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Appearances: The Mandalorian

"This is the Way."

• 24-Hour Armor: They have a strict rule that they do not remove their helmets in sight of others, or have it removed by others. Removing one's helmet means you are no longer a Mandalorian, in their eyes, and can never put the helmet back on again. Taking off your helmet in private, so you can do things like eat or drink, is acceptable as is removing it around members of your own clan.
• Ambiguous Situation: For much of The Mandalorian it's unclear what their relationship to Death Watch is, with the only real context coming from Season 3's assertion that they're one of several groups that splintered off from the organization at some point in the past. When exactly this split occurred and how much continuity there is between them and their predecessors remains unclear even after this revelation; Bo-Katan claims that her Nite Owls, themselves a Death Watch splinter dating back to the Clone Wars, had never so much as met with the Children until after the fall of the Empire.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: The clan's philosophy is unique to say the least. They are strict to the adherence of their creed, which includes keeping your helmet on at all times, and taking it off can lead to banishment. They treat others who do not follow the same creed as not true Mandalorians. On the other hand, they will still allow the banished to visit for advice and information, and if they redeem themselves they are welcomed back into the clan no questions asked. What's more, they actively make the protection of innocents a vital part of their creed.
• Cult: Modern-day Mandalorians view the Children of the Watch as a cult of religious zealots, obsessed with reviving the ancient Mandalorian religion. They're so fanatically devoted to the old ways they won't even remove their helmets in the presence of others for any reason and having someone remove it is a grave insult. In contrast to Death Watch, their traditions seem to be focused on their own protection and the preservation of their culture, as opposed to battle for the sake of it.
• The Faceless: As a matter of course. It's explained that for the Tribe, to remove (or allow someone else to remove) your helmet in front of others is to forsake being a Mandalorian. Members are thus "faceless" from a young age.
• Faction Motto: "This is the Way."
• Friend to All Children: One of their most sacred tenets is the protection and safeguarding of children — even non-Mandalorian ones — with it considered among the most honorable deeds one can perform. They consider it a duty to return lost or orphaned children to their people (or to adopt and raise them if the child wishes to stay), and multiple times in The Mandalorian the group is shown mobilizing in large numbers to rescue endangered younglings at great risk to themselves.
• Genocide Survivor: The clan remained hidden due to the Great Purge of Mandalore, an Imperial extermination campaign during which most of the Mandalorian population was killed, with the surviving Mandalorians forced into hiding. The clan was living on the Mandalorian moon Concordia during the "Night of a Thousand Tears" when Imperials razed the planet Mandalore and slaughtered its people; the clan believes they survived the massacre because they follow the true Way of the Mandalore.
• Impossible Task: According to the tenets of their creed, the only way to redeem breaking those tenets is bathing in the waters of the mines beneath Mandalore. Which were lost when the Empire razed the planet. Fortunately, "The Mines of Mandalore" reveal that the planet is merely abandoned and desolate, but not lifeless and uninhabitable. Remnants of formerly discriminated, monstrous species are still able to breathe its air and live within the ruins. Most importantly, at least one Mythosaur lies dormant but alive within the Living Waters.
• Killed Offscreen: Aside from the Armorer, Chapter 8 reveals the Imperial Remnant found the Covert on Nevarro and killed many of their numbers shortly after the events of Chapter 3. The Mandalorian's third season shows that a number of them did survive and they have been recruiting new members as well.
• Mysterious Past: It's not clear when the Watch came into being, although Din stating his face hadn't been seen by others since he was a foundling dates them at least back during the time of the Clone Wars.
• No Name Given: In the first season, they were given no name, only known as simply the Tribe. Season 2 would later reveal that they are known by other Mandalorian factions as the Children of the Watch.
• No True Scotsman: Their tribe is so fanatical to the ancient ways, they dismiss anyone who doesn't follow them as not being Mandalorians. Din himself held firmly to this belief prior to his Character Development, but The Armorer does not make such change when she banishes Din in The Book of Boba Fett for taking off his helmet in front of others. She also claims the Children of the Watch survived the Great Purge because they stuck to The Way, and were on Concordia by the time it happened.
  • By the time of Season 3, between their casualties, the revelation that Mandalore is habitable, and the discovery of a mythasaur beneath the Living Waters, the Armorer has begun to soften her stance and even argue that because Bo-Katan has "lived in two worlds" as both a Child of the Watch and an outsider, she can reunite all Mandalorians.
• Pet the Dog: While they are very strict in their religious tenets, they are willing to accept any Mandalorian who follows them as one of their own. Bo-Katan is accepted into the Children of the Watch when she unintentionally follows the Creed by bathing in the waters of Mandalore and subsequently doesn't take her helmet off.
  • Despite having taken up arms against Greef and his bounty hunters in the past, the Children nevertheless readily accept his call for help in The Pirate and drop in to liberate Nevarro from Shard's pirate invaders.
• The Remnant: It's stated their lack of numbers and need to hide are the result of the Great Purge, which forced them into hiding, relying on foundlings for their future generations, and with much of their beskar in Imperial hands.
• Token Heroic Orc: Out of all the various clans, the Children of the Watch are the only group that makes the protection of others — particularly children — a sacred part of their tenant.
• Renegade Splinter Faction: Bo-Katan Kryze reveals that the Children of the Watch are an extremely fundamentalist sect of the Mandalorians that split off years ago.
• Soldier vs. Warrior: Even compared to other Mandalorian factions, these guys come down firmly on the "warrior" side of the equation, eschewing any kind of chain of command and generally operating without anything beyond very basic strategy and tactics. Being Mandalorians, they're all personally very dangerous... but against organized, professional militaries like Gideon's Imperial Remnant or even just overwhelmingly massive monsters, they struggle. This is further shown in "The Pirate", when they are put under the command of Bo-Katan, who has actual experience as a military leader. Despite being outnumbered 10-1 by the pirates, Bo-Katan's soldier-like manner allows them to triumph with minimal casualties.

