Even Yoda's Most Brutal Enemies Thought His Jedi Rules Went Too Far
Warning: spoilers ahead for Star Wars Adventures #14!
Even the Nihil criminal organization that marauded across the galaxy during the High Republic didn't hold to Yoda view that the Jedi should recruit and indoctrinate children at as early an age as possible.
In fact, in Star Wars Adventures #14, Nihil member Deva Lompop actively discourages a little girl from joining her group of marauders in «A Very Nihil Interlude» by writer Justina Ireland, artist Nick Brokenshire and letterer Johanna Nattalie. Lompop witnesses a Nautolan girl named Ghenli getting severely bullied and decides to help the Nautolan stand up for herself so that her tormentors will stop harassing her.
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After receiving help from Lompop, Ghenli tells her savior that she would like to join the Nihil so she can stop bullies with them. Lompop not only says that this isn't anything close to what the Nihil actually do, but even reveals their true purpose, saying, "We're mostly pirates who steal and wreck stuff when we feel like it." When the girl says her mother probably wouldn't approve of this, Lompop responds simply with, "Probably not." This is a far cry from anything Yoda has practiced during his near 1,000 years as a Jedi. Yoda is notorious for only recruiting young children to begin molding them into Jedi. Undoubtedly the most infamous example of this is when Yoda refused to make Anakin Skywalker a Padawan because he was too old — even though he was only nine years old at the time. The only reason why he eventually relented was because Obi-Wan Kenobi guilt-tripped him about wanting to carry out the wishes of the recently deceased Qui-Gon Jinn.
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