- Jossed, as far as we can tell.
- Jossed. She did nothing but good during her time on the show.
- The team behind Gravity Falls, another Disney XD series, tried to introduce an elderly same-sex couple but got shot down due to Disney's more openly homophobic international affiliates. Doesn't bode well for anything of the sort happening in this series.
- Jossed: if any characters are confirmed to be LGBT, it wasn't on the show proper.
- Sidious has yet to appear. Vader has only shown up in the ABC version of Spark of Rebellion and the season 1 finale, 'Fire across the Galaxy.
- As of the Season Two trailer screened at Celebration, he is confirmed for at least a cameo.
- Jossed. Season four will be the last.
- Better idea: they help Katarn steal the plans.
- Probably Jossed, as that will be covered by the live-action movie Rogue One.
- In fact Jossed though the Ghost appears to be involved in the climactic battle at the end.
- Jossed, It's Thrawn.
- I think he's more subtle than to do that.
- Jossed, as Greg Weisman no longer works on the show.
- Jossed. James Earl Jones reprises as Vader.
- Even then, Keith David could get a voice role on the show. He's way too good to be ignored by Star Wars forever. He could voice an annoying Gungan and make it sound amazing.
- He could voice one of Fulcrum's men. A heroic version of a stooge for the mysterious character.
- Perhaps he'll voice Commander Sato in season 2.
- Nope. Sato is voiced by Keone Young.
- Jossed.
- It'll be left in tatters with barely anyone surviving. And yet, Palpatine will see potential in possibly creating a rebel alliance so as to draw his enemies into one place and take them down simultaneously.
- That has been labeled as 'not canon', so no.
- Just because it's not canon doesn't mean this theory's impossible.
- The theory is based on a game that is no longer canon, making the theory impossible. The idea can exist outside of the theory however.
- Word of God has explained that the current Rebels may not necessarily be the founding members of the Rebel Alliance we all know, but they will play a role in inspiring its formation.
- That has been labeled as 'not canon', so no.
- Even then, the majority of our heroes' getting killed in the finale would make for one very tragic conclusion to the series.
- Semi-Jossed by Rogue One. Hera (with a rank bump), Chopper, the Ghost, and at least one of the Hammerhead corvettes will make it at least up to the Battle of Scarif, meaning that at he very least, half the cast (Aftermath already confirmed Sabine's survival) will make it to the point where the Alliance fully comes together.
- Jossed by "Secret Cargo", which shows the formation of the Rebel Alliance over Dantooine.
- Nothing supporting it, and one mark against it: Hera and Kanan appear to be an item as shown in "The Machine in the Ghost" promo short, and further supported in A New Dawn.
- Another mark against, Hera calls Kanan "Love" during episode one. Not exactly concrete, seeing as she was being sarcastic at the time, but it is there.
- Considering that Hera and Kanan constantly have a dynamic not dissimilar to an old married couple...
- If Ezra and company don't save Kanan from Tarkin by the end of the season, Hera could grow closer to Zeb, perhaps as a surrogate for Kanan. If she even had feelings for Kanan at all.
- Well, Kanan was rescued, and he and Hera shared a little moment (go away Chopper!) but a Zeb-Hera hookup would just make them look like enormous jerks.
- If Ezra and company don't save Kanan from Tarkin by the end of the season, Hera could grow closer to Zeb, perhaps as a surrogate for Kanan. If she even had feelings for Kanan at all.
- Jossed.
- I hope she'd have more pride in her race than to dismiss it all as promiscuity brought on by generations of servitude or something.
- You can comment on how you're different from others without acting like they're wrong for being that way.
- Azmorigan covers it for her in "Idiot's Array". It seems she's aware of what is expected of Twi'Lek women and would rather avoid such a situation for herself.
- Considering that Disney, not Lucas, controls what's canon or not now, we'll have to wait and see.
- Jossed.
- Best. Idea. Ever! If you're reading this Greg, make this happen!!!!
- Bonus if he's voiced by Keith David.
- The problem is that Rebels is part of official canonicity. With the new Star Wars films coming out and the powers that be officially dismissing any and all EU canon. They wouldn't put any EU in their official canon as that could contradict what was established by The Force Awakens.
- Thing is, in the time leading up to Rebels' premiere, the powers that be have eased up on the "no EU at all" stance — now they say that certain aspects will remain canon in a Broad Strokes fashion, with selected bits being reintroduced over time if the writers so desire. Thrawn would not have to have any impact on the later films if they bring him in, and as it's been pointed out, he and Mara Jade are well liked enough for a possible return.
- The thing is Rebels is part of official canon and the EU has been given its own Legends banner as an alternate universe as a whole. Due to the new Star Wars 7 film coming out they would most likely leave out any characters that could contradict not only the movie lore of Star Wars 7, but 8 and 9 as well. Of course that's not to say they can't have a tongue in cheek glimpse of someone who may or may not resemble Mara Jade and Thrawn as a throwaway gag for EU fans.
- The rumors about Season Three hint that Thrawn will indeed be re-canonized in some form.
- Thrawn is indeed the new villain of the season.
- Mara Jade was Jossed in a convention over the summer of 2016, though they could always change their mind.
- It IS said that the Empire looks down on non-Humans...
- Is this based on the fact that in his concept he was originally Chiss? Because it's Jossed.
- Jossed. Rogue One is taking care of that.
- Confirmed! Kind of. Rogue One actually places the Ghost at the climactic battle. It's up to the series, however, to flesh out their full role in the battle.
- Jossed. It's ending before the events of Rogue One.
- He may just eventually realize that she doesn't want him that way and develop feelings for a new female character who's been introduced by then.
- Or a male character. His last conversation with Zare was a bit interesting.
- Sabine only seems to be friendly with Ezra at best. They may end up being "just friends". Something that Zeb and Chopper will mock Ezra for all the time.
- As a counterargument to previous bullet points, it seems to me that starting from S 1 E 06 ("Empire Day") and as late as S 2 E 03 ("Always two there are"), Sabine grows increasingly interested in and attached to Ezra. But on the other hand, Ezra gets past his early awkward flirting, is increasingly preoccupied with Jedi training and his other issues, and seems less interested in her...
- Depending on your point of view, her behavior could be seen as sisterly instead of romantic.
- Jossed. Unfortunately for Ezra, Sabine doesn't seem to see him as anything other than a brother throughout the series.
- A Corellia episode could possibly lead to a Han Solo cameo too, maybe of him just prior to or after joining the Imperial Academy (assuming that still happened, anyway).
- That's unlikely due to timeline issues.
- Jossed.
- She did know about the Holocron in advance, and that Ezra managed to open it.
- Or, y'know, maybe Kanan told her about it? Especially since he only came into possession of the holocron after he met her.
- One of the popular theories about why the Stormtroopers are such bad shots is that they've never been conditioned to shoot at someone with a face. Since the cadets were shooting small targets, they get good at it and pass, then have to go out and shoot less impersonal targets.
- Ames from the tie-in Servants of the Empire seems really out of it after being in trooper training for a while. That would seem to indicate either low-level mind control or high-level mental conditioning, or both.
- It's possible that every GOOD marksman at the academy is singled out as a potential Force user and then taken into custody instead of being promoted. The Empire is more interested in churning out unskilled, faceless workers in order to weed out potential threats than they are in actually getting the best soldiers.
- His use of the Dark Side in "Gathering Forces" could potentially support this; his motives were pure, and he knows it. Plus, it worked.
- He's going through the normal "power corrupts" thing that all potential Fallen Jedi go through, but he can still open both the Sith and Jedi Holocrons. Word of God is also that he won't fall like Anakin did, so his path isn't towards the Dark Side straight away.
- Or, he tries to control Dark Side powers while still having good intentions and eventually succumbs to its effects.
- Jossed.
- Luke will be seen hanging with his friends Biggs Darklighter, Janek Sunber, Laze Loneozner, Camie Loneozner, Deak and Windy Starkiller. Also, Owen and Beru will be worried the Ghost crew being a bad influence on Luke, due to protecting him from "some damn fool idealistic crusade".
- Ezra will have a crush on Luke and spend half the time being adorably smitten.
- This is unlikely, because it looks likely that Luke doesn't meet any Jedi other than Obi-Wan and Yoda until after Return of the Jedi.
- Confirmed, but only as a cameo in the distance at the end of "Twin Suns".
- Plus, if Kanan is killed, it lends credence to Yoda's statement to Luke "Last of the Jedi, you will be."
- Mostly Jossed: All of the Inquisitors yet shown are dead or presumed dead, Kanan is still alive, but blind.
- According to the late Minister Tua, the Emperor singled out Lothal as being particularly important to the plan. Perhaps Lothal is rich in some mineral or crystal that's critical to the construction of the Death Star?
- Oh, yes, Lothal is definitely rich in a resource critical to the construction of the Death Star. Unless you think that Ezra getting a kyber crystal from the Lothal Jedi temple was a complete coincidence, when we all know that There Are No Coincidences in Star Wars.
- In "Vision of Hope", Zare does manage to tell Ezra that Kallus and his troopers are preparing to do something with the Senate building, but that's it. In the Servants of the Empire books, it seems he has retired from the entire stealth gig, hiding out on Garel with his girlfriend and family.
- In the book Edge of the Galaxy, it's mentioned she's very good at figuring out people's emotions, and also that she can find Zare in a crowd. So there's evidence towards this theory.
- She's the female Inquisitor.
- Confirmed. The Inquisitor was torturing her on Arkanis to condition her into an Inquisitor, but she gets saved by Zare, of which takes place a little after "Fire Across the Galaxy".
- Unlikely in the extreme.
- And completely jossed.
- With Tarkin showing up, that is a distinct possibility. Maybe they'll hold off for the second season, but Lothal probably isn't going to have a happy future.
- The Rebels leave at the end of "The Siege of Lothal" to prevent this from happening.
- They end up returning in "Legacy" and "A Princess on Lothal", and also at least around the midseason of Season 3.
- Looking Jossed. There's a character in Lost Stars who graduated from the Lothal Imperial Academy a year before ANH, so Lothal's definitely still inhabited by then.
- Definitely jossed.
- Even better! Ezra is the product of incest! Muahahahaha!!!!!
- Alternatively, Ezra will realize that Sabine, his current crush, is more of a sisterly figure to him, or at least that she views him as a newly-adopted kid brother.
- Well that seems to be confirmed.
2. Zeb living on Lasan, prior to the arrival of Kallus and the other Imperial soldiers who almost wiped them out.
3. A young Hera becoming inspired by individuals like her father Cham Syndulla to fight the Empire.
4. The first time Kanan and Hera meet Zeb or Sabine. It would be like how Spark of Rebellion had Ezra join up.
- One of the writers (Kinberg?) said in an interview that there would be no flashbacks (not counting visions or recordings), likely due to budget and the 'ghost of the pasts' theme in the show. We could see a comic series for them, though.
- Jossed.
- Jossed.
- Jossed. Both were alive up until "Legacy".
- Confirmed in a way. This reasoning is why they aren't brought up again until "Legacy".
- Jossed. Ezra's parents are reported to have been killed between the episodes "Call to Action" and "Legacy".
- Jossed: "The Forgotten Droid" reveals that he was a Republic veteran, shot down in his Y-Wing during the Ryloth campaign and later saved by Hera as mentioned in "Homecoming".
- Confirmed: He dies in a Heroic Sacrifice in the second half of season 4, saving the rest of the crew.
- And Zare has been transferred off Lothal, for no immediately apparent reason.
- Jossed.
- Jossed.
- Maybe they're Bad People.
- "Protector of Concord Dawn" at least tells us that Sabine's mother was a Vizsla, ex-Death Watch, and one or a combination of those statuses mean that she is considered a traitor to Mandalore/the Protectors by the Protectors themselves. Also, Ketsu is basically Sabine's surrogate sister and she's alive, so that technically counts.
- "Imperial Supercommandos" confirms that her mother is alive, allied with the ISC, and searching for her.
- And now fully confirmed, as of "Legacy of Mandalore".
- Seems like they'll just show up by themselves every once and a while. They (or at least Vizago) don't have much of a reason to pick on the Ghost crew.
- Jossed: Azmorigan and Vizago never appeared together.
- Alternatively...
- Jossed.
- Jossed.
- Jossed. She's very much pro-Empire.
- Confirmed, sort of. In "The Siege of Lothal", Tua finds the prospect of meeting Tarkin understandably terrifying, leading to Vader using her as the perfect death to frame the rebels for.
- Jossed.
- I think Hera is the one we need to learn more about.
- Confirmed. As of this writing, we have "Wings of the Master", "Homecoming", "The Forgotten Droid", and "Hera's Heroes".
- Zeb could use some too.
- Confirmed. As of this writing, we have "Legends of the Lasat" and "The Honorable Ones" (though the latter was more Kallus-centric), though he definitely needs a lot more focus.
- Don't Ezra and Kanan need more focus?... Actually, that's silly. Please give us more background show-runners.
- Kallus and the other villains also need a tiny touch more, just to even things out?
- I actually forgot Aresko and Grint existed before they were killed...
- There's a magazine comic strip that centers around them leading up to "Call to Action", called "Assessment".
- Confirmed. See "The Honorable Ones" for Kallus. A lot of the Imperials need to be analyzed in meta for character development despite not having episodes to themselves, though, but there's enough screentime in episodes to make out their arcs.
- Filoni has said pre-Season 2 that he's all up for Imperial POV episodes, but the writing team seems to be against it.
- I actually forgot Aresko and Grint existed before they were killed...
- In Season 2, there's "Blood Sisters", which goes a little bit into her Academy life, and there's "The Protector of Concord Dawn", which is a bit more direct about her origins.
- Season 3 is more Sabine and Mandalorian-centric.
- It's looking like the Mandalore are will be continuing into Season 4.
- Unlikely. Her mom is ex-Death Watch and probably not a big fan of the Empire, although we're not sure what Mr. Wren's take on the whole thing was.
- In "Imperial Supercommandos", we find out that her mother is with the ISC under circumstances unknown to Sabine. Sabine believes that she didn't join out of her own choice. Saxon, however, points out that some Mandalorians such as himself believe that the Empire is beneficial to Mandalore's strength, a view that could also be shared by Sabine's mother.
- Jossed: As of "Legacy of Mandalore": Her mother serves the Empire but only under duress. Her husband, Sabine's father, is a political prisoner/hostage meant to keep Clan Wren in line.
- Like Laura Bailey?
- Or Sarah Michelle Gellar...
- Jossed. She voices the Seventh Sister.
- It doesn't seem to be their priority, as Ezra has moved on from his crush on Sabine, and Word of God is that while Kanan and Hera know that there is something between each other, Hera has to put her duty to the people (and therefore the Rebel cause) first and foremost, and Kanan will understand this.
- We have female TIE pilots at Skystrike in "The Antilles Extraction", but it seems like the only reason it was that way was to make it so that a female character going undercover in a what-is-seen-so-far supposedly male-only environment is actually not just full of males, and thus, not make it weird for the audience.
- We also have Phoenix Squadron pilots that are explicitly female.
- So why not the Empire, too? Something about the armor looking like a man's? Happened with Captain Phasma, and nobody was really confused, especially once that infamous exchange happened on Twitter...
- A female Death Trooper appeared in "In The Name Of The Rebellion, Part 2", and in fact was the commander of her squadron.
- Close. That's almost exactly what happens in "Wings of the Master", except its the B-Wing. The Rebels Recon for that episode says that the X-Wings and Y-Wings are a different rebel cell, and the ABs and XYs don't join together until Return of the Jedi.
- Y-Wings are stolen from the Empire in "Steps Into Shadow" and are to be sent to Yavin IV, so it's possible we could see X-Wings eventually too.
- X-Wings are confirmed for season 4.
- Timeline-wise, that seems unlikely since we're fast closing in on being caught up with A New Hope. Doesn't leave a lot of time for Han to have acquired it and become so familiar with it.
- Season 3's midseason finale episodes (which are right before the film's release) are "An Inside Man" and "Visions and Voices". "An Inside Man" is probably going to explore the EU-spanning plot of the kyber crystals as Lothal is said to be full of kyber crystals, likely for use in the Death Star. There probably won't be a tie-in in "Visions and Voices", though, unless one of the visions has to do with the future.
- Jossed for both "An Inside Man" and "Visions and Voices". The midseason première "Ghosts of Geonosis", on the other hand, guest-stars Saw Gerrera. As for whether there's an episode showing the Ghost crew at the Battle of Scarif, I would guess Season 5, due to where Season 3 currently falls in the timeline.
- Jossed. Dave Filoni confirmed that the series finale will not show the Battle of Scarif from the Ghost crew's perspective, as he thought doing so would be redundant. Although, he did say he'd like to show that sometime anyways.
- By doing this, the creators will avoid having to kill off the heroes, and be able to surprise us.
- Jossed. It ends before the beginning of the Original Trilogy.
- Not necessarily canon, but does have Approval of God status with a guy Armed with Canon.
- Looking confirmed, via his Season 4 outfit and the magic of retconning.
- Absolutely confirmed by "Family Reunion — and Farewell", which reveals in the epilogue that Rex fought at Endor. Still no confirmation if he's the old guy, though.
- Jossed.
- Jossed: Kanan dies in a Heroic Sacrifice in "Jedi Night", and Ezra disappears into the Unknown Regions.
