In retrospect, it only makes Anakin’s killing of the Tusken’s and Darth Vader’s attack on them in the canon comics that much more tragic. Had he not been so consumed with rage and hate, he could have likely seen that he wasn’t just killing “animals” or “vicious, mindless monsters”....but families. Sure he mentions how he killed women and children, but this episode allows us to actually see that these are indeed people, flawed but not without merits and a capacity for honor. Something Anakin and we the audience never really got to see, which makes the massacre’s full weight be somewhat lost on both him and the audience, as previous portrayals of Tusken’s show them as being hostile savages that are almost constantly attacking someone.
@Angelo River lol tusken aren't native American grow up.... They are inspired by amazigh(Berbers) or Bedouin (Arabs). Like during 600-1300 they invaded other places but during 1800-1950 other invaded them.
@Angelo River well if you go outside of whats taught in history class the colonials didn't start their campaign against the natives until after the natives started attacking settlements and stealing vital winter surviving supplies. Where the settlers right in their retaliation no far from it buts was it as unprovoked and race/land based as modern day whants you to believe? No not nearly even some Native Americans agree its as much their faul as the whites
I honestly like the Tuskens. Before the Mandalorian, I didn't really have an opinion of them. I figured they were a fun addition to Tatooine. But the Mandalorian has done a lot to expand upon them as a society and I would love a documentary style film following Tusken Raiders.
i would highly reccomend the comics about ashrad hett and his son then! tusken jedi basically. not 100% sure if the name spelling it correctly, however.
I like how Lucasfilm thought adding ASL (Sign Language) as a way of looking “inclusive” but lore wise, it actually made hella sense for them to know sign language since they speak very primitively. I liked it
I always love when movies give a more detailed perspective on seemingly primitive or evil factions or characters. From the perspective of the original trilogie and the prequels, the Tuskens were nothing more than brutal seemingly reasonless killing monsters, but by introducing stuff like in the Mandalorian, you show the audience that even those who seeem purly evil are often also just victims of their circumstances and environment and just act like this to protect themselves, their beliefs and environment.
To Geetsley: You know, I always wondered why did the Tusken see Jabba as a sort of authority. Then you mentioned Alkhara, I looked him up... And saw that Jabba was the one who chased him off planet. No wonder that they respected him, he destroyed their greatest enemy and was too busy doing his own thing to mess with them.
Oh he messed with them, all the friggin time actually, the Hutts just had a really good knack for making it look like settlers were to blame though instead of his ‘business.’
Tusken's are just like humans, they seem odd at first and won't kill you on sight but if provoked than they will show no hesitation. I can't wait for more Tusken's in Mando Season 2!
So you're admitting that Anakin killing the Tuskens was justified. They're still raiders. And why is it that after thousands of years, Tatooine natives still don't know the Tusken language?
@@hermos3602 Never denied that. I would have done exactly the same thing as Anakin given the situation and what he lost. Those monsters tortured his mother to death. They didn’t deserve to live.
@@DVRKSTXR I'm going to have to disagree, the Tuskens were natives to tatooine and they disliked the settlement of the off worlders who settled down there.
“Tattooine was stripped of resources, land, water, and technology as punishment by the builders.” -paraphrased fyi Me: *So their planet ended in Nuclear Annihilation?*
@@m.c.martin in this case it was because of turbolaser technology rather than nuclear warheads, and while those do exist in Star Wars universe, they are rarely use for obvious reasons
And it was probably out of fear for Anakin that they became more humane. They might've thought of him as some sort of vengeful spirit that punishes 'evil' Tusken tribes.
@@VexenDmitri Fun fact, the site of the massacre in Episode II is considered by all Tuskens to be completely cursed land. I'm not sure about a Force Wound, but Anakin's rage _REALLY_ left an imprint on the area. Also, apparently since Vader came back occasionally to just indiscriminately slaughter Tuskens, he did become known as a type of Shadow Demon to them, a terrifying abomination with a blood-red aura surrounding him.
@@maxxor-overworldhero6730 along as he didn't kill the massiffs im still mad, but less so He doesn't clarify He only killed The men The women And the children Butwhataboutthempuppers
The tuskins are like the bedouins of the star wars universe. As a half bedouin myself, I appreciate the fact they're not portraying them as savages. More like desperate survivors.
