Series / Ahsoka

Warrior. Outcast. Rebel. Jedi.

The EVIL GALACTIC EMPIRE has fallen
and a NEW REPUBLIC has risen to take its place.
However, sinister agents are already at work
to undermine the fragile peace.

A plot is underway to find the lost
IMPERIAL GRAND ADMIRAL THRAWN and
bring him out of exile. Once presumed dead,
rumors are spreading of Thrawn's return which
would galvanize the IMPERIAL REMNANTS
and start another war.

Former Jedi Knight AHSOKA TANO captured
one of Thrawn's allies and learned of
a secret map which is vital to the enemy's plan.
Ahsoka now searches for the map as her prisoner,
MORGAN ELSBETH, is transported to the
New Republic for trial...

Star Wars: Ahsoka, marketed as simply Ahsoka, is a Disney+ Space Opera series set in the Star Wars universe, serving as both the second Spin-Off of The Mandalorian after The Book of Boba Fett and a sequel to Star Wars Rebels. Dave Filoni (who created the titular character way back in Star Wars: The Clone Wars) wrote the series and directed some episodes, including the first, while Steph Green, Peter Ramsey, Jennifer Getzinger, Geeta Patel, and Rick Famuyiwa directed the others.

Set around the time of the third season of The Mandalorian, the series follows Jedi outcast Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson) as she discovers a lead on a mission enacted by the Imperial Remnant to find and retrieve Grand Admiral Thrawn (Lars Mikkelsen), who disappeared when Ezra Bridger (Eman Esfandi) bravely sacrificed himself to liberate Lothal on the eve of the Battle of Yavin years ago. To find them, Ahsoka must repair a bond she had and broke with Sabine Wren (Natasha Liu Bordizzo) and confront the guilt that has plagued her for decades. As the New Republic lies woefully unprepared for what is coming, enemies old and new gather, and secrets of the past are unlocked, Ahsoka and Sabine must come together if they are to confront the greatest threat to the New Republic since the fall of the Empire.

The cast also includes Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker (reprising the role after Obi-Wan Kenobi), Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Hera Syndulla, Ray Stevenson^note given the posthumous credit after his death in May 2023, several months before the show's release as Baylan Skoll, Ivanna Sakhno as Shin Hati, David Tennant as Huyang (reprising the role after The Clone Wars), Genevieve O'Reilly as Mon Mothma (reprising it after Andor), Ariana Greenblatt as young Ahsoka, Diana Lee Inosanto as Morgan Elsbeth (reprising it after Season 2 of The Mandalorian), and Temuera Morrison as Clone Captain Rex. The series premiered on August 22, 2023. A second season was confirmed to be in development in January 2024.

Not to be confused with the Star Wars: Ahsoka novel, which is also part of the Star Wars Expanded Universe but is set earlier, during the rise of the Empire.

Previews: Trailer 1, Trailer 2.

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Ahsoka provides examples of:

• Ambiguous Situation: For most of the episodes it is made ambiguous if Sabine's training under Ahsoka will allow her to use the Force, and if some of the things she does is because of it. She manages to parry blaster bolts, land attacks while sparing with Ahsoka blindfolded and senses Ahsoka's arrival before Ezra does when Ahsoka calls out to her but it is not made clear if that was luck and a part of the Force that everyone has. It is not until the final episode that she is actively able to call upon the Force.
• Anxiety Dreams: In the first two episodes Sabine is shown to be suffering from dreams bad enough to make her fidget about in bed. The first one has her shooting up and calling Ezra's name. The second one, Ahsoka, presumably feeling Sabine's distress, wakes her up to put a stop to it.
• Broad Strokes: Ahsoka has elements of The Thrawn Trilogy, though it's not a direct adaptation. Thrawn returning and uniting scattered Imperial remnants under his leadership is a major threat, which is what had happened at the start of the novels, and the New Republic largely refuses to accept his threat as legitimate until it's too late, which also happened in the novels. The main difference is that Thrawn isn't just in a remote backwater of the Empire, returning to take command five years after the Empire was scattered at Endor, but was whisked to parts unknown at the conclusion of Star Wars Rebels. This turns out to be a whole other galaxy, and the bulk of the series is about the attempts by Imperials to get there and rescue Thrawn, or Ahsoka and Sabine to get there and rescue Ezra. The finale features Thrawn making his way back to the Star Wars galaxy, with resources and loyal allies who will potentially allow him assume a place similar to what he had at the start of The Thrawn Trilogy.
• Badass Normal: Sabine cannot use the Force, something Shin taunts her about. However, she is a Mandalorian warrior who was trained in the use of a lightsaber by Kanan and Ezra, and later Ahsoka, making her one of the few people in the galaxy who can cross blades with a Force-user and hold their own. She ultimately becomes an Empowered Badass Normal as her lessons with Ahsoka pay off and she becomes capable of actually using the Force.
• The Bad Guy Wins: At the end of the first season, the heroes fail to prevent Thrawn from escaping Peridea, meaning that the New Republic will soon have to deal with him back in their galaxy ready to resume his campaign of terror.
• Because Destiny Says So: Morgan clearly believes that it's her destiny to bring Thrawn back from his exile, referring to "fate" in the first two episodes as deciding her next moves.
• Big Damn Reunion: Three times, in fact. First up, Sabine is the one who reunites with Ezra Bridger in Part Six, "Far, Far Away". In the next episode, it's Ahsoka's turn to give a hug to the stranded galactic hero. And finally, in the season finale, "The Jedi, the Witch and the Warlord", Ezra reunites with Chopper and Hera.
• Black Knight: A new Inquisitor is introduced called Marrok, and he has a distinctly knight-inspired design.
• Bling of War: The Night Troopers that serve under Thrawn have the cracks in their armor filled in with gold, which gives them an appearance reminiscent of kintsugi.
• Broken Pedestal: Baylan alludes to this, stating that while everyone in the Jedi Order knew Anakin, few lived to see his turn as Vader.
• The Bus Came Back:
  • Aside from Thrawn and the Rebels cast, Morgan Elsbeth returns from Season 2 of The Mandalorian, having been awaiting her trial before Baylan and Shin rescued her.
  • The Eta-class shuttle from The Clone Wars makes a return after previously being featured in Ghosts of Dathomir. Likewise, the Belbullab-22 heavy starfighter, the class of General Grievous's starfighter from the aforementioned series and Revenge of the Sith, makes a return, now piloted by Morgan's Scout Guards.
  • Governor Ryder Azadi and Jai Kell, who previously debuted in Rebels, make their returns, Jai now being the Senator of Lothal.
  • In "Far, Far Away", Ezra Bridger makes his first live action appearance (not counting his hologram messages), having survived his exile alongside Thrawn and awaiting Sabine to come find him and bring him home.
• Call-Back: Sabine's Important Haircut in episode 2 with the way she is kneeling before a table with her helmet on it, slowly picking up a knife and inspecting it before cutting off her hair, is reminiscent of her mentor and father figure Kanan doing the same in the Rebels episode "Jedi Night".
• The Cameo: One of the X-Wing pilots in the fourth and fifth episodes is played by Brendan Wayne, one of Pedro Pascal's body doubles in The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett.
• Casting Gag:
