The Mandalorian got a surprise visit from a former Star Wars actor during Wednesday's episode. Ahmed Best, who portrayed Jar Jar Binks in the Star Wars prequel trilogy from 1999 to 2005, made a cameo appearance in the Disney+ series almost 20 years after his last appearance in the Star Wars universe.
Jar Jar Binks is a fictional character from the Star Wars movie Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. He also appears in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. He is a Gungan and was born on the planet Naboo.
What happens to Jar Jar after Revenge of the Sith?
Having lost any prospects for the future, Jar Jar returned to Naboo and settled down in the capital city of Theed, where he became a street performer. Eventually, Jar Jar encountered a young boy named Mapo and took him on as an apprentice, teaching Mapo how to become a performer like Jar Jar himself was.
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What happened to Jar Jar after Padme died?
Affiliation(s) Jar Jar Binks was the first Gungan to represent his people in the Galactic Senate, first serving as a Junior Representative along with Senator Padmé Amidala, and then, after her death, serving as full Senator himself.
The most agreed upon theory, started by Reddit user Lumparoo in 2016, is that Jar-Jar is a powerful Force-user conspiring with Darth Sidious. In addition to this, some believe he either trained, or was supposed to become Supreme Leader Snoke, or that he is a reincarnation of Darth Plagueis.
On the eve of the First Battle of Geonosis in 22 BBY, Junior Representative Jar Jar Binks convinced the Senate to increase the scope of the Chancellor's emergency powers because of the apparent threat of the Confederacy of Independent Systems.
How did Jar Jar Binks cause the rise of the empire?
Despite his good and humble nature, Binks was naïve and easily manipulated. Chancellor Palpatine exploited Binks' naïvety by convincing him to support the creation of a Grand Army of the Republic, which enabled Palpatine to destroy the Jedi Order and to establish the first Galactic Empire.
Binks pretends to accept this apology, feigning innocence, but after he hangs up he reveals that he was in fact a Sith Lord, named Darth Jar Jar, who only pretended to be manipulated by Palpatine and actually manipulated Palpatine himself.
Jar Jar Binks may have helped save Grogu during The Mandalorian's newest Order 66 flashback. Recalling his traumatic past during the Jedi Purge, Grogu thinks of the Jedi Master who saved his life by removing him from the Jedi Temple.
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.
After the battle, Jar Jar continued to ascend in Gungan society, putting his awkward past as an outcast behind him. Jar Jar eventually became a Senior Representative for Naboo, serving in the Galactic Senate.
On Friday's episode of Clone Wars, Jar Jar Binks becomes a Jedi. In an interstellar case of mistaken identity, the half-wit Naboo native dons the cloak, teams up with the first trilogy's bumbler C-3PO, and saves Amidala from separatists who think he's a master of The Force.
Jar Jar Binks is the senator from Naboo, a title he shares with Padme Amidala. When the Galactic Senate became the Imperial Senate, Jar Jar was succeeded by Representative of Naboo in 6 BBY Pooja Naberrie . Jar Jar Binks is the senator from Naboo, a title he shares with Padme Amidala.
Jar Jar had a strange patois and his antics served as the film's comic relief. Many audiences didn't appreciate a slapstick character like Jar Jar in the ordinarily more staid world of "Star Wars," and he was violently rejected by fans as one of the most irritating things ever.
Summary. The Darth Jar Jar theory suggests Jar Jar Binks is secretly a Sith Lord, due to subtle hints throughout the Star Wars prequel trilogy. The Star Wars Ring Theory draws parallels between Jar Jar and Yoda, in which Jar Jar may be a dark master.
George Lucas once claimed that Jar Jar was his favorite Star Wars character, referring to him as the "key” to the saga in the making-of documentary for Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.
Anakin Skywalker's birth mystery is solved - his mother, Shmi Skywalker, reveals that there was no father and she can't explain what happened. Qui-Gon Jinn believed that the Force itself created Anakin in Shmi's womb, making him the Chosen One who would bring balance to the Force.
Jar Jar Binks gave a passionate speech to the Galactic Senate and persuaded them to vote in favour of giving the Chancellor emergency powers. That gave Palpatine the power to overthrow the Senate and almost wipe out every living Jedi with one move.