Mandalorian Armorer

"The foundlings are the future. This is the way."

Homeworld: Mandalore

Portrayed by: Emily Swallow, Lauren Mary Kim (body/stunt double on The Mandalorian), Michelle Lee (body/stunt double on The Book of Boba Fett)

An expert Mandalorian blacksmith who serves as the spiritual leader of the Watch's Covert on Nevarro, chronicling their history and forging their weapons and armor.

• Action Girl: Five armed Stormtroopers find her alone in the abandoned Covert, and she easily takes them all out with a pair of tongs and a hammer. She hits two of them with enough force to shatter their helmets.
• Almighty Janitor: In addition to running the tribe of Mandalorians, she also knows the ins and outs of the catacombs very well, and continues to maintain them even after the tribe is forced out.
• Ambiguously Human: Because of The Armorers' 24-Hour Armor and the inclusion of horns on her helmet, it is largely debatable whether this is a stylistic choice or if The Armorer is actually a Zabrak like Darth Maul or The Armorer could be a former member of Darth Maul's Shadow Collective.
• Arbitrary Skepticism: Despite her reverence for her culture and spiritual traditions, she initially dismisses Bo-Katan's claims to have seen a living Mythosaur out of hand. She does eventually come around to the idea as she develops a greater respect for Bo-Katan, however.
• The Blacksmith: Her role at the Mandalorian enclave. Due to Mandalorians being a Proud Warrior Race, this also fittingly makes her something of a High Priest. She made Din a shiny Beskar pauldron in the first episode. May or may not be an Ultimate Blacksmith since she also makes awesome weapons like the Whistling Birds and works with rare, powerful materials like Beskar steel.
• Character Development: She decides to shed her attitude toward the Mandalorians who do not follow "the Way" after getting to know Bo-Katan as virtuous and a natural leader of their people despite her initial dismissal of their traditions. It's her decision to place her trust in Lady Kryze which helps establish the first threads in repairing the scattered tribes throughout the galaxy and uniting them back on Mandalore.
• The Chooser of the One: Even though Din owns the Darksaber, technically making him the rightful ruler of Mandalore, she believes it's Bo-Katan the one who is fated to unite their people once for all, after learning that Bo has witnessed a living mythosaur.
• Close-Range Combatant: Notably, despite being a Mandalorian, she seemingly carries no Mandalorian weapons, whether blasters or armor-mounted gadgets. Any time she's gotten into a fight, she's fought exclusively with her smithing tools — not that she needs anything else.
• Cool Old Lady: While her exact age isn't given, she's clearly an older matriarchal figure in the Covert. She's also a wise and helpful Action Girl who won't hesitate to throw down with those who threaten her people.
• Does Not Like Guns: Implied; whenever she's shown to fight, the Armorer makes no use of blasters or even the various other weapons many Mandalorians are equipped with, only using her smithing tools, though she uses these to tremendous effect.
• The Faceless: Her face is never revealed as it's concealed under the armor for all of her appearances.
• Fantastic Racism: Notably averted. She shows no particular ill will towards Jedi despite the oft-troubled history between them and Mandalorians, and in fact seems to know a great deal about their own ways and philosophies. Even when discussing points where the Jedi and Mandalorians disagree (such as the Prequel Era Jedi's aversion to attachment and emotional stifling), she does so in a neutral, matter-of-fact manner that makes clear that while it is not the Mandalorian way, she still respects or at least understands it. She acknowledges that the two peoples have been enemies many times in their history, but also recognizes that this does not mean they have to be enemies, nor that all Jedi are inherently anti-Mandalorian.
• Genocide Survivor: Lived during the Great Purge of Mandalore, an Imperial campaign of slaughter against Mandalorians during which most of the Mandalorian population was killed and surviving Mandalorians were forced into hiding. The Armorer is implied to have been present during the "Night of the Thousand Tears," in which the Empire massacred Mandalorians on their home planet, and she believes she and her clan survived the massacre on the Mandalorian moon Concordia because they followed the true Way of the Mandalore.
