History of the Mandalorians

This Is the Way
…but why?
 
From the Show
The first time we hear the iconic phrase is in Season 1 Episode 3: The Sin.  This occurs when Din Djarin meets with The Armorer and other members of their tribe.  This is also where the so called creed is first mentioned.  Din’s tribe lives and dies by the Creed, which at the time we meet them included the prohibition against removing their helmet in front of any living person, the obligation to win fights honorably, the need to stay hidden, and the prioritization of children.  Actions derived from following the Creed are punctuated by the declaration, "This is the Way."

The History of the Mandalorians (Canon)
True Canon Mandalorian history is hard to figure out.  It’s unknown what elements from previous novels, comics, and games will be folded into their history and background.
"Mandalorian isn't a race. It's a Creed." ―Cara Dune & Din Djarin
This is true today but the first Mandalorians did in fact originate from the planet Mandalore, an outer rim planet. The leader of the Mandalorians was known as the Mand'alor, translating to "Sole Ruler".   Years of war left the planet inhospitable, forcing the Mandalorians to live within domed cities.  In their past, the Mandalorians quickly expanded to take over their sector, and even tried to penetrate the galaxy's inner rim only stopping once the Jedi pushed back.
"When one chooses to walk The Way of the Mandalore, you are both hunter and prey. How can one be a coward if one chooses this way of life?" ―The Armorer
Wearing distinctive armor, they were feared throughout the galaxy, and had political influence over two thousand other star systems.
Due to civil war, Mandalore was split between those who sought a peaceful society and those who held on to their violent roots.
"We are the Death Watch, descendants of the true warrior faith all Mandalorians once knew. Now my people are living in exile because we will not abandon our heritage. Our people were warriors. Strong. Feared! Now they're ruled by the New Mandalorians who think that being a pacifist is a good thing. They've given away our honor and tradition for peace. Duchess Satine and her corrupt leadership are crushing our souls, destroying our identity. That is our struggle." ―Pre Vizsla
During most of the Clone Wars, Mandalore was led by Duchess Satine Kryze. Near the end of the war, she was overthrown and killed by Maul and his Shadow Collective which established former Prime Minister Almec as the face of Maul's rule. After the Siege of Mandalore and the Imperial occupation that followed the end of the Clone Wars, Gar Saxon led the planet as Viceroy for the Empire until his death. His brother Tiber Saxon succeeded him as Governor until his death.
 
The History of the Mandalorians (LEGEND)
This info is currently categorized as “Legends” and therefore non-canon.  However a few items of note are worth mentioning as elements of them have been referenced in The Mandalorian.
According to legends, The first Mandalorians were decended from the Taung, an ancient species of Humanoid simians indigenous to the galactic Core World of Coruscant.  The Taungs were warriors from youth, and viewed battle as a source of honor both for the individual and their gods.
Taung society was nomadic and clan-based. Veterans of successful campaigns were honored, and looked upon with reverence. These battle-tested elders became chieftains, de facto leaders of their clan and community; higher authority came only from the Mand'alor, a title that meant "Sole Ruler" in the Taung language, and a role that embodied a single leader of all the warrior clans.
Eventually, after hundereds or years of war, The Taung were driven from Coruscant and fled to the outer rim of the galaxy.  Their leader, Mandalore the First, found another planet in the Outer Rim—a world of multiple ecosystems, uninhabited by intelligent life, and dominated only by a race of non-sentient creatures of colossal size known as mythosaurs—and claimed this new planet as their own.

The Mandalorian Season 2 Sneak Peek Breakdown

The Mandalorian Season 2 is returning October 30th 2020

 

Episode Titles: (Not Confirmed)

1. The Search
2. The Confrontation
3. The Bounty
4. The Republic
5. The Loyalist
6. The Sorcerer
7. The Return
8. The Empire

 

The Mandalorian is a television series that premiered on Disney+ on November 12, 2019. Set in the Star Wars universe, the series takes place five years after the events of Return of the Jedi and follows a Mandalorian bounty hunter beyond the reaches of the New Republic.

