While fans don't know the state of Grogu's well-being in the sequel trilogy, his ties to Mandalore might explain why Kylo Ren doesn't kill him. It's likely Grogu stays with Din Djarin and the Mandalorians, and never returns to embark on his training with Luke.
As depicted in "Chapter 20: The Foundling," Grogu was rescued from the attack on the Jedi Temple by Jedi Master Kelleran Beq. Beq completed the daring escape that got Grogu to safety, then escaped the attack with his life.
It was believed that Grogu would eventually become a victim of Kylo Ren's destruction of Luke's Jedi Order. However, The Book of Boba Fett revealed that Grogu chose to follow the Way of the Mandalorian rather than become a Jedi, sparing him from Kylo Ren's wrath.
During the New Republic Era, IG-11, also known as Eyegee-Eleven, was a bounty hunter and assassin affiliated with the Bounty Hunters' Guild. In 9 ABY, IG-11 traveled to the desert world of Arvala-7 after acquiring a bounty to terminate a Force-sensitive infant known as Grogu.
Grogu had survived the Great Jedi Purge and was hidden away. Years later, he was rediscovered by a remnant of the Galactic Empire after it fell and led by Moff Gideon. At this point, Grogu became known to many simply as the Child, during the New Republic Era.
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How old was Grogu when Yoda died?
Yoda dies during Episode 6 which is set 5 years before The Mandalorian. And with Grogu being 50 in The Mandalorian, that puts Grogu's birth at around 45 years prior to Yoda's death. Gorgu is fifty when the Mandalorian takes place — that is five years after Endor and about as long after Yoda's demise.
Grogu's mother is either Yaddle or some other female member of Yoda's species, but he has no father. Because just like Anakin, Grogu was born off the Will of the Force, with no dad, and that explains why he's so powerful at an age that's considered an infant for Yoda's species.
While fans don't know the state of Grogu's well-being in the sequel trilogy, his ties to Mandalore might explain why Kylo Ren doesn't kill him. It's likely Grogu stays with Din Djarin and the Mandalorians, and never returns to embark on his training with Luke.
Grogu (Baby Yoda) was killed by Kylo Ren. Grogu joined Kylo Ren. This is the least likely as none of the students who followed Kylo became part of the Knights of Ren.
San Tekka gave the data chip containing the map fragment to Resistance Commander Poe Dameron and was soon captured by Kylo Ren, who demanded to know where the map was. When San Tekka refused to comply, Ren killed him.
Is Grogu Yoda? According to the events of "The Mandalorian" so far, Grogu and Yoda are not the same character. They are simply from the same species. The name of this species has never been revealed since "Star Wars" creator George Lucas wanted to give Yoda a sense of mystery.
While we know the simple answer is that Grogu hadn't been created yet when The Force Awakens kicked off the third Star Wars trilogy in 2015, it's an interesting question from an in-universe perspective, and one THR recently asked The Mandalorian executive producer Dave Filoni.
Gideon's true reason for wanting Grogu captured alive is linked to midi-chlorian cloning. The Client may have wanted Grogu dead to prevent Gideon's cloning experiments and Palpatine's return.
Grogu was trained as a padawan in the Jedi Temple, yet spent decades surprising his powers to survive. The Child spent a couple of years training with Luke Skywalker but chose to return to the Mandalorian. If Grogu completes his Jedi training, he will become the second Mandalorian Jedi.
While the first flashback simply revealed that a number of Jedi went to their deaths trying to protect Grogu, this time, we learned that it was Jedi Master Kelleran Beq (played by Jar Jar Binks actor Ahmed Best) who got Grogu away from the Jedi Temple and off Coruscant.
Yes, in the Mandalorian, Grogu's age is revealed to be 50 in human years, Djin Djardin's age is never revealed but from the final scenes of the final episode of Season 2 of Mando, where Mando removes his helmet, an estimate of his age would be around 35-40 years. By the time of The Mandalorian, Grogu is 50.
So, Din makes things official, adopting Grogu as his son. From here on out, Grogu will be known as "Din Grogu," and together, father and son will start a new family business, taking odd jobs for the New Republic and helping protect the Outer Rim.
Luke Skywalker eventually had the lightsaber in his possession after Yoda's death in 4 ABY. Five years later, he offered the weapon to Grogu in a choice against obtaining beskar armor. However, Grogu chose the beskar armor over the lightsaber and went back to Din Djarin.
From a viewer's standpoint, on a general scale, The Mandalorian takes place between the time of the Original Trilogy of movies and the Sequel Trilogy. There's a thirty-year gap in there, so it fills in a lot of plot for where the galaxy is at the start of the Sequel Trilogy.
Given the rarity of his species in the galaxy, along with the fact that the only other two known members of Grogu's species were both living in the Temple when he was born, it seems likely that Grogu is the child of Yoda and Yaddle and was born to help preserve their rare species.
So, maybe it wasn't about trying to have Grogu look like Yoda, but rather figuring out a specific design for himself. "Jon wanted them to be dog-like, with giant dark pupils," Chiang continues, and, lucky for us, that's what we got — the alternative being a psychotic samurai baby gnome, from the concepts shown.
Given that Grogu, Yoda, and Yaddle are the only known canon members of their species, it makes sense why some would try to draw a connection between the three of them. While Star Wars hasn't disproved the theory, it's highly unlikely that Yoda or Yaddle were Grogu's biological parents.
