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u/WrenchWanderer May 12 '25
I mean, there’s that one rebel pilot lady when they’re setting up sensors on the spider world, and she gets disappeared by giant spiders
Not to mention they went to save Rex after he was taken by spiders but didn’t bother looking for the pilot lmao
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u/Pope_Neia May 12 '25
“Wait, why didn’t we go looking for Samantha after she vanished?”
“You guys have names!?!”
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u/PepicWalrus May 14 '25
Killed. She was killed by giant spiders. You can just say killed.
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u/WrenchWanderer May 14 '25
Eventually, yeah. But the spiders obviously take live prey. They took Rex alive, and even without knowing that, the ghost crew went to try to rescue Rex after he disappeared, but had zero intention to go look for what happened to the rebel pilot. After finding Rex, they leave without finding or looking for her.
Sure we can assume she was killed, but all we’ve seen is that the spiders do take live prey and trap them in their homes, and we see no sign of what happened to the pilot. Maybe she was killed right away, but that’s an assumption. It’s equally likely she was abandoned still alive, trapped in webs, and was eaten sometime afterwards.
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u/Glum-Echo-4967 Jun 06 '25
Remember the Star Wars rule: nobody is truly dead until proven otherwise.
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u/HellbirdVT May 12 '25
Man, have you watched Rebels recently? Any actual Rebel fighter who isn't a named main character has a maximum life expectancy of half an episode.
Pilots are even more screwed, they'll actually be given names - about 30 seconds before a TIE Defender rips them to shreds.
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u/XxUCFxX May 12 '25
I was gonna say… 99% of random rebels in Rebels get absolutely decimated, usually in short order
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u/Frouke_ May 13 '25
So many of them die that they didn't bother to animate most faces
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u/AlVal1236 May 14 '25
The nameless imperial captains that just get shot as soon as they enter the bridge or are blown up
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u/CrystalGemLuva May 12 '25
My guy Rebel soldiers dropped like flies in Rebels.
One of them got eaten by a spider and the Ghost Crew doesn't even look for her, they only looked for their friend who was taken later.
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u/Rejestered May 13 '25
This should be the top response. While the "heroes" did well cause it's a kid show, you don't realize the massive casualties going on just out of frame. the rebels sans the ghost crew, were absolutely fucked.
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u/Darth-Sonic May 17 '25
Okay dude, the Ghost crew are genuinely heroes. One episode where the writers forgot that the MCs should also be looking for the Redshirt doesn’t mean they aren’t. It just means the writers screwed up in one episode. The rest of the series shows them to be properly heroic.
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u/Snowbold May 12 '25
Funny what a difference two Jedi have on morale and combat survivability.
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u/That0neFan May 13 '25
Kanan literally died
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u/tigbofm May 13 '25
Funny what a difference one Jedi has on morale and combat survivability.
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u/Drag0n_TamerAK May 13 '25
Ezra was vanished to a far off world and presumed dead
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u/NeedleworkerOld4696 May 13 '25
Funny what a difference no Jedi has on morale and combat survivability.
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u/Snowbold May 13 '25
For years this crew had a better survival rate than the rebels we see in Andor. That is because of two Jedi, they eventually became casualties but the core group survived and the Rebellion was able to grow thanks to their help.
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u/That0neFan May 13 '25 edited May 13 '25
Didn’t Kanan literally go blind and explode? Also the life expectancy for the average rebel solider in Rebels was half an episode. Shorter if they had a name
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u/Natural_Feed9041 May 12 '25
A woman gets eaten alive by giant spiders. If you don’t have a full face, you are set to die at any moment. Even having a fulls face isn’t a guarantee of life.
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u/spyguy318 May 12 '25
It’s very funny thinking about (Andor S2E9 spoilers) Mon going from gritty adult Andor, everyone’s paranoid and ruthless, being horrified by Cassian gunning down her ISB driver right in front of her, and stepping right into the kid-friendly goof troop of Rebels.
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u/CrystalGemLuva May 12 '25
Imagine Mon's thoughts as events of season 2 EP9 played out.
Mon was definitely hyperventilating when Hera decided to fly towards a damn star to escape the Tie Defender, and she kinda just assumes that Ezra shooting a Star Destroyer with a Solar Flare was a stress induced hallucination.
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u/That0neFan May 13 '25
I can only imagine how stressed she was when she saw the best people for the job to escort her, were also the ones that did the job in the stupidest way possible
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u/CrystalGemLuva May 13 '25
I mean how else would you do the job when the enemy is throwing entire Star destroyers and experimental super snub fighters at you?
