Bad Batch’s Returning Jedi Continues Star Wars’ Order 66 Problem
Star Wars: The Bad Batch season 2 will see the return of a previously assumed dead Jedi, which continues Star Wars’ Order 66 retcon. While live-action shows like Obi-Wan Kenobi and The Book of Boba Fett are becoming the new norm for the saga, animated shows are still an important part of the Star Wars canon. The Bad Batch season 2 continues that tradition by adding more context regarding the early months of the Empire, including an insight into the status of characters audiences had already seen in Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
While brief, the first Bad Batch season 2 trailer revealed some of the elements the show will tackle when it returns in Fall 2022. The Bad Batch clones all have updated suits, Commander Cody returns, and Palpatine himself will show up during a scene at the Imperial Senate. Curiously, one of the most exciting parts of the Bad Batch season 2 trailer did not involve either the clones or Palpatine but rather the return of Gungi: a character that had been introduced during Clone Wars.
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Gungi was a Jedi padawan during the Clone Wars, and like many others of that era, he was assumed to have died after Order 66. However, the Bad Batch season 2 trailer reveals that not only Gungi is alive, but he is also using his Jedi training and his Kashyyyk-made lightsaber. Gungi’s return makes for yet another addition on the list of Jedi who survived Order 66 in canon – one that keeps getting bigger with almost every new Star Wars content. For example, Obi-Wan Kenobi’s episode 1 introduced Nari, a surviving Jedi that was hiding in Tatooine. Kanan Jarrus in Star Wars: Rebels, Cal Kestis in Jedi: Fallen Order, Grogu in The Mandalorian, and every Inquisitor in
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