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Wookieepedia: Mara Jade-Skywalker

[@shannonlynn7264]

Nicely done. I made the cut! Hooyah!

[@mr.mister2411]

Wait your actually Mara jade?

[@jonathanryan9946]

@@mr.mister2411 Shannon Lynn (Aka Shannon McRandle, aka Shannon Baksa) did play Mara Jade for Decipher Inc and Lucasfilm ltd. She's also going through a lot of medical issues and has a GoFundMe (where she explains her medical issues) www.theexpandeduniverse.com/post/2018/06/16/shannon-mcrandle-mara-jade-needs-your-support-gofundme www.gofundme.com/f/5nttnlc

[@Gothicc_senpai]

i pray you recovery if i ever get wealthy i will donate

[@jastermereel9773]

Mara Jade is one of my favorite characters of the EU.

[@1QuebecSierra]

Ditto

[@JediAcolyte94]

Always did love Mara and her real world counterpart Shannon McRandle. She may have been a Skywalker by name and not blood but she definitely proved herself a Skywalker in spirit and resolve.

[@anangryninja2824]

Definitely more than Rey did that's for sure

[@jeffersongrigg893]

@@anangryninja2824 ooo that's an original comment!

[@ironinquisitor3656]

Mara is such a great character.

[@ncard00]

Check out the animated HTTE fan made adaptation by the channel “Darth Angelus”, it’s incredible, and has the most, and best, Mara Jade on screen we’ve gotten so far.

[@ironinquisitor3656]

@@ncard00 I've heard great things about it.

[@MMZERO9]

As Mark Hamill said best about Mara Jade, “Best woman I never had.”

[@GAdmThrawn]

One of the most badass women in all of Star Wars. A true role model in how one can turn their lives around and become a hero. And she didn't even come from a special lineage. I look forward to adding her action figure to my collection as it is certainly a long time coming.

[@Twister980]

4 Years later, you can add a Black Series figure to that now.

[@crusader2112]

Hey that’s me in your pfp.

[@rjonboy7608]

A truly formidable woman: the arc of her character growth shows her aggressive tendency becomes second to defending those she learns to love.

[@jnew42]

Thank you, that was extremely entertaining, really liked Mara Jade, this filled in a few holes in her timeline.

[@Manda-LORE]

Glad I could Help ;)

[@Simon_White]

Mara is the best character in the Star Wars expanded universe. A dangerous professional spy and assassin, a loving wife and mother, and just a beautiful woman.

[@loganveracruz6328]

She is a mary sue.

[@Simon_White]

@@loganveracruz6328 Why? Can you proof that?

[@loganveracruz6328]

@@Simon_White She's a rusty force wielder that can kill jorus cabath who is a fully trained "dark jedi and kills a luke clone.

[@mrzirak792]

​@@loganveracruz6328 thats not an explanation though. After all she was an Emperor's Hand for a reason. You'd want her to be killed off by these random beasts on Mirkr in HTTE or something like that?

[@loganveracruz6328]

@@mrzirak792 She's a mary sue.

[@IgorSalaj3578]

Hands down, my most favorite Star Wars character overall, I first met her in game Empire at War and it's expansion Forces of Corruption.

[@CassDaMan1138]

What really annoys me about TCW when disney canon didn't exist is they had that episode with Cad Bane where he was kidnapping force sensitive children for Palpatine and that could have been an excellent hint at Mara Jade's origin as she would be the right age to be one of the Acoylytes Palpatine was talking about, but of course the Jedi needed to prevail and they foiled Palpatine's plans. What a waste.

[@delta2372]

Yep thanks disney

[@idkstudios4412]

Tcw isn’t even in the legends continuity. They gave up trying to write it in way before Disney. It actively made absolutely no sense in correlation to the legends clone wars we already had.

[@idkstudios4412]

@@delta2372what are you on about? This was before Disney brother.

