History Characters / StarWarsSabineWren

* DyeHard: In-universe. Her hair is usually dyed two different colors, with a different combination each season. When she goes back to her [[https://lumiere-a.akamaihd.net/v1/images/rebels-304-the-antilles-extraction_001e185b.jpeg?region=236%2C0%2C1170%2C878&width=480 natural dark brown to infiltrate Skystrike Academy]] in [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS3E02TheAntillesExtraction "The Antilles Extraction"]], it's quite jarring. When she also meets back up with her brother on Mandalore, the first thing he comments on is that she's changed her hair color again. Her response? "You know ''me''."

* PlatonicLifePartners: Due to growing up together on the battlefield, she and Ezra gradually gain an unshakable bond. It helps that in ''Rebels'' seasons 3 and 4, she and Ezra also become something of partners for mission assignments. [[spoiler: Their bond becomes strong enough that in the GrandFinale, she's the one he entrusts to help him carry out his plan and bring him home after the war ends, saying that he knows he can count on her. The series ends with her flying off to find Ezra with Ahsoka, after having stayed on Lothal for years to guard it in his memory, to do just that.]]

* VitriolicBestBuds: Played with Ezra. In the beginning she could hardly stand him, although from the third season their relationship became a little more cordial.

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** Letting Bo-Katan keep the Darksaber rather than have a duel over it as per Mandalorian tradition causes the Empire to come down harder on Mandalore and [[AvengingTheVillain avenge Tiber Saxon]] [[spoiler:by sending in Moff Gideon to bomb the hell out of the planet, slaughter most of its people, including all of Clan Wren, in the [[ThePurge Night of a Thousand Tears]], and for the Moff himself to steal the Darksaber from Bo-Katan, as well as using the planet itself as a base for his Imperial Remnant cell, meaning [[HistoryRepeats that Sabine doomed her homeworld again, this time while a member of the Rebellion]]]].

** Sometime after the Liberating of Lothal she would take on being [[spoiler:Ahsoka’s apprentice in a bid to become a Jedi like Kanan and Ezra]] only for the [[ThePurge Night of a Thousand Tears]] to happen and most of her people being wiped out, [[spoiler:her family among them]]. [[spoiler:Ahsoka would then cut her training off and leave her]]. Making Sabine think she didn’t trust her.

** Downplayed in Season 4, as she just dyes the tips of the hair while leaving the rest natural. After Sabine switches to a new shaved-head/pixie cut in the epilogue, she is shown to go back to full-hair dyeing, albeit with a single color. [[spoiler: As it appears, she settled on purple hair after experimenting with that in Seasons 3 and 4.]]

** In Season 4, she states that her armor is 500 years old and has been in her family for generations.

* BrokenBird: Come ''Series/{{Ahsoka}}'' episode ''[[Recap/AhsokaS1E4Chapter4FallenJedi Fallen Jedi]]'', the revelation of just what Sabine has lost to that point makes her behavior at the start of the series very clear. In ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Rebels]]'' she had created weapons that were used against her own people. She tried to speak out only for her family to abandon her for the Empire, though she would eventually reconcile with them. A close friend would leave her for dead, giving her trust issues. Kannan, her father figure, would die to stop the Tie Defenders from being mass produced. Her closest friend Ezra would disappear. Her first effort to be Ahsoka’s apprentice would fail. [[spoiler:During the Purge of Mandalore her family died]]. [[spoiler:Then in ''Fallen Jedi'', she watches her master be thrown from a cliff, leaving her in an emotional distressed state and easily manipulated.]]

* ChildOfTwoWorlds: As of ''Series/{{Ahsoka}}'', she has taken Jedi training from Ahsoka in the past and returning to it in this show. She embraces both, donning her Mandalorian armor and meditating in front of her helmet.

