Season 2.
  • Collapsible Helmet: Her mask is retractable, likely using the Force.
  • Combat Pragmatist: She uses a large group of Mimic Droids in addition to her lightsaber skills.
  • Complexity Addiction: Both a strength and a weakness. While her skills for manipulation makes her very dangerous, it also makes her a poor partner for the Fifth Brother. His blunt straightforwardness keeps her plans from being as effective as they should be, while her penchant for mindgames ruin his attempts to resolve their problems simply.
  • Dark Action Girl: It comes with being an Inquisitor.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Judging by what we have seen of her so far she is very, very sarcastic.
    Ezra: You're an Inquisitor!
    Seventh Sister: Oh good, I don't have to explain it to you. So, you know what comes next?
  • Drone Deployer: She uses a lot of Mimic Droids, which electrocute people and are capable of impersonating their voices.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Despite having a fierce rivalry with Iskat Akaris/Thirteenth Sister, she's genuinely taken aback when Vader tries to kill her.
  • Evil Duo: With the Fifth Brother, though they initially did not expect the other to show up.
  • Expy: Visually-speaking, she bears a strong resemblance to Barriss Offee apart from having different tattoos. Given all Inquisitors are former Jedi, and Barriss fell to the Dark Side, she had to be clarified to be a completely separate character.
  • Femme Fatalons: She has claws on her gloves.
  • Faux Affably Evil: She gets a kick out of acting polite and caring while mocking and torturing her victims.
  • Flat Character: A sadistic Inquisitor who was once a Jedi and is more intelligent than the Fifth Brother but other than that, there's nothing much else for her character as of yet. Her databank says that her backstory remains a mystery, indicating that her past is worth knowing. Rise of the Red Blade reveals some stuff about her, the novel mentioning she once trained under Aayla Secura when she was a Jedi.
  • Force and Finesse: The Finesse to the Fifth Brother's Force. She focuses more on lightsaber combat, mostly using the Force to overpower or pin an opponent she's already beaten.
  • Force-Choke: By Maul. Ezra was supposed to take her down, but since he couldn't, Maul did it for him.
  • Gory Discretion Shot: Her death. We see her scream as Maul's lightsaber flies at her, it cuts to Ezra reacting in shock, and then a shot of her lightsaber falling and what's implied to be only the lower half of her body falling to her knees and collapsing.
  • Green-Skinned Space Babe: A typical trait for the Mirialan species.
  • Half the Man He Used to Be: Maul bisects her at the torso.
  • Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: She isn't really tiny, she is about average height, but considering how the Fifth Brother is so damn big it has this effect.
  • Just Toying with Them:
    • During her fight with Iskat Akaris, the eventual Thirteenth Sister, she has a spar with her, just seeing if she’s worthy of putting up a fight. When Iskat’s power in the Dark Side helps her get an edge, she immediately gets more offensive.
    • In Rebels, her main target is Ahsoka, but she likes playing cat and mouse with Kanan and Ezra.
  • Male Might, Female Finesse: She fights much more elegantly compared to the Fifth Brother's brutish fighting style in lightsaber combat.
  • Manipulative Bastard: She is described as conniving, manipulative, and a master of deception.
  • No Sense of Personal Space: She gets uncomfortably close to anyone she's interrogating, usually in the form of lovingly caressing their face.
  • Oh, Crap!:
  • Older Than They Look: When we meet her in Rebels, she appears to be in her twenties, like Kanan and Hera. Dark Lord of the Sith reveals that she looked the same as she did a decade and a half ago, meaning either Mirialans age slower than humans or her age has been artificially halted.
  • Parrot Pet Position: She usually has a Mimic Droid riding her shoulder.
  • Personal Space Invader: Gets very close to Ezra while interrogating him.
  • Psychopathic Womanchild: There's a certain immaturity to her demeanor that only makes her more terrifying.
  • Sadist: While most Imperials are callous bastards drunk on their own power, the Seventh Sister clearly enjoys hurting others and getting attention from it. She plays cruel mind games with Ezra and amuses herself by stirring up trouble or hurting people.
  • Scarily Competent Tracker: Goes hand-in-hand with being a Manipulative Bitch, which makes her much more dangerous than the Grand Inquisitor. She's got probe droids that scour old Republic bases to look out for Rebel activity.
  • Shock and Awe: Her Mimic Droids can electrocute whatever they touch.
  • The Smurfette Principle: The only female Inquisitor introduced in Rebels.
  • Spikes of Villainy: Her lightsaber ring has spiky protrusions, compared to the Grand Inquisitor's more utilitarian design.
  • Suspiciously Similar Substitute: You may be forgiven to believe that the Seventh Sister is actually Barriss Offee, a female Mirialan Jedi who was disillusioned by the Jedi Order and was taken into custody by the Republic for war crimes, including framing her best friend Ahsoka, who also appears in Rebels. Despite in being in the perfect position to become an Inquisitor herself, Barriss is confirmed not to be the Seventh Sister and that this possibly for the best as the Seventh Sister doesn't get much character depth or dynamic in the series, with her being unceremoniously killed off by Maul.
  • Supernatural Gold Eyes: She has the typical Dark Side user's yellow irises.
  • Tattoo as Character Type: Like all Mirialans. Notably, hers are rather minimalist compared to Mirialan Jedi.
  • The Vamp: She's quite beautiful and she knows it, hence why she tries to flirt with Kanan on one occasion.
  • Villain Takes an Interest: She implies in conversation that she would be up to training Ezra herself, should he turn. Apart from it being an Inquisitor's job to recruit Force-sensitive children, she uses the absence of other prominent Jedi in the galaxy as a justification for this.
  • Villainesses Want Heroes: She's somewhat flirtatious with Ezra, although her doing the same with others shows that she's doing it just to mess with him. She does seem to genuinely find Kanan attractive, when admitting she prefers brains to Kanan's good looks.invoked
  • Voice of the Legion: Even with her voice-altering mask off, there's an unnatural reverb to her voice. It might have to do with being corrupted by the Dark Side or Vader damaged her voice box as her initiation injury into the Inquisitorius, resulting in a cybernetic replacement.
  • Voice Changeling: Her Mimic Droids can copy any voice they've heard, even the droidspeak of other droids.
  • We ARE Struggling Together: She and the Fifth Brother are actively competing against each other since the Grand Inquisitor's death opened up opportunities for advancement in the Inquisitorius.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: Dies without much characterization or backstory.
  • Why Did You Make Me Hit You?: While trying to Mind Rape Ezra, she tells him that he is making her do this by not telling her what she needs to know.
  • The Worf Effect:
    • When she goes up against Ahsoka in "The Future of the Force", she can't land a hit, and Ahsoka goes so far as to deliberately lower her guard so the Seventh Sister has an opening, only to catch her lightsaber mid-swing, deactivate it, then take it from her before Force-pushing her into a pillar hard enough to crack it.
    • She's at least able to hold her own against Ahsoka, even though the more experienced ex-Jedi is clearly the superior fighter. In contrast, she and the other Inquisitors are forced to straight up run away from Maul, who later kills her effortlessly after Ezra refuses to do it.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Invokes this by indicating she plans to kill Ezra and Sabine once they have served as bait to lure in Ahsoka and Kanan.
    Seventh Sister: Once we have the others, we'll dispose of these two... very slowly.

