Subscribe to my personal channel @kalaimanoa Bendu is a really cool character and I'd love to see more. I love force users who aren't affiliated with Jedi or Sith.
Incorrect. Bendu is an actual creature. He has found balance, he is connected to the Force. He is old, wise, and therefore he has learned what Anakin has now learned. He can be both light and dark, he can be the middle, he can be one with the force. He’s the closest thing to a physical Force ghost, much like Grand Master Luke.
Would likely not go well for Yoda. The Bendu seems to disdain the idea of 'wielding' the Force and has a very low opinion of Jedi. They wield the Force to support a horribly flawed concept of Balance, when the truth is that their definition of Balance is just a polite way of saying Stagnation, preventing changes that should have long since naturally come and gone. The Bendu would know the truth that the best thing the Jedi could do was to abandon the Republic, allow what was to come to naturally come, and then clean up the aftermath. He would also know that the Jedi would refuse to see this and I doubt he'd bother mentioning it to them unless provoked, only to tell them this truth as an act of spite, that their mission for the last thousand years was pointless.
I really enjoy the Bendu, that which stands in the middle. Laughs heartily, enjoys pleasant conversation, and teaches valuable lessons… also takes exception to being called a coward. All in all, a standup fellow.
Thawn didn't need super powers to defeat Bendu. But it's normal for people fear things they cannot grasp. It's just that Thrawn conquered his fears and did the unthinkable while his troops were on the verge of cowering.
It was so epic to cast Tom Baker as the Bendu and then David Tennant as the Jedi training droid. The two best Dr who's now together in Star Wars. How cool is that?
Well I’ll be damned. They should do that to with Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, Christopher Eccleston, Matt Smith, Peter Capaldi and Jodie Whittaker as well.
My problem with a lot of these compilation videos. They’ll remove a lot of context from the lines being said because they cut the responses or starters.
Bendu had some good lessons, especially his one about the Sith Holocron. "An object cannot make you good or evil. The temptation of power, forbidden knowledge, even the desire to do good, can lead some down that path.."
That's why I produced that last droid in the Star Forge back at "KOTOR". Because I believed the Star Forge could accomplish more than what it was shown.
I would love to see a segment where Luke Skywalker learns about the Force under the Bendu. Though the Bendu may be a poor teacher. In fact, I believe the Bendu may embody what the Sith Lord Kreia once said about the Force, that is a Force with a mind of its own that doesn't care about Jedi or Sith and will let as many die as possible under its Will.
i think hes also missunderstood, he wasnt dangerous until kanan called him a coward and firmly asked both sides to leave. although saying "i bring death" doesnt help.
@@guyfierifeetpics He's very understood, he's an ancient being connected to the force, who wants to be left alone and frankly is uncaring of what happens to the cosmos beyond that. In that regard, despite all his power, he is a coward. Content to hide than immediately deal with threats unless his character is insulted. There's nothing to misunderstand. All his wisdom, and he's basically a lazy hermit.
You would rather hide like a coward- Kanan Jarrus Kreia- So you would do nothing? Apathy is death, worse than death. Because at least a rotting corpses feeds the beast and insects.
I wonder how the Bendu and the Doctor would react if they met. Perhaps before the Doctor turns the TARDIS into that museum with the Gallifrey painting in Matt Smith's Doctor's series, he had a conversation with the Bendu, two beings of Balance with no exact purpose in the universe
Sabine kicked Bendu, so she was kinda on her way to sensing something like him eventually. Good analogy of her subconsciously blocking the Force but still almost sensing it.
You would rather hide like a coward-Kanan Jarrus Kreia- So you would do nothing? Apathy is death, worse than death. Because at least a rotting corpses feeds the beast and insects.