  • This is not the first time Ivanna Sakhno has had to deal with giant aliens (although these are decidedly less antagonistic).
  • During her flashback sequences to the Clone Wars era, Ahsoka is played by Ariana Greenblatt, who is no stranger to playing playing a younger version of an alien character with a mentor figure who became a nightmare to the cosmos.
• Child Soldiers: The fifth episode emphasizes that Ahsoka was quite young during the Clone Wars when she was Anakin's apprentice, with a far more realistic take on it than the mostly lighthearted adventures of The Clone Wars animated series.
• Circling Saw: Ahsoka is seen exploring the ruins and stops at one point, cutting the ground in a circle around herself with her lightsabers and lets herself fall in a crypt below.
• Continuity Nod:
  • Ahsoka's Circling Saw move was previously used by her when she made a quick, albeit brief escape from the 501st's 332nd Company element attempting to kill her and Rex during Order 66. Such a technique was based off her training with the 501st as shown in Tales of the Jedi. The "Force" trailer also has narration from Anakin recalling this training as he explains to Ahsoka that she will face more than droids in the Clone Wars, which is why he had the 501st train her. Likewise, Episode 3 also shows Ahsoka showing little mercy to Sabine during training with wooden sticks, much like Anakin's relentless training of her during Tales.
  • Sabine has been using and modifying Ezra's lightsaber after she gained it during the finale of Star Wars Rebels.
  • Captain Hayle tells Baylan and Shin they are "no Jedi", which Baylan defiantly snarls back at him when he ignites his lightsaber, a reference to Ahsoka's famous declaration in "Twilight of the Apprentice, Part II".
  • Ahsoka tells Hera how she walked away from Anakin and the Jedi Order, leaving her training incomplete.
  • Hera in episode 3 asks Mon Mothma and other politicians for reinforcements and preparations for a coming threat. One can sympathize with her agitation given how, as she alludes to, this is far from the first time she's had to beg for more direct intervention from her superiors to properly combat a threat.
  • Episode 1 opens on a scene of Ahsoka walking into a ruined temple, which is a complete reversal of her departure from the Jedi Order in Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
  • During "Master and Apprentice", Baylan wields his warm-colored lightsaber, walks down a New Republic ship's corridor, deflects blaster shots and strangles one of the ship's soldiers with the Force. Just like what Darth Vader did at the end of Rogue One.
  • The "Force" trailer has Anakin tell Ahsoka to trust her instincts, recalling Ahsoka telling his son Luke the same thing when they parted ways in "From the Desert Comes a Stranger".
  • Episode 3 sees Sabine being taught in swordplay by Ahsoka using practice sticks, which previously didn't work out so well in "Trials of the Darksaber". Sabine looks as receptive to this method of training as she was with Kanan.
• Cool Ship: A few standout examples.
  • Ahsoka and Huyang's ship of choice is a T-6 Jedi shuttle, most prominently featured in the era of the Clone Wars.
  • Baylan and Shin's personal ship is an Eta-class Jedi shuttle, similarly more seen during its prime in the Clone Wars.
  • The Eye of Sion is Morgan's bid to reach Thrawn in the far-off galaxy, an absolutely massive independently-powered hyperspace ring capable of such long-distance travel.
  • Though she looks a bit worse for wear as a result of a long exile, the Chimaera makes her return alongside her master Thrawn in episode 6.
  • Hera's ship, the modified VCX-100 light freighter Ghost, gets special attention in a dramatic low pass over the ocean of Seatos searching for Ahsoka after her fall.
• Dramatic Irony: Senator Xiono dismisses the Imperial Remnant as a group of disorganized rogue warlords who don't pose a threat to the New Republic. This is exactly what Captain Pellaeon was hoping for, as the audience members who have already watched Season 3 of The Mandalorian will already know, as he stressed the need for the Remnant to keep a low profile to trick the New Republic into believing this so they could bide their time to regroup and replenish their ranks.
• Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Peridea seems to be In-Universe Feudal Japan. It's a closed off and isolated planet from the rest of civilization located in another galaxy, much like Japan used to be during the Edo Period. It has an alien native species dressed in red samurai-like armor and carrying Naginatas with them, and another one called the Noti which actually speaks Japanese.