    Eighth Brother 

Eighth Brother

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"Three Jedi..."

Species: Terrelian Jango Jumper

Homeworld: Terrelia

Voiced by: Robbie Daymond
"Masters? We have only one master; the Emperor."

An Inquisitor sent to investigate rumors of Darth Maul's presence on Malachor.


  • Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism: While female Terrelian Jango Jumpers have human-like hands and feet (though the last one may be hard to tell due to footwear), the Eighth Brother's hands have two fingers and two thumbs each and he has tridactyl feet.
  • Chainsaw Good: Has a buzzsaw built into his lightsaber's hilt.
  • Combat Pragmatist: Uses ambushes, hit and run tactics and explosives to even the odds in a fight against Ahsoka, Ezra and Kanan.
  • Cool Helmet: Bearing some similarities to both Darth Vader's and Kylo Ren's.
  • Disney Villain Death: He tries to fly off on his damaged saber, only for it to snap in two and send him plummeting to the ground.
  • Epic Fail: Tries to fly away using his Wrecked Weapon. This works as well as you'd expect. Although it was a bit better of an option than staying there.
  • The Faceless: It's never shown what his face looks like beneath his mask. His character model sheet, however, indicates that his helmet is meant to be removable in animation, unlike the ones of other characters wearing hats/helmets who have never taken them off.
  • Fatal Flaw: Despite his self-preservationism, he is shown to be very reckless, jumping head-on into danger without thinking straight, which gets him killed.
  • Flat Character: He's another Inquisitor who tags along with the Seventh Sister and Fifth Brother, but he has no characteristics beyond being more of a self-preservationist with a reckless streak.
  • Know When to Fold 'Em: Despite his impulsive nature, he knows when to back down from a fight he can't win. For example:
    • He runs from Ahsoka and Jarrus since they outnumber him.
    • After his allies are killed and he is left alone to face two Jedi and a renegade Sith, he has the sense to throw in the towel and book it... unfortunately, his saber was too damaged and he wound up dying anyway.
  • Last Episode, New Character: He first appears in the two-part finale of Season Two.
  • Nobody Here but Us Statues: He's seen hiding among the plaster cast corpses of Malachor.
  • Older Than They Look: Or, older than they act. He sounds young (especially since his voice actor often voices young men) and is implicitly looked down on for being younger & making bold and brash decisions. One could assume that he's in his twenties. Dark Lord of the Sith reveals that he's the same age as he was a decade and a half ago before the events of Rebels, meaning that either Terrelian Jango Jumpers age slowly, his age has been artificially halted, or he's always been a cocky Psychopathic Man Child.
  • Spikes of Villainy: On his lightsaber.
  • Stealthy Mook: Ezra, Kanan, and Ahsoka failed to sense his presence on Malachor even though he was actively trailing after them.
  • Stuff Blowing Up: Uses bombs for attacks from a distance when he still needs his lightsaber.
  • Throw Down the Bomblet: He tosses bombs as a part of his personal arsenal.
  • Voice of the Legion: Like the Seventh Sister, there's an odd reverb to his voice.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: Falls to his death in the same episode he's introduced.
  • Wrecked Weapon: His lightsaber splits into two in mid-flight, thanks to Kanan slashing the ring mechanism just prior.

    Ninth Sister 

Ninth Sister (Masana Tide)

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"Get over here, we're not done!"

Species: Dowutin

Homeworld: Duwut

Voiced by: Misty Lee
"Me, though? I'm the sensitive type. I was always good at reading emotions, and now that I'm touching the dark side, I'm even better."

An Inquisitor that assisted Vader early on in his hunt for surviving Force-sensitives.


