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https://mashable.com/video/pedro-pascal-the-mandalorian-spoilers-baby-yoda
https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/the-mandalorian-pedro-pascal-baby-yoda-grogu-name.html/
The video of his adorable interview.
https://youtu.be/MqaEFDkqRWs
MarioBoon
No real fan will ever say "Grogu". It's always baby Yoda. Just like Rey will always be MAry Sue Palpatine.
machmach
acuteavocado7
im sure the show is great but ill never be able to forgive it for baby yoda becoming minions 2.0
TheNextHafthorBjornsson
I've never heard his real voice until now and I am even more in love.
dennydorko
"There were dollar signs in your eyes." https://youtu.be/1cQeT-vLiwE
luke1815
Damn, I liked Pedro Pascal. Too bad he’ll be executed by Mickey for that
Ganpool
weebs228
He was legit scared in that interview for a few moments lol.
graffr
Listen to me make Pedro Pascal and Tom Holland play a movie/tv show with a lot of spoiler… ENJOY THE INTERVIEWS !!!
Cyberbeni
LivesInThe90s
They should make "Yoda" the species name.
Relikk
Fuck Grogu.
AndrewS816
YouTubeRed
DaierMune
YouTubeRed
sound
Coinvillan
I fucking hate the phrase 'baby yoda'
Fastjack2056
I really wish that they had let Luke say "Oh, wow! Lookit you, Baby Yoda!" and then he can get gently corrected and never say it again. He was *there* with us in Empire, he was absolutely thinking "Baby Yoda", and he's maybe they only character with a canon reason to say it. He was thinking it. You know it's true.
chicharrone
Fell for the Jedi mind trick
drduffer
“This is not the Baby Yoda you’re looking for” {vague waving of one hand}.
ubnty
Eh... If KK had her way, Din would be killed off and Grogu shuffled off somewhere to make room for Bo-Katan and Ragnar (Paz Visla's kid) for Season 4.
Jattetont
Baby Yoda might be there, but Pedro Pascal (usually) isn't.
Jattetont
Search your feelings, you know it to be true. https://decider.com/2023/05/28/pedro-pascal-reveals-he-doesnt-wear-the-mandalorian-suit-just-voices-character/ He did a little bit in S1 and supposedly a fair amount in S2, but not at all in S3, instead just delivering pre-recorded lines.
Iblamemyparentstoo
Ultratoxic
"Did someone just hear a really ominous ringing sound? Like an enormous bell just rang? No? Just me? Heheheee, that weird..."
Fractallergy
Just saw Pascal in a bit role in an old Law and Order SVU episode. Scumbag pimp. Was kinda jarring.
krystion
i dunno..i always just stuck with "The Child"
staceyjorgenson31415
Graham Norton once again being the best host ever 🥰
macgerdo
Baby yoda was one of the worst meme formats ever. Every meme until then had a context or a meaning or something, but baby yoda was just a overhyped "he cute" bs.
justmakingthistopostonepic
i mean that’s also what a lot of cat memes are
BleedingQuasar
psycho3d
Iblamemyparentstoo
WoodfolkFae
WoodfolkFae
IrateWolfe
I just watched this for the first time, it was amazing, and the chemistry between them is hilarious
XplodingUnicornGlitter
Is it a movie?
IrateWolfe
The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent. Nick Cage plays himself, Pedro Pascal plays a billionaire super fan who is willing to pay Cage a million bucks to attend his birthday party, but when Cage arrives, he's shanghaied by the CIA, who tell him that Pascal's character is actually a cartel lord, and they need him to spy on him. It's as ridiculous as it sounds, and it's a ton of fun.
MAN9000
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XplodingUnicornGlitter
Thanks!
fozymandias
It is such a great movie!!!
Trankia12
beez428
"What's all this I hear about you saying Baby Yoda?! Ba-ha! Let me explain it to you ONE MORE FUCKING TIME! When you say Baby Yoda, all these fucking loser fanboys will latch onto it and start making fucking Tik Toks saying they've confirmed something ba-ha! And when fanboys talk, I LOSE MONEY BA-HA!"
MelodyLightfoot
Slaughtermouse 5
didgeboy287
"Get's see"
Gvilain
Mousewitz time?
OptimisticMisanthrope
crunchyDANGERhaystacks
I take
blainetog
Disney Jail is a real thing, but it's basically just a hallway in the security office where they have people wait for the real cops to come and take them away.
chronologicalvoid
#lifegoals
Erythrotrichophile
Yeah it's like Balloon Day Care but for people.
