The Complete History of Death Watch

The Death Watch faction is one of the most infamous groups of Mandalorians. We take a look at their complex history and how they changed the course of Star Wars history.
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[@permafrost8322]

The forging of the dark saber probably went like: “Padawan Visla, why is your crystal black?” “Because it looks dope AF” “You *do* know that black represents death and the sith?” “death is *R A D* “

[@RepublicTrooper125]

I feel like Tarre Visla and Anakin would have gotten along. ROFL

[@TheRezro]

Considering unusual shape of the blade. There is reasonable theory that Dark Saber was actually a fancy energy-blade.

[@PopAd6950]

I think it is powered by a krayt dragon pearl

[@CJ_Welch]

@@PopAd6950 interesting idea

[@johnmcauliffe8824]

I think that lightsaber crystals have their color determined by the mindset and philosophy of their users. Visla probably had a very unique ideology reflected in the color of the crystal in Ilum that chose him.

[@bannanafosho]

Video idea: the various Mandalorian clans.

[@levitschetter5288]

YES

[@poshenglishplayz6930]

Yes

[@GoodSoup]

@@VDouble1V do you also know the Fett clan also known as the True Mandalorian?

[@user-jj9hd8qo9j]

Yes

[@dwaldpilar9309]

Hell yea!! I second this motion...

[@mibo250401]

"Kal Skirata, one of the most objectively Mandalorian Mandalorians who has ever Mandalored on Mandalore" I want this quote on a T-shirt or something. It's epic and about my favourite character from SW, so thank you, Alan, for gracing me with it.

[@isaackim7675]

Armorer, “Has anyone unsubscribed to this channel?” No Armorer, “Has anyone forced you to unsubscribe?” No Armorer, “This is the Way.”

[@kenrickhk]

U MUST UNSUBSCRIBE!! IM NOT FOLLOWING THE WAY 😏

[@GoodSoup]

"Only the strongest shall rule" -Pre Visla

[@Torlik11]

Didn't work so well for him

[@internetpleb4854]

Yes but also no he’s got to be mandalorian

[@ndhickson3599]

“Welcome to the club!” - Count Dooku

[@mattd2026]

Waiting for the true mandalorians to come out of hiding with boba leading them

[@occam7382]

Boba's chillin' out on Tatooine like a G with his hot assassin girlfriend. I don't think he's particularly interested in Mandalorian affairs.

[@mattd2026]

@@occam7382 😔 f the writers

[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

Why is everyone overlooking the fact that the Armorer is wearing a Mauldalorian helmet? Thats a HUGE clue!! They are the only Mandalorian faction ever that wore Zabrak horns on their helmets. It basically confirms that the Children of the Watch are a splinter faction of the Death Watch after Death Watch became loyal to Maul.

[@SBG_cam]

the horns are not zabrak

[@kingnova6408]

@@SBG_cam yeah they are lol, you even watch the show? They put them on their helmets after maul took over to show respect to the strongest warrior.

[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

@@SBG_cam Idk man. She seems like a Mauldalorian to me. But hey, at least she'll never do anything like betray her people, right?

[@SBG_cam]

@@kingnova6408 look at every single zabrak in starwars and their horns are not like that

[@neilbodwell9172]

Great video, my only issue is Viszla put up a hell of a fight against Maul. He almost had him a couple times. He did go out with honor though.

[@M0ldyBr3ad55]

I get the feeling that the Children of the Watch are the remnants of Death Watch after the Siege of Mandalore

[@bongofett6992]

Me too

[@M0ldyBr3ad55]

@@swann3482 excellent eye, fellow 19 year old. I've had it since the Sub War of 2018-2019 and I've just never changed it. Honestly not sure where I got it from lol

[@EXPowerBlast]

You would be right, it's in fact 100% confirmed thanks to the French version of Chapter 11, where Bo-Katan calls Din Djarin an "héritier de la Death Watch" (Child of the Death Watch). My theory is that the Children of the Watch, with all their olden rules, would have been an already-existing subgroup within DW, even before the end of the CW, and they're the ones who found Din Djarin. Given that they operated far away from Mandalore, they managed to survive the end of the CW, unlike the main units of DW. The remaining members of those units joined the Children of the Watch and adhered to their rules because they were the only Death Watch faction left, and in that sense, they were the last remnants of that organization.

