WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD FOR BOTH THE RISE OF SKYWALKER AND THE MANDALORIAN!
Friends, Romans, countrymen, Porgs, Wookiees … we all know the big star of The Rise of Skywalker isn’t Rey or Kylo or even Force Ghost Luke.
It’s Babu Frik.
He’s a teeny little Anzellan with oversized hands who’s a “droidsmith” working on Kijimi (thanks, Wookieepedia) who steals the scenes he’s in and has a key role in the final movie of the Skywalker Saga (and again, SPOILER ALERT): he’s asked to reprogram C-3PO in order to get the droid to translate the ancient inscription written on a dagger that will lead Rey and Co. to a Sith Wayfinder (C-3PO was programmed not to interpret Sith text).
Babu Frik is tiny and old and he occasionally speaks broken English, but then he does stuff that is undoubtedly going to turn into a meme:
He’s great, he brings some levity to the film and he follows in the Star Wars canon of cute things.
But he is no Baby Yoda. C’mon.
The wonderful thing about Baby Yoda is the mystery surrounding “The Child.” He might be a Yoda offspring, he might be a clone and he’s got enough power over the Force to choke a full-grown adult. The fact that he doesn’t really speak is just another reason to love him.
And, darn it, he’s a baby for crying out loud.
So for anyone comparing the two, don’t. Can we say Babu cracks the Top 5 of cutest Star Wars things? Absolutely. Beyond that? No.
While you contemplate this silly argument, here are some Twitter takes:
