Top 10 Facts about THRAWN! Star Wars Explained
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- Grand Admiral Thrawn was inspired by key historical and fictional figures, like Sherlock Holmes and Alexander the Great. In Timothy Zahn’s original trilogy of Thrawn books, which launched the now defunct Expanded Universe, beginning with Heir to the Empire, the Chiss military genius, was charged with the onerous task of keeping the Empire together after the death of the Emperor and the destruction of the Second Death Star. The only non-human to ever be given the rank of Grand Admiral, he hailed from the Chiss Ascendancy in the Unknown Region. Unlike Darth Vader, Thrawn didn’t use brutality and fear to keep his crew in line, instead the Grand Admiral inspired his underlings with his leadership and vision, and only rarely resorted to violence to maintain discipline. He proved quite the impediment for our heroes, outwitting them at effectively every turn and almost succeeding in restoring the Empire, but was defeated at the very last moment by Rogue squad.
This video will list some top 10 interesting facts on Grand Admiral Thrawn. Let's hope we'll see him in The Mandalorian Season 2 or 3.
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He's a Great character that REALLY NEEDS to be in a film.
Played by the same actor who plays the role in Rebels.
With the RIGHT Director plus Timothy Zahn at an advisory role. I don’t trust Thrawn being used at people like Rian Johnson or JJ Abrams.
I could see a new series about him and Ezra coming to agreement about fighting the grysk. Plus the new Mando has ashoka and she and Sabine are looking for Ezra. Since chiss space is in the chaos and mostly separate from the rest of the galaxy they could have a lot of room for content
Did you check out the animation of heir to the empire by some TH-cam guy? It's cool and still in progress. I think 8 chapters have been released so far.
@@gregorylumban-gaol3889 yes that is a must! I would hate to see them destroy thrawn too
To defeat an enemy you must know them, not simply their battle tactics but history, philosophy, art.
If you know your enemy, and know yourself, you need not fear the result, of a hundred battles. sun tzu, the art of war
Let your plans be _dark_ and _impenetrable_ as night, and when you move, fall like a *thunderbolt.*
@@the5thmemelord256 the key to defeating an enemy, is provided by the enemy himself. sun tzu, the art of war.
Gotta love Rebels
Art tells the story of a species
"I require no _glory._ Only *results.* "
-- Grand Admiral Thrawn
"For my emperor"
@@gtrfan137kereere6 for chiss Ascendancy
“Do you know the difference between an error and a mistake? Anyone can make an error, but that error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it!” - Grand Admiral Thrawn
Hello there
General Kenobi, you are a bold bold one.
Thrawn trilogy 🐐
Greetings
So the sequel trilogy is already a huge mistake...
Give Thrawn a star destroyer and a few backup and he Could take out the entire first order In About A Week
He could probably take out every single faction
Yes
Yeah and destroy the resistance as well as....ugh Rey
on god
A week I say 4 days
I love Thrawn's character, he is, to me, the smartest and most dangerous non force sensitive in Star Wars. He might even be the smartest character in all of Star Wars.
@Elim Garak 007 she got caught and put in prison, thrawn just jumped into unknown space.
@Elim Garak 007 what book or comic explains this?
He also is the best villain do to the fact he is not really a villain.
I think thrawn is the smartest taticly but socially palpatine overall knowledge Yoda and tarkin is a close second to thrawn
@@Sharkman0625 uh plaguis has good knowledge and political probably surpassing yodas
Grand Admiral Thrawn has got to be my favorite Imperial. He is so crafty and brilliantly intelligent. He has one of the best military minds in Star Wars.
Rude
@@lordvader602 get gud kid😄
“But it was so *artistically* done.” It’s such a shame they didn’t just go with this trilogy for the sequels. Would’ve been a perfect opportunity to show you don’t need the force to be one in the SW universe.
This sentence always gives me the chills when I read it. I wished they used more of the stories the books provided instead of making them "legends". Bane, the Yuuzhan Vong, Jacens plot development, Abeloth etc have so much potential.
