Ewok Species COMPLETE Breakdown (Bio, Culture, History, etc.)

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The Ewok Species lived one of the most insane lives of any creature out there in the galaxy. From endless rituals, gods, demons, aliens, and other sentient species that were always trying to eat each other, the life of an Ewok was dangerous and mystical at all times. See the complete history of this Star Wars species, understanding Endor, their culture, and more, a complete profile pulling from the Ewok show, Caravan of Courage, Battle of Endor, Battlefront games, Return of the Jedi and countless Star Wars books and comics.
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[@mpalfadel2008]

My wife went to school with Aubree Miller who played Cindel Towani Fun fact: Aubree Miller became a jock in high school who beat up anyone who brought up her tv movies

[@Skorpychan]

I honestly like the idea of a Therapy Ewok. You're introduced by your therapist, and you pet the Ewok, thinking it's a cute animal. Then the Ewok introduces itself, and you snatch your hand back in horror at your unintentional assumption, before apologising. It's then explained to you that the Ewok is actually a trained therapist in their own right, and genuinely helps with your problems. They're not afraid to intervene with a fluffy hug when things get too much. After a while, you improve. Your Therapy Ewok becomes more like a friend than a therapist, and during your chats they reveal that their work in therapy is part of how they pay for the import of exotic meats to their homeworld. Human, in particular, is a delicacy. They laugh at your sudden look of shock and horror, only laughing harder as you process the implication of the Empire's defeat on Endor. Then you laugh in turn. Those Imperial bastards deserved it!

[@jonathanstempleton7864]

As a therapist, hugging clients is discouraged and befriending them is positively counterproductive. Professional and ethical boundaries are very important. Don't matter how cute and cuddly you are.

[@Skorpychan]

@@jonathanstempleton7864 Don't get your common sense and reality into the space opera science fantasy! Common sense has no place in Star Wars.

[@benjamincolon5486]

Hope your client isn't a trandoshan

[@klutchbase1623]

I still have nightmares, we were just kids man. They jumped from the trees, we couldn’t see them. Tommy got slammed between two logs man, it was terrifying.

[@HeadCannonPrime]

One last big note. In the Caravan of Courage there is a female Ewok Mystic that gets what looks like a force crystal that looks like a raw Kyber crystal. With it she uses "magic" also could be considered force powers. Also of special note, the force power manifests as GREEN light almost exactly like Nightsister magic. Its never directly stated, but I think it is pretty obvious that Ewoks CAN be force sensitive and the shamans can use it instinctually just like Nightsisters.

[@TheMimiSard]

I like this concept, and it is just something that when you actually sit down and consider CoC is in the Star Wars universe, one realises it is totally sensible. The equivalent idea is that E.T. is a Jedi, because the Asogian Senatorial party seen in the background in TPM (i.e. E.T.'s race as an easter egg), and that E.T. himself can perform telepathy, telekenisis, and [Force] healing. (All of those are exactly what happens in the movie "E.T. - The Extraterrestrial").

[@PinkyJujubean]

Theyre basically sentient bears. I imagine primitive wookies would have been quite similar to ewoks except they were tall and could do the arm socket thing

[@monopalle5768]

you mean the WERE sentient bears.... When we talk about space movies, we use PAST tense, it's more real that way.

[@AdamTehranchiYT]

Oh yes, the Elf-Dwarf-Bears. One of the reasons I like Star Wars is that it has built-in layers to the world building. Hypothetically, any random squiggly in the background has an equal chance to come into focus like the Ewoks. Also, the idea of therapy ewoks is just bananas 😂

[@littlekong7685]

On the whole "Deathstar debris would wipe out all life on the moon", not super likely, the gas giant would attract the vast majority of pieces, smaller ones would burn in the atmosphere, and anything in between had an entire rebel fleet to tractor it into the gas giants path. Anything that landed was probably only causing forest fires at worst.

[@matnolen1368]

Forest fire on a forest moon what's the big deal lmao

[@neofulcrum5013]

Lesson learned: if you’re an invading force(especially an empire), better to have the natives on your side. If not, then find somewhere else to set up.

[@gehrigstory6674]

Unless it's Empire at War, in which case the natives (Most of the time) are little more than a nuisance, compared to the actual enemy occupying force.

[@neofulcrum5013]

@@gehrigstory6674 suffice to say that game had its flaws but being fun helped its overall image

[@mitch7235]

Or better yet, use a ton of defoliation weapons, and incendiaries! After you clear out an area, set down the prefab s for colonies! That’s the 40k way!😂

[@gehrigstory6674]

@@mitch7235 Thankfully, this isn't WH40K.

[@ronyolo8419]

Spain approves

[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

That moon is a goddamned monster factory.

[@alasiadarthe001actual9]

I like alternate history version where wicket would join the crew of the millennium falcon and would be often mistaken as a mini Wookie. They were tough fighters in that story.