There is a direct correlation between the two. If these “desperate survivors” resort to savagery in an attempt to survive, then they are eligible considered savages by a civilized society. The Tusken Raiders mercilessly and ruthlessly tortured Anakin’s mother, tied her up, let her bleed out, only keeping her alive long enough to tell her own son she loved him. “They were not prone to violence” Although not every Tusken Raider tribe is the same, I’m sure, these raiders willingly fired on podracers who had done nothing, seemingly for sport. On top of that, there’s no implication that the Tusken raiders consume human flesh, or that they were cannibals (humans were allegedly part of the Tusken raiders, though in small numbers), we can infer that they attacked Luke with the intent of torturing him like Shmi - or worse, killing him for sport. Just because the Tusken Raiders had a culture or a basic grasp of warfare doesn’t mean that Anakin was wrong when he referred to them as “animals”. These creatures lurking in the taverns, ravens, and sandy dunes of Tatooine are by no means, civilized. They are in fact savages that display clear signs of savage behavior. Who cares if they show signs of being ‘nice’? That is only one side of their multidimensional “society”. As matter of fact it’s barely even a side - it’s a fraction, at best.
@@soundwavesuperior28 Mando never said they were not monsters or brutal, only that they’re not entirely evil, and that the town had no other choice but to enlist their help.
Close, but not quite. I am part American Indian (what most call Native American), and my Ancestors were Half of the Picture. The Severe and ingrained form of the Bedouins' Ancient and sometimes Draconian "Blood Vengeance" (they are Much better about it nowadays) is the inspiration for the OT's Tusken Behavior; the Iroquois Confederacy (my Ancestors) and other American Tribes/Civilizations are more cautious, and due to the necessity of forgiving for the sake of the Larger Civilization. This is something that the Bedouin Tribes did not need until the last thousand or so years due to their nomadic and Singularist tribal nature. The American Tribes (even the Central and South American ones) have had many Civilizations rise and fall over the last 20,000+ years, which necessitated Diplomacy and (a sometimes Grudging) Forgiveness, but the Bedouin peoples only gained this over the last thousand years due to their being the sole occupiers of their Native Territory. Different Locations result in different Circumstances. Please understand that I am not judging the Ancestry of the Bedouins; I do however judge my own Ancestors for some of their disgusting practices (such as ritual Cannibalism), which the Bedouins seem to have not developed due to a harsher set of Living Circumstances.
They're stuck in an evolutionary and technological dead-end, due to their warped belief that they were punished by the gods. It's kind of like a species-wide gaslighting heaped on them by the Rakata.
They're definitely not the beasts I thought they were, but if my mother or someone else I loved was killed by them, then whenever I was around them I'd be very nervous and angry like Anakin, I'd always have my hand on my blaster for sure.
@@Malleus_77 Well, he never did want to go back there and he would have had to in order to wipe them out, but if the Death Star was never destroyed I'm confident he would have had it blow up Tatooine.
The Tuskens who tortured and murdered Anakin's mother certainly committed an atrocity, but we don't know how typical their behavior was- those might have been 'rogue' Sand People with special hatred for the moisture farmers. The Tuskens in 'The Mandalorian' came across as far more reasonable; if you showed them respect and paid the crossing toll, they would leave you alone. Unfortunately, Anakin was too grief-stricken and furious to make any distinction.
Under the Hett family, they were capable of being peaceful at times but like Magneto says: "Peace was never an option" once someone insults their culture or walks into their territory.
@@AncestorEmpire1 or speak their language or sign language if you don't have that much time but throwing them something of worth you have without a word should suffice
Well, maybe 'nice' isn't quite the word- these are fierce warriors. But apparently Tuskens have a strong sense of honor; if you treat them with respect you can trust them to do the same.
Once when Vader returned to Tatooine he slaughtered another tribe. There was one survivor. He told another passing tribe about the death god who had come and slaughtered his tribe. This new tribe strung up the survivor and burned him alive in front of an effigy of Vader as he was described as an offering to this new death god they now worshiped. They are in fact quite savage.
That’s not really savage in context. They’d rather sacrifice one person to Vader and have their entire tribe spared than have Vader come to their tribe and mop them up. Besides, it’s not like the humans are much better, indiscriminately murdering innocent tuskens.
@@Jrookus innocent implies not guilty of purpetraiting crimes what is simply debunked by the fact that for humans they all look the same. For them it is simply revenge.
Second and they just want to survive in that harsh world. They are morally questionable but living for thousands of years on their planet make them this.
@@geetslys Well... ...Krayt Dragons are incredibly scary too so... ...EITHER ONE could have scared them off individually, but both? Guaranteed Tusken Raider nightmare fuel!
'The Mandalorian' has fundamentally changed the image of the Tuskens. For the first time, we saw that they can be dealt with as honorable contemporaries, so long as they and their boundaries are treated with respect. It's fascinating that so many Tuskens not only recognize Din, but accept him as a guy they can trust. There must be an interesting story behind that.