Tobias Sky we need to create a huge message to Disney saying we see these stories canon instead of the sequels lol.
Being woke is more important to disney than good movies. Just like tim cook cares more about his image than the products. 2020 is finally the year the imac got a 1080p camera. The world truly is coming to an end this year.
The Thrawn Trilogy, the true canon.
I was thinking the same thing, Cflow. While I really liked Thrawn in Rebels, it seems like a wasted opportunity to shoe-horn him into the series. His original story appears to be vastly more interesting.
“If you know your enemy and your self you need not fear the result of a hundred battles”
- Sun Tzu
This quote perfectly describes thrawn
1. He is Blue.
If he were green he would die
2. He has red eyes
3. C H E E K B O N E S
@@RhysWalkerr he looks like a blue Peter cushing (tarkin)
Da boo dee da boo dai...
He protect
He attack
But most importantly
He coming back
(We hope)
I hope I can get the chance
@@jamie_michelson We all hope you get that chance Admiral.
Except me!!! I thought he was an interesting character but I hated how he somehow predicted LITERALLY everything that they did. Ezra has to KILL HIMSELF to take Thrawn down, plus he was friends with that wierd dog guy, (The Assasin That had a weapon sort of like Zeb’s)
@@DefinitelyHumanGamer First, he was excellent at reading patterns and piecing together clues that most others wouldn't see. Second, Ezra did not kill himself, he and Thrawn disappeared but were not killed. Third, Rukh, the assassin you mentioned was killed in the rebels finale so he wouldn't be returning anyway.
@@jamie_michelson If you do come back please have Ezra trained as a great character only you could do this.
I still love how Vanto became a glorified foreign exchange student in Chiss space.
... guy got the better end of the deal, I'd say.
Definitly.
But I really hope they don't simply kill off Thrawn.
From what I gatherd Thrawn,Ezra and the fleet was not killed so I have a feeling Ezras mission was to bring Thrawn and fleet back to Chiss and outer rim becose Vongs are comeing and Vanto was sendt bt Thrawn to be prepering them beforhand as the fleet was to go there just not as fast as it ended up to be.
Thrawn is most likely Gideons master as 7 fleets mark was on Gideons droids and it will be fun to see when he appears the complexety and manuvering around that will appear as to me the interesting is not the battles but what they say and do befor hand
My favourite Thrawn Moment is when he's like: "My name is Mitth'raw'nuruodo, but you can call me Thrawn for short, even tho this is highly inappropriate in my culture, Captain Bob."
The greatest Tactical mind in Star Wars
And one of the best minds in fiction
His vision of a flexible Imperial navy and his TIE-D should be noted.
Legends he created the missile boat a fighter that ate TIE defenders for breakfast
He’s not a “bad guy” just a great soldier. Like Erwin Rommel
Some nazi officers were also " great soldiers "
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@@lucas-xf7rc they all were
Just like this Star Wars Theory is a racist
Lol ya ok. Wait til he shows up on Mandalorian and tell me if he's not a bad guy
Grand Admiral Thrawn is quite possibly my all time favorite Star Wars character.
Me too, and I hope they do him justice in the Mandalorian
@@anantbisht6355 I think he’ll most likely be in ashokas tv show
He is the best under appreciated characters in Star Wars.
Hes the best character in Star Wars period.
@@LiterOCola0905 I'm between Darth Vader and Thrawn.
@@LiterOCola0905 he’s up there for sure
At the end of "Treason" Palpatine said that he wants to talk to Thrawn about his loyality to the empire after his arrival from Lothal. But Thrawn disappeared... Was it a coincidence or Thrawn somehow predicted whole situation and and made a profit? You know, he wasn't really interested in talking to the emperor)
P.S. Sorry for my English if it was bad
No because the Novel takes place at the same time as the last episode of rebels where Thrawn got kidnapped by space whales.
The novel makes it clear Thrawn is screwed.