- He might be Fulcrum II, so maybe.
- Confirmed.
- Stays with the Ghost crew and/or helps key figures of the rebellion (people like Ahsoka, Organa, Mothma, maybe others if there are more) as some sort of personal agent.
- Kallus won't be comfortable with any other rebel cell, due to his trauma with the Onderon rebels and already having previous ties with the Ghost crew that allow him to at least understand that they won't hurt him (except for maybe Chopper.)
- Goes solo, on the grey fence. Maybe he isn't as good as the Ghost crew to be or want to be a rebel, but he does oppose the Empire, becoming a vigilante-figure mercenary/bounty-hunter.
- He joins up with the rebels at the end of "Zero Hour", after getting unmasked as The Mole.
- Maybe he lets the Ghost crew and co. go, but one of his superiors finds out and has him and his unit be punished. Kallus tells his men to flee the Empire and find a new life, maybe somewhere far away, maybe join the Rebellion, before providing a distraction that costs his own life.
- Kallus buying the rebels time to escape.
- Jossed.
- Unlikely, as Kallus at the time had no reason to save her life.
- They do indeed have separate quarters. We see that Kanan's room is bare and empty, while Hera's is messy. Also, it doesn't seem like Kanan and Hera were a couple until the events of the show, but both acknowledge how rather close their friendship is. Also, Everyone Can See It.
- What seems to be going on is that they both have feelings for each other, but have chosen to put the Rebellion ahead of romance for the time being.
- Confirmed that they were a couple. It's unclear exactly how much the others knew, though.
- Well, right now she's a Vice Admiral.
- Jossed. Rae Sloane never appeared.
- Partially Jossed: Atollon is subjected to orbital bombardment in "Zero Hour".
- Ezra
- One of the points of Rebels is to initially follow similar paths of stories that have already been told before diverging to a completely new ending (for example, Ezra is an Expy of Anakin, but Word of God is that he will have a different ending than turning to the Dark side completely before Redemption Equals Death). Kanan had two comic book arcs and a prequel novel back in Season 1 and we already have so much development on him that stuffing him in the fridge to simply be pain for Ezra would mean that telling these stories were a waste and could have been used to tell stories on Ezra, for example (who only had a children's chapter book that took place right before Rebels).
- Jossed: Ezra survives, but disappears.
This would explain why we never hear from what happened to the Ghost crew if they're supposedly active during the Original Trilogy; not much to say about a fallen hero when you might as well become one yourself if you don't shush up and focus.
But in actuality, they're doing very covert operations in a remote part of the Galaxy, away from the main events of the Original Trilogy (like maybe the Unknown Regions).
- Jossed, as far as we know. The members of the crew who stayed with the Alliance after the Grand Finale don't seem to have done anything of the sort.
- Cassian Andor. After all, he's a part of Alliance/Rebel Intelligence and has been a recruiter for the Rebel cause for quite a while before Rogue One.
- Confirmed in the Rogue One Visual Guide.
- Several other senators, including Riyo Chuchi, Meena Tills, Giddean Danu, Fang Zar, Nadea Tural, Garm Bel Iblis, and so on. Maybe Jar Jar, but his species' signature speech pattern make it too obvious, and Jar Jar isn't exactly the most subtle guy you want to give secret plans too, even if he is an Accidental Hero at times.
- Barriss Offee. Maybe Barriss just wants to keep her distance from people even while she's helping them or something out of guilt or not wanting to deal with people asking her about her Jedi past, so Ahsoka and the Senators especially kept her identity under wraps.
- Characters from Naboo, like Sabe and the other Handmaidens, Captain Typho, Governor Bibble, Olie, the other queens, et al., who want to remove the Naboo-born Emperor from power as he stands for literally all of the opposites of the ideals of the Naboo people stand for. When one of their identities gets revealed, we could get a comment from them about Padme and how she was the true leader of the Rebellion before anyone even conceived the idea of the resistance.
- In Rogue One, there are a few hints that the Ghost crew are involved, at least behind the scenes.
- What pilot that isn't Luke Skywalker or Wedge Antilles can say that they've flown against Darth Vader and lived to tell the tale?
- Jossed. The Rogue One Visual Guide revealed Evaan from Princess Leia is the Y-Wing pilot.
- She might search - and find - something else (in the ruins of) the Sith Temple - after all, such a big temple just to house a single Holocron seems overkill
- She feels a draw to the dark side - it has been confirmed in Disney Canon that Sith Temples emanate some sort of dark side energy
- She might find another Sith Holocron and - perhaps to her own surprise - open it
- She might decide to take Vader up on his offer after all, "faking" going to the dark side to bring him back, but tragically won't remember what she was trying to do when she gets a chance to redeem Vader - Sidious might end up killing her enraged that Vader has a secret apprentice and violates the rule of two (didn't Vader have secret apprentices in Legends?)
- She might go into exile shaken by what she has seen and become Snoke - hey, every named character who does not die onscreen has to be considered for being Snoke, right?
- She tries to free Anakin from the evil influence of Sidious and actually fights the Emperor either losing or beating the Emperor only to find out she was battling a clone after all (I know, Palpy-Clones are not Canon any more, but why not bring them back via Broad Strokes?)
- Jossed.
- The rebels lost quite a bit of their fleet at that battle — they only had thirty fighters and bombers at the Battle of Yavin. The show will have a Downer Ending, but it will also count as a "Ray of Hope" Ending since it will lead directly into A New Hope.
- Jossed by Forces of Destiny and the Grand Finale.
- Hera attempts to jump to hyperspace, but somehow the hyperdrive experiences a malfunction mid-jump, or the coordinates are scrambled, so they jump, but end up far away from Yavin. This would explain why they didn't partake in the Battle of Yavin.
- Jossed.
- There may even be a (very) remote possibility of vestigial leku growing out from under that cute green hair or his. (jury is throughly out on if this would lead to fluffy leku or bare leku peaking out of hair)
- Leia Organa
- Confirmed, appeared in "A Princess on Lothal"
- The Emperor
- Confirmed, appeared (voice only) at the end of "The Siege of Lothal".
- Hondo Ohnaka
- Confirmed, debuted in "Brothers of the Broken Horn".
- Darth Maul
- Confirmed, debuted in "Twilight of the Apprentice".
- Asajj Ventress
- Impossible, she's dead as of Dark Disciple.
- Governor Arihnda Pryce
- Confirmed, debuted in "Steps Into Shadow".
- Shaak Ti
- Impossible, the Galactic Atlas confirmed she died in the Jedi Temple massacre.
- Mara Jade
- Celebration 2016 had Filoni possibly Joss this, though he could change his mind.
- Jossed.
- Han Solo and a certain hairy sidekick
- Jossed.
- Galen Marek aka Starkiller aka Vader's Apprentice (cos why not)
- Either Celebration 2015 or some other interview building up to Season 2 had them Joss this.
- Jar Jar Binks
- WHY.
- Boba Fett
- An interview building up to Season 2 seemed to suggest he wasn't out of the possibility.
- Never happened.
- Garm Bel Iblis
- Never happened.
- Cad Bane
- Looking unlikely, due to Filoni revealing at Celebration 2017 the details of a planned arc of The Clone Wars where he would have been killed by Boba Fett.
- Grand Admiral Thrawn
- Confirmed as Arc Villain/part of the Big Bad Ensemble for Season 3.
- Gilad Pellaeon
- Confirmed, appeared in a voice-only appearance in the Grand Finale.
- Rear Admiral Kendel Ozzel
- Commander Firmus Piett
- Major Maximillian Veers
- Vice Admiral Rae Sloane
- Not her, but a lookalike showed up in "Ghosts of Geonosis".
- IG-88
- Made an appearance in the Rebels-adjacent Forces of Destiny short "Bounty of Trouble".
- Bossk
- If it means anything, Ezra met him in the prequel novel Ezra's Gamble.
- Aurra Sing
- Watto
- Sebulba
- Dexter Jettster
- Padmé's family
- Wedge Antilles
- Confirmed, debuted in "The Antilles Extraction".
- Tycho Celchu
- Winter Celchu
- Possibly jossed as of the end of Season 3. With all this material on Leia, you'd think that she'd be mentioned or seen at one point if her backstory is the same as it was in Legends.
- Wes Janson
- Hobbie Klivian
- Confirmed, debuted in "The Antilles Extraction".
- Neena Organa
- Prince Xizor
- Tyber Zann
- Tag Greenley & Bink Otauna
- Sy Snootles and the Rebo Band
- Dash Rendar
- This is looking extremely unlikely, due to many people at Lucasfilm strongly disliking the character.
- Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes
- Noa
- Breha Organa
- Ferus Olin
- Never appeared in canon material before, so why would he be canon now? Possibly jossed.
- Tash and/or Zak Arranda
- Padmé's former handmaidens, especially Sabé.
- Luke Skywalker (and maybe the Lars-Whitesuns too).
- Confirmed, he has a cameo in the distance at the end of "Twin Suns", and Beru can be heard calling him.
- Juno Eclipse
- Rahm Kota
- Given the many similarities between him and Kanan, this is rather unlikely.
- Qu Rahn
- Snoke
- Lor San Tekka
- Colonel Wullf Yularen
- Confirmed, appeared in "Through Imperial Eyes".
- Coburn Sear
- Impossible, he died at the Third Battle of Mygeeto during the Clone Wars, as shown in Kanan.
- Saw Gerrera and the Partisans
- Mentioned in "The Honorable Ones" by Kallus, debuted in "Ghosts of Geonosis".
- Embo
- Sugi
- Latts Razzi
- Dengar
- C-21 Highsinger
- Rook Kast and Gar Saxon (and/or Mandalorian Supercommandos/Mauldalorians)
- Gar Saxon confirmed, debuted in "Imperial Supercommandos". Worth noting that if Saxon is their leader, then it's likely that other supercommandos under Maul joined the Empire as part of the ISC as well.
- Bo-Katan Kryze and Death Watch
- Confirmed by Katee Sackhoff at Sydney Comic-Con 2016, debuts in "Heroes of Mandalore".
- Prime Minister Almec
- Korkie and co.
- Moreena Krai
- Soontir Fel
- Admiral Gial Ackbar and/or the people of Mon Cala.
- Armand Isard
- Ysanne Isard
- Jahan Cross and IN-GA 44
- The Yuuzhan Vong
- Kyle Katarn and Jan Ors
- Given the similarities between them and Kanan & Hera, this is looking unlikely.
- Rom Mohc
- Jerec (he WAS an Inquisitor in Legends after all)
- Dark Troopers and/or Purge Troopers
- Imperial sentry droids, which seem to be the predecessors of Dark Troopers, debut in "The Wynkahthu Job".
- Lobot
- Oniye Namada
- Mar Tuuk
- Riyo Chuchi
- Mon Mothma
- Confirmed, debuted in "Secret Cargo".
- Jyn Erso and the rest of the Rogue One squad
- Jyn made an appearance in the Rebels-adjacent Forces of Destiny short "Accidental Allies".
- Sly Moore
- Other clones like Commander Cody, Crest, Torrent...
- Cody was mentioned at least twice ("Stealth Strike" and "The Last Battle"), but that's as far as it went.
- Meebur Gascon and the D-Squad
- Malorum and other Legends Inquisitors
- Shoan Kilian
- Coburn (the Admiral, not the Separatist)
- Nils Tenant
- Jylia Shale
- Delian Mors
- Alecia Beck
- Brendol Hux
- Adelhard
- Anyone from the magazine comic strips.
- Whoever the Operator is/Gallius Rax
- Great Heep
- Barriss Offee
- Corran Horn
- A member of the Lawquane family (Cut, Suu, Shaeeah, Jek)
- A pre-Rogue One Orson Krennic, Galen Erso, or Cassian Andor.
- Eli Vanto
- Antoc Merrick
- Davits Draven
- Yavin IV
- Confirmed for Season 4.
- Dantooine
- Confirmed, visited in "Secret Cargo".
- Mon Cala
- Pantora
- Naboo
- Onderon
- Dathomir
- Confirmed, visited in "Visions and Voices".
- Mandalore
- Confirmed for Season 4.
- Concordia
- Mandallia
- Shogun
- Kalevala
- Kaller
- Cato Neimoidia
- Rodia
- Chandrila
- Alderaan
- Corellia
- Corulag
- Coruscant
- Rakata Prime
- Tython
- Kashyyyk
- Trandosha
- Jakku
- Takodana
- Utapau
- Mirial
- Terrelia
- Christophsis
- Hosnian Prime
- Arkanis
- Mortis
- Tatooine
- Confirmed, visited in "Twin Suns".
- Endor
- Raada
- Hoth
- Bespin
- Eadu
- Jedha
- Scarif
- Taris
- Moraband/Korriban
- Lasan
- Raxus Prime
- Kamino
- Iokath
- Zakuul
- Voss
- Nar Shaddaa
- Nal Hutta
- Odessen
- Hosnian Prime/The Hosnian System
- Earth
- Wellspring of Light (the planet from "Destiny")
- Crait (the salt-flats planet from the first The Last Jedi trailer — Word of God is it used to have a Rebel base)
- Jossed.
- This is pretty much a given. They wouldn't waste the potential of this awesomeness.
- Seconded. Epic battles between Ahsoka and Vader? YES PLEASE.
- Confirmed? Only one fight happens. But, they do in a way, sense the presence they haven't felt in a long time when they're near each other in "The Siege of Lothal", but when they actually do confront each other, Ahsoka starts it and they both agree that Anakin is dead, having been replaced by Vader, fighting and leading to Ahsoka stalling for time for Kanan and Ezra when she realizes she can't leave Anakin again when it turns out a piece of him still exists in Vader.
- Seconded. Epic battles between Ahsoka and Vader? YES PLEASE.
- Expanding on this theory, when Cad Bane and Boba Fett show up, their story arc will be based off of the cancelled game: 1313.
- Maybe they'll fight each other.
- Jossed.
- Biggs in particular might have some focus, given that he's arguably the most well known of the original Red Squadron.
- Dave Filoni has mentioned that he and the crew thought of giving Porkins some focus at some point — Biggs is not that far of a leap.
- Biggs almost showed up, but was replaced by Wedge (and Hobbie).
- Partially confirmed. Wedge had important roles in a couple episodes, but wasn't a major character.
- Given that Ahsoka was planned to be executed had the court found her guilty, there's really little to no chance that they spared Barriss after she confessed.
- Confessions do generally allow for lighter sentencing.
- But with an extensive and severe crime list like this? 1: treason; 2: terrorist bombing, that resulted in the deaths of six Jedi, along with numerous military officers and civilian workers. 3: murdering a suspect, and misleading the authorities; 4: assaulting and murdering numerous military officers. Lighter sentence in such case would be giving her the choise between blaster fire or poison injection.
- Don't forget who controls the government. Palpatine might have kept her around as insurance; if Anakin didn't go dark fast enough he'd let her out and get Anakin to go on a man hunt for her and kill her in vengeance. Not to mention that plenty of people with a similar rap sheet are still alive, Cad Bane for one.
- With the revelation that her master Luminara is alive and captured by the Imperials after Order 66, they might be a small chance for Barriss. Perhaps Luminara will discuss about her failure to keep her former Padawan from falling into the Dark Side, or we see Barriss as a Dark Jedi under Palpatine's command (assuming that he has uses for the young Jedi).
- Dave Filoni more or less confirmed in an interview that Barriss was not executed.
- Here's an idea: the female Inquisitor introduced in Season 2 has been confirmed as a Mirialan. Maybe she'll turn out to be Barriss?
- We've seen her face now, and it's plausible; she looks a little like what an older Barriss could look like... The fact that she has a different voice actress could be an attempt to throw fans off.
- Her being Seventh Sister has been Jossed.
- Jossed.
- She's most likely related to Cham, but she's most likely not the same girl since Hera's LEGO mini-fig shows that she has green skin while that little girl in "Liberty" had tan skin. [2]
- It's already been confirmed that Cham is her father, whether or not she's the same girl is unconfirmed however.
- Could be an attempt to disguise her identity from the fans for the time being, and she'll have orange/tan colored skin in the actual series, or even on the actual Lego figure. Or maybe sometimes the skin color of Twi'leks changes during adolescence.
- The Twi'lek girl accompanying Cham in the midseason trailer for Season 2 is strongly implied to be Numa.
- The Twi'lek girl is Numa.
- JOSSED: Pablo Hidalgo has confirmed in an episode of Rebels Recon that Hera and the girl are not the same Twi'lek.
- Jossed.
- Actually, Sabine's trauma seems to stem from her time as an Imperial cadet in training.
- Why not both?
- The second Season 2 trailer revealed she is part of House Vizsla!
- Pretty much confirmed.
- And Palpatine will be the reason why Jar Jar dies. Jar Jar Binks' experiences with the Jedi would make him a major detriment to Palpatine's anti-Jedi propaganda, and since he was an integral part of the Emperor's rise to power the Gungan could blow the lid off his whole conspiracy. Jar Jar will die trying to reveal the truth of the Clone Wars after putting two and two together, purging what little remains of hate towards him.
- Jossed by Empire's End.
- Mid-season trailer shows they will fight.
- Jossed. They fight in "Twilight of the Apprentice".
- Maybe he'll be part of the 501st?