OptimisticMisanthrope
I got dragged in there once. Fortunately, they just gave me a warning and let me back into the park. That was 30 years ago, so I doubt anyone would have the same experience today.
Tankmoose
Yeah malls and hospitals and basically any large retail building has them too, it's a pretty standard thing.
Effehezepe
That's just what 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗢𝗨𝗦𝗘 wants you to believe.
ClutterMonkey
Chilean Liam Neeson
witless1
Um that Chilean Nathan Fillion.
MrBoopyPutthole
Chiliam neeson
plznotlikethis
chilean here, this is perfect
MyBigMouth
Chilean Burt Reynolds
Iblamemyparentstoo
But much hotter
TheHuntedSnark
Steed
That'll be the chillies.
ClutterMonkey
Certainly I enjoy the characters he plays much more than Liam Neeson now. There was a time when Neeson was great. Next of Kin and Rob Roy were better than his secret agent amnesiac garbage today.
tr26
Remember Darkman?
ClutterMonkey
Iblamemyparentstoo
When Pedro talks about not doing the voice for a kid during this interview, he calls it a "bedroom kinda voice" my basement flooded instantly and I've never been able to watch the Mandalorian the same after that 😉
BoogieWoogieWookiee
I really don't know why they (Disney/producers/etc.) keep thinking most of the audience thinks Grogu is/was actually Yoda. It's their damn fault they refuse to give his species a name. What else were we supposed to call him at the time? "The Baby Same-Species-As-Yoda-But-Not-Actually-Yoda-Because-Only-a-Moron-Would-Think-That's-Actually-Yoda?"
BahbusTheGreat
Exactly. It's a convenient nickname for when we had nothing else. However, I do believe Grogu may be a clone using Yoda's genes or something along those lines.
thisiskissel
Another prequel to explain this, you say?
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camtin
Talligan
Baby yaddle
NoNameFred
They seem to have been trying to go with "The Child"… which they at least included in the series. Unlike with the MCU, where they suddenly tried to force "The Blip" to happen as a name in "Spider-Man: Far From Home", over a year after Infinity War introduced the event (and 2 months after Endgame concluded it)
Monocular0
I am not a huge Marvel buff, but it was pretty clear to me that “the blip” refers to the people who were erased from existence for X years AND then brought back into existence, and the chaos that caused (not just their disappearance, but their return). So it would never have had a name until after Endgame anyway. Plus, it’s not wildly unbelievable that pop culture within the MCU took a little while to settle on a name for this global, unprecedented event.
bebopspike13
Wasn't it a condition of sale from Lucas to not expand on the species?
HypnagogicHallucinations
The unabbreviated show title was "The Mandalorian, but not actually Boba Fett, and The Child, but definitely not Baby Yoda".
LaffertyDanie1
Kid
faultysage
"The Child" was his official monikor before the series gave him a name.
DrSchlepenstein
Should probably just start calling him the Yodalorian.
Painkiller1020
Disney: "This is the similar, but legally distinct Yoda"
putcleverusernamehere
I already knew I was a moron, but ya
alcaray
Baby Yoda is funny. It brings us joy.
OhIfIMust
:No-As-Big-As-Big-Jock-But-Bigger-Than-Wee-Jock-Jock has entered the chat:
PookieDog
GNU TP
javadad60
Crivens!
abion47
I mean, they are fleshing out the timeline between the original trilogy and the new trilogy as being absolutely filled to bursting with advancements in cloning technology, so maybe Disney freaks out about the fans calling Grogu Baby Yoda when the twist is supposed to be that Grogu IS a Yoda clone. I dunno, it's pretty far out there, but it's plausible.
TattoosAndTENS
They're called Jedi. No I am not kidding.
ddbrown30
I'm not sure where you think you read this, but it's false. It is known as "Yoda's species" because they have intentionally never named it. Legends or canon, it's both the same.
INeverWaitForIt
"You can call it whatever you want. To us, it's a sack with a dollar sign on it." -Disney, producing a metric buttload of Grogu merchandise.
Immune2Iocaine
Werner called him The Child...
BoogieWoogieWookiee
That's about as natural to say as calling the other main character "The Man." There's a reason it didn't take.
sortofkindamadbutnotreally
It almost seems like its because they are afraid to alter the precent, which is to never name the species. This is especially bizarre though, as they Alderaan'd nearly all of the book stuff along with plenty of other stuff they added for the contraversial sequels.