The fourth Doctor was my favorite Doctor Who......... until David Tennant came along. (They're tied for first). Great choice to have Tom Baker do the voice of the Bendu. That guy is great in EVERYTHING. And, of course..... David Tennant is the voice of Huyang. Lots of Doctor Who crossovers in Star Wars... including the uniform worn by Bossk in "The Empire Strikes Back". (Was recycled from "Doctor Who" wardrobe dept). More Tom Baker, please.
I love how the Bendu refers to Jedi's home planet of Tython's moons, Ashla and Bogan. in Legends (Which is way better than Disney's canon) Tython is the home of the ancient Je'daii which focused on the Force both both light and dark. Anytime a young Jedi focused too much on the Light they would be sent to Ashla (Which represented the light) and anytime they focused too much on the Dark Side, they'd be sent to Bogan (Which represented the dark). The Idea is from those moons they'll only be able to see the other side of the Force and be forced to reconize both Light and Dark are apart of the Force. It was only after the Jedi Civil war against the Dark Jedi when the now Jedi order were blinded by only following the light side in aragance and ingoring that the dark was as much apart of the Will of The Force.
close, but you mixed up the focus of the jedi. When one was too possessed by the Ashla, he/she was actually sent to the Bogan to relearn balance, and so with the Bogan to the Ashla. Other than that detail, you are essentially correct.
@@PrinceOfDolAlmroth I thought the idea was if your too much in the light you were sent to Ashla so from there you can only see the dark represented in Bogdan and understand both being necessary
@@PrinceOfDolAlmrothI love the idea that someone can fall to the lightside of the force. It's very unexplored but clearly implied everytime the jedi get dogmatic or slow to act like the mandalorian wars we see them lose touch with the people because for an order that proclaims to be compassionate their immersion in the light stunts them emotionally and they experience ego death at which point things like the death on many people do to raiders is just a transformation from one state to another and those souls rejoin the the collective unconscious that is the living force. Their monk on a hill tendency leads to complaincency and apathy.
1:05 Matrix of Leadership, Necronomicon, every Daedric and Aedric artifact in TES, I know these are outside of Star Wars universe, but there can certainly be objects imbued with good or evil.
Wisdom, clarity of vision - leading to chaos? Some things are worth fighting for? Seems like a recurrent theme in Star Wars. Cognitive dissonance - fighting for peace.
In the earilest StarWars scripts, the Jedi were called Bendu knights/warriors. Rebels is basically a prime case of reusing old scrapped ideas everywhere.
@@jameshersom2536 I wonder how the Bendu would respond to Baylan’s desire for the beginning and an end to the cycles. Vision. Incomplete vision. Interesting that Kanaan says Ezra should learn to solve problems without the lightsaber.
@@knightmare5097 it's been 3 months and honestly I forgot the Ahsoka show existed, it's one of the better Star Wars things Disney have put out, but either I'm getting older or the show just didn't do anything different from every other star wars show Minus Andor and bad batch, easily the best star wars since episode 3
I love his line of, "Then dont turn around". Bendu is essentially clairvoyant. He knows they will, he knows what they dont want to see and where it is.
I don't agree that a force user like a jedi can be an antihero or superior by being in the middle, it makes a lot of sense that the bendu's detatchment would cause him to not act at all for the greater good of others despite his power
Kinda contrived and underwhelming of a character. Inconsistent too. Feels like he’s just there because Dave liked the idea but didn’t put thought into what to do with him besides vague shit for moments
Indeed. He's meant to be a middle path of the force, but the Bendu is temperamental, vicious, and downright vague in what he is or where he came from. Just a strange creature thrown in with no explanation.
@@EmptyMan000your saying that as if both sides don't already possess some of those three traits. Your just proving bendu's validity at the end of the day😂
@@EmptyMan000 I know "friends" in real life who carry the same temperament as Bendu: they're somewhat intelligent, knowledgeable, and very, very powerful, but they're also inconsistent. Thrawn contrasts Bendu as having no powers but his incredible reasoning and self-discipline, and despite his fear, he took down a demi-god. Thrawn, for me, is substance, and Bendu is just raw, neutral, and sometimes, chaotic power.