  • Alas, Poor Villain: In the end, her complete mental subjugation to the Inquisitorius proves too great for her to move past, and Cal is forced to put her down after a reminder of her former identity drives her to a borderline feral rage. Despite everything she put him through, Cal is noticeably shaken up when he finishes her off.
  • Arc Villain: The main villain of the Kashyyyk arc of Jedi: Fallen Order.
  • Affably Evil: She's casual, even around Vader, even when he makes it clear that his patience is waning regarding it. The Thirteenth Sister/Iskat Akaris views her as one of the few Inquisitors she can practice dueling against safely because of her more affable nature. However, this doesn't apply to her targets.
  • An Arm and a Leg: After Barr turns their Purge Troopers against them using Order 66, Sixth Brother cuts off Ninth Sister's leg and leaves her for dead as he flees so that they go after her instead. However, she apparently survived the incident as indicated by her appearance in Jedi: Fallen Order, where she is sporting a robotic leg. Cal cuts off her hand in their final duel, but it doesn't do much to slow her down, forcing Cal to shove her off the tree top.
    Ninth Sister: Being an Inquisitor taught me that no set-back is too great. When you've already lost yourself... A limb's easy.
  • And Your Little Dog, Too!: Threatens to kill Cere and Greez while dueling with Cal.
    Ninth Sister: Who should I kill first, the human or the Lateron?!
  • Back for the Dead: She survives her Disney Villain Death fall on Kashyyk in Fallen Order, returning to serve as the first boss in Jedi Survivor, where Cal puts her down for good.
  • Being Tortured Makes You Evil: In Fallen Order, she eventually goes on an increasingly furious rant while fighting Cal Kestis about how the torture that goes into making an Inquisitor — how the Empire will rip him to pieces and stitch the broken pieces together until there's nothing of him left, clearly projecting her own past to him.
    Ninth Sister: It'd be fun to bring you in. Watch you crack like the rest of us! Angers you. Just wait 'til the Isolation. Torture. Mutilation. And your friends...
    Cal: I won't let you touch them!
    Ninth Sister: YOU CAN'T STOP THE EMPIRE!
    Cal: I can stop YOU!
  • Betrayal by Inaction: When the Cha family come to kill Vader with an EMP, Ninth leaves Vader to his fate by pretending to have her comm link be too fried to hear his demand for assistance. This leaves her with just enough deniability to spare her his wrath when he survives and returns for her.
  • Bond Villain Stupidity: At the start of Fallen Order when Cal is first uncovered on Bracca, he is thrown by the Second Sister into the Ninth's grip. With Cal defenseless and being held by the scruff of the neck, she could kill him in any manner of efficient ways, but instead opts to turn around and toss him off a cliff. He survives thanks to a passing train and goes on to defeat her in their next confrontation much later.
  • Brawn Hilda: She is as massive and brutish as a typical Dowutin, and compared to other Inquisitors, especially the Second Sister who she hunts Cal alongside, she relies more on her natural strength in place of acrobatics or agility.
  • Broken Bird: An apparent once gentle giant and heroic Jedi, who was broken down by the Empire into a deeply cynical Jedi hunter.
  • The Brute: The largest known Inquisitor, even bigger than the Fifth Brother. This is lampshaded as a problem later, as she cannot perform acrobatics like the smaller Inquisitors, but she's definitely the toughest of them.
  • Combat Clairvoyance: How she utilizes her ability to read people in combat, come Survivor. She looks into Cal's mind to see how he plans to attack and then quickly dodges his strikes. This comes with the downside of needing her to stop attacking to focus her mind and loses its reliability when Cal begins Dual Wielding.
  • Determinator: A dark example. Even after losing her eye, leg, and hand, the Ninth Sister keeps on fighting. After all, limbs are easily replaced when you've lost everything else, including yourself.
  • The Dead Have Names: The achievement for defeating her is literally named "Her name was Masana Tide" (which is the only time it is stated in game). This is combined with her having spent the whole fight bragging about how much stronger she believes 'losing' herself made her & the knowing way she's spent the game telling Cal Inquisitors always 'break' their quarry 'in the end'.
  • Death by Irony: Apparently so. During the opening of Fallen Order, she attempts to kill Cal Kestis by throwing him over a cliff. At the end of their fight on Kashyyyk, he puts her down — at least for the time being until Jedi Survivor — by doing exactly that.
  • Disney Villain Death: Cal seemingly kills the Ninth Sister by using the Force to shove her off the Origin Tree, but even the in-game database points out that you Never Found the Body until Jedi Survivor, which happily confirms her survival... though not for long.
  • Do Not Call Me "Paul": Non-verbal example. When Cal addresses her by her true name during their rematch in Suvivor, it clearly gets under the Ninth Sister's skin, as it dredges up all the negative feelings she has toward herself.
  • The Empath: She claims that her power in the Force mainly revolves around sensing others' emotions. She only demonstrates this by reading Vader's desire to fight and kill Jedi, which anyone with a modicum of sensibility would feel anyway, but she did also sense his desire to die.
    • She later uses this ability offensively during her duel against Cal Kestis in Jedi: Survivor, playing mind games by calling him out on his guilt and even anticipating his attacks by going into a Pstandard Psychic Pstance.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Looks into Vader's mind, and decides he's a monster who deserves to die. While she never makes the mistake of trying to take him out herself, she doesn't hesitate to leave him at the mercy of others when the opportunity arises.
  • Evil Is Bigger: No smaller or skinnier then is typical of a Dowutin, whose average height is 8-9 feet tall, and the physical contrast between herself and Cal is made abundantly clear throughout their confrontations.
  • Eye Scream: She suffered her first in what would be several "lessons in loss" for her specifically when her left eye was slashed out by Vader while he trained her and the other Inquisitors.
  • Fantastic Racism: Openly looks down on Cal for being a "Bracca scrap rat" and throws out insults over it in her taunts during her boss fight. She even brings it back up during her taunts in Survivor. Given the planet is run by the Scrapper's Guild, who were once Separatist sympathizers, she may hold old grudges over the people for supporting the faction she fought against in the Clone Wars.
    Ninth: Once a rat, always a rat!
  • Force and Finesse: The brutish, physically imposing, and thunderous Force to the Second Sister's nimble, calculating, and reserved Finesse who make up the duo of Inquisitors pursuing Cal throughout Fallen Order.
  • Gentle Giant: She claims she was one before she had her Face–Heel Turn.
  • Glory Seeker: She notes Cal's development into an infamous figure as the most well-known surviving Jedi among both the Inquisitorius and general public in the five years following their first encounter. During their duel on Coruscant, she comments with a sadistic glee that killing him will make her a legend.
  • Ground Punch: One of her attacks is to kneel down and punch the ground several times, sending out a wave of dangerous ash kicking up in all directions with each impact. Cal must either jump over the rings of smoke, or back off to the edges of the arena until she is finished.
  • Handicapped Badass: A dangerous, skilled and downright unstoppable combatant even after losing an eye and later, one of her legs. When she returns in Survivor, she is still a threat to the much more skilled Cal despite also losing her dominant hand last time they fought.
  • Hero Killer: By the time Cal leaves Coruscant, she is responsible for the death of the entire crew he assembled between games. She directly kills the Klatooinian twins, while Gabs is killed by gunship fire she orders on Cal, and even after her death, Bravo is shot down by Imperial troops while he, Cal, and new guy Bode make their getaway.
  • Horned Humanoid: Like every other Dowutin, she has two horns on her chin.
  • Horns of Villainy: She has two horns on her chin and is a vicious and relentless Inquisitor.
  • Immaturity Insult: During her shutdown of Ferren Barr and his attempt to remind them of their old ways, she reveals they know all about his past as well. She mocks him as a "Little baby," for only being an overly ambitious Padawan with no one left to ever make him anything more.
  • Ironic Name: In Xitsongu, "masana" means sunrise. Considering she's a Fallen Hero from the End of an Era, a sunset (which is also associated with twilight) would better fit her.
  • It's Personal: Following her defeat in Fallen Order she harbors a personal grudge against Cal that lasts years after Kashyyyk. When they finally meet again on Coruscant in Survivor, she relishes in finally making good on her threat to kill his friends and face him again.
  • Kick the Dog: Before her duel with Cal on Kashyyyk, she tries to kill the extremely rare Shyyyo bird from her gunship. This action also sets the peak of the Origin Tree, a landmark important for the nature-loving Wookie's coming of age rituals, ablaze.
  • Literal Disarming: In their final fight in Fallen Order, Cal Kestis cuts her sword hand off. It doesn't slow the Ninth Sister too much as she continues to fight with her left, and Cal has to resort to Force-pushing her off a tall drop to beat her.
  • Made of Iron: She is ridiculously hardy, which seems to be owed to her Dowutin parentage. Other then shrugging off the loss of limbs with relative ease, at the end of their duel, Cal slashes her across the back with his lightsaber and she is only momentarily stunned by the strike. In Survivor, being slashed across the chest staggers her, but doesn't stop her from going back on the offensive until being killed in a far more finite manner.
  • Mind over Matter: Displays an affection for the use of telekinesis in combat. In her boss battle, she drags Cal toward her with the Force if he stays out of her range for too long. In Survivor, she skewers Senator Sejan through the chest with her lightsaber and then pulls him through the air to her hand by the saber.
  • Never Found the Body: We never see what became of her after Cal shoves her off the Origin Tree. He's confident it's the last he'll see of the Ninth Sister, but she's been left for dead before, and even the in-game database entry questions whether she's really dead...
  • Offscreen Moment of Awesome:
    • After her leg is cut off, she successfully fights off the remaining half-dozen Purge Troopers the Sixth Brother left her to the mercy of and escapes Mon Cala off-panel.
    • Following her defeat in Fallen Order, she survives a fall from the tallest tree on Kashyyyk, and proceeds to escape the Shadowlands alone, one-handed, and completely offscreen.
  • Off with His Head!: How Cal finishes his fight with her in Jedi Survivor. She isn't coming back for round three.
  • Removing the Rival: Her killing of Senator Sejan is a mix of this and Offing the Annoyance. She correctly deduces he was going behind the Inquisitor's backs and took Cal himself to undercut them, and disposes of him under the pretense of "harboring a traitor" to prevent the Jedi killers from being redundant in the eyes of the Emperor. (Sejan running his mouth didn't make it any harder).
  • Sad Clown: Compared to the other Inquisitors (and most dark siders in general), she is very jovial and sarcastic — which at first sells how little she cares about the people she's hurt. But under duress, she reveals the truth of all Inquisitors: she was tortured and broken to become the way she has, and she hates herself for it.
  • Sinister Shades: All of her helmets come with a connected pair of thick, red-tinted transparisteel covers over both eyes. They may serve the practical purpose of enhancing her vision in some way, considering Dowutins are genetically predisposed to poor eyesight, on top of her being one eye short.
  • Starter Villain: Of Survivor, to showcase how much stronger and more confident in himself Cal has become since their first duel on Kashyyyk.
  • Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: For unknown reasons, her affability does not extend to the Sixth Brother. She gladly makes a crack about his scent along with the Tenth Brother, and when push comes to shove on Mon Cala, Sixth doesn't hesitate to sever her leg and leave her for dead.
  • Terminator Impersonator: While not a robotic being, she fits some of the trope's perks such as an Implacable Man who survives various limb disarming while replacing them with cybernetics, survives near death experiences, relentlessly hunts down Jedi, and will not stop ever until the Empire rules the entire galaxy.
  • They Just Dont Get It: She claims that her Force specialty is that she's a people-person. After talking to Vader, she remarks to herself that he doesn't even know himself; that he wants to fight because he wants to die.
  • Trash Talk: Ninth Sister is scathing during her fight with Cal.
    Ninth Sister: What's this? A Bracca scrap rat playing Jedi? I told the Grand Inquisitor you wouldn't be stupid enough to show your face here again, especially after we wiped out that feeble resistance. Love it when I'm wrong.
  • Turn the Other Cheek: She doesn't hold it against Vader for cutting out her eye, but it seems to be more that she's accepted that she can't do anything about it than not caring at all. When Vader gets caught in an ambush and calls for her to bring him a lightsaber (having lost his own), she pretends she never received the message.
  • Uncertain Doom: She likes to dance with this trope. When the Purge Troopers turned on her and Sixth Brother in The Burning Seas, the latter severed her leg and left her for dead. She managed to survive and came back with a prosthetic leg to hunt for Cal in Fallen Order. She seemingly meets her demise once again when Cal shoves her off the Origin Tree, but we're never shown what happened to her and the in-game database questions whether she's really dead. Jedi Survivor reveals that, yes, she did survive, and she comes back for another round against Cal. This time, she isn't so lucky.
  • Underestimating Badassery: Repeatedly dismisses Cal as "trash" to the point she begins their duel with only one of her lightsaber's dual blades active. To her credit, she course corrects when he starts to land blows on her, but it's clear from her taunts she never sees him as a worthy opponent even as he gets the better of her.
  • Villain Forgot to Level Grind: Downplayed in Jedi Survivor, as Ninth Sister did take the time to train and has new powers to use against Cal. Unfortunately for her, Cal has trained even more than she has, and defeats her permanently in their rematch.
  • Villainous Breakdown: Goes into a furious rant at Cal Kestis about how his efforts to fight the Empire are futile after being dismembered, leaving her open to Cal pushing her off the edge. She has another one in Jedi Survivor when Cal calls her by her real name and reminds her of her time as a Jedi Knight. She can only pace in silent anger and confusion at this, not even offering her usual threats, before she finally attacks and leaves herself open to let him land the final blow.

