History Characters / StarWarsMandalorians

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When Bo failed to reclaim the Darksaber, he left with her forces to become hired guns. He eventually comes back into the fold after Bo challenges him and kicks his ass, followed by a little bit of LoopholeAbuse on Din's part.

* SkepticNoLonger: He has to be fought in a challenge duel by Bo-katan to be brought to heel after he abandoned her on Kalevala with all her marshalled forces. But by the end of their successful bid of the three known surviving tribes to retake Planet Mandalore, he is the one who rouses the crowd to exclaim in victory after the Great Forge is re-lit. Axe Woves is a true believer in the Way of Mandalore again.

** The Armorer clearly guided The Children of the Watch in believing their practice of "The Way" made them true Mandalorians. However, [[spoiler: after Bo-Katan sees a mythosaur and The Armorer asks her to remover her helmet]], The Armorer makes great strides in reunifying various Mandalorian splinter groups and demonstrating by example to her clan to support their fellow Mandalorians. She is one of the first to volunteer to scout out Mandalore, she evacuates the wounded Mandalorians they find on the surface to medical treatment, and [[spoiler: after retaking Mandalore she relights the Great Forge alongside Bo-Katan, while also allowing Bo and some of the other Nite Owl's to stand witness as Ragnar Vizla takes the Creed at the Living Waters.]]

[[folder:Paz Vizsla '''SEASON 3 SPOILERS''']]

* TheChosenWannabe: Paz quietly voices a hope and determination to see if he can reclaim the Darksaber for both his people as a whole and his clan specifically [[spoiler: when he challenges Din for it.]] His vocal and body language even specifically shows that he reveres it because of his family connection, and he has the ambition to try and take it. [[spoiler: But if the weapon was heavy and unwieldy in Din's hands, it becomes even heavier and clumsier in his, and actually costs him his challenge.]]

* MightyGlacier: He is plodding in his movement, but his formidable strength allows him to wear particularly thick and well-covering Beskar plate armor, and he also wields a heavy repeating blaster that's not quite as big as an Imperial E-Web with which he lays down withering blaster fire. His armor is protective enough that he is able to take a light blaster cannon shot square in the chest and walk it off.

* {{Overheating}}: If fired continuously, his large gun eventually TurnsRed and then jams.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He can be a real prick and is openly bigoted towards Foundlings, but at his core he's not a bad man, just flawed, and he really does want what's best for ''all'' Mandalorians.

* BondVillainStupidity: He decided to imprison Maul and Savage instead of executing them immediately. Worse yet, despite being familiar with force sensitives, he simply has them thrown into ordinary holding cells and without any extra restraints. The brothers escape the ''moment'' they feel like it.

* CombatPragmatist: He may agree to a one-on-one duel, but don't think for a minute he'll fight fairly. Guns, bombs, flamethrowers, his jet pack; anything's fair game in his book. To be fair, he is often dealing with foes who have access to what are superpowers. His weapons and gadgets are all he has to even the odds.

* DiscOneFinalBoss: Vizla's reign of Mandalore doesn't last long after he betrays Maul, with the former Sith Lord killing him and taking over.
* DisproportionateRetribution: When he callously murders an innocent teenage girl in front of her father and then orders his men to torch the whole village. Why did he do all of this you ask? Because that aforementioned father and his people had demanded that the Death Watch give them back those among them who they had taken as slaves.

* ImprobableWeaponUser: Her skill with the [[DropTheHammer hammer]] isn't too remarkable in itself, except that it's a Beskar smithing hammer... as are the tongs she also uses in concert with it. Normally, they're her two main beskar smithing tools.

[[folder:Paz Vizsla]]

* AmbiguousSituation: For much of ''The Mandalorian'' it's unclear what their relationship to Death Watch is, with the only real context coming from Season 3's assertion that they're one of several groups that splintered off from the organization at some point in the past. When exactly this split occurred and how much continuity there is between them and their predecessors remains unclear even after this revelation; Bo-Katan claims that her Nite Owls, themselves a Death Watch splinter dating back to the Clone Wars, have never even ''met'' with the Children.

* AmbiguousSituation: For much of ''The Mandalorian'' it's unclear what their relationship to Death Watch is, with the only real context coming from Season 3's assertion that they're one of several groups that splintered off from the organization at some point in the past. When exactly this split occurred and how much continuity there is between them and their predecessors remains unclear even after this revelation; while they share Death Watch's traditionalist leanings their actual ideology is ''very'' different.