[@delta2372]

@@idkstudios4412 TCW is the foundation on which the new canon rests so I consider it part of disney more than the EU

[@macewindu4442]

One of the Best Force wielders of her time. Of course she was great if she chose purple. All the best do :P

[@reversemudkip8798]

Been rewatching some of your older videos. This channel deserves so much more attention

[@FrostAzgori3167]

Better known to all as Best Girl

[@ethancarlson1973]

Mara is my favorite character in legends, thanks for the video.

[@ironinquisitor3656]

Here is a few suggestions Do a video on the Mandalorian Wars, Jedi Civil War, The first Jedi Purge in KOTOR 2, or the New Sith Wars.

[@pml-starwars9043]

20 minutes?! This was worth the wait!!

[@hot7k563]

I’ve really been enjoying the lore videos on this channel. The Mandalorian videos have been especially enjoyable as they are a personal favorite of mine.

[@wolfmechace1338]

Can you do a video on Han and Lela’s legends kids

[@NateIsCorrupt]

I love the Mara J Lord. Keep up the good work!

[@averakair9831]

Thanks for the info Manda-Lore

[@superpaytonmars8852]

Man if anyone deserved to be in the movies..... Edit: then again, I'd hate to see such a badass character be thoroughly ruined.

[@matteocusini8815]

this is a great video filled with great information!! what about doing a video about the Sith god Adendu

[@RikkiLane]

This channel should be so much bigger. I love the old lore. Subscribed and shared.

[@ShinjiIkari1]

One on Ben Skywalker or Vestara Khai next would be awesome.

[@goodman4966]

Man I wish that Mara Jade was sill canon! she was so cool .

[@pilotamurorei]

she is still canon, disney's alternate universe is NOT

[@blackhippy47149]

暗黒騎士 wasn’t canon when you commented this and she’s still not canon

[@mr.mister2411]

She is cannon in the old eu the new and old eu are 2 separate but equal continuities

[@rjonboy7608]

@@blackhippy47149 I don't let greedy dit$ney tell me what books I can't read. Especially when I already own them. That's censorship.

[@blackhippy47149]

@@rjonboy7608 you’re an idiot 😂

[@matthewgaudet4064]

The only character from the EU i love as much as i do Luke from the movies. Disney Star Wars is garbage.

[@richardspears6849]

A great character, one that should be in the official canon, Hear that Disney!!!

[@thefracturedfilter]

I'd simp like hell for Mara or Jan Ors but I always love me red heads. Top tier character 🤌👌 great video sir! Love it!

[@brickcraftproductions3065]

Wish we saw her in the Sequels

[@delta2372]

Sadly we can't have Luke be true to his beliefs, have a good son who is stronger than his father and have a non feminist icon wife who worked to get where she is instead of rey who is handed everything.

[@blackhippy47149]

Delta 23 what a dumb fuck you are

[@Nebulasecura]

@@blackhippy47149 looks like 9 other people seem to disagree with you good sir. And I agree, Disney wasted the sequels’ potential so much.

[@peterparker1683]

Love these videos!

[@nathanshkopiak9060]

Awsome stuff, here's a video idea, vulture droid

[@jastermereel9773]

I'm pretty sure to have read since very many years on Wookieepedia that the events of ESB find place on 1 ABY and the events of ROTJ on 4 ABY.

[@OGStarwars]

Ramon Diez de la Cortina Moyà wookiepedia is wrong. Look at the time line in the legends books or find it online. ANH -0ABY ESB - 3ABY ROTJ -4ABY (which you shared) Shadow of the Empire is the “event” between ESB and ROTJ.

[@Marcusjnmc]

nice, some of this stuff I didn't know, thanks Manda-LORE

[@thecatsays]

Try finding the books and comics. Even Mark Hamill wants them as canon over Disney.

[@Deathbybigmac420]

Thank you, I was looking a solid vid on Mara's history. New subscriber!-:-)

[@ryankyle2467]

Yeah, that was awesome. Too bad we didn’t get that in the last 3 movies!!! Would have been epic!!!

[@Nicokayser77]

Dude awesome transmission . Thanks

[@herooflight7931]

Mara jade the one true owner of the Skywalker lightsaber

[@billwhite364]

The sequels erased Mara, Ben and Jaina from canon. But the woke sequels only hurt the stars wars franchise.