• High Priest: She carries herself in the manner of a high priestess, and her words of wisdom on the ways of their culture carry great weight with the titular character and all others in the Covert. After explaining the clear course of action in accordance with the culture, she emphasizes her point with the Character Catchphrase "This is the Way", which is usually echoed in compliance by whomever she was lecturing.
• Improbable Weapon User: Her skill with the hammer isn't too remarkable in itself, except that it's a Beskar smithing hammer... as are the tongs she also uses in concert with it. Normally, they're her two main beskar smithing tools. She first used them when ambushed in her forge, which would make them Improvised Weapons, but she later uses them during a battle the Mandalorian were well prepared for.
• Minored In Ass Kicking: The Armorer chiefly concerns herself with duties of the forge and day-to-day leadership of the Covert, but she's still a Mandalorian, and she wields her forging hammer with enough power to shatter Stormtrooper armor when she's called to fight.
• Mirror Character: She's functionally a Mandalorian version of Yoda, being a wise master in a persecuted religion/culture and Trickster Mentor who teaches the heroes of their respective orders to broaden their minds and understanding of the world.
• Mysterious Backer: Towards Din. In addition to supplying him with new weapons and armor, she nudges him towards making moral, honorable choices while also seeming to push him into situations where the dogma he lives by will be challenged and his understanding of the universe widened, such as charging him with seeking out Jedi to train Grogu or giving him an Impossible Task to atone for breaching the Creed. She also shows an understanding of the Jedi way just as deep as her understanding of the Mandalorian Creed, but conspicuously never reveals how she knows such things. In general, she very much gives the impression of knowing and being much more than she lets on, while also being a benevolent figure that truly wants Din to grow into something better.
• Mysterious Past: We never learn who she is, where she came from, or how she seems to know all the things she does. There are some incredibly vague hints dropped (she wears a customized Night Owl helmet, once saw the Great Forge of Mandalore in operation, and claims to have been cloistered on Concordia when the Empire laid waste to Mandalore), but nothing concrete and those hints could mean a lot of a things. Her motivations for helping Din and sending him on his journeys are also decidedly unclear, as she seems very much to have grander motives than simply following the Creed but never reveals what they are.
• No Name Given: The credits name her "The Armorer".
• No True Scotsman: She banishes Din from the Covert after he admits that he removed his helmet in sight of others as the Creed says this means he's no longer a Mandalorian. She later immediately accepts him back when he provides proof that he redeemed himself in the living waters, and then further accepts Bo-Katan as a Child of the Watch due to her obeying the Creed and performing the same rite of absolution, even if unintentionally. Later, after Bo-katan's revelation that she saw a Mythosaur in the depths, and with their victorious debut back in the open on Nevarro, Armorer realizes that it's time to dispense with such exclusionary notions and rally all Mandalorians regardless of their level of adherence to the Creed's strictures to retake their homeworld.
• Pet the Dog:
  • Even though she banishes Din for removing his helmet she allows him to keep his armor and the Darksaber. She also gives him instructions on how to atone for his breach of the Creed, even though it may be an Impossible Task: journeying to the "Living Waters" beneath the (now destroyed) mines of Mandalore. And when he does succeed in this task, the Armorer not only welcomes him back without a second thought, but she even extends the sentiment to Bo-Katan, allowing her to leave at any time.
  • The Armorer doesn't use the fact that Grogu was raised by the Jedi to declare him an enemy on sight, instead treating him as any other Foundling. Even after he's returned to Luke she agrees to make a mail shirt, and what reluctance she shows about it is more simple acknowledgment of the Jedi aversion towards attachment, pointing out that Din seeking out Grogu and trying to maintain a relationship with him as he undergoes his Jedi training probably won't end the way he hopes (and she is proven right when Ahsoka tells Din the same thing and Luke is pressed into giving Grogu a choice between the Jedi and Mandalorian ways).

