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After years of debate amongst fans, [Boba Fett](https://time.com/5706585/mandalorian-boba-fett-difference/) surviving the events of _The Return of the Jedi_ now seems to officially be _Star Wars_ canon. In the final scene of the season 2 premiere of _The Mandalorian_, the galaxy far, far away’s most infamous bounty hunter—or at least an unmasked Temeura Morrison, who played Jango Fett in _Attack of the Clones_—was shown watching Mando (Pedro Pascal) and The Child journey across Tatooine’s Dune Sea following the battle with the krayt dragon. Since Boba Fett was a clone of Jango rather than his actual son, it makes sense for Morrison to play him. _The Mandalorian_ first teased Fett’s return when the appearance of a mysterious figure at the end of the series’ fifth episode, which also took place on Tatooine, was accompanied by the sound of the bounty hunter’s signature jangling spurs. The evidence started piling up when it was [announced](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/mandalorian-finds-boba-fett-temuera-morrison-1293675) in May that Morrison had been cast in the show’s second season. Leading up to his cameo in Friday’s episode, “Chapter 9: The Marshal” dropped a few hints that we’d soon be seeing Boba Fett. For one, the cave where the krayt dragon was living was an abandoned sarlacc pit—just like the one that Fett falls into in _Return of the Jedi_ _._ The trick Mando uses to defeat the krayt dragon—blowing it up from the inside—also seemed to be a nod to the way in which [Fett escapes the sarlacc](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/A%5FBarve%5FLike%5FThat:%5FThe%5FTale%5Fof%5FBoba%5FFett) in the non-canonical _Star Wars Legends_, also known as the _Expanded Universe_. And finally, there was the matter of the abandoned Mandalorian armor that the Marshal (Timothy Olyphant) bought off the [Jawas](https://time.com/5748961/cutest-star-wars-characters/). In the [timeline of the _Star Wars_ universe](https://time.com/5717734/mandalorian-star-wars-timeline/), we last saw Boba Fett in _Return of the Jedi_, when Han Solo blindly knocked him into a sarlacc pit on Tatooine during the sail barge assault. Prior to that, we knew him primarily as a bounty hunter working for Jabba the Hutt, and later Darth Vader, during the Galactic Empire’s tyrannical rule. _The Mandalorian_ is set five years after the fall of the Empire. Although Fett was taught the ways of the Mandalorians and once wore their traditional armor, as a clone, he was nowhere near as committed to their order’s creed as Mando—which is why we have no way of knowing how Fett will react to Mando and The Child crossing his path. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5904965/the-mandalorian-boba-fett/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5904965/the-mandalorian-boba-fett/"},"headline":"An Iconic Star Wars Character Showed Up in The Mandalorian Season 2 Premiere","datePublished":"2020-10-30T13:48:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-24T09:22:11.836Z","description":"Guess who's back","url":"https://time.com/5904965/the-mandalorian-boba-fett/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc1af17bbc7f2124b/6989481016d88450b5c34e6a/mandalorian-disney-plus.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc1af17bbc7f2124b/6989481016d88450b5c34e6a/mandalorian-disney-plus.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Pedro-Pascal-The-Mandalorian","caption":"Pedro Pascal as Mando in The Mandalorian","creditText":"Disney/Lucasfilm","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5904965/the-mandalorian-boba-fett/","name":"An Iconic Star Wars Character Showed Up in The Mandalorian Season 2 Premiere"}}]}] ```