• Foil: Within the series, Ahsoka and Sabine are contrasted with Baylan and Shin. Ahsoka and Sabine are a master and apprentice pair brought together by fate and circumstance whose conflicting ideologies are exemplified by their differing choice of attire and lightsabers. Baylan and Shin are a master and apprentice who are much more alike in goals and motives, whose singular objective shows them having near identical clothes and lightsabers.
• Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Ezra focused on martial arts and the force in his fighting from the beginning while Sabine mixed lightsaber and blaster use. She did better with the latter prior to being able to embrace the Force. Ahsoka averts this as she is full melee with lightsabers and the force.
• Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: At the end of "Toil and Trouble", Hera expresses disbelief that so many people are still loyal to the fallen Empire and are conspiring to rebuild what's left of it. To that, Ahsoka bitterly remarks that the Imperial Remnants and their sympathizers are not motivated by loyalty so much as Greed. Most are willing to begin the Empire anew and sacrifice the entire galaxy's newfound freedom — the very thing the Rebellion fought so hard to achieve by ending the Empire — solely for personal gain.
• Greater-Scope Paragon: Leia Organa doesn't directly appear, but she still provides as much cover as possible for Hera and Ahsoka since the New Republic Senate Committee is too ignorant and unwilling to do anything about Morgan Elsbeth trying to bring Thrawn back from his exile. In the penultimate episode she bails Hera out of a hearing that was likely heading for her termination from her command.
• Greater-Scope Villain: As the series goes on, Moff Gideon is established as this up until at least the seventh episode, which is explicitly set after the events of Season 3 of The Mandalorian in which he is killed in the season finale. His Purge of Mandalore turns out to have been the cause of much of Ahsoka and Sabine's tension that drives most of the series, since Sabine was devastated by losing her entire family to the massacre, and Ahsoka abandoned her training of her out of fear of Sabine falling to the Dark Side as a consequence.
• Hallway Fight: Baylan is seen in the first episode fighting New Republic soldiers while calmly strolling down a corridor on his way to rescuing Morgan Elsbeth from her holding cell.
• Head-in-the-Sand Management: The New Republic's leaders, including now-Chancellor Mon Mothma herself, are shown to be this. Most of the Senate Committee are unwilling to entertain the idea of the Imperial Remant posing any threat, believe that any former Imperial working for the New Republic are automatically loyal to them, and many of them didn't even fight in the war and don't have as much of a personal stake in trying to keep the Empire from returning. Mothma knows how dire the return of Thrawn would be, but due to not wanting to come across as another Palpatine, she is usually unwilling to put her foot down on the scale in any way. This allows Senator Xiono to launch an unprofessional smear campaign against Hera that Mothma doesn't do anything to stop and nearly culminates in the termination of her command until Leia steps in to save her.
• Hourglass Plot: At the start of the series, Ahsoka, Sabine, Baylan, and Shin are seeking a way to another galaxy where Ezra and Thrawn are stranded. At the end of the season finale, Ezra and Thrawn have returned to the main galaxy, while Ahsoka, Sabine, Baylan, and Shin are now stranded in the other galaxy.
• Important Haircut: Sabine has let her hair grow long during her time on Lothal. The second episode has her cutting it short with a knife when deciding to accompany Ahsoka as her apprentice, matching her appearance in the Distant Finale of Rebels.
  Ahsoka: Nice haircut.
• In Medias Res: The series opens with Ahsoka and Sabine's relationship being frosty because the former discontinued the latter's Jedi training, but these events were never referenced or depicted until now. It's not until the final episode that the full truth of the situation comes out.
• Laser Blade: We get the return of Ahsoka's white lightsabers and get introduced to a pair of lightsaber wielders known as Baylan and Shin, whose blades are a dull ember orange (the cores of which appear to fluctuate between the standard white and a more exotic yellow). We also see Sabine using Ezra's green lightsaber, and an Inquisitor named Marrok using the typical red spinning lightsaber used by his fellow members of the now defunct Inquisitorius. Anakin is seen wielding a recreation of his blue lightsaber while as a Force Ghost, which turns red when he begins evoking his Vader persona. Ahsoka's original lightsabers are also seen during flashbacks. And in the first season finale, Ezra builds a new lightsaber, his third, closely modeled on Kanan's, complete with a blue blade.