* CoolSword: In Season 3, she gets her hands on the Darksaber, a unique black-bladed lightsaber shaped like a katana.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: She used to be a [[TheAce child prodigy]] at [[AcademyOfEvil the Mandalorian Imperial Academy]], trained in espionage. But, due to being "young and arrogant", she ended up [[spoiler: creating deadly weapons for them [[BrokenPedestal that ended up being used on the people she knew and loved]]. Realizing what she had truly done, she tried to stop it and spoke out against the Empire. Her efforts caused her family to outright disown her and stand by the Empire, breaking her heart]]. [[DefectorFromDecadence Ultimately, she chose to break ranks with the Empire]] with Ketsu and fled Mandalore to prevent further damage. The two became bounty hunters that aimed to join Black Sun, until Ketsu left her for dead. She ended up joining the ''Ghost'' crew with persuasion from Kanan. The ordeal caused her to develop some severe trust issues, always wanting to know the full truth during missions. Her clan was also part of House Vizsla, and by extension, Death Watch. Then, as a result of said missions, [[spoiler:Kanan, her father-figure, dies saving everyone's lives, and Ezra, whom she grows to consider a brother, sends himself into parts unknown to take Thrawn out of the picture and give the Rebellion a chance to win.]] Despite being taken under an apprenticeship to Ahsoka Tano [[spoiler:to find Ezra]], things turned out badly due to a lack of trust on Ahsoka's part, and a hesitancy on Sabine's part, which only gets worse when [[spoiler:the Empire slaughtered all of Mandalore, including her entire family]], causing her to sulk back to Lothal and remain forever embittered and cynical despite all the Rebellion did.

* DramaticIrony: In Seasons 1 and 2 and sometime before that, she struggled with trust and following other people. After acquiring the Darksaber in Season 3, she has to make others trust and follow her.

* GenericGraffiti: Practices making this a hobby, and is the main source of it on the show.

** Kanan outright tells her this when she invokes the code to fight Rau in single combat to the death to avenge Hera, as it would mean both Rau and Sabine kill for no good reason other than it is [[BloodKnight the Mandalorian way]]. She instead spares Rau and takes him prisoner. This eventually leads to Rau joining the Rebellion on his own choice.

* {{Leitmotif}}: Gets one in Season 3. Lo and behold, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu4Ic5c1hMo the Sabine Suite]].

* PlatonicLifePartners: Due to growing up together on the battlefield, she and Ezra gradually gain an unshakable bond. It helps that in Seasons 3 and 4, she and Ezra also become something of partners for mission assignments. [[spoiler: Their bond becomes strong enough that in the GrandFinale, she's the one he entrusts to help him carry out his plan and bring him home after the war ends, saying that he knows he can count on her. The series ends with her flying off to find Ezra with Ahsoka, after having stayed on Lothal for years to guard it in his memory, to do just that.]]

* {{Retcon}}: Before Season 3, supplementary material stated that her homeworld is Mandalore, which is technically true of all Mandalorians, but her true homeworld is the Mandalorian colony world of Krownest. That is, unless she was ''born'' on Mandalore. However, most of her time on Mandalore was due to being a student at the Mandalorian Imperial Academy.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Played with Ezra. At the beginning she could hardly stand him, although from the third season their relationship became a little more cordial.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: She used to be a [[TheAce child prodigy]] at [[AcademyOfEvil the Mandalorian Imperial Academy]], trained in espionage. But, due to being "young and arrogant", she ended up [[spoiler: creating deadly weapons for them [[BrokenPedestal that ended up being used on the people she knew and loved]]. Realizing what she had truly done, she tried to stop it and spoke out against the Empire. Her efforts caused her family to outright disown her and stand by the Empire, breaking her heart]]. [[DefectorFromDecadence Ultimately, she chose to break ranks with the Empire]] with Ketsu and fled Mandalore to prevent further damage. The two became bounty hunters that aimed to join Black Sun, until Ketsu left her for dead. She ended up joining the ''Ghost'' crew with persuasion from Kanan. The ordeal caused her to develop some severe trust issues, always wanting to know the full truth during missions. Her clan was also part of House Vizsla, and by extension, Death Watch. Then, as a result of said missions, [[spoiler:Kanan, her father-figure, dies saving everyone's lives, and Ezra, whom she grows to consider a brother, sends himself into parts unknown to take Thrawn out of the picture and give the Rebellion a chance to win.]] Despite being taken under an apprenticeship to Ahsoka Tano [[spoiler:to find Ezra]], things turned out badly due to a lack of trust on Ahsoka's part, and a hesitancy on Sabine's part, which only gets worse when [[spoiler:The Empire slaughters all of Mandalore, including her entire family]], causing her to sulk back to Lothal and remain forever embittered and cynical despite all the Rebellion did.

