Disney Plus’ Ahsoka series was destined to bring in fans of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the 2008 animated series that introduced Ahsoka Tano, Jedi apprentice to Anakin Skywalker. But even those fans might be mystified when it comes to the rest of Ahsoka, which is continuing the story of the rather more recent animated series Star Wars Rebels, and its starring Jedi apprentice, Ezra Bridger.
In Ahsoka, Ezra is missing and everybody is looking for him, good guys and bad guys alike. If you feel like you’re missing something, read on to find out exactly who Ezra is; how he got lost with the Empire’s second-most conniving evil genius, Grand Admiral Thrawn; and how Star Wars: Rebels gave Ezra one of the more satisfying Jedi-in-training arcs of on-screen Star Wars.
[Ed. note: This piece will contain... pretty big spoilers for Star Wars Rebels.]
The thing to know about Star Wars Rebels — which ran on Disney XD from 2014 through 2018 and is now available to stream on Disney Plus — is that it was very much a family show. The series centered itself on the close-knit Spectres, an isolated rebel cell local to the planet of Lothal. Most of the Spectres are around and kicking in Ahsoka — Mandalorian heiress Sabine Wren is teaming with Ahsoka in the search for Ezra, with pilot Hera Syndulla and the fussy droid Chopper on display in the show’s teasers. Zeb even got a cameo in The Mandalorian.
Ezra was the youngest member of the Spectres, an orphaned Lothalian street rat who ran into them a few years before the fall of the Empire and — well, you know this story. Cynical street kid meets idealistic freedom fighters and wham, bam, that’s a found family.
So how did Ezra get lost?
Ezra has his own special talent: He can essentially talk to animals. Rebels went deep on the more mystical-magical side of the Force, with a late arc that involves a whole-ass Force-powered time machine and everything, but Ezra’s particular talent with the Force has always been the ability to connect with animals — particularly on his home planet of Lothal, but elsewhere too.
And while the demands of overall continuity meant that the Spectres were never going to be that big in the Galactic Rebellion, they were a very big deal on Lothal, successfully managing to oust the Imperial presence — which included one of the galaxy’s most advanced shipyards — from the planet. Unfortunately, Ezra had to make a pretty big sacrifice to save his world.
In the end, unable to drive Imperial forces off of Lothal without risking thousands of civilian lives, Ezra called a pod of purrgil — whalelike creatures capable of traveling through hyperspace — and got them to grab an entire star destroyer and leap with it to an unknown destination. He and Grand Admiral Thrawn were both aboard at the time, and neither of them have been seen in Star Wars canon since. In Rebels’ closing scenes, Ahsoka and Sabine set off to find Ezra, but they don’t seem to have had much luck, to say the least.
So is Ezra Bridger a Jedi?
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Well, he was certainly training in the ways of one. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but Ezra is a preteen whose parents aren’t around and who is really strong in the Force, and he winds up paired with a young Jedi mentor who has never taught anybody before and who’s dealing with the loss of his own master before his training was complete.
But the difference between Ezra and Anakin is twofold: For one, Ezra’s ending is not yet written. And for another, Ezra got to go through training in a TV show, not a movie. Rebels had the room to expand on the usual beats of an impatient Jedi learner, lending the familiar arc greater nuance and relatability than most other cinematic padawans. Clone Wars tried to do this for Ahsoka, but if you ask me, Clone Wars was about the Clone War — Rebels was about Ezra.
And so Ezra gets to build his own lightsaber, he gets to unearth ancient Jedi temples, he gets to get frustrated with meditation and patience, he gets to have terrifying visions of the future and then struggle through learning to interpret them. He gets tempted to the Dark Side from a veritable who’s who of Sith masters, including Darth Maul and even the Emperor himself.
He gets to make lots of mistakes and do a lot of growing over Rebels’ 53 episodes, and for fans of Star Wars Rebels, Ahsoka is a chance to see all the growing he’s done since the show’s very open ending.
