Mandalorian’s Gorian Shard is a terrible pirate but a great character

The Mandalorian is a deep effectively of great little characters and really bizarre guys. There’s the household that Mando saves and reunites within the second season’s second episode, there’s Nick Nolte’s Kuiil, and there’s even Grogu himself.

The first episode of season 3 added to this deep bench of weirdos with the super Gorian Shard, a house pirate who appears to be like like what would occur if Treebeard and Davy Jones had a child. He could solely be within the episode for a few seconds, but there’s a lot we are able to glean from his temporary look, together with the truth that we wish to see him lose to Din Djarin a lot extra usually.

[Ed. note: This story contains spoilers for The Mandalorian season 3, episode 1.]

Gorian Shard is a newly created character for The Mandalorian and due to this fact a character we all know nearly nothing about — a relative rarity within the more and more acquainted Star Wars galaxy. Gorian is apparently a house pirate of some renown, since everybody appears to be readily sharing his identify as a standing image, and we all know he instructions a crew of lots of if not hundreds, due to the fleet of fighters and big spaceship below his management.

But what do we actually find out about Gorian? We know that Gorian is loyal to his crew, even the actually dumb ones that die over disputes about the place they will and can’t drink the newly gentrified Nevarro. That’s the signal of a really great chief. We additionally know that he’s a dedicated investor in group areas, just like the saloon he apparently lent Greef Karga cash to open, which Karga later dishonestly changed into a faculty.

While none of those actually justify the standard of particular person he appears to maintain in his make use of, or make him appear significantly sensible or competent (in a great way), they do give us a little bit of perception into this very silly-looking new character.

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Speaking of silly-looking, one factor we don’t find out about Gorian is what precisely he is. There’s no indication of what planet he hails from, or what race he is, but he does look a little bit like a sentient Christmas tree, which doesn’t make clear a lot.

Perhaps most significantly, regardless of all of those details, it seems that Gorian Shard may additionally simply be a loser. When he briefly threatens Mando and Grogu, the pair merely buzz by him and straight off into hyperspace, assembly some purrgil alongside the best way. If there’s any justice within the universe Gorian will discover a new solution to present up in a few extra episodes of the present, failing fully to seize or battle Mando each single time.

Everyone loves a great villainous buffoon. From Boris and Natasha in Rocky and Bullwinkle to Wile E. Coyote in Looney Tunes, watching somebody fail catastrophically at their each try and ensnare our heroes is a staple of the Saturday-morning-adventure-show enjoyable that The Mandalorian is so good at capturing. So it’s solely becoming that Mando could now have his personal model of that in Gorian Shard.