[@ryanfilmproductions6849]

@@EXPowerBlast I thought that they became the Night Owls lead by Bo-Katan? Unless that was only in rebels?

[@EXPowerBlast]

@@ryanfilmproductions6849 Nah, the Nite Owls split off from Death Watch and became their own thing, whereas The Children of the Watch would be the direct successors of DW

[@StrikerFX47]

Death watch has such an intriguing history in both legends and canon. Excellent video Alan.

[@indianajones4321]

Clone Wars Death Watch motto: “I am Pre Vizsla of Clan Vizsla”

[@wolfgang6442]

Yessir

[@lerneanlion]

Have anyone ever thought of why there cannot be two intergalactic governments coexist at the same time? To be exact, there has never been a law against it at all. So why don't let the Mid Rim and the Outer Rim Territories govern themselves? As long as that they have nothing to do with the Sith or allowing the megacorporations to have too much powers, I think the Jedi and the Republic would be fine with that.

[@Finn_7117]

Because that one will eventually want more power, like that one saying “as long as there are 2 people left on earth, someone will want someone else dead” The republic and Sith empire tried that and it ended pretty bad.

[@lerneanlion]

@@Finn_7117 It does not necessarily has to be the Sith Empire. Like I said, as long as that it has nothing to do with the Sith or the megacorporations, the Jedi and the Republic would be fine with it.

[@Langlang2024]

Like Taiwan and China?

[@lerneanlion]

@@Langlang2024 More like when there were three Islamic caliphates and the Mongol Empire broke into four khanates.

[@arrigo9828]

@@Finn_7117 spy!

[@ThatShyGuyMatt]

This is great, as someone who couldn't get into the animated stuff, now I know things more about what went on.

[@shooter4600]

Magine if we see Clan Skirata in the Mandalorian? That would be dope af

[@thatstoicdude4239]

I think casual & new fans would collectively lose their shit. The rest of us would have a deep seated grin for a while

[@masteroftheassassins]

Jaster’s name is pronounced like you’re saying “master” or Jasper with a T! It’s not “Yaster”!!!

[@junmadine2000]

Some times I think he mispronounces on purpose

[@thatstoicdude4239]

An interesting twist. But I still prefer the traditional “way” as master Jaster

[@jaredbanister369]

Rook kast is defiantely the armorer. The armoror wheres red armor like kast and has horns on her helmet which where only used by the death watch members under maul. We learned what happen to gar saxon in rebels but they never told us what happened to kast. Disney has been enjoying bringing back characters from the clone wars and first movies so likely is kast. Plus there is literally no other female mandalorian from past star wars it could be.

[@L0stEngineer]

Well, I, for one, hope that the children of the watch are death watch descended and not instead related to the clan with an obsession for wrist mounted time pieces.

[@BlackIce3190]

So they’re always honorless savages. There’s a reason most of the Mando’ade threw their support behind Fenn Shysa instead of Bo-Katan, even with that Vizsla toy in her possession.

[@attilathehun5067]

People didn't suppose one of those over the other. Fenn is Legends, and Bo Katan only ever tries to rule Mandalore in Canon. Two completely separate continuities.

[@pyeitme508]

Cool video but still dislike Death Watch (about 5000 members during the early years of the Clone Wars before fractured) because screw terrorists.

[@steffent.6477]

Yeah, I respect their code and wish to return to the old ways but they use cowardly tactics like bombing civillians which is completly unmandalorian.

[@iambetterthanyouokay968]

@@steffent.6477 what do mean the old mandalorians slaughtered thousands of civilians

[@steffent.6477]

@@iambetterthanyouokay968 And they got nearly wiped out for that. Killing millions of civilians during war is something else than terrorist attacks on your own people.