Such an underrated character, to bad he is for only 9 minutes but he is great.
I wished this had been Kreia. Or that she was involved with Bendu at least.
Just imagine it...
I don’t actually think the Bendu is an actual creature. I think it is the closest look we have ever had a look at the Force itself
Mortis Gods 💁🏾♂️
Mortis God and Mortis Anakin: are we a joke to you?
Incorrect. Bendu is an actual creature.
He has found balance, he is connected to the Force. He is old, wise, and therefore he has learned what Anakin has now learned. He can be both light and dark, he can be the middle, he can be one with the force. He’s the closest thing to a physical Force ghost, much like Grand Master Luke.
@@brandenmarcum430 I mean in Ashoka Anakin is also kinda a "physical" Force Ghost (if that even real Anakin).
@@brandenmarcum430 oh wow that’s awesome
Imagine a conversation between Yoda and the Bendu.
BENDU IS NOT JEDI NOR SITH, BENDU IS ONE WITH THE FORCE
"Any sevens, do you have?"
"GO FISH!"
Imagine Kreia and Bendu talking.
@@JabamiLain Imagine Grover from Sesame Street and the Fourth Doctor talking. Oh, wait -- that's where we started, isn't it?
Would likely not go well for Yoda. The Bendu seems to disdain the idea of 'wielding' the Force and has a very low opinion of Jedi. They wield the Force to support a horribly flawed concept of Balance, when the truth is that their definition of Balance is just a polite way of saying Stagnation, preventing changes that should have long since naturally come and gone.
The Bendu would know the truth that the best thing the Jedi could do was to abandon the Republic, allow what was to come to naturally come, and then clean up the aftermath. He would also know that the Jedi would refuse to see this and I doubt he'd bother mentioning it to them unless provoked, only to tell them this truth as an act of spite, that their mission for the last thousand years was pointless.
I really enjoy the Bendu, that which stands in the middle. Laughs heartily, enjoys pleasant conversation, and teaches valuable lessons… also takes exception to being called a coward.
All in all, a standup fellow.
I wished this had been Kreia. Or that she was involved with Bendu at least.
Just imagine it...
Even Thrawn feared him
Thrawn's an overrated bitch
i wish i could hear thrawns thoughts on him trying to understand the bendu
Thawn didn't need super powers to defeat Bendu. But it's normal for people fear things they cannot grasp. It's just that Thrawn conquered his fears and did the unthinkable while his troops were on the verge of cowering.
Fear of the Unknown. And we all know where fear leads.
I doubt the bendu is dead, if he is as sensitive to the force, then he has both dark and light side abilities of reincarnation
It was so epic to cast Tom Baker as the Bendu and then David Tennant as the Jedi training droid. The two best Dr who's now together in Star Wars. How cool is that?
This guy is Tom Baker?!? That's freaking awesome!
Right! @@Perigrene101
Well I’ll be damned. They should do that to with Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, Christopher Eccleston, Matt Smith, Peter Capaldi and Jodie Whittaker as well.
@@nikolaspapanagnou2723 who do you think they might star as?
@@Perigrene101
the definitive article.
Would you like a Jelly baby??
This was a rather one-sided conversation. To truly appreciate the character of the Bendu, you need to see what he's conversing against.
I agree
My problem with a lot of these compilation videos. They’ll remove a lot of context from the lines being said because they cut the responses or starters.
Bendu had some good lessons, especially his one about the Sith Holocron.
"An object cannot make you good or evil. The temptation of power, forbidden knowledge, even the desire to do good, can lead some down that path.."
That's why I produced that last droid in the Star Forge back at "KOTOR". Because I believed the Star Forge could accomplish more than what it was shown.
