Din Grogu

Din Grogu, also known as The Child, is the deuteragonist of the 2019 live-action streaming series and a supporting character in its 2021-2022 spin-off miniseries . He is of the same species as Jedi Grand Master Yoda and Jedi Master Yaddle.
When piloting IG-12, he was voiced by , who also played Mo Morrison in Lightyear.
==Biography==
Din Djarin accepts the mission of tracking down and capturing a 50-year-old target. The Mandalorian ends up finding the target, which was revealed to be the baby which is the same species as Yoda. In the second episode, the Mandalorian gets attacked by a rhinoceros-type creature, but when it was about to kill the bounty-hunter, the Child uses The Force to levitate the creature, helping the Mandalorian to kill the creature. Later on, the Mandalorian ends up giving the Child to the Client. The Mandalorian asks the Client what he plans to do to the Child, but the Client just responded that it isn't his concern.
Djarin ends up infiltrating the Client's base and retrieves the Child, which got studied by a doctor, who wanted to drain his blood due to his species high M (midchlorian) count. Djarin ended up getting ambushed by other bounty hunters which were forcing the Mandalorian to give them the Child. The Mandalorian was able to escape when unexpectedly, other Mandalorians arrived at the location attacking the bounty hunters, letting the Mandalorian escape with the Child. In the 4th episode, the Mandalorian arrives with the Child on a sparsely populated forest planet named Sorgan to get as far away from the bounty-hunters as possible and meets Cara Dune, an ex-Rebel Alliance shock trooper-turned-mercenary. After the two of them help a local village defeat and drive off some raiders who had been attacking them and restoring peace there, the Mandalorian wanted to leave the Child in the care of the villagers. However, after a Guild bounty hunter appeared on the planet wanting to take the Child, whom is killed by Dune, he realized the Child was not safe there either and had to depart with him.
In 5th episode, the Mandalorian joins an aspiring bounty hunter to capture an assassin. Eventually, the bounty hunter ends up taking the Child hostage, at which point the Mandalorian kills him and gets the Child back.
A couple of episodes after this, Djarin is contacted by Greef Karga, who tells him that Nevarro has since been overrun by the Client's troops, and brings forward a proposition to bring the Child with him to use as bait so they can get close enough to the Client to kill him and free the town. However, since Djarin doesn't have much reason to trust him due to their recent history, he recruits a couple of allies he's made, Cara Dune and Kuiil, to come with him, during which, to his surpise and initial strong distrust, he finds out the the latter rebuilt IG-11, the droid who was sent alongside him to initially kill the Child, and reprogrammed them to protect it instead. They then meet up with Karga and his associates, but at night when they've set up camp, they're attacked by flying creatures, during which Karga is injured and poisoned. However, the Child uses its Force abilities to heal him. 
Due in part to this, the following day, Karga kills his associates before they can carry out their initial plan to try to kill the Mandalorian and take the Child to the Client since he can't bring himself to go through with it, but this still leads to a tense standoff with Djarin and Dune since they already didn't trust him. However, they manage to work out an alternate plan where Dune pretends to have captured Djarin and they have Kuiil head back to the Razor Crest with the Child to safety. The plan to get close to the Client and kill him initially seems to work, but then Moff Gideon, the Client's boss, contacts him, and realizing he was tricked, he has his troops open fire, killing the Client and his stormtroopers, and at the same time, sends a couple of scout troopers after Kuiil, who shoot and kill him right before he can make it back to the ship and take the Child.
In the 8th episode, which serves as the first season's finale, while the situation intially looks very bad for everyone due to Moff Gideon having trapped Djarin, Dune and Karga and having initially captured the Child, IG-11 quickly comes to the rescue by taking out the scout troopers who took him, then arrives to aid the others. They collectively stand up to Gideon's forces, but Djarin is badly injured when Gideon sets off an explosion in close proximity to him. They then retreat into the building where Djarin instructs the others to leave without him and take the Child with them, which they initially reluctantly do, but IG-11 removes his helmet and tends to his wounds, which Djarin allows due to him technically not being a living being. 