LaughingInTheFaceOfDanger
I hated when people were calling him baby Yoda.
donkeymoney
I don't like how he has Force powers, when most all species have Force powers, just randomly distributed and developable through discipline.
BoogieWoogieWookiee
That sentence didn't make sense, and I can't find where the typo(s) are/were. Yoda's species is renowned for being strong in the force, and there isn't a single member of it that hasn't been.
theressafetyinnumbersmydear
TIL Grogu is not, in fact, baby yoda. In my defense, I don’t follow the Star Wars series. I totally thought Mandalorian was a prequel 😆
Snooj
It's totally reasonable to assume unless you're a fairly big fan of the franchise. It's not like there are specific details for casual viewers about where the story exists in the franchise timeline until Luke shows up.
xypotion
It's very much not just you. I also JUST learned the other day that Baby Yoda is not, in fact, Yoda as a baby.
MisuseOfLiterally
I mean.. I KINDA get it [why they dont name the species]. It adds to the mystic of the character (of yoda and now grogu). Lots of compeling aspects of characters is the unknown and theres a tendency to ruin that for fan service (looking at you Han Solo & Jack Sparrow), I hope we wont get to see much of that species backstory and keep the mysteries
BoogieWoogieWookiee
I get why they don't have a name. I /don't/ get why Disney/producers have a stick up their ass about a temporary name the audience gave him until we were given an actual name. To the point where Pedro winced and was clearly told to never use it himself.
MisuseOfLiterally
yeah im with you on that. Thats stupid. I would assume its for some bullshit reason
MeltedSkulls
Because it's Yoda's baby. Yaddle and Yoda banged like halflings in his Toyota
OldJedi
I wanted them to do some cool reveal about alien biology and Yoda/Grogu reproduce asexually by budding off a single clone over the course of a lifetime. So it would technically be yoda (a clone though) while still being a differentiated character.
OmnipotentBeing
God dammit you're correct. Species: Unknown
jankeydadondc
The baby formerly known as yoda
Iblamemyparentstoo
This👆👆👆👆👆
Justanotherimgurbrowser
They can't name species. That is a stipend of the right bought from Lucas. He never wanted yodas species to be named, and never wants it to. For the mystery.
ArrogantLoudMouthedBother
camn333
Yeah, but it's a dumb mystery because, ultimately, people will give it a dumb/weird/funny name just to make references to it easier. Case in point: baby Yoda.
GeneralAnubis
Yeah, newsflash George, the species HAS been named. It's called "yoda species," because of your worse-than-JJ-Abrams worthless "mystery box"
Rogahar
Most of the people I know never thought it was actually baby Yoda, but we have no idea what Yoda's species is called so we just referred to him as baby Yoda because he's a baby of the same species Yoda is.
NergalJester
Might as well just call them Space Elves.
B99Reactions
The Child like the name of the episode , aint that hard
DrSchlepenstein
It's a hairless Mogwee or non-evil Gremlin.
LoopStricken
Mogwai.
DrSchlepenstein
Dammit...misspelled it and didn't even notice. Don't even know why I put 2 Es.
Vesane
Some describe the species as Tridactyl, but acknowledge that it is not an official name of the species, since it's been intentionally left unnamed
Hypothesist
Plot twist: Yoda was a playa he’s got kids all over the galaxy
OldSchoolNewRules
Yoda is a Groglyn https://starwars-universe.fandom.com/wiki/Minch_Yoda
Nietsallinav
That is a fanon wiki, most of that page is fanfic.
Dagordae
One of the oldest rules in Star Wars, and pretty much the only one never broken, is that Yoda’s species gets no lore. At all. Ever.
7Rhymes
Reminds me of Dragon Ball XenoVerse. You can be Human, Saiyan, Namekian, Majin, or Frieza Race.
Snooj
I know nothing at all about DBZ or DBX (including what the difference is or if DBX is even a thing?) so I can't possible condemn anyone for not knowing Grogu isn't actually baby Yoda. I don't even know if that green guy who I think is named Piccolo but that sounds weird because that's an instrument is even a good guy or not.
MisuseOfLiterally
isnt Majin more of a curse that can be applied to any species more than you know... an actual species?
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Rathan5
If they never once say it in the actual show, even if it’s technically canon, I still say it doesn’t count.