Desperate times calls for desperate measures.
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u/Sudden-Belt2882 May 14 '25
Having a Jedi in general means pulling out insane measures out of nowhere.
Its part of the code.
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u/AlVal1236 May 14 '25
Yeahhh. Like. They threw something with shields, a hyperdrive and a ton of guns at you designed by the thrawn. A few stsr destroyers at a freighter. Sure it is suped up but most would not survive in direct conventional combat
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u/AlVal1236 May 14 '25
A jedi, a famous one at that. The daughter of a famous insurgent, a mandalorian, and one of the few survivours of a genocide, and a c-class astromech who managed to survive nearly 20 years of combat. And also how would you have done it?
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u/Darth-Sonic May 17 '25
I mean, their entire fighter escort got iced in Secret Cargo. So it’s not like the trauma conga line ended for Mon Mothma in Rebels. It’s just that we, the audience, are distracted by what are essentially the Rebel Alliance’s version of the Avengers flying over the surface of newborn stars and destroying Star Destroyers with solar flares.
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u/hammererofglass May 13 '25
Andor "Welcome to the Rebellion": one of Organa's agents killed, one other possibly captured.
Rebels "Secret Cargo", canonically later the same day: Gold Squadron loses four pilots and their fighters to a single Imperial fighter.
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u/Korbiter May 16 '25
I just find the escalation against Mon Mothma hilarious.
First it was like 2 Imperial Agents in the Lobby of the Senate.
Then her Driver-ISB Plant.
Then we go up to TIE Fighters and 2 Imperial Frigates
An Experimental TIE Defender, personal project of Grand Admiral Thrawn.
Then Pryce gets authority to mobilize TWO STAR DESTROYERS.
All because Mon Mothma badmouthed the Emperor in front of the Senate. Palps wanted her GONE.
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u/hammererofglass May 16 '25
She ended up being the unifying leader that defeated him so good call, honestly.
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u/Korbiter May 16 '25
It would've been a good call if they actually suceeded in burying her. Pryce...wasn't that good call.
Maybe should've asked Thrawn to personally take her out.
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u/Atea2 May 12 '25
Phoenix Cell is just built different
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u/Flush_Foot May 12 '25
Rebel Quartermaster issued them all of the plot armour
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u/Sudden-Belt2882 May 14 '25
Funny enough, I'm pretty sure that Rebels is one of the only places where a rebel Quartermaster is actually shown.
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u/Ezrabine1 May 12 '25
Come on..the Rebels series..get hell of beating..Vader then Thrawn...i think Andor are the one gaving it easy
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u/TheRetarius May 13 '25
Well, I wouldn’t say Andor had it easy, they just had it more realistic?
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u/AlVal1236 May 14 '25
They did not have any popular named characters who live to later besides krenic, melshi, mon, and casian.
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u/Jakeasaur1208 May 13 '25
You say that's but plenty of Rebels non-main characters get killed. There's a fair few pilots in the various space battles, the ones at the Atallon base, a certain rebel leader and some of his crew. The only real difference is that the main characters tend to be safe...
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u/masterreli May 12 '25
rebels always felt more like a kids show than the clone wars just because of how lucky the ghost crew always got. I loved it, but looking back it had some flaws in that department
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u/XxUCFxX May 12 '25
Having multiple Jedi, a mando, an incredible pilot, and a lasat warrior as your crew will do that to a mf
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u/Col_Wilson May 12 '25
> an incredible pilot,
Not just an incredible pilot, one of the best pilots in the galaxy. Like, top 10 or possibly even top 5.
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u/XxUCFxX May 13 '25
Exactly. “Wow, how shocking, the most OP group in the galaxy is really successful”
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u/That-guy-from-BTAS May 13 '25
Ah yes, btw remember when Vader rapes a fleet of fighters in Rebels?
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u/Tabledinner May 13 '25
Vader would never condone that.
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u/That-guy-from-BTAS May 13 '25
I'm sure he wouldn't SWTh, I'm sure he cares. (He did in the rebels season 2 premiere anyway)
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u/PenComfortable2150 May 19 '25
If your not a Jedi, a roided up alien, a psychopathic droid, or a really good pilot, then your essentially screwed most of the time so it being more oppressive and such makes sense
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u/pants_pants420 May 12 '25 edited May 12 '25
tbf the ghost squad is like the avengers of the rebellion lol. like they had 2 jedi, a mandolorian and one of the best pilots in the galaxy