• Legendary in the Sequel: For their heroics during the Galactic Civil War and the Liberation of Lothal, Ahsoka and the Ghost crew are shown to all have become famous heroes in their own right. Hera remains one of the New Republic's top generals, Ahsoka is now known as a wandering do-gooder around the galaxy, and Ryder Azadi holds a celebration every anniversary of Lothal's liberation to honor the Ghost crew, particularly Ezra who is believed to have given his life to defeat Thrawn. This also comes into play in the second episode when Hera and Ahsoka enter a facility on Corellia populated with many who used to work for the Empire, and give them pointed glares since they're still loyal to the old regime.
• Leitmotif: A new version of Sabine's theme song from Rebels plays during the credits, or at the very least is mixed into it.
• MacGuffin: The Star Map is the object of search and archaeological investigation that motivates the initial conflict between the Master and Apprentice teams of Baylan and Shin, and Ahsoka and Sabine, respectively. Halfway through the series Baylan destroys it once his side has no further use of it and to keep anyone from following them.
• Male Might, Female Finesse: Baylan has a far more heavy and slow lightsaber form which is reminiscent of using a great sword like a Claymore, compared to the more agile forms used by Ahsoka, Sabine, and Shin.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Baylan Skoll and Shin Hati are named after the wolves who chase the sun and the moon respectively in Norse Mythology. They are seeking Thrawn, who could cause the return of the Empire, reflecting the wolves' role in starting Ragnarok by swallowing the sun and moon. They're also ultimately pursuing Ezra, who has a lunar motif.
  • The credits reveal that the three Nightsister Mothers have very similar names to the three Fates of Greek Mythology.
• The Milky Way Is the Only Way: The series introduces intergalactic travel for the first time in a live action installment of the franchise. It also shows that existing technology can produce a ship capable of making the journey so long as navigational coordinates to the destination are available. Further, it is revealed that the Nightsisters of Dathomir originated in this other galaxy, and that their planet, Peridea, has some unrevealed connection to the Mortis gods as well. The Jedi Order apparently knew about this in the past.
• Mythology Gag:
  • Lothal's monument to Ahsoka and Sabine's team from Rebels includes a mural of the team depicted in their animation designs.
  • The cores seen on Baylan and Shin's orange lightsabers, which occasionally appear light or yellow-orange instead of white, resemble some of the crystal options in the Legends game Knights of the Old Republic and its sequels, and were more specifically based on how Darth Vader's lightsaber seemed to fluctuate in color in some shots and posters from the original trilogy.
  • In the trailer, Ahsoka is hunting Thrawn because he's been declared the "Heir to the Empire", which is the title of the first novel in The Thrawn Trilogy (which is part of the Legends continuity) and in which the character made his first appearance.
  • Morgan's ship is named The Eye of Sion after Darth Sion from Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords. The Eye itself, capable of traversing outside of the Galaxy and requiring at least one massive hyperdrive core, also bears a resemblance to the Outbound Flight, a ship whose story also involved Thrawn.
  • The "ancient civilization" and their henge that Morgan, Skoll, and Hati read the map with evokes the star-maps from Knights of the Old Republic, installations built by the ancient Rakatan civilization that pointed the way to the Star Forge. The design of the map itself even looks similar once it is fully projected by this station in the show.
  • Skoll and Hati's introduction is almost a complete inversion of the opening from The Phantom Menace. Two mysterious Force users arrive on a ship, welcomed aboard by the captain. Combat erupts, the Force users go ham, mooks are slaughtered left and right, they make a clean getaway, and we even get one of the Force users remarking "You were right about one thing," a well-known prequel meme.
• Never Trust a Trailer: The trailers feature a voiceover by Ahsoka refering to Thrawn as "Heir to the Empire". But when this term is used in the show itself, it is part of a completely different line.