Godna
Thats the name from a fan project actually
ArchMagos
Thanks for pointing that out, the official wiki does in fact call his race "frieza race" so I was misremembering fanon as Canon. I concede the point. https://dragonball.fandom.com/wiki/Frieza_Race
CraftyGiant
He could be a baby Yoda, since Yoda is a last name anyway and they could be related. Never let it be forgotten that Old Yoda's first name is canonically "Minch."
KingXizor
There were even a couple others in the EU, like Yaddle and Vandar. Even guides and lore books just had something like "Race: Unknown (Yoda-Species)" like in Jedi vs. Sith, the lore book is dictated as by The New Rebublic Jedi Historian, Tionne Solusar, in the decades after the original series. I enjoyed the deliberate mistique applied to his species.
GrimaceMusically
I get the point you are making, but Yaddle isn’t strictly EU, she also exists in canon.
KingXizor
It originated from Lucas's demanding it be so. The rest is just how the authors went with it.
GrimaceMusically
Well, she is in TPM, which is canon
camtin
the biggest issue is that it took a full season and a half to name the character
LarvaLamp
And they tried as hard as they could to make it as un-adorable as possible. Grogu? Seriously?
zutty
Grogu is *a* Yoda.
Bobbobbobobbananafanafobob
Yoda is the goddess in the hero's journey. He is meant to be mysterious, powerful, and representative of the supreme ideal the hero could attain. Power that isn't used, inner peace, etc. He can't be the goddess if he's just another humanoid being with a backstory because that humanity would overcome the message the character is trying to convey - that there is a battle inside us all that cannot be won by fighting. No Yoda means the Emporer wins, regardless of if Luke or Vader wins.
Bobbobbobobbananafanafobob
All of this is just to say that Grogu makes no sense unless you treat it like an origin story of both Yoda and Palpatine - that powerful force users will ultimately get to a point where they make a choice and this is a story about getting to that point and making that choice. Will he be Yoda and walk as a druid through the forest or will he be Palpatine and use the forest for his own ends? If they reveal too much they're doing Yoda a disservice and undermining the original story.
riplikash
But the hero's journey is not meant to be prescriptive. It's a framework to analyze and contextualize common story elements, not a rigid template. Within shared universes in particular, the hero's journey generally applies to stories WITHIN the overall universe, not across the universe. Obi-Wan is not "The mentor" in Star Wars, he's "The Mentor" in Luke's story. Having other mentors in other stories doesn't diminish his role in the original trilogy. Nor is Yoda in any way diminished.
Illithidbane
The timeline is a bit confusing for very casual viewers, I would expect. New shows or movies drop as prequels, sequels, interquels, then back again somewhat randomly. I could understand someone not immediately knowing whether Mandalorian is before Original Trilogy or after. Before long, you'd put it together, but could be unclear for a second.
wormfood
Yeah there were a handful of people I knew who had a little mind pop when they realized it wasn't Yoda but most everyone understoof
LarvaLamp
I never understoof any of this.
sandraleer
I would consider myself a casual but big fan of the franchuse feature films and it took me awhile to get into the series because I didn't understand the context and therefore had a hard time connecting with the chracters and storyline at first.
bril350
I think its pretty clear when you see storm trooper heads on spikes no?
brandonblk
to a casual, stormtrooper helmets look quite simular to clone trooper helmets
bril350
If thats the case they think all the mandalorians are jango fett
brandonblk
tbh i dont even know if they would know about JF
NiceGreenArrows
yes, that would be the "Before long, you'd put it together" part, good reading.
Flyingwigs
They wanted/expected people to call him "the child" as evidenced by the first season merch. He was baby Yoda in description for us, we never believed it was actually yoda.
LaughingInTheFaceOfDanger
No no some actually believed it was a clone
WoodfolkFae
Ah yes very normal and human to call someone "THE CHILD".
PopeBruce
Me and my totally human wife frequently refer to our spawn as the child. And she of course calls her sister my sibling how is this not normal?
Kitakita
Even internally at Disney, there was a huge effort to keep calling him "the child". Mistakes were allowed of course, but only a select group actually knew his real name.
ChikaChickaBowWow
I did.... Why wouldn't I?
abrakadaBRO
I only watched half the first season. I for sure thought it was baby yoda. Never have seen another of yodas species. Interesting that's not yoda haha
Haemaelaeinen
You didn't watch the prequel trilogy?
ilavalamp
It doesn't help that Yoda's species does not have a name in canon so people couldn't call him anything like a baby Twi'lek.