[@TheFlamingManiac1100]

Death watch are not true mandalorians because of that various reasons if terrorist acts

[@dylancooper5118]

Technically the rebellion were terrorists tho

[@Zilla1954]

It's funny how the group who was modeled off of Sith influenced Mandalorians, ended up with a Sith as their leader.

[@Zilla1954]

Death Watch is one extreme, New Mandalorians the other. True Mandalorian society was the middle ground.

[@ariq4209]

agreed, but seems like they’re already gone at TCW era.

[@Zilla1954]

@@ariq4209 Yeah, so sad. I would consider Boba Fett a True Mandalorian however. Boba Fett is the best Mandalorian out there.

[@ariq4209]

@@Zilla1954 eh I wouldn't really say he's the best bcs he worked for the Empire not too long ago. But I think he changed after being eaten by the Sarlacc.

[@riccardienrico5477]

Hey, Generation tech, I wanted to ask if you could make a video about the movie ender's game, and if you maybe could go a bit deeper in how the blasters in their training scene worked? Would be very nice to see something like that

[@addisonchow9798]

Video idea: why the imperium of man is right in warhammer 40k

[@HolyknightVader999]

The point of 40K is that the Imperium is wrong.

[@RobinMelons]

The only Manda'lor I accept is Canderous Ordo.

[@TheFlamingManiac1100]

Heck yes bro

[@damientaylor7480]

FOR MANDA'LOR!!

[@erikurizita6702]

Canderous, Mandalore Preserver. The greatest Mandalore who rebuilt what Mandalore the Ultimate nearly killed.

[@gundammakerworldbreaker6133]

@@erikurizita6702 you are a fool. Mandalore the 3rd. Wanting the strongest to rule, which was the manalorian clans. He care about his clans rising up and showing that they was the strongest people in the galaxy without any force from the light or dark side. The old mandalorians were glory honor seening warriors without any fear of dying. A warrior that feared no death is powerful than a solider that does. They wanting to see if any one can stop them. One Jedi did. All in the name of war and the honor it brings.

[@erikurizita6702]

@@gundammakerworldbreaker6133 Let me put it in a really easy to understand way. Honor is a fools prize, what use is glory to the dead? Guess who told Ultimate that? It’s pretty easy. And he was right. The race was already fractured and broken from the Taang, and the Journeymen were easily crushed once a handful (count it. A handful) easily turned the tide of an entire war. The Ultimate was a fool, too easily manipulated by the Sith. He honestly thought studying the actions of his predecessors leaders, Qel-Droma and Kun, that he could conquer the Jedi too. Which, well, clearly he was wrong.

[@AlexaLexy]

😎video 👌thank you

[@bongofett6992]

Cool

[@KirbyBWebb]

Pretty Good !

[@Merrick_Carey]

It’s interesting that you mention that the old mandalorians were controlled by sith, because death watch who mimics the old mandalorians ends up being controlled by darth maul.

[@aidanshelton4491]

I know it doesn’t really matter but technically the resol’nare should be pronounced ray-sol-nah-ray.

[@MB-mx7vz]

This dude doesn't pronounce anything right. I'm to the point where I think he does it to up his comment count.

[@halberliterpils]

So the True Mandalorians provide the only sustainable way for the Mandalorians.

[@regularguy2807]

Nope cause they don't need bounty hunting.

[@calvinmatthews1527]

I'm just wondering when you guys are gonna do Everything Wrong With TROS.

[@mr_e_monkey8836]

Well, you see, you've got the opening crawl, and the end credits. The only thing wrong with the movie are the parts between those.

[@jamesbp]

Gen tech is the best

[@selfelevation7]

good coverage on Death Watch dog.. Fr..

[@The_Og_Bluego_Raptor]

i am offended you said that maul esily took out pre vizsla that is not true it was a very even fight

[@nobleman9393]

Suggestion: Galactic Marines vs US Marines

[@adameins5622]

It all depends on circumstances of the battle I think. If it was earth contained because the galactic marines got stranded on earth, us marines easily. But if the us marines had to go to them their budget would make it difficult or even impossible depending on how far lol

[@whythough6619]

Already a video mate

[@Hidensee]

Dead Trooperu vs SpecNaz alfa.

