As the titular character of The Mandalorian, Din DjarinThe story of was developed in several Star Wars projects, which allowed some absurd character elements to slip through the cracks. Even though it is one of Star Wars best characters, Din Djarin still has several parts of his story that don’t add up or simply haven’t been properly explained yet. With a backstory still shrouded in mystery, it’s no wonder parts of Din Djarin’s character still don’t make sense, even after half a decade and counting.
It is important to note, however, that almost all major Star Wars character even has absurdist elements in his own stories as well. This doesn’t necessarily weigh on the character, but it can ultimately be an opportunity for further exploration, allowing these elements to be ironed out over time. This is certainly the case with these 10 things about Din Djarin that don’t make sense, from the beginning of his story to where it left off.
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Din Djarin monopolized his secret time above ground
If he was always above ground, could they go anywhere?
It is well established in The Mandalorian season 1 that Din Djarin’s secret must remain hidden at all times. In “Chapter 3: The Sin”, Paz Vizsla approaches Din Djarin and the Armorer to make his grievances known about Din’s partnership with the Imperial Client, and he reminds them that they can only go above ground”one at a time.” This helps their numbers remain hidden, so as not to raise suspicions that this group survived the Great Purge. As the Armorer says: “Our secret is our survival.”
Despite this, Din Djarin goes to the surface very often; in truth, he is rarely underground in the tunnels, except on the two occasions when he manages to make new armor. He essentially lives in his Razor Crest Hunt by completing your bounty hunting jobs to earn enough money for food, fuel and other necessities. How, then, is it possible for your fellow Mandalorians to rise to the surface? Will one of them be able to do so after Din leaves the world for a new job? If this isn’t the case, then Din Djarin certainly has an above-ground advantage here.
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Din Djarin took off his helmet in front of an open window
Has anyone seen him?!
Another well-established element of Din Djarin’s character is the helmet rule, which prohibits him from removing his beskar in front of other living beings. Din makes it well known in The Mandalorian season 1 episode “Chapter 4: Sanctuary” which this is a rule he follows faithfully and no one has seen his face since he was a child. He is adamant in this belief, sometimes even willing to sacrifice needs if it means fulfilling them. Despite this, there is a case in this same episode where Din is in danger of showing his face to many others.
After the farmer, Omera, brings Din Djarin a meal to eat in private, he is seen carrying it to a large window, through which he can keep an eye on Grogu – who is joined by Omera and her daughter, Winta. This, however, is not a one-way window. When sitting in this place and taking off your helmet to eat there, Din put his face in plain sight for anyone passing by to see. Clearly, this is a framing that only serves the show, but it’s still absurd that Din would risk revealing his face like that.
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Din Djarin wasn’t allowed to have a Jetpack for some reason
The Armorer Waited Until… The Perfect Moment?
Jetpacks have been a part of Mandalorian armor sets since Boba Fett was first introduced to Star Warsalthough they have certainly varied over the years. This made it curious that Din Djarin did not have his own jetpack, as he instead wielded an Amban phase pulse blaster rifle that he kept strapped to his back, in addition to a cape. In The Mandalorian At the end of Season 1, however, Din finally receives a jetpack, something he expressed his desire to have at the end of “Chapter 3: The Sin.” This has since raised a variety of questions.
Why wasn’t Din able to use a jetpack after completing the necessary training?
When the Armorer gives Din Djarin his jetpack, she asks if he was trained in the Rising Phoenix, and Din responds affirmatively – although he specifies that his training took place when he was a boy. It doesn’t make sense, then, that he would have to wait until that exact moment to get his jetpack, if he had already been trained to use it many years before. It may be that only Mandalorians who have earned their seals can use jetpacks, but that seems like a strange requirement. Why wasn’t Din able to use a jetpack after completing the necessary training?
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Din Djarin still wants to be a bounty hunter without a suitable ship
His N-1 Starfighter barely fits him and Grogu
More recently, Din Djarin had the public scratching their heads when he expressed his desire to return to bounty hunting despite no longer having his Razor Crest hunt. The N-1 starfighter was certainly a fun update for The Mandalorian, with many likening the transition between ships to parents trading in their minivans for sports cars. It was clear that the Razor CrestDin’s destruction was initially supposed to mean Din’s departure from the bounty hunting life, but now plans have changed – and there’s no way N-1 could put any bounty on him.
It seems that Star Wars is preparing to correct this situation by triggering the return of a Razor Crest in The Mandalorian and Grogu film, having shown off the ship in exclusive footage at this year’s D23: The Ultimate Fan Event. It’s clearly not the same one Din had before, as it was reduced to ashes, but it could be a good replacement for the original. Yet, Din is still a long way from getting one Razor Crest at the time of this request, and clearly intend to use your N-1 – which is simply not possible.
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Din Djarin used public transport for a year (or more)
Even though he probably already had financing for his own ship
Speaking of ships, Din Djarin waits a long time before catching the N-1 starfighter after the Razor Crest was destroyed. While The Mandalorian The timeline is quite confusing, thanks to conflicting information from Star Wars and The Mandaloriancreators, it can be safely assumed that about a year passes between breeding events. The Mandalorian end of season 2 and The Book of Boba Fettthe latter of which serves as an interlude between seasons 2 and 3. When the audience sees Din Djarin again for the first time, he is using public transport, just before finally getting his N-1 from Peli Motto.
This change doesn’t make much sense for Din Djarin, given that there was nothing stopping him from buying that ship before. While some might argue that Din needed to do more bounty hunting work to get the credits needed for a purchase, it’s clear from the work Din completes at the beginning of the episode that he’s exchanging information, not money. He received a large sum of credit for delivering Moff Gideon to Cara Dune and the New Republic. He certainly should have gotten his replacement ship much sooner with that money.
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Din Djarin had no idea who the Jedi were
Who failed to teach him about basic Mandalorian history?
One of the most iconic parts of Din Djarin’s character is that he has no idea who the Jedi are, which is certainly a rarity to see in Star Wars. With so many stories focused on or centered on the Jedi, the characters always seemed to know about the galaxy’s peacekeepers, even if they were mere legends. Din, however, has no idea who they are or what they do, and the Armorer has to tell him their brief story when she tasks him with reuniting Grogu with the Jedi in The Mandalorian end of season 1.
While it makes sense that Din didn’t know about the Jedi as a child in the Outer Rim, he should know as a Mandalorian warrior.
While it’s clear that the Children of the Watch left Din Djarin in the dark about many things, including his group’s own history, the Jedi seem like something too important for Din not to know. It was the Jedi who ravaged the surface of Mandalore during the Mandalorian Jedi Wars, and as a group that defends the ancient Way of the Mandalorians, it stands to reason that Din would have known about his former enemies. While it makes sense that Din didn’t know about the Jedi as a child in the Outer Rim, he should know as a Mandalorian warrior.
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Din Djarin would never be able to correctly wield the dark saber
What was the point of him having this?
The Mandalorian The second season ended in a way that made many viewers imagine a continuation of the story very different from what ended up happening, and perhaps one of the biggest twists was that Din Djarin never managed to master the famous Darksaber weapon. First introduced in Star Wars: The Clone Warsthe Darksaber is a famous blade with a storied history, none of this involves users having difficulty handling it due to its weight. Although Sabine Wren requires heavy training from Jedi Kanan Jarrus, she never fights like Din Djarin.
This means that Din Djarin was the first to have this problem, and in the context of the greatest Star Wars story, it doesn’t really make much sense. Surely there were Darksaber users who should not have deserved to wield that bladefrom Darth Maul to Moff Gideon. Why, then, didn’t they fight with the Darksaber and its weight? If it was always supposed to be back in Bo-Katan Kryze’s hands, then why didn’t Gideon fight with that weapon in his fight against Din Djarin? Unfortunately, it looks more like an effort to undo Din Djarin winning the weapon in retrospect.
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Din Djarin’s surname was recorded in Mandalore
Even though he never went there before the third season
One of the greatest mysteries of Din Djarin’s character involves the nature of his name, which began with something he says in The Mandalorian end of season 1. After Moff Gideon reveals his name during his arrival speech on Nevarro, Din informs Greef Karga and Cara Dune that he can identify Gideon based on the fact that the Imperial was a commanding officer during the Great Purge of Mandalore. According to Din, the only record of his family was recorded on the planet Mandalorewhich is the only way Gideon would have learned such information.
This exile, however, would have made it highly unlikely that Din’s name would ever have been engraved on Mandalore, as his people would not have been welcome there.
At the beginning of The Mandalorian Season 3, however, Din Djarin tells Grogu that he was never on Mandalore, as he was raised on the Mandalorian moon of Concordia. Following the Death Watch’s exile on Concordia before the Clone Wars era, this also makes sense for Din’s group, as they are a direct offshoot of this group. This exile, however, would have made it highly unlikely that Din’s name would ever have been engraved on Mandalore, as his people would not have been welcome there. The fact that he wasn’t even there makes it even more confusing.
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Din Djarin’s name just doesn’t make sense anymore
People randomly learned and Grogu adopted his first name
Continuing with the confusion surrounding Din Djarin’s name, there are other absurd components that have not yet been properly explained. Din makes it clear in The Mandalorian end of season 1 that his name is a rarity to hear, and that Before Gideon announced this on Nevarro, no one had said this since he was a child. Despite this, his name is spoken by the Armorer later in the episode, and as The Mandalorian continues, more people start using his name. Fennec Shand even introduces Din without him ever telling her his real name.
To make matters even more confusing, Din Djarin’s name itself was somewhat complicated by the adoption of Grogu. In The Mandalorian season 3 finale, Grogu is considered “Din Grogu” after Din officially takes Grogu as his own son, although many expected him to become “Grogu Djarin”. There are several theories about Grogu’s new name and why this happens, but there’s no erasing how confused viewers initially were about Din’s own name after hearing this. It is still unclear whether “Din” is actually Din’s surname or not, as opposed to “Djarin”.
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Din Djarin broke the helmet rule… and then went back on it
Unfortunately, your personal growth was reversed
Easily the most absurd part of Din Djarin’s character so far is his willingness to backtrack on the growth he’s achieved over the years. The Mandalorian seasons 1 and 2. This remains a pretty hot topic to this day, with some audiences insisting that it makes perfect sense for Din to seek atonement for removing his helmet, but most still agree that it was a bad decision to have Din return. your actions. Season 2 especially developed Din’s relationship with Mandalorians who could remove their helmetswhich seemed to encourage him to do the same.
Instead of leaning into it and letting Din explore a Mandalorian Path outside of his own, they both The Book of Boba Fett and The Mandalorian season three doubles down by having Din almost die to earn his forgiveness and atonement for removing his helmet. Season 3 is the first in the entire series to feature zero helmetless scenesmuch to the viewers’ chagrin, and even worse is the fact that Bo-Katan is given permission by the Armorer to remove her helmet, as she “walks through both worlds.” Apparently, however, Din Djarin we can’t do the same, which has been a huge disappointment.