They then join up with the others, but Djarin soon discovers, to his horror, that almost all of the other Mandalorians who were situated on Nevarro have been killed, aside from the Armorer. When meeting with her, she tasks him with returning the Child to its kind, namely a Jedi, who can properly teach and train him. After parting ways with the Armorer, the party attempts to depart and get outside through an underground lava river on a ferry, but IG-11 detects a large amount of stormtroopers waiting to ambush them, and sacrifices themself by going out first and self-destructing. Gideon then attacks the rest of them using his TIE fighter, but Djarin uses a jetpack that the Armorer just made for him to engage Gideon and grounds his fighter by successfully placing a couple of bombs on the wing and blowing it off. Djarin then parts on amiable terms with Dune and Karga, who stay on Nevarro, and heads off with the Child to return him to his kind.
To start off the search, Djarin begins searching for other Mandalorians he believes can helpm him find the Jedi. After following a lead to the town of Mos Pelgo, which turns out to be a dead end since the Mandalorian he hears out turns out to be the local sheriff, Cobb Vanth, using Mandalorian armor to protect the town, he continues his search, though not before he helps out the town by convincing them and a local clan of Tusken Raiders to put their differences aside and take down a krayt dragon that's been terrorizing them all in exchange for Vanth giving him the armor. He then agrees to help a Frog Lady by transporting her and her eggs from Tatooine to Trask where her husband is in exchange for information on other Mandalorians. Though they end up crashing on an icy planet and end up getting attacked by a swarm of spider-like creatures, they ultimately manage to escape thanks to the same X-wing fighters who caused Djarin to crash there in the first place. After finally making it to Trask, the Frog Lady and her husband direct him to an inn, where a fisherman offers him to take him to more of his kind. However, on the fishing boat, the men attack him and the Child due to wanting to sell Djarin's armor, but he is saved by three Mandalorian led by Bo-Katan Kryze. 
After helping Bo-Katan and her followers infiltrate and capture an Imperial ship and the weapons onboard, Djarin was directed by Bo-Katan to take the Child to the city of Calodan on the planet Corvus and find the Jedi Ahsoka Tano and to say that she had sent him. Once Djarin arrived, he and the Child soon found Ahsoka. Ahsoka communicated with the Child through the Force, learning that his name was Grogu and that he had been raised on Coruscant at the Jedi Temple, trained by several masters. She tells Djarin that after the Clone Wars Grogu was spirted away from the temple and survived since then by hiding his abilities from others. Ahsoka tells Djarin Grogu's name, and Grogu responds by perking up when his adoptive father says his name for the first time.
Sensing much fear in Grogu and a strong attachment to his adoptive father Djarin, Ahsoka declined to train Grogu as a Jedi. She feared that if she were to train him, his attachment would make him vulnerable to the dark side of the Force, and that attachment would cause him to fall to the dark side as her former Master Anakin Skywalker had. After defeating the local tyrannical magistrate Morgan Elsbeth Ahsoka told Djarin to take Grogu to Tython and place him on the seer stone, where Grogu would be able to decide his future for himself.
Djarin took Grogu to Tython and placed him on the seer stone, where Grogu was able to reach out through the Force in order to contact another Jedi in the galaxy. He was abducted by Moff Gideon's Dark Troopers and taken on board Gideon's cruiser. After finding out where Gideon's cruiser was located, Djarin mounted a rescue mission to retrieve Grogu. Djarin was able to free Grogu from captivity and capture Gideon. Heading up to the bridge Djarin and his allies were trapped on the bridge when Gideon's Dark Trooper droids retook the ship and were preparing to storm the bridge when a single X-Wing arrived. A cloaked figure departed the ship and began easily slicing through Dark Troopers while Grogu and his adoptive father watched on a bridge monitor. After seeing how effortlessly the figure had eliminated the Dark Troopers, the others in the rescue party were afraid to open the door to the bridge, so Djarin opened it himself.
The cloaked figure entered the bridge and lowered his hood to reveal himself to be the Jedi Master Luke Skywalker. Asking Grogu to come with him, Grogu wanted Djarin's permission to go with Luke. Taking him in his arms, Djarin removed his helmet, showing his face to his adoptive son for the first time. Fighting back tears, Djarin told Grogu that Luke was one of his kind and that he should go with him before setting Grogu down. Grogu hesitated to leave until he saw R2-D2 who happily greeted him. Grogu walked over to Skywalker, who picked him up and left with R2-D2 to go back to his ship and start Grogu's training.