    The Armorer: Its kind were enemies; this one is not.

  • The Armorer eagerly embraces Grogu as one of her clan, first accepting him as being a Foundling then in season 3 gifting him a roundel upon his darts victory over Ragnar Vizsla, going into more detail to him about what it is to be Mandalorian and later being obviously delighted when Din Djarin adopts him.
  • The Armorer clearly guided The Children of the Watch in believing their practice of "The Way" made them true Mandalorians. However, after Bo-Katan sees a mythosaur and The Armorer asks her to remover her helmet, The Armorer makes great strides in reunifying various Mandalorian splinter groups and demonstrating by example to her clan to support their fellow Mandalorians. She is one of the first to volunteer to scout out Mandalore, she evacuates the wounded Mandalorians they find on the surface to medical treatment, and after retaking Mandalore she relights the Great Forge alongside Bo-Katan, while also allowing Bo and some of the other Nite Owls to stand witness as Ragnar Vizsla takes the Creed at the Living Waters.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: She asks Bo-Katan to remove her helmet in The Pirate, signifying a change in her previously dogmatic adherence to The Way now that she seems to have set her sights on reclaiming Mandalore.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: Don't mistake her role as blacksmith and High Priest as meaning she's some kind of pacifistic old monk who teaches but never fights. She's still a Mandalorian through and through, and when five hapless stormtroopers make the mistake of trying to detain her, she proceeds to effortlessly and brutally kill them all with a set of hammer and tongs, even hitting two of them hard enough to punch clean through their armor.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Talks down Din and Paz Vizsla from fighting each other without even raising her voice, acting as the tribe's elder. When talking about the rivalry that existed between Mandalorians and Jedi after Grogu was brought into the Covert by Din, who thought that he had inadvertently helped an enemy, she simply brushes it off. She also gladly accepts Din back into the Covert after he redeems himself for removing his helmet, as well as welcoming Bo-Katan after learning that she too bathed in the Living Waters. She even makes it clear that Bo-Katan can leave if she likes, and after coming to believe that Bo saw a living mythosaur, the Armorer allows her to remove her helmet at will so she can bring all Mandalorians together.
• Sink or Swim Mentor: The trials and quests she puts Din through are never safe or easy, often borderline impossible, but they all make him stronger and wiser, giving him a broader, deeper understanding of the world and the Mandalorian Way and leading him to forge a powerful relationship with Grogu.
• The Stoic: Nothing seems to phase her, even her flock getting into Mandalorian-typical brawls right in her forge.
  • The worst she ever betrays is a flat tone on Navarro after the Covert was slaughtered, which returns to normal upon sight of Grogu.
• Sympathy for the Devil: From her perspective at least. While she opposes the Suicidal Pacifism of the Kryzes and their "New" Mandalorian government, blaming them (with reason) for Mandalore's fall from glory and eventual devastation under the Republic and Empire, the harshest language she ever uses is describing Bo-Katan as a "cautionary tale". She generally sees them as foolish heretics who led Mandalore into ruin and stridently rejects any authority they claim to have, but does not necessarily hate them and instead seems to view them with pity, seeing them as having lost sight of the Mandalorian Way just as badly as people in the other extreme like Death Watch (who she notably also seems to reject as her Covert is hinted to be a splinter faction of them). When she comes face-to-face with Bo-Katan after shared ordeal with Din at the Living Waters, she readily offers sanctuary and acceptance to the Creed to the last remaining known face of Death Watch and Clan Kryze.
• Trickster Mentor: She gives Din clear instructions on what goal he must achieve, but beyond that, she is cryptic and inscrutable, and one almost gets the impression that she is deliberately prodding him into situations that will challenge his preconceived notions about the Creed and what it means to be Mandalorian.
• Weapons of Their Trade: The Armorer is seen using her blacksmith's hammer and tongs to work as improvised weapons with great skill on several occasion, notably against stormtroopers in "Chapter 8: Redemption", or space pirates in "Chapter 21: The Pirate". Of course, her tools are strongly implied to be made of beskar, so it's not like a flimsy stormtrooper helmet or a skull are going to damage them.

