With massive rumours about Temuera Morrison returning to play Boba Fett in the Mandalorian
Season 2, many of us are wondering how exactly will Boba Fett escape the Sarlacc Pit in Canon.
In Legends, we get a very detailed description of Boba Fett’s Escape from the Sarlacc pit,
so I thought it would be fun to speculate how it may happen in Canon, based on the current
information we have from Canon sources.
I’m going to break down exactly how Boba Fett Escaped the Sarlacc Pit in Legends, and
the major clue to how he may do it in Canon.
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In Episode 5 of Season 1 of the Mandalorian, we were given a huge teaser at a potential
return for Boba Fett to the series.
As a mysterious figure walks across the desert dunes of Tatooine, we hear the very familiar
Spurs and radio buzz or beeping sounds of Boba Fett’s armour from Empire Strikes back.
There is still huge debate over whether or not this really is Boba, but for Dave Filloni,
to place these sounds in the shot, it was more than likely deliberate.
So if this is in fact Boba Fett, how did he escape from the Sarlacc pit?
In Legends, Fett was able to fiercely fight his way out of the belly of the beast using
the remaining weapons and equipment that he had left on him.
After escaping the Sarlacc, Fett was found by a group of Jawas, who believed that he
was either a droid or cyborg.
Because they believed that Boba Fett was an unintelligent being, they claimed him as their
own property, but never bothered to scan him.
They transported the injured Boba into their Sandcrawler and placed a restraining bolt
on him, leaving him in isolation.
Following that, Fett was greeted by a familiar face in his isolation, when the Jawas that
captured him stole R2-D2 from a hangar bay in Mos Eisley.
R2 immediately recognized Boba, but was unable to analyze him before Han Solo and Leia burst
onto the scene, attacking the sandcrawler in an attempt to rescue R2.
At this point, Boba awoke for the first time since being freed from the Sarlacc pit, just
in time to see Solo enter the Sandrcawler and attempt to rescue R2-D2.
Unfortunately for Boba, the moving Sandcrawler was now on a collision course with the Sarlacc
Pit once again because of the damage caused by Han while freeing R2.
Honestly, How unlucky is Boba...
He escaped the pit once, but is not on course to fall straight back in.
The Jawas are unable to fix the course of their runaway Sandcrawler as they had just
been attacked by Tusken Raiders, moments earlier.
Once Han Solo had realised that Boba Fett survived the fall, he was incredibly shocked.
Boba on the other hand was unable to recognize R2 or Han because he had temporarily lost
his memory during his time in the pit.
Han then attempted to rescue the severely injured Boba because he did not believe it
was right to leave a helpless man to die.
This really demonstrated just how much Han had changed from A New Hope.
Only moments later, Boba regained his lost memory, causing him to fire on the unarmed
Han Solo, forcing him to jump to safety into the sand below.
This left Boba stuck on the Sandcrawler which was barrelling straight back towards the pit
he just escaped from.
The sandcrawler then plummeted back into the mouth of the Sarlacc, trapping Boba Fett once
more.
After falling back down into the pit, he discovered someone else who had taken the same fall as
he did, a member of the Choi species known as Susejo.
This being however was not normal in any way, and had in fact had his consciousness merged
with that of the Sarlacc.
He was able to use his mind to control the actions of the beast.
Boba was able to make use of this being’s skills to escape the Sarlacc for the second
time, but the incredibly acidic stomach juices of the monster left him on the verge of death,
on the surface of Tatooine.
Luckily for him however, his former colleague, Dengar, was searching for valuables left by
the explosion created by Boba’s escape.
Dengar was able to take him into his care and nurse him back to the strong warrior that
he once was.
So that is the story of how Boba Fett escaped from the Sarlacc pit in legends, but the question
now is, how will they depict it in Canon?
The only current Canon information that we have about the potential survival of Boba
Fett comes from the Aftermath novels, which you can listen to down below for FREE with
Audible, through the link in the description and pinned comment down below!
Make sure you do read that trilogy of books if you get the chance, it is well worth your
time.
Roughly three months after Boba Fett’s fall into the Sarlacc pit in Canon, a self-appointed
sheriff on the Planet Tatooine named Cobb Vanth was shopping around for ruins and salvage
from the explosion of Jabba the Hutt’s Sail Barge, which we saw in Return of the Jedi.
Alongside the pile of junk and unrepairable remains from the incident, Vanth came across
a set of Green and Red Mandalorian armour.
This armour was extremely damaged and degraded from both blaster shots and the acid of the
Sarlacc beast.
This armour is widely believed to be Boba’s Beskar Armour.
The man who was selling the ruined armour got into a fight with Vanth, who eventually
came out on top, claiming the Beskar armour for himself and banishing the shop owner from
Tatooine.
Soon after the confrontation, members of the same Red Key mining company as the shop owner,
transformed themselves into a group known as the Red Key raiders, who travelled the
surface of Tatooine, looking for victims to rob and kill.
The group eventually came across the beastmaster of the Rancor in Jabba’s palace, Malakili,
from Return of the Jedi, who they were about to rob.
Because of his guilt and anger for the death of his beloved Rancor, he was wandering the
desert of Tatootine without purpose, where the raiders eventually found him.
They were only seconds away from killing Malakili before Cobb Vanth, the man who now wore the
Green Mandalorian armour, arrived to protect him.
So At this point there are a few options for Boba’s return.
The Aftermath novel mentions that the Sarlacc beast was injured by the explosion of Jabba’s
sail barge, allowing the Jawas to have easy access to anything inside.
They found multiple sets of armour with only skeletons inside, so maybe it’s possible
that Boba Did actually die and that they pulled his armour from his skeleton.
This would mean that instead of Boba Fett appearing in the Mandalorian, it would be
Cobb Vanth, but I think that’s very unlikely with how popular Boba Fett is among fans.
Another possibility is that Cobb Vanth is Boba Fett himself.
This would make sense based on contextual clues, including his role as an almost sheriff
of Tatooine, who would go around patrolling the desert.
This definitely fits with Boba’s personality, although Cobb Vanth had a mission to do good
for the people of Tatooine, which definitely doesn’t fit Boba.
Vanth was also extremely eager to fight for and to retrieve the Green Mandalorian armour,
making it possible that he fought so hard because he knew that the armour belonged to
him.
On top of this, Vanth is extremely accurate with his blaster, very similarly to Boba Fett,
but of course anyone can get good with a blaster with enough practice… except stormtroopers.
Vanth also says he has a Star Shaped slave mark on his back, but he hints that he was
not actually a slave, but instead that the markings carry a significantly different meaning.
He could potentially be referring to his ship, Slave 1.
The third, and probably most likely option is that we will get a completely new explanation
for his survival in the Mandalorian Season 2, and that he will become one of the main
antagonists for the show later on.
On the other hand, Dave Filloni has shown that he is very willing to pull good stories
from Legends and bring them back into the Canon, so hopefully he retains some similarities
to the Legends escape story.
So let me know down below which option you would like to see, out of either 1.
He does not survive the fall, 2.
He survives and takes the identity of Cobb Vanth, or three 3.
We get a new survival story all together.
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