    Tenth Brother 

Tenth Brother (Prosset Dibs)

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"Your hubris shall be your undoing! And I will laugh as I stand over your fallen corpse!"
Click to see him as a Jedi. 

Species: Miraluka

"I feel an unease in the Force. All of our teachings and our beliefs are being tested. I find myself unsure of the steps in front of me."

A Miraluka Jedi Knight. In place of his species' lack of physical sight, his intuition and insight have made him valuable to the Jedi Order to the point he was acknowledged as such by Mace Windu and the Jedi Council. Because of his skill, Master Windu recruited him on a reconnaissance mission to Hissrich.

However, the events of that mission caused Proset to lose faith in the Jedi and Republic, falling to the Dark Side. He was eventually recruited as an Inquisitor by Darth Sidious and alongside the Sixth Brother and Ninth Sister, accompanied Vader in subjugating the early rebellion on Mon Cala.


  • Ambiguous Situation: It is currently unknown why he was absent from Vader's first introduction to the Inquisitorius.
  • Blind Weaponmaster: Like other well-known Miraluka characters before him, he qualifies as this. Despite his lack of eyes, his enhanced senses and strong Force aptitude allow him to fight with as much skill as any Jedi Master.
  • Canon Immigrant: He was the first known Miraluka to be introduced into canon.
  • Conspiracy Theorist: He ultimately came to the conclusion that the Jedi Council was profiteering off of the Clone War, and encouraging the ensuing desolation for their own benefit — which, while the Jedi did go adrift in other ways thanks to the war, never even approached being true. Ultimately, this belief enrages him so much that he tries to kill Mace and happily joins the Inquisitors years later to hunt down Jedi survivors of the Purge.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Has a dry quip every now and then. This trend continues as an Inquisitor, as seen with the exchange upon arrival to Mon Cala in The Burning Seas.
    Tenth Brother: Smells like fish.
    Ninth Sister: That's just Sixth Brother.
    Tenth Brother: More like fish, then.
    Sixth Brother: Hilarious.
  • Dual Wielding: Unusually for an Inquisitor, he has two lightsabers, which appear to be single-bladed shotos. Whether this is a result of his Inquisitor lightsaber being cleaved in half (which has happened in Obi-Wan Kenobi and the Loose Canon The Freemaker Adventures), he's an exceptionnote , or something else is currently unknown.
  • Eyeless Face: Being a Miraluka, Prosset doesn't have either eyes or eye sockets.
  • Face Framed in Shadow: Since Miraluka (at least according to Legends) don't have eye sockets, they usually wear something over where it would be so that other people don't get disturbed by it or that part of their body isn't really important to show. Prosset's hood is shorter than what we've seen so far from previous Miraluka, so whenever art shows where his eyes would be, they're scribbled in shadow.
  • Face–Heel Turn: Frustrated with the Jedi Order's inability to protect others and maintain peace as a result of taking up military titles in the Clone Wars, he blames the Jedi Council for this and fights Mace. Though he voiced the intent to leave the Jedi Order to follow his own path, Mace apprehends him and sends him to the Council to be processed. The Council would've sentenced him to death had Mace not vouched for him to work probation in the Archives instead. Somewhere along the way, it leads to him joining the Inquisitors.
  • Fantastic Racism: Shows a disdain for the Clones even as a Jedi, seeing them as an expendable force who are good only for following ingrained orders. His last words are to disparage them for doing exactly that, to his detriment.
  • Five-Second Foreshadowing: In Dark Lord of the Sith Issue #16, it gets mentioned that he has no eyes (in case you couldn't tell from the artstyle) and that he has excellent hearing to make up for it. It gets indirectly confirmed at the end of the issue that he is a Miraluka when Ferren Barr identifies him as Prosset Dibs.
  • Foreshadowing: While arguing with Mace about whether or not the Council is corrupt, Mace dismisses his claims as "bold accusations" and "grand inquisitions".
  • History Repeats: Later in the Clone Wars, Barriss would have similar views to Dibs and would lash out against the Jedi Order as well, though in a more carefully planned way.
  • Karmic Death: He turned to the Dark Side over disillusionment with the Jedi Order for their increasing militarization and self-interest. By the time he is an Inquisitor (who serve a significant role in enforcing a militarized fascist government), he is killed by the last remaining troops of the soldiers the Jedi led into battle after Ferren Barr (who he tried to hunt) makes them execute Order 66.
  • Multiple Gunshot Death: The Purge Troopers gun him down when Ferren Barr activates their inhibitor chips and makes them execute Order 66.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Mace turning in Prosset Dibs to the Jedi Council instead of letting him pursue his own path ultimately leads to Prosset becoming the Tenth Brother. In fairness, there's no telling if he still would've been troublesome if he had been let go anyways.
  • Non-Standard Character Design: His outfit is more robe-like than what we've seen from Inquisitors so far, not to mention that he dual-wields.
  • Pungeon Master: He is particularly fond of eye-related puns that poke fun of his lack of sight.
  • Reverse Grip: As an Inquisitor, this is how he holds his two lightsabers.
  • Starter Villain: He is the first Fallen Jedi to be fought during the Clone Wars, but certainly not the last...
  • Starter Villain Stays: As the Tenth Brother, after the end of the Clone Wars.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: He is killed in the issue right after Barr reveals that he is Prosset Dibs.
  • White Hair, Black Heart: He has white hair and is an Inquisitor.