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Paz Vizsla

"Our strength was once in our numbers. Now we live in the shadows and only come above ground one at a time."

Species: Human

Homeworld: Mandalore

Portrayed by: Tait Fletcher (on-set actor), Jon Favreau (voice)

A gruff Mandalorian warrior and devoted Child of the Watch, himself a member of the same House Vizsla who forged and wielded the Darksaber.

• Action Dad: Revealed to have a young foundling son in the third season of The Mandalorian, and is the Children of the Watch's heavy hitter who tends to dominate every fight he is in.
• A Death in the Limelight: The third season gives him far more screen time and personality by far compared to the Book of Boba Fett and even The Mandalorian's prior two seasons. He is killed off an episode before the finale to re-establish the danger of the Praetorian Guard.
• All There in the Script: The credits identify him as Paz Vizsla. Closed captioning calls him the Heavy Infantry. The Armorer finally says his name aloud in The Book of Boba Fett Chapter 5.
• Ammunition Backpack: His massive gatling gun seems to be connected to a backpack attached to his jet pack.
• Big Damn Heroes:
  • He leads many of the tribe's warriors in rescuing Din from the bounty hunters guild following him rescuing Grogu from the Imperial Remnant.
  • He advocates this in "The Pirate," saying that the entire reason they should risk their lives to help the people of Nevarro is because they are Mandalorians, and it is a Mandalorian's duty.
• The Big Guy: The tallest, bulkiest, and slowest of all the Mandalorians seen so far, and carries a minigun-style repeating blaster. (Tait Fletcher is 6'3" and 205lbs; Pedro Pascal is 5'10" and 170, Emily Swallow is 5'7" and 120, Katee Sackhoff is 5'6" and 130).
• Casting Gag: Favreau, a veteran of Mandalorian actors thanks to his voice acting time as Pre Viszla, gets to voice another Mandalorian, this time a member of the same house.
• Commonality Connection: Paz and Din have a tense relationship during the first 2 seasons. Between seasons 2 and 3, Paz adopts a son, Ragnar. In season 3, now that they're both dads whose #1 priority is their foundling son, the two find some common ground. At the time, Paz may not have fully appreciated why so many of his covert were willing to die to protect Grogu, but now that Paz has been on the other side of that situation and seen the covert is willing to risk their lives to save Ragnar, he's very glad of it.

  Paz: I saw many die to save the life of this one, tiny foundling [Grogu]. And now we are asked to sacrifice yet again. The question we should be asking ourselves is, "Why? Why should we lay our lives down yet again?" [beat] Because we are Mandalorians! I have had my disagreements with this man, but he risked his life to save my son.

