Star Wars: Grogu Order 66 Rescue Theory is a Concerning Anakin Retcon
The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett are setting up a major reveal around how Grogu was saved from Order 66 with some concerning Star Wars canon implications for Anakin's. Ever since «Baby Yoda» was introduced in The Mandalorian, the potential impact of his character arc on the wider Star Wars story has been fascinating for both its storytelling possibilities and implications for Star Wars lore.
In The Mandalorian season 2, Din Djarin and Grogu's encounter with Ahsoka reveals Grogu isn't just any Force-sensitive youngling, but actually a survivor of Anakin's Jedi Temple purge on Coruscant during Order 66. Anakin infamously slaughtered all the Jedi younglings, destroying the future generation of Force users, and enabling Palpatine's rise to power without the threat of a Jedi Order to oppose him. How Grogu survived the Jedi purge, lived through Order 66, and his life up until he was rescued by Mando is a major mystery, and now that he's under the tutelage of Luke Skywalker, who's helping him remember what happened, the answers could be revealed in the finale to The Book of Boba Fett, or in the upcoming third season The Mandalorian.
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The answers to these questions are sure to have major implications for Star Wars canon. Whoever saved him and where they took him will say a lot about what happened to Grogu Palpatine's reign as Emperor, and will surely mean big things for his post-Return of the Jedi destiny, potentially even recontextualizing the fall of Luke Skywalker's Jedi Academy and other events from the rest of the sequel trilogy.
Of course, any Star Wars story is going to have big ties to the larger Star Wars canon, but recent stories,
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