 

Jon Favreau serves as creator, head writer, showrunner, and co-executive producer, alongside Dave Filoni, Kathleen Kennedy, and Colin Wilson. The show stars Pedro Pascal, Gina Carano, Nick Nolte, Giancarlo Esposito, Emily Swallow, Carl Weathers, Bill Burr, Omid Abtahi, Taika Waititi, Ming-Na Wen, and Werner Herzog.

The Boys Season 2 Episode 8 Review and Breakdown

Episode 8 What I Know

Helped by A-Train, Hughie and Annie leak Stormfront's Nazi past. Learning about Ryan from Becca, Butcher leads the Boys in rescuing him at Homelander's cabin. Butcher reneges on a deal with Edgar to have Vought recapture Ryan and instead attempts saving him and Becca from Stormfront. When Stormfront attacks Becca, Ryan cripples her with his eye lasers, but fails to stop her from killing Becca. Butcher forgives Ryan after Ryan takes his side over Homelander, while Maeve uses the plane footage to force Homelander into releasing them. Afterwards, the Boys are cleared of their charges and Annie is reinstated into the Seven. The Church of the Collective also has A-Train rejoin, but not the Deep which upsets the latter. Ryan is taken by the CIA. Hughie gets a job with Neuman, unaware she is the superpowered assassin responsible for the deaths of Raynor, Vogelbaum and Alastair.

 

The Boys is an American superhero web television series based on the comic book of the same name by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. Developed by Eric Kripke for Amazon, it follows the eponymous team of vigilantes as they fight back against superpowered individuals who abuse their abilities.

The series premiered on July 26, 2019. Ahead of the premiere, Amazon renewed The Boys for a second season, which is set to premiere on September 4, 2020

The Boys is set in a universe where superpowered individuals are recognized as heroes by the general public and owned by powerful corporation Vought International, which markets and monetizes them. Outside of their heroic personas, most are arrogant and corrupt. The series primarily focuses on two groups: the Seven, Vought International's premier superhero team, and the titular Boys, vigilantes looking to keep the corrupted heroes under control.

The Boys are led by Billy Butcher, who despises all superpowered people, and the Seven are led by the egotistical and unstable Homelander. As a conflict ensues between the two groups, the series also follows the new members of each team: Hughie Campbell of the Boys, who joins the vigilantes after his girlfriend is killed by one of the Seven; and Annie January / Starlight of the Seven, a young and hopeful heroine forced to face the truth about the heroes she admires.

Today’s Lunchtime Reading West Coast Avengers 30 None So Blind...

 West Coast Avengers 30 None So Blind...

Published: March 10th, 1988

Writer: Al Milgrom Penciler: Al Milgrom

Cover Artist: Al Milgrom and Mike Machlan

Wonder Man is reading his nephews a bed time fable, “The Blind Man and the Elephant” where the moral of the story is, “there are none so blind as those that will not see.”

On the long flight back to the west coast, the Quinjet is attacked by some high tech robots. Wonder Man should have no problems taking care of the robots, but follows procedure and radios it in the West Coast Avengers and realizes there are hundreds of these robots. The West Coast Avengers take off to Wonder Man’s last known position after he goes radio silent. Simon is taken about a ship by an alien race known as the Sligs, a small but mighty race hell-bent on conquest.

Each Avenger must battle the Examiner to analyze their powers and abilities and Wonder Man is first and destroys it without issue

The Examiner is reassembled and Wonder Man is put into stasis and Tigra is the next to be tested. Tigra uses the Examiner’s own strength against and Mockingbird is next. Mockingbird so no problems defeating him so Hawkeye is next, he makes quick work of the Examiner. Iron Man is removed from stasis and is next with the Examiner reaching his power capacity. Iron Man uses an arrow left behind by Hawkeye to magnetize the mighty robot.

