You may have noticed that the newest episode of The Mandalorian Season 3 featured a familiar droid: R5-D4, who you've likely seen before.
featured the surprisingly important return of R5-D4 — an astromech droid that Din Djarin ended up taking to Mandalore. What you may not have known is that you’ve almost definitely seen R5-D4 before, and that in a non-canon comic book, the droid was actually a Jedi.R5-D4 is an astromech droid who, as part of the R5 line, was known to be dysfunctional. The majority of the droid’s life was spent on Tatooine serving various masters.
When R5 was purchased by Owen, he forced himself to malfunction after hearing R2’s renewed plea involving the fate of the galaxy — a sacrifice that would allow R2 to play his part in taking down the Galactic Empire. R5 lived on though, eventually being purchased byR5-D4 has actually appeared in two mainline. The droid has a cameo on the streets of Tatooine in.
In this version of the story, Skippy originally served Jabba the Hutt, but used the Force to escape and persuade Jabba’s Gamorrean guards to let him leave. After being picked up by Jawas, Skippy had visions of the future. When he was picked to be bought by Owen — which happened after the droid used the Force to persuade Owen — Skippy sensed that R2-D2 had to be the droid that Luke’s uncle purchased.
He realized that R2 would be found by Darth Vader otherwise, which would lead to Luke and Leia’s early deaths. Skippy chooses to sacrifice himself in this story as well, though here, he uses the Force to make C-3PO tell Owen to purchase R2-D2. Skippy’s fate in this comic is a bit darker, as the Jedi droid is destroyed during the Stormtroopers’ assault on the Jawa sandcrawler.
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