• Once More, with Clarity: The episode revisits a scene from the Star Wars Rebels finale, where Sabine visits a mural to the Ghost crew before embarking on a mission with Ahsoka, but now we have a lot more context about the state of Sabine and Ahsoka's relationship and exactly what leads they're following to find Ezra.
• Present Absence: Thrawn and Ezra don't appear until Part 6 (outside of Ezra appearing in a years-old holographic recording in the first episode), but their absence is felt by everyone looking for them — or, in Thrawn's case, those who fear his return.
• Protection in Mouth: When the Eye of Sion escapes to the other galaxy and the protagonists have no means of pursuing, Ahsoka gets the idea to hitch a ride in a mouth of a massive purgill, which can naturally fly between galaxies.
• The Reveal:
  • The first episode alone has many, namely that Morgan is a survivor of the Separatists' genocide of the Nightsisters, as well as, unsurprisingly, Ezra and Thrawn's survival after the Liberation of Lothal.
  • The fourth episode reveals that Sabine's family died during the Night of a Thousand Tears and that played a big part in why her first attempt as Ahsoka's apprentice failed. As well as her motivation to find Ezra.
• Retcon: The final scene of Chapter 2 is a Shot-for-Shot Remake of the epilogue scene in Rebels, though there are some distinct differences. Namely, Sabine no longer puts on her helmet before leaving, and Ahsoka herself is wearing a completely different outfit and lacking the staff she was holding.
• Rule of Three: Baylan and Shin's quips about witchcraft. Part 2 has Shin calling Morgan Elsbeth a witch, which the latter does not take likely and corrects to be "a survivor", before calling Shin "This one" when ordering Baylan to send her to confront Sabine. Episode 4 has Baylan himself muttering "witchcraft" in disgust after his concern about the calculations of the coordinates to Thrawn was met of a quip of "have faith" (which he felt he has lost). The third took place at the first meeting of the great mothers with Shin quipping "More witches?".
• Schrödinger's Canon:
  • The New Republic forces on Lothal use E-Wing starfighters. In Legends, the E-Wing was an advanced fighter produced to replace the X-Wing. It was ultimately replaced by a more advanced model of X-Wing, the XJ series, just as these E-Wings will presumably eventually be replaced by the T-70 X-Wing.
  • The series is not an adaptation of The Thrawn Trilogy, though it does take cues from it. Thrawn's alliance with the Nightsisters and mercenaries Baylan and Shin recalls his alliances in that series with Joruus C'baoth and underworld types like Niles Ferrier, though the alliances work much more in Thrawn's favor here. The New Republic bureaucracy refuses to take Thrawn's threat seriously until it's too late, just as in the books. Senator Xiono fills almost precisely the same role as Borsk Fey'lya did. Hera being Hauled Before A Senate Subcommittee plays out much like any number of political scenes from the Trilogy. And Thrawn's plans, resources, and what he will do with them are kept vague and mysterious, just as they were early in the Trilogy. It also borrows from the Hand of Thrawn duology, with Thrawn's reputation and the possibility of his return being almost as dangerous as the man himself.
  • There are also nods to another Legends work. Baylan is a tall, well-built, physically imposing master with a grand vision he is pursuing and using those around him to advance his agenda, and his apprentice is smaller blonde woman who eagerly takes to his teachings, though not always in the way he would like. Together, they feel like a live-action incarnation of Darth Bane and Zannah.
• Sequel Hook: The series ends with a lot opened plotlines to be resolved in either The Mandalorian season 4 and/or in Dave Filoni's upcoming feature movie:
  • Thrawn has escaped the far away galaxy and he's preparing to wage war against the New Republic.
  • Conversely Ezra has returned and is reunited with Hera and Chopper.
  • It is never shown what Baylan was looking for on Peridea, but it seems to be important enough for Ahsoka to remain on the planet, alongside with Sabine.
• Sequel Series: Ahsoka is a de facto continuation of Star Wars Rebels due to bringing back every living member of the main cast of that series (with the exception of Zeb, who cameoed in the third season of The Mandalorian) and picking up the loose plot threads of Ezra Bridger and Grand Admiral Thrawn's fates after the war.
• Serial Escalation: The galaxy far far, away is joined by a partner galaxy even further away, reachable only thanks to an ancient star map built by an ancient, unknown race. Reaching it requires a supersized hyperspace ring, a technology introduced in the prequel trilogy for individual starfighters, built to the scale of a Star Destroyer. The only other beings that can travel that far are the Purgill.
