#ki-adi mundi

[smhalltheurlsaretaken]

I'm thinking about the Jedi and Anakin, like you do, and it just cracks me up so much to see any variation of 'they always looked at him with suspicion, like they were waiting for him to mess up.'

Sure, in TPM they're unsure about him because Qui-Gon is dropping a nine year old with a lot of previous issues onto their laps and telling them they really should give him a laser sword and train him in the ways of the supernatural universe bending empathic powers that let you blow things up with your mind and that go haywire if you're emotionally unbalanced. Nobody's thrilled about the prospect.

But after that, honestly, the only Jedi who can ever be said to look at Anakin somewhat like that is Mace, which can be forgiven because 1) the man is Stressed and the people he doesn't expect to mess up are far and few in between, and 2) he and Anakin still have a rather cordial relationship overall, even if they aren't bffs.

But Luminara? Constantly smiles at Anakin. Jocasta? Same. Aayla? Calls him Master Skywalker (respectful, considering they're the same rank in the Order, if maybe not in the Army), is very caring and nice to him. Shaak Ti? Never changes that soft expression of hers. Adi? Big smirk when he shows off, like "aw, would you look at this kid." Plo? You can't even tell how he looks at people. Kit? Biggest grin. Even Piell? He's a grumpy bastard but he's not judgmental. Ki-Adi? Yeah, I guess it does happen once in a while - but he does it with Yoda as well they think he might be under attack from the Dark Side, so really it's him having a suspicious nature, not him targeting Anakin specifically. Seriously, Obi-Wan is more critical of Anakin than Ki-Adi is, and Obi-Wan has an Anakin-shaped blind spot in his soul.

Speaking of Obi-Wan - when he leaves for Utapau in RotS, he has the sparkly eyes of someone so overflowing with love that the gravitational pull of his affection for Anakin is warping the very light around them both.

Jedi freaking like Anakin is what I'm saying.

[david-talks-sw]

"Bring in the flamethrowers!"

The above moment from The Clone Wars gets brought up a lot to illustrate Ki-Adi Mundi or the Jedi's moral decadence, a fall from grace caused by the war.

Figured I'd point out a couple of things in support of Ki-Adi!

1) Simple answer: the situation called for it.

The Geonosians attacking Ki-Adi were:

enemy fighters

with the element of surprise

who could fly and were thus harder to hit with the clones' blasters, hence why more wide-ranging weapons like flamethrowers were called for, as the clones were getting picked off one-by-one.

Time was of the essence, men were dying, Ki-Adi made a choice.

Wanna know what Jedi choose when a Geonosian isn't actively trying to kill them? They save its life (and get praised for it by their peers).

2) In-universe, the Geonosians are assholes.

From Attack of the Clones - The Illustrated Companion, 2002:

"Geonosians are a physically intimidating race conditioned to live and work in caste-segregated hives. The vast majority of Geonosians are subservient to the ruling caste, and throughout Geonosian society, there is evidence of a biologically engineered class system. Some Geonosians have wings, while drones do not. [...] The blind obedience of menial Geonosians makes them an easily exploitable workforce for the upper classes, who have built a highly profitable business manufacturing Battle Droids, Super Battle Droids, and Droideka Droids for the Trade Federation and its allies."

"For unusually intelligent Geonosians unlucky enough to be born into the lower castes, participating in the games provides the only chance they will ever get to escape the misery of their downtrodden lifestyles and the rigid social expectations of the upper classes. Triumph in the arena is often a hollow victory, however; while lower- and middle-class Geonosians may win the right to talk to their superiors, they can never earn their respect."

Okay, so the winged upper class are obviously elitist bastards, but how is that even remotely relevant--

-- oh. But hey, two of them don't have wings! Those are members of the drone caste, and they're all begotten underdogs, so--

"If there is one thing that unites Geonosians of all classes, it is their xenophobia. A traditionally isolationist species, they fear espionage attempts by rivals eager to learn the secrets behind their latest droids."

-- oh. Huh.

Bottom line: yes, they're sentient... but they're xenophobic, have an elitist caste system, and earn their living by forging weapons that melt your insides or blow up planets.

Now sure, this notion has been explored and deconstructed in Star Wars: Rebels...

... and I'm not entirely sure if the quoted info still holds true in current Disney canon (the lore is from 2002, after all), but if you ask me?

On a normal day, ol' Klik-Klak would be actively trying to murder the entirety of the Ghost crew for daring to even step their dirty non-Geonosian feet on his pure red planet.

3) Out-of-universe, the Geonosians are just "bug aliens". Nothing more.

The production team of Attack of the Clones referred to them as the "termite people". The script describes them as "winged creatures" who are heard "chuckling" once Anakin and Padmé are sentenced to a gruesome death. At some point, the storyboard artists considered introducing the Geonosian workers like you would a horror monster.

