With the release of Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi Episode 2, a series of events went down that
probably sent a slight shock down anyone who has seen Star Wars: Rebels.
The Grand Inquisitor was stabbed by the Third Sister Reva after trying to stop her from
hunting Kenobi…
Obviously if you’ve seen Rebels though, The Grand Inquisitor is alive and well, hunting
down Kanan and Ezra… so how can he have just died?
Well, I’m going to break down some of the very popular theories about this, including
some absolutely crazy ones…
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1.
So the first major option on the table for this is literally that the Grand Inquisitor
is just not dead.
This is the option that is 90% likely to be true and it probably fits the best with the
current Canon.
Him not being dead might just be a way to take him out of the show so that they can
focus on the other storylines, but that might just be a large dose of copium.
The Grand Inquisitor is a member of the Pau’an species from Utapau, and we know from the
Canon Novel Last Shot that they actually have two Stomachs.
This is a nice little way to keep the Grand Inquisitor alive through Canon lore that already
exists, but I doubt they were thinking about this when the show was written.
Other than that you can just look at the countless people who have survived horrific injuries
like Darth Maul, Cad Bane from the Clone Wars unfinished episode and now probably even the
Book of Fett, and you’ll see that it’s very possible to survive something like this.
Fennec Shand herself was even able to survive a direct shot to the stomach, thanks to Boba
Fett c ollecting her and bringing her to a local Mod parlour.
Although the most direct example we have of this type of injury is Qui-Gon getting stabbed
by Darth Maul in the same way, and the result of that was death…
We even then see an extended post-death shot of the Grand Inquisitor lying on the ground,
no longer having his Sith eyes, and certainly not breathing…
This is a way different from what they did with Cobb Vanth or Cad Bane, as in those shots
we had a group calling medics for Vanth and then the flashing light for Bane.
Here there was nothing.
Just a lifeless Pau’an lying on the ground…
So those are definitely some points against this, but either way, let’s move onto the
more fun and darker theories…
And I want to know what you guys think about this scene at all by the way, was it really
necessary?
Let me know below.
1.
The Grand Inquisitor shown in Kenobi is actually a failed or slightly bad clone of the Real
Grand Inquisitor who we see in Star Wars Rebels.
The Evidence people use for this theory is pretty much that the Grand Inquisitor who
dies in Kenobi is not the same one we see in Rebels, so nothing gets broken.
It also says that the reason the Grand Inquisitor in Kenobi looks so different in Kenobi is
because of the difficulty of Cloning a force sensitive being.
Maybe the head got more compressed and the teeth weren’t as wild because it’s just
plain hard to clone force sensitive beings, like Grand Inquisitor…
The main thing pointing away from this theory is that it would be quite the coincidence
for a man of the exact same species, the exact same speaking style, the exact same markings
and the exact same personality to take over the role of the Grand Inquisitor again…
But this problem does sort of go away if the Original donor simply takes the role instead
of his Clone For Star Wars Rebels… the Only reason I say that the one in Rebels isn’t
the Clone, is because he doesn’t really look like any of the other Pau’Ans we’ve
ever seen, including from Revenge of the Sith and the comics…
2.
Now another really interesting point is that in Star Wars: Rebels, the Grand Inquisitor
says there are some things far more frightening than death.
Originally we all thought he was referring to Darth Vader, and the brutal punishment
he might have received for failing him, but if the Grand Inquisitor is just a clone, then
maybe this “worse than death” experience is him being cloned.
Maybe the process is so excruciatingly painful or mentally scarring that he would rather
die in Rebels than go through that process ever again.
3.
All of this would also explain his utter Ruthlessness in Rebels being pretty far from what we see
in the Obi-Wan show.
We know that many darksiders who suffer extreme injury are able to survive through the Dark
Side, but when they come out on the other side they are changed forever.
They are more ruthless, cold and generally filled with hate.
Now with all of this said, I have to go back to a recent issue of the Star Wars 2020 comic
run, where the Grand Inquisitor also kind of came back to the dead there.
On a remote and force rich planet of Tempest, Luke Skywalker discovered a long abandoned
temple and attempts to enter.
Once Luke makes it into the vast chamber, he is greeted by a stash of ancient Jedi artefacts,
holocrons and statues and lots of stuff from the old days of the Jedi.
Luke eventually picks up an old JEdi Temple Guard lightsaber and uses it from that point
on wards, but then something else much more mysterious happens.
A burning apparition of the Grand Inquisitor appears to him and warns him to be careful
what he wishes for…
This is of course set way after the Grand Inquisitor’s original death in Rebels.
Its honestly not really clear whether he’s a Sith Force ghost, which can only be attached
to Objects, or more of a dark side spirit or wraith, but whatever he is, he can clearly
interact with the physical world.
In a way, he’s almost haunting Luke like a ghost who couldn’t quite pass into the
netherworld of the force, because something is keeping his soul in turmoil in the real
world.
After this, Luke even duels the Grand Inquisitor in his fiery, supernatural form and manages
to put up a pretty good fight honestly.
We then see the Grand Inquisitor destroying a nearby holcoron, confirming that whatever
version of him this is, can definitely have significant impact on the world.
Eventually Luke has had enough and cuts the hand off the grand Inquisitor, and nothing
really happens.
The spot where Luke cut simply turns to fire, but the rest of him is completely fine.
Luke then defeats him and he is sent back into whatever real he is now from, but not
for long.
Soon after, Darth Vader arrives on the scene and the Grand Inquisitor appears to be back
into his fiery form, without injury…
This definitely points towards him being a Sith force ghost or some sort of Sith alchemy
keeping his spirit alive.
So if that is the case, maybe Vader was able to revive the Grand Inquisitor using Sith
Alchemy or the Dark side after his death in the Kenobi show, but the second time around
in Rebels, his body was far too damaged.
That would again connect with his line about there being things far worse than death.
The Sith Alchemy process was probably a complete nightmare for him, so he chose to drop off
the ledge in Rebels in order to destroy his body to a point where Vader couldn’t use
it ever again…
Obviously that failed, because he was brought back in that abandoned temple, albeit in a
much less effective form…
Now the final layer to this is a possible essence transfer with the Grand Inquisitor’s
body.
We know that cloning force sensitives is likley too hard, as seen by Palpatine’s son who
wasn’t even force sensitive, so what if he underwent and essence transfer?
That would even start to tie in with the Mandalorian Season 2, given the snoke tanks, the Bad Batch
with Mount Tantiss and pretty much all of Palpatine’s survival plans.
What if Vader saved the Grand Inquisitor by using an essence transfer and then warned
the Grand Inquisitor that if it happens again, he’ll be trapped somewhere much worse, aka
inside of the temple…
That again would match perfectly with the grand inquisitor trying to destroy his own
body and soul in Rebels so that Vader couldn’t do that too him…
Sadly he failed and ended up bound to an inanimate object for eternity inside of that temple…
At this point though, I fully believe that he’s just alive after that stabbing incident
with Reva and it will just be waved away as him getting some medical treatment after the
show.
They probably just wanted to have that scene in there for dramatic impact, regardless of
if it made sense with the rest of the timeline or not…
And from the trailers, it doesn’t look like the GI is coming back at all in the Obi-Wan
show.
He’s certainly not with them on Nur in the few shots we see.
But hey, im excited to see what happens with it.
So let me know in comments what you think is going to happen to the Grand Inquisitor.
Is he a clone in REbels or did he survive.
But either way, those are most of the popular theories about what in Kamino is going on
with the Grand Inquisitor in the Obi-Wan Kenobi show and Star Wars REbels.
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