    Thirteenth Sister 

Thirteenth Sister (Iskat Akaris)

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"The Jedi Order is ended. And I'm not joining them."

Species: Pkorian

Homeworld: Pkori

"I have chosen to free my hearts and soul from the shackles that have held me down for so long. I refuse to bury the parts of myself that I love best."

An Inquisitor that, alongside the Fifth Brother and Tualon, accompanied Vader in confronting Eeth Koth and abducting his newborn. Prior to that, she was once the Jedi Padawan Iskat Akaris, who was formerly Jedi Master Sember Vey's Padawan before the First Battle of Geonosis.


  • Admiring the Abomination: She is awed when the Jedi tell her about General Grievous, the Supreme Martial Commander of the Separatist Droid Armies trained by Count Dooku to kill Jedi, and wishes to face the Kaleesh warlord herself.
  • All of the Other Reindeer: A training accident that left Tika crippled and led to her leaving the Jedi Order caused the rest of Iskat's cohort, with the exception of Tualon, to shun her out of fear and dislike. Iskat's enhanced hearing allowed her to overhear their whispers about her and other comments putting her down.
  • Amazing Technicolor Population: She's of the Pkorian, a red-skinned species. Combine that with her Creepy Long Fingers and sadism, and you have this demon-like woman.
  • Ascended Extra: From a completely unidentified Inquisitor who was introduced and killed off in the span of two issues, to the protagonist of Rise of the Red Blade, which delved into her mindset and past, as well as revealing her real name and Inquisitor title.
  • Been There, Shaped History: Iskat is the reason why the Seventh Sister uses the ID9 Seeker Droids throughout the events of Rebels, since she used the Force to pull down a swarm of spiderbats during their duel. She's also the reason why the Inquisitorius is moved from the Inquisitorius Headquarters on Coruscant to Fortress Inquisitorius on Nur, since her and Tualon's death at Vader's hands caused some collateral damage and killed a Gran senator that was vital to Palpatine's plans during the chase to kill them.
  • Boyish Short Hair: When she becomes an Inquisitor after fighting in the Clone Wars, Vader cuts her long hair off and burns her scalp with his lightsaber, forcing Iskat to keep it short.
  • Combat Pragmatist: She uses the Force to send down a bunch of spider bats on the Seventh Sister during their duel. This inspires the Seventh Sister to have ID9 Seeker Droids as her support lackeys during Jedi hunting.
  • Creepy Long Fingers: Not that she can help it, being a characteristic of the Pkorian, though she does the "creepy" part on her own.
  • Face Death with Dignity: She is composed in her final moments along with Tualon after they fail to kill Vader, only apologizing that the friendship they maintained led them to their deaths.
  • Groin Attack: Tires to do this on Darth Vader/Anakin with her knife, but due to even his privates being made of metal after his "leisurely dip" into Mustafarian lava, it doesn't work.
  • Hidden Depths: When Vader lashes out at them for her betrayal, she and Tualon decide after that they'd rather try to kill him and get their freedom instead of going back to resolve the matter, since they'd probably be killed or worse.
  • Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: She is run through with Tualon's lightsaber blade at the same moment as him.
  • Ironic Echo: After killing Klefan Opus on Firrhana, she gives the same lecture he gave her when Sember Vey was killed during the First Battle of Geonosis.
    Iskat Akaris: Rejoice, for he is now one with the Force.
  • It Gets Easier: Due to killing some Geonisians, as well as the Clone Wars taking their toll on the Jedi, Iskat slowly yearns for killing enemies by the pound, which is not Jedi behavior, since their teachings urge Jedi in training to preserve life, not take it. It's chilly demonstrated during her first days as an Inquisitor when she murders Heezo.
  • Kick the Morality Pet: She kills Heezo, one of Palpatine’s spies and a former washed out Jedi Padawan now droid mechanic of the nearly dead Jedi Order who she felt comfortable talking to back when she was a Jedi, feeling darkly comfortable doing so, since she doesn’t want the other Inquisitors such as the Fifth Brother and Seventh Sister to know secrets of her past.
  • Mirror Character: With Anakin Skywalker. Both are Jedi Padawans that reacted harshly to other Jedi Padawans mentioning difficulties with their emotions under their breath, committed a mass killing of desert species after they murdered someone close to them (Tusken Raiders after they killed Shimi who was Anakin's mother, Geonosians for Fovorn, as well as her master Sember Vey), thrust into the Clone Wars and knighted after the First Battle of Geonosis, while struggling to keep their emotions in check during the Clone Wars, which causes them to fall to the Dark Side. In addition, both even have the honor of talking to Chancellor Palpatine/Darth Sidious and have a snarky protocol droid sidekick, though while Anakin/Vader created C-3PO as a child, Iskat was given 6-RA-7 by the Inquisitorius.
  • Mutual Kill: Vader uses the Force to make Iskat and Tualon impale each other with their lightsabers.
  • Punished for Sympathy: She has no idea why Vader suddenly decides to slice her head off, not knowing the Fifth Brother has denounced her for being willing to let the child escape.
  • Rage Against the Mentor: During the fight between her and Jedi Master Klefan Opus, Iskat berates him for always sticking with the usual Jedi platitudes, obeying the loudest Senators of the Republic instead of the loudest screams of the people they represent, and for holding back her true potential.
  • Reassigned to Antarctica: Despite the success of the mission on Thule, Jedi Masters Adi Galla and Yoda keep her grounded on the Jedi Temple by having her teach the Younglings the Jedi Code, mediation lessons and the such for 2 years since blowing up that droid factory on Thule killed civilians underneath it. Unfortunately for them just like with the other Inquisitors mentioned on here, this would only fuel Iskat's rage and hatred towards the Jedi, since she wanted answers about her homeworld and mother.
  • Riddle for the Ages: Did she intend to let the child go and only acted to cover herself, or was she doing a Kick the Dog by giving the mother false hope before seizing it back again? Did she fail in her duty, or was she just the victim of Vader's twisted desire to kill anyone now he'd run out of genuine Jedi to kill? Rise of the Red Blade has Iskat believing that Vader had sensed the love between her and Tualon and sought to destroy them for it.
  • Sadist: When Eeth Koth's wife Mira asks her "woman to woman" to let her and her baby go, the Thirteenth Sister gives them a Hope Spot by letting them get to the ship. As the ship takes off, she uses the Force to steal the baby at the last second, causing great grief and distress to the mother. When asked why she did this by her fellow Inquisitors, she cites that this incident will forever scar the woman from ever trusting another woman or anyone ever again.
    "I took her baby, and I took her soul."
  • Spare Body Parts: She has two hearts, a fact that saves her a couple times from what could have been fatal injuries had she only a single heart where a human's was.
  • Supernatural Sensitivity: When she was a Jedi Padawan, she could hear even the silentest whispers from her fellow Padawans and feel death during the First Battle of Geonosis. During the time of the Empire, she detects Eeth Koth's child by her influence on the Force.
  • Villain Protagonist: She is the main protagonist of the book Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade, which shows her descent from a volatile, but still well-meaning Jedi to a remorseless Inquisitor.
  • Villainous Friendship: With Tualon. Apparently, they've set up a hobby to drink a local alcoholic beverage for each time they've killed a Jedi there. Turns out that for once in this organization, they do genuinely care about each other, as they defend each other from Vader's assault (as he wants to punish her for her treachery) and flee together. Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade reveals this friendship was around since they were Jedi.
  • Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Assuming Vader wasn't just pretending, their only hope would have been if she had killed him immediately when Vader is injured by a falling statue. Instead she pauses to give a brief "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
  • Would Hurt a Child: Even before she became an Inquisitor, she accidentally crippled Tika during her Jedi training. During the mission to kill Eeth Koth, she doesn't care about the well-being of Eeth Koth's newborn daughter, and at one point, she carries her by her head between her Creepy Long Fingers. Somewhat subverted in that she was going to originally return the child to her mother Mira, showing at least mild caring about the child, and only took it back to save her own skin when she was seen.