Jeenius
Accepted as the name of this species.
Trankia12
I mean, I think the majority of people would still have called him Baby Yoda even if their species had a name.
MeowWoof
We've been calling Yaddle "Lady Yoda" for YEARS
absoluttalent
As someone who has not watched the series, did Master Yoda and lady Yoda have this baby Yoda?
GeneralAnubis
No, lol. They literally did not have a name for him because the marketing morons who are now calling the shots (the reason why S2 ending got steamrolled to add him back in) had no clue that he would be popular. There WAS NO merch for Mando S1 until about 8+ months after it ended.
Flyingwigs
Better check yo facts before getting in a tizzy: https://www.cnet.com/culture/entertainment/star-wars-toys-from-rise-of-skywalker-mandalorian-are-ready-for-you/ toys were ready before the show aired. This is Disney your talking about here, don't forget that.
GeneralAnubis
Good catch - I was thinking more about "the child" though I did say Mando S1, so thanks for the correction. Here's where my head was: https://www.starwars.com/news/the-child-merch-from-the-mandalorian-is-here So they had *a* product of him out in a little over a month, but it wasn't until the middle of the next year (8ish months) that they had a full product line for him from Hasbro
eetsumkaus
They had no idea one of the most merchandisable franchises ever would make money with merchandise?
GeneralAnubis
They had no idea The Mandalorian / "The Child" would be so popular, so they had zero merchandise planned for it.
MiniYams
I know what you're talking about, and it's definitely possible, but I'm of the opinion that massively withholding in this way is the only way to prevent leaking baby yoda's existence. I don't think it's possible to design that character, and make it that particular race, and not know that it will print money. I know in general people like to act like executives are stupid, but that's to an arrogant extreme.
ElbowDeepInUserSub
When 600 years old YOU are, look so good the Star Wars Universe continuity will not!
Nightcaste
I don't think any of us is going to be looking that great in 500 years. Maybe Keanu Reeves
ilavalamp
*900 years
ElbowDeepInUserSub
That's wild, I have always recalled it as 600 years, and you are the first to correct me in years of occasional references. Thank you. <3
AboutasSnappyasaZipper
Right… you’d probably look fine at 600 yrs
onlyawfulnamesleft
That comment was from a different point of the contiuity. It was a prequel comment.
ilavalamp
I'm guessing it is from a book or something? The invasion of Naboo was only a few decades prior to Yoda's death in RotJ so he'd be in his late 800's when Anakin was brought to the council.
SmoeAhsolse
Look a day over 700, he did not.
kwyjiboner
If they were really concerned about the audience mistaking him for a younger Yoda, they could have made him literally any other alien.
evilspyre
Well they made the eyes different to yodas thats all.
GlenL
Jar Jar Jr.!!!
eronth
Eh, that species alone carries a lot of weight. They obviously wanted that species, but not Yoda for once.
SavageDrums
L'il Bib Fortuna...
zenoshogun
Baby Jabba....
CrimeBrulee
But then how are they going to cash in on Yoda???
Algebraicrhombus
By retconning the fact we know the species have males and females, but that they all reproduce asexually anyway. So, "baby yoda".
AboutasSnappyasaZipper
This really is the reason
Illithidbane
Baby Maul.
ThePunishersVengefulBrother
Is that a Gremlin?
Falkh12
That's just baby Yoda's goth phase
camn333
I find it funny that it would mean Maul just never grew out of it. I picture him yelling at count Dooku "this is who I am, it's part of my identity!"
YoSamiteSam
Maul is a Zabrak, but his tattoos come from his time as a slave on Dathomir. See also Darth Talon.
Illithidbane
YoSamiteSam
Kotor 2 had a zabrak character who was gray.
Xman102003
In lore it makes sense why he is Yoda's species because all of his species is force sensitive and strong with the force
mthrndr01
.... also he just looks like a little yoda.
chromed
I'm not going to waste my time on wookiepedia listing all the force sensitive species in the lore for you.
Xman102003
Yes but how many have appeared in mainstream star wars? Which one is the most recognizable? I know there are a crap ton so ya don't need to waste your time.
SithElephant
I only disagree in that you argue it'd be a waste of time.
AboutasSnappyasaZipper
Username checks out