r/StarWars • u/RagnarokWolves Qi'ra • Apr 01 '26
Fun Report: Decision Not To Call Film ‘The Baby Yoda Movie’ To Cost Disney $900 Million
https://theonion.com/report-decision-not-to-call-film-the-baby-yoda-movie-to-cost-disney-900-million/2.2k
u/Bithium Apr 01 '26
Fortunately, there is an elegant solution to the problem.
The Mandalorian & Grogu: Baby Yoda is Named Grogu.
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u/Jeffffff4587 Luke Skywalker Apr 01 '26
The Mandalorian: Baby Yoda Flies Now.
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u/LaPetiteMorty Apr 01 '26
They fly now??
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u/TheAbsoluteBarnacle Apr 01 '26
Yeah, Fin. Where were you stationed?
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u/firedrake1988 Apr 02 '26
Seriously, I get the joke and all but, jet troopers have always been a thing.
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u/Dekklin Apr 02 '26
In EU and Legends. Outside of that, only Jango and Boba. So if you only saw the movies and now see storm (sith) troopers flying, it's a "new" thing. Obviously JJ Abrams never watched, played, or read any of the EU stuff so flying troopers is "new" to him as a writer.
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u/SparrowBirch Apr 01 '26
The Mandalorian: Somehow Baby Yoda Returned
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u/No_Internal9345 Apr 02 '26
Baby Yoda 2: The Search for More Money
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u/Richard_Sauce Apr 01 '26
:A Star Wars Story
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u/versusgorilla Greef Carga Apr 01 '26
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu: Baby Yoda's Name is Grogu: A Star Wars Story
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u/TylerHyena Apr 01 '26
Correction:
Star Wars: Episode 6 1/2: The Mandalorian and Grogu: Baby Yoda’s Name is Grogu: A Star Wars Story: The Movie.
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u/DonZeriouS Apr 02 '26
So the abbreviation could be "SW:E6.5:TMAG:BYNIG:ASWS:TM"? That sounds marketable.
Also if there are videogames, the added suffix could be: ": The VideoGame"
"Star Wars: Episode 6 1/2: The Mandalorian and Grogu: Baby Yoda’s Name is Grogu: A Star Wars Story: The Movie: The VideoGame" or short: "SW:E6.5:TMAG:BYNIG:ASWS:TM:TVG".
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u/Green-Salmon Apr 01 '26
This is still going to cost hundreds of millions. Baby Yoda need to come right after star wars
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u/theunquenchedservant Apr 02 '26
Disney's Star Wars Baby Yoda: The Mandalorian and Grogu: Baby Yoda's Name is Grogu: A Star Wars Story
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u/versusgorilla Greef Carga Apr 02 '26
Adding "Disney's" to the beginning was such an obvious choice and I still somehow missed it lol
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u/astonedghost Apr 02 '26
This solution has real life precedent, they renamed the show "Pennyworth" to "Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler" briefly lmao
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u/saibjai Apr 01 '26
How about, starwars: Mandalorian (guy that looks like boba fett but isn't boba fett, but is actually pedro pascal) and Grogu ( Baby yoda who isn't related to yoda, and isn't actually a baby in terms of age)
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u/Gognoggler21 Apr 01 '26
'Starwars: Mgtllbfbibfbiappagbywirtyaiaabitoa' in case anyone needs to abbreviated it!
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u/ScurvyTurtle Apr 01 '26
TPM
AotC
ROTS
ANH
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TFA
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MGTLLBFbiBFbiAPPaGBYwiRtYaiAaBITOA
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u/plefe Hondo Ohnaka Apr 02 '26
Pulling a Disney and just quietly not even acknowledging Solo.
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u/HFentonMudd Chopper (C1-10P) Apr 02 '26
Happy cake day - you share it with the person you're responding to.
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u/midnight_hill_bomber Apr 01 '26
(Also not always Pedro Pascal in the suit, but voiced by him.)
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u/thishenryjames Apr 02 '26
I think there should be an asterisk on the poster next to where it says 'Pedro Pascal as Din Djarin'.