Sabine is one and a half year older than Ezra. Several consider Sabine and Ezra as a romantic couple while others consider it strictly platonic. Though they were confirmed to have a sibling dynamic, there are several aspects that they have romantic feelings for another.
After almost a decade of being stranded on the planet Peridea in another galaxy, Ezra reunited with Sabine and Ahsoka as they came to Peridea alongside a force that were looking for Thrawn.
He isn't a conventional jedi and that's what made him great. He isn't the strongest but he is incredibly resourceful and can outwit opponents. The way he dealt with thrawn was amazing. Ezra is the man.
Ezra is one of the most powerful Force users, along with several others, such as the Skywalker family, Rey, and Yoda. He was able to jump long distances when making escapes on the rooftops and sense things before they happened.
"You may kiss the bride." Kanan said. And with out any hesitation at all, Sabine threw herself on Ezra and kissed him with her arms wrapped tightly around him. They were married now.
Is Ezra alive in Ahsoka? The short answer is, YES, Ezra Bridger is alive in the events of Star Wars: Ahsoka. After Baylan Skoll, Morgan Elsbeth, and Sabine find Thrawn he puts his next plan into action, finding Ezra by using Sabine.
But he ultimately proved his allegiance to the light side of the Force in the Rebels season 4 finale. Now that Ezra Bridger is an unofficial Jedi Knight in Ahsoka, he should take on an apprentice and teach them the ways of the Force, just as Kanan once taught him.
Once again, Miller was arrested in Hawaii — this time charged with second-degree assault for allegedly throwing a chair at a 26-year-old woman, leaving her with a half-inch gash in her forehead, according to the Hawaii Police Department.
This would be when Ezra and Thrawn disappeared along with the purrgil pulled them into hyperspace, headed for the unknown regions of space. Ezra was born in 19 BBY, just a few days before Luke and Leia. So he is 19 at the end of Rebels.
Kanan and Ezra remove their helmets and introduce themselves, and Leia tells them she knows who they are, and that since the deck officer is approaching, they had better put their helmets back on and keep their mouths shut.
The Bridger family was a human family native to the planet Lothal in the Outer Rim Territories of the galaxy. Ezra Bridger, the son of Ephraim and Mira Bridger, became part of the early rebellion against the Galactic Empire during the reign of Emperor Palpatine.
Ezra has taken on greater and more dangerous villains than Ahsoka. Romn: Heck ya! Zombie: Ezra also won because he is just stronger in the force, more fluid, thinks quicker, and more daring.
Despite everything Ezra Bridger has accomplished and his skills in the Force, he still isn't Luke Skywalker. Luke's legacy as Anakin Skywalker's son made him exponentially more powerful than Ezra. Additionally, Luke had far less training than Ezra and was able to defeat Darth Vader.
Training in the ways of the Force under the mentorship of Kanan Jarrus, Ezra became a Jedi Padawan and a part of the emerging rebellion. He also grew close to Hera Syndulla, Zeb, Chopper, and Sabine Wren, who was like a sister in his new found family.
History. Ezra and Sabine were very close friends due to being the youngest members of the Ghost crew. Because of his younger age, Sabine acts as an older sister to Ezra, due to the fact that she has her own younger brother and is fiercely protective of him.
During “Rebels,” Ezra and Sabine Wren developed a close relationship that that borderlined on something more romantic (having started as Ezra's one-sided crush on Sabine). Sabine also held onto Ezra's lightsaber and wields it in “Ahsoka.” Eman Esfandi plays Ezra in the new series.
Ezra and Ahsoka deeply admired each other and cared for one another. Before officially meeting her, Ezra only knew her as Hera's contact, Fulcrum. They first met her after they rescued Kanan Jarrus from imperial custody.
Shortly after joining the crew of the Ghost, Ezra developed a crush on Sabine the moment she first revealed her beauty to him. Throughout the time together, they became good friends, though Sabine never returned Ezra's romantic affection. Over time, Sabine became very protective of Ezra's well being.
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