** Letting Bo-Katan keep the Darksaber rather than have a duel over it as per Mandalorian tradition causes the Empire to come down harder on Mandalore and [[AvengingTheVillain avenge Tiber Saxon]] [[spoiler:by sending in Moff Gideon to bomb the hell out of the planet, slaughter most of its people[[note]][[spoiler:Including all of Clan Wren]][[/note]] in the [[ThePurge Night of a Thousand Tears]], and for the Moff himself to steal the Darksaber from Bo-Katan, as well as using the planet itself as a base for his Imperial Remnant cell]], meaning [[HistoryRepeats that Sabine doomed her homeworld again, this time while a member of the Rebellion]].

** Later, despite Ahsoka's orders to destroy the map, [[spoiler:she's persuaded by Baylan to hand it over to him after he exploits her need to find Ezra. This enables Morgan to finish calculating the hyperspace coordinates she needs. Baylan then destroys the map to stop anyone from following and takes Sabine along as a prisoner when they jump to the other galaxy.]]

* AllForNothing: Sabine spent a good chunk of ''Rebels'' trying to liberate her people from Imperial rule, rescuing her father, reconciling with her family, and giving the Darksaber to a worthy wielder. As ''The Mandalorain'' and ''The Book of Boba Fett'' showed, all it did was cause The Empire to send Moff Gideon to Mandalore to reclaim, carpet-bomb the hell out of the planet, slaughter everyone in sight, and steal the Darksaber from Katan so he could keep it as a trophy, leaving Mandalore "cursed" and scattering what was left of her people across the galaxy. It gets worse in ''Ahsoka'' when its revealed that [[spoiler:her entire family was killed in the purge, meaning she mended fences with them too late to have any meaning.]]

* BrokenBird: Come ''Series/{{Ahsoka}}'' episode ''[[Recap/AhsokaS1E4Chapter4FallenJedi Fallen Jedi]]'' the revelation of just what Sabine has lost to that point makes her behavior at the start of the series very clear. In ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Rebels]]'' she had created weapons that were used against her own people. She tried to speak out only for her family to abandon her for the empire, she would eventually reconcile with them. A close friend would leave her for dead, giving her trust issues. Kannan, her father figure, would die. Her closest friend Ezra would disappear. Her first effort to be Ahsoka’s apprentice would fail. [[spoiler:During the Purge of Mandalore her family died]]. [[spoiler:Then in ''Fallen Jedi'' she watches her master be thrown from a cliff]]. Leaving her in an emotional destressed state and easily manipulated.

** Letting Bo-Katan keep the Darksaber rather than have a duel over it as per Mandalorian tradition causes the Empire to come down harder on Mandalore and [[AvengingTheVillain avenge Tiber Saxon]] [[spoiler:by sending in Moff Gideon to bomb the hell out of the planet, slaughter most of its people in the [[ThePurge Night of a Thousand Tears]], and for the Moff himself to steal the Darksaber from Bo-Katan, as well as using the planet itself as a base for his Imperial Remnant cell]], meaning [[HistoryRepeats that Sabine doomed her homeworld again, this time while a member of the Rebellion]].
** During the [[Recap/AhsokaS1E1Chapter1MasterAndApprentice first episode]] of ''Ahsoka'', she blows off Ahsoka's insistence that the map doesn't leave her side since Morgan and her allies who want to find Thrawn could use it to rescue him from his exile. Sure enough, Shin and 2 [=HK-87=] Assassin Droids raid Ezra's comms tower once Sabine has fully deciphered the map to obtain it.

* RebelliousPrincess: She's the eldest child of the countess of Clan Wren, but after the Empire abused her invention, she defected to the rebellion and was exiled from her home as a result.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: She used to be a [[TheAce child prodigy]] at [[AcademyOfEvil the Mandalorian Imperial Academy]], trained in espionage. But, due to being "young and arrogant", she ended up [[spoiler: creating deadly weapons for them [[BrokenPedestal that ended up being used on the people she knew and loved]]. Realizing what she had truly done, she tried to stop it and spoke out against the Empire. Her efforts caused her family to outright disown her and stand by the Empire, breaking her heart]]. [[DefectorFromDecadence Ultimately, she chose to break ranks with the Empire]] with Ketsu and fled Mandalore to prevent further damage. The two became bounty hunters that aimed to join Black Sun, until Ketsu left her for dead. She ended up joining the ''Ghost'' crew with persuasion from Kanan. The ordeal caused her to develop some severe trust issues, always wanting to know the full truth during missions. Her clan was also part of House Vizsla, and by extension, Death Watch.

