Kanan Jarrus (born Caleb Dume) is a character in the Star Wars franchise, a main character in the animated series Star Wars Rebels. Introduced as the Padawan apprentice of Depa Billaba, he is the leader of the crew of the Ghost and the Jedi Master of Ezra Bridger. Kanan is also featured in other media such as books and video games.
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Creation and development
Concept
Executive producer Dave Filoni describes the character as a "cowboy Jedi". Animation supervisor Keith Kellogg said: "He is a Jedi but he's not a Jedi in the traditional sense that we've had before on the show. He's a little more rough around the edges. He's kept his lightsaber locked away, so he hasn't used it in a long time." After being blinded, Kanan has been compared to the Star Wars Legends character Rahm Kota from Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, another blinded Jedi, which led Pablo Hidalgo from the Lucasfilm story group to say on Twitter that both characters were inspired by Zatoichi. Filoni compared Kanan to Gandalf from Lord of the Rings
Voice acting
Kanan is voiced by actor Freddie Prinze Jr. in Star Wars Rebels, and by Michael Benyaer in the micro-series Lego Star Wars: Droid Tales.
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Appearances
Animated series
Star Wars: Rebels
Kanan Jarrus (voiced by Freddie Prinze Jr.) first appeared in a short film, "The Machine in the Ghost", and then in "Spark of Rebellion", the two-part pilot episode of Star Wars Rebels. Kanan leads the crew of the Ghost, a rebel starship. Although he never finished his own Jedi training, Kanan sees great potential in young Ezra Bridger of Lothal. He decides to train Ezra as his own Padawan. In "The Siege of Lothal", the two-part premiere of season 2, Kanan survives an encounter with Darth Vader, while in "The Lost Commanders", Kanan initially finds it difficult to trust the clone trooper Captain Rex, because clones had murdered his master, Depa Bilaba, as well as most other Jedi, in obedience to Order 66. In "Shroud of Darkness", a later episode in Season 2, Kanan is promoted to the rank of Jedi Knight during a series of adventures in a Jedi Temple on Lothal. In "Twilight of the Apprentice", the two-part finale of season 2, Kanan travels with Ezra, Ahsoka Tano, and the astromech Chopper to the Sith planet Malachor in hopes of finding the knowledge they need to defeat the Sith. There Kanan is blinded in a lightsaber attack by Maul, who has been posing as a frail hermit. In season 3, a Force-sensitive creature called the Bendu mentors Kanan in the ways of Force-sight. Kanan still participates in Rebel missions, with his mastery of the Force compensating for his blindness, but he takes a less active role in leadership. Later, in the two-part episode "Ghosts of Geonosis", Kanan meets the resistance fighter Saw Gerrera. In "Trials of the Darksaber", Kanan trains Sabine in lightsaber combat (albeit Sabine does not have "Force" sensitive abilities). Season 4 confirmed Kanan and Hera as a romantic couple. At some point during in season 4, he and Hera conceive a child together, a son she names Jacen.
Kanan dies in the episode "Jedi Night" while rescuing Hera from Imperial captivity. He regains his eyesight moments before being consumed in an explosion, after containing the blast long enough for Hera and the rest of their group to escape harm. Filoni felt this was a natural end to Kanan promising he will see Hera again before being blinded and said: "In that moment he's not bound as this material thing that the physicality of sight would be a limitation to him." While sketching storyboards for Kanan's death, Filoni became reluctant to kill the character, but Prinze, who "was resolute about the fact that his character needed to die" since the beginning of the series, encouraged him to write the scene.
Novels
In September 2, 2014, Del Rey Books published Star Wars: A New Dawn, a prequel novel telling the story of how Kanan and Hera met.
Comics
The comic-book Kanan ran for 12 issues and was published by Marvel Comics, the series is set during the events of the first season of Star Wars Rebels and focuses on Kanan Jarrus having flashbacks to his time as a Jedi Padawan (when he was known by his real name Caleb Dume). Two story arcs were produced each ran for six issues, the first arc The Last Padawan focused on flashbacks which happened at the same time as Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith showing where Kanan was when Order 66 happened and the clone troopers betrayed and killed most of the Jedi, including his Jedi Master Depa Billaba. While the second arc First Blood flashbacks focused on how Kanan was assigned under Depa Billaba's mentorship, as well as Kanan's first battle along clone-troopers, in the Clone Wars, where he made a friendship with a clone trooper, it features an appearance from Rae Sloane a character from the novel Star Wars: A New Dawn, as well as one from Fenn Rau a mandalorian character who would later appear in Star Wars Rebels.
Lego
Lego Star Wars: Droid Tales
Jarrus appears in the third episode of Lego Star Wars: Droid Tales.
References
External links
- Kanan Jarrus in the StarWars.com Databank
- Kanan Jarrus on Wookieepedia, a Star Wars wiki
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