Star Wars: Ahsoka came to an end on Tuesday night, as the finale of the live-action series was released on Disney+. The new episode was easily the most action-packed of the entire series, and also introduced a new, terrifying version of the Stormtroopers that we’ve known for so many years. An entire horde of undead stormtroopers (named “Night Troopers”) appeared in the Ahsoka finale, planting the seeds for other beings in the franchise to be brought back from the dead in the future. WARNING: This article contains major spoilers from the Star Wars: Ahsoka finale! Continue reading at your own risk…
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In the finale, the trio of Ahsoka, Sabine, and Ezra attempt to fight their way onto Grand Admiral Thrawn’s ship so they can stop him from taking his army back to their galaxy. They take out an entire room of stormtroopers and things seem to be going just fine. That is until those stormtroopers rise up from the ground, seemingly even stronger than before.
Thrawn and the Witches of Dathomir had a plan in place for Ahsoka and her comrades. After the stormtroopers were killed, the three witches worked some sort of dark magic spell, raising all of the dead back to life.
This undead trooper wave included a couple of Death Troopers, who Sabine and Ezra had to fight. As parts of their masks were ripped away, they were revealed to look like actual zombies, with decaying flesh and aimless groans. Star Wars went all the way in on the zombie concept for this one – as some fans have been speculating for weeks that they would, after the Night Troopers clearly had elements of the Nightsisters in their design. The Star Wars witches have been known to re-animate the dead as zombie warriors – as many suspected was the case for Marrok, Morgan Elsbeth’s inquisitor henchman.
There is room for the zombie concept to affect other corners of the Star Wars universe in future projects. The end of the Ahsoka finale saw Thrawn and the witches return to the main galaxy, bringing their magic into the same world as the stories we’ve seen in other Star Wars titles. This collision of worlds and stories could bring exciting things down the line.
Fan-favorite Star Wars hero Ahsoka Tano returns in the brand new series on Disney+. Rosario Dawson stars in Star Wars: Ahsoka, which premiered on August 22nd on the streamer. The series picks up after the events of The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, in which we saw the former Jedi searching for Grand Admiral Thrawn (Lars Mikkelsen) and helping Luke Skywalker train Grogu. Ahsoka will be joined on her new mission alongside longtime allies Sabine Wren (Natasha Liu Bordizzo) and Hera Syndulla (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) as they attempt to track down Thrawn, who was last seen disappearing to the far reaches of space after a confrontation with Ezra Bridger (Eman Esfandi). Star Wars: Ahsoka is the latest live-action series from Lucasfilm’s creative duo of Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni.
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