* TookALevelInCynic: By the time ''Ahsoka'' rolls around, [[spoiler:Sabine has been living on Lothal and stewing in the aftermath of Ezra's disappearance and an intervening period as Ahsoka's unsuccessful apprentice, having grown isolated and embittered. It takes Ahsoka coming back into her life to get her meaningfully moving again.]]

** After acquiring the Darksaber -- the traditional symbol of Mandalorian leadership -- she hands it over to Bo-Katan. The Darksaber is meant to be wielded only by one who has captured it in battle, and Mandalorian legend states that if it falls into unworthy hands it will bring about catastrophe. Sure enough, Mandalore is razed by the Empire under Bo-Katan's leadership, and its people scattered by Moff Gideon.

* VitriolicBestBuds: With Ezra, although the Vitriolic part is Downplayed being that Ezra tends to get along better with her than with Zed and Chopper.

* BrokenBird: Come ''Series/{{Ahsoka}}'' episode ''[[Recap/AhsokaS1E4Chapter4FallenJedi Fallen Jedi]]'' the revelation of just what Sabine has lost to that point makes her behavior at the start of the series very clear. In ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Rebels]]'' she had created weapons that were used against her own people. She tried to speak out only for her family to abandon her for the empire, she would eventually reconcile with them. A close friend would leave her for dead, giving her trust issues. Kannan, her father figure, would die. Her closest friend Ezra would disappear. Her first effort to be Ahsoka’s apprentice would fail. During the Purge of Mandalore her family died. Then in ''Fallen Jedi'' she watches her master be thrown from a cliff. Leaving her in an emotional destressed state and easily manipulated.

* {{Womanchild}}: Despite being in her early 30s in ''Ahsoka'', she still acts much like the rebellious, shortsighted teenager she was in ''Rebels''. It's not entirely unjustified, given the trauma she went through in the latter show, but it's still noticeable.

* BadassNormal: Sabine can handle a lightsaber without being Force-Sensitive, [[spoiler:and she gets to use Ezra's lightsaber after the finale]]. In ''Series/{{Ahsoka}}'', despite her complete lack of Force-abilities, Ahsoka still decided to take Sabine on as a Padawan in-between the time of ''Rebels'' and the series. While it didn't work out very well its made clear it's not her skills that was the problem, but both Ahsoka and Sabine not really being ready for the relationship.

* BadassNormal: Sabine can handle a lightsaber without being Force-Sensitive, [[spoiler:and she gets to use Ezra's lightsaber after the finale]]. In ''Series/{{Ahsoka}}'', despite her complete lack of Force-abilities, Ahsoka still decided to take Sabine on as a Padawan in-between the time of ''Rebels'' and the series. While it didn't work out very well its made clear its not her skills that was the problem, but both Ahsoka and Sabine not really being ready for the relationship.

* TheExile: [[spoiler:She does have a living family]], but fleeing from the Empire also meant her exile from Mandalore. After the Empire's purge of Mandalore [[spoiler:(whose victims include the rest of her family and clan)]], she shares this trait with all surviving Mandalorians.

* TheExile: [[spoiler:She does have a living family]], but fleeing from the Empire also meant her exile from Mandalore.

* ImmuneToBullets: Her beskar armor is impervious to blaster bolts and lightsabers. In Season 2 of ''Rebels'', this saves her life when Darth Vader deflects her blaster bolt right into her helmet. While training with the Darksaber in Season 3, her beskar vambraces stop the weapon from slicing right through her arm when she slips. By the time of ''Ahsoka,'' she's experienced enough to exploit this property of her armor to deflect blaster bolts back where they came from.

* ImmuneToBullets: Her beskar armor is impervious to blaster bolts and lightsabers. In Season 2, this saves her life when Darth Vader deflects her blaster bolt right into her helmet. While training with the Darksaber in Season 3, her beskar vambraces stop the weapon from slicing right through her arm when she slips. By the time of ''Ahsoka,'' she's experienced enough to exploit this property of her armor to deflect blaster bolts back where they came from.

* LastOfHerKind: Following the [[Series/TheMandalorian Great Purge]], she (along with Din Djarin and other members of the scattered Mandalorian enclaves) is one of the last surviving Mandalorians.

* SoleSurvivor: During their conversation on Seatos, Baylan implies that [[spoiler:Clan Wren was wiped out on Mandalore during the Night of a Thousand Tears, making her the last known living member of her family.]]