[@averakair9831]

Oh, could you do a video about some of the old sith like Darth Nihilus?

[@gtafans93]

Really hope they bring mara and her son Back into canon. Such a great family dynamic. Just have ben skywalker become cade skywalker and your good.

[@Manda-LORE]

I've always disagreed with the Idea of bringing EU characters into the new canon. They could bring Mara into the new canon but she wouldn't be the same Mara Jade, just an off brand knock off with the same name and vague appearance. I would much rather have Legends continued as an alternate - equally valid time line that way we could have more stories about the *real* Mara Jade, not the mickey mouse version.

[@dennistaylor9495]

Nice video and commentary. Even dressing up.

[@patriciahayes7315]

Thank you for doing a video on Mara Jade Skywalker. Maybe you can do a future video on Vestara Khai, the 16-year-old Sith girl from the Fate of the Jedi series? :)

[@Tactical_Bentley]

Very well organized Intel report Manda-LORE.

[@pouncerw]

I commend you on a well put together video. I have one question. For curiosity sake, why did you not include the events of the Timothy Zahn novel "Survivor's quest" in the timeline? Given that Mara was a Timothy Zahn character creation.

[@lennyaltamura2009]

Great explanation! Keep up the good work.

[@williambacon9843]

Can you do one on Jaina Solo.

[@jonathanryan9946]

My personal Expanded Universe timeline ends at 15:40 the stories after (the "Troy Denning era") derailed all the character growth by basically ignoring the last 10 New Jedi Order books. Then Karen Traviss derailed all of Mara Jade's growth of her last 30 years to set her up going out of character so she could basically make her Mace Windu and repeat the Mace vs Palpatine fight but replace Anakin Skywalker appearing with a plot Mcguffin poison needle. They basically hinted that Mara Jade was in hell or at the minimum purgatory after trying to murder Jacen after that too... it was a complete misunderstanding of everything Mara Jade Skywalker was as a character and all her growth as a character. It's like they only read her backstory on wookieepedia up to the beginning of Heir to the Empire and thought she was still that character and utterly ignored her character in the Hand of Thrawn duology and Survivors Quest where she regretted her past and refused to be that woman anymore If Mara was to be killed off, they should have had the one writer who truly understood her character, Timothy Zahn, do it... and James Luciano should have been the one writing Jacen Solo to explain his massive character derailment to go darkside randomly after all his growth past his old fears that now he randomly hasn't grown past anymore. Jacen is still a hero, Tahiri Veila moved past Anakin Solo's death, Mara Jade Skywalker earned her Jedi Master title and didn't choose to go back to her assassin days randomly, Luke Skywalker wasn't an idiot who didn't notice Jacen Solo falling and think it was impossible, etc...

[@majesticmsfc]

Well said I feel exactly the same. Both Mara a Luke deserved better.

[@wolfmechace1338]

Can you do the Viscount-class Star Defender

[@master11213]

Why wasn't this the sequels

[@thecatsays]

Kennedy claims there's no source material.

[@ashrimpcalledhank]

Wait? What source is this? I remember the last command was simply, Skywalker. In which she believed ment Luke killed Sidious when in fact Sudious was referring to Anakin.

[@ronjon7942]

4:21 Not much is hotter than a tan redhead. Edit, wait, her primary role as Hamd was to stamp out Imperial corruption? She’s gotta big job, then - one of the biggest in the galaxy. Was it The Crimson Empire story where she fulfilled Sidious’ final command by killing the Sabaoth clone of Luke? That was a slick piece of storytelling. I’d have liked a story of Vader taking her down a notch, and I never really bought into her marrying Luke - she was WAY too much for the farm boy. Although Legends Luke isn’t so much of a boy scout. Still.

