History Fridge / TheMandalorian

* The droid who interviews Dr. Pershing as part of his Amnesty Program. We've seen droids of a wide variety of sophistication in ''Star Wars'', and at times interacting with a droid is no different than interacting with a person. Yet this droid has only a token effort to be humanoid, appears installed into its interview room, it's voice an emulation of human pleasantness devoid of any actual human warmth. It is a piece of equipment, not so different from an automated telemarketer call you might get today. . . implying the New Republic doesn't conder Amnesty Program attendees ''important enough'' to send an ''actual'' person to talk to them. Combined with the apparently enforced uniforms that identify them as former Imperials, the separate housing, and it all builds an unpleasant picture of how the New Republic '''really''' feels about turncoat Imps.

* As of Season 3, there's an interesting bit of MirroringFactions between Mandalorians and Jedi. We're introduced to Din's group of Mandalorians, the Children of the Watch, with their dogmatic and strict rules and strictures. "This is the Way." In ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'', we catch up with Grogu getting Jedi training from Luke, and see Luke is starting to embrace the dogmatic and strict rules and strictures of the old Jedi Order, telling Grogu he must renounce his attachments to Din to continue as a Jedi, and when Grogu refuses, sending Grogu back to Din. That insistence on lack of attachment led to Anakin's fall when he couldn't let go of his attachments, yet allowed Luke to defeat Darth Vader by redeeming Anakin Skywalker through those very same attachments. Come Season 3, the Armorer has permitted Bo-Katan to live as a Child of the Watch for a time, then given her permission to ignore their rules as she sees fit, to instead be a bridge to unite all Mandalorians. Luke's inistence on clinging to the ways of the Old Order ultimately leads to his Order failing in the same way, while the Armorer -- possibly while having absolutely no idea what transpired between Din, Luke, and Grogu or the significance of it -- has already come to the conclusion that ''her'' Way is not necessarily the ''only'' Way.

* "Guns for Hire" also shows us what a B2 Super Battle Droid can do when properly motivated(or programmed). The one Din and Bo-Katan pursue is shown to be nearly as fast as a Commando Droid and strong enough to rip light posts from the ground. As easily the second most numerous Droid in the CIS military, they were ''woefully'' under-utilized, and one shudders to think of how much damage they could've inflicted in the Clone Wars had they been used to their full potential.

** "The Rescue" presents another variation: Moff Gideon claims that by wielding the Darksaber, ''he'' is The Mandalore, the rightful ruler of all Mandalorians, despite having no cultural ties whatsoever. Which complicates Din's working relationship with Bo-Katan when Din defeats and disarms Gideon, [[PoorCommunicationKills not knowing the significance of the weapon.]]

* The full reveal of Din Djarin's past reveals why he was compelled to protect and care for the child; when he was a kid, his parents hid him in a cellar during a separatist droid assault. His parents were presumably killed and a B2 Battle droid found him. Just as it was about to kill him, a Mandalorian of the Fighting Corps showed up and headshotted him. When Din found the Child, this was the same situation; IG-11 was ready to shoot the orphan right then and there and Din realised he was that Fighting Corps Mando. This may have also contributed to his particular hatred of IG-11 initially at Kuiil's homestead; the parallels between IG-11 at the time and the B2 Droid hit way too close to home.

* In Episode 19, "The Convert," we are introduced to the "Amnesty Program" which takes former imperials and grants them clemency in exchange for helping deconstruct old imperial equipment. However, the entire program just feels somewhat off; everyone is overly cheerful, including Pershing's supervisor, and everyone insists what they're doing is for the good of the New Republic, and they also have a droid interviewer who asks questions that appear to try and weed out anyone experiencing anti-republic thoughts. And this is all before we learn they have a brainwashing machine to keep people in line. Considering how friendly everyone is to the point they embrace their designated and dehumanising "names" (they're given designated numbers as if they were droids or clones) and considering Pershing keeps touching his ear like something has been itching there (not necessarily just because of his ear injury from his previous appearnace) as well as Kane telling the Republic officers that Pershing has "relapsed" one may wonder if there's really any "program" at all and these former imperials haven't all just been brainwashed into doing the New Republic's bidding.