Quail-Gon Jinn

**Quail-Gon Jinn** is a Jedi Bird and trainer of the later leader of the Bird Rebels, Obi-Wan Kaboomi, with Quail-Gon becoming the second-in-command. Born on the planet Coruscant, Quail-Gon traveled to the planet Naboo to train his Padawan Obi-Wan Kaboomi. After enough training and a few annoyances, Quail-Gon trained Obi-Wan enough for future battles to become a Jedi Bird. Unfortunately, something bad happened to Naboo one day…

When Emperor Porkatine attacked Naboo, Obi-Wan and Quail-Gon Jinn set off to save the planet from his control and free the inhabitants, Peckmé Amidala, Captain Panaka, and Jar-Jar Wings. On their way, they meet the master Jedi himself, Yoda Bird, who guides the two throughout Naboo to fight the Battle Pigs and save Amidala, Panaka and Jar-Jar Wings. However, despite their efforts, they were outnumbered and were forced to retreat, with Quail-Gon pulling Obi-Wan into the ship to avoid getting hurt on the flight.

Unfortunately, the ship is shot down by Porkatine and lands on Tatooine where they meet Redkin Skywalker. With their ship destroyed, they go around Tatooine battling the invading Battle Pigs and working to defeat the cheating Podracer pig Sebulba Pig. After defeating him and having enough money to leave the planet, they have a sudden run-in with Porkatine and his two minions: Count Dodo and Darth Moar. Quail-Gon deals with Count Dodo, being his master and fueled with rage at his unexpected betrayal, while also helping Obi-Wan Kaboomi battle Darth Moar, only to be killed by Moar himself.

He is a major protagonist in Angry Birds Star Wars II: The Series, and is another Star Wars counterpart of Matilda. He is voiced by Ghost of Grandpa Jackson.

## Roles

He serves as the deuteragonist of the Naboo Saga, serving as one of the two main protagonists of Season 1: Naboo Invasion, the deuteragonist of Season 2: Escape to Tatooine, and the heroic main protagonist of the Pork Side post story. He also serves as the posthumous overarching protagonist of Season 3: Battle of Naboo.

## Appearance

Being a genderbent version of Matilda, Quail-Gon lacks any appearance details compared to Matilda; no eyebrows, cheeks, black-feathered belly, tufts of feathers or even a feminine voice to go along with it. His beak, however, is more curved and pointy, with the upper jaw being longer and bigger. He has long hair that he ties back to have full visibility, a brown Jedi robe and tunic for clothing, and has long eyebrows and a mustache and goatee.

## Personality

Quail-Gon Jinn is rebellious, determined, daredevilish, grumpy and brave. The bold Quail-Gon often does things his way, usually succeeding, or oftentimes failing because of his reckless nature. Because of this, he hates to go with the others, and this personality clashes with Yoda’s amiable, sometimes worrisome, easy-going and calm persona. Because Yoda wants Quail-Gon to go calm with his path to avoid getting hurt, Quail-Gon refuses to listen and this strains their relationship. This is further explored in “E.F.N. (Escape From Naboo)”, where Yoda and Quail-Gon squabble during the final battle before reconciling to save Peckme, Captain Panaka and Jar-Jar Wings, showing that Quail-Gon has a little compassion to follow Yoda’s orders. However, Yoda has forbidden him from admission to join the Jedi High Council because of how reckless he is, despite proving beforehand that he is a great teacher to Obi-Wan and a worthy Jedi to fight the Pork Side, showing that even though they work together, they still have a slightly strained relationship.

He is also very determined, and would choose the missions that would frighten most Jedi Birds and dare to take them on for himself. This characteristic is further explored in “Turret Trouble”, where he takes it upon himself to go through the forbidden tunnel where the turret for Redkin’s Podracer is lost. Despite suffering through numerous challenges, Quail-Gon was persistent enough to survive each challenge and obtain the turret, but at the same time, is ultimately left weak and has to recover all of his strength. Quail-Gon even saw great power in Redkin and was blinded by recklessness to not know the monster Redkin would become in the future, mostly due in part to Quail-Gon’s early death. This even shows how determined Quail-Gon is when reencountering some old enemies of his such as Count Dodo, after reuniting with Count Dodo after leaving Tatooine, Quail-Gon immediately becomes fueled with rage at the first sight of him. Quail-Gon’s rage at Count Dodo even goes back as far as when Dodo was fully corrupted by Emperor Porkatine, when he himself saw Count Dodo abandon him and join the Pork Side, and this leads to Quail-Gon training as hard as possible on his own, training to get vengeance on his old master. Despite being determined, though, Quail-Gon will sometimes be thrown off-course or shocked, specifically in “Moar Moonlight”, where he becomes shocked to learn that the Sith are still around since all of the Jedi thought they went extinct long ago. This also makes Quail-Gon wish the Sith, especially Darth Moar, were still perished long ago.

Quail-Gon can also sometimes be grumpy. This is first demonstrated when he first started training Obi-Wan, where he would constantly mess up and anger him sometimes. Thankfully though, Quail-Gon managed to maintain the balance of his anger and calmness enough to see the Padawan grow and get better control over the Force and use of his Lightsaber, and was patient enough to show him some new lessons.

## Powers and abilities

* **The Force:** Like Obi-Wan Kaboomi and other Jedi Birds, Quail-Gon is able to use the force

### Weapons

* **Lightsaber**: Like the other Jedi Birds, Quail-Gon Jinn has a Lightsaber which is colored green, similar to Yoda and Red Skywalker’s (after becoming a Jedi) Lightsabers.

## Trivia

* Quail-Gon Jinn is the first Matilda variant to not be female.
* Many fans call Quail-Gon Jinn “Genderbent Matilda”.
* Quail-Gon Jinn’s design seems to be based on the appearance of Matilda’s original appearance.
* Whenever Quail-Gon Jinn gets hurt, his hair ruffles up and his dark bags under his eyes become purple, indicating a black eye.
* Quail-Gon is one of the three protagonists to be born on Coruscant. The others are Moa Windu and Obi-Wan Kaboomi.
* Quail-Gon training under Count Dodo is ironic considering how the Pork Side and the Bird Rebels have been at war for years.