Thrawn's plan was to send resources and an advanced Tie-fighter prototype to the Chiss military for them to repurpose to defend his planet. Palpatine probably took note of this and was questioning Thrawn's loyalties. Remember, Thrawn hates how xenophobic the Empire is and views it as a lesser evil so his people can stay alive.
I’ve really enjoyed the canon Thrawn books. Marc Thompson really brings the audiobooks to life as well, HIGHLY recommend the audiobooks for those so inclined
He should have been the villain in the sequels.
My god...youre a genius
He'll be in Mandalorian
@@joshwilley3173 How do you know?
@@joshwilley3173
I hope not, decanonize or make the sequels an alternate timeline then have Thrawn appear.
@@quarterthanos930 spoilers in Mando S2..
Ahsoka is looking for Thrawn tho. Probably he will be introduced in Season 3
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But... it was so artistically done
(Hope he will see personally the enemies of the Chiss defeated in the New Canon)
“It is said that one should keep one's allies within view, and one's enemies within reach.
A valid statement. One must be able to read an ally's strengths, so as to determine how to best use them. One must similarly be able to read his enemy's weaknesses, so as to determine how to best defeat him.
But what of friends?
There is no accepted answer, perhaps true friendship is so exceedingly rare. But I had formulated my own.
A friend need not be kept within sight or within reach. A friend must be allowed the freedom to find and follow his own path. If one is fortunate, those paths will for a time join. But if paths separate, it is comforting to know that a friend still graces the universe with his skills, and his viewpoint, and his present. For if one is remembered by a friend, one is never truly gone.” - Thrawn
A cute way to tell Eli that he is his friend:)
I really believe he is back with the Chiss Ascendancy and has convinced Ezra to fight with him. In “Thrawn” he alluded to the Empire that there were much larger threats in the unknown region which would explain why Ezra just disappeared
I think Ezra knew about the threth and made the space whales bring the fleet to Chiss and outer rim to fight Vong as I belive he mentiond that his path was not on Lothal or the rebels,however Thrawn seemed to supriced by the attack to even known of Ezra doing this and as for Vanto going to the chiss I think it was to preper them that he was comeing back with help just not as fast as it happend due to Ezra
I’d say that if Thrawn resembles anyone in the Star Trek Universe, it would have to be Khan
“To defeat your enemy you must know them.”
I really want to see live action Thrawn at some point
We just need to know what happened to Thrawn and Ezra. Maybe Mando season 2 will clear it up hopefully
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Potential spoiler if you haven't read the newer books on Thrawn. Star Wars Theory, you could mention that the Chiss fleet uses force sensitive chiss girls to help them navigate through hyperspace... and that the names of this group of children in Cheunh translate in basic to "Sky-Walkers". I would love to see you do a video on the most recent Thrawn Books. They don't paint him to be the evil genius that Rebels or the EU did, but rather as a very complicated hero.
By new books, do u mean the Thrawn Ascendancy books?
@@AliRaza-6969 sorry, by newer or most recent I meant: Thrawn, Thrawn Alliances, Thrawn Treason, and yes, Thrawn Ascendancy, Chaos Rising!
@@AliRaza-6969 Nah you learn about that stuff first in the new canon book Thrawn: Alliances. The current trilogy that's out is Thrawn, Thrawn: Alliances and Thrawn: Treason. The next only has Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising out so far but there is definitely more interaction with the Chiss Navigators in that one.
11. Thrawn was originally voiced by Anthony Daniels as he did the voice acting for the original cassette tape release of the Heir to the Empire audiobook. While the new voice of Thrawn is wonderful, my favorite remains the original rendition by Anthony Daniels. Plus I enjoy watching peoples faces when I tell them that Thrawn was originally played by C-3PO 😀
Noel Renggli oO whaaaat?
No he didn’t
He was voiced by Denis Lawson (Wedge)
Thrawn is so cool sort off like a bad Sherlock Holmes in a way definitely the best imperial officer
"I see not everyone appreciates art as I do"
Slavin peeded his pants there lol however he was able to see his mistakes ect however Konstantine did not
Thrawn is fantastic. He is a mastermind at military tactics , yet he cannot understand politics. I love that about him because he always seems to have someone who does and always looks out for him.