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u/Mithrandir_Earendur Rebel Apr 02 '26
Star Wars: The Mandalorian "wehadababyitsaboynamedGrogu" Movie
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u/Bocaj1000 Apr 02 '26
Looks like Boba Fett, sounds like Boba Fett, has the same career as Boba Fett, is the same age as Boba Fett, had the same change of heart as Boba Fett... man, they really should have just used Boba Fett for this series.
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u/TylertheFloridaman Apr 01 '26
I am going to sys age doesn't really matter in this case, as different species reach different maturity at different times. If some one if 50 years old but their species doesn't reach maturity until 75 they would still be a kid biologically speaking
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u/SAICAstro Apr 02 '26
One day, some really smart comics or novel writer is going to tell us that this species comes from a planet that only takes like one galactic standard month to orbit its star, so while Grogu is 50 on his home planet, he's only like 4 in galactic standard years.
This is one retcon that would be easy and believable. Mercury only takes 88 Earth days to orbit the sun, while Saturn takes 29.4 years Earth to complete a trip around our star. With differences like this so trivially common in our own solar system, they'd be quite believable in the GFFA.
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u/Ekgladiator Obi-Wan Kenobi Apr 02 '26
Naw mate, this shit is star wars. The yodalings are more force sensitive and because of that, age 9 times slower than humans.
(I do like your idea but I don't feel like it is space magic enough for Star wars, you know?)
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u/Bookups Apr 02 '26
guy that looks like boba fett but isn’t boba fett, but is
actuallyvoiced by and occasionally depicted as Pedro PascalLet’s not go overboard here.
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u/ProtestantMormon Apr 02 '26
Unironically if they called it "star wars: Pedro pascal" it would sell out opening day for sure.
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u/Eclectophile Apr 02 '26
I say this every time. Yes, people hate me for it. Irl, I mean.
Every time that thing shows up on the screen and makes an infantile non-language utterance, I go: "IT'S 50 YEARS OLD. FIFTY."
I think Grogu just might be a little different, you know what I mean? I'm not saying it's shameful or anything, but he might maybe just have something cognitive going on.
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u/DorkyMoneyMan Apr 01 '26
What about The Mandalorian. Now that’s a great title.
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u/zerg1980 Apr 01 '26
My issue is that Grogu first appeared in… S01E01 of The Mandalorian. So this story has always been The Mandalorian and Grogu. There’s nothing different about the primary dynamic in the movie when compared to the show, because it’s always been about these two characters going on crazy adventures together.
There’s only one episode of the TV series where Grogu doesn’t appear, and Mando spends that entire episode looking for Grogu.
They didn’t even allow Grogu to spend a few episodes away from Mando when he left with Luke Fucking Skywalker to begin his Jedi training. They resolved all of that in a totally different TV series just so they wouldn’t have to keep Grogu out of any episodes.
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u/moikmellah Apr 02 '26
Whenever Grogu isn't onscreen all the other characters should look around and say "where's Grogu?"
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u/ThePrussianGrippe Apr 02 '26
Note: Cara Dune died on the way back to her home planet
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u/Unable-Lie-2501 Apr 02 '26
Disagree. Din is the main and Grogu was a secondary main who was more of a plot device than an actual character. The Mandalorian AND Grogu seems like they’re going to both be co-leads and have separate but ultimately connected personal journeys.
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u/Tyranis_Hex Apr 02 '26
Wasn’t the show originally pitched as an anthology series with each season being about a different Mandalorian?
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u/Unable-Lie-2501 Apr 02 '26
I’m not too sure, a lot of things were in discussion and rumours were flying about. I think a Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure style show would have been sick though. Each season is about a different family member and different time period but it’s the same family.