[@taitano12]

Ewoks are as delicious as they are vicious, and as nutritious as they are cute. Also, while they object to being eaten as much as any species, they aren't offended by other sapients chowing down. They view sapient meat as just meat.

[@Plaprad]

I think I can see the PTSD Ewok. I haven't read about it, so I have no context for it. But it seems good in my mind and sounds like we're seeing two different things. When you said it, the first thing in my mind was a small, friendly, compassionate, and CRAFTY companion for vets. Not only that, seems like the Ewoks, and especially WIckets tribe actually understood what they were going through. Not like someone else who read about it in psychology class. But someone who understands the brutality of life but is still guided by kindness. I can't really see them as "dogs" or anything like that. Just an Ewok who hangs out with someone for a few months and takes care of them and guides them in a very dark time. Then takes a few months back home showing off the trinkets he picked up with his paycheck. Actually sounds like a great thing.

[@totalCoolerUsername]

You better not be a troubled imperial endor veteran though 😂😂

[@littlekong7685]

Sounds like they would be tribal healers more than companion pets. Run the veterans through rituals, exercises, lessons, and maybe hunts to help them work through troubles and come out the other side cleansed of their demons and ready to sing life songs again. An culture like that would have strong bonds between warriors, and practices to recover warriors and hunters minds and spirits as well as their bodies.

[@Plaprad]

@@totalCoolerUsername "Nub nub!" "AHHHHHH!!!!!1!!!"

[@HeadCannonPrime]

Water Ewoks would be an awesome addition to a Mandalorian episode.

[@elmsigreen]

There is a lot I don't like about Rise of Skywalker but one of the worst things is that the movie took us to another moon of Endor but we didn't see a single Ewok. I'm surprised Disney didn't use the opportunity to bring back Wicket as a guide for the main characters

[@TheVeritas1]

Great idea.

[@marshalllatta2073]

I love the ewoks one of the cutest species in star wars they are definitely one of the unique species in star wars Endor is one of the crazy planet in star wars so many species on this planet l love it

[@Chisszaru]

The small teddy bears. Wookies are big teddy bears, Ewoks are small teddy bears

[@austincorreia53]

Honestly I've always loved Ewoks! 🤘

[@dragonblaster-vu8wz]

I wasn't sure this was a story I needed to hear, but it's an interesting one either way. Also, the Pokémon reference was gold

[@AirplaneDoctor_]

I always wondered if the stormtroopers used them to subsidize their rations as a local source of fresh meat.

[@MetaNerdzLore]

almost certainly if it was so widespread a treat

[@Yaddle265]

I have an idea for you. Make this into a series of all of the species on Endor.

[@AKJames762]

These species videos are always in depth and well executed 👍

[@billyboijenkins8701]

Dafuq are the Shard Species? Sounds hilarious and amazing wish we saw them more in the main series

[@killerflamingo9566]

Sentient crystals that can power droid bodies…..droid Jedi basically

[@violetlight1548]

Ewoks: Proof of why the Prime Directive is sorely needed in the GFFA :P Jokes aside, I loved the Ewok cartoon when I was a kid -- *that* was my introduction to Star Wars. Princess Kneesa is canon, I don't care what the Mouse says. I always wished they could have had a crossover with the Care Bears (both of their cartoons were made by the same animation studio, Nelvana).

[@wheatunrye]

I love the Ewoks. I grew up watching the reruns of the cartoon which, along with the live action films, will always be canon for me. I totally think the Ewoks can be force sensitive because in the cartoon we see Logray use magic which, in the Star Wars universe, comes from the force. They even have a magic crystal, the Sunstar, that focuses his power, not unlike a Kyber Crystal. But the thing that seals the deal for me is Logray's apprentice, Zarrak, who started practicing that dark magic you mentioned, and totally fell to the dark side. Seriously everything he keeps telling Teebo is straight Sith talk. So I totally think they are force sensitive, they just interpret it differently, like the Nightsisters.

[@mitchellb4551]

you getting down right poetic in that description of a life cycle and it worked super well

[@skrymerU]

Not really sure but I think, the 1 wide narrow channels dries out faster than wider, it said something like that in the update note. So it might be worth widening all the narrow channels in order to save water.

[@HIFLY01]

Ewoks stumbling into the Dulok capital: welcome to duloc such a perfect town

[@1977rodi]

Love this video. Thanks for the respect to the saga.

[@feralprocessor9853]

The Ewok culture remind me of the Nora from Horizon Zero dawn, being ablivous to how to fully use technology and prefering to use sticks and stones to take on a challenging superior force.

[@noneofurbusiness5223]

Thanks for giving Ewoks their due

[@jdriley24]

You forgot Lieutenant Kettch of Wraith Squadron!