I'd wager Thrawn does understand politics but he has no use for them at all. To him Politics are completely useless when it comes to getting things done. And to fair he's right.
Chris Hess possible. He did stay in the books that politics are not is greatest strength.. I wonder if it is because politics can be more emotional, and not always logical... I always wonder if he is a bit force sensitive but hides it well..
He was the best thing to come out of Rebels. He steals almost every scene he’s in. I absolutely hope the rumours of him being in Mando Season 2 are true
“There are things in the universe that are simply and purely evil. A warrior does not seek to understand them, or to compromise with them. He seeks only to obliterate them.”
“You have to admire the Chiss. They don't just steal your technology-they make it better.”
Thrawn's latest book set during the Clone Wars era, Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising is really good. The lore and the deep dive into the Chiss is so interesting to learn about.
Made a Chiss Empire Agent in SWTOR and was super fun to role-play
For me one of my favourite moments is in the last book of the Thrawn trilogy. When Pelaeon finds Thrawn close to death... Thrawns appreciation of the artful deception of Rhuk. His acceptance of his fate was amazing. "But it was so artfully done”
Everyone's favorite Chiss! Love it👊👍
Admiral Thrawn shouldve replaced Palpatine as Emperor.
Change my mind
Thrawn doesn't know politics
Read heir to empire
Make him the supreme commander of imperial millitary instead of tarkin
favorite thrawn moment: rukh! rukh! Zeb: um, sorry. rukh is busy at the moment, um, yah
Thrawn only wanted to save the galaxy and the Chiss from the Yuuzhan Vong. The entire galaxy must have missed him during the invasion.
He wanted to save the galaxy from the Grysk Hegemony
@@kingpypig In the new canon yes; in the old legends it was the Yuuzhan Vong.
@@zaneturner5277 Yes, I am aware of that. I was simply pointing out that he also (in the new canon) was fighting against the Grysks too.
Ooooh you should do a collab with Star Wars Reading Club on Thrawn, that is his favorite character.
Or Manda-LORE and Matt Wilkins.
"If not for meee..."
@@JReed7560 For Crossovers!
Thank you soooo much for doing a Thrawn video, he is literally my favourite character in all of star wars
The Grand Admiral's theme is one of my favorite starwars songs.
Totally digging these top 10s. Keep them coming!
Excellent Top 10! Thrawn is easily my second favorite character, after Anakin/Vader
Loved Thrawn in TIE Fighter and the Heir to the Empire Trilogy. Doesn't make since to have him and TIE Defenders in Rebels. The TIE Fighter storyline made more sense in describing why the Empire was so easily defeated at Endor and why the Empire broke into factions afterwards.
Awesome video dude, I've been a fan ever since you launched your first video in 2016. Keep going for it, and May the force be with you brother 👊.
Some more canon facts.
1. Thrawn was responsible for the introduction of the Tie Defender. One of the most formidable Tie variants ever built.
2. He was an expert in h2h combat.
3. Thrawn defeated another Grand Admiral named Balanhai Savit, which in itself is a feat, but he accomplished that while outnumbered 1:3 and applying one of the most redicilous maneuvers in SW history. Imo Savit was also inspired by Legends Zaarin, the rogue Grand Admiral you must beat in the classic Star Wars: TIE fighter game , which consequently earns Thrawn the rank of Grand Admiral iirc.
4. While on a joint mission with Thrawn, Vader stated that he expected the Grand Admiral to have already worked out several ways to take him out if he deemed it necessary. Which is badass, considering who Vader is.
Who else is watching this after the GIANT name drop in mando episode 5
Me really cool ep
Thrawn is one of my favorites! Need more about him!
This is becoming the channel that I subed for. I love the fan fics and top tens.
Thrawn is such a cool character. I learned so much more about him, thanks for this!
Mitth'raw'nuruodo is my favorite STAR WARS antagonist, followed closely by Darth Vader.