In The Book of Boba Fett, Grogu is seen training with Luke Skywalker on a forested world with not many others around. While there, Luke teaches him, among other things, how to jump longer distances and how to better recall his past at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant when a number of Jedi died to protect him during Order 66. However, Luke can tell that he's distracted and that his heart isn't completely in it. He also the senses the presence of Din Djarin, who arrives there to give Grogu a gift he made for him; a chain mail tunic made of beskar to protect him. After meeting with Ahsoka Tano, who convinced Din that his presense will hinder Grogu and agrees to give him the gift on his behalf, Luke decides to present Grogu with a choice; either take the beskar armor that Din left for him, and therefore, giving into attachment, meaning forsaking the Jedi way, in which case he will return him to him, or take Yoda's lightsaber, meaning he will continue his Jedi training, but at the expense of forgoing attachment and likely never seeing Din again.
It is later revealed that Grogu chose the beskar armor, so Luke has R2-D2 fly him in his X-wing to Tatooine, where Din currently is. He intially gets dropped off at Peli Motto's hangar, who then takes him to Din, who happens to be involved in a gang war between Boba Fett and the Pyke Syndicate in the city of Mos Espa due to being among the allies/forces recruited by the former to help liberate the city from the spice trade of the latter. Grogu then accompanies Peli Motto to return to him during the middle of an all-out battle between both sides, during which he and Din briefly share a heartwarming reunion where the latter notices that he got the beskar armor he tried to deliver to him. During the battle, Grogu both helps Din destroy one of the Scorpenek droids attacking him and the others, saving him in the process, and peacefully lulls Boba Fett's rancor to sleep after Cad Bane scares it, saving the city from its rampage. In the aftermath after Boba and his allies have won the battle, earning the citizens of Mos Espa's respect and admiration, Grogu heads off with Din in his new N-1 starfighter to continue travelling with him. 
==Trivia==
*Although Grogu isn't a younger version of Yoda himself, he was given the name Baby Yoda by the Internet, due to him being the same species. Numerous people have called Grogu the biggest character of 2019.
*Some Star Wars fans have pointed out that the reveal of his true name, "Grogu", broke a Star Wars tradition among Yoda's species. Yoda and Yaddle both start with Y, and his true name having no connection to his association (Yoda) briefly disappointed some fans. 
**However, Vandar Tokare was a member of Yoda's species in Knights of the Old Republic, so if one takes Star Wars Legends into consideration then it makes the existence of this tradition debatable, as one could argue for either side. 
*Funko Pops for Grogu were not produced before the series' premiere, because his popularity was severely underestimated. This caught the attention of some collectors. They were not released until sometime in 2020, and an abnormal number of variants were produced due to Grogu's popularity (as you can see above)
*Grogu is the third of Yoda's species to appear in Star Wars canon after Yoda and Yaddle.
**Most fans still claim Grogu is in fact the son of Yoda and Yaddle since they both lived on coruscant. 
*Grogu is the second non-dark side Force-user to perform Force choke after Luke Skywalker.
*Grogu is the second Force-sensitive to stop fires blasts after Kanan Jarrus. But unlike Kanan, Grogu can redirect the fire blasts similar as Yoda can redirect Force lighting. 
**Grogu was revealed to have a very high Midi-chlorian count, which explains his impressive display, as even Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV series needed help to repel fire. Although this is mostly likely due to the fact that Grogu has more experience since his age is over 50 years old.
*Like Rey and Ben Solo, Grogu can use Force healing.
*Grogu is the third known Force-sensitive Mandalorian after Tarre Vizsla and Darth Maul by his Mandalorian loyalist.
*The puppet used to portray Grogu costed $5 million to make and is controlled by two technicians.
*Grogu makes a DLC appearance in life simulator game The Sims 4, as a statue. 
*According to Filoni, Luke is a great mentor for Grogu because he understands what it's like to be with a father figure, which is why Luke offers Grogu the option to return to Mando instead of simply forcing him to become a Jedi.Star Wars: Luke Was the Perfect Mentor For Grogu - But Not the Right Jedi Master
== External Links ==
*Din Grogu on the Inconsistently Admirable Wiki
*Din Grogu on the Love Exalted Wiki
*Din Grogu on the Star Wars Wiki
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