* AmbiguousSituation: By their similar names, it is currently unknown what the connection between Death Watch and the Children of the Watch is. The fact that a young Din Djarin was rescued by Mandalorians clad in Death Watch armor with the symbol of Vizsla's clan further muddies the waters. While Bo-Katan, a former member of Death Watch, doesn't comment on any possible connection, she is quite aware of the Children of the Watch, and both ''The Book of Boba Fett'' and the third season of ''The Mandalorian'' state that the Children were, at least until the Purge, based on Concordia, Death Watch's former base of operations.

* AdaptationalWimp: In ''Legends'', ancient Mandalorians had utterly massive numbers and resources, with fleets capable to threaten the entire Republic without the help of any other race or collective, and they only lost this position when Revan and his Jedi defeated them in the aptly named Mandalorian Wars, after which the Mandalorians were forced to disarm and dismantle their military hardware. The defeat caused a deep fragmentation between the clans, which became petty mercenaries and bounty hunters, and initiated a sharp decline and cultural change that ended with the state seen in the Republic era. However, this background doesn't exist in ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'' and by extension canon, where the Mandalorians never were that powerful in the first place and mostly limited their activities to the planet Mandalore and its colonies due to becoming pacifists, as shown in "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E12TheMandalorePlot The Mandalore Plot]]" (although there are hints that some aspects of their story from ''Legends'' might be still canon).

* WeAreStrugglingTogether: The Mandalorians enjoy a reputation as the greatest warriors in the galaxy, the Republic, Separatist, Empire, and Rebels all sought to have them on their side. Unfortunately their constant {{Civil War}}s and NoTrueScotsman attitudes have weakened them to the point that they could never become a true galactic power.

* GenocideSurvivor: Lived during the Great Purge of Mandalore, an Imperial campaign of slaughter against Mandalorians during which most of the Mandalorian population was killed and surviving Mandalorians were forced into hiding. The Armorer is implied to have been present during the "Night of the Thousand Tears," in which the Empire massacred Mandalorians on their home planet, and she believes she and her clan survived the massacre on the Mandalorian moon Concordia because they followed the true Way of the Mandalore.
* HighPriest: She carries herself in the manner of a high priestess, and her words of wisdom on the ways of their culture carry great weight with the titular character and all others in the Covert. After explaining the clear course of action in accordance with the culture, she emphasizes her point with the CatchPhrase "This is the Way", which is usually echoed in compliance by whomever she was lecturing.
* MinoredInAssKicking: The Armorer chiefly concerns herself with duties of the forge and day-to-day leadership of the Covert, but she's still a Mandalorian, and she wields her forging hammer with enough power to shatter Stormtrooper armor when she's called to fight.

* WeAreStrugglingTogether: The Mandalorians enjoy a reputation as the greatest warriors in the galaxy, the Republic, Separatist, Empire, and Rebels all sought to have them on their side. Unfortunately their constant CivilWars and NoTrueScotsman attitudes have weakened them to the point that they could never become a true galactic power.

* WeAreStrugglingTogether: The Mandalorians enjoy a reputation as the greatest warriors in the galaxy, the Republic, Separatist, Empire, and Rebels all sought to have them on their side. Unfortunately their constant CivilWars and NoTrueScotsman attitudes have weakend them to the point that they could never become a true galactic power.

* JerkassHasAPoint: He technically did not abandon Bo-Katan without reason. She ''did'' lose the Darksaber to Moff Gideon, and she ''did'' fail to get it back from him when Din claimed it in combat. Without it, she cannot rule Mandalone and is a Kryze in-name only. After it's rightfully hers once again, he pledges the Night Owls to her once again without much fuss.

* TheStarscream: He convinced the rest of Bo's army to bail on her and refuses to concede leadership without a fight.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He isn't with Bo-Katan and Koska when Din and Boba find them in the Season 2 finale. Presumably, he was off on another mission.

* IronicName: The word "Paz" translates to 'peace' in several languages. [[HotBlooded This mando]] is an ill-suited bearer for that name.

