After the release of the Mandalorian Season 2 trailer, many of us noticed a very familiar
looking helmet and jetpack on the back of Din Djarin’s speeder bike for a brief moment.
Could this actually be the helmet and jetpack of bounty hunter, Boba Fett?
I’m going to breakdown exactly what happened to Boba Fett’s helmet and armor in Canon
after he plunged into the Sarlacc on Tatooine, and why the ones seen in the trailer could
belong to him.
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While watching the Mandalorian Season 2 trailer, many of us were surprised to see a couple
of very familiar pieces of equipment in the scene where Din Djarin is riding his speeder
through the sand.
This scene is incredibly fast, so if you blinked, you could easily have missed it.
During the time of the Clone Wars, the Mandalorians who resided on Mandalore and other worlds
under the control of Mandalore wore Z-6 Jetpacks as part of their Mandalorian tradition.
This same Z-6 Jetpack was also of worn by Jango Fett, Bo-Katan, and of course Boba fett.
A similar shape to this Z-6 design of Jetpack can be seen attached to the back of the Mandalorian’s
speeder in the Mandalorian season 2 trailer, potentially pointing to a possible encounter
with Boba Fett.
You can clearly see two round nozzle shapes on the outer exterior of the jetpack, which
are probably the directional exhaust nozzles seen on every Z-6 jetpack.
After that, you can clearly see the two cylindrical shapes in the middle of the jetpack, which
align perfectly with the standard positioning of the Z-6 fuel tanks.
The most obvious part that points to Boba Fett’s jetpack is the extruding cylinder
in the top-centre of the jetpack, which looks like the usual position where the missile
would go on the pack.
Interestingly, it doesn’t look like there is a missile currently loaded into the pack,
possibly meaning that it has already been fired, maybe in a fight with Din Djarin.
Some people were saying that this object was just part of the speeder bike, but looking
back at the bikes used the last time we were on Tatooine in Season 1 episode 5, there is
nothing similar attached to the back.
This shot is also set on a desert planet which of course could mean the Mando is on Tatooine,
and happens to encounter the long lost bounty hunter.
Following that is the slightly less clear one, which is the helmet.
The quality of the image and speed of shot make it extremely hard to tell exactly what
this object is, but Star Wars theory and others have pointed out that the object hanging on
the side of the speeder bike does have a very similar shape to Boba Fett’s helmet.
As you can see from the image on screen now, the object has a round, helmet-shape, combined
with a small, very hard to see antenna or rangefinder.
This one is a lot more unclear than the other, so we’ll just have to wait and see if it
does turn out to be true.
We pretty much know for sure that Boba Fett will be in the show in some form, because
of the numerous reputable sources, like the Hollywood Reporter that reported Temuera Morrison
being cast as Boba and Captain Rex.
But let me know what you think down below.
Do you think this could be the Mando taking Boba Fett’s armor after a fight with either
Boba himself or Cobb Vanth, who we know took his armor?
Now that leads us into the second theory.
Because we know that Vanth has Boba’s armour after the events of Return of the Jedi, it’s
very possible that instead of fighting Boba, Din Djarin actually fights Cobb Vanth and
takes the armor from him instead.
There were also rumours that Boba Fett would only have a small role in Season 2, but a
much larger one in season three, potentially meaning that after defeating Cobb Vanth, the
Mando could bring the armour to Boba, early in Season 3.
I think this is a really cool idea, but let me know what you think down below.
For those of you who don’t know the story of Cobb Vanth, or how he is related to Boba
Fett’s Story, I'll very quickly break that down.
Cobb Vanth was a former slave on the planet Tatooine who had a deep, star-shaped scar
carved into the skin of his back as a symbol of ownership from his slave-owners.
Sometime before the battle of Endor, Vanth had freed himself from the harsh life of slavery
and became a self-appointed sherrif of a small town on Tatooine, called Freetown.
After the Death of Jabba the Hutt, Vanth encountered a henchman of the Red Key raiders crime syndicate
on Tatooine, who was sent by his leader, Lorgan Movellan to retrieve Boba Fett’s armor from
the jawas who scavenged it it out of the Sarlacc.
As the self-proclaimed lawman of Freetown, Cobb Vanth secretly knew that Adwin Charu
was a member of this criminal syndicate because of his offworld clothing, but kept it quiet
and offered to vouch for him to the Jawas, so that he would be lead directly to Boba
Fett’s armour and be able to take it for himself.
Once inside the Jawa sandcrawler, Cobb Vanth demanded that he take Boba’s armor instead
of Charu.
Charu was obviously not able to allow this to happen because he was under the sickening
threat of being executed by his crime lord boss if he failed to retrieve Fett’s armor.
Because of this, Charu quickly pulled his blaster on Cobb Vanth, but Vanth reacted just
as fast, blasting a hole directly through Charu’s shoulder.
After this, Vanth took Boba’s armour and wore it around Freetown, as he patrolled the
area.
So because of this, I think that the Mando might actually have defeated Cobb Vanth and
been able to take back Boba’s armour from him.
But that is the full theory on the Mandalorian Boba Fett helmet story.
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