• The Chosen Wannabe: Paz quietly voices a hope and determination to see if he can reclaim the Darksaber for both his people as a whole and his clan specifically when he challenges Din for it. His vocal and body language even specifically shows that he reveres it because of his family connection, and he has the ambition to try and take it. But if the weapon was heavy and unwieldy in Din's hands, it becomes even heavier and clumsier in his, and actually costs him his challenge.
• Creator Cameo: Voiced by the show's own showrunner, Jon Favreau.
• Defiant to the End: When three Praetorians take him down after he took down a squad of beskar-clad Stormtroopers, he pulls himself down one's blade just so he can try to choke his opponent with the last of his strength
• Dying Moment of Awesome: Sacrifices his life to hold off Gideon's forces so the away team can escape and proceeds to take down an entire squad of stormtroopers single-handedly before being finally brought down by Praetorians. He dies gripping one of their throats, fighting to the end.
• The Faceless: His face has not been seen on camera due to his strict adherence to the clan's rule about removing one's helmet. His Black Series action figure does come with a removeable helmet and depicts him with Jon Favreau's face. His face is ultimately never shown before his death.
• Forgotten Fallen Friend: Despite his Heroic Sacrifice and Bo-Katan's grief as she leaves him behind, his corpse is never seen to be recovered and he is never mentioned by any of his people during their celebrations on the homeworld he died to reclaim.
• Gatling Good: Wields a massive gatling gun into battle, which is fitting for someone called "the heavy infantry" Mandalorian by the creators.
• Heroic Sacrifice: He holds the line against Gideon's forces on Mandalore so the away team can escape, fighting off an entire squad before being killed by Praetorians.
• Ironic Name: The word "Paz" translates to 'peace' in several languages. This Mando is an ill-suited bearer for that name.
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • As hostile as he is to Din, he's right that he was willing to work with same people who drove the Mandalorian culture to near extinction, even if it was to get the beskar back to their tribe, especially since his dealings with the Imperial Remnant ends up getting most of the tribe slaughtered.
  • When he challenges Din over the right to wield the darksaber he is correct in pointing out that it was originally made by his ancestor and that he may have some right to it. Additionally, given that Din both seems too distracted to properly use the sword and the above-mentioned fact that his actions got many of his own people killed, it's not hard to see why he would think that Din isn't the right person to hold the object meant to lead all of Mandalore.
  • Upon Din being revealed to have removed his helmet in sight of others, Paz bluntly calls him an apostate and demands that he leave the Covert; harsh as he's being, he's right that Din knowingly broke his vows, and even the Armorer makes it clear that in the eyes of the Children of the Watch, Din is no longer a Mandalorian.
  • After Din makes his plea to the covert to reveal themselves and aid Nevarro against pirate occupation, Paz speaks. He gives voice to the dissident whispers that were passed around as Din made his plea, bringing up all the blood the covert has shed already over Nevarro and asserting the question as to why they should do it again... And then he does an about-face, and squelches the cynical notions by exclaiming "Because we are Mandalorians!!!" and then expounding at length about the righteousness of the cause, the deeds already done by Din and Bo-katan, and their chance at a new life out of hiding if they win.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While he's initially abrasive and antagonistic towards the Mandalorian for working with the Empire, he nonetheless joins the rest of the clan in aiding his escape at the end of the episode.
  • At the end of "The Foundling", he gives sincere thanks to Din and Bo-Katan for helping to rescue his son Ragnar.
  • He acknowledges his own disagreements with Din during the covert's meeting in The Pirate, but still whole-heartedly stands with his cause to help the people of Nevarro with their pirate problem.
  • Despite hating Axe and seeing him and the Nite Owls as borderline apostates, when battle begins, Paz protects and fights alongside them all the same and even personally provides Axe with vital covering fire to save his life as he runs to get backup. He shortly after sacrifices his life to save the away from Gideon's troopers, fighting with all the valor and strength one would expect from Mandalorian defending his family.
• Jet Pack: Utilizes one despite being twice the size of most other Mandalorians.
• Mighty Glacier: He is plodding in his movement, but his formidable strength allows him to wear particularly thick and well-covering beskar plate armor, and he also wields a heavy repeating blaster that's not quite as big as an Imperial E-Web with which he lays down withering blaster fire. His armor is protective enough that he is able to take a light blaster cannon shot square in the chest and walk it off. This ends up being why the Praetorian Guard make short work of him — their quick, cooperative fighting style means that an already worn-down Paz i an easy target, as despite him mowing down dozens of soldiers moments before, he is unable to deal with a set of nimble opponents on his own.
• No True Scotsman:
  • He takes issues with Din working with (remnants of) the Empire due to the Empire's Great Purge upon Mandalorians. The Armorer sets him straight by pointing out that the Empire is no more, and that plenty of Empire-stamped beskar was reclaimed by them thanks to Mando's efforts. When The Armorer banishes Din for removing his helmet Paz takes her side, calling Din an "apostate" and telling him to leave the Covert.
  • He has a low opinion of the Nite Owls due to his upbringing, feeling that they ignore basic tenets of the Mandalorian Way and are thus fallen. Even as the Children unify with them and they begin working together, Paz clearly harbors many doubts about how it will turn out and maintains a tense distance from their leader Axe Woves in particular.
• One-Man Army: He's capable of taking on a squad of Stormtroopers and still being the last one standing. It takes three Praetorian Guards fighting him after he's already worn himself to exhaustion to finally bring him down.
• Overheating: If fired continuously, his large gun eventually Turns Red and then jams. This happens during his last stand, at which point he makes one last kill with it by clubbing an enemy trooper.
• Papa Wolf: "The Foundling" reveals that he has a son of his own, Ragnar. When the boy is carried off by a Raptor, Paz refuses to let anyone shoot it in case Ragnar gets hurt and chases after them until his jetpack runs out of fuel. When the rescue party reaches the beast's nest, Paz rushes in to save his son at the first opportunity, and fights the beast head-on.
• Pull Yourself Down the Spear: He pulls himself down a Praetorian Guard's blade so he can choke his foe with the last of his strength, Defiant to the End.
• Sacrificial Lion: His death in the penultimate episode of season three signifies how serious things have gotten and how big the stakes have just become.
• Spell My Name With An S: Credits to Chapter 3 initially spelled his name as "Paz Vizla", bringing to mind the spelling with The Old Republic's Shae Vizla. However, this has since been corrected to "Paz Vizsla", suggesting this was merely a typo. The Book of Boba Fett confirms he's a descendant of House Vizsla.
• Throwing Your Gun at the Enemy: His minigun is large enough that even if it overheats and refuses to fire any more, it's still a functional melee weapon.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Paz mellows towards Din considerably after he returns from his quest of absolution to the Living Waters. It starts with him echoing Din's admonishing citation of a passage from the Creed to his own son after a spell of the lad being an Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy is ended by getting trounced by Grogu in a training game. After Din is the one who directly saves Ragnar from the Raptor, he owes both Din and Bo-Katan (who was also instrumental in Ragnar's rescue) a great debt of gratitude... which he repays next episode by heavily bolstering their pitch to the tribe to liberate Nevarro from pirate occupation. Afterwards in the wake of their victory on Nevarro, when Bo-Katan removes her helmet on the Armorer's command, he is more deferential to both the Armor and to Din over the issue (in contrast when he derisively called Din an apostate for his own case) and subsequently willing to work with the Nite Owls, even if there are still tensions to be had.
• You Shall Not Pass!: He blocks a squad of Stormtroopers clad in beskar-alloy armor, sealing the rest of the Mandalorians away behind a door and allowing them time to escape. He defeats the Stormtroopers. But is then cut down by no less than three Praetorian Guards.

