The Book of Boba Fett Reframes Some of Star Wars’ Oldest Villains

The Book of Boba Fett Reframes Some of Star Wars’ Oldest Villains

These Star Wars creatures are typically known as killers and pillagers, but The Book of Boba Fett helps rewrite their story.

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The Book of Boba Fett Reframes Some of Star Wars’ Oldest Villains

Warning: The following contains spoilers from Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett “Chapter 2: Tribes of Tatooine,” streaming now on Disney+.

The Book of Boba Fett’s first episode primarily focused on flashbacks. It showed how the famed Bounty hunter escaped the Sarlacc Pit, lost his armor and joined a tribe of Tuskens by killing a terrifying predator. But Episode 2 took things a step further by featuring how the Tuskens continued to accept and integrate Boba Fett into their society.

Living with the Tusken Raiders Boba is an obvious way to show how Boba has left his bounty hunting behind. However, there’s more to it than that. The fact that Boba can live amicable with their tribe and build a life within their culture is a departure from most of the established lore in Star Wars. Almost every description of the Tuskens describes them as savage and less than human, but The Book of Boba Fett has just expanded on a new theme that has started to humanize the Sand People.

The Book of Boba Fett Reframes Some of Star Wars’ Oldest Villains

Darth Vader and the Empire were obviously the major antagonists in Star Wars: A New Hope, but they weren’t the only ones to oppose our heroes. In fact, Luke’s first confrontation came before he ever left Tatooine. While he was out looking for R2-D2, a group of Sand People attacked him, and that attack set a dark precedent for the Sand People. Novels like Kenobi and any indirect characterization in the Original Trilogy films would go on to paint the Tuskens as mindless killers.

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And when the Prequel trilogy Returned to Tatooine in Attack of the Clones, it continued that theme. A group of Tuskens had captured and tortured Anakin’s mother Shmi Skywalker, an incident was arguably when Anakin officially started down his Dark Side path. He called the Tuskens “animals” because that was the prevalent description for them, both in-universe and out of universe.

Fortunately, The Mandalorian took a new tone with the Tuskens. Din Djarin showed how he could reason with them when he arranged for safe passage across their lands. His interactions turned a new page and showed how the Tuskens weren’t just mindless murderers — they were simply trying to live a life that was different from everyone else.

What The Book of Boba Fett has done with its first two episodes has served as a way to further humanize the Tuskens by exploring their culture. For starters, this group of Tuskens didn’t kill Boba; they took him as a prisoner. Then, with his actions, he was able to gain their good graces and earn his keep as part of their tribe. Since then, the Tuskens have taught him their rituals, how to make their weapons and even a warriors’ celebration dance. And even with all of that, Boba’s interactions weren’t trying to change canon; they were adding to it. In a conversation with Boba, the Tusken Chief admitted that many of the Tusken tribes had resorted to killing as a way to protect their land. The Chief was embarrassed for all the killing but also knew that he couldn’t stop it, so his tribe tried to stay hidden.

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Contrary to most Star Wars characters, Boba has been empathetic. Like Din Djarin, he understood that the Tuskens had an ancestral claim to their land and that everyone else was encroaching upon their rights. Of course, not all Tuskens were amicable, but many of them were simply trying to protect and provide for their own. The bottom line was that most of the residents of Tatooine were afraid of the Tuskens because they lived a different kind of life from everyone else. In a lot of people’s minds that meant that they were less than human, but, as Star Wars has shown numerous times, different doesn’t necessarily mean bad.

To see more of the Tusken Raiders, watch The Book of Boba Fett. New episodes are available on Disney+ every Wednesday.

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