5 years after its premiere,The Mandalorianhas built itself quite a legacy inStar Wars, but even the franchise’s first live-action TV show installment isn’t exempt from nonsensical story elements. Only marketing its lone bounty hunting protagonist, later revealed asDin Djarin (Pedro Pascal), and a lawless galaxy, just about everything inThe Mandalorianseason 1 was a huge surprise - including the existence of Grogu, known at the time as “Baby Yoda” and “the Child.” This mystery surrounding the series unfolded more and more with each new episode, but not every mystery had an answer.
In fact, it seems that some of these story elements were never meant to be mysteries at all, and still have yet to be properly explained half a decade later. As important and well-crafted as this season is, it does still have its moments, as many otherStar Warsmovies and TV showsalso do. From the secrets surrounding its characters to lore that wasn’t quite ready to be developed, here are 10 things fromThe Mandalorianseason 1 that still make no sense, even 5 years later.
10Why Does Din Djarin Have To Wait Until The End To Get A Jetpack?
Part of what quickly made Din Djarin an iconic character right off the bat was his silhouette, which was indicated by not only his helmet, but also his signature weapon: an Amban phase-pulse blaster rifle. This large rifle, inspired by Boba Fett’s weapon in the infamousThe Star Wars Holiday Special, remained strapped in place across the bounty hunter’s back, with its metal prongs facing towards the ground. Because of this, Din Djarin had no room for a jetpack, and so he didn’t carry one - at least, not until he was finally gifted one in the season 1 finale.
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Unfortunately, in terms of the story, this decision doesn’t make as much sense as it does behind-the-scenes. When the Armorer asks Din if he’s trained in the Rising Phoenix, the Mandalorian answers by saying he had when he was “a boy,” and it’s then that the Armorer gifts him a jetpack. The timing of this decision makes no sense, especially when Din expresses his desire to have a jetpack of his own as early as episode 3.There’s no logical reason why Din Djarin isn’t able to have his jetpack earlier, aside from creating his silhouette.
9The New Republic Prison’s Doors Can Be Unlocked From The Inside
That’s Not A Very Effective Construction Design!
Din Djarin finds himself at a bad dead-end when he works with his old mercenary gang and is betrayed by them. Locked inside a cell on aNew Republicprison ship, Din has to fear not only for his own fate, but also for that of the child who’s still on board his ship, which the mercenaries are ready to take far, far away. Ever the strategist, however, Din’s quickly able to form a plan to get himself out, using his unique Mandalorian weapons to do so. While he ultimately escapes, there’s one giant roadblock in the logic behind it.
After tearing off one of the security droid’s arms, Din’s able to unlock his cell from the inside. The only possible counterargument for this is that these internal locks are included as a way for anyone on the New Republic crew to let themselves out if they accidentally get trapped inside, but even then, there’s still a major problem. These locks can very likely be picked, and that meansany prisoner can somehow find a way to get the lock undone from the inside. It would make more sense if Din unlocked it from the outside somehow.
8Why Can Only One Mandalorian Go To The Surface At A Time?
And How Do They Hide Their Numbers With Unique Armor?
It’s established early on inThe Mandalorianseason 1 that Mandalorians are rare in this era due to theGreat Purge, a devastating event that saw Mandalore bombed beyond recognition by the Empire. Despite not being on Mandalore at the time, as they were instead stuck in exile on the moonConcordia, Din Djarin’s people - the Children of the Watch - continue to live in hiding. To do this, they dwell within secret tunnels underneath the planetNevarro’s surface, and Paz Vizsla reveals that they only go above ground one at a time to conceal their numbers.
In practice, however, this statement makes no sense. Even if they do go above ground one at a time,none of them have identical armor, and thus the people of the town would know that each Mandalorian was different. Not only that, but it’s also oddly vague about how exactly this entire principle operates. Does it mean that only one of them can be above ground total at a time, or just that they can only venture to the surface alone? If it’s the former, then Din Djarin’s bounty hunting career would keep everyone else underground for good.
7The New Republic Blows Up A Space Station… Without Knowing Why
They Don’t Check To See What’s Actually Happened
To exact his revenge on those who stabbed him in the back on the prison ship, Din Djarin acquires the activated homing beacon from the fallen Lieutenant Davan and manages to sneak it onto the prisoner’s belt before he and Grogu take off from Ranzar Malk’s space station, theRoost. With the homing beacon now transmitting from this space station, a team of three X-wing pilots arrives just as Din Djarin leaves, and they find the source of the signal. That’s all it takes for them to start firing on the space station without any prior communication to its inhabitants.
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This sounds like a very illogical approach to answering a homing beacon’s signal. For example, if this beacon were still transmitting from the prison ship, would these X-wing pilots have just blown up the ship with Lieutenant Davan still inside? The lack of communication here is staggering;for all these pilots knew, this could be a faulty signal, and everyone inside that space station could have been innocent. Of course, the audience knows they aren’t, especially with Qin being moments from pursuing Din with the intent of killing him - but that doesn’t excuse these pilots' actions.
6How Does The Armorer Not Know If Her Mandalorians Survived?
She Was There The Entire Time
It’s a tragic moment inThe Mandalorianseason 1 finale when Din Djarin and his crew finally arrive at the tunnels of his covert, just to find a pile of damaged Mandalorian armor sitting there instead.The Armorerappears not long after, explaining to him that the covert had been swept through by Imperials shortly after they helped Din escape the planet with Grogu. Din asks her if any of them survived, and the Armorer responds with “I hope so.” This isn’t a very promising answer, especially with all the damaged armor still left there - and it doesn’t make sense.
The Armorer was clearly there when it happened, and she had even remained there after to properly re-purpose the damaged armor, so how would she not know for certain if there were more survivors? It could be that she’s only speaking of those who escaped, as her decision to stay behind wouldn’t have allowed her to note who actually made it onto a ship offworld and who didn’t, butshe would otherwise have a firm idea about whether most of her people survived or not. It’s also a wonder how she even survived herself, considering how much armor was left.
5Din Djarin & His Crew Never Confirm Moff Gideon’s Death
They Should Have Known Better Than To Assume
It’s a victorious moment when Din Djarin manages to take down Moff Gideon’s TIE fighter inThe Mandalorianseason 1 finale, especially since he uses his brand-new jetpack to do so. By setting a charge on the wing of the TIE fighter, Din sends the vessel crashing to the surface, where it lands in a large spray of dark dirt. There’s no explosion afterward, yet Din and his crew seem satisfied enough to insist that the Moff had met his demise, because they don’t go check the wreckage. If they had, then they would have discovered that Gideon had survived.
It simply doesn’t make sense that a Mandalorian warrior and a former Rebel shocktrooper wouldn’t have immediately gone to confirm the kill before assuming they were safe, especially from someone as threatening, influential, and conniving as Moff Gideon. Din Djarin especially has a personal vendetta against Gideon for the destruction of his people and their homeworld, and for nearly killing him just hours before.Without a proper explosion even resulting from the TIE fighter’s crash, the group definitely should have gone to confirm the kill, rather than assuming he was dead.
4Why Do The Niktos Have Grogu On Arvala-7 In The First Place?
Who Are They Working For?
It’s the Ugnaught Kuiil who guides Din Djarin to the camp where Grogu’s being held. The stronghold’s being defended by Niktos, and although there’s quite a force of them there, there’s no explanation for who they are, or why they have Grogu. It looks as if they’ve simply been tasked with protecting the child, though even then, when Din and IG-11 find Grogu inside the safehouse, his pram is hidden under a stray net.It’s almost as if the Niktos have no idea how valuable Grogu actually is, which only makes all of this even more confusing.