Hell, the whole Lucas decided to base them on termites is because his house was besieged by them.

They're not people, which is why they're not designed to look like people. They're purposefully dehumanized so that when one of them gets killed by our heroes, it's ethically "okay" and the audience doesn't need to stop and think "oh my God, that's murder!" or "hey! that's racist" whenever a clone calls one of them a "bug."

A similar logic is applied to the stormtroopers, who have face-covering helmets that dehumanizes them.

Functionally, a stormtrooper is a fascist goon, nothing more.

Same goes for the Geonosian. It's a bug alien, that's about it.

4) The flamethrowers were probably just added because they're cool.

Dave Filoni described how the decision to add flamethrowers came up, and it doesn't sound like George had deeper storytelling motives:

"You know, we're going through the tunnel with the Geonosians and George is like: “Yeah, well, here, we'll have the-- the tunnel and the flamethrowers. Yeah. How about that? ‘Bring in the flamethrowers!’ have Ki-Adi Mundi say ‘bring in the flame throwers!’” And it's like “flame—- What? Flamethrowers?!”" - Dave Filoni, “Return to Geonosis” Featurette, 2010

It sounds like he came up with it on the spot.

The flamethrowers aren't indicative of "the moral degradation of Ki-Adi and the Jedi Order." They're likely just in there 'cause they're cool (and if you've played Team Fortress 2, you know that's true)!

At the end of the day, when it comes to the Geonosians, I think that there's a certain irony to how their story ends.

They gleefully created the battle droids that tore the galaxy asunder and the Death Star, a weapon that enables the Empire to commit genocide... but fell victim to genocide themselves, at the hands of an even bigger monster.

They reaped what they sowed. They're not meant to be mourned.

And it's nice to see this aspect of the narrative doesn't get ignored as much as I would've expected.

I came across this video that basically rips into Ki-Adi for using flamethrowers, and I was ready to roll my eyes when I scrolled down to the comments section...

... but then, a happy surprise!

Most of the comments disagree with the video's stance! For once, logic prevails over anti-Jedi bias.

So yeah, that put a smile on my face.

[marvelstars]

Anakin and Rex relationship is great and pure gold but I believe it beneficed inmensely with Anakin´s first relationship with Alpha17.

Alpha17 was one of the first clone commanders Anakin and Obi-Wan meet in the first months of the war, Alpha was with Anakin when Assaj Ventress kidnaped Obi-Wan, he was captured briefly by her as well and refused to reveal anything about the Jedi. Alpha keep Obi-Wan safe until he could come back to Anakin in those early years of the war and he was also the one to teach Anakin to become a warrior and how to make war while Anakin teached him the value of having his own name, the value of his life and others life.

This is what it´s missing from the TCW.

Bonus: Anakin and Captain Rex

[mrfandomwars]

He Can't Keep Them All Safe

They Will Die And Be Afraid

The lyrics are from Harpy Hare by Yaelkokre

[thezeltronboys]

Imagine its six months before the release of The Phantom Menace, and you go to the comic store to pick up the newly released **Star Wars 1998)**, and you discover that its about Ki-Adi Mundi (a character from the upcoming film), his five wives and many daughters, his desire for a son, and his disdain for the Republic's encroachment on his homeworld of Cerea.

What a weird book. These first six issues make it seem like the creative team has no idea what the Prequel era is going to look like. Ki-Adi Mundi is a Jedi Knight, but no mention of the Jedi Council on Coruscant is made until the fifth issue, and by all regards he seems to live on his homeworld of Cerea.

The Republic is looking to invite Cerea into the Republic, but Ki-Adi Mundi fears they'll turn his planet into a technological metropolis, like one of the already-built Republic settlements on Cerea.

I would feel so incredibly confused reading this and then going into the Phantom Menace. Why Ki-Adi Mundi? Why this plot? What is going on?

[comradejarjar]

So star wars is fundamentally a commentary on our society, and while george lucas was trying to be feminist with princess leia being a badass, his sexism shows through in most of the films, like the narrative treatment of padme, or han solo, and in andor, the that one woman character was facing sexism in her workplace, so we can assume the star wars republic & empire did have patriarchy in a comparable situation to western patriarchy

generally, in real world patriarchy, especially when class is involved, women needs are often seen secondary to men’s, and women are considered a status symbol for men, both in monogamous cultures where the woman’s status and beauty was a factor, and some polygamous cultures where the amount of wives was also a factor. women’s chastity is a massive part of patriarchy, often enforced by religion. Monastic orders are more egalitarian, as they often enforce celibacy for both genders, but are still affected by societal values and biases, as often monks are higher status than nuns, and we can assume that this applies in some part to the jedi order, who most likely preaches celibacy, if not enforces it

all this to say that ki adi mundi has never heard of a clitoris

[moobrvoobl-moobmoob-oobmpoobroom]

Ki Adi Mundi, Jay Walker &/or Bucky Barnes for the character meme!!