I would love to see a segment where Luke Skywalker learns about the Force under the Bendu. Though the Bendu may be a poor teacher. In fact, I believe the Bendu may embody what the Sith Lord Kreia once said about the Force, that is a Force with a mind of its own that doesn't care about Jedi or Sith and will let as many die as possible under its Will.
i think hes also missunderstood, he wasnt dangerous until kanan called him a coward and firmly asked both sides to leave. although saying "i bring death" doesnt help.
@@guyfierifeetpics He's very understood, he's an ancient being connected to the force, who wants to be left alone and frankly is uncaring of what happens to the cosmos beyond that. In that regard, despite all his power, he is a coward. Content to hide than immediately deal with threats unless his character is insulted. There's nothing to misunderstand. All his wisdom, and he's basically a lazy hermit.
You would rather hide like a coward- Kanan
Jarrus
Kreia- So you would do nothing? Apathy is death, worse than death. Because at least a rotting corpses feeds the beast and insects.
He wasn’t a bad teacher tbh
Always wanted to see a deep conversation between Bendu and Plo Koon.
Tom Baker has such a booming, godlike voice, that it'd be fitting for him to play a godlike entity
So if the Mortis Gods Die and Reincarnate, is it possible the Bendu is the Father, Balance. He's Neither Light or Dark and He has a long beard.
I love how the cave search for the Holocron is similar to the dark side cave on Degobah. Bendu is basically the grey Jedi/Sith Yoda
The Bendu still intrigues me. The fact the classic quintessential Doctor, Tom Baker voiced the Bendu intrigues me as well❤
I wished this being had been Kreia. Or that she was involved with Bendu at least.
Just imagine it...
The most interesting SW character to me. Also, thanks for uploading to this channel again.
thank you! agree bendu's interesting, i love characters who use the force in ways other than a jedi or sith would
Was I the only one expecting the Bendu to offer Kanan a Jellybaby?
Nope ….I really wanted him to say this to
he's literally space moose oogway
To be honest he looks like a moose
wheeeeeze moose oogway and the fact i like kung fu panda makes this even funnier
Looks like a combo of a moose and an orangutan.
Tom Baker absolutely nailed this role.
Has there ever been a role he hasn’t nailed?
I can't believe this is the 4th doctor himself Tom Baker
Any dr who can will instantly recognize the voice of Tom Baker as the bendu
The Tom Bombadil of Star Wars.
Exactly. But Cool.
Yeah, although imagining an angry Tom Bombadil is honestly terrifying
Bendu voiced by my fathers favorite actor, Tom Baker from Doctor Who :D
Now we need a star wars what if ...? I wanna see Bendon't.
I wonder how the Bendu and the Doctor would react if they met. Perhaps before the Doctor turns the TARDIS into that museum with the Gallifrey painting in Matt Smith's Doctor's series, he had a conversation with the Bendu, two beings of Balance with no exact purpose in the universe
Sabine kicked Bendu, so she was kinda on her way to sensing something like him eventually. Good analogy of her subconsciously blocking the Force but still almost sensing it.
Not gonna lie, I feel like that’s reaching… a lot.
I wished Sabine met Kreia instead of Bendu. Could we be looking at the next Jedi exile ?
The Bendu is probably the only character that truly personifies the force
And The Father
I’d say Qui-Gon. But then again he more accurately portrayed how a Jedi should be
And Kreia would be his antithesis. I wished she was involved with Bendu at least when meeting rebels.
@@BrianSmith-jx7td oh no, The Father WAS the force lol
He should have had a bigger role while Sabine was mastering the dark saber
You would rather hide like a coward-Kanan Jarrus
Kreia- So you would do nothing? Apathy is death, worse than death. Because at least a rotting corpses feeds the beast and insects.
Great to see the Doctor getting some action 😂
The fourth Doctor was my favorite Doctor Who......... until David Tennant came along. (They're tied for first). Great choice to have Tom Baker do the voice of the Bendu. That guy is great in EVERYTHING.
