Ahsoka is about to air its fourth episode tomorrow on Disney Plus, and there are rumors circulating that Marrok, the masked Inquisitor character from the past three weeks, may finally have his identity revealed this time around.
I’m…kind of hoping this isn’t true. In fact, I’m hoping that the answer to this mystery is just…nothing. That Marrok is not anyone, that he’s just a leftover Inquisitor and does not need to be a big reveal or an easter egg or anything like that. Why? Because none of the theories are good.
Sam Witwer’s Starkiller – No, I do not think it would be an especially good reveal if Marrok was Starkiller, the absurdly overpowered secret Vader apprentice from the 2008 video game, The Force Unleashed. This is not impossible, however, due to Dave Filoni allegedly wanting to make Starkiller an Inquisitor in his animated series at one point. This would be too much fan service for me, and just unnecessary.
Jedi Survivor’s Cal Kestis – As much as I would in fact like to see Cameron Monaghan’s Cal Kestis enter the live action Star Wars universe, this time from a much more recent video game, to quote The Matrix, “Not like this.” Him showing up as an Inquisitor here would make zero sense.
Ezra – Have seen theories that Ezra is hiding under everyone’s noses as Marrok. No clue why the show would chose to do this, brainwash him into the dark side or something nonsensical like that. It would essentially negate the entire point of the series.
Past this, nothing else really makes sense. A Luke Skywalker clone? No thank you. Too EU for me, even if we are dipping into that territory with Thrawn.
But do I think we are going to escape some sort of big reveal with Marrok? Probably not, I do think there will be one, as I’m not sure what the purpose is of having a masked character, and an Inquisitor no less, be present alongside the other two rogue Jedi unless they were going to reveal him as someone of significance. It’s easy to see how Shin Hati could have done everything he’s doing in the story and that he’s superfluous, unless he is “someone.”
This reminds me of the big Rey split, where in The Last Jedi she was meant to be no one special, no big reveal about her lineage. Then in Rise of Skywalker, they completely undid that with a forced reveal about her being Palpatine’s granddaughter which made no sense. Marrok here would be better as no one rather than a video game reference or an Ezra plot twist. But I guess we’ll see.
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