    Tualon 

Tualon Yaluna

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Species: Twi'lek

"I'm sure he'll keep himself busy. A guy like that... he'll always find someone to kill."

An Inquisitor that, alongside the Fifth Brother and Iskat, accompanied Vader in confronting Eeth Koth and abducting his newborn.


  • Alien Hair: Being a Twi'lek, he has lekku (head-tails) in place of hair.
  • Amazing Technicolor Population: Interestingly, he's the only black-skinned Twi'lek we've ever seen in Star Wars.
  • Ascended Extra: From a completely unidentified Inquisitor who was introduced and killed off in the span of two issues, to the Deuteragonist of Rise of the Red Blade, which named him and showed his past as a Jedi.
  • Bad Liar: During the mission to recruit Ginntho on Olgothon 3, he claims to the deep voice that they were looking for fuel, causing the voice, later revealed to be Ginntho herself to try and shoot down their ship with weapons aimed at them. It takes Iskat, of all people, to tell the truth of why they were coming to Olgothon 3 for Ginntho to stand down and allow them passage.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: He was amongst the Jedi who were captured and tortured into becoming an Inquisitor over the course of months, with the promise of revenge against Iskat for leaving him to die in Order 66 helping to finally break him.
  • Face Death with Dignity: He is composed and holds himself accountable for his crimes as an Inquisitor in his final moments, even joking about the implausibility they would have died peacefully in their occupation.
  • Hidden Depths:
    • While Vader attacks Iskat for her treachery, Tualon blocks Vader's attempted strike at the Thirteenth Sister. Later, she says that she was surprised and touched that he would do that for her.
    • When Vader lashes out at Iskat for her betrayal, and Tualon defends her, also making himself a traitor, they decide after that they'd rather try to kill him and get their freedom instead of going back to resolve the matter, since they'd probably be killed or worse.
  • I Die Free: His last words before Vader telekinetically forces him and Iskat to perform a Mutual Kill.
    "And at least now we'll be fr--"
  • Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: He is run through with Iskat's lightsaber blade at the same moment as her.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He may lash out at the person that Iskat was becoming and her recklessness, but cares for her deep down, even having to steal the credit of Iskat successfully recruiting Ginntho to the Republic so she wouldn't be reprimanded by the Jedi. Even when Order 66 goes down and Captain Spider and his men shoot Sunghi while aiming their blasters at him and Iskat, he urges Iskat to not join the Dark Side, though Iskat refuses and leaves him at the mercy of 2 of Spider's men, causing him to be captured while he was fighting them off.
  • Love Is a Weakness: He instinctively blocks Vader's lightsaber when he tries to execute Iskat. Vader immediately identifies the reason.
    Vader: I sensed a connection between the two of you. An attachment. A weakness you believe is a strength.
  • Mutual Kill: Vader uses the Force to make them lightsaber each other.
  • Tempting Fate: He was saying that Vader will never run out of people to kill right before Vader turns up and tries to strike down Iskat right in front of him.
  • Villainous Friendship: With Iskat, the Thirteenth Sister. Apparently, they've set up a hobby to drink a local alcoholic beverage for each time they've killed a Jedi there. Turns out that for once in this organization, they do genuinely care about each other, as they defend each other from Vader's attacks (as he wants to execute Iskat for her "betrayal", and now Tualon for defending her) and flee together. Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade reveals they've been friends ever since they were Jedi.
  • You Are in Command Now: During the mission on Thule, he takes Josk Nivar's place as General of the company of Clones, since Nivar was poisoned by the birds that attacked him after he struck his climbing spike on a slug. Tualon retains this position for the rest of the war until Order 66 goes live.

    Jerserra 

Jerserra

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Click to see her unmasked 

Species: Dathomirian

Homeworld: Dathomir

Appearances: Ghosts of Dathomir

A member of the Nardithi Nightsisters, a sect of the Nightsisters, who was trained by an Inquisitor as an apprentice. She desires power at the cost of others.


  • Ambition Is Evil: She wants power and more of it. Unsurprising, given the ambitions of other Inquisitors, such as the Third Sister and the Fifth Brother.
  • Ax-Crazy: Good Lord, yes! She's more insane than the other Inquisitors we've seen throughout the franchise.
  • Bastard Understudy: She eventually killed her Inquisitor master and took her lightsaber.
  • Braids of Action: She has her hair tied this way and is a deadly mercenary.
  • Cool Mask: She is shown wearing a face-concealing mask in a character art for Ghosts of Dathomir.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: Witnessed General Grievous and the Separatist Droid Army murder thousands of her sisters just to kill Ventress and Mother Talzin at the Battle of Dathomir.
  • Genocide Survivor: She's one of the few Nightsisters to survive General Grievous and the Droid Army's genocide of Dathomir.
  • Klingon Promotion: Killed her master, an Inquisitor herself, since she wanted to travel the known Galaxy and was getting impatient.
  • Psycho for Hire: After killing her master, she became a mercenary in search for more power.
  • Use Their Own Weapon Against Them: She murdered her master with her own Inquisitor lightsaber before claiming said lightsaber for herself.

    Marrok 

Marrok

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"As you wish."

Played by: Paul Darnell (on-set actor)
Appearances: Ahsoka

An Inquisitor who survived the fall of the Galactic Empire and has allied with an Imperial Remnant intent on reinstating Grand Admiral Thrawn.


