Is The Grand Inquisitor Actually Dead?
Warning: Spoilers for Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 3!
The Grand Inquisitor seemingly dies in the Obi-Wan Kenobi series, but this should be impossible, considering his prominent antagonist role in Star Wars Rebels season 1. The unnamed Pau'an was a Jedi Temple Guard who betrayed the Jedi Order during the Jedi Purge and became one of Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine’s greatest assets in their galaxy-spanning pogrom of Jedi Knights. The Grand Inquisitor canonically died in Rebels season 1's finale, making his eventual return in Obi-Wan inevitable if the Star Wars franchise still honors its own continuity.
The Grand Inquisitor makes his live-action debut in Obi-Wan and is frequently frustrated with The Third Sister’s excessive methods of searching for Obi-Wan Kenobi, who she’s obsessed with tracking down. When The Third Sister’s latest scheme, kidnapping Princess Leia Organa, threatens the Galactic Empire itself (Leia is the daughter of an Imperial Senator and a member of the Imperial Senate herself), The Grand Inquisitor loses his patience with her behavior. The Third Sister avoids punishment by impaling The Grand Inquisitor and leaving him for dead, seemingly killing the Pau'an five years before his Rebels death.
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The Obi-Wan Kenobi episode “Part III” does not show The Grand Inquisitor but does have The Third Sister and Darth Vader discuss his apparent death, which The Third Sister frames as Kenobi’s doing. The Star Wars canon timeline is no stranger to irrevocable continuity snarls, but these discrepancies typically occur when screen media overwrites print media like comics and novels. Considering that the upcoming Ahsoka series is a sequel to Rebels,
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