[@nobleman9393]

@@whythough6619 That was "Stormtroopers vs US Marines"

[@whythough6619]

@@nobleman9393 oh yeah i misread

[@the-rammersarcanelegends4733]

what was the name of Maul’s “mandalorian clan” and what/who were they?

[@Conehead55]

Death watch he was just the new leader

[@TheFlamingManiac1100]

They were just part of his shadow collective and we’re just called super commandos

[@WilliamJames48]

If I closed my eyes and you told me this was Christian Slater, I'd believe you. Bring the dude w the Helmet back. He was cool.

[@CloneCaptainMaxCC-]

Have you ever heard the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the wise?

[@forgottenshadow4451]

Is it possible to achieve this power

[@CloneCaptainMaxCC-]

Not from a Jedi.

[@josef-ralfdwerlkotte8333]

Do it

[@luisemoralesfalcon4716]

Well, they are very hardcore Mandalorians.

[@lebendigesgespenst7669]

Can I just gush over how neat the concept of Din’s former Mandalorian sect is. How it went from a fanatical off-world fringe of the Deathwatch (a relatively uniform reactionary terrorist organization) to their descendants becoming just a rag-tag group of zealous cultists due to their main tie to Mandalore being cut (or, rather, blown to smithereens) by the purge. It just makes sense that these children who were raised by such fanatical people (who were likely already on the run from the conflict on Mandalore) would, through their isolationism, become this weary cult once their connection to any Mandalorian society or faction is broken by the destruction of Mandalore and the eventual deaths of their “parents”

[@PrimeTime1999]

This is the way

[@SpaceStick]

Hi

[@whythough6619]

Series idea the history of the old republic because well theres no complete series about the entire history

[@thorpeaaron1110]

Tor Visla sounds like the Mandlorian Hitler dreamed of making Germany a powerful empire it was after Germany's unification in 1871 just like how Tor dreams of reclaiming the glory days of the old Mandlorian Empire

[@hemigod2]

By whose planetary cycle does Star Wars lore measure their years?

[@mike-mz6yz]

I think who the children of the watch are is pretty obvious.....they are literally the children of death watch. We know death watch took children as a way of growing their numbers. So what happened when death watch was pretty much wiped out? These children were left on their own.

[@robhou5353]

This episode covers the Pre and Post Vizsla eras methodically! GO 💀⌚ not ⌚💀

[@internetpleb4854]

Both Death watch and the new mandolorans were symptoms of how far the mandalroans have lost their way. The new mandalorians may have brought initial peace but in the long term it made them weak and vulnerable. Duchess Satines blind idealism and fanaticism to peace blinded her to reality. In doing so the people had enough and turned to deathwatch. Death watch may have brought the warrior tradition to mandalorian but a warrior without honor is nothing. Those who followed death watch were so consumed with vengeance and brutality they lost the honor traditions and laws that came from the past so much so that Maul was able to take over despite being a offworlder and they willing bowed to him.

[@iandownes3130]

I thought death watch was that thing that happens to grandma when shes about to die? Or is that hospice?

[@laldagorth]

Apologies, but let what is the source material for all of this? The videos shown are uncredited and unlabeled, so I have no way to know where to read about this or see the source videos.

[@voiceofveriks8693]

Hello there

[@mattd2026]

Make a video on how bo katan was wrong for leaving death watch

[@RandomAussieGuy87]

The Death Watch? You mean the Chamber Militant of the Ordo Xenos?

[@acelennygaming]

Ave Imperator. Purge the mutant, burn the heretic, expel the xenos. Have faith in the Emperor and your aim shall not waver, nor your blade falter. In his name we shall cleanse the stars of enemies of humanity and bring his light to all. - Inquisitor Pre Visla, 30.M40.

[@apacheattackhelicopter8410]

Hello

[@FREELANCER2204]

What do the different number of white strip’s on the children of the watch armour signify.