The Mandalorian does spins a very different tale of the inhabitants of Tatooine, showing how the Jawas aren’t too nice and how the Tuskens can be civil
The Tusken's are basically the Star Wars' version of Native Americans and the settling of Tatooine is basically a parable for Manifest Destiny from the 19th to early 20th Century in North America.
@@Ghidorah96 That could have been a particularly brutal tribe. And no, I don't think rape was involved in what happened to Shimi outside of porn stuff. The 19th century had brutalization from both sides, both the encroaching settlers and the Native Americans being forced from their homes and they met brutality with brutality.
Coming here after Book of Boba Fett Episode two, which gives screen time to not just the men, but the women and the children too. Seems like the writers now want us to love the Sand People and I think it's working.
I was waiting for a mentioning of Sharad Hett. And according to what Hett told Ki-Adi-Mundi, Tuskens liked to test outsiders for their strength and ability to endure in the harsh conditions of the desert. And that's what they probably did to Shmi too.
What is pretty bad in of it self, Spartan ideals are outdated and barbaric even today and couple that the technolegy and ethics and other ideals would be more avanced in starwars it is to say the tusken pratice is backwards and barbaric.
@@marijnr6821 Well, the Sandpeople do refuse the usage of more tech than they need to survive. And if you can't survive with this minimal technical assistance, you're not worth it in their eyes. While this has mostly historical reasons, it also has the advantage that they know how to get by when what little tech they use does go away.
This video just improved my feeling to the Sand People, I already liked them, but now i feel for them. From one Classed Planet and Warriors to another.
After reading about the banthas in a book (can't remember the name to save my life, but it has information on a bunch of creatures in Star Wars), I grew to love them and their sand people mounts. The fact that if either one dies, the other will stop taking care of themselves and die of a broken heart, not just depression, but a broken heart. That is why I like them, even if they are brutal at times
It's funny though when I've heard people saying Sharks, or Wolves or Bears aren't as dangerous as people think, I shake my head about such thoughts because I know being out in the forest or in the water is when you figure out someone in a city or at a college spreading their ideas about such things don't know everything,.
Glassed the planet... Time turned it to a desert. Sounds like Australia. Neil Gaimen told a story in a sandman comic. Aborigines walking into a desert, poking at the shards of green glass found there... Retelling the oral traditions of the lost city... I wonder if that was what the Christians and the like refer to as the tower of Babel.
The tuskan raiders seem a lot like the Kushan from Homeworld. They are both desperate survivors of an old empire, and they have the same “don’t go to space because of hubris” thing as kith Gaalsi. And their nomadic way of life is very Khaaneph.
Now you see. The first time you mentioned the children being killed i was going to comment on the missed opportunity to quote Anakin but now im glad I held out. You got there in the end. 👍
I think their just as un/reasonable as everyone else. Shmi was an example of them taking things beyond reasonableness, as I've seen no evidence that she was in charge of any environmental or otherwise affront against the sand people. Just like other people groups, they are prone to these sorts of indirect manifestations of aggression against those who have done them little to no harm, or against a stereotypic group in lieu of the few in charge.
I think it's a difficult choice for me, tusken raiders have always been on a grey area basically because Tatooine is so wild. Nevertheless I also have a chip on my shoulder with the relationship they had with the Jawas
For none could see the malice of the Guaree. I can see where Remnant from the ashes drew inspiration. The Undying king Glassed his own damn planet amd the those who survived only did so by bunkers the unlucky ones well mutated.
Well... They may have their reason, but I'm gonna be honest here: There's no justifications for abducting defenseless individuals and torturing them to death. Like, if Shmii Skywalker was just killed in a raid, either because she participated in combat or as a colateral casualty that would be one thing, but once you torture people just for cruelty's sake, you are crossing a line. That's not to say that the settlers were more in the right than the tuskens, but it's enough to make them kind of difficult to redeem.
There’s an inaccuracy. If you play kotor and talk to the czerka dock operator you find out that czerka only bought the settlement from another company and it was a bad investment Bc the ores were impure. They say that they aren’t the first and won’t be the last company to be there
I always liked the tusken raiders their design is very unique. I didn’t like their design for a while but I grew to love their design and their history.
Now that we've seen the legendary Krayt Dragon in canon It will be impossible for writers to resist having someone riding one. Here's hoping its a Tusken Jedi.
Considering foreign settlers have no qualms about killing Tuskens, they’re not really more evil in comparison, it was mostly Crime groