The Book of Boba Fett’s Best Easter Egg Isn’t the One You Think

A Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau Star Wars present isn’t a Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau Star Wars present with out some deep minimize Easter eggs. Episode two of The Book of Boba Fett, “The Tribes of Tatooine” (recapped right here), was no exception, and whereas there have been a number of actually enjoyable callbacks, our favourite might be not the one you’re serious about.

The most evident callback within the episode (if you understand what to search for) was Boba’s go to to Tosche Station, a spot Luke Skywalker references in A New Hope and George Lucas truly shot an entire scene for. The scene was deleted, leaving Tosche as little however a namedrop within the canon, but it surely later resurfaced in numerous codecs. You can watch it now on YouTube and see Luke together with Biggs and two different mates, Camie Marstrap and Laze Loneozner, aoka Fixer.

Well, now we all know that whereas Luke and Biggs might have gone off to try to save the galaxy, Fixer and Camie are nonetheless at Tosche Station over a decade later. They’re now performed by Skyler Bible and Mandy Kowalski, and although the characters and placement have lengthy been canon because of passing mentions, Book of Boba Fett lastly made this legendary location and characters official. And although the scene raises tons of pointless/enjoyable questions (Why are they nonetheless there? What do they do with their lives? Are there some other bars round? Did they cease promoting energy converters? Was Luke mendacity to Uncle Owen to have a number of underage cocktails and play video video games?), that’s not our favourite Easter egg.

No, it’s the wookiee. But not simply any wookiee. A really highly effective, very cool, very properly related wookiee that goes by Black Krrsantan.

In “The Tribes of Tatooine,” Black Krrsantan appears to be within the make use of of Jabba the Hutt’s unnamed twin cousins who’re laying declare to the throne of Mos Espa. For the episode, all it’s good to know is that he looks like he’s going to be combating for the Hutts on this Star Wars recreation of thrones. Their personal Mountain, possibly. A seemingly unbeatable warrior. But in Marvel’s Star Wars comedian books Black Krrsantan has a a lot richer historical past. One that ought to encourage a way of worry, or at the least reverence, from Boba Fett. Because they know one another.

As at all times, you possibly can learn the total, beat by beat breakdown on Wookieepedia, which is called completely on this occasion. But the quick model is Black Krrsantan was a disgraced wookiee who left his house planet of Kashyyyk and sought out the Xonti Brothers, an evil group of characters who ran gladiatorial video games. The Xontis betrayed Krrsantan, compelled him to battle within the video games, and turned him right into a fierce gladiator. Eventually he received out, received revenge on the Xontis, and received into bounty searching. He labored for Jabba the Hutt (which might clarify why he’s now working for his cousins) in addition to Darth Vader—but in addition, most famously, for Doctor Aphra, an extremely standard Star Wars comics character who employed Black Krrsantan and some others for a heist, thus starting an extended, fruitful relationship.

Along the best way Black Krrsantan has crossed paths with Obi-Wan Kenobi, tangled with Han Solo, and sure, even encountered Boba Fett. In reality his first look in all of Star Wars was in 2015’s Darth Vader #1, alongside Boba Fett, who had been each introduced as two of Jabba’s most interesting bounty hunters for Vader himself. So not solely does Boba know him, he is aware of he’s to not be messed with. Plus, Black Krrsantan has at all times been canon, at the least within the Disney period of the franchise. So not like Camie or Fixer, he’s received an excellent stronger motive to be part of live-action Star Wars today than a fleeting journey to choose up some energy converters. And now that he’s, if you understand the historical past, you understand he’s gonna be a formidable foe ought to Boba and Fennec need to go up towards him.

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