Star Wars fans’ favorite character, Glup Shitto, is back in the spotlight

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Update (May 31, 2022): Jokes about Glup Shitto have returned, thanks to the brief appearance of Wookiee Jedi Padawan Gungi in a trailer for The Bad Batch season 2. Gungi first appeared in Star Wars’ animated seriesThe Clone Wars, so his return to the Star Wars spotlight naturally launched a new wave of Glup Shitto celebration and discussion. Our original Glup Shitto explainer is below.

Wat Tambor. Wullf Yularen. Plo Koon. These are some Star Wars guys that I know. I actually know a lot of Star Wars guys, which is why I was surprised that I had never heard of Glup Shitto. And yet it’s a name I keep seeing online, in <a href=«https://twitter.com/search?q=glup%20shitto&src=» https: www.polygon.com>social media handles

and discussions of The Mandalorian. I have now learned everything there is to know about Glup Shitto.

Like all of the best things in Star Wars, Glup Shitto is not canonical. He sprung from the mind of Tumblr user gomjabbar on September 3, 2020, in the following post:

every time a new Star War movie or show is announced all the fans are like “OMG Glup Shitto is back ”

Since the post first appeared, Star Wars as a franchise has had several Glup Shitto moments. The meme has taken off accordingly. Finally, people like me who watched all of the Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels cartoons can have their day in the sun, with characters from those shows and other Star Wars spinoff properties popping up in The Mandalorian and in Disney’s upcoming slate of Star Wars shows.

It used to be that I would just corner people at parties and lecture them about Grand Admiral Thrawn, receiving little more than a glassy-eyed stare and a hollow promise that my conversation partner would check out Clone Wars “sometime.” But now when I