Well, although the Dark Troopers Kyle Katarn fought aren't canon at all, a version of the Dark Trooper is low-key canon. But the Dark Troopers aren't canon, so this can't be them, right? Essentially, it's the kind of thing that makes sense as the boss at the end of a video game level - but makes less sense once you start to really think about it in the Star Wars canon.

Although this seemed fancy in 1995, the Dark Trooper was basically a glorified battle droid that was nearly indestructible.

So, what are they? Well, a good guess is that these are a new retconned version of Dark Troopers, which originated in the 1995 video game Dark Forces. Gideon inspects.the Dark Troopers? Lucasfilm Are Dark Troopers Canon? Who's your favorite new TV character in 2020? Take the Inverse fan-favorites survey! These figures are much larger, and the scene in which they are revealed feels pointed and intentional. After an Imperial Officer tells Moff Gideon that they are successfully tracking Mando's ship, the Razor Crest, Gideon smiles an evil smile and says 'We'll be ready.' Then, he turns and starts to survey what looks like a room full of giant, troopers, clad all in black and seemingly being attended by one of Gideon's scientists.Īre these Death Troopers, like the ones he had in the Mandalorian Season 1 finale? No. Warning! Spoilers ahead for The Mandalorian Season 2.Īlthough The Mandalorian Chapter 12, 'The Siege,' doles out some new clues as to what the Empire was actually doing to Baby Yoda, the episode also ends with a possibly much-bigger reveal. Here's how Moff Gideon's mysterious new secret weapon in The Mandalorian, Chapter 12, 'The Siege,' could retcon a different Imperial secret weapon from the 16-bit generation of Star Wars gaming. But it now seems very possible that his earliest foes, the Imperial Dark Troopers, might be making a comeback on The Mandalorian Season 2. Although he was the Chuck Norris of the Star Wars Expanded Universe, Kyle Katarn is sadly no longer a part of the contemporary Star Wars canon.

As Kyle Katarn in the LucasArts first-person-shooter Dark Forces, fans took their first steps into a larger world by uncovering a secret Imperial program all about developing something called the Dark Trooper. In the nineties, Star Wars gamers stole the Death Star plans.

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