If you could merge Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, Gene Roddenberry's Mr. Spock, and Yoshiyuki Tomino's M'Queve, then Mitth'raw'nuruodo, later known as Grand Admiral Thrawn, is who you would get.
And yet he is so much more.
And I can't wait to see his return.
Because he needs to come back.
Thrawn's IQ is incomparable.
Ezra thinks he has a 10/10 plan until Thrawn comes in
This has to be one of my most fav fan fics, if not my most, (my others are what if qui-gon trained anakin 1-2), Thanks for everything you've made, I am now theperson who knows the most about star wars in my WHOLE ENTIRE FAMILY! Once again, thank you, I hope you make more! I also watched youre 2 hour vader comic thingie, without stopping. And I LOVE THE VADER FAN-FILMS, my only problem is that the people look weird, but im not bothered by it! Again, For one last time, thank you for all of this! May the force be with you, always!
I think I knew pretty much all of this, but I like to hear someone else say it. It makes me feel smart. Great video as always. Thanks.
What if general grievous was taller than anikan expected
Simple...
*Credits Roll*
Then the prequels would have been actually good
@@shitstainman8231 they were good, but still lol
Thrawn is by far one of my favorite characters.
1. He deduced Vader's identity, confronted him with the knowledge and lived!
love Marc Thompsons book voice for thrawn (not the new canon books where he tries to sound more like Lars but the old deep voice for heir to the empire trilogy)
Great video man. You know I would have love to see Thrawn have a conversation with Mace Windu. It would’ve been awesome!
Liked it because I know all your videos are amazing. I can't watch it right now because I have to do my own video first so I have all the first impressions before watching this one. I'll watch this one tonight.
Love it theory keep up the great work may the force be with you always
More please Theory. Definitely more. Thank you for all you have done over the years.
Hey SWT! As you've mentioned in some of your recent videos, like many during the pandemic I have also been watching a lot more star wars. I finally got Disney+ and watched rebels, the mandolorian first season, and the final season of the clone wars (not to mention watching the movies in the machete order for the first time). I've really gotten into watching your videos, with all of your enjoyably creative alternate timelines and your filling in the canon and legends literature stories I haven't had the chance to read. It's all fantastic and I'm absolutely subscribed and look forward to everything you do. I wanted to bring up an advertiser I've seen a few times in your videos, in case you feel similarly. And I totally understand TH-cam ads and want you to make as much money off of your work - I don't mind letting your ads to play to help with that. But there are ads from PragerU coming in frequently, and if you happen to be unfamiliar with them (these ads were my introduction to them as well), PragerU is American conservative propaganda. Like I mentioned, I don't mind letting your ads play through so you get more return on the videos, and holy moly are these ads a campaign of disinformation. And I figure since you're all about the star wars universe, and a lot of that can function as escapism for us mortals on earth, you may not be interested in this advertiser getting time on your videos. Maybe you don't mind, in which case I apologize for bringing it up. I just don't want to stop watching your videos and would very much prefer not to see reminders of some very gross political nonsense before I do. Love your content, and I appreciate you considering this!
i LOVE THRAWN and your videos 😀
You been going ham with content
Love all your videos Star Wars Theory!
This guy just earned himself another subscriber 👍👍👍👍👍
Awesome video!
He is my favorite officer, Darth Vader favorite Sith. I, in fact read the newer books, Star Wars Theory! How he became a Grand Admiral, how he met Governor Pryce, got the Chimaera, Tarkin promoted him to Commodore before he got that, and his participation at Batonn. Thrawn: Alliances has Vader, Rukh, and Padme in flashback chapters. My favorite, Treason, had the Emperor, Tarkin, and Krennic from Rogue. Treason is in set between a few episodes, and I was shouting so loud after learning what happened in the book when I decided to watch the finale where he's beaten. Really worth it to make this video. You didn't really miss anything. Maybe you should share if you read Thrawn, Thrawn: Alliances, and Thrawn: Treason. One day, I'll read the prequel novels, the Ascendancy trilogy, but I hope to see him on the screen again. Oh, and Sabine Wren is my favorite member.