[@xxxchild_predatorxxx107]

Rank or kills

[@zealotmaster1]

one mando to rule them all

[@amanrahmani2632]

a cool theory is they branched off during the neo crusader era

[@gasmaskguys4965]

Ayy within 7 hours, just need to eake up earlier

[@sergiochavez7530]

Video idea: Beans are alive

[@HolyknightVader999]

Unpopular opinion: the True Mandalorians suck compared to Death Watch. They take money from anyone who would pay, they bumbled into ambushes twice, with the first ambush killing their leader Jaster Mereel and the second ambush getting the rest of them killed by the Jedi, and outside of Jango Fett, they fought poorly against the Jedi and got their entire army eradicated by a small Jedi strike team, with the latter suffering minimal casualties thanks to Jango Fett. Not to mention that their performance against the natives of Korda 6 was sloppy and lackluster, with primitive apes armed with blasters causing large numbers of Mandalorian casualties. That, and the True Mandalorians were slaughtering rebels on Galidraan on the behest of a governor whom Jango knew to be corrupt, sheltering terrorists like the Death Watch. If you ask me, they got what they deserved at Galidraan, and given that Fett would later go on to try and assassinate innocent people like Padme Amidala, it seems that he was no better than the Death Watch thugs he once fought. He just kills innocents for pay while the Death Watch kill people for the lulz. Say what you will about Death Watch, but if you managed to ambush and kill the enemy leader and trick the Jedi into wiping out the enemy forces, that kinda shows Death Watch is the superior military, able to pull fast feints and misdirection to destroy an enemy force like the True Mandalorians. The fact that they were able to increase the size of their forces while pacifists are supposedly ruling Mandalore goes to show how good they were at stealth and recruitment.

[@reniorjd]

Pretty sure the the watch and Death watch are unrelated.

[@LWonderchild]

Bruh how does a wristwatch kill you 😂😂 lmfao

[@wolfsmoke6053]

It's actually pronounced like it looks, Jaster, like Jell-O

[@MasonHarwoodThompson]

The way he said sigil

[@MerkFreeks]

Anyone think that the Vizla and Vizsla clans are the same thing? Like Shae Vizla from KOTOR is the ancient ancestor of Tarre? Similar to how Cassus Fett is the ancestor of Jango

[@TheFlamingManiac1100]

Yes, that makes sense,

[@SBG_cam]

Tarre vizla founded house vizla i thought

[@mylescaldwell1834]

hmm

[@BlackAdam1231]

Who is the Armorer?

[@kat00075]

Also, if the earth gets more crazy, who wants to start the Mandalorians here?

[@Transfixed]

I still hate that the name Pre Vizsla was probably taken from "pre-vis" as in pre-visualization CGI modeling :(

[@STARSILVER117]

The Chad Death Watch

[@TheFlamingManiac1100]

Interesting to see clan vizslas fall from grace from tarre vizsla to then the coward tor vizsla and then to his equal similar son pre vizsla

[@internetpleb4854]

It’s a shame Shae vizla isn’t cannon

[@appo9357]

Why do you keep pronouncing Jaster as Yay-ster? You're the only one who does that.

[@matthewlaflamme9019]

From what I've gathered from past commenters he does it to troll watchers. Like how he pronounces asoka tuh-noh

[@simonpierre447]

I like the death wach

[@anonamouseanonamouse5443]

IM EARLY

[@wilhelmburgdorf9309]

21st

[@lebendigesgespenst7669]

2:10 lmao this reminds me of when reactionary groups try to start shit thinking they’re all big and bad, but then actual high ranking vets see them for what they really are and call them out on their bs

[@zecosmicphantom2788]

Im early

[@wolfattacker1]

Reminds me of usa.

[@InventorZahran]

2:10 Kal Skirata describing the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol:

[@StichzUndead]

good video but you should make it clear the parts that are Canon and parts that are legends.

[@villainova8941]

Alan Musk, the Elon of Star Wars

[@PEZ1514]

Are you Kyler Murray by any chance?