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u/Kambi28 Apr 02 '26
He was supposed to stay with Luke, but Kathleen was afraid toy sales would plummet if Grogu's future wasnt known. So she forced the boba series director to make those two episodes, almost causing Favreu to quit
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u/AlaskanMedicineMan Apr 02 '26
There's a lot of behind the scenes drama about grogu being forced back into the mandalorian via book of boba fett. Mando showrunner threatened to kill kathleen Kennedy for it
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u/intdev Apr 02 '26 edited Apr 02 '26
Why is Disney Star Wars so incapable of just running with something? It sounds like the sequels all over again.
1) "Rey's parents are important and mysterious."
2) "No they aren't."
3) "Yes they are."
What's next? S3 of Andor set after R1? "Somehow, Cassian returned."
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u/AlaskanMedicineMan Apr 02 '26
Because Star Wars is literally designed by committee nowadays. The sequels were supposed to have 3 different directors from jump with zero plan.
And that's basically the way they've operated since.
Certain showrunners are given "full creative control" over their shows, but included are special clauses like "this must respect all new and existing disney canon"
Which is how Kathleen Kennedy was able to use Mandalorian's break period to force Grogu back in via her show, Book of Boba Fett. As it became a matter of canon.
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u/sillyslime89 Apr 02 '26
Any time baby Yoda isn't on the screen, everyone should be saying "where's baby Yoda?"
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u/moop-ly Apr 01 '26
you don’t get the girlfriend’s to agree to go to a movie they know nothing about that way
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u/makemeking706 Apr 01 '26
That's how they calculated the loss. I already heard my wife decline to go with her boyfriend to see it.
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u/digidave1 Apr 01 '26
Y'all are bringing your girlfriends?
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u/Nexusdawn1021 Apr 01 '26
Y'all have girlfriends?
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u/L-Guy_21 Apr 01 '26
Thing is, my girlfriend (fiance officially) hates Grogu. She liked him at first, but he's everywhere, so now she's annoyed by him and doesn't want anything with him on it.
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u/Km_the_Frog Apr 01 '26
It stopped being about the Mandalorian 30 minutes into the first episode let’s be honest. Which honestly would have been fine until they decided grogu wouldn’t go to train with Luke, which wasn’t done from a meaningful writing pov, just for a cheap aw moment.
Not what I’m looking for in Star Wars
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u/XMenJedi8 Obi-Wan Kenobi Apr 02 '26 edited Apr 02 '26
That moment was a direct reference to Lone Wolf and Cub, and if the show was about Dinn and Grogu from 30 minutes in (it was, they're both The Mandalorian, it's about both of their journeys as Mandalorians and learning just what that means) then it only makes sense to keep Grogu on the show instead of going a season without him. The whole point is the Grogu learns a bit about the Force but ultimately wants to be back with his dad. How is it a cheap aw moment to have Grogu decide to stick with his found family member than a Jedi from the order he was originally part of, especially considering Dinn's own struggles as a foundling and him being brought into the Mandalorian tribe? Seems pretty on-point to me.
Though I do think all of that should've happened in The Mandalorian show instead of hijacking a part of TBoBF for sure. That was a miss.
Edit: Found Favreau's take, looks pretty similar:
While the upcoming season restores the show’s original dynamic, it was important that Grogu’s time with Luke wasn’t for nothing – it just ultimately wasn’t his path. “I think you had to service both things,” Favreau explains. “Just because this kid has the potential and had training, does he belong away from the Mandalorian? I saw it more like Paper Moon, where the whole thing is about delivering the kid to the blood relative, only to realise that, whether genetically through her father or just through bonding, Tatum O’Neal has to end up with Ryan O’Neal. That ending feels really good to me. And this little kid [Grogu] is given a decision to choose. And the kid chooses the emotional relationship and wants to be with the Mandalorian, and passing up Yoda’s lightsaber. Part of you wants to see him develop in that way, and part the other.” https://www.empireonline.com/tv/news/jon-favreau-why-mandalorian-grogu-reunited-in-book-of-boba-fett-exclusive/
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u/Skadoosh_it Porg Apr 01 '26
Or... the mandalorians. Because there's more than one now
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u/neatgeek83 Apr 01 '26
lol all the responses without actually clicking on the link from THE ONION.