  • Ambiguous Gender: As of this writing, it's currently unclear what Marrok's gender is. Although he is played by a male actor and uses male pronouns, it could be possible that he is female behind the armor and uses a voice modifier to protect his real identity.
  • Ambiguous Situation: As he dies, a torrent of green Nightsister magick pours out of his lightsaber wound and his limbs shrivel up before he finally collapses. Whether this means Morgan simply empowered him for his service to her, a la Savage Oppress, or if he was completely brought Back from the Dead is unknown.
  • Ambiguously Human: While his figure leans heavily on the humanoid side, his species is unconfirmed and his armor obscures all of his features, leaving potential for him to be any number of Rubber-Forehead Aliens.
  • Armor Is Useless: Despite his former occupation revolving around hunting down the lightsaber-wielding Jedi, his plated armor is not forged of a lightsaber resistant material. When Ahsoka lands a strike on his chest, it cuts clean through the armor and deep enough into him to mortally wound.
  • Badass Cape: A long and flowing black fencer's cape is draped over his right side until he dramatically discards it before engaging Ahsoka on Corellia. He fails to recover it in his ensuing escape and acts without it afterward.
  • Black Knight: He wears an intimidating set of black armor, and serves Elsbeth and the Fallen Jedi mercenaries without question or complaint. He also proves to be one of the most skilled of the Inquisitors, managing to be the first to walk away from an even duel with Ahsoka without suffering a Curb-Stomp Battle.
  • Boring, but Practical: Just like the Grand Inquisitor, he has enough skill in actual dueling to forgo reliance on his lightsaber's various tricks. Tellingly, when he finally falls back on using its spinning in battle, he is struck down in a Single-Stroke Battle.
  • Combat Pragmatist: He uses an HK-87 assassin droid as a partner in his first duel with Ahsoka, though he's still good enough without the droid to hold his own. He also tries to cheap shot Ahsoka In the Back with his returning weapon after he books it from the fight to escape with Shin.
  • Cool Helmet: His helmet is intricate and ridged in design, with a passing similarity to his fellow Inquisitor, the Eighth Brother's, own helmet. It also closely resembles a futuristic version of a "Maximillian"-style German helmet.
  • Cool Starship: He uses a custom RP82 Fiend starfighter in space battle, a model designed for speed, optimal movement, and high firepower. To contrast the predominantly red color scheme of Shin's own Fiend, his is instead a bright gold and yellow.
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: As he dies from a lightsaber slash across the chest, (already not the cleanest way to go out) he spontaneously bursts out green magick from the wound. Judging by the uncharacteristic agonized screech and how he begins to involuntarily spasm from this, his final moments are less than pleasant.
  • Death or Glory Attack: At the end of his second duel with Ahsoka, after being unable to gain the upper hand in their battle, he revs up his Lightsaber's spinning blade feature for the first time in actual combat and moves to strike her down in a Single-Stroke Battle. Ahsoka handily dodges and strikes him down with the opening he provided in the attempt.
  • Evil Sounds Deep: Just like some of the other Inquisitors, he has a deep voice when wearing his helmet.
  • Flat Character: While he has suggested depth with his being the last Inquisitor and potential Nightsister connections, he shows no independent characteristics prior to his death.
  • Irony: Marrok, whose job as an Inquisitor was to hunt down the remaining Jedi after the Clone Wars, is working alongside Baylan Skoll, one of said Order 66 survivors, without apparent issue from either man.
  • Know When to Fold 'Em: Once he gets an indicator Shin Hati is on the way to pick him up on Corellia, he doesn't try to prolong his duel with Ahsoka. He instead keeps her occupied with a final attack to put distance between them and flees the docks to make his escape on Hati's shuttle.
  • Mysterious Past: Even more so then the other Inquisitors, as his time with the Jedi Order, his induction into and work for the Inquisitorius, and the circumstances around his survival into the era of the New Republic are all unrevealed.
  • Not So Stoic: His outward displays of emotion are few and far between, both from his subdued demeanor and expression concealing helmet. That said, even he is visibly intrigued by the sudden appearance of a pod of Purgill, and takes a moment in the middle of a high speed dogfight to gawk at one.
  • One-Steve Limit: Averted. He shares his name with Embo's pet Anooba.
  • Psycho for Hire: Whatever his motivations may be, he defected from the Empire and his work with the Inquisitors and made use of his skillset and Dark Side abilities to take up work as a mercenary.
  • The Quiet One: Most of his scenes show him silently observing the conversations of his allies and following their orders without speaking up himself, despite his capacity to do so. When he does speak, he keeps what he says reserved to the bare minimum necessary to get his point across.
  • Red and Black and Evil All Over: An amoral mercenary who antagonizes Ahsoka and company and once hunted Genocide Survivors, still clad in an all-black set of armor. The only additions to his color palette (other then brown marks of rust) come from the small red buttons across his helmet, breastplate, and gauntlets, along with his red lightsaber.
  • Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: His name "Marrok" is taken from a knight of Court of King Arthur, who was notably turned into a Wolf Man. This fits the theme of Dave Filoni's personal love of wolfs and his habit of fitting them into his works, as well as establishing a general knight motif along with his medieval inspired armor.
  • Sacrificial Lion: Inverted as he's one of the major villains, but he fatally loses a duel to the titular protagonist at the midpoint of Ahsoka to establish her skill in lightsaber combat beyond Elsbeth's rank and file.
  • Scarred Equipment: The pieces of his set of armor have visible rusting and wear to them. This is justified as it has been in use by a former Imperial agent and mercenary for the better part of two decades throughout a violent galactic war.
  • Silent Antagonist: He's completely quiet throughout the early episodes of Ahsoka, not even grunting when in fights. Downplayed by "Time to Fly", where he's now speaking regularly, though he still keeps mostly quiet.
  • Sole Survivor: He's the only Inquisitor still known to be alive even after the deaths of Palpatine and Vader.
  • Spikes of Villainy: His armor features two small curved spikes on either shoulder pauldron. His lightsaber also includes four dull spikes on its circular hilt, a design that only a few of his former colleagues in the Inquisitorius share.
  • Still Wearing the Old Colors: He still wears his Inquisitorius armor and wields one of their trademark spinning lightsabers despite the organization, and the Empire they fought for, both being long defunct. This seems to be simple pragmatism, as quality armor and a weapon as unique and dangerous as a lightsaber are useful for his mercenary lifestyle, and he no longer follows out his "Kill all Force users" task.
  • Terse Talker: On the occasions he does actually speak, what he says tends to be short and to the point.
  • Token Competent Minion: Downplayed. Although he puts up a good fight against Ahsoka at first, when she gets serious, she ends up killing him with relative ease. That being said, the fact he was able to fight Ahsoka as well as he did at first puts him a level above every other Inquisitor she's fought. Ahsoka easily defeated the Fifth Brother and Seventh Sister as a team, and killed the first Inquisitor she encountered by using his own weapon against him. Even Shin, who has formal training under a fallen Jedi, isn't skilled enough to force Ahsoka to draw her sabers.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: He gets killed halfway throughAhsoka, so not much more of him is revealed.

    Unidentified Inquisitor 

??? Brother

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"And who might you be?"

Voiced by: Clancy Brown

Appearances: Tales of the Jedi

"It looks like I shall be rewarded... Ahsoka Tano!"

A male Inquisitor of unknown species who Ahsoka encounters in the early years of the Galactic Empire.