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Clearly, the Niktos aren’t protecting Grogu on behalf of theImperial Remnant, as it’s them who are actively hiring bounty hunters to find the child. It would also make little sense for the New Republic to have Grogu being held here under mercenaries' protection rather than bringing him somewhere safer and more suitable for a Force-sensitive child like himself. Who, then, is actually behind Grogu’s placement at the Nikto encampment? This is a question that may never get answered, but as it stands, it makes no sense as to why Grogu would be there.
3Nothing About Din Djarin’s Name Makes Sense
How Do Names Work In The Children Of The Watch?
Din Djarin’s nameis spoken for the first time inThe Mandalorianseason 1 finale when Moff Gideon addresses him as such. Din’s able to use Moff Gideon’s knowledge of his family name to piece the Imperial’s identity together, citing the fact that Gideon was an ISB officer during the Great Purge and thus would have had access to the registers on Mandalore, where Din’s name was kept. Unfortunately, however, afterThe Mandalorianseason 3,this makes no sense - because Din Djarin had never even been to Mandalore prior to that season. Why, then, was his name registered there?
Is it a part of their Mandalorian Creed that names are forbidden for a similar reason to why they have to conceal their faces?
Things with Din Djarin’s name get even more confusing later in the finale. Din tells his peers that he hasn’t heard his name spoken since he was a child, yet the Armorer uses his name later on in the tunnels while instructing IG-11 to hold Din’s jetpack for him.How has the Armorer remembered the name of someone who hasn’t gone by his name for decades, especially when she leads so many of them? Is it a part of their Mandalorian Creed that names are forbidden for a similar reason to why they have to conceal their faces?
Another mystery fromThe Mandalorianseason 1 premiere has to do with the terms of IG-11’s hunt for the child. When they finally find Grogu, IG-11 insists that the child has to be terminated, and that bringing him in alive isn’t an option. Din, however, was told that they actually preferred to bring the child in alive, and he wouldn’t have been able to stomach killing Grogu, anyway. Still, it stands that whoever commissioned IG-11 wants Grogu dead, but the identity of this person is never revealed. There are a few suspects, but even those individuals wouldn’t want Grogu dead.
The main person after Grogu is Moff Gideon, and there’s no way he would have explicitly ordered his hunters to only bring Grogu back dead. Gideon wants Grogu and his blood to create his Force-sensitive army of clones, andif Grogu were to die, then Gideon would lose a limitless supply of that blood. The child’s death would actually hinder Gideon’s efforts, in a way that’s similar to howJango Fett’s death complicated the production of clone troopers during the Clone Wars. It makes no sense, then, that someone would want Grogu dead specifically if Gideon himself wanted him alive.
1The Mandalorian Helmet Rule Still Doesn’t Make Any Sense
There Isn’t Enough Context For Its History & Nuances
Perhaps the greatest mystery fromThe Mandalorianseason 1 that still remains is the Children of the Watch’s helmet rule, which forbids Mandalorians from removing their helmets. In season 2,Bo-Katan Kryzeexplains that it’s a part of the Children of the Watch’s efforts to reestablish the Ancient Way, but even that doesn’t seem to make much sense, seeing as ancient Mandalorian helmets were vastly different back then.It seems utterly impractical for a rule like this to even exist, and it serves no real purpose other than keeping the warriors' identities hidden - and has no precedence in history.
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There are also nuances that go unexplained when it comes to the helmet rule. There’s no clarification on whether families and spouses are allowed to see each other or not, which is a difficult way for a family to live. Children’s earliest developments of empathy come from watching adults' facial expressions, and these helmets would limit that greatly if they never got to see human faces. It’s also impractical that every Mandalorian would have to go into seclusion to eat every single meal. This controversial rule established inThe Mandaloriancan only suspend so much belief.
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Released on June 21, 2025 The Mandalorian follows a lone gunfighter navigating the galaxy’s outer reaches after the Galactic Empire’s fall. As a skilled bounty hunter, he operates in a lawless universe, undertaking various missions on the fringes of the New Republic’s territories.
