Star Wars Bracket Fight - Called Off!

Category: That Franchise I Never Talk About
Last article published: 27 November 2022
This is the 57th post under this label

Yeah yeah yeah, the joke used to be that Star Wars was the "Franchise I Never Talk About" because it wasn't one of my fandoms, so how did I manage to talk about it 56 times before today?! Well, a lot has happened since the blog started, like a new trilogy, one-off "Star Wars Stories", and several television series, all of which I follow (the live action ones anyway). Star Wars is such a freight train that I'll share something I made two years ago that is already dated and useless: The Star Wars Bracket Fight.

Now, this wasn't my fight to stage. Ryan Daly, of the Give Me Those Star Wars Podcast, was entertaining the idea of MAYBE doing a bracket fight like the ones I'd done on Gimme That Star Trek, and asked me to see what I might come up with. Using my controversial strategy to create early match-ups that HURT and that use characters that are alike (as opposed to finding some list of best characters that goes all the way down to 64), I crafted the following:

It includes everyone from the movies, but also The Mandalorian, divided into neat categories - The Light Side, The Dark Side, Droids & Allies, and Selfish Bastards. I look at it now and now only are there a lot of names I don't recognize (like I said, it's not my fandom), and plenty more I would want to see on here. We've had a lot of characters, probably more notable than some of the lesser lights on the bracket, introduced in Mando, Boba Fett, Obi-Wan, and (most especially) Andor. If I can't vote for B2-EMO, then it's all for nothing!!!

Who would YOU add and remove if you had your druthers? Use your Jedi powers on the comments section.