- Not very likely, as Dave Filoni has stated that at the time of Rebels, all clone troopers have been taken off the front line due to their advanced aging, and are not exactly happy with Order 66 or how the Empire is treating them.
- Jossed, as in the trailer he warmly welcomes Hera and the Ghost crew, stating outright that "any friend of Ahsoka's is a friend of mine."
- Assuming he secretly got his inhibitor chip removed before Order 66 was issued.
- With the revelation that the surviving clones have been assigned to labor duty instead receiving compensation and that some of them feel horrible for executing Order 66, Rex might not be the only one.
- Confirmed. He shows up as an ally of Ahsoka.
- It's possible the old clones realized what they did and something else horrible happened.
- There could've also been a clone rebellion at some point. And if they all died (and Jango's DNA sample finally expired), one of the last clones may have given the Empire a proverbial middle finger about being stuck with subpar troopers from now on.
- Sorta confirmed. The clones are now a menial labor force, and some of them do indeed feel horrible about Order 66. The possibility for a clone rebellion is still up in the air, though.
- Adding on, some seem to be working as instructors in Imperial academies, according to "Stealth Strike".
- Seemingly jossed. Rex (and at least two other clones from what we are shown) are elderly now and "retired". The only way this could work is if the current 501st is instead made up of "later run" Fett clones, but that's wishful thinking at best.
- On this note, Vader/Inquisitor vs Maul.
- The Inquisitor's pushing up daisies, but Vader vs Maul could still happen.
- Ventress isn't possible as she got killed in Dark Disciple. Ahsoka and Maul could still be a possibility, though.
- Confirmed. In fact, "Twilight of the Apprentice" has the Jedi trio do an Enemy Mine with Maul.
- Given that Maul will probably only return to try to take out Sideous and fail, it would be interesting to see if he attempts to train the two in more agressive forms of combat. We already know Ezra has a connection to the Dark Side, it wouldn't be much of a stretch to say his preferred style will be power over defense.
- Seemingly confirmed in the mid-season trailer for season 2 where someone who seems to be an older Darth Maul asks Ezra to call him "Old Master".
- Mostly confirmed — he did seduce Ezra enough to the Dark Side that Ezra was able to open the Sith Holocron in the Wham Shot at the end.
- Sorta confirmed? She seems to still be connected with Rex, and she's working with Bail.
- Jossed, though Season 3 confirms there are multiple Fulcrums, so it's possible some of them are characters we have seen before.
- Sort of confirmed. They met Lando Calrissian, although we did not see him with the ship.
- Even better if Ahsoka's involved.
- Looking Jossed.
- This is supported by Bail Organa appearing on the show, Hondo Ohnaka being confirmed to return for the series, along with the voice actor for Saw Gerrera being rumored to have signed on. And, of course, the obvious implications that Fulcrum is Ahsoka, in-series and out.
- Sort of Confirmed. Fulcrum is definitely Ahsoka. The rest? Only time will tell.
- Ahsoka has moved on from the fall of the Jedi and by the time we see her, she's more focused on the Rebellion until she and Vader nearly cross paths in the Season 2 premiere, leading to her plot being discovering what's up with the Inquisition, Vader and why he seems familiar, and other Force-related stuff. Hondo is a happy coincidence and unrelated to her plot, though no word on Saw besides him still being active.
- Vader: You never would have made it as Skywalker's apprentice, but you will make it as my apprentice.
- Vader: You always were snippy. Tano: Sky Guy? Vader: That name no longer has any meaning for me!
- Jossed. Using their nicknames in their confrontation was considered, but dropped because it would've destroyed the battle's credibility.
- Doubtful.
- Partly confirmed. Vader gave her the offer of joining him and the Empire, although becoming Sith wasn't explicitly part of the deal. She refused and instead gave her life for Kanan and Ezra's escape. Maybe.
- No, he wanted her dead, because she was a relic of a time he wanted to forget.
- Ezra may be taken as an apprentice by Vader, as he has the ability to tap into the Dark Side.
- Since they were the leaders of the Lothal resistance and had a Force-sensitive child, the Brigders may have been Jedi, like Marek's parents were.
- Ezra seems to be Doomed by Canon and his eventual death may inspire a major consolidation of the Rebel Alliance, like Marek's death inspired the Alliance's creation in Legends.
- Hidalgo doesn't seem fond of calling the term for in-betweeners as "Grey Jedi" anymore, but it's something like that.
- Jossed. He doesn't appear in the series.
- Luminara's facial expressions in the scene certainly lend support to this theory.
- While it's confirmed that the Seventh Sister isn't Barriss, I still think that Barriss being an Inquisitor is a possibility. Perhaps she isn't trusted by Palpitine or Vader to go after Ahsoka (fearing she could redeem her). Barriss might have been a personal instructor to other Inquisitors, and if she's still bitter at Ahsoka, she'll could have spread a lot of stories about the former Padawan. The Seventh Sister wants to capture Ahsoka so she can present her to the Barriss and Vader, and thus move up the food chain.
- Jossed at Celebration 2015; she isn't an Inquisitor, and it's another story to be told elsewhere.
- Still be alive, only not operating alongside Hondo. They could've met up from time to time or Hondo started out helping her before she struck out on her own.
- Still be alive and working with Hondo, only she wasn't on that particular mission and Hondo (for some reason) decided not to tell the Ghost crew about her.
- Be dead after all, but not from Order 66; she could have been killed by Inquisitors later on, another reason Hondo doesn't like the Empire.
- Have faked her death in order to escape the Inquisitors.
- This would be great, and Petro would make sense, as he was an impatient idiot who, even after getting his Kyber Crystal, was still a d-ck. But if one of them reappears without being on the Dark Side, I really want to see Gungi back.
- Jossed.
- Jossed.
- They have similar physical appearances. They have similar faces. Their hair is also somewhat similar, both being dark brunettes, and their similar hairstyles could be a case of Like Mother, Like Daughter. They seem to be Asian.
- Sabine's Nite Owl helmet was inherited, likely from her mother. Filoni once clarified it was more of a 'burgundy', and burgundy is the same color Rook's Supercommando armor is. The Nite Owls helmet and Supercommando also have similar markings above their visors. It would make sense that Rook gave up her old Death Watch armor and changed to her new Supercommando armor, but kept her Nite Owl helmet to give to Sabine.
- Alternatively, if it wasn't from Rook, then it was actually a Tragic Keepsake; it used to be Veraslayn's. Rook gave her late relative's helmet to Sabine, and Rook always kept the same helmet during the transition from Death Watch to Shadow Collective, she just upgraded/redesigned it.
- During the Pre Vizsla vs. Maul fight scene, there are multiple women present alongside Bo-Katan. At least one follows Maul and fires at Bo-Katan's renegades after Pre's execution. Presumably, the same woman is the one shown accompanying Almec and Maul later in the episode. Also note that Maul ended up being put into Separatist custody shortly after this arc, so there would've been no time for him to be personable with Rook (and Gar Saxon) Son of Dathomir, so it makes sense that the supercommandos at Almec and Maul's sides were people they came to know they could trust and thus know them a little more personally.
- Hidalgo tweeted that Sabine's design is a combination of 'Nite Owl + Rook Kast + original paint scheme + secret sauce', so Rook's design was kept in mind for Sabine. This can be seen in several concept art pieces of Sabine.
- A House in Mandalorian culture merely means it's a clan that's allied under a more powerful clan, so Clan Kast under House Vizsla can be referred to as House Vizsla for status. We know that Sabine's family still practiced and encouraged Mandalorian traditions such as having her make her own armor, and that Rook has/had Undying Loyalty for Maul because he legitimately won the title from Pre Vizsla per tradition. Pre also did not argue against his loss to Maul and resigned, acknowledged that the strong survive. Rook going along with this would respect his wishes as well as tradition. This personality trait can easily apply to the rest of Rook's lifestyle.
- Saxon reveals that in "Imperial Supercommandos", Sabine's mother joined the Empire as a part of the ISC after Sabine ran away, either because she has nothing left but her loyalty to Might Makes Right and her respect as a follower of Mandalorian tradition, she's looking for Sabine, a combination of both, forced into the job, or some other motivation. While he might have said it to sound nice, he allows Sabine a choice to willingly turn herself in 'out of respect for [Sabine's] family'. He may be talking about Dad Wren, but it's possible that he still has respect for Rook despite a fallout they may have had at the end of the Clone Wars due to losing the Siege. Considering Saxon is anything but a nice guy, it makes sense that he would especially show Sabine mercy due to some lingering camaraderie about a fellow Co-Dragon (though then again, it might be because of House Vizsla's reputation or because both Saxon and Kast are fellow House Vizsla members). It also seems kind of weird that only one of them survived and lived on while the other supposedly didn't.
- Propaganda reveals that Rook may have had a relative in the form of fellow Death Watch and Shadow Collective member, Veraslayn Kast, who was a propaganda artist for the organizations before being killed in the civil war that occurred after Maul established his rule. In the same book, Sabine is also well known for her propaganda artworks and defacing of Imperial propaganda (we have seen the latter in the show itself). Could be a case of Shared Family Quirks.
- In the Season 3's midseason trailer scenes for "Legacy of Mandalore" as well as the episode's summary, we are going to meet Sabine's family. Sabine's family shares the same helmet markings as Sabine and Kast, and the chieftess is also shown to be Asian (though probably not Rook, because Rook is supposed to be with the ISC) and has a similar helmet design to Rook's. Perhaps they are Clan Kast, rather than Clan Wren.
- Rau and Sabine seem to know that her mother is an influential person, whom if they can persuade to join the Rebellion, will cause many Mandalorians to take her cue and follow the Rebellion as well. Saxon, the other former Shadow Collective leader, is thus an influential person in the Imperial supercommandos. Kast could easily be of similar rank as Saxon due to also being a former Shadow Collective leader alongside him.
- And with "Legacy of Mandalore"... this is jossed, because Sabine's mother is actually an original character named Ursa Wren.
- "Legacy of Mandalore" shows that they may be the insignia of Clan Kast instead.
- The "Clan Kast insignia" is jossed, because that's actually Clan Wren.
Considering Kast doesn't seem to be the type to get into a romantic relationship (Pre Vizsla, Bo, Saxon, and Rau haven't been in romantic relationships either as far as we know), it seems a little strange that she got with someone that wasn't of equal power as her and even had a kid in that relationship, even though she's strongly dedicated to the Death Watch cause.
The only way type I think Kast might be into is someone who strongly believes in the Death Watch cause as much as her and shares many of the same ideals as her. I also thought about how in the Avatar franchise, Toph, who was also easily dismissive of others, no-nonsense, and an independent spirit, had a thing for Adorkable (smart yet more lax) people like Sokka, Satoru, and implicitly Kanto. AKA, the Strong Girl, Smart Guy trope.
As Sabine has a strong support for art and free expression, maybe that was something she got from her father. Kast doesn't seem to be the artistic type, but it would make sense that Wren talked a whole ton to young Sabine about art and what daddy likes about it, hence her unwavering love of artistic expression. However, Wren likely wasn't another propaganda artist for Death Watch like Veraslayn, because if he was, then he would've been mentioned alongside her and Sabine in Propaganda (due to being written in the nature of an in-universe factual guide, such as a museum guide), something like 'Sabine Wren of Mandalore, like her father, was a propaganda artist [...]'. More likely, Wren was a filmmaker or writer that glorified Mandalore's warrior past.
Perhaps Kast and Wren met through a common person. Veraslayn is a female relation to Rook, and she's a propaganda artist for Death Watch. It would make sense that Veraslayn would be friends or colleagues with another pro-Death Watch/Mandalorian traditionalist, and somehow, Rook and Wren met through her.
I'm also not sure how long the Kasts were in Death Watch or how long Pre Vizsla has been in control of Death Watch, but if it was around the beginning of the Clone Wars and Kast and Wren met in that first year (as Sabine is born in the second year of the Clone Wars, which was also the year that Maul took over and Kast stayed to fight), this would also support the idea that Kast and Wren's relationship wasn't a completely fulfilling or healthy one.
As Kast probably fled and went into hiding like Saxon when the Shadow Collective lost the Siege, she came crawling back to Wren and their infant daughter Sabine, even though she ditched her familial duties so she could fight in a war she ultimately lost. Though however imbalanced her relationship with Wren was, the couple stayed supportive for Sabine, judging by how proud Sabine is about her upbringing.
- Jossed. Parts of this could still be possible, but Kast isn't Sabine's mother.
- She could have been working with Ventress, who could get an appearance as a silent partner.
- Ventress died in Dark Disciple, so jossed.
- She could have traveled the galaxy, learning more about the Force.
- Her story is told in Ahsoka.
- Maybe one of her adventures was to get new crystals for the sabers.
- She got them from the Sixth Brother's saber.
- Or she created some synthetic crystals.
- No longer possible in this canon.
- Her lightsaber blades are now almost white, because of her lack of affiliation to the now-gone Order.
- We find out this part of her backstory in Ahsoka.
- Season two will be him chasing after the Ghost cell, visiting various planets of the week, as Vader and his underlings attempt to eliminate them. Culminating in a standoff between Vader and a rebel Jedi.
- Vader calls in favors from other factions, such as the Hutts, who loan him bounty hunters to find the Rebels off-world while he sorts out Lothal. The season 2 finale sees the Ghost cell return to Lothal, only to see it drastically changed, and the Empire lording over it with an iron fist.
- He has Tarkin (or maybe even does it himself) Base Delta Zero Lothal.
- Might happen yet, as the trailer seems to imply that the Ghost crew self-exiles from Lothal to avoid severe repercussions to the planet's population by their continued presence there.
- Seems that Vader left after "The Siege of Lothal".
- In retrospect, it was highly unlikely that Vader would be the on-scene villain of every episode. Logically, he would have to either lose each week, or have the Rebels suffer a Pyrrhic Victory by escaping barely alive each week. Either way, it would have taken something away from Vader's mystique.
- Jossed. She didn't appear.
- Jossed. Kaller also seems to be appearance-exclusive to Kanan anyway, though it could show up later in the show.
- Jossed. But she has a vision of an angry Anakin becoming Vader in "Shroud of Darkness".
- He has at least one case of brain trauma, he could have gotten another in that explosion, and accelerated aging wouldn't have been good to it. It destroyed his chip, at the cost of making him senile.
- Jossed — he had it removed, like Rex and Wolffe.
- Jossed. He didn't appear.
- And then confirmed: he appeared in "Through Imperial Eyes".
- Jossed for season 2, confirmed that it comes into her possession in season 3, although she found it, rather than inheriting it.
- Partially confirmed: She did have the Darksaber for a time, but eventually gave it to Bo-Katan.
- Both the Seventh Sister and Fifth Brother meet their ends courtesy of Maul, while the Eighth Brother dies after Kanan damages his saber. Maybe.
- Being remorseful about it, with Ezra's reaction being similar to how he acted towards Tseebo (although probably worse), OR
- Having no regrets, saying that the ends justify the means, which breaks Ezra even more (maybe similar to his reaction to Trayvis).
- Freddie did say in an interview that Ezra would put his faith in the wrong people...
- The "wrong people" turned out to be Maul. This is all Jossed and he seems to be building up as the Big Good for the Lothal story arc.
- Jossed. When she said 'House Vizsla', she was referring to herself and how Clan Wren is allied with House Vizsla. The other guy is Fenn Rau, a mostly Reasonable Authority Figure who needed 'persuading' to join the Rebellion (and Sabine was angry at him for nearly killing Hera earlier — in fact, declaring she was a Vizsla actually completely turned off Rau from willingly joining because the Protectors aren't so fond of Death Watch (and her mother is indeed a former Death Watch soldier, so that part is confirmed)). Later on, we find out that Sabine shamed her Clan (and House) by leaving her supposed obligation to the Empire.
- And with the mid-season trailer, the Temple Guard in Kanan's vision that seems to warn him about Ezra's susceptibility to the Dark Side has similar mannerisms to the GI, along with the fact that their uniforms look rather similar too. In an EW article, Filoni also refuses to disclose the identity of the voice actor. An edited Jason Isaacs, perhaps?
- Virtually confirmed as of Shroud of Darkness
- That last part is jossed; the Sentinel and the other Temple Guards were visions and were stalling the Inquisitors so that Ahsoka, Kanan, and Ezra could escape. As for the Eighth Brother, he seems to be younger than the Seventh Sister and the Fifth Brother (the former likely being in her 20s), so he would have been a kid during the Clone Wars. But beyond that, his past is unknown.
- Confirmed as of "Shroud Of Darkness" - it's the location that Yoda says that the Jedi need to go to.
- The Fifth Brother and Seventh Sister might help bring her down.
- Jossed. They get killed by Maul before anything else happens.
- If the writers subscribe to the notion of repeating themes, this is all but confirmed. In the Rebels Recon episode for "The Mystery of Chopper Base", a clip for the season finale has Rex and Ahsoka go through a repeat of their very first conversation. Specifically, they talk about how 'experience outranks everything', which is how their two characters were established in the pilot movie.
- Her fate is left ambiguous.
- Ultimately jossed: She survived . . . thanks to a time-travelling Ezra.
- Freddie Prinze Junior is still recording for Season 3, meaning Kanan survives (or comes back as a Force-ghost or something.)
- Jossed.