Ragnar Vizsla

Species: Human

Portrayed by: Wesley Kimmel

A Mandalorian foundling and the adoptive son of Paz Vizsla, who takes the creed and receives his helmet shortly before Din Djarin's return to the fold.

• Aerith and Bob: Downplayed. While exotic-sounding to English speakers, "Ragnar" is an old norse name that was fairly common in medieval Scandanavia and returned to popularity for a time in the 20th century, and it remains a relatively common name in Iceland.
• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: On training day episode 3x04 "The Foundling", he is pretty full of himself after consistently winning foundling challenges. When Din puts Grogu up against him, Ragnar scoffs at the notion. Din retorts with a citation of the Creed: "One does not speak unless one knows." Sure enough, despite a rough start, Grogu wins in the challenge after Din encourages Grogu to cut loose with his Force abilities. Paz echoes Din's cited passage from the Creed as further admonishment, and he heads off to pout.
• Book Ends: Season 3 of The Mandalorian begins with his oath being interrupted by a sea creature trying to eat him. One of the final scenes of the season see's him finally finish his oath, this time on a reclaimed Mandalore.
• The Chew Toy: The poor kid’s first two appearances both have giant monsters try to eat him.
• Disappeared Dad: Paz dies in the penultimate episode of Season 3, leaving Ragnar without his father.
• Meaningful Name: The name "Ragnar" is commonly associated with Vikings thanks to The Saga of Ragnar Lodbrok, making it a fitting choice for a member of the franchise's most prominent Proud Warrior Race.
• Protectorate: The flipside to his father's Papa Wolf. Paz and Ragnar make up a second Mandalorian father-son Badass and Child Duo.
• Trauma Conga Line: In Season 3 alone, he is almost eaten by a giant sea monster, almost eaten by a giant bird monster, and loses his father.