Kanan Jarrus

## Character Information

### **Interests:**

Helping others, his friends, rebelling against the Empire, training Ezra, being with Hera

### Dislike(s):

Galactic Empire, Clone Troopers (formerly), protocol, Darth Maul, Ezra using the Sith Holocron, being blind, Sabine's artwork on his possessions

### **Affiliation:**

Jedi Order
Galactic Republic
Rebel Alliance

### Power(s) & Abilities

Power of the Force
Skilled in lightsaber combat
Leadership
Skilled pilot

### Weapons

Holocron
Lightsaber

## Series Information

### Voiced By:

Freddie Prinze, Jr.

**Kanan Jarrus** (born **Caleb Dume**, callsign **Spectre-1**) is the deuteragonist of the animated television series, *Star Wars Rebels*. He is a Jedi survivor of Order 66 and led a motley crew called the Spectres and discovered Lothalite teenager Ezra Bridger and took him in as a Jedi Padawan.

Before the series, Kanan met Hera Syndulla, daughter of Clone Wars hero Cham Syndulla and her Droid C1-10P (called Chopper). Soon, they were joined by the Lasat, Garazeb Orrelios and the Mandalorian girl, Sabine Wren and Lothalite boy, Ezra Bridger.

## Background

### Training as a Padawan

Born Caleb Dume, he was strong with the Force and taken to Coruscant, where he was raised as a Jedi and, according to Kanan, never knew his parents. With all the Younglings, young Caleb Dume was taught by Yoda, Grandmaster of the Jedi Order and was once classmates with Ahsoka Tano, whom he briefly sparred with when she was Anakin's Padawan. He first met his Master, Depa Billaba, when she was submerged in the bacta tank after being severely injured in battle. Caleb immediately felt a connection to Depa, enough to wake her from her coma. Since then, Caleb hoped to become her apprentice when he reached the rank of Padawan, and was more motivated when he learned she did not have one. Caleb passed his trials, as well as his friends Uzuma and Quid. Caleb attended classes led by Jocasta Nu, where Masters chose their Padawans, and one by Obi-Wan Kenobi, who Caleb had given the idea to light a beacon for Jedi not to return to the Jedi Temple.

When Caleb told his "friends" that he wanted to become her apprentice, they found it highly unlikely and told him that she was still damaged from a defeat on Haruun Kai. Caleb went to Depa and asked her what had happened. As their conversation went on, it was interrupted by Rackham Sear, a captain of the Confederacy of Independant Systems, who was planting bombs. However, Depa saved Caleb from the upcoming explosion, but the CIS captain decided to committ suicide. Impressed with Caleb, she asked him to become her apprentice, and he accepted; however, one of Caleb's friends warned him he wouldn't be safe with her; However, Caleb refused and accepted becoming Depa's Padawan to get a kyber crystal for his new lightsaber.

Together, the two fought side by side in the Clone Wars with the Clone Troopers under their command. However, when Palpatine issued Order 66, turning all the troopers against Caleb and Depa, who urged her Padawan to run while she held them off, promising to be right behind him. However, Caleb watched as his Master was gunned down by the men who once served her; however, Caleb was forced to flee.

### Following his own path

Only left with his lightsaber, Caleb survived Order 66 but with extreme guilt that his master died protecting him. He formed a partnership with Janus Kasmir, who advised Caleb to go incognito. Following the pirate's advice, Kanan cut off his Padawan braid and locked his lightsaber away while also abandoning the ways of the Jedi. Kanan ended his partnership with Kasmir after he had saved him from two members of Caleb's former battalion. Stealing a ship, Caleb Dume was reborn as Kanan Jarrus after finally deciding to follow his own path.

Despite being under the mentorship of Okadiah Garson, Kanan often drank alcohol and became a womanizer. However, his life changed when she met Hera Syndulla, who was investigating the planet Gorse due to the villainous crimes of the Count Vidian. During the mission, Kanan revealed his Force-sensitivity to Hera when he saved her from attacks from the enemy ship, the *Ultimatum*. Afterwards, Hera promised not to reveal his nature to Kanan after he became a member of the *Ghost* crew, eventually meeting Garazeb Orrelios, who Kanan had found, and Sabine Wren, who became the Fourth and Fifth Spectre of the *Ghost* crew.