[@luiscolin7775]

this idea of the Ewoks sharing their moon with the other species reminds me of when Anthropologists say, early humans got to interact with other human species now extinct...maybe making exchanges or going to war with them; while developing primitive language and technology, inventions and constructions now lost to the passage of time

[@SergioLeonardoCornejo]

Ewoks prove a good writer can actually fix a bad idea forced by corporate suits.

[@totalCoolerUsername]

This suit was the biggest of 'em all: Old George himself and his precious merchandising

[@crunchie9362]

Smoke week with the family is what i took away from this, was a good video.

[@Reddotzebra]

"Can't sleep, Ewoks will kill me! Can't sleep, Ewoks will kill me!" - Traumatized Stormtrooper

[@DoctorBored357]

I keep fuckin tellin people. Ewoks are hardcore little bastards. You can go "oh the teddy bears from Return of the Jedi?" and scoff all you want. But those teddy bears will rip you apart with traps and then have a party while your ass is getting slow roasted on an open fire.

[@andrewrakisits9270]

Another great episode dude I love your species series and history of the planets of the star wars universe! Also love background music ! You have one of the best Star Wars channels out there !

[@andreasamardzija1496]

Did you watch the straight-to-video Ewok live-action children's film? That's a path to the dark side.

[@MetaNerdzLore]

Both and the shows. Multiple times because a use I couldn't remember where stuff was. I've gone mad. Seriously the terrible Ewoks show intro has been on repeat on my head for a week plus.

[@alm5992]

In live action they look like big, goofy hamsters, but somehow the animators made slightly creepy raccoons.

[@AironSmieciowy-di3qy]

Great video!

[@dustybunny6716]

I want a therapy ewok

[@bobborlog1677]

People always complain about ewoks but I was born in 1979 and loved the tree world ewok scenes In the original trilogy. Tree world we go hard we go hard

[@scarletcrusader5431]

It's probably nostalgia but I fuckin' love Jedi Rock's

[@merafirewing6591]

Didn't the Ewoks like the taste of the 501st at some point.

[@slothfulcobra]

I'd wonder whether the dulok are even a separate species. Especially if you interpret the cartoon as being largely metaphor for the ewoks' belief system including magic and sentient forces of nature.

[@Mangeosaurus]

Absolutely loved this video on my favourites SW species. I've been waiting a while for you to do the Happy Little Murder Bears. 🐻🏹💀

[@persuasivebarrier2419]

that ewok film was so bad looking back, heh. was still fun as a kid to watch.

[@CptMoroni35]

Ewoks are just Care Bears that sold their magical powers for drugs….. 😂😂😂

[@MetaNerdzLore]

i believe it after watching all 35 of those hellish episodes for this

[@CptMoroni35]

@@MetaNerdzLore 35 episodes?!?! Brother, you have a strong constitution, your seat on the Jedi Council awaits, 😎

[@lostcat7130]

I was just playing Ewok hunt while this video uploaded

[@jm329]

Maybe Ewok jerky isn’t made from Ewoks, just made by Ewoks.

[@MetaNerdzLore]

maybe it is both

[@mrkojak-ci1zm]

I bet the red furred ones taste the best...

[@thaxasaurian]

They’re in the trees!

[@screech-screecher536]

Okay, I may sound crazy but the script he’s reading from 100% sounds like it was partially written or taken for chat GPT. Just the way it sounds and all the descriptors. Is anyone else getting that feeling?

[@EricKaufman-yc2yv]

I’m friends with Margo, the actress spoke about at 31:10. I was a cast member with her at Disneyland too.

[@jm329]

People underestimate Ewoks.

[@chasehedges6775]

💯👍

[@UGNAvalon]

Considering their muscular/stocky frame & warrior culture, I think “mini-Wookie” shouldn’t just be a joke, but an apt descriptor of the Ewok species.

[@mrgrean5441]

Great vid Ewok Ryder 4 lyfe

[@CloneScavengerVulpin8389]

Tiny but mighty.

[@jeremybaker195]

I was always under the impression that Ewoks hadn't had much exposure or contact with alien races. You would think if they had, they would have used scrap pieces of metals left behind for spear tips. Also Wicket was very stand offish with Leia like he hadn't seen a human before. I just thought Endor was a back water moon that space faring species had little too no interest or reason to visit so there for on the rair occur a ship did land they would have been in and out without any real reason too hang out and therefore Ewoks were like hillbillys haven't seen a out side species before.

