Din Djarin, The Mandalorian's titular bounty hunter, has had a wild ride since he crossed
paths with the Child, also known as Grogu.
Luckily, Djarin has a variety of weapons to protect himself and his little companion.
Let's take a look at some of Djarin's gear but be warned, spoilers are ahead.
Mandalorian helmets have long been associated with the Star Wars creed, and Djarin's helmet
is no exception.
Just like with any other Mandalorian helmet, Djarin's features a T-shaped visor and entirely
conceals his face.
Also, Djarin's tribe follows the Way of the Mandalore, a religion where members are not
allowed to remove their helmets in public.
If they do, they can never put them back on again.
"Why," you ask?
"This is the way."
Djarin has been seen without his helmet in public only twice so far; in "Chapter 8: Redemption,"
because he was badly injured and needed a droid to tend his wounds, and in "Chapter
15: The Believer", to bypass an Imperial security scan.
Mando's helmet also comes with a variety of features, such as tracking heat signatures,
long-range audio, and detecting recent footsteps left on the ground.
These perks are especially useful when Djarin needs to locate nearby individuals, whether
they be enemies or those in need of assistance.
Djarin's Mandalorian armor not only looks cool, but it is also extremely durable.
It's made out of a powerful metal alloy called beskar, which is known to withstand blaster
fire and even the might of a lightsaber.
Since Djarin's armor is badly damaged in the show's sophomore episode, he brings a large
payment of beskar to his tribe's Armorer, who uses it to craft a new cuirass.
Instead of having a red-and-gray color scheme in the vein of his previous armor, this shiny
new armor is metallic silver, just like his helmet.
In "Redemption," the Armorer announces the formation of Djarin's clan, Clan Mudhorn,
which is made up of himself and the Child.
To coincide with this formation, the Armorer inscribes the skull of the mudhorn on his
right pauldron as his signet.
Djarin's dual flamethrowers have come in handy time and time again.
For instance, in "Chapter 3: The Sin," Djarin uses a flamethrower to torch an attacking
stormtrooper.
He's even been known to bring the heat when words fail him.
"You understand this?"
"Whoa, easy."
Like any weapon in Star Wars, however, flamethrowers have their limits.
After Djarin is surrounded by bounty hunters who all want the Child, he uses a flamethrower
to drive them away, but it runs out of juice when he needs it most.
While Boba Fett first used a variation of this weapon in the animated segment from the
infamous Star Wars Holiday Special, the Amban phase-pulse blaster in The Mandalorian seems
to be much more powerful.
Throughout the course of the series, Djarin uses this sniper rifle to either incapacitate
or disintegrate anyone who stands in his path.
These enemies can be as big as a Trandoshan or as small as a Jawa, both of whom were killed
in the same episode.
Djarin also uses the blaster to tase a wide variety of intergalactic enemies and creatures,
such as stormtroopers and even a krayt dragon.
When Djarin returns to the Mandalorian hideout with his beskar payment, the Armorer uses
the excess material to build him a special weapon: whistling birds.
These small guided munitions are placed in his left vambrace.
When deployed, the projectiles fly through the air while making a whistling sound before
striking their targets and detonating a small explosive.
The Armorer tells Djarin that these projectiles are rare, so he saves them for desperate moments.
Star Wars fans have often associated jetpacks with Mandalorian culture, yet Djarin didn't
receive his own until the final episode of season 1.
In "Redemption," the Armorer asks Mando if he has ever trained in the "Rising Phoenix,"
to which he promptly responds that he did when was a boy.
The Armorer then gives Mando a jetpack and sends him on his way to reunite the Child
with its own kind.
The jetpack comes in handy later in the episode when Djarin uses it to attack a TIE fighter
that's piloted by Moff Gideon.
Djarin also uses the jetpack in the subsequent episode when he flies out of the belly of
an angry krayt dragon.
However, despite all of its advantages in warfare, the best part about the jetpack is
watching the Child's ears flop around when Mando takes him for a ride.
Flash charges aren't exactly commonplace in the Star Wars universe, but for Djarin, they
are especially useful in "Chapter 5: The Gunslinger."
This episode sees Mando working with aspiring bounty hunter Toro Calican to capture a wanted
assassin named Fennec Shand.
They soon discover that Shand is using a faraway ridge as a makeshift sniper nest.
After nightfall, Djarin and Calican use flash charges to blind Shand so they can apprehend
her.
Before long, Calican decides to betray Mando.
Djarin blinds Calican with a flash charge and takes him out.
It's not a big loss for the galaxy, though.
In fact, Motto could probably sum up Calican in two words.
"Womp rat."
Djarin's whipcord has helped him get out of many deadly situations.
In "Chapter 6: The Prisoner," for example, Djarin takes on several New Republic security
droids.
Throughout the fight, Mando uses the grappling hook to behead one droid and uses it again
to bring another one closer to a droid that's being incinerated.
Djarin later finds himself locked in a jail cell.
Luckily, he escapes after he uses his whipcord to tether a security droid near his cell door.
He then rips off one of its arms, which he uses to open the lock.
Grenades are probably one of the most important weapons for Djarin.
In fact, we've seen him reach for them in wildly different circumstances.
One instance where they were especially useful happens in "Chapter 11: The Heiress" when
Djarin, Bo-Katan Kryze, and two other Mandalorians infiltrate an Imperial cruiser transporting
valuable weapons.
After flying to the ship, the four warriors try to take the ship's bridge but end up encountering
a squad of stormtroopers armed with heavy repeating blasters, all while the captain
is attempting to crash the ship at the behest of Moff Gideon.
Djarin quickly devises a plan to get himself and the others to the bridge.
He asks the three Mandalorians to cover him as he charges toward the remaining stormtroopers.
After getting close enough, Djarin throws two grenades at the enemies, blowing them
up, and creating a path to victory.
When speaking of self-preservation, a wise man once said…
"Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side."
Even though Djarin knows next to nothing about the so-called "hokey religion," he almost
always has a blaster at his side.
As he demonstrates many times throughout the show, Djarin is very proficient with his blaster
pistol.
In fact, the initial fight scene that kicks off the entire series features Mando using
his pistol to shoot the control panel of a door, which then slices a Quarren trawler
in half.
And that's just the first of many memorable scenes of Djarin relying on his pistol to
save the day and the Child.
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