* NoTrueScotsman: He takes issues with Din working with (remnants of) the Empire due to the Empire's Great Purge upon Mandalorians. The Armorer sets him straight by pointing out that the Empire is no more, and that plenty of Empire-stamped beskar was reclaimed by them thanks to Mando's efforts. [[spoiler:When The Armorer banishes Din for removing his helmet Paz takes her side, calling Din an "apostate" and telling him to leave the Covert.]]

* TookALevelInKindness: Paz mellows towards Din considerably after he [[spoiler:returns from his quest of absolution to the Living Waters. It starts with him echoing Din's admonishing citation of a passage from the Creed to his own son after a spell of the lad being an ArrogantKungFuGuy is ended by getting trounced by Grogu in a training game. After Din is the one who directly saves Ragnar from the Raptor, he owes both Din and Bo-katan (who was also instrumental in Ragnar's rescue) a great debt of gratitude... which he repays next episode by heavily bolstering their pitch to the tribe to liberate Nevarro from pirate occupation. Afterwards in the wake of their victory on Nevarro, when Bo-katan removes her helmet on the Armorer's command, he is more deferential to both the Armor and to Din over the issue (in contrast when he derisively called Din an apostate for his own case).]]

** He burned down a village and tried to murder its people simply because the chief dared to stand to him and it also [[ForTheEvulz amused him]].

** He gives Obi-Wan his Lightsaber back so that they can fight more evenly.

* NonIndicativeName: The name Vizsla origins from Tor Vizsla, the leader of Death Watch from its original introduction in the EU, and who precedes ''Pre'' Vizsla in the timeline by several decades.

* TookALevelInJerkass: He's become ''[[AxCrazy much]]'' [[DisproportionateRetribution more]] evil since the second season.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: He encourages extreme nationalists and traditionalists of Mandalorian culture [[DividedWeFall ends up splitting Death Watch into at least two major factions]]; his loyalists (which becomes [[LaResistance the Mandalore Resistance]] under [[DragonAscendant Bo-Katan]]) and the Shadow Collective (the traditionalists under Maul). Mandalore ends up becoming heavily politically unstable and frustrated, leading to a bloody civil war that lasts ''months'' with neither side winning until Republic intervention. But due to the Siege being immediately succeeded by an Imperial occupation leads to many Mandalorians (including said Shadow Collective) joining its ranks, which arguably is hurting Mandalorian culture more than Satine or even Vizsla himself managed to do. Least to say, Vizsla didn't get what he wanted posthumously anyway.

* WrongGenreSavvy: He knew better than to fully trust Darth Maul and planned on killing him once Maul's army had helped Death Watch reclaim Mandalore, but he didn't count on Maul counting on his betrayal.

** After spending the episode butting heads with Sabine and Ezra, as well as trying to ditch them, when he confronts Saxon and his remaining squad members, he makes it known that 'those kids are under [[[ParentalSubstitute his]]] protection'.

** To drill in his HeelFaceTurn even further if you weren't sure before, when he returns in "Trials of the Darksaber", he's completely supportive of Sabine receiving training from Kanan to use the Darksaber and becoming the leader of Mandalore.

* TheStarscream: He convinced the rest of Bo’s army to bail on her and refuses to concede leadership without a fight.

* SatelliteCharacter: So far he's only been characterized as the third member of Bo-Katan's trio. He becomes an AscendedExtra in Season 3.

* AscendedExtra: In Season 2 he didn’t have many lines and was absent from the season finale. In Season 3 he has a much larger role once he returns, having taken over Bo-Katan’s forces.

* PetTheDog: Despite her general aloofness she's kind to the Child. After rescuing him she gently tells him he's safe as she hands him back to Din Djarin. While eating her lunch she playfully makes eye contact with him as she slurps her food.
* PutOnABus: She is among Bo's forces who "melted away" after she failed to attain the Darksaber, as she is initially absent in Season 3, but returns towards the end of the season
* StealthHiBye: Her first scene is mysteriously watching Din from a distance at the docks before disappearing as people pass between them. Downplayed as the small crowd ambling by gives her a more than generous amount of time for the trope.
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Performs more than a few wrestling moves, care of [[Wrestling/SashaBanks her actress]]. Most notably, she pulls off a rocket pack assisted tornado [=DDT=] on Boba Fett in the second season finalé of the Mandalorian as well as a snapmare on a Stormtrooper later in the same episode.