[@user-yq9im9dk9z]

Can you do complete life of exar kun

[@Machina_EX_Machina]

Ewoks are savage and twisted monsters. Don't buy into that cute and cuddly crap

[@allclassallthetime4739]

hey man, great info and good stuff! listen, i'm more suited to reading about stuff that fascinates me and is there some kind of definitive ewok guide out there that you know of???????? 🥺🥺

[@andresgarcia9436]

Can you do a video about the geonosians Species and the planet geonosis

[@buddyzilla4557]

"Pika pika" is already a real world word. It's an otomotopia for the sound of an electric buzz in Japanese, which is where Pikachu's name comes from. It's a portmanteau of two otomotopia. The other is "Chu chu" which is the squeeking sound of a mouse. I don't hear "Pika Pika" myself in an electric hum but it could be a more universal otomotoia than I personally suspect.

[@thrillhouse4151]

I heard Lucas paid them with alcohol and if you look closely you can see one hanging in the background in the scene where Luke meets the Scarecrow.

[@Pixel22-fs3tt]

Yes! EWOK PILOT MENTIONED!

[@HeadCannonPrime]

The ewoks not having a seat in the Galactic senate is pretty accurate. The US has been around a few hundred years and we still don't have an Indigenous peoples nation seat in congress even though the Haudenosaunee nation has a recognition level. I think to have a seat in the Galactic Senate you have to outright OWN a planet or several. Or at least be recognized as co-owners with another species Where the Ewoks are not really in functional control of ALL of Endor.

[@pilotwhaleproductions5880]

Probably kept eating the diplomats

[@TheManWhoStoleTheShadows]

Reject modernity, return to Ewok.

[@GODCONVOYPRIME]

Do the tuzum get the tism?

[@timothyhunt8424]

What is the game footage used besides swtor?

[@marcelxd1633]

Ewoks the cute and disturbing little teddy bears

[@JohnMarstonJohnmarstonjohn]

15:33 Chipy Chipy chapa chapa

[@missylongbottom2064]

I always wondered why they chose 3PO to worship and not Chewbacca as he was closer to a giant Ewok

[@scarletcrusader5431]

Bogos Binted?

[@ObiClon]

*starts singing Yubb Nubb*

[@TheMimiSard]

Maybe it is better to think of Therapy Ewoks as being therapists, not therapy pets. They stay with PTSD sufferers in a more... sapient manner, like nurses.

[@spacejockeyindustries]

16:15 are the tribal games like our Olympics?

[@feralprocessor9853]

Ewoks = Teddy bears Wookies = Sassquacth Mon kala Mari = Sushi joke

[@kneza3411]

Note to self: Don’t visit Endor

[@dragonweyr44]

I wonder how they can have bonfires in the trees, even funeral pyres?

[@littlekong7685]

Not that hard: Either stone slabs placed under the fires, or wet logs covered in cold sifted ash used as the base and the fires kept manageable through frequent turning.

[@dragonweyr44]

@@littlekong7685 But still, couldn't the embers start fires as well?

[@littlekong7685]

Potentially, but people have been burning fires over wood floors for centuries. Bigger fires mean you need a deeper and wider base to catch embers, and no loose debris that could let an ember catch. An ember on solid wood isn't going to do much. Ash is a decent insulator and easy enough to carry and place under a pyre in large quantities quickly.

[@GODCONVOYPRIME]

Are the Gorph distant cousins of the Gungans?

[@LeDingueDeJeuxVideos]

15:16 Or they can say that to other Ewoks?

[@rottenroads1982]

The old Ewok cartoon was canon until Disney bought Star Wars. Now, it’s Star Wars Legends.

[@eldrahjelm2928]

Dont forget about the Teek species

[@feralprocessor9853]

Pretty adorable 😍

[@JWGasper0125]

oh wow im early for once

[@markusvurrgh4549]

Cook ‘em in their armour. Noted.

[@simlucien]

Dry aged Ewok steaks 🤌🏾🤌🏾🤌🏾🤌🏾🤌🏾

[@AncientRylanor69]

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[@drgonzo305]

So I guess we know where the grinch came from

[@lynxhere703]

Bro, I wanna be an Ewok

[@mrfunatparties6763]

Ewok sith! Ewok sith! Ewok sith!

[@dragonweyr44]

MOON of Endor, not Endor

[@paulsteinhauser434]

The ewok though in bf2 is easy prey. Don't kid yourself.

[@kyuss89]

Cute cuddly....vicious Lil bastards

[@theenchiladakid1866]

Redhead Ewok? They will be replaced be black ones then

[@wrestlingconnoisseur]

Short, squat, and stubby fingered with barely any hand? Not too likely these Ewoks would ever have the manipulation to properly wield a tool or a bow.

[@laurentitolledo1838]

I wonder what the Ewok's Borg designation is (ie. Humans: Species 5618)

[@ceilyurie856]

As a furry, I must say somebody on the Ewok cartoon and comic character design team was TOTALLY a furry, there was no reason to make the females, or males for that matter to look that fuckable and cuddly. Definitely "would"

[@gavinsepicgaming9835]

humans eat ewoks ewoks eat humans ez