Moff Gideon Makes Star Wars’ Oldest Lightsaber Joke Canon
In The Mandalorian season 2, episode 6, “Chapter 14: The Tragedy,” Moff Gideon made joke about his Darksaber, but fans have been doing it for years.
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Warning: Contains SPOILERS for The Mandalorian season 2, episode 6, “Chapter 14: The Tragedy.”
Moff Gideon captures Baby Yoda in The Mandalorian season 2, episode 6, “Chapter 14: The Tragedy,” and in doing so, uses his Darksaber to make Star Wars’ oldest jokes about lightsabers into canon. Having long pursued Baby Yoda, whose real name is Grogu, Gideon was finally able to get his hands on the Child in “The Tragedy,” courtesy of his Dark Troopers. Gideon clearly has big plans for Grogu and his extremely high midi-chlorian count, but the episode also teases Baby Yoda’s interest in the Darksaber.
The very end of The Mandalorian season 2, episode 6 finds Grogu in a holding cell, where Gideon visits him and he gets to see the Darksaber for the first time. It makes sense that Baby Yoda would be interested in it: beyond just it being a shiny new toy, it also presumably reminds him of the training lightsabers he would have seen (and perhaps even wielded) at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. However, once Baby Yoda is done Force choking Stormtroopers and is ready for nap-time, Gideon warns him off the Darksaber, urging caution around the weapon.
Gideon tells Baby Yoda: “You’re not ready to play with such things. Liable to put an eye out.” It’s a great, if somewhat sinister gag even amidst the horrible circumstances in which it comes, and it’s a joke Star Wars fans have been making about lightsabers ever since 1977. While not actually in the movie, a production still that shows Luke Skywalker pointing his lightsaber at his face, from an alarmingly close range, has long been made a joke of by fans for how dangerous it is, becoming one of the movie’s biggest memes in modern day but a gag long before that too. With Gideon’s comments in The Mandalorian, then he simply echoes the amusing concerns fans have had for a long time.
While this is the first time Star Wars has brought the much-loved joke into canon, there is also a lot of truth behind the warning too. It’s long been evident just how powerful lightsabers are, but Star Wars Rebels showed just how they can literally be used to put an eye out, with Maul blinding Kanan Jarrus with one in the season 2 finale, “Twilight of the Apprentice.” Thankfully, his eyesight was eventually restored, but it does make sense why someone – even a villain like Gideon, since he needs Baby Yoda to be fully healthy for now – would make such a warning.
The Mandalorian is no stranger to making old jokes canon, having already referenced things like the Empire’s lack of guard rails in season 2, and it’s great to see Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni continue to drop these little bits of fan-service that still fit the story they’re telling. It’s also possible that this warning will pay-off in The Mandalorian’s future. The idea of the Darksaber costing someone an eye could be seen as a moment of foreshadowing that it is actually going to happen to someone, and while it hopefully won’t be Grogu, it could be Gideon himself. Him being harmed by the weapon that doesn’t rightfully belong to him would be fitting, and it’s hard to argue against the fact he’d look good with an eye-patch. Since Bo-Katan still wants to take the Darksaber from him, then there may come a time when Gideon should’ve heeded his own warning.
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