Ki-Adi

(everyone seems to hate him for some reason I have no idea what’s going on but he seems like a funny guy from that One episode of clone wars)

Jay my beloved

I love him sm

Bucky

not to be straight on tumblr dot com but fuck. holy kriffing kark this man is fine.

[dukeoftheblackstar]

Yes, let's just burn the image of Ki-Adi Mundi nasty fucking his wives as opposed to gently making love to them and making babies. Thank you.

Ki-Adi Mundi NASTY fucking, y'all.

[amarcia]

I've had this silly headcanon for a while that Anakin simply saw Padme give birth in his vision and got absolutely dramatic over it. "She will die!" "No Skywalker it always looks this way"

@jedijune 04 Cross-lineage mentorship

✨🌙 ART LOG -> @404ama

[smhalltheurlsaretaken]

Lay down Your sweet and weary head The night is falling You have come to journey's end Sleep now And dream of the ones who came before They are calling From across the distant shore

remake of this

Another (much shorter) Into The West x Order 66 edit because I'm trying to get better at those and all I did with the first was slap the music on top of the scene.

@tookas-have-teeth tadaaa!

[david-talks-sw]

thoughts on Ki Adi Mundi appearing on the acolyte?

Something interesting about the Ki-Adi Mundi controversy in The Acolyte. People are reacting to it and coming up with headcanons the same way they did with the Prequels.

Objectively: Ki-Adi thinks there's a Jedi gone rogue who trained Mae, sees Vernestra and Sol whispering angrily to each other... and that's it.

That's all there is to it.

And yet people on both sides of the controversy are arguing over it and coming up with copium to justify it or complain about it.

"Ki-Adi and the other Jedi are obtuse and blind, that's the point of his line in Episode I, the Sith grew right under their nose!"

"Ki-Adi is a corrupt liar, now, who hides the discovery of a Sith from Yoda to save face!"

"Well, yeah, but the whole point of the Prequels is that the Jedi are corrupt! So Ki-Adi embodies exactly that!"

And the simple truth is: the fictional character doesn't know what we know. It's the "why can't they sense Palpatine when he's right in front of them?!" debacle all over again.

Because while it's obvious to us, the viewers, it's not obvious to the characters. It's dramatic irony. And it's just a cameo.

(at least for now; I dunno, maybe by the end of the season Leslye Headland decides to have Ki-Adi and Vernestra see clear signs of a Sith Lord and hide it under the rug... but for now it's fiiine guys)

[spacelesbiandisaster]

I love that in this scene Ki-Adi Mundi is like:

"Wtf do you mean I won your respect? I been a Jedi master for longer that you are alive, I'm in the Jedi high Council for more than a decade, I don't need your respect! The only reason I count every single droid I cut down was bc I thought we were betting money. Give me some goddamn credits so I can have dinner with my wife and don't you dare waste my time with your silly games ever again, or I swear to the Force I will make sure you never get invited to Masters Sabacc Night we do every Tuesday!"

jedi june 2024 — 30 instances of jedi bonding day 17: anakin skywalker & ki-adi-mundi & obi-wan kenobi

the clone wars, 2.5 landing at point rain

[marvelstars]

Battle of Jabiim

Star Wars Republic #55-59. In these 42 days of hell Anakin lost everything here: the battle itself, Obi wan got blown up and believed to be dead, his friends padawans all die with him the last Jedi alive and forced to retreat by Palpatine. This is one of darkest SW stories ever.

This battle informs so much of Anakin´s development in the war, the lost of all the padawans from his generation explains a lot of his reticence to accept Ahsoka as his apprentice after he became a khight, his closenes to clone troopers, his strategies different to the ones of other Jedi´s because they simply were not trained to fight in a war so Anakin had to adapt new approaches to that or else suffer other battles like Jabiim. It was from these battles he developed a fixation trying to combat death itself.

[orientalld]

[gffa]

Me: Listen, Star Wars, I've been on this rodeo before, you can't get me with surprise cameos-- The Acolyte: Hey.

Me: [SCREAMS] A YOUNGER KI-ADI-MUNDI???? FROM MY STAR WARS PREQUELS????

[skelltan]

i want every non star warrior fan to realize not only does oppo look like that, he has a snake bottom

here's him t posing

i would also like to elect ki adi mundi, who, in the comics, has a plethora of wives as his race has a low rate of males

the only two star warriors i respect are plo koon and kit fisto