Dr. Pym is next and uses his power to shrink the Examiner down to the size of a rabbit and destroys it with a sledge hammer. Moon Knight is the final Avenger to face it and realizes that this dimension that they were taken to for this test is full of moons, thousands of them.

Moon Knight uses the power of those moons to destroy the Examiner one last time, the Sligs ship losing their dimension hopping ability and the Avengers are returned to Earth. The information is sent back to their home where like the blind men from the fable, put together what these Avengers must look like from the data sent back and halt all invasion plans for Earth.

 

 

The Boys Season 2 Episode 7 review [Full Spoilers]

Episode 7 Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker

 

Congresswoman Victoria Neuman schedules a hearing against Vought, with Lamplighter as the chief witness. After Vought uncovers Annie's betrayal, Hughie convinces Lamplighter to join him in a rescue attempt, which results in the latter immolating himself to deactivate her holding cell. Annie escapes with the help of Maeve, who subdues Black Noir. Despite the loss of Lamplighter, Butcher strong-arms Vogelbaum into testifying against Vought. However, the hearing is sabotaged by an assassin who kills Vogelbaum and others in the same manner Raynor was killed. Meanwhile, Homelander and Stormfront manipulate Ryan into leaving Becca. A-Train grows suspicious of the Church of the Collective. Maeve and Elena break up over Maeve failing to save the plane.

 

The Boys is an American superhero web television series based on the comic book of the same name by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. Developed by Eric Kripke for Amazon, it follows the eponymous team of vigilantes as they fight back against superpowered individuals who abuse their abilities.

 

The series premiered on July 26, 2019. Ahead of the premiere, Amazon renewed The Boys for a second season, which is set to premiere on September 4, 2020

 

The Boys is set in a universe where superpowered individuals are recognized as heroes by the general public and owned by powerful corporation Vought International, which markets and monetizes them. Outside of their heroic personas, most are arrogant and corrupt. The series primarily focuses on two groups: the Seven, Vought International's premier superhero team, and the titular Boys, vigilantes looking to keep the corrupted heroes under control.

 

The Boys are led by Billy Butcher, who despises all superpowered people, and the Seven are led by the egotistical and unstable Homelander. As a conflict ensues between the two groups, the series also follows the new members of each team: Hughie Campbell of the Boys, who joins the vigilantes after his girlfriend is killed by one of the Seven; and Annie January / Starlight of the Seven, a young and hopeful heroine forced to face the truth about the heroes she admires.

The Boys Season 2 Episode 6 Breakdown and Review

Episode 6 The Bloody Doors Off

 

After getting her chip removed, Starlight accompanies The Boys to investigate an asylum under Vought's control. Frenchie, Kimiko and MM infiltrate the asylum, learning that the patients have superpowers and Frenchie recognizes Lamplighter as one of the orderlies. During a confrontation between Lamplighter and the three, one of the patients, Cindy, breaks free and uses her powers to free the others. One of the escapees attacks Butcher, Starlight and Hughie outside the complex, seriously injuring Hughie before Butcher kills him. While hiding from the fugitives, Frenchie confronts Lamplighter, who killed Mallory's grandchildren five years ago, learning that Lamplighter intended to kill Mallory and was unaware of the kids inside. Stormfront arrives and stops the rebellion, but instead of turning in the others, Lamplighter covers for them. While Hughie rests at the hospital accompanied by Butcher and Starlight, Mallory meets with the rest of the team and Lamplighter, who she considers killing as revenge, but Frenchie pleads her to spare him instead so that he can help with their cause. Meanwhile, Homelander confronts Stormfront, who lied about her whereabouts to stop the rebellion, and she reveals herself as a century-old member from the Nazi Party and widow of Frederick Vought, who made her the first successful subject of Compound-V. She asks for his help to lead an army of Supes she is creating to take over the world.

 

 

The Boys is an American superhero web television series based on the comic book of the same name by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. Developed by Eric Kripke for Amazon, it follows the eponymous team of vigilantes as they fight back against superpowered individuals who abuse their abilities.