[@emzonik8851]

Mara was 100% dead after Jacen killed her, she didn't know how to become a force ghost, that's why her body didn't vanish at first it did later but I don't think it's a proof of Mara becomming a force ghost, rather some kind of ritual. Her manifestation appeared to Luke and Ben in FOTJ, but I belive it was just that, her memory used by the Whills to comunicate with Luke and Ben and help to defeat Abeloth. Same thing with Anakin Solo and Jacen. They were all fully dead and while I belive something remained from her consciousness in the netherworld, as with everyone else, including non force sensitives like Jango or Padme, she deffinitely wasn't able to comunicate with the living. As for Cade having a vision of her, that was it, just a vision just like a vision of vader he also had and that was confirmed.

[@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723]

I wonder how the heck do you have a stable family when you are a Skywalker

[@driftwood9705]

Jedi, there can only be one, I am the God of kingdom come, Don’t lose you head, Don’t lose your head !

[@phorz85]

Well, she did never really served the dark actively cuz she was manipulated into the conviction to serve justice n in her ddirect capacity n inside the knowledge she had of her targets n the reasons, she really has been. In terms of her method to use the force, she also was a light sider. Tho' her temper wasn't discouraged, she still wasn't trained to use it as her method to channel the force. Further her anger was seperate from her professional mindset n had nothing to do with hate cuz her use of the force as tool for her job was not personal n she wouldn't allow her judgement to be clouded, leading to really investigate the claims n search those who r guilty n also declair her targets not guilty if she was sure they r. She was by no means just an assassin. Also did we get the confirmation of her not being a dark sider from when she discusses the issue with luke, as well as from vader's statement of her only having some jedi training. I think it's unlikely that it included much philosophy of'em, only practical techniques to use her talent. Her phase after palps' death was actually the first time when she was driven by hate that was personal n her rational based clearly on a selfish perspective. All she blamed luke for was fueled by selfpity n nothing else. She didn't even tried to see anything bad or evil in him to justify her desire to kill him for herself. She was fully ok with hating him 4 her fate of which he had no way to knowor to regard it in his actions eitherway, what she was fully aware. Neither had the order to kill him any meaning exept to hopefully get rid of it. She wasn't compelled by it, it instead turned into another part of her selfish reasons. From her mindset this was the only time we know of her life, that she really would've fallen in theory, but it also was when she was mostly avoiding to channel the force at all, which prolly safed her from really going dark. The 2nd time is of course just after she gave jacen a last warning n told him to b aware of his embrace of the dark side n purposful decision to become a sith. From there she must've known to make herself a target. She not just prepaired herself to a confrontation but all butt drove him into it. Once he didn't bite she went to literally "hunt down n kill him" n welcommed her anger that now was as personal as it can get. Yet even that was not out of a selfish motive, not even latent but pure motherly instinct to protect her child. Besides his influence on ben, nothing of jacens crimes would've been enough to keep her handling the situation that way n it is therefore still a mindset for a forceuser that seems to b really "grey". Her drawing on that hate for the force would've been just as much a practicality without the philosophical underpinnings of the dark side as her "jedi" training was regarding the light side n her personal decision for either path. By knowing n accepting to went into her death if she fails, it was even not unlike the way kenobi refused to keep fighting vader. Tho' she accepted her probable end as a base for a radically different course of action, it was still that decision of forfitting her life for what she believed her best possible chance to protect ben. It's self sacrifice for the sake of others, which is as much a light side thing as it can b and absolutely fundamental in the jedi principles. The exploitation of a corrupting way to use the force, knowing she won't b able to corrupt others anyway n had no goal that included harm to others while bennefiting her not at all, is likely a smaller danger to fall further if she made it, than stuff countless jedi do only after needing to lie to themself or ignore their motives which makes the actual danger. Since it remains a decision at all time no matter how far fallen, so with the certainty to have no selfish reasons at the core to drive ur actions there is no desire to fear 4 the power that seemingly waits, cuz it isn't needed outside that final fight she faced. She either succeeds n is done or fails n is dead.

[@jarrodm9299]

Good video

[@alexpar6102]

4:47

[@kyrakranenburg6686]

Real talk how old is your character

[@Manda-LORE]

Kyrian Kranenburg the original Tadd Lar'ken was born 17 years before the clone wars and deid of old age probably around the new republic era, but I like to maintain the head canon that his ancestors and protoges carried on his legacy after his death

[@jastermereel9773]

There is an error at the minute 9:29 of the video, Luke lost his right hand and his blue lightsaber in Bespin on 1 ABY, not on 3 ABY.

