Andor’s Starkiller Reference is Potentially Great News for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Fans
If anyone watching the Disney Plus Andor series is also a fan of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, they were in for a rare treat during last week’s episode. In the fourth episode, there is a sequence that takes place on Coruscant, in a room full of valuable artifacts. In the back of many camera cuts, fans could explicitly see Starkiller’s armor from Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. This armor went completely unnoticed by the scene’s characters, but was left on screen for a long enough period of time to be unmistakable as a reference to the game.
Further, Starkiller’s actor, Sam Witwer, has since corroborated its legitimacy in a social media post. If fans watching Andor are unfamiliar with the game, the armor’s appearance would have been unremarkable to them. However, this armor’s appearance surprises a lot of fans because The Force Unleashed is considered part of Star Wars’ non-canon lore. Therefore, there are some fairly exciting implications that could be surmised from this reference in Andor regarding the potential future of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.
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The decision to include Starkiller’s armor in Andor may not have been made lightly. By including it, it must have been known that fans’ speculation would erupt and that fans would begin to presume what this might mean regarding Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. Despite two successful installments, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed has since been shelved as an IP after its third installment was canceled.
However, Andor has seemingly just made Starkiller’s armor canon. In doing so, Disney may be suggesting that there are plans to reprise Star Wars: The Force Unleashed’s franchise. This would be
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