[@sawyerwelle]

The children of the watch aren't deathwatch since the children of the watch were banished from mandalore and the death watch called them traitors

[@thefanwithoutaface8105]

Death Watch: Aka the idiots responsible for losing Mandalore and nearing bringing Mandalorians extinct.

[@TheFlamingManiac1100]

And causing the mandalorian civil war

[@cobracommander8133]

Lol you guys made up a whole group “Children of the watch” from a misinterpretation of a line of dialog. Child of the watch = A foundling raised by Death Watch.

[@mikiroony]

But with a cult and set of values coming with it? Some elder had to justify this "way of the Mandalore".

[@TheFlamingManiac1100]

The children of the watch are a sub faction from death watch, it’s like all of the children raised by death watch created their own faction and broke away from mandalorian society

[@cobracommander8133]

@@TheFlamingManiac1100 Where was that stated?

[@TheFlamingManiac1100]

@@cobracommander8133 it comes from the name "children of the watch" those who follow their own ideals, although i will admit this is an assumption

[@magiv4205]

The fact that Din's faction seems to keep its members largely in the dark about much of Mandalorian history suggests to me that they're not necessarily part of a main faction, but rather one of the groups that split off from the original Death Watch during the Civil War but still closely adheres to their ways.

[@crazyeyez1502]

666th like 🤘

[@ryanhayes68]

Where is you helmet? Is this not the way anymore???

[@TheFlamingManiac1100]

The helmet rule is retarded, and it only applies to the children of the watch not any other clans and factions

[@wolfgang6442]

@@TheFlamingManiac1100 Yeah that's facts, and here I was thinking that was a brand new rule all mandorloians in hiding had to follow!

[@prawny12009]

@@wolfgang6442 I think Disney retconed it so they could have some special guest mandalorians.

[@kat00075]

I not even kidding.... you should get a degree in this stuff....

[@MindForgedManacle]

I feel like brining up "cancel culture" in a topic about a rogue faction trying to overthrow a government by force and killing is not very sensible, lol.

[@drmaxwellandminecddp1116]

✝️ Fellowship invite

[@wolfsmoke6053]

I think you pronounced literally every name incorrectly

[@captainsplatt3r334]

What if Bo Katan + Pre Vizsla = Paz Vizsla

[@machinelifeform5623]

doubt

[@captainsplatt3r334]

@@machinelifeform5623 I mean it's not impossible because in the Mandalorian series Paz is around 20-30 years old while Bo is around 50 so if you do the math he would of had to of been born near the end of the clone wars/beginning of the empire's reign and Bo would have been around 20 years old. And yes I know that Pre Vizsla was killed off at the end of the clone wars by Maul. But even if Paz was concieved before Pre Vizsla was killed then that could still mean that he would have been born near the end of the clone wars/beginning of the empire's reign.

[@SBG_cam]

@@captainsplatt3r334 she was 16 during the clone wars…

[@zefft.f4010]

People can certainly be nostalgic for times no one alive lived through. Indeed, it might be easier to romanticize the distant past, since no one is around to argue it with personal experience. For a real-world example; Benito Mussolini and his fascists were nostalgic for the Roman Empire.

[@breakout3348]

MAN ALL you early commenter need a life

[@adameins5622]

Says the commenter 😂

[@adameins5622]

We all do lol. Even you.

[@breakout3348]

@@adameins5622 Nice to see you can grasp at the concept of sarcasm

[@JumpPackGentleman]

This is absolute anti-Death Watch propaganda

[@thadmeboy1129]

Deathwatch is based

[@0-Templar-0]

*Noooooo* They are not terrorists! They are acctualy based and redpilled and have a hot mandalorian mama as their leader!

[@JediSharke]

Weak ideology regarding cancel culture!!! Politics or cool sci-fi stuff, pick a lane!!!!!!

[@SBG_cam]

eeeeee

[@rappakalja5295]

Lmao what? A New Hope was the most political scifi flick of its time.

[@justincameron9661]

This is the way