- Mostly confirmed. In "Shroud of Darkness":
- Ahsoka shows the holocron to Ezra.
- The three Jedi go to the Temple on Lothal (from "Path of the Jedi").
- Kanan's vision is of the Jedi dojo, he does meet the temple guards and after a duel with them one is revealed to be the Grand Inquisitor.
- Ezra, Kanan and Ahsoka's visions are intertwined. Ezra's is not of Maul, but of Yoda, and Ahsoka does have her worst fears confirmed, that Vader is Anakin in her vision. Ahsoka's vision, though, happens at the same time as Ezra and Kanan's. She may have had another offscreen though after the one we do see — after her Vader vision, she runs down a corridor declaring she knows something that would help.
- The Inquisitors do show up and open the temple rather roughly, causing the inside to suffer damage as if by earthquake. They do encounter Temple Guard!Inquisitor and a number of other guards who surround the Inquisitors, giving time for Ezra, Kanan and Ahsoka to flee, but with enough time for Ahsoka to have one final, fleeting vision of Yoda.
- Vader shows up at the temple at the end to confer with the Inquisitors.
- Considering the promo shows Kallus at Zeb's mercy and the trailer seemingly shows Zeb at Kallus's mercy, it might be a Book Ends.
- Also, Kallus's leg might be broken. I don't see why Kallus would point a blaster at Zeb when he's already held at gunpoint. The look on his face seems to suggest he might be in pain, afraid, or both.
- If one looks closely in the trailer, it seems that Kallus's bo-rifle is being used as a cast.
- Bonus points if the episode is ultimately about Kallus, not Zeb. Maybe Kallus ends up revealing some of his backstory while talking with Zeb, garnering some sympathy or disgust from Zeb.
- More bonus points if it turns out that while Kallus may or may not be remorseful about the Cleansing of Lasan, he was not the one that gave out the order. He was lying to provoke Zeb.
- This episode will end up starting an arc for possible redemption for Kallus.
- Most of this is confirmed by the episode "The Honorable Ones". Zeb and Kallus do have an "Enemy Mine" episode on a ice moon of Geonosis. There, they start to renew their grudge, and Kallus does break his leg. There are fakeout moments where Kallus seemingly points Zeb's bo-rifle at Zeb, but is shooting the monster of the week. However, the episode seems to put an end to, not intensify the hared between Zeb and Kallus. They part as, if not friends, at least with a healthy respect for each other as beings. It even points to a possible Heel–Face Turn for Kallus in the final minutes of the episode.
- The death of an Inquisitor (possibly the Fifth Brother) and at least one good guy.
- Bets are on Sato and/or Rex.
- Confirmed-ish. 3 Inquisitors KIA, Vader and Kanan wounded, Ahsoka MIA.
- Bets are on Sato and/or Rex.
- The loss of at least one limb.
- Somewhat. Kanan gets blinded.
- The Jedi (and the crew) being shaken up by the entire ordeal.
- Confirmed. No one walks away unscathed.
- Vader finally snapping at an Imperial.
- Jossed.
- The Seventh Sister having a Villainous Breakdown.
- Jossed.
- Neither the rebels or the Imperials win.
- Jossed? Even with their losses, the Jedi got the holocron with the knowledge they were looking for.
- Vader will report to Palpatine at the end like in "The Siege of Lothal", who will acknowledge this, implying that there is another force at power, a rival (perhaps Snoke), but the continuation of failures is the only thing that makes that power stronger.
- Jossed.
- Ahsoka will decide to go on a journey, with a crazy and broken Seventh Sister (ala Azula in TLA's the Search). Ezra, also broken, will leave Kanan and the crew to join her.
- Jossed.
- The finale will be as gamechanging as TLA's Book 2 finale and Gravity Falls' Season 2 midseason finale.
- Certainly looks to be the case.
- "A Princess on Lothal" makes it 12 episodes, so there are 10 episodes left.
- Taking guesses from episode titles, trailer scenes, and interview information:
- The space whales, facility with yellow paintjob, will be 1 episode.
- Cham and Twi'leks will be 1 episode, due to Hera being said to have only "one" episode left in the season.
- Zeb and Lasat survivors will be 1 episode.
- Zeb and Kallus will be 1 episode.
- Sabine and Concordia Dawn will be 1 episode.
- Meditating in the temple (see an above WMG) will be 1 episode, possibly part of the finale.
- Maul and Yoda might be 1 episode, possibly part of the finale.
- With summaries released of the next four episodes and the release of "The Protector of Concord Dawn", the Lasat episode is "Legends of the Lasat", the space whale episode is "The Call", the Twi'lek episode is "Homecoming", and the Zeb/Kallus episode is "The Honorable Ones". The finale might be at least 3 episodes long.
- Paraphrasing from the preview, the Fool is simple and selfish, who would lead the bold, bloodthirsty Warrior to hunt the hope of tomorrow; the Child, to destroy him. A new home for the Lasat (or possibly more than just the Lasat) will only be found if the Child saves the Warrior and the Fool. Also worth nothing that this prophecy is almost certainly Force-related and possibly Lasan-related. Keep in mind that prophecies are vague, so anyone could qualify.
- Zeb himself, the titles referring to different aspects of his character. Perhaps he decides to think brashly and decides that more honorable and kinder methods are impractical, but he soon realizes he is wrong.
- Palpatine, Luke, Anakin/Vader.
- Anakin, Vader, Luke.
- Maul, Ezra, Kanan.
- Vader, the Inquisitors, Ahsoka.
- Zeb, Kallus, Ezra. Perhaps Zeb screws up and gets Ezra in some deep trouble w/ Kallus, but Ezra ends up saving Zeb and Kallus (perhaps leading to a redemption arc for Kallus?).
- By the end of the show, it seems that Hondo is a very good candidate for the identity of the Fool.
- What? There is no reason to make the story as convoluted as this. The only thing here that's plausible is Sabine being related to Rook. And a Season 3 clip of "The Holocrons of Fate" shows Sabine being held hostage with Hera, Zeb, and Chopper, so if there was something special between her and Maul right then and there, she wouldn't be tied up. Jossed.
- Looking Jossed.
- Let's list the possible meanings of the title:
- Ahsoka's death (possibly Book Ends with "the apprentice lives" line - Vader might even say something like "the apprentice is dead")
- Vader's complete embracing of the Dark Side, possibly when he kills Ahsoka
- Ezra's falling to the Dark Side
- Vader vs. Maul (the two are Palpatine's apprentices and if they fight, Maul dies)
- Jossed. They never meet.
- Any combination of the above. If it's all of them, it could be Ezra's fall -> Vader vs Maul (though that will probably be reserved for Season 3) -> Ahsoka chasing after them fights Vader and tries to bring back Anakin but fails and is killed -> the last of Anakin is destroyed until he finds out about Luke.
- Confirmed. Ezra is closer to the Dark Side, Ahsoka dies (maybe).
- Let's list the possible meanings of the title:
- Confirmed. However, it seems to be a modified Inqisitor's lightsaber, suggesting he defeated one in the past.
- Jossed.
- Semi-confirmed? The Sith temple is indeed a superweapon, though no kyber crystals are seen or mentioned.
- Since Malachor is mentioned, it may be possible that the Force-attuned among Our Heroes may find and investigate the ruins of the Jedi Enclave on Dantooine featured in the KOTOR time frame as well.
- Jossed. Trivia Gallery for the episode says that it's a new planet called Atollon. Dantooine is always a possibility for a future base, though.
- It might have been found offscreen by a different rebel cell. We find out in "Steps into Shadow" that Dodonna and his rebels are already on Yavin IV, so Dantooine is either already abandoned or will be a story told elsewhere/later.
- Confirmed.
- Or, Maul might be in a Big Bad Ensemble. His return is definitely confirmed.
- Well the "Sidious recapturing Maul" part is definitely Jossed.
- Jossed, it's Thrawn.
- Confirmed at least in broad brushstrokes. According to Dave Filoni, the entire crew, with the exception of Chopper, will get substantial redesigns for the upcoming season.
- Sort of a mixture of both descriptions. She has lavender hair, the main color of her armor (burgundy or maroon) is less faded suggesting she put a new coat on it, and one of the new colors she put on her armor is violet.
- Or the Eighth Brother survived and will take up the hunt.
- Jossed for this season.
- Not saying that the Big Guy Fatality Syndrome will never claim Zeb, but it's been confirmed that he's taking a backseat in this season (along with Hera and Chopper) — Zeb is a main protagonist of the series, so it seems unlikely that the show would reduce his role in the story (and therefore make the audience care less about him) right before killing him off. If Rebels does suffer a casualty from the principal cast this season, my money's on Kanan — Confirmed. Was just one season off.
- Jossed. As of season 3's end, Zeb is still alive and well.
- Zeb survives the entire series, in fact.
- Servants of the Empire continues his story. At the end of the book series, he, his girlfriend, and their families are hiding out on Garel with new identities. Considering what happened in "Legacy", we probably won't see them again anytime soon.
- Jossed for this season.
- Jossed for this season.
- Jossed? The first half of Season 3 is about recovering from Malachor while continuing to grow the Rebellion and dealing with Arc Villain Thrawn. As for the second half, it is Sabine/Mandalore-centric, and thus there's no time to do a Divided We Fall regarding the crew. It's also been confirmed that Zeb, Hera, and Chopper take a backseat from the plot, which isn't something they would say if they were going to do a spotlight type of arc.
- The "splitting up" part is partially confirmed — Sabine leaves to build the Mandalorian Resistance in "Legacy of Mandalore".
- Jossed? The Season 3 trailer hasn't shown them on a desert planet, and the second half of S3 is about Mandalore, which is ways off from Tatooine.
- Partially confirmed. There is a Tatooine episode, but "Twin Suns" isn't a two-parter.
- Jossed.
- Kanan mentioned her to the Seventh Sister, who is voiced by Sarah Michelle Gellar.
- Freddie Prince Jr and Sarah Michelle Gellar are married in real life.
- Jossed.
- Actually, we do meet a sole Geonosian nicknamed Klik-Klak, and he leaves on positive terms with the rebels. However, he chooses to go on his own so that he can take care of the next Queen and thus restore the Geonosians.
- Confirmed. Filoni says it's been six months since the mission to Malachor, but this is not commented on in-universe.
- Aside from changing her colors and maybe being taller, we'll see Sabine with some more armor modifications.
- Confirmed. The armor mods are minor (leg armor) and she has a jetpack now.
- At some point, Ezra will start using the crossguard lightsaber due to maybe his gunsaber being destroyed.
- Confirmed on the latter, have to wait for the former.
- Jossed regarding the crossguard saber.
- There will be more rebel cells getting actively involved and interacting with each other.
- Seemingly confirmed in "Steps into Shadow". We receive a mention on Dodonna and the Yavin IV cell. The main plot of the episode is about stealing Y-Wings from an Imperial base, then Hera reveals at the end that they're being sent to Dodonna.
- Ezra will cut his hair. Bonus points if he uses a lightsaber, brownie points if it's Kanan's (the gunsaber and the crosssaber look hard to cut with...).
- The haircut is confirmed, but it happened during the Time Skip, so we have no idea how he cut his hair.
- The second half of the season is about Mandalore, so there's not much reason from what we know to go back to Lothal all of a sudden. Likely jossed, though this could happen in a later season.
- Jossed. Atollon burns, however.
- Jossed.
- Jossed. It's green, and removing the Sith Holocron's crystal would presumably deactivate it, which isn't what is shown in the trailer. Word of God also says that kyber crystals are naturally clear and only change color depending on their user/owner's alignment.
- Jossed. It's green.
- Jossed. The S3 preview shows Ezra with a green lightsaber.
- Jossed, though the Darksaber was seemingly indeed lost during or after the Siege of Mandalore, and Sabine is the one to use it. Freddie says that Ezra and Kanan end up training her, and the Darksaber ends up being a plot point when the Mandalore arc comes up.
- Bonus points if one of these "heavy-hitter" Inquisitors is a re-canonized Jerec. You know you want it.
- Jossed. No Inquisitors this season.
- Jossed.
- Jossed. It's not even clear if Kanan and Ezra actually know who Vader really is or not, and he doesn't appear this season anyway.
Once Mandalore gets heavily involved, Sabine consults him a couple of times on what to do (her surrogate family cannot provide advice on how to deal with Mandalorian issues and it cannot be solved by following the Jedi way like in "The Protector of Concord Dawn", which might also be brought up by Rau (especially because Kanan is now busy getting used to his blindness and has to keep a leash on Ezra, and Hera is probably getting super involved with the Rebellion)). Eventually, the situation gets bad enough or calls for a cavalry from the Protectors, so she temporarily sets him free. If it's a cavalry case, then it could end up mending some of the bad blood between the Protectors and Death Watch (brothers will look out for one another, after all).
- Confirmed by Freddie in a Dash Star interview, though for the rest, can't say.
- The mentor part is confirmed, but everything else is Jossed.
- It ends up going back to pretty much normal after "The Holocrons of Fate", but Word of Saint Paul by Taylor says that eventually, Ezra's actions end up causing a rift between him and the crew at least midway through the season...
- Jossed.
- Jossed.
- Maybe? Taylor says that Ezra ends up rifting away from the crew halfway through the season (but so far as of this writing (halfway through the first half), he's been relatively fine), and we know that the second half will be busy with more Sabine/Mandalore-centric than Ezra/Kanan/Force-centric, so Ezra realizing what his actions mean will probably come in Season 4 or later.
- Jossed.
- No Vader this season, but this could happen in the future if Maul survives this season.
- This is looking unlikely. Maul could either fight Obi-Wan, or he could fight Vader. He can't fight both of them. They chose Obi-Wan.
- If Maul survives Obi-Wa and Ezra and somehow escapes, then his subplot in Season 4 could involve him tracking down Darth Sidious to either Coruscant or the unfinished Death Star, but Sidious would sic Vader on him instead in a duel to the death, invoking Rule of Two and promising that the victor would be his apprentice. And knowing that Vader survives to kill Sidious during Return of the Jedi, Maul would do as much damage to Vader as possible before Vader strike him down, but leaving Vader severely wounded. And in a bit of Arc Welding, Vader would be sent back to Mustafar, where he'll heal in his bacta tank until Orson Krennic arrives to request an audience with Sidious.
- Jossed. Maul is Killed Off for Real by Obi-Wan in "Twin Suns".
- Kanan's will feature a mask over his eyes that resembles the temple guard mask, likely made from the same mask he wore in the Season 2 finale. Accordingly, his outfit will integrate more white and gray, as well as some features of traditional Jedi robes. He wouldn't wear an actual robe, but his top will be more visually reminiscent of one. The armor he wears on his arm and should will be replaced with a new, gray replacement that includes the Rebel phoenix emblem, likely painted on by Sabine.
- Alternatively, Kanan's new model will take the armor from his arm and expand on it to create a fully armored design. It'd stay the same green and have some tinges of black and painted on white marking for flair. He'll also get a helmet that resembles a Jedi Temple Guard helmet that he'll wear while on missions and to hide his blindness from his opponents and protect his face from more harm.
- Or, if he's lucky, get ocular implants.
- Jossed. Kanan does get a mask and it would have been the Temple Guard mask, but they decided against it for easier animation for line of sight of the animators and the audience. He's also wearing more casual clothing, ditching the armored arm, and it's still generally the same color scheme.
- Hera's will have her wear a new, more hi-tech looking helmet. Her outfit will lose some of the brown and begin to look more similar to the orange uniforms worn by Rebel Alliance pilots. She'll also get some sort of small coat thing she wears, kind of like a bomber jacket. It'll be brown to reference her own design, while also showing a more militant look while still signifying her as a pilot.
- Alternatively, Hera's new model will have her dressed like a female, sci-fi Indiana Jones. With a Phoenix Squadron symbol.
- Jossed. She pretty much just gets a new shirt and gloves.
- Alternatively, Hera's new model will have her dressed like a female, sci-fi Indiana Jones. With a Phoenix Squadron symbol.
- Zeb will get armor that is slightly darker shades of green. It will be heavier and include and alteration of the thing on his shoulder plastered on the front. One of his wrists will have a gauntlet on it that looks like it may be a new weapon. He'll also change the style of his beard, possibly adding in some tiny braids. And a single earring that is actually a claw from a small beast he killed that he felt particularly proud of.
- Alternatively, Zeb will get Barbarian Longhair and begin to wear a more archaic outfit that will be implied to be inspired by the look of ancient Lasat warriors. Plus some totally gratuitous jewelry...on his ankles!
- Jossed. He just changes his chestplate.
- Partly jossed and partly confirmed. Ezra has indeed cut his hair (though much shorter, not slightly shorter), but as far as the Season 3 trailer shows, he wears a similar version of his previous outfit.
- In part. He still has an orange shirt with a yellow collar, but it's a different shirt, he's sans the vest, and his pants are now brown, much like Kanan's standard getup. He's also notably taller than Sabine finally.
- Partly jossed and partly confirmed. Ezra has indeed cut his hair (though much shorter, not slightly shorter), but as far as the Season 3 trailer shows, he wears a similar version of his previous outfit.
- Jossed.
- Blue/green armor, to invoke Boba Fett's color scheme and possibly foreshadow at something... The hair can be whatever color, but another reason for her blue/green armor is to follow a pattern on how her outfit in S1 was black/yellow hair with pink armor, then blue/green hair with more yellow on her armor... (And yes, this could possibly mean that in the final season, her hair will be pink to bring things full circle).
