Boba Fett Finale Pays Off His Clone Wars Lesson (But Not From Cad Bane)
Warning: Contains SPOILERS for The Book of Boba Fett
Boba Fett and Cad Bane clash one last time in The Book of Boba Fett’s first season finale, paying off Boba Fett’s Clone Wars-era lesson from Hondo Ohnaka, not Bane. The finale acknowledges Fett’s brief tutelage under Bane, which was part of an unaired story arc in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, as well as their rivalry. Boba Fett’s newfound sense of honor, however, would have made his father and Hondo Ohnaka proud.
Boba Fett allied himself with ruthless bounty hunters like Aurra Sing and Bossk early in the Clone Wars, plotting to kill Jedi Master Mace Windu and avenge his father, Jango Fett. With two Republic Navy officers as hostages to lure Windu into a deadly trap, Fett traveled to Florrum, meeting the pirate captain Hondo Ohnaka. Ohnaka knew Jango Fett and revered the late bounty hunter for his sense of honor, a rarity among the galaxy’s underworld.
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Ohnaka convinced Boba Fett to abandon his quest for revenge and save the lives of the two Republic officers by reminding him of his father’s ethics. While Boba Fett would grow up to become one of the galaxy’s deadliest and most ruthless mercenaries, his near-death experience in the sarlacc pit and a brief time as part of a Tusken Raider tribe led him to become a far more merciful and altruistic warrior, taking over Jabba the Hutt’s criminal empire but using his position to protect the people of Tatooine. Cad Bane considers Boba Fett to have gone “soft” in The Book of Boba Fett, but Fett had moved on from Bane’s cruelty and instead embodied the honor that Ohnaka saw in Jango Fett.
An unaired The Clone Wars story arc would have had Boba Fett
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