There are fairly a couple of totally different Star Wars characters who’ve seemingly died, solely to be introduced again or revived afterward within the franchise. One way or the other, SO many characters have returned (and no, we do not imply as Power ghosts).
On the subject of presumed and even blatant demises in Star Wars, there’s at all times an opportunity a deceased character may return. As such, it might be fairly ridiculous for a studio to quote a personality’s dying as the first trigger behind rejecting an thrilling spin-off with a accomplished $3 million script developed over two years.
Holding that in thoughts, let’s remind Disney of some main on-screen Star Wars characters who’ve been revived and/or introduced again over time.
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Darth Maul
- Died: Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999)
- Returned: Star Wars: The Clone Wars season 4, episode 21 (“Brothers”)
After being lower in half by Obi-Wan Kenobi on Naboo, Maul was presumed lifeless for over a decade. Nevertheless, The Clone Wars revealed that sheer rage and the darkish aspect itself stored Maul alive on the trash world of Lotho Minor.
Saved by his long-lost brother, Savage Oppress, Maul was fitted with cybernetic legs from the Nightsisters of Dathomir, turning into a serious participant within the galactic underworld up till his final dying in Star Wars Rebels through a closing duel with Kenobi on Tatooine.
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Emperor Palpatine / Darth Sidious
- Died: Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983)
- Returned: Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
“One way or the other..Palpatine returned…” Emperor Palpatine’s resurrection stays some of the divisive parts in all of Star Wars, not due to his revival, however due to the subpar execution within the sequel films.
Whereas a mess of canonical initiatives after Rise of Skywalker have put within the work to elucidate how Palpatine was introduced again through Challenge Necromancer, it does not change the shortage of context given in Episode IX itself.
Satirically, this was the identical film the place Ben Solo died, although Disney executives nonetheless cannot fathom how Adam Driver’s character may ever return for The Hunt for Ben Solo.
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Boba Fett
- Died: Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983)
- Returned: The Mandalorian season 2, episode 6 (“The Tragedy”)
Boba Fett’s fall into the Sarlacc pit was as soon as thought-about one in all Star Wars‘ most notorious deaths, killing off one of many galaxy’s coolest-looking characters.
Nevertheless, The Mandalorian season 2 confirmed the bounty hunter lived, clawing his means out of the pit and finally recovering his armor from Din Djarin. Boba Fett’s revival culminated in his personal sequence with The Ebook of Boba Fett.
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Fennec Shand
- Died: The Mandalorian season 1, episode 5 (“The Gunslinger”)
- Returned: The Mandalorian season 2, episode 6 (“The Tragedy”)
After being shot and left for lifeless on Tatooine in The Mandalorian season 1, Fennec Shand’s story appeared over, till the fifth episode ended along with her physique found by an unknown determine (later revealed to be Boba Fett).
Having her repaired with cybernetic implants, Shand entered Fett’s service as his proper hand, as seen in The Mandalorian season 2 when her survival was first revealed, in addition to The Ebook of Boba Fett, which supplied context for her return and ongoing work with Fett.
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Aurra Sing
- Died: Star Wars: The Clone Wars season 2
- Returned: Star Wars: The Clone Wars season 3
Aurra Sing was believed to have been killed in The Clone Wars’ season 2 finale, crash-landing Boba Fett’s Firespray and presumed lifeless. Whereas her survival was by no means totally defined, Sing later appeared in The Clone Wars season 3, trying to assassinate Padmé Amidala. Finally, it was talked about in 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story that Sing was killed by Tobias Beckett.
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Ahsoka Tano
- Died (Kind of): Star Wars Rebels season 2, episode 22 (“Twilight of the Apprentice”)
- Returned: Star Wars Rebels season 4, episode 13 (“A World Between Worlds”)
Ahsoka’s duel with Darth Vader on the Sith world of Malachor appeared to finish in presumed tragedy because the Sith ziggurat they have been dueling on collapsed round them, shortly after it was confirmed for Tano that the Darkish Lord was certainly her outdated grasp.
Whereas there was a tease within the season 2 finale itself that Tano may need survived, her survival was totally confirmed in Rebels season 4 when Ezra Bridger used the World Between Worlds to succeed in again into the previous and pull her into the Power nexus earlier than in the end sending her again to her personal time.
Ahsoka was then free to make her live-action debut in The Mandalorian season 2 and later lead her personal sequence in 2023.
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Echo
- Died: Star Wars: The Clone Wars season 3, episode 19 (“Counterattack”)
- Returned: The Clone Wars season 7, episode 2 (“A Distant Echo”)
ARC Trooper Echo was believed killed in an explosion throughout the Clone Wars’ Citadel mission, just for The Clone Wars to later reveal that he’d been captured and cybernetically enhanced by the Separatists’ Techno Union. Rescued by The Dangerous Batch, Echo grew to become a member of Clone Power 99, becoming a member of the workforce in their very own spin-off sequence.
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The Grand Inquisitor
- Died: Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 2 (2022)
- Returned: Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 5 (2022)
Throughout 2022’s Obi-Wan Kenobi sequence, The Grand Inquisitor was run by by the Third Sister, permitting her to take his place amongst Darth Vader’s Inquisitorius. Nevertheless, this was fairly anticlimactic for Star Wars followers, given the Grand Inquisitor’s function in Star Wars Rebels season 1, which is ready some years after the occasions of Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Certain sufficient, the Grand Inquisitor did return alive and properly in Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 5, in the end dying within the season 1 finale of Rebels by the hands of Kanan Jarrus, although the comics did reveal his spirit was cursed and tethered to an outdated Jedi Outpost by Darth Vader.
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Asajj Ventress
- Died: Star Wars: Darkish Disciple (2015)
- Returned: The Dangerous Batch season 3 (2024)
Lengthy presumed lifeless after sacrificing herself to avoid wasting her love Jedi Grasp Quinlan Vos within the novel Darkish Disciple, Asajj Ventress made a surprising return in The Dangerous Batch season 3.
Confirmed to have been revived by the darkish magicks of the Nightsisters in 2025’s Tales of the Underworld, Ventress’ return gave followers some long-awaited closure from the novel’s teases to her survival, increasing her advanced redemption arc and organising all-new Ventress tales to be advised sooner or later.
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Cobb Vanth
- Died: The Ebook of Boba Fett episode 6 (“From the Desert Comes a Stranger”)
- Returned: The Ebook of Boba Fett episode 7 (“Within the Identify of Honor”)
Freetown Marshal Cobb Vanth was shot by Cad Bane and left for lifeless in The Ebook of Boba Fett, simply forward of the present’s finale episode. Nevertheless, a mid-credits scene following the seventh episode revealed that Vanth survived together with his physique having been positioned in Boba Fett’s therapeutic bacta tank, teasing his survival and return in a future Star Wars venture.