• Ship Tease: Regarding what Ezra said in his message to Sabine, claiming he saw her as a "sister", she ironiclly seems to be carrying more of a torch in this time around than she did during Rebels as she's taken up residence in his old tower, wearing similar clothes to him and wasn't shown to have settled with anyone else in a relationship, while waiting for him to come home. This is further shown in her desperation to find him, like when she gave Baylon Skoll the map rather destroy what she assumed was the only chance to reunite with him. When she finally reunites with him, their hug nearly resembles a Kissing Discretion Shot, even though they don't kiss.
• Shout-Out:
  • The title of the second episode, "Toil and Trouble", is a reference to Macbeth.
  • A map hidden within a golden puzzle ball to find the hiding place of a missing person is a serious MacGuffin for the first two episodes, very similar to the map sphere from Treasure Planet.
  • The title of the seventh episode, "Dreams and Madness", can be interpreted as a reference to the Studio Ghibli documentary The Kingdom Of Dreams And Madness.
  • The final episode, "The Jedi, The Witch and the Warlord", is titled after the The Chronicles of Narnia novel The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
• Stealth Pun: In Greek mythology, a Chimaera is a Hybrid Monster consisting of a lion with a goat head on its back and a serpent for a tail. Likewise, Thrawn's flagship, the Chimaera was a mashup of old Imperial tech, patchwork repairs, and the brand-new Eye of Sion hyperspace ring.
• Student–Master Team: Two examples.
  • There is Ahsoka and Sabine who had been a master and apprentice prior to the series but parted on bad terms. By the second episode they've come to an understanding and have set out to search for Thrawn and by extension Ezra.
  • Then there is Baylan and Shin. Baylan is a former Jedi who survived Order 66 and, and based Shin's age, took her on as an apprentice afterwards. They are hired mercenaries for Morgan but their goal in finding Thrawn is to gain power.
• Simultaneous Arcs: Most of the series takes place simultaneously with Season 3 of The Mandalorian, up until at least episode 7 when Carson Teva mentions Moff Gideon's actions on Mandalore.
• Underestimating Badassery: Baylan and Shin are introduced using a Jedi code to request permission to board a New Republic starship. The captain meets them in the hangar and tells them "You're no Jedi.". Well, he's correct, but he forgot that there are others...
• Undying Loyalty: Sabine is totally devoted to Ezra coming home. This trope is subverted in episode 4, where it is made clear that her desire to get Ezra back is caused by emotional issues, rather than a true sense of loyalty towards him.
• Unequal Rites:
  • When Morgan reveals to Shin, a Dark Jedi, that she is a descendant of the Nightsisters of Dathomir, Shin immediately refers to her as a "witch". Morgan corrects her by describing herself as a "survivor". Later, Baylan has to reassure Shin that Morgan is not weaving any kind of "witchcraft" on them.
  • The Nightsisters distrust Jedi just as much. What little training Sabine had under Ahsoka is enough to make the Grand Mother at Peridea imprison her despite Sabine already being in shackles.
  • Baylan has little love for the Jedi of old nowadays. He considers the Jedi he was a part of a dead end with no room for refinement. While discussing Ezra, Baylan calls him a Bokken Jedi, bred in the wild. He even scoffs at Shin comparing herself to him, saying he wants her to be better.
• Vader Breath:
  • In the official trailer, when Baylan tells Ahsoka that Anakin spoke highly of her and they're fighting, Vader's breathing can be heard in the background.
  • During the duel between Anakin and Ahsoka in Shadow Warrior, it briefly returns (along with flashes between Anakin and suited Vader).
• What Happened to the Mouse?: After Sabine leaves Lothal with Ahsoka in part 2, we never see her lothcat - nor do we know who is taking care of the poor creature, though the short "Ahsoka: Sabine's Lothcat" shows it's doing fine.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: The enigmatic Inquisitor, Marrok — who gets killed during Fallen Jedi.
• The Weird Sisters: The Great Mothers from Peridea are a trio of elderly Dathomiri witches. They are always seen together speaking in tandem. Their names are Klothow, Aktropaw, and Lakesis, a clear Shout-Out to Clotho, Atropos, and Lachesis, the three Fates from the Greek mythology.

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"Ezra is where he needs to be. And so are we. It's time to move on."

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