 

The series premiered on July 26, 2019. Ahead of the premiere, Amazon renewed The Boys for a second season, which is set to premiere on September 4, 2020

 

The Boys is set in a universe where superpowered individuals are recognized as heroes by the general public and owned by powerful corporation Vought International, which markets and monetizes them. Outside of their heroic personas, most are arrogant and corrupt. The series primarily focuses on two groups: the Seven, Vought International's premier superhero team, and the titular Boys, vigilantes looking to keep the corrupted heroes under control.

 

The Boys are led by Billy Butcher, who despises all superpowered people, and the Seven are led by the egotistical and unstable Homelander. As a conflict ensues between the two groups, the series also follows the new members of each team: Hughie Campbell of the Boys, who joins the vigilantes after his girlfriend is killed by one of the Seven; and Annie January / Starlight of the Seven, a young and hopeful heroine forced to face the truth about the heroes she admires.

 

WandaVision Trailer Breakdown

WandaVision is an upcoming American web television miniseries created for Disney+ . It is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), sharing continuity with the films of the franchise. The events of the series take place after the 2019 film Avengers: Endgame. The series is produced by Marvel Studios, with Schaeffer serving as head writer and Matt Shakman directing.

 

Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany reprise their roles as Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch and Vision, respectively, from the film series. Teyonah Parris, Kat Dennings, Randall Park, and Kathryn Hahn also star. By September 2018, Marvel Studios was developing a number of limited series for Disney+, centered on supporting characters from the MCU films such as Maximoff and Vision, with Olsen and Bettany expected to return. Schaeffer was hired in January 2019, the series was officially announced that April, and Shakman joined in August. Filming began in Atlanta, Georgia in November 2019, before production was halted in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Production resumed that July in Los Angeles.

 

WandaVision is scheduled to premiere in November 2020, and will consist of 9 episodes. It will be the first series in Phase Four of the MCU.

 

Today’s Lunchtime Reading West Coast Avengers 29 Dead Run!

 West Coast Avengers 29 Dead Run!

Published: February 10th, 1988

Writer: Steve Englehart Penciler: Al Milgrom

Cover Artist: Al Milgrom and Mike Machlan

In a warehouse in Los Angeles, Taurus tries to recruit The Shroud as his new Pisces, but for various reasons, Shroud isn't interested. Besides that, the meeting is interrupted by the arrival of Moon Knight, who has been hunting Van Lunt down in vengeance for breaking his vow to the Moon.

As Moon Knight fights and chases Taurus through the streets of Los Angeles, he occasionally hears an encouraging voice in his head purporting to be Khonshu, speaking to him directly for the first time. This has a discomforting effect on Moon Knight, who has been trying to get over his multiple personality disorder and he can't be sure if this is actually the voice of a god or just another new product of his own splintered mind. The fleeing Taurus eventually reaches an airfield and commandeers a small plane, but once it's in the air, the pilot reveals himself as Moon Knight and they begin their final battle.

Moon Knight doesn't expect Taurus to act recklessly while they're precariously flying in a fairly fragile plane, but Taurus is desperate and in his attempts to kill his pursuer at any cost lead the plane to spin out of control and crash. The last thing Taurus sees out the window of the plane is Moon Knight's gliding silhouette against the Full Moon.Though victorious, Moon Knight's cape doesn't allow him to glide for long at such a high altitude. Before he can fall, he's caught from the air by Iron Man, the rest of the Avengers having been informed of his location by Shroud.

The Avengers are mostly livid at Moon Knight for going off on his own and his actions leading to the death of Van Lunt. The issue of breaching the Avengers's no-killing rule leads to Mockingbird sticking up for him. Tigra chimes in that the crueler modern world could stand for a more relaxed approach to that policy, leading to a debate between them and the more hardline older Avengers. They plan to discuss it more at length later, but Moon Knight wonders why Mockingbird of all people would be on his side. As their Quinjet flies away, the spectre of Phantom Rider watches from atop a desert bluff.