## Star Wars: The Clone Wars

In the waning days of the Republic, Caleb, accompanied by his master, was in attendance of a war meeting consisting of Yoda, Mace Windu, Plo Koon, Aayla Secura, Commander Bly, Ki-Adi-Mundi, and Commander Bacara, revealed he was at the Jedi war council meeting seen in *Revenge of the Sith.*

### *Episode Appearances*

* "Old Friends Not Forgotten" (Hologram and flashback)

## Star Wars Rebels

### Season 1

#### *Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion*

While Kanan and his crew were stealing crates of food and blasters from the Empire, he sensed the presence of another Force-sensitive: Lothalite teenager Ezra Bridger, who also robbed the Empire shortly after Kanan and his friends took out the Imperials on charge of guarding the supplies. Kanan and Zeb chased Ezra and the former cornered the boy on his way Back to his tower while Zeb reluctantly agreed with Kanan to return to the *Ghost*. Kanan told Ezra to surrender the crate he stole, but Ezra was able to escape him when a TIE fighter attacked them. After being picked up by Hera on the *Ghost*, Kanan came to Ezra's rescue for the first time, saving him from a TIE fighter attacking him and offering Ezra a ride. Having no other option, and several TIEs coming inbound, he followed with Kanan's suggestion. The former Jedi unwittingly witnessed Ezra using the Force by jumping on the ramp of the *Ghost* with a heavy crate. After Kanan left Sabine and Zeb in charge of Ezra, he went into the cockpit and explained to Hera what had just transpired as they tried flying away from the TIEs. Impressed, Hera came to suspect Ezra was Force-sensitive because Kanan explained to her how the boy held onto a crate. However, Kanan refused to believe it and said the only reason Ezra was able to hold onto the crate was because he was there to save him. Soon, he looked back and saw that Ezra was gone and asked Zeb and Sabine where he went. Though Zeb put Ezra in one of the containment units, the boy had already escaped, easily frustrating Kanan and the crew. However, Hera began to see how much Ezra was like Kanan, but the Jedi dismissed her, deciding to worry about the kid later. Instead, he went to fire at the dome guns of the Ship, buying Hera enough time to finally escape the TIEs and leaving Lothal, taking Ezra with them.

When the *Ghost* returned to the planet, Kanan and Hera went to deal with pirate and crime lord Cikatro Vizago, delivering the crates of blasters. Vizago gave Kanan and Hera half of the credits they needed with information of where the empire was taking a bunch of Wookiees slaves. With new information, Kanan was alerted by Chopper that Ezra broke into his room. He found Ezra was in his home holding his lightsaber before he proceeded in kicking the boy out and taking his lightsaber back, but Ezra also stole Kanan's holocron. However, Kanan was aware that the holocron was in Ezra's possession and hoped to secretly test if Bridger really did have Force-sensitivity.

Taking Vizago's knowledge, Kanan began preparing an operation to rescue the Wookies and briefing his crew on the mission, but they found Ezra was eavesdropping. Hera decided to keep an eye on him while Kanan took Sabine, Zeb and Chopper on the transport where the Wookies supposedly were at. Though they couldn't fool two Stormtroopers that Zeb was a rare, hairless Wookiee, the Lasat knocked them out. As they boarded the ship, Kanan and Zeb went to where the Wookiees were supposedly being held: however they were unaware it was a trap set up for them by the Empire. Ezra, after being convinced by Hera, warned Zeb and Kanan that it was a trap, and they found it true when they found Stormtroopers on the other side. Though Kanan and the crew was able to escape, Ezra was captured by ISB agent. The crew began to argue whether or not if they should save him, with Zeb and Sabine unsure if they should save a kid that they hardly knew. Kanan sided with Hera and Chopper. Kanan boarded the Star Destroyer with Sabine and Zeb, where they met with Ezra Bridger, who had already escaped. Now with Ezra, Kanan and his friends escaped aboard the *Ghost*.

Ezra then told Kanan, Hera and Sabine that he knew the Empire was actually taking the prisoners to the Mines of Kessel and decided to join them on for the rest of the job. During the mission, Kanan, Zeb and Sabine provided the
distracting while Ezra went over and unlocked all the Wookiees from their bonds. The rebels and the Wookiees teamed up together when Agent Kallus and his Stormtroopers appeared on Kessel. There, Kanan was forced to reveal himself as
a Jedi to Kallus and several of the Stormtroopers. It was giving the Rebels enough time to put the Wookiees in a transport unit and get locked onto the Ghost. When Kanan learned Ezra had gone off to rescue a Wookiee child named
Kitwarr, the Jedi rescued Ezra and Kitwarr from Kallus.After the wookiees departed, the crew decided to return Ezra back to his home During this time, Ezra stole Kanan's lightsaber yet again.

When they arrived on the planet, Kanan was given his holocron back while Ezra kept his lightsaber. Realizing that the holocron was opened, Hera saw that Ezra had passed the test. Kanan went to Ezra's tower and revealed that Ezra had the Force because he wouldn't have been able to open the holocron. He proposed to Ezra that he could keep the lightsaber as a useless relic and remain on Lothal or learn ways to become a Jedi. After a hard decision, Kanan gained a Padawan in Ezra, who returned his lightsaber to him.