- Jetpack comes in mid-season. Maybe she'll start to get more armor pieces starting from there as well.
- She'll grow her hair (shoulder length? And maybe tie it, for the sake of animation budget and preventing hair snag in case).
- Alternatively, she'll cut it into a pixie cut, close scalp shave, half-shave, or mohawk.
- Pixie cut confirmed. Also, it's a light lavender, almost white, fading into purple tips.
- Kallus will have grown his sideburns into a full beard. That's it. Maybe get a couple scratches or ornaments on his armor if anything else.
- Jossed. He has the same appearance from Season 2.
- Fenn Rau will wear a different outfit, likely just normal daytime clothes instead of armor provided for him by the rebels while he's their hostage. This will likely expose his hair if they do this, so I'd guess that he would be a redhead, with some of his hair thinning due to age.
- Confirmed. He's sort of a redhead, sort of a blonde. That kind of thing.
- Maul will get an outfit as well. A nice thing to do would be to have him dress in similar attire to his late brother Savage Oppress, meaning gray and spikes.
- Jossed. He has regular civilian clothes, probably because he doesn't have access to anything else.
- We'll see what happened to characters like Jai, Oora, Tseebo, et al. Maybe Senator Organa has them in a witness protection program or relocation system or something... on Alderaan.
- We'll also see what happened to those that were willing to fight in the rebel cause like Azadi and Quarrie.
- Confirmed. Azadi is the leader of the Lothal Insurgency.
- Base Delta Zero will finally happen onscreen.
- This seems to at least be confirmed.
- Seeing some sort of recording of Sabine and Ketsu training at the Mandalorian Imperial Academy.
- Recordings of Death Watch around the time of the Battle of Mandalore, like a speech by Bo-Katan that Mandalore will never give in, perhaps.
- The Sith holocron will cause Ezra to faint and have a dream made of snippets of the building of the Malachor Sith Temple by the Sith Lord within.
- A recording of an offscreen scene from Season 1 or 2 to juxtapose with how things are now.
- Minister Tua's call for help from "The Siege of Lothal" was recorded for whatever reason, maybe that's how the ISB apprehension system works, in case they need proof of the traitor's, uh, betrayal. Maybe Kallus reviews it and realizes the Irony of their situations.
- Something of Governor Pryce.
- Or someone recorded Ezra's speech.
- There's a recording of Depa in the Jedi holocron.
- All of these are jossed.
- Partially confirmed. She's not Darth Traya herself, but an Expy, via Word of God.
- Seemingly confirmed. In "Steps into Shadow", it seems that the crew is too busy with their jobs in the Rebellion and their own problems to notice why Ezra is doing less scrupulous things, though they're aware that he's been shaken up from Malachor and feels guilty about the entire thing and likely assume that's just it. No one comments on him using the Sith Holocron, and Kanan only realizes this is it once he finally talks to Ezra after a while. Kanan confiscates it after having an argument with him about how the Presence is bad, later giving it to the Bendu. Unfortunately, the damage is already done, as the Bendu put it, 'Once a secret is known, it cannot become unknown', so Ezra still does questionable things throughout the season. Not that confiscating the Sith Holocron ended up being a long-term thing anyway; in the next episode, they have to bring it with them to Maul due to a hostage situation.
- Ezra stops being at risk of falling for the rest of the season besides getting mad at lesser issues like in "The Wynkahthu Job".
- Someone who looks a lot like Yularen was briefly seen in the midseason trailer.
- Confirmed that Yularen appears.
- Maybe she's Sabine's mom, but is unrelated to the one from the Old Republic, only by same clan and namesake.
- Jossed for this season.
- Jossed, unless you wanna count him throwing Kallus through a glass pane for fun.
- Jossed.
- Possibly, but so far the importance is implied to be that it's the site of a secret weapons research facility building the TIE Defender.
- Actually, the TIE R&D facility was placed there as a cover story. What's special about Lothal is that it has kyber crystals.
- Confirmed, in a way...
- It's alluded to ("Strategy is an art, Rau. Maybe I'm lulling you into a false sense of security." on Sabine's side, making note of the starbird on Thrawn's side.), but it isn't expanded upon.
- Pretty much Jossed. Thrawn never interacts with Sabine, and they appear to be setting up the rivalry to be between Thrawn and Hera in Season 4 as both survive "Zero Hour".
- Another factor is that Sabine is headed back to the Mandalore Sector and the ongoing civil war there. Thrawn isn't involved with that.
- I think it will be a combination of Maul being Ezra/Kanan's nemesis, while Thrawn is Sabine/Hera's nemesis.
- Maul vs. Ezra is kind of confirmed, but Thrawn never directly interacts with Sabine this season.
- One of the audio edits in question.
- A Youtuber asked Freddie Prinze Jr. about it. FPJ looked caught off guard when he heard the question and there was a Beat (though it could be attributed to connection lag) before proceeding to answer that it could be anyone, from Kallus, to Chewbacca, to a Back from the Dead Ahsoka, etc. Though he does say that there's an actual storyline about it rather than just a wham reveal this time, so it sounds like it'll be steadily explored rather than a background mystery.
- There's some support for this in "The Antilles Extraction", where shortly after Fulcrum informs the Rebels about the cadets that want to defect, Kallus arrives with Governor Pryce to the Academy to search for said cadets. In addition, in the very same episode, Kallus actively helps Sabine escape. Sure, he explained it as repaying his debt to Zeb for saving his life, but this would also be something a Rebel double agent/informant would do.
- Kallus has also been having rather suspicious body language and lines (or lack thereof), such as expressing surprise behind Pryce's back when she orders him to deploy troops to Agamar after intercepting a rebel distress signal in "The Last Battle", and the lack of remarks on Sabine's situation in "The Antilles Extraction" (whereas he would have plenty of comments like in "Vision of Hope" towards Hera, snarking about Ezra being "Jabba the Hutt" whenever he gets caught, being all smug like the entirety of "The Siege of Lothal" and "Wings of the Master", etc.).
- "Iron Squadron" reveals that the whole episode only happened because Fulcrum informed the rebels about the Imperial lockdown on Mykapo. Later, Thrawn and Konstantine hear about this rebel intervention, almost as if they may have been keeping an eye on the area, like how Pryce had her eyes on Skystrike the same time Fulcrum told the rebels about the defectors. It makes sense if Kallus told the rebels once he learned about things as time went on.
- An upcoming episode, "An Inside Man", mentions that Kanan and Ezra have to put their faith in an enemy to help them escape from an Imperial building on Lothal, hmmm...
- Confirmed. Kallus reveals he is Fulcrum in "An Inside Man".
Meanwhile, the Imperials are getting upset with how the rebels somehow know top secret info, and Thrawn deduces that there is an inside man breaching the information. Kallus acts rather shifty in these scenes, but it's pretty subtle.
Perhaps at some point, the rebels get a warning from Fulcrum, apologizing that it is getting harder to get authentic information, thanks to the Imperials becoming more anticipated to the information breaches, but they (Fulcrum) will try their best to keep the leaks steady and puts faith in that they can tell if the info is fake or not.
Towards the end, amidst the chaos with the Mandalorians and the Imperial Garrison there, Kallus's cover gets blown for whatever reason and he either goes into hiding, joins the rebels, or dies. And it'll be one of the best moments in the season, emotionally.
- Confirmed? The Mandalorians don't have anything to do with Kallus' cover being blown, and Kallus never warns the rebels about how his cover might've been blown with Thrawn, which kind of makes sense, because it sounds a bit shifty and desperate for trust.
- Partially confirmed. In "Zero Hour" he gets caught while sending a transmission, and eventually escapes from the Empire and formally joins the rebels.
- Jossed, especially after what happened in "Zero Hour".
- Word of God is that the pilot isn't Dash Rendar, so Jossed.
- Jossed: Hera's mother had apparently passed away long before the series, and Hera was intimidated by Thrawn due to just how much he was able to deduce about her and her family.
- OP meant that event that killed Hera's mom years ago was because that event was led by Thrawn. And the theory was under the assumption that Thrawn attacking Ryloth in Rebels would be his second time doing so, and Cham and Hera would recall the last time this happened. But still, jossed.
- Jossed: They take it back almost immediately the following episode.
- Jossed.
- Unlikely, since The Force Unleashed series has officially been deemed noncanonical. If Starkiller ever makes a return he will be a reimagined character.
- Jossed.
- Not quite. He's Saxon, presumably Commander Gar Saxon from Son of Dathomir. He might be based off of someone from Legends.
- Jossed. The commander is explicitly confirmed as Gar Saxon in the episode.
- What I meant is that Gar Saxon might be based off of someone from Legends when he was created, but okay.
- Jossed. The commander is explicitly confirmed as Gar Saxon in the episode.
- Jossed, because in "Through Imperial Eyes" Thrawn reveals he's onto him, and in "Zero Hour" he's exposed as the mole, and then formally joins up with the rebels, so he never gets a chance to wear it.
- Confirmed, but in "Imperial Supercommandos", he just does it to a Mook and never actually confronts anyone else head-on.
- Considering they apparently killed the Protectors due to his capture, it makes sense that Rau wants to get back at the ISC for his men.
- Confirmed.
Since Sabine's story will be explored in the next half of the season on Mandalore, Ketsu will likely return, and Maul will probably want to stir up some drama again by doing things like bringing back the Supercommandos and getting involved in the power struggle, and he'll be reminded of Black Sun and want to get back at them, indirectly or directly affecting Ketsu.
- Jossed. Ketsu doesn't appear this season.
Or, it'll be an Alone with the Psycho scenario and Sabine is forced to kill the other to defend herself, like in that one episode of Steven Universe.
Either way, it'll be a stab, not a slice.
- Jossed. Maul doesn't get involved with Mandalorian issues anymore.
- Jossed.
- Bonus points if it turns out Pryce apparently seems to like him more than she ever liked the other Imperial officers in that garrison.
- Double if it turns out the other Imperials like him too for being smart, except maybe Kallus if he's Fulcrum.
- Partially confirmed. He has a prominent role in "Through Imperial Eyes".
- Confirmed in a Freeze-Frame Bonus in the new Rebel Beat, from "An Inside Man". However, he doesn't interact with Pryce in any way.
- The showdown with Pryce occurred in season 4.
- Confirmed.
- Confirmed, but Maul had nothing to do with it.
- Confirmed. He's Captain Slavin.
- He used to be a piloting instructor for the clones back in the day, so he could do it again with new Rebel pilots. Maybe he'll even practice with Wedge.
- He could also end up having to save Sabine and Ezra by piloting the Sheathipede Phantom.
- Confirmed.
- Confirmed.
- At the end of "Legacy of Mandalore", she says she doesn't want to be the leader, and says she's going to find the person who can be.
- Partially Jossed. "Zero Hour" kills off Sato and Konstantine, via the former ramming the latter's ship in a Heroic Sacrifice, but there are no other major deaths.
- Bonus points if he becomes a trio with AP and Chopper.
- More bonus points if he becomes a chief strategist of the Rebellion. Double the amount of points if he meets Saw Gerrera, who's currently one of the leaders of the Rebellion. Square if they manage to work together without killing each other.
- Partially Jossed. Only Ezra and Chopper visit Tatooine.
- Jossed for this season.
- And jossed for the entire show. Thrawn never used it.
- Kallus: It makes sense, as another theory suggests he may be Fulcrum II. But would the writers really reveal Kallus being Fulcrum so early on in the season?
- Confirmed. It seems that the endgame for him as Fulcrum is more about what will happen to him due to the revelation instead of who is Fulcrum.
- Vizago: He's sort of their enemy, though he left Lothal due to the lockdown and is unlikely to return there as long as the lockdown is in place. Same goes for Lando.
- Jossed.
- Trayvis: We never saw him again after Season 1 thanks to blowing his cover. Maybe he had a change of heart?
- Jossed.
- Thrawn: It's a trap.
- Jossed, it would have been too predictable a trap if it were him, but it's heavily suggested that he knows about Kallus now.
In "An Inside Man", either he'll be the Voice with an Internet Connection or presently helping Ezra and Kanan escape.
- Jossed for the first one — Thrawn is implied to be onto him at the end of the episode. Confirmed for the second. He helps them in person and reveals to them who he is.
- Looking Jossed for this season.
We've seen this before with Minister Tua. (And Aresko and Grint, but we only got one scene of them getting chewed out before they died.) With Tua, we had Tarkin giving her "The Reason You Suck" Speech in "Call to Action", then in her next episode, "the Siege of Lothal", she got chewed out by Vader, who then said she's going to see Tarkin (which is basically an euphemism that she's going to die).
It's been noted that if Kallus is indeed Fulcrum II, then it means that Tua's assassination due to her seeking asylum and committing treason is irony, and it's almost certain that this event has not gone past Kallus now that he helps provide sanctuary for rebel sympathizers like the Skystrike pilots and the dissidents on Mykapo.
So if Konstantine is going down the same road Tua went, what if this time, Kallus tries to save Konstantine?
Despite Konstantine clearly only seeing their 'friendship' as strict business, post-Character Development Kallus probably isn't willing to let his fellow Imperials die by the hands of their superiors again for mere failures if circumstances allow otherwise.
And the keyword in the question is, 'tries'.
Obviously, there's no way Konstantine is going to make it back to the Rebellion or desert or anything like that, because number one, it's clear his character was always meant to be a minor-ish character. Number two, Thrawn. As we all know, trying to do anything fishy under his watchful eyes will probably screw you and everyone you're involved with over.
And to further the parallel with Tua, what if the Imperial superiors decide to use Konstantine as an Unwitting Pawn one last time?
For clarification, in Tua's situation, Vader and Tarkin's ultimatum tested her loyalty, intended form the beginning or not. Not only did it show who Tua really was in the dark, but it served as bait for the rebels back to Lothal to face the wrath of Vader.
Perhaps Thrawn convinces Tarkin and Pryce with a plan on unveiling the rebel informant (who Thrawn has all but confirmed the identity of) within their ranks; get Konstantine in on the plan (but omit to him that he will be executed for the rest of his incompetence afterwards, sort of like how in Revenge of the Sith, Dooku had no idea that Palpatine was going to have Anakin execute him until he suddenly said so), and Konstantine will play the role of seemingly getting in hot water with Tarkin, Pryce, and Tarkin to where it will force this rebel informant out of hiding, seeing that this informant seems quite fond of shepherding sympathizers to the Rebellion.
Here, Kallus falls for the bait, wanting to help Konstantine, but it ends up blowing his cover, Konstantine betrayed him but died anyway, yeah; Kallus's Darkest Hour.
- Jossed, Konstantine turns up in "Through Imperial Eyes" and he's fine. Thrawn deduces that Kallus is the mole without Konstantine having anything to do with it.
BUT, like Ezra, Kallus will find a way to escape on his own. AND/OR, during the Insurgency of Mandalore, the rebels find out through other means that Kallus (who they now know is Fulcrum) has been put into custody and so during the finale or something, a small group led by Zeb go off to save him despite the risks involved. Just like in the first episode, when half the crew didn't want to go back for some random kid they didn't really like because of the risks involved, but being outnumbered by those who wanted to go back because he means well and it was the right thing to do.
Basically, the theme of No One Gets Left Behind continues.
- Jossed. In "Zero Hour", Kallus contacts the rebels to warn them Thrawn knows about their planned attack, but is ambushed by Thrawn at Ezra's tower. He is then held captive, but ultimately escapes and joins up with the rebels near the end of Part 2.
BUT, the Bendu will be involved. Perhaps he'll talk to Ezra about how to be a good teacher, or maybe tell him/Kanan advice on considering how to teach Sabine to fight like a Mandalorian yet open-minded, because Sabine is not Force-sensitive or a Jedi, and she shouldn't have to be in order to be a good fighter.
- Jossed. Ezra is pretty much Sabine's training wheels, but that's it. The problem is Kanan's worry that she isn't ready for the Darksaber, which further discourages Sabine from taking up the responsibilities of the Darksaber. The Bendu is not involved, but he does get a cameo, listening in on Sabine's imbalance.
And going along with the theory that Kast is Sabine's mom, it would appear that Kast is an Honor Before Reason and Undying Loyalty kind of person (for the former, notice that she chose to be in Death Watch instead of taking care of her infant daughter in TCW; for the latter, she has more proof of her loyalty to Maul than Saxon has shown as seen in Son of Dathomir, which leads to the question of how she reacted to Maul's loss in the Siege, considering she apparently never was arrested and went back to take care of her family).
Saxon and Kast being forced to confront a past loyalty would serve as an example and be the leaders of a split in the ISC; those who will return to said past loyalty, or those who prefer the winning team.
- Seems to be growing unlikely. Maul is busy trying to get to Tatooine and seems to have put Mandalore behind him.
- Jossed. Maul dies in "Twin Suns".
- "Through Imperial Eyes" reveals that Thrawn plans to Feed the Mole.
- Jossed for this season.
- All Jossed. It's a new planet called Krownest, seat of Clan Wren.
- Confirmed. She's the chieftess of her clan.
- She's her mom. Countess Ursa Wren, head of Clan Wren.