And, of course..... David Tennant is the voice of Huyang. Lots of Doctor Who crossovers in Star Wars... including the uniform worn by Bossk in "The Empire Strikes Back". (Was recycled from "Doctor Who" wardrobe dept).
More Tom Baker, please.
Bendu reminds me of yoda sort of.
You missed the part in Blue Harvest where he appears in hyperspace.
Wow bendu is so awesome a breath of fresh air
I love how the Bendu refers to Jedi's home planet of Tython's moons, Ashla and Bogan. in Legends (Which is way better than Disney's canon) Tython is the home of the ancient Je'daii which focused on the Force both both light and dark. Anytime a young Jedi focused too much on the Light they would be sent to Ashla (Which represented the light) and anytime they focused too much on the Dark Side, they'd be sent to Bogan (Which represented the dark). The Idea is from those moons they'll only be able to see the other side of the Force and be forced to reconize both Light and Dark are apart of the Force. It was only after the Jedi Civil war against the Dark Jedi when the now Jedi order were blinded by only following the light side in aragance and ingoring that the dark was as much apart of the Will of The Force.
close, but you mixed up the focus of the jedi. When one was too possessed by the Ashla, he/she was actually sent to the Bogan to relearn balance, and so with the Bogan to the Ashla. Other than that detail, you are essentially correct.
@@PrinceOfDolAlmroth I thought the idea was if your too much in the light you were sent to Ashla so from there you can only see the dark represented in Bogdan and understand both being necessary
@@PrinceOfDolAlmrothI love the idea that someone can fall to the lightside of the force. It's very unexplored but clearly implied everytime the jedi get dogmatic or slow to act like the mandalorian wars we see them lose touch with the people because for an order that proclaims to be compassionate their immersion in the light stunts them emotionally and they experience ego death at which point things like the death on many people do to raiders is just a transformation from one state to another and those souls rejoin the the collective unconscious that is the living force. Their monk on a hill tendency leads to complaincency and apathy.
8:10 I Am The Bendu!
8:14 I BRING DEATH!!!
I think i read somewhere that Tom Baker read his lines in his bathroom.
Bendu: I won't fight your petty battles for you
Kanen: then you're a coward
Bendu: *powering up *you dare?*
1:05 Matrix of Leadership, Necronomicon, every Daedric and Aedric artifact in TES, I know these are outside of Star Wars universe, but there can certainly be objects imbued with good or evil.
All I hear is the doctor ….
An object can not make you good or evil …such a 4th doctor line that’s all I here I’m sorry
he reacted to sabine...maybe she has the force
Voice of Tom Baker Xcellent. Mr. X
Wisdom, clarity of vision - leading to chaos?
Some things are worth fighting for?
Seems like a recurrent theme in Star Wars.
Cognitive dissonance - fighting for peace.
"I want to stop seeing maul"
"Then dont turn around"
I know that voice! That’s Tom Baker! The 4th Doctor!
I hope we see Bendu again someday, he was really interesting and honestly one of my favorite characters in rebels
Eeth Koth Scenes Tales Of The Jedi, Episode 1,2,CW Please
Adí Gallia Scenes Episode 1, 2, CW, 9
9?
I wish Bendu interacted with Sabine. That would be interesting.
Is no one going to mention the Daughters Owl at 0:39
That’s just morai
9:36 spooky
In the earilest StarWars scripts, the Jedi were called Bendu knights/warriors. Rebels is basically a prime case of reusing old scrapped ideas everywhere.
i would love to see an interaction between vader and bendu
bendu lawful neutral jedi...besides rebels no information on the bendu....maybe tim zanhn will write about the bendu....
I want to see him again in Ahsoka or something.
Ayy it's tom baker
Thrawn, a man to anger a God and live to tell the tale
A man who’s main enemy is not a god but instead is plot armor
please let Bendu be and Ahsok season so Sabrina be connected to the force like the Padawan and Master
Would be cool, but I think Tom Baker has retired from acting. He’s 90 years old, after all.