#### Training Ezra

However, Kanan was hesitant in training Ezra, as he further delayed his Jedi training, as mentioned by Ezra and Hera. After seeing Ezra use the Force to save Zeb, Kanan decided that their Jedi Lessons would start the very next day.  ("Droids in Distress")

When they began training, Kanan thought he was unfit to mentor the teenager. Only thinking of what was best for Ezra, when the Ghost crew learned of Luminara Unduli supposedly surviving the crew, Kanan thought she would be better at teaching his Padawan instead. However they were too late because Luminara had been dead since the beginning of the Empire and that the Inquisitor used her bones to lure other Jedi out. Because Ezra had no skills with a lightsaber yet, Kanan was left to fight the Inquisitor himself while protecting his Padawan. They were able to escape and reunite with Sabine and Zeb before being rescued by Hera. At the end of the episode, Kanan told Ezra he was not ditching him and told him that he was just trying to find a better teacher for him. Ezra really just wanted Kanan to be his teacher and doesn't want anyone else. Kanan realized he was done trying to teach his Padawan but that he was going to teach Ezra.They stick with each other, both Master and apprentice reconciling with one another and this time, trying lightsaber skills without Zeb and Chopper watching them. ("Rise of the Old Masters")

When a shipment of kybercrystals were sent out by the Empire, Kanan and Hera had to intercept it. However, he ewas reluctant sending his padawan for his first solo mission. However, Hera assured Kanan Ezra was capable of doing this. His anger and worry only increased when Sabine reported that Ezra had to stay behind at the academy to retrieve the decoder. The next night, Sabine reported in that they had the decoder and sent the transmissions. As Kanan acknowledged Ezra and Sabine's success, Sabine revealed Ezra stayed behind yet again before they were out of range. Fit with worry, Hera promised they would come back to save their teammates when they stopped the shipment.After stopping the shipment, Kanan and Hera returned to Lothal, where he warmly welcomed Ezra back, glad to see that his Padawan was safe and that Ezra missed being on the Ghost. The whole experience taught Kanan that Ezra was capable of taking care of himself.

As the show went on, Kanan took his role as Ezra's teacher rather seriously, and showed him how to train creatures. However, he failed to realize that something was bothering his Padawan until Ezra revealed he did not mean to wear Kanan out on their mission; however, today was bothering him, as it was not only Empire Day but his birthday. However, Ezra refrained to share the last information with his master. Later, at Jho's diner, Ezra pulled out of his team's mission to disrupt the Empire's ceremony on the day it was founded, getting worried looks from Kanan, who was only further concerned for Ezra's wellbeing. Later, Ezra saved Kanan from being arrested by a Stormtrooper by pretending to be a son looking for his father. Kanan thanked Ezra for the favor. Later, Ezra took his friends to his home, where Ezra revealed some details of his past, mentioning his parents and their past friendship with the Rodian Tseebo. Kanan gave his student sympathetic looks when Ezra revealed his parents were taken from him when he was seven. He later learned from Tseebo that today was Ezra's fifteenth birthday. However, he never confronted Ezra about it, believing he was trying to solve his own problems. Later, Kanan stepped into protect Ezra by stopping a Stormtrooper from assaulting Ezra.

After the *Ghost* crew made their escape, Kanan tried talking reason into Ezra when he was still angry about Tseebo's role in failing to save his parents and that despite everything, Ezra cared about Tseebo. Kanan later announced he was going to take Ezra to Fort Anaxes and tame the Fyrnocks there to finish off the Imperials; he also promised to stand beside him throughout the whole time. Kanan overheard Ezra and Sabine's conversation and learned that Ezra had managed to get through life on the street this long by surviving. Later, on their way to the asteroid, Kanan soothed Ezra's troubles and told his Padawan he was brave by admitting he was afraid. Kanan later advised Ezra to let go of what he was afraid of when they were trying to tame the Fyrnocks and smiled proudly when Ezra finally succeeded by forgiving Tseebo. However, though Ezra was controlling the Fyrnocks rather easily, he immediately broke from it when Ezra saw Kanan was knocked on conscious and being attacked by the Grand Inquisitor. He sought to protect Kanan, especially temporarily falling to the dark side of the Force and rushing in to protect him. In doing so released a gigantic Fyrnock. When Ezra fell unconscious, Kanan ignored the Grand Inquisitor when he fought off the Fyrnock and immediately brought Ezra into his arms and immediately revived him. As soon as he woke up, Kanan comforted Ezra and carried Ezra back to the safety of the *Phantom*. After the duo made their escape, Kanan apologized to Ezra on how unprepared he made his student and failed to realize how much Ezra's powers were growing, especially letting him Tap into the dark side. Kanan later wanted to give Ezra some time to himself. ("Empire Day", "Gathering Forces")

Despite Ezra falling to the dark side, Kanan decided to test Ezra yet again by taking him to the Lothal Jedi Temple. However, they were forced to split up when Ezra had to find a way to pass the test. Kanan revealed to Yoda that he does not hold back because of doubting Ezra's talents. When Ezra showed Kanan his kybercrystals, Kanan was proud of his student, especially not expecting it to happen, and had to explain to Ezra that the kybercrystal was used to power up lightsabers. He later helped Ezra construct it by giving him spare parts. Ezra let Kanan try it out, and the young man admitted that this lightsaber was different and admitted that it suited his apprentice. ("Path of the Jedi")

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