Warning! This post contains SPOILERS for Star Wars: Visions Presents — The Ninth Jedi Season 1
<em>The Ninth Jedi</em> has now expanded into its own full series, continuing the events featured in the single episodes from the original Star Wars: Visions anthology series’ first and third seasons. Featuring a major galaxy-wide conflict in this alternate take on the galaxy far, far away, The Ninth Jedi features several fun nods and parallels to the canonical <em>Star Wars</em> continuity.
Set in a distant, non-canonical era of the Star Wars timeline, Star Wars: Visions – The Ninth Jedi continues to follow young Lah Kara as she embraces her new role as a Jedi, working alongside other masterless Jedi and Margrave Juro to rebuild a New Jedi Order. Likewise, they’re also seeking new allies to counter Lord Nawaam and his forces seeking to subjugate the entire galaxy. Additionally, Kara is determined to find her abducted father, the legendary sabersmith Lah Zhima.
Greatly expanding the mythology first established by the original Ninth Jedi chapters featured in Star Wars: Visions, the new anime series offers plenty of fun elements and reimagined concepts for longtime Star Wars fans to discover in every episode. Keeping that in mind, here are the biggest and best Easter eggs, references, and key Star Wars parallels from The Ninth Jedi’s first season.
The Biggest Star Wars Easter Eggs, References, And Parallels To The Canon Galaxy In The Ninth Jedi Season 1
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Days of Star Wars Past – Senate Building
In the opening narration that sets up the series, confirming that the Jedi and Sith were both wiped out long ago in this alternate version of the Star Wars galaxy, various shots of wars past are shown, including one that very much resembles the remains of the Galactic Senate Building on Coruscant in the primary canon.
Tracker (From Visions S3)
In the first episode of The Ninth Jedi, the large alien Jedi known as Homen remarks that Lord Nawaam’s forces must have put a tracker on their ship during their last run-in. During The Ninth Jedi episode featured in Star Wars: Visions season 3, a tracker was indeed placed on their ship.
The Last Sith
Serving Lord Nawaam, Commander Gennoh Ikagi is revealed to be “The Last Sith”, one of the sole survivors from the ancient order of classic dark side wielders who were nearly wiped out, the same as the Jedi in this alternate timeline.
Voice of Lah Kara – Kimiko Glenn
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The voice of Lah Kara should sound very familiar to Marvel fans, as actress Kimiko Glenn is famously the voice of Peni Parker, both in Sony’s animated Spider-Verse movies, and in the popular hero-shooter Marvel Rivals.
Gramps
The Jedi’s gifted (and elderly) droid pilot is fittingly named “Gramps”. This is the same tea-drinking droid featured in the debut Star Wars: Visions season 1 episode who helped Kara get to Hy Izlan’s temple, voiced by J.P. Karliak (who also voices Morph for Marvel Studios’ animated X-Men ’97 series).
“I Have You Now”
Mirroring Darth Vader in A New Hope during the Death Star trench run, Commander Gennoh says the same line when he believes the Jedi are in his clutches.
Black Hole – Solo
Using a black hole to slow down and trap Gennoh’s much larger command ship, Gramps’ unique maneuver brings to mind Han Solo’s similar move with The Millennium Falcon in 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story.
Droid Army With A Central Command Unit
During the attack on Makoma Ko, it’s revealed that Lord Nawaam’s forces are primarily made up of large droid armies resembling a mix of classic Trade Federation battle droids and Imperial Darktroopers. Like Trade Federation battle droids, they also take their orders from a central command unit, rendering them all useless once taken out (just like in The Phantom Menace).
Unorthodox Lightspeed Jumps
Jumping out of the system and then immediately jumping back in to get closer to the enemy command ship undetected, the strategic lightspeed jumping from the Jedi (combined with the previous black hole maneuver) feels very evocative of similarly unorthodox tactics used in the sequel trilogy: jumping into Starkiller Base’s atmosphere in The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi’s Holdo Maneuver,Rise of Skywalker’s lightspeed skipping , etc.
New Destroyer Droids
Nawaam also has a type of battle droid that very much resembles a classic Droideka from the mainStar Warscanon , including a much bigger version with its own deflector shield by the series’ end.
Voice of Ethan – Masi Oka
Working undercover among Nawaam’s organic forces , Ethan is shown gathering intel for Margrave Juro. Having first appeared in the originalStar Wars:Visionsepisodes , Masi Oka returns inThe Ninth Jedito voice the young Jedi. Oka is best known for playing Hiro Nakamura in NBC seriesHeroes.
A Beskar Spear?
Thanks to his open challenge that anyone who defeats him will gain control of his army , Lord Nawaam effortlessly bests a warrior wielding what very much looks and sounds like Din Djarin’s Beskar spear fromThe Mandalorianseries.
Classic Jedi Training (Droid & ; Blast Shield)
Shown training under Margrave Juro , Kara is shown wearing a helmet with a lowered blast shield while deflecting shots from a hovering training droid , one of the most classic exercises for young Jedi first seen with Luke Skywalker inA New Hopemultiple times in prequels and Clone Wars , and most recently inAhsokawith Sabine Wren.
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