Good Job👍
mahalo!
Bendu was a hypocrite and a liar to be honest
I wished this had been Kreia. Or that she was involved with Bendu at least.
Just imagine it...
The voice is way too casual. (Like Rebels itself. Almost the worst of "new" Star Wars.)
God bless Troy Baker
place your bids on Bendu being in Ahsoka now
That would be awesome. I love Tom Baker's voice..... just as thundering, (if not more) as James Earl Jones.
I hope it’s the Bendu calling to baylan
@@jameshersom2536 I wonder how the Bendu would respond to Baylan’s desire for the beginning and an end to the cycles. Vision. Incomplete vision.
Interesting that Kanaan says Ezra should learn to solve problems without the lightsaber.
Sorry bud. No dice
@@knightmare5097 it's been 3 months and honestly I forgot the Ahsoka show existed, it's one of the better Star Wars things Disney have put out, but either I'm getting older or the show just didn't do anything different from every other star wars show
Minus Andor and bad batch, easily the best star wars since episode 3
I love his line of, "Then dont turn around". Bendu is essentially clairvoyant. He knows they will, he knows what they dont want to see and where it is.
Anyone notice the owl land on his shoulder @0:40 when he talked about light and dark??
“Would you like a jelly baby”
The best Doctor
I don't agree that a force user like a jedi can be an antihero or superior by being in the middle, it makes a lot of sense that the bendu's detatchment would cause him to not act at all for the greater good of others despite his power
im sorry who was he again?
5:49
Almost sounds like the kind of voice quality heard from Rankin/Bass to me.
Tom Baker
I was thinking, why does Bendu sounds like Tom Baker...
Went to check, oh, he is Tom Baker. Dr Who actor in Star Wars, that is a treat.
Great compilation. I love Bendu's laugh, especially at 3:36.
Who voiced bendu?
Tom Baker
@@mikev.4037 thank you
@@mikev.4037wait, for real?
@@elijahkelley7616 yes indeedy www.google.com/search?client=safari&sca_esv=559765737&hl=en-us&q=The+Bendu+voice+actor&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjn5ry8oPaAAxXJFFkFHRQgCbUQ1QJ6BAhxEAE&biw=414&bih=831&dpr=2
@@elijahkelley7616 Yes, how fitting one of the Doctors from the Doctor Who series would play such a morally neutral creature like the Bendu.
And yet.another.moment debunking the.concept that grey jedi are impossible.
In 9 minutes from a wise elder helping an unfortunate soul he turned into an grizzled old man yelling at kids to get off his lawn or else...
Hands down
One of my fav characters EVER!! XD
3:14 the bendu straight up jacked them in a blink of an eye😂
Kinda contrived and underwhelming of a character. Inconsistent too. Feels like he’s just there because Dave liked the idea but didn’t put thought into what to do with him besides vague shit for moments
Indeed. He's meant to be a middle path of the force, but the Bendu is temperamental, vicious, and downright vague in what he is or where he came from. Just a strange creature thrown in with no explanation.
@@EmptyMan000your saying that as if both sides don't already possess some of those three traits. Your just proving bendu's validity at the end of the day😂
@@EmptyMan000 I know "friends" in real life who carry the same temperament as Bendu: they're somewhat intelligent, knowledgeable, and very, very powerful, but they're also inconsistent. Thrawn contrasts Bendu as having no powers but his incredible reasoning and self-discipline, and despite his fear, he took down a demi-god. Thrawn, for me, is substance, and Bendu is just raw, neutral, and sometimes, chaotic power.
Bendu being the equivalent of Barney😂😂😂😂
you dont want to see maul then dont turn around
Would you like a jellybaby.
🔥
He's father.
this is who baylan is going to meet 😮
It may be
@@emptyhad2571I'm not really sure. It could possibly be Abeloth.
Imagine that