[@OGStarwars]

Ramon Diez de la Cortina Moyà the time line shows ESB is 3 ABY. ANH is 0ABY and there is a time gap between that and ESB that is 3 years. Look up the timeline

[@jastermereel9773]

I apologize, yesterday I looked in Wookieepedia that following Legends timeline the events of Episode V happen on 3 ABY and the events of Episode VI on 4 ABY, that's weird and now I feel confused.

[@Alarcj7]

Too bad these 160 cm of a well-written character are now disconsidered by Disney.

[@generalcjg]

Hey Tadd Lar'ken, I got a question, I have been wanting to read some Star Wars Dark Horse comics set in the Galactic Civil War era (or Rebellion era) since all I've read of comics are the Republic comics (issues 49-80), Purge, Dark Empire, Jango Fett: Open Seasons, Darth Vader comics, and Obsession. Do you have any recommendations for any SW Dark Horse comics set in the Rebellion era?

[@Manda-LORE]

General CJG Star Wars: Empire is good and continues alot of themes from the star wars: Republic comics. There's also a comic series about rogue squadron, which I think is just called rogue squadron, that's good as well

[@generalcjg]

@@Manda-LORE Hmm, ok. I've heard of two Rebellion ones called Star Wars: Rebellion and Dark Times? Are those any good too?

[@Manda-LORE]

General CJG dark times is alright, it's not my absolute favorite. I just wish the Jedi purge era was covered a bit more with other media. Rebellion is good as well, though I don't own much of it.

[@75JUNAKI]

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[@l.l.m.d.k]

Mara jade fell in love with maul

[@jordanhendrix2619]

Su-Cuy gar is pronounced (soo-coo-EEE gahr)

[@Manda-LORE]

I literally do not hear where I'm pronouncing it wrong

[@CassDaMan1138]

I don't think so either, but really It's all about accents really, considering "REAL" Mandalorians have people from all races and species speaking the language so it's bound to have different ways of saying things.

[@SuperJoshdave]

Couldn’t listen the helmet

[@Manda-LORE]

I made this video a few years ago, my newer videos have the helmet sound effects lowered to have my narration be more intelligible and in my last 2 videos, I have removed the sound effect completely except for the intro and outro. I will someday remake this one in my new format

[@Manda-LORE]

Here's a sample of one of my newest videos in my new format kzbin.info/www/bejne/o4HIYntogc-ifdE

[@danielwilliamson6180]

A real shame Mara Jade is a non canon character.

[@delta2372]

A shame the entire EU isn't canon but hey Disney can piss off the EU will always be canon to me.

[@danielwilliamson6180]

@@delta2372 A few weeks ago, it was announced online that Mara Jade will become and that Disney wants my favourite actress Karen Gillan to play her.

[@delta2372]

@@danielwilliamson6180 oh boy cant wait for them to ruin her

[@danielwilliamson6180]

@@delta2372 Have faith.

[@supa4ys843]

Don't get me wrong, I love SW content and especially Mandalorians, but I can't decipher every word you're saying. It's annoying to skip back just to hear a word or two

[@Manda-LORE]

This is definitely one of my older videos that I'll have to redo. My newer videos are far more intelligible

[@elastronomer8462]

I heard every word.

[@itswednesdayscrewironing7576]

George Lucas disliked this video 😄😅🤣

[@loganveracruz6328]

Finally someone with sense in the comment section. George hated that mary sue.

[@DoriansPortrait]

I don't like star killer.

[@loganveracruz6328]

He's an op gary stu.

[@DoriansPortrait]

@@loganveracruz6328 Precisely, he so bad to the bone he almost kills Vader, he helps create the alliance, I think he meets Leah. Yeahhhhh, he's op.

[@harrissyed1417]

Mara Jade must be brought back into Disney Star Wars as with every major pre-Return of the Jedi character and event.