  • Ambiguous Situation: His role of an Inquisitor that Ahsoka fights in the early years of the Empire's reign, sparking her reunion with Bail Organa, brings to mind the Sixth Brother from her eponymous novel. It was believed that he was a heavily-redesigned version of the character in the lead-up to the series' release, and while the show doesn't cover the rest of the novel's plot, the Ahsoka book has been retconned before, lending credence to the idea that this is still true. However, given that he's merely credited as an unnumbered Inquisitor, it's entirely possible he's a separate character, and that two just so happened to be felled in near-identical situations (this is an interpretation the novel's writer supports).
  • Animal Motif: His mask has a distinctive beak-like protrusion where his mouth should be, suggestive of a crow or a raven. Fitting, as Inquisitors are often described as hunters, or birds-of-prey.
  • Cool Mask: He wears a mask that looks like a mix of a giant bird's skull and a bubonic plague doctor's mask.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: His fight with Ahsoka is laughably short as the former Jedi easily dodges his swings, disarms him of his lightsaber, then beheads him with his own weapon.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: Burns down a village and murders dozens of innocent people, simply because he thinks the tipster wasted his time with a fake Jedi sighting.
  • Evil Sounds Deep: Clancy Brown's already naturally deep voice is further enhanced by his mask's reverb effect, giving the character a Mr. Freeze-esque tone.
  • Fake Ultimate Mook: Despite looking intimidating, Ahsoka kills him in seconds as if he were a simple stormtrooper.
  • Final Boss: He's the final antagonist of Ahsoka's story arc in Tales of the Jedi.
  • Foregone Conclusion: His attempt to kill Ahsoka was obviously not going to succeed as shown by Ahsoka's later appearances and his lack thereof.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: Ahsoka murders him with his own lightsaber after disarming him of it.
  • Kick the Dog: He massacres the entire farming village just because he thought the tipster was lying about Ahsoka hiding there, and attempts to murder said tipster as a "reward" for his loyalty once it's confirmed he told the truth.
  • Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: He is not as powerful as most dark side force-users, yet he is still powerful enough to cause destruction to a small village and kill most of its population.
  • Off with His Head!: How Ahsoka takes him out, and with his own lightsaber no less.
  • Paper Tiger: Despite having one of the most intimidating Inquisitor designs and looking like he'll be a dangerous threat, Ahsoka disarms him and relieves him of his head in less than ten seconds.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: He has a pair of glowing red eyes, though it's unclear if they are part of his mask, or his natural eyes peeking out.
  • Smug Snake: He's awfully confident that he'll easily kill an unarmed Ahsoka and be rewarded for hunting such a high-value target. Ahsoka quickly proves him wrong.
  • Sword Drag: He likes to drag his lightsaber along the ground, with all the conflagration that entails. The surviving villagers are terrified by it. Ahsoka just sees a cheap scare tactic.
  • Underestimating Badassery: Even though he knows who Ahsoka is, and who her teacher was, he assumes that she'll be an easy kill simply because she doesn't have a lightsaber. He pays for that mistake with his life.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: His few minutes of screentime is all we get of him before he's abruptly killed.

Support Units

    Purge Troopers 

Purge Stormtroopers

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"A Jedi! This is what I've trained for."
Click here to see their redesigned armor: 

Played by: Justin Dobies, Phong Giang (Obi-Wan Kenobi)

An elite group of Stormtroopers assigned to help the Imperial Inquisitorius hunt down any remaining Jedi. Like many Stormtrooper legions, they were originally comprised of veteran Clone Troopers, but were eventually replaced with human conscripts. Despite this, their forces still wore Phase II Clone paratrooper armor long after the introduction of Imperial Stormtrooper armor; though the armor of the Purge Troopers is colored black and red to fit their affiliation with the Sith and the Inquisitorius.


  • Adaptational Wimp: When they finally see combat in Chapter Five of Obi-Wan Kenobi, they go down almost absurdly fast compared to their mini-boss status in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. Granted that they’re fighting a former Jedi Master and member of the Jedi Council instead of a former Padawan, but still it’s rather jarring to see a broken man who cut himself off from the Force cut one down when even in the endgame Cal Kestis had a hard time with them.
  • Bald of Evil: The few who are seen unmasked tend to have shaved heads.
  • Blood Knight: The Purge Troopers encountered in Jedi: Fallen Order come across as brainwashed psychopaths, frequently demanding that Cal fight harder and chastising his weakness should they land a hit.
  • Combat Sadomasochist: Some Purge Troopers in Jedi: Fallen Order transcend their Blood Knight status to this. They giggle when you parry their attacks, yell things like "More, give me more!" and "Woo! Hit me, baby!" when you damage them, and laugh slightly when they are killed.
  • Didn't Think This Through: Much like their clone predecessors, all of the original Purge Troopers have inhibitor chips in their brains. Since all the Inquisitors are former Jedi, this backfires on them when Ferren Barr activates Order 66 mid-battle via a Jedi Mind Trick, causing the troopers to turn on their masters. Subsequent Purge Troopers would be drawn from normal human recruits to prevent a similar incident from occurring in the future.
  • Elite Mooks: Distinguished by their jet black armor, the Purge Troopers are a cut above the average Stormtrooper, being capable of engaging Jedi in melee and/or ranged combat with a variety of weapons. In Fallen Order, they're among Cal's tougher opponents.
  • Evil Wears Black: Unlike the white armor worn by their fellow clones, the armor of the Purge Troopers are black with red details.
  • Facial Markings: All of them have a red tattoo on the right side of their faces.
  • Last of His Kind: They were originally comprised of the last batch of Jango Fett clones to be produced. Ferren Barr used this against them by activating Order 66 on them, causing them to betray the ex-Jedi of the Inquisition. As such, they were phased out in favor of human conscripts like the rest of clones. Despite this, they continue wearing clone armor, at least until the introduction of Phase II Purge Trooper armor.
  • Mook Lieutenant: Purge Trooper Commanders are Purge Troopers that command squads of them, in addition to Purge Troopers commanding other Stormtroopers themselves.
  • One-Steve Limit: In canon, the title "Purge Troopers" also refers to a group of elite Stormtroopers who worked in the Anoat sector following the Emperor's death.
  • Praetorian Guard: For the Inquisitorious. They're usually seen accompanying an Inquisitor on their hunts. On the rare occasion, they even fill the role for Darth Vader.
  • Schrödinger's Canon: The Legends continuity also featured Purge Troopers, although those were hulking battle droids with only a faint visual resemblance.
  • Still Wearing the Old Colors: An interesting example in Fallen Order, where their helmets and armor are identical to that used by airborne Clone Troopers, despite the Purge Troopers no longer being clones themselves. By Obi-Wan Kenobi, they have their own helmet design, but still retain modified Clone Trooper armor.
  • Suspiciously Similar Substitute: They share more than a few similarities with the Empire's Death Troopers, being black-armored elite Stormtroopers who serve as a special forces unit.
  • Trojan Prisoner: One of the Purge Troopers under Thirteenth Sister/Iskat Akaris's command, 67, is disguised as a Jedi in order to gain access to Jadakis's lair so she can kill whatever Jedi were held there.

    ID9 Seeker Droids 

ID9 Seeker Droids

A type of probe droid that helps the Inquisitorious in their hunts for Jedi, they can mimic the voices of their enemies, wether they be organics or droids.


  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: Red Eye in their case. They use it to monitor and track their targets.
  • Shock and Awe: They have electro shock pods to hurt their victims and incapacitate droids.

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