A brand new piece of Star Wars fan artwork imagines an older model of Samuel L. Jackson’s Mace Windu, full with a trophy taken from a struggle in opposition to Boba Fett, in a hypothetical What If? collection. While Boba would finally develop to turn out to be one of the feared bounty hunters within the galaxy, he as soon as swore vengeance in opposition to the Jedi Master for the loss of life of his father, Jango Fett. Though a youthful Boba would make an try on Windu’s life through the occasions of The Clone Wars animated collection, he was in the end robbed of his quest for revenge when Windu was supposedly killed by Chancellor Palpatine throughout 2005’s Revenge of the Sith. However, ever because the prequels concluded, many followers have posited that Jackson’s Jedi Master might have probably survived the autumn from Palpatine’s chambers.
Now a brand new piece of fan artwork from Tilian Creative imagines what an older Mace Windu would appear to be had he certainly survived. Most tellingly, the paintings additionally exhibits the Jedi Master sporting the Tusken gaffi stick that Boba Fett acquired throughout The Book of Boba Fett, hinting at a earlier confrontation between the 2.
Ever because it was first introduced in 2012 that Disney was shopping for Lucasfilm with the intent of making a slate of latest live-action Star Wars content material, followers have been crying out for the return of Jackson’s Mace Windu. A battle-hardened and immensely highly effective Jedi Master, Windu offered audiences with a distinctly completely different have a look at how the Jedi order operated previous to the rise of the Galactic Empire. Before the discharge of 2015’s The Force Awakens, many fan theories and rumors even hinted on the character’s mysterious return in some unspecified time in the future through the sequel trilogy. Some extra outlandish theories even linked him with the origins of Supreme Leader Snoke.
While Windu would by no means really seem throughout Disney’s new sequel trilogy, many are nonetheless wanting to see the fan-favorite Jedi Master by some means make his return in reside motion. These hopes have been bolstered even additional by Jackson’s personal outspoken want to reprise his position and return to the Star Wars universe. With Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni’s ever-expanding “Mandoverse” already bringing again characters like Ahsoka Tano and even Boba Fett himself, there’s no motive Jackson’s Mace Windu couldn’t even be added to the checklist. Such a transfer might probably even arrange the long-anticipated confrontation between the notorious bounty hunter and the Jedi Master that killed his father.