Thrawn is my favorite Star Wars character outside of Darth Vader. He makes me want to cheer for the empire.
Ive been waiting for this
Very interesting. Thank you. I've never read the original Thrawn trilogy, but it sounds like a great story arch. I really liked his character in Rebels.
Do top 10 or 5 legends characters or elements that you would like to see come back
0:10 I have this poster of Grand Admiral Thrawn at home above my bookcase full of EU novels. He is by far my favorite character in all of Star Wars. I love everything about him. I would encourage anybody who hasn't listened to the new Thrawn trilogy audiobooks to do so. Marc Thompson does an amazing job bringing Timothy Zahn's vision to life and it's so interesting to hear Thrawn's thoughts and inner monologue.
Great job!!
Loves the Thrawn Trilogy novels. Will be reading Master and Apprentice soon
Thanks to talk about my favorite non force sensitive character 😍!
In Germany we have the luck to hear a nearly 12 hours radio play of the Thrawn Trilogy. The best part is not the excellent film like atmosphere and very smooth told story. It is that we can listen to the original voice actor cast of the old Star Wars movies. It's so good that I almost even prefer it to the movies.
I guess that’s the advantage of not needing the high gage movie actors to do the voice setting.
The Thrawn novel is defo my favourite star wars novel
As someone who just finished rebels, this is a great video for me, thanks theory keep up the great work
Best moment is a 2 parter.. in Heir To The Empire trilogy.. Firstly when Luke escapes and the crew member tries to blame his training and Thrawn has him killed .. followed by the similar situation that still failed but the crew member used innovative tactics to try and sort it and gets a promotion. The Crew would do anything for Thrawn after that moment - it was so great to read and I still remember it after reading it 25 years ago
This was an epic video SWT! I've only recently joined/subscribed but I have watched almost all your videos within a month, kind of tragic perhaps but they are so enjoyable. I was wondering if it would be possible for you to do a video about Palpative "vs" Bane... considering Palps benefitted from the rule of 2 Bane created, then basically tried to destroy it (which he ironically did...). I figure Bane would rather like to beat down on Palps and let's face it, the older force users such as the Jedaii were MUCH MUCH stronger than the 'modern' order etc.
Either way thanks for the videos, I'm SO sorry the way dudney has been treating you but hey ho big business shocker.
Zahn's work with the character is just incredible. Both book trilogies (from Legends and the new "Disney-canon") are fantastic reads. Highly recommend. Zahn also just released earlier this year the first book in a brand new Thrawn trilogy that will be exploring Thrawn's time with the Chiss Ascendancy before coming to the Empire. That's off to a great start. The first book is, again, fantastic. Love the character so much, and I sincerely hope he gets the big-screen treatment eventually. He's just such a unique character.
Brilliant video.
Hey great video my names is Martin and comes from Denmark i really appreciate the mention of the Mikkelsen brotheres we are a small country so we do not often get mentiont
Keep up the good work
If you look at the side notes in the heir to the empire special edition book, you get a better sense of how very involved George Lucas worked with Timothy Zhan was, or at least how apart of he was. Although this doesn’t really change anything in your video it definitely strengthens George Lucas’s knowledge of the character in his initial form. Great video!
He is definitely my favourte character in SW. The brilliance of his mind is something that fascinates me!
I absolutely recomend getting the Thrawn Audiobooks and listening to them. Im on the second book Alliances right now and its really great.
There's a great fanfiction called the Last Known Trajectory about Ezra and Thrawn in the unknown regions,
You missed one, Number 1: Thrawn was nerfed in rebels, otherwise he would have destroyed them immediately.
2 years later and now here he is in live action
If you want to know about Thrawn’s origin story, be sure to check out this video I made on it. Thanks for supporting my tiny YT channel! th-cam.com/video/ptLEB47chok/w-d-xo.html
I am currently reading the Thrawn novel. It is so good! I love it.