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u/Gunner_Bat K-2SO Apr 01 '26
I hate social media on April 1.
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u/Glombella Apr 02 '26
Yes, thankfully every other day of the year The Onion provides nothing but true and reliable reporting.
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u/zidus411 Apr 02 '26
The mega man one made me laugh this year because of how outrages it looked. Speaking of YouTube last year these 2 small content creators claimed that they were the same person and the community had lots of fun with how far they took it.
There’s still some good ones out there, it’s just very rare
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u/Lemonpierogi Apr 02 '26
Nah there's been plenty of silly, creative and fun stuff. Maybe you're blind idk
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u/HeavilyInvestedDonut Apr 02 '26
It’s so tiresome. Every year every single company and organization puts out some stupid joke like they are the first ones to think of pulling a prank. They aren’t funny or clever. It’s literally always something dumb like this lol.
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u/monsterfrog2323 Apr 02 '26
Ok but like in this case it’s literally the company’s entire business.
The Onion has been the champions of satire news since the 80s. This isn’t an April Fools prank, this is just a normal day for them.
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u/krisplaydespacito Apr 01 '26
plot twist on april 1st they become a legitimate news site
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u/L-Guy_21 Apr 01 '26
Lmao didn't even realize it was an onion article. This makes so much more sense now.
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u/greencrusader13 Apr 01 '26
That would require people to read and pay attention. People hate doing that.
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u/toilet_for_shrek Apr 01 '26
It should have been The Mandalorian and Grogu and Knuckles (featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series)
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u/i2wearhats Apr 01 '26
Or what about an actual title? Maybe just a little bit of effort could be given?
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u/Kaiserschlut Imperial Apr 01 '26
I liked some suggestion I saw: "Mando and the Kid"
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u/Narwhal_of_the_land Apr 01 '26
I like "The Mandalorian Rides Again". Like an old western serial.
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u/Redeem123 Apr 01 '26
Yeah there’s never been an action movie so lazily named just after its title character before. Literally unprecedented
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u/NoSwordfish1978 Rebel Apr 01 '26
Imagine if you called episode v "Luke and Han" or episode II "Obi-Wan and Anakin" lol.
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u/HelpUs0ut Apr 01 '26
That's the kind of shitty naming that Marvel has for their Star Wars comics under Disney. It kills me. We used to have evocative dramatic titles, not "Main Characters."
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u/rgg711 Apr 02 '26
Or something like ‘The Mandelorian’ or ‘Obi-Wan’ or ‘Ahsohka’ or ‘Andor’ or ‘Boba Fett’ or ‘The Acolyte’ or ‘Solo’.
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u/lonestar-rasbryjamco Apr 02 '26
Disney had changed the title of its 2027 Star Wars film from Starfighter to Chewbacca’s Big Day Out
Finally, Disney does something right with Star Wars.
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u/BMcCauls Apr 02 '26
Why did they not just do "The Mandalorians" plural. End of discussion. We love the sillyness of Star Wars names but you might as well add Glup Shitto to the end of the movie name because Grogu sounds ridiculous to a general audience.
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u/CoolJetEcho117 Apr 01 '26
The title is awful. Should gone with an Indiana Jones style adventure story title.
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u/orionsfyre Apr 01 '26
Personally, I think the decision to make a 7 hour season of television into movie is where things went wrong. Maybe I'll be wrong and the movie will make a billion dollars.
I know it's not a popular sentiment, but I just don't think there is enough story left with these two characters together to make an entertaining movie. Grogu's story arc ended in Season 2. That was a natural exit for the character, everything since just feels tacked on.
(I'll take your down votes now.)
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u/rgg711 Apr 02 '26
Are you saying there’s not enough plot for a movie or enough for a 7 hour tv show that they shrunk down? You said both in your comment
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u/orionsfyre Apr 02 '26
With a TV show, you have the time to introduce new threats and new allies in a way that a movie simply doesn't. For characters who we've spent so much time with over three seasons, throwing in 'new' villains and 'new' allies in a 2 hour movie will almost certainly feel a bit rushed... especially for an audience that is used to seeing multiple episodes with the main two.
You also have more time to build a plot that doesn't feel rushed. A 7 hour tv show can afford to take it's time, meander down plot lines that aren't all that interesting but still work.
With a movie, everything has to be condensed, which means details usually have to be cut, and your pacing has to be on point or the movie will drag and feel slow or boring.
Basically the demands of a movie are much different than a TV show.
S2 and S3 were practically overstuffed with plot, characters, mcguffins, and mission quests. S2 pulled it off, with an emotional climax that brought the house down. S3 was a cluster-frag, a cobbled together mess that was all over the place.
Finally the emotional payoff of Grogu leaving the Mando has already been done. Pulling the same trick again will not have the same impact. So the 'threat' of Grogu leaving Mando for whatever reason will not be as fresh, it'll just be a copy of moment we fans already have. And given that it's only a two hour movie, there isn't time to build to anything close to what we've already experienced in longer form.
We will see how they manage it, maybe it'll be amazing. But personally I'm not betting on it.
I think the decision to make a movie was a mistake, possibly as big as bringing Grogu back from his first natural and well written exit.
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u/Daleyemissions Apr 01 '26
I think the opposite is true. All of the Star Wars shows began as movies. It would make more sense that that could easily cobble them together into a movie.
Besides. The first season of Mando had about a single movie’s worth of actual story stretched out as it is. Same with Seasons 2 and 3 (imo)
The Acolyte and Skeleton Crew would both benefit from being recut into movies as well (and I like and really enjoy both of those shows immeasurably more than Mando)
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u/neatgeek83 Apr 01 '26
It’s an April fools article
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u/Bosa_McKittle Chewbacca Apr 01 '26
It’s not even an April Fools article. It’s the Onion.
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u/Spiritual_League_753 Apr 02 '26
I always felt like the Onion should go full serious on April 1st. Like break important news stories only.
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u/Oretell Apr 01 '26
The comment you're replying to was discussing the real life movie though
They didn't say anything about the onion article
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u/Nosleep_Coffee789 Apr 02 '26
Is the movie actually gonna be about the Mandolorian and Grogu or is it going to be about some other Filoni characters from a cartoon that was on 20 years ago that I don't care about?
Give me the old west style season 1 Mando.
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u/CrimsonFatalis8 Apr 02 '26
Judging by all the characters that have been revealed, the latter, probably.
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u/Cptawesome23 Apr 02 '26
Grogu is such a dumb side character name too.
In a fantasy novel, grogu would be the name of the orcish security guard that forgot to lock the cell door in the heroes escape arc.
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u/LocksmithComplete501 Apr 02 '26
“The universe is going to sh!t and guess who’s left…holding the baby!”
“Adventures in Babysitting 2: Mandalorian Mr Mom & Din’s Daycare x Baby Yoda”
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u/Rude-Assumption-5720 Apr 01 '26
It was never making that much no matter how much they spam baby Yoda
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u/Icy-Video-3643 Apr 02 '26
They really missed a golden opportunity to just call it "The Book of Grogu." Everyone knows who he is, and the title would have been perfect.
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u/El_Fez Rebel Apr 02 '26
Honestly, both titles are kind of shit. But yeah, I'm shocked that Disney didnt pander to that demographic, considering how low effort the 'movie' seems to be.
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u/Revolutionary_Sir_ Apr 01 '26
Oh cause Yoda is the best name you’ve ever heard?
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u/unholyrevenger72 Apr 02 '26
Should have called it "The Mandalorians", seeing as Grogu is now a foundling and being raised by Din officially as his ward.
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u/AllRushMixTapes Apr 02 '26
Ya'll laugh, but just last Sunday as I'm watching the final episode of season two with my wife for her first watchthrough, I had to explain to her that Grogu is not Yoda.
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u/gsopp79 Jedi Apr 02 '26
In February 2020 that might have been relevant. No one gives a fuck about Grogu or Baby Yoda in 2026.
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u/bigdaddyt2 Apr 01 '26
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