The Mandalorian’s Marshal & Armor Explained (Canon Backstory)
Warning: Contains SPOILERS for The Mandalorian season 2, episode 1, «Chapter 9 — The Marshal».
The Mandalorian season 2 features Timothy Olyphant as Cobb Vanth, who wears Boba Fett's armor as the marshal of Mos Pelgo on Tatooine, and was previously established as a character in Star Wars novels. In 1977, George Lucas introduced viewers to Tatooine, the desert planet. «If there's a bright center to the universe, you're on the planet that it's farthest from,» Luke Skywalker complained as he wistfully longed for a life in the stars. For all Luke's words, though, Tatooine has become a recurring location in Star Wars, revisited with surprising frequency. In fact, The Mandalorian isn't the only Star Wars series that features the Marshal; The Book of Boba Fett includes Cobb Vanth in its cast as well, as the final episodes of the bounty hunter-focused series are set on Star Wars' iconic planet of Tatooine.
Din Djarin first visited Tatooine in The Mandalorian season 1, when he took on the mercenary and assassin Fennec Shand. He returned in The Mandalorian season 2, episode 1, «Chapter 9 — The Marshal», as part of his quest to discover fellow Mandalorians. Unfortunately it turned out to be a dead end, because Din Djarin had stumbled upon an ordinary man who'd acquired Mandalorian armor from a bunch of Jawas. The armor was instantly recognizable, of course; it actually belonged to Boba Fett, who was revealed to still be alive on Tatooine in the final scene.
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The Mandalorian's Marshal is in fact an established character in Star Wars lore. Cobb Vanth was first introduced in Chuck Wendig's «Aftermath» trilogy, a series of books that released from 2015 to 2017,
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