Kallus probably finally blows his cover and saves Ezra. Because Kallus is now a wanted man, Ezra takes him to a place he knows where they can hide out: his tower.
This leads to Kallus seeing Ezra's stuff, which leads to Kallus and Ezra having a talk with each other. Kallus is shocked by how much of Ezra's life was taken away because of the Empire. Ezra asks Kallus what caused him to become a Fulcrum, and we get our answer.
But of course, this probably leads to Kallus committing a Heroic Sacrifice at the end of the episode or something.
- Well, that scene isn't from "Through Imperial Eyes" as was previously thought, and he seems to be by himself, but otherwise it's looking confirmed.
- Partially Jossed. He went to Ezra's tower in "Zero Hour" because it's implied he made his transmissions from Lothal there, and he gets ambushed by Thrawn. However, he had overheard Thrawn mentioning that there was a traitor in their midst, so he probably realized they hadn't bought his framing of Lyste.
- Jossed, they're Clan Wren.
- Promo images for "Legacy of Mandalore" suggest that everyone agreed to have Sabine prove her mettle by having her fight Saxon for the Darksaber by using Ezra's lightsaber.
- Jossed. Ursa Wren tried to give Saxon the Darksaber and Kanan and Ezra in exchange for Sabine's safety, and Saxon instead intended to take Sabine prisoner and slaughter Clan Wren. Ezra loans Sabine his lightsaber so she can fight Saxon.
- "Legacy of Mandalore"
- Kanan, Chopper, Ezra, and Sabine leave in the Phantom II to Mandalore, but not before Rau gives Sabine words of encouragement (but he didn't go along for whatever reason). It was decided that Sabine is going to recruit her family first, so they journey to a moon of Mandalore (maybe a polar region of Concordia), where her mother's clan is. They are met with a yellow-shouldered Imperial supercommando leading a group of regular supercommandos. Sabine and Ezra get upset that there's an Imperial there, but it turns out he had a Heel–Face Turn or something. Ezra also notes the supercommandos have the same helmet markings as Sabine. The other supercommandos are surprised that Sabine is back, and the commander appears later, revealed to be Sabine's aunt. She asks why the crew is here and warns them that they're risking getting the Empire's attention on the clan, until Sabine reveals she has the Darksaber. We learn that Sabine's mother is from Clan Kast (which pretty much confirms that she's Rook), and we also learn more about Sabine's backstory, like why she joined the Imperial Academy, who was Wren and Clan Wren, Sabine's family in general, and so on. We also learn more about how the Empire's occupation on Mandalore has affected the Clan/House rivalries and stuff. In the end, after proving themselves or something, Clan Kast agrees to help/join the Rebellion and get Sabine's parents back.
- Part jossed, part confirmed. The episode starts with Kanan, Ezra, Sabine, Rau and Chopper dropping out of hyperspace in the Phantom II at Krownest. Ezra does react badly to seeing the Imperial supercommando, who is Sabine's older brother Tristan. Clan Wren is surprised that Sabine's back. The clan leader is actually Sabine's mother, Ursa Wren. Sabine leaves at the end to help build the Mandalorian Resistance.
- Kanan, Chopper, Ezra, and Sabine leave in the Phantom II to Mandalore, but not before Rau gives Sabine words of encouragement (but he didn't go along for whatever reason). It was decided that Sabine is going to recruit her family first, so they journey to a moon of Mandalore (maybe a polar region of Concordia), where her mother's clan is. They are met with a yellow-shouldered Imperial supercommando leading a group of regular supercommandos. Sabine and Ezra get upset that there's an Imperial there, but it turns out he had a Heel–Face Turn or something. Ezra also notes the supercommandos have the same helmet markings as Sabine. The other supercommandos are surprised that Sabine is back, and the commander appears later, revealed to be Sabine's aunt. She asks why the crew is here and warns them that they're risking getting the Empire's attention on the clan, until Sabine reveals she has the Darksaber. We learn that Sabine's mother is from Clan Kast (which pretty much confirms that she's Rook), and we also learn more about Sabine's backstory, like why she joined the Imperial Academy, who was Wren and Clan Wren, Sabine's family in general, and so on. We also learn more about how the Empire's occupation on Mandalore has affected the Clan/House rivalries and stuff. In the end, after proving themselves or something, Clan Kast agrees to help/join the Rebellion and get Sabine's parents back.
- "Through Imperial Eyes"
- It will mainly be an episode from Kallus's POV. Early in the episode, Thrawn will walk out of the shadows from his cool room (the scene of his introduction in the first trailer) and tell Kallus, Lyste, and Pryce that there is The Mole is specifically a traitor amongst their ranks and that he has a plan on what he's going to do with them. Yularen is there too, because his abilities are the best for this situation or something. Kallus makes an emergency transmission to either the Lothal Insurgency (who then tell Chopper Base) or Chopper Base about how he's in danger. Then, we get discussion from the rebels on how it might be a trap, but they can't let him be caught because He Knows Too Much about the Rebellion and will put it at risk if he's caught, as well as people like Zeb, Wedge, Ezra, and Chopper standing up for him. They also decide this is a good time to destroy the TIE Defender production. Kanan, Rex, Wedge, and Chopper go undercover (but Ezra, instead, is put in some weird garb) and infiltrate the Chimaera over Lothal, under the pretense that Kanan and Rex are Stormtroopers that are arresting a criminal. Phoenix Squadron and the Ghost are on standby and have their coordinates set for Lothal if things go awry. Eventually, things go downhill due to Thrawn per usual, which at least leads to Ezra and Kallus's covers being blown and the duo fleeing to the surface of Lothal. Unable to contact the other rebels and Lothal being put on another heavy lockdown again, Ezra steals a bike and takes the two of them to his old tower to hide out. The two of them end up reflecting about everything that's happened to each other up to now (like how Kallus became an Imperial in the first place, how Ezra feels about everything now in contrast to Season 1, et cetera.). The other rebels show up, but it turns out it is too late to stop the TIE Defenders from being produced. Kallus likely dies at the end of this episode in a Heroic Sacrifice.
- Jossed, Thrawn does walk out of the shadows and announce there's a mole, but he's talking to Kallus, Lyste, Konstantine and Yularen. The rebels set up a rescue mission because they figured out Kallus' cover was in danger on their own. Kallus ends up framing Lyste as the traitor and staying behind, but Thrawn reveals at the end that he's onto Kallus.
- Episode where the Mandalorian Resistance is finally re-established. Rau, Sabine, Bo, and the clans will unite. Sabine still needs to persuade her mother to join the Rebellion. She journeys to the surface of Mandalore (accompanied by allies) to find her, but once again confront Saxon and other hostile ISC members. Somehow, Sabine loses the Darksaber to Saxon and Ezra is fallen, so she takes his lightsaber to fight him. Saxon goes to the snow-world either because he wants Sabine to fight him there or he's going to confront Clan Kast, so Sabine goes there to confront him for the last time, this being her Darkest Hour. She ultimately does not deal the final blow to him, just like how she showed mercy to Rau in "The Protector of Concord Dawn". In the end, the Mandalorians join the Rebel fleet.
- Jossed. It's possible this could happen in Season 4, though.
- Episode where Ezra and Chopper journey to Tatooine to stop Maul and find Obi-Wan. Maul dies.
- Confirmed. Namely, "Twin Suns".
- Jossed.
A counterpoint though is that this raises the question of why Sabine doesn't seem to feel guilty about using explosives in the present. Possibly because just making simple explosives are different from making things that can actually terrorize people like super-mustard gas or super-chlorine or whatever, or that she wasn't too directly involved in the creation of the weapons.
Perhaps doctors became a limited resource after the Siege and/or many were aligned with the Empire. Mandalorian warrior culture is pretty unappreciative of the people who support them yet aren't fighters themselves and would seem to discourage going down that path, and look down on 'weak' people in general.
Looking at the Empire, you have your bombs, blasters, ships, protocols, soldiers, tear gas, and so forth. But Sabine says that they can do better. Fine, they already have chemical weapons, but why not take a page out of someone like Doctor Vindi and use biological weapons?
If people get sick, of course, they have to look to medical care. But all the doctors are with the Empire. The Empire could gladly refuse to give you medical care if you're suspected of treason or disloyalty. That way, the Empire can assure their loyalty, because they're essentially blackmailing them.
And if you get sick in the first place? You could be seen as a weakling. If you die, then that's natural selection.
But Sabine didn't directly give this suggestion. She said that she helped developed the weapon(s), but she didn't realize they would be used to hurt people in the end product. Maybe Sabine came up with the idea that to get people to like the Empire more, they could develop cures for diseases, which gave the Empire the idea to use biological warfare on the populace. So they tricked Sabine and others into believing they were creating cures or antibodies or whatever, when they were actually helping develop artificial/modified viruses/bacteria/fungi/whatever that are difficult/impossible to naturally be immune to, the only cure being in the Empire's hands.
A counterpoint is that the Empire would never get away with using this as a threat to an entire world without gathering the attention of the Senate, like how the Senate banned the disruptors after the Siege of Lasan, forcing the Empire to conduct business regarding the disruptors underground. Though it's possible that perhaps the Empire just somehow managed to keep it under wraps, like claiming there was an outbreak of an unknown disease, but the cure and immunization has become available; it looks like an ordinary outbreak effort from real life, when it's actually blackmail in a nutshell.
- Confirmed.
- Since new canon seems to be coordinated in their release dates, Aftermath: Empire's End will be released four days before this episode comes out. Wedge, a major character of that book series, has been theorized to die in that book. Since Wedge and Fulcrum (presumably Kallus) are said to become friends during a time that Wedge describes with what likely may be his time stationed with Phoenix Squadron and the Ghost crew, if Wedge shows up in this episode, then it could be a nod to how the both of them will die for the rebel cause. Something like that.
- Kallus knows that Thrawn's plan is to attack the rebel fleet when it is most together, so if Kallus dies, he wouldn't be able to warn the rebels that they need to be wary about uniting the fleet due to Thrawn. And as we see in the trailer, the rebels seem all happy-go-lucky about meeting up with the rest of the fleet...
- Jossed. Kallus stays behind to continue leaking intel, but Thrawn is onto him and plans to Feed the Mole.
- Confirmed that he survives, but he stays with the Empire to keep spying, unaware that Thrawn is onto him and plans to Feed the Mole.
- Confirmed that he lives to join the Rebels as well.
- Confirmed. They lose all of their large warships.
- Inconclusive, as of the end of season 3. However, as of "Twin Suns" Ezra now has all the pieces of both holocrons.
- Ultimately jossed: the holocrons did not appear in season 4.
- Jossed. It's the Mandalorians.
- And perhaps, if Kallus lives to join the rebels, he'll be a major character, and he'll explain that he knows how to fix it. This could also lead to a Yularen and Kallus confrontation about the latter supposedly ruining his own life according to the former, but the latter defends himself and says he's doing what's best for the Galaxy.
- Jossed. He's a new character called the Controller.
- Confirmed.
- The synopsis for "Zero Hour, Part I" doesn't mention Ezra at all . . .
- Jossed. Ezra returns to Chopper Base at the end of "Twin Suns".
- Well, it's confirmed that the Mandalorians are in "Zero Hour".
- Confirmed.
- Maul seems quite logical. Since Kenobi survives up until ANH,it can be assumed Maul fails in his quest for revenge. In "Twin Suns", Ezra sees the confrontation, and convinces Kenobi not to kill Maul, and asks Maul to join the fight against the Emperor. Maul refuses and goes into exile alongside Kenobi on Tatooine, before deciding to join him after all in "Zero Hour".
- Jossed. Maul dies in "Twin Suns."
- Kenobi is a possibility for much the same reason as above, but with a slight twist. If Kenobi is the ally, he will be instrumental in taking out stormtroopers and Death Troopers alike, with survivors recalling the rumor of a powerful Jedi Master in the Rebels' ranks. This will make its way to Vader of course, who will become very interested in the rumor.
- Jossed. He stays on Tatooine, and the general Rebellion believes him to be dead until Organa calls for him.
- Bendu is an obvious ally, since Attolon is his home, and the Empire is more than likely attempting a Base Delta Zero on the planet. This will obviously piss him off, and he will decimate the fleet, leaving only the Chimaera standing, for obvious reasons.
- The Bendu is partially confirmed, as Kanan manages to persuade him to act, but he instead wants everyone, rebel or Imperial, off his planet. He also doesn't decimate the Imperial fleet.
- The Mandalorians are last seen in Sabine's two parter, and should they be convinced to rally for her in those episodes, but refuse to take action until required, this may be the moment they come to help.
- The Mandalorians are confirmed.
- Jossed
- Jossed. They're the Cavalry.
- Confirmed. Goes out in a Heroic Sacrifice.
- Confirmed.
Sabine expects her clan to turn against her after the battle, but her mother reveals that they're actually more impressed that Sabine managed to defeat the Imperial Viceroy and sent him off running like a Dirty Coward rather than the fact that she had the Darksaber and lost it. While some clans would place the latter as their top reason to not pledge allegiance to the Rebellion, many would agree with Sabine's mother and would follow her.
Also, Status Quo Is God, though it would feel a bit Deus ex machina-ish and wasteful since Sabine didn't even have it and know how to use it until the previous episode.
- Jossed. Yes, Sabine defeats Saxon and shows him mercy, but Sabine had grabbed the Darksaber from Saxon when she cut his arm, so he couldn't run off with it. He instead gets angry and tries to shoot her from behind, but Ursa shoots first and he dies.
- As of "Zero Hour", the Bendu talked to Thrawn, and managed to completely unnerve him. This is probably Jossed, because the Bendu only noticed Sabine because she unwittingly kicked him in frustration, thinking he was a rock or part of the giant corals.
- Jossed — he lives to join up with the Rebellion.
- Jossed for season 3.
- It looks like this will factor into Season 4 instead.
The problem is, the code only works specifically on Thrawn's sentry droids for training, and if anyone else uses the code, it won't actually work and it'll instead send an alert signal that someone tried to use it. And only two other people know about the code: Kallus and Lyste.
This might also lead to either Lyste kicking the can when they narrow the search to the two of them, and/or Kallus sacrificing his cover to save a fellow Imperial officer.
- Jossed. It ends up being a Bait-and-Switch — Kallus instead disables or changes the override and sics the droids on Thrawn, forcing him to fight them and giving Ezra and Chopper a chance to escape from his office.
- Jossed. Rex and Yularen are unaware of each other's presence.
- Assuming Maul's beacon on Atollon wasn't removed, Maul will confront Obi-Wan, but since Obi-Wan can't die, Maul is fair game. That will mean Obi-Wan ends up killing Maul, activating the beacon and alerting Thrawn.
- Thrawn will either pressure or trick Kallus into revealing the Rebel base. Thrawn already knows Kallus is Fulcrum, Kallus probably knows the location of the Rebel base, and if Thrawn asks the question, Kallus will have no choice but to tell him if wants to keep his head.
- Semi-confirmed. Kallus' transmission does in fact factor into Thrawn figuring out the location, but it's only one factor.
- Jossed — as of the end of "Zero Hour", the Kalikori is still in Thrawn's possession.
However, he knows that he won't be able to evade Thrawn's forces and having no idea where the Lothal Insurgency is (even if he did, he'd be putting them at risk if he went to them in search of asylum), so knowing information on Ezra and the Bridger family, he makes his way to Ezra's communications tower. Besides feeling lonely and saddened when he sees Ezra's stuff (which includes defaced and stolen Imperial property), he quickly searches for communication equipment. When he manages to get it on a frequency that can contact the rebels, he tells them the code phrase—which Thrawn probably doesn't know about—and clarifies that he is the real deal and that they have to believe what he is about to tell them if they want to survive, and so he informs them of something important that they don't know yet until the Imperials show up towards the end of his transmission.
- Partially confirmed. He does go there to make a transmission, but he gets ambushed by Thrawn.
- Jossed.
- Confirmed: There's the Ghost crew, Thrawn, Pryce, Tarkin, Konstantine, Kallus, Sato, Rex, AP-5, Wedge, Hobbie, Dodonna, Azadi, Mon Mothma, Ursa Wren, Tristan Wren, Rau and the Bendu, not to mention all of the incidental characters.
- Jossed. Obi-Wan kills him.
- Jossed.
- Jossed.
- Bringing back Old Republic-era characters like Exar Kun and Revan as ghosts or plot points
- Jossed.
- Debut Mara Jade
- Filoni at Celebration 2016 said that Mara Jade is unlikely (probably due to the Hands conflicting with the idea of the canon Inquisition), though he could always change his mind and create a Captain Ersatz of her or something as an Inquisitor instead.
- Jossed.
- Set up a Rebels vs Empire vs Vong plotline
- The Vong would detract from the Rebels vs. Empire plot that the entire show is supposed to be about, so unlikely.
- Series like Transformers: Prime show that a one off Villain Episode might be something interesting. Imagine, a episode staring an Empire Ship alone fighting advanced Vong forces. Might even be interesting to see the Rebels and Empire have to team up against Vong forces.
- Jossed.
- Introduce legit time travel
- Unlikely.
- What fools time makes of us all. Though as you can probably imagine, it doesn't stick around very long.
- Actually confirmed!
- Unlikely.
- The fate of Jar Jar
- Empire's End answered that one.
- Galen Marek being sent to hunt after the remaining Jedi and the crew of the Ghost.
- Jossed. Sam Witwer said that Dave Filoni considered making Marek an Inquisitor, but they decided he wouldn't work in the show.
- Seems to be confirmed.
- They're painted green, after all. Given that was the deal with Gold, Red and Blue Squadrons, it's just common sense.
- In Rogue One and accompanying All There in the Manual, Green Leader is never stated except for in the novelization nor is their identity given (unlike how General Merrick was a minor character in Rogue One and was shown to be Blue Leader, and we already knew who Red Leader and Gold Leader were), and the Ghost piloted by presumably Hera is present at the battle...
- Jossed: it's Phoenix Squadron.
- Since Chopper Base gets destroyed in the Season 3 finale, they move to Yavin IV and join up with Senator Mothma and her rebels there. In that case, Wedge probably had to convince to her and the rest of the Rebel High Command that he could work with the Ghost crew.
- This could happen in the Season 4 premiere.
- Jossed for the Season 4 premiere. There's also no indication that Wedge plays a major role in the first few episodes of the season.
- Jossed: Wedge only appears once in the entire season.
- Jossed.
- Jossed: Cassian didn't appear.
- A new set of armor/new armor pieces, since she's back with her family and they have different armor molds than her.
- She'll add blue to her armor's color scheme, possibly in memory of the Protectors (and Foreshadowing something with Bo-Katan and the original Mandalorian Resistance).
- She'll add more green to her armor's color scheme, partly to screw around with Mandalorian Jango Fett fans if it's a similar shade of green.
- Pronounce her phoenix insignia or replace her shoulderpad's convor with a phoenix in memory of Phoenix Squadron.
- She'll change her phoenix insignia to the Wren Phoenix.
- No new haircut, like with Season 1 and Season 2.
- Alternatively, she has no new appearance, because she's too busy fighting in the civil war to have any time to make cosmetic changes to herself.
- Confirmed. No new appearance, though she might change it later in the season? There's a shot of her with brighter yellow on the back of her helmet in the trailer, likely in honor of her family.
- Confirmed that she changed her look: purple-and-brown hair with purple and yellow armour.
- Confirmed? Though it might not have been the case at first... they get into a fight at one point.
- Bonus if they are the "final boss" of the season.
- Double bonus if it ties in with Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith, since that comic series is supposed to start later this year and will be released monthly alongside Rebels Season 4, and it has been confirmed that the origin of the Inquisitorius would be explored in that series.
- Jossed.
- Not on this show, but confirmed for Thrawn: Alliances.
- Kind of confirmed.
- It's worth noting his Noghri bodyguard Rukh, who in Legends assassinated him, appears in the trailer . . .
- Confirmed. However, Thrawn doesn't die and Rukh never betrayed him.
- Jossed, she was not promoted during the Time Skip. However, it's been confirmed that by the end of the season, she will be promoted to General.
- Seemingly confirmed at Celebration 2017 by Filoni.
- Absolutely confirmed in "A World Between Worlds". Ezra yanks Ahsoka out of the timeline just before she's to be killed by the exploding Malachor temple. She returns after the explosion, with Vader thinking her dead and she seeking the portal back to Lothal.]]
- Bonus points if someone makes a comment on how Sabine and Kast look similar if you take age out of the question.
- Jossed.
- Jossed.
- It could be the CJ-9 bo-rifle from Battlefront 2015, which looks very similar to Kallus' J-19 bo-rifle minus the blade.
- Jossed.
- He could fight the Mercenary in a bo-rifle fight, if he gets a new bo-rifle and the Mercenary shows up accompanying Saw.
- Maybe the rebels run into another Separatist battle droid holdout with MagnaGuards, so Kallus fights the MagnaGuards with his bo-rifle. It's been a common theory for a while that he trained fighting MagnaGuards, so it'd be a cool thing to see.
- Jossed, sadly.
He'll change to:
- A rebel officer/soldier uniform.
- Confirmed.
- Unorthodox clothing like the Ghost crew.
- A mix between both like Hera, to show something like him being committed to the cause yet he still chooses to be his own person, unlike how he was with the Empire.
- Something that looks like his ISB uniform, except it is a rebel version (ex. it has chest armor, long sleeves that end in gloves, et cetera).
- Turns out it's Alexsandr.
- Jossed.
- Well, the rank insignia on his uniform in the trailer says he's a captain, which is the same rank as Cassian Andor, who is in Alliance Intelligence.
Aspects that could be kept:
- PROXY and Juno Eclipse, albeit with Eclipse maybe wearing some more modest clothing.
- Galen Becoming the Mask when infiltrating the rebels.
- Galen being born on Kashyyyk and being taken after his father died.
- Vader and Sidious' gambit to bring all of the rebels together and identify who their enemies are.
Aspects that could be changed:
- Rahm Kota and Shaak Ti would be replaced either with already canon Jedi or new Jedi entirely, given that Kanan is too similar to Kota at this point and Shaak Ti is dead in the new canon.
- The rebellion has already formed, so the series won't end with their formation.
- The final showdown won't take place on the Death Star, because the rebels only find out about the Death Star in Rogue One. Either Coruscant or a Super Star Destroyer could be substituted instead.
Just as how it seems most of Thrawn's backstory is being kept as the same as it was in the old EU, it isn't out of the realm of possibility that if Galen does appear, then Season 4 will borrow from The Force Unleashed, while changing several details so that it will fit with the new canon.
- Jossed.
- Perhaps Ezra and the crew will be forced to participate in a race over Kessel?
- Jossed: There wasn't any room for them in the season's plot anyway.
- Jossed.
- Ketsu will return as an ally (possibly to the Mandalorian plotline) or is forced to turn against the rebels due to Black Sun's other interests. This would also reveal a bit about Ketsu and Sabine's pasts while also revealing what exactly happened to the two in the Imperial Academy.
- Bossk, having teamed up with Ezra in the past, either decides to feel particularly merciful/nice to him (and perhaps make a nod to Bossk's Papa Wolf tendencies to Boba back during the Clone Wars; maybe Bossk even says something about how they've both grown up fast) or chooses to side against him because the bounty on Ezra's head is higher.
- Bounty hunters will appear in order to collect a bounty on Kallus.
- Jossed.
- The first trailer shows a salt-flats planet called Crait, which by Word of God from Rian Johnson used to house a Rebel base.
- Confirmed: one of the portals seen in "A World Between Worlds" seems to lead to Cantonica.
- Confirmed that it's Mandalore, but it wasn't savaged by Sabine's weapon.
- Jossed... though Sabine's dad says that the pseudo-nuke is only one of Sabine's weapons... so not entirely jossed.
While Rau has seemingly gotten over his grudge against Death Watch, he might not like how aggressive and hotheaded Bo is. But as time goes on...
- Possibly jossed for both. They don't really interact in Bo-Katan's debut episode.
- Confirmed.
- And possibly tying in with the above WMG, perhaps some characters like some of the other Nite Owls want to try again and join Sabine's Mandalorian Resistance without Bo, maybe also in hopes of convincing her that they can win this time.
- Jossed, kind of. We're not sure if she tried to lead a resistance against the Empire, but she does lament that the Empire took away her position as leader immediately after the Siege despite Ahsoka and the Jedi giving it to her, which damaged her self-confidence. She prefers to let others take the rein until the end of her debut episode.
- The jetpack is confirmed, but the armour is jossed.
- Possibly jossed. If you look closely in the trailer, you can glimpse it and it has no new paintjob.
- Jossed: the Gauntlet only appears once in the whole season.
- Jossed: the holocrons didn't appear.
- Another Ryloth episode.
- A Flashback episode.
- They already stated before the release of the show that there would never be (traditional) flashbacks in Rebels.
- An episode featuring more of the Lasat.
- A Kallus-centered episode, focused on his integration with the rebellion.
- Sabine and Mandalore episodes.
- A bounty hunter episode featuring Boba Fett and his crew, and possibly Cad Bane.
- An episode revolving around the Empire, quite possibly a Thrawn-centered episode.
- An episode featuring Saw Gerrera and Mon Mothma, connecting into Rogue One.
- Confirmed for at least one episode.
- An episode featuring Leia.
- An episode featuring Han Solo and Chewbacca, possibly tying into the Han Solo spinoff film.
- If he is brought back into canon, several episodes featuring Galen Marek.
- Jossed. Saw was already disagreeing with the Rebel leaders. There's no evidence he even heard of Kallus at all.
- Jossed. No Mon Calamari appear.
- Possibly Mart will blame him for the death of his uncle.
- Someone could defend Kallus, saying that some of them weren't always supporters of the Republic and/or didn't have clean rap sheets (ex. Cassian is a former Separatist, some of the other Rogue One soldiers had done bad things in the past according to Cassian, etc.). Heck, some of the Alliance officers we know in the movies (ex. Dodonna, Draven, Madine, etc.) used to be Imperials as well (though they turncoated before they really did anything bad, only staying because it was a part of the transition from the Republic).
- Jossed.
- Gold Two could become a recurring character.
- Jossed.
- Jossed.
- Confirmed, though the Dodonna part seems likely but not outright confirmed.
- If they're involved, then it hasn't been stated yet. As of "Heroes of Mandalore", the only named participants are Clan Wren, Clan Saxon, and whoever Bo-Katan's group is made up of.
- Confirmed.
- Jossed.
- Thrawn is not even mentioned in Rogue One
- Thrawn is (obviously) not mentioned in the OT
- Thrawn is not mentioned or alluded to in The Force Awakens
- Thrawn is dead.
- Thrawn is "elsewhere" doing "something else"
- Thrawn is no longer an Imperial
The second would raise the question of: Why? Sure he could be doing a lot of stuff off-screen or something happens during season 4 that makes his superiors decide he shouldn't be in charge of fighting the Specters (why though? the Battle of Atollon was a 90% success and it would have been 100% success if not for the Bendu and Konstantine) and put him somewhere else. That might explain him never being mentioned, but I think option 3 would be a nice touch and it actually has some things going for it.
Option 3 could entail him becoming a rebel, but that is so against everything we know of Thrawn, his EU/Legends characterization (where he calls the Republic the Rebellion even years after Endor) and it would open another can of worms why the Rebels who are rather short on manpower would willingly go into the Battle of Endor (which is pretty much do or die) without the most brilliant military mind in the galaxy. Plus there's a lot of personal animosity between Thrawn and Kallus as well as Hera. What could however happen is him deserting the Empire (or the Empire deserting him) due to something - let's say The Yuuzhan Vong or the something he found in the Unknown Regions become a threat and he perceives the Empire's response lacking. Or he is deemed too aggressive against some Outside-Context Problem like the Yuuzhan Vong and thus demoted or expelled by the Empire, maybe even sentenced to death. That would explain why nobody ever talks about him - in the Empire he'd be an Un-person and the Rebellion would have little reason to see anything positive in him.
- Thrawn reveals that in new canon, his exile was fake, as he was secretly sent to investigate the Empire to see if it could be an ally to the Chiss Ascendancy. This gives the "no longer an Imperial" possibility more weight.
- The season 4 trailer, on the other hand, lends some support to Thrawn being dead — his Noghri bodyguard Rukh, who assassinated him in Legends, is appearing.
- His last appearance in the series he and Ezra are on the open-to-space bridge of the Chimera as its being dragged into hyperspace by the purrgils. But Ezra's friends are convinced he's alive so it's probable Thrawn also survived.]
- Word of God confirms that both are alive in parts unknown.
- Jossed.
- Jossed.
- Jossed.
- Bonus if he shows up with Kaytoo, and Kaytoo gets along swimmingly (whether or not that's sarcasm or serious is up to you) with Chopper and AP-5.
- Jossed.
- In "Heroes of Mandalore", we don't really get to see a Mandalorian Civil War, focusing more on Clan Wren teaming up with the rebels and Bo-Katan's group. A bunch of Clan Wren members get killed, but that's it so far.
- Jossed.
- Jossed.
- He could appear as an ally to Thrawn.
- Jossed.
- Jossed.
- There's the above WMG possibility that Kallus ties into Saw and Mothma's fallout, as well as a feud between him and the Mercenary, and dealing with his past as an Imperial & his ties to other Imperials.
- Ketsu being a part of Black Sun and an ally of Sabine stirs up more drama on Mandalore, since the Mandalorians might not be so keen on having any members of the Shadow Collective (bar Saxon apparently) being anywhere near their home again. It also has something to do with bounty hunters going after rebels now.
- Jossed.
- Hera is willing to make selfless sacrifices and literally anything to keep valuable assets from falling into enemy hands/total loss.
- The Prophecy of Three is important to the Lasats, possibly Zeb to a personal level too. He also knows that there's much more to it than the crew currently knows, as he has an image of an extended version of Chava's diagram.
- The Jedi Temple Guards are relevant to the Ghost crew, possibly in relation to Kanan.
- The rebels will always return to Lothal because of their past obligation to the world.
- Likewise, the rebels will always return for family. (ex. the Lothal example, Sato going back for Mart, Cham going back for Hera, Hera destroying her house and wanting to destroy the Kalikori because both fell into Imperial hands as aforementioned, etc.)
- The Mandalorians have a bloody history and that war is practically in their bones.
- The art of the ancient people of Lothal and the lothwolves are somehow important (then again, this might've been a Chekhov's Gun, considering he used their ancient star charts to find Atollon).
These could lead to/are related to:
- Thrawn getting involved in the feud between Zeb & Kallus vs. the Mercenary, maybe even being a catalyst in the growing rift between Mothma and Saw.
- Thrawn commissioning Vader's Inquisitors to hunt down Kanan and Ezra again. It's possible that the Seventh Sister and the Fifth Brother reported that they saw realistic hallucinations of the Sentinel and other Jedi Temple Guards, and now Thrawn has personally had a strange encounter with the Bendu as well. Thrawn likely knows that the Temple Guards are unattached, and he also heard the Bendu ranting about how he's in the middle, so maybe he could do something with that information about how some Force wielders can be less attached to the usual absolute sides than others.
- Thrawn baiting Mart into revenge or something, with the intent that the boy screws things up for the rebels.
- Thrawn getting involved in the Second Mandalorian Civil War against Sabine and the Mandalorian Resistance, especially since that part of the reason why his plan failed is because the Seventh Fleet got outflanked by the surprise appearance of Clan Wren.
- Thrawn, now probably aware that Sabine has left to join the Mandalorian Resistance combined with the fracturing of Phoenix Squadron into the greater Rebel Alliance, will take advantage of this to further splinter the crew. Harsher attacks will force Hera to take command of larger groups more often, deploying Inquisitors will force Kanan and Ezra to focus on staying alive and keeping the Inquisitors away from the Alliance, and Zeb will either be the only one left that hasn't been actively torn away from the crew unless drama with the Partisans comes up. No longer will there be any hit-and-runs by the dreaded Ghost crew, so the Empire won't have to worry as much (...subjectively. They could be raided by larger rebel military groups.) anymore.
- Confirmed. It turns out that the temple contains a portal to the world between worlds, which is how Ezra rescues Ahsoka.
- Jossed. The "Duchess" was Sabine's superweapon.
- Wild rumour from mid-May: Ian McDiarmid is reprising his role as the Emperor.
- Confirmed that the Emperor appears voiced by none other than Ian himself. Still unknown if he will end up being the Final Boss.
- Jossed by Word of God.
- Jossed. It's ultimately not even clear if Lothal actually has them.
- Jossed.
- Jossed. Ezra survived. Kanan was the only one who died.
- Confirmed.
- Jossed. There is a Distant Finale epilogue, but it's not that long.
- Confirmed: The epilogue begins with Sabine at Ezra's tower, standing in the same position that Ezra was at the beginning of "Spark of Rebellion", watching a shuttle and two X-Wings fly overhead towards Lothal City.
- Jossed.
- Jossed.
- Confirmed.
- Jossed.
- Jossed: It's "Family Reunion — and Farewell".
- Jossed.
- Jossed.
- Jossed. Chopper may have said it in Binary in "Warhead", though.
- Thrawn doesn't even die.
- Confirmed.
- Or in Thrawn Faking the Dead to return to the Chiss Ascendancy as the novel reveals he was never really exiled and could, theoretically, be recalled any time.
- Jossed.
- Jossed.
- Jossed.
- Jossed: Ezra disappeared, along with Thrawn and the Chimaera. Kanan died several episodes prior in a Heroic Sacrifice.
- Confirmed that he died, jossed that he became a Temple Guard.
- Jossed.
- Unconfirmed.
- Jossed.
- Jossed.
- Jossed.
- Jossed, and it's still Phoenix Squadron.
- In one of her depictions, Rook Kast was shown as having (South)eastern Asian features, similar to Sabine. If you look closely, Ursa and Tristan both have lighter skin than Sabine and Mr. Wren, so Clan Wren must have a different ethnicity than Sabine's Southeastern Asian features (Ursa looks more oriental such as Japanese or Chinese [also might be worth mentioning that Sato and also Mart are very likely supposed to be Japanese], whereas a lot of people seem to agree that Sabine looks more Filipino-ish.). It's harder to pinpoint Rook's ethnicity since having messy dark hair can kind of apply to just about every Eastern Asian race there is and the coloration seems to suggest her skin color is light. Word of God has already stated that Sabine's design is partly based off of Rook's.
- Sabine's father is well-versed in art. Who else is a professional in the art field and is also Mandalorian? The late Veraslayn Kast. Perhaps they were siblings or cousins that shared the same interests and hobbies.
- Counterargument: Wouldn't Propaganda bring up the relation between the famed Mandalorian artists Veraslayn Kast and Sabine Wren?
- Counter: Being related to The Dragon of one of the Mandalorian Civil War's sides and being the daughter of a clan countess as well as temporarily leading a Mandalorian Resistance after killing the Mandalorian Governor by using the Darksaber were not mentioned either.
- Counterargument: Wouldn't Propaganda bring up the relation between the famed Mandalorian artists Veraslayn Kast and Sabine Wren?
- For an unknown reason, Rook bears the markings of Clan Wren on her helmet, unless the markings are also used as a symbol of honor or something like jaig eyes. Why would Rook have another clan's markings? Perhaps Rook is close to Clan Wren somehow, very likely through Sabine's father. Being a close cousin is possible, but being a sibling would deepen it even more.
- Not Sabine, anyway. She stayed on Lothal.
- Deliberately mirroring elements of Timothy Zahn's Thrawn Trilogy in Legends.
- The trailer shows Thrawn sending Rukh after Hera Syndulla, much like how Thrawn sends the Noghri after a pregnant Leia Organa in Zahn's Heir to the Empire to give her and her babies to the hands of a Dark Jedi. While Thrawn's reason to send Rukh after Hera is not to capture potential Force-sensitives that could threaten the Empire, Hera would be discovered pregnant during Empire custody and under the whims of Inquisitors.
- As of the Grand Finale, it has been confirmed that sometime after Lothal's liberation, she gave birth to Kanan's son, Jacen Syndulla.
- The trailer shows Thrawn sending Rukh after Hera Syndulla, much like how Thrawn sends the Noghri after a pregnant Leia Organa in Zahn's Heir to the Empire to give her and her babies to the hands of a Dark Jedi. While Thrawn's reason to send Rukh after Hera is not to capture potential Force-sensitives that could threaten the Empire, Hera would be discovered pregnant during Empire custody and under the whims of Inquisitors.
- Jossed: Ezra disappeared from known space.
- Jossed.
- Mart Mattin is already confirmed to be one of the pilots.
- Gold Two could be one of the pilots, explaining why she isn't in the Gold Squadron roster for Scarif/Yavin.
- Hobbie Klivian. Rogue One All There in the Manual states that he was the back-up Red Six during Scarif/Yavin, but it doesn't say if he was on active duty or not. The same All There in the Manual also never said if Hera was active duty or not either, and it turns out she was.
- Mizel Pomdak. Counterargument: He's a mechanic, he's not quite a soldier.
- Reann Tomvig. Counterargument: She has never displayed any skill in piloting. This is also the same reason as to why Gooti and Jonner probably won't be in Green Squadron either.
- Jossed for all of them. The squadron isn't even Green Squadron, it's Phoenix Squadron.
- Confirmed.
- Jossed.
- Jossed.
- That's pretty much confirmed.
- Jossed for Kanan, who died. It could still be possible for Ezra, if he's trying to find a way back home.
- Jossed: He certainly intended to, but never gets the opportunity.
Anything is on the table at this point— Gallius Rax, Rae Sloane, Iden Versio, Cassian Andor...I feel like they just can't resist a chance to throw one last curveball for fanservice's sake.
- Confirmed, sort of with the Purrgil.
- Confirmed! Captain Pallaeon makes a vocal camero...before getting attacked by a Purrgil.
So, Thrawn, outgunned. Possibly Injured, finds Hondo who is looking for Ezra. Thrawn tries to pay Hondo to betray Ezra and save Thrawn. And Hondo kills Thrawn in return. But not before declaring his loyalty, to Ezra.
- Jossed. Hondo never even meets Thrawn; instead, Ezra hyperspace-jumps himself and Thrawn to parts unknown.
- Confirmed. Palpatine tries to tempt Ezra into helping him wield a remaining portal salvaged from the Lothal Temple.
- Confirmed. Sabine painted it sometime around 'Path of the Jedi'.
- And it survived the end of the season finale! Sabine's masterpiece might be seen again.
- And it was quite awkward revealing to Hera that they'd lied. The only thing that saved them from her ripping them a new one was that they really needed that TIE.
- Confirmed. Sabine painted it sometime around 'Path of the Jedi'.
- Well, he did steal the fuel for them in the end. Confirmed, kind of?
- More like Jossed. Necessary, the droid is not I thinks.
- I dunno... he did save Zeb's life. And turn negotiation against Azmorigan.
- Confirmed.
1. An actual rebel senator-in-exile who legitimately hijacked the transmission to broadcast about Luminara Unduli, unaware he was basing it on faulty intelligence.
2. An actual rebel senator-in-exile. However, the Empire replicated his voice and used it to trick the rebels into going to Stygeon Prime, where the Inquisitor was waiting, as a trap.
3. A supposed Senator-in-Exile, but is actually a mole for the empire, who intentionally misleads potential rebel elements into traps.
4. Not an actual person, but a means of which the Empire leads rebels into traps. His voice may be that of a real person, possibly an ISB agent.
5. Ezra's parents, or at least one of them. Too easy, I know, but the parallels are too obvious to ignore.
- It has been confirmed that number 3 applies to him. He's been misleading rebel groups in hopes of capturing them, and nearly did the same to the Ghost crew.
- Jossed, he'll be making an appearance, voiced by James Earl Jones no less, in the extended version of the pilot.
- Sort of Confirmed at the same time. In the aired version of the pilot the scene is not present, he does not appear again during the season proper, though is mentioned from time to time by the Inquisitor as his "Master" and he does appear as the final visual of the finale.
- And with him, one should expect Katooni.
- Please make this happen.
- Hondo, at least, will be appearing!
- Er, does she have the right temperament for that? Though if she pops up, I'd like to see Barriss too.
- She might have to learn to become one during the series, but considering all the crap she would probably go trough after Sidious rise to power, a possible feeling of guilt over having left the Jedi Order and not being there to help when the massacre happened, or even her discovering Darth Vader's identity, her personality may have changed to a more level headed person.
- Considering how she was shown to be pretty good with kids, I wouldn't be half surprised if she had some perky little apprentice or something. On the other hand of the good equation is the scary equation where one considers the possibility that above mentioned guilt causes her to go crazy and start up a dark side cult.
- I don't think she needs to change that much at all. She lost her temper-issues over the Time Skip, and by Onderon she's also grown out the attitude that made her tag along on the Citadel-mission. On both Onderon and during the Gathering, she was shown to be very mature and level-headed. Really, by the time of the Battle of Cato Neimoidia, the only thing left that she had to get over was her naiveté, and the events of the finale surely took care of that.
As for her turning to the Dark Side, eh, not going to happen. Both Filoni and Ashley discussed it separately, that Ahsoka is kind-of an anti-Vader, in that while she's compassionate and forms strong bonds with everyone like Anakin does, she's not attached to the point where she can't let go of them. If she learns about Anakin's fall, she surely will blame herself for it, but it's more likely to drive her to try to fix things, than to make her fall as well.
- It's actually possible that she might be the mysterious Fulcrum, since the symbol he/she leaves on the supply crate for the Ghost crew to pick up resembles one of Ahsoka's markings.
- Confirmed as of the finale of Season 1, Ahsoka is Fulcrum.
- The Inquisitor.
- Cikatro Vizago.
- Agent Kallus.
- Maketh Tua.
- Kanan Jarrus.
- Ezra Bridger.
- Any of the other Ghost crew members.
- Fulcrum.
- Tseebo.
- Alternatively, it is being literal, and someone literally falls over/off something. My money is on Ezra and/ or the Inquisitor.
- Ezra is also shown falling off a catwalk in a ship, so unless someone does die, it could just be referencing him falling.
- Confirmed. Farewell, Inky. We hardly knew ye!
- Maketh Tua dies attempting to defect during the first episode of Season 2.
- Alternatively, it is being literal, and someone literally falls over/off something. My money is on Ezra and/ or the Inquisitor.
- Starkiller is jossed, according to a twitter post by Pablo Hidalgo The Force Unleashed has been subjected to Canon Discontinuity.
- Well, there's always the possibility that Starkiller's story could be adapted to fit the new canon. Tarkin has already included the character Armand Isard, who was a fairly influential figure in the old EU. Who knows? Maybe we will see Starkiller again in some form.
- Confirmed. Sam Witwer provides the voice for Emperor Palpatine in Season 2.
- And then he also returns as Darth Maul.
- Confirmed to an extent. She tries to defect (and is genuine about it), but she gets killed by Agent Kallus before she can put in her lot with the rebellion.
- Confirmed: Maul returns in the second half of Season 2. However, as per Darth Maul: Son of Dathomir, he's free from Palpatine.
- Because he's only the best villain voice actor ever to walk the earth, plus he's a Star Wars veteran. It would be very awesomely meta to have the guy who played Luke Skywalker playing a villain during the rebellion era, especially since Luke himself might not be turning up.
- Best. Idea. EVER.
- Unfortunately, he's a bit busy at the moment...
- Sadly (or happily, depending on how much you like Harry Potter) Jossed. According to the IMDB cast page for Rebels, the Inquisitor will be voiced by Jason Isaacs.
- Or at least he thinks they did. It's not yet confirmed what happened to them, and given how quickly he assumed Kanan was trying to get rid of him, it's clear he's got some abandonment issues that run deeper than his general cynicism.
- Jossed. It's confirmed in "Gathering Forces" that Ezra's parents were arrested and presumably executed by the Empire.
- Alternatively, only one was executed and the other is force-sensitive, so the Inquisitor kept her/him alive.
- Or, at the very least, not on the rebels' side. They didn't bother to tell Hera that the base she was picking up crates at was infested by dangerous creatures hurt by the sun, and that the sun is periodically blocked out. Holding back intel that might be strategically important is one thing, but there was no reason for them to leave out the creatures. They also underestimated the Imperial defenses at the beginning.
- Fulcrum was likely not expecting their shuttle to be stranded due to losing all its fuel to an unnoticed leak. Barring that, it would have been a quick pickup, and there would have never been any encounter with the Fyrnocks.
- Jossed, unless Ahsoka is somehow an ISB agent, which seems unlikely.
- However, if the subtle hints that Kallus is the new Fulcrum pan out, then this speculation becomes Hilarious in Hindsight or Harsher in Hindsight, depending on how it turns out.
- Fulcrum was likely not expecting their shuttle to be stranded due to losing all its fuel to an unnoticed leak. Barring that, it would have been a quick pickup, and there would have never been any encounter with the Fyrnocks.
- Jossed
- Jossed
- Jossed
- Well, if Kallus is the new Fulcrum, then this becomes Hilarious in Hindsight or Harsher in Hindsight especially with the Zeb and the Lasats part.
- Jossed
- Jossed
- Jossed: It's Ahsoka.
- Jossed. Freddie Prince Jr confirmed via Twitter he'd be returning for season two, and that it would have twice as many episodes.
- Unlikely. Word of God is that the Inquisitor is just Vader's attack-dog, and he's fully aware of his limitations. If he came across a member of the Jedi Council, he'd alert Vader, but wouldn't confront them personally. And for well-known reasons, Vader can't learn Obi-Wan's whereabouts.
- Jossed. The Inquisitor takes his own life after being defeated by Kanan.
- Jossed. The prisoner was Luminara Unduli, and she was dead all along.
- Jossed. Wordof God confirmed that the "ghost" in her cell was a holographic recording of the moment of her execution.
- Petro would be somewhere in his early twenties by the time of the series. Kanan seems older than that.
- Petro has green eyes, while Kanan's are blue.
- Jossed. Kanan's Master is Depa Billaba, and his real name is Caleb Dume.
- Unlikely to be Pre Vizsla's daughter. Sabine's surname is confirmed to be "Wren". However, she could still be Bo-Katan's daughter (assuming families are named for the husband on Mandalore).
- I really don't think there was any romance between the Vizsla and Bo-Katan. To me, they seemed very strictly just officer and his lietunant. It would also make Sabine 13-14 years old, and she looks at least a few years older than that. Also Sabine is clearly of "asian" descent.
- JOSSED. Dave Filoni stated in an interview with IGN, that Sabine has no connection at all to Satine (and by extension, to Satine's sister, Bo-Katan).
- Problem, Rahm Kota is too old. Kanan is 20-30 at the most, Rahm looks at least 50.
- Well that's why I said younger Rahm Kota.
- So, your saying he aged at least two decades in two years?
- Standard solution: they're not the same person but they're related.
- That's the best way to go— it wouldn't make much sense for Kanan to change his names THREE times in his life.
- The Ezra hallucination can speak in Hera's voice and refer to Kanan as Caleb and the Sabine hallucination can sound like Sabine, but occasionally "speak" in Chopper's noises. The Inquisitor could refer to whoever is sitting next to Kanan at the bar as Hera, but whenever they talk, it sounds like Zeb morning the Lasats.
- Kanan will grow a beard in the time and begin to wear a robe. He'll talk in his drunk voice and begin to leer at women, who then transform into his Jedi master and tell him to stop doing so. He will not bathe and the townsfolk will call him Stinkoo and throw rotten fruit at him, which he eats. He begins to think his life was merely a dream and that his life has always been as Stinkoo, the rotten fruit eating, young couple's home crashing, unwashed drunkard who always lived on Tatooine.
- Wait... what?
- It is a comedic guess!
- Well, jossed.
- Since when do they have sons?! I mean, I suppose as older men they might have children, but their isn't really anything to support the theory that they do.
- Wait now, they had kids with one another? The Empire is more inclusive than I thought...
- Jossed. Unless the Inquisitor comes back from the dead...
- Or maybe they'll have a throwaway line saying that they couldn't be controlled. Either way, they need an excuse for why the Emperor doesn't have one or two lightsaber-proof giant monsters under his command.
- Jossed.
- Jossed.
That, and she totally dresses like a Darth Vader Expy, so it would make sense that she's written as one.
- Jossed. Freddie Prinze Jr confirmed that she is a Mirialan.
- Another smart thing to do would be to hint that The Female Inquisitor is someone else in the cartoon - say, Barriss Offee or Dhara Leonis - as a Red Herring. Then, the Inquisitor is revealed to be Mara, the audience is properly shocked, and Barriss's and Dhara's fates remain mysteries for a while longer, letting Zare's storyline be drawn out a bit more while still keeping it relevant.
- Jossed. Freddie Prinze Jr confirmed that she is a Mirialan.
- The Female Inquisitor also has a fighting style very similar to the one Barriss used in her Season 5 fight with Ahsoka.
- In addition, both the Emperor and Darth Vader know that Ahsoka is with the Ghost crew and given Vader's first-hand knowledge and experience of Ahsoka's skills when he was Anakin Skywalker, her former master, and that Kanan managed to best the last Inquisitor on his own, they would likely send an Inquisitor who is experienced enough to handle both Kanan and Ahsoka. And who better to send than a former Jedi Padawan who has close history with Ahsoka and even manages to beat her in combat.
- On the characters page, if you look for the female Inquisitor's description, you will find a link to some concept art confirming that she is a Green-Skinned Space Babe — the only difference between the art and Barriss is the skin colour (which could be due to shadows) and the lack of dots over the nose. Other than that, the character design bears a very close resemblance to Barriss.
- Freddie Prinze Jr confirmed that she is a Mirialan, the same species as Barriss.
- Chances of Barriss Offee being this Inquisitor have decreased due to the revelation that Sarah Michelle Gellar will be playing her and that the female Inquisitor is now called the Seventh Sister. However, Gellar also alludes that the Seventh Sister has some kind of history with Ahsoka Tano and primary emphasizes her over the rest, intentionally or unintentionally keeping this speculation alive. This is not helped by the fact Filoni and crew went to great length of hiding the Seventh Sister's face, name and voice actress for months, as if there is something about her they want to hide. Freddie Prinze Jr. insists it's not Barriss, but there's no telling if he's been sincere or misleading fans off the scent.
- Jossed via official twitter
- On the characters page, if you look for the female Inquisitor's description, you will find a link to some concept art confirming that she is a Green-Skinned Space Babe — the only difference between the art and Barriss is the skin colour (which could be due to shadows) and the lack of dots over the nose. Other than that, the character design bears a very close resemblance to Barriss.
- Doubtful. Weisman is only one new comer compared to the returning vets from Clone Wars. Besides a show isn't cancelled because of the producers but because of ratings.
- Tell that to Young Justice (2010), The Spectacular Spiderman and W.I.T.C.H.
- Young Justice, at least, seems to have been killed by sales. Do you think it would be hard for Disney to sell merchandise for Star Wars?
- Well, there are two kinds of WMG. Serious theories and silly ones, and I believe this is the latter.
- Given that he's off of the show now, the evil monsters who brainwash executives to cancel all the stuff he has a major role in will target whatever he does next.
- Season 3 is confirmed.
- Apparently Filoni has confirmed that annual renewal for additional seasons is in the case of Rebels just for show. The series is in fact permanently "renewed" until he finishes its story.
- Jossed, Sabine wins the duel by shooting his blasters and then detonating the Mandalorian fighter, knocking everyone to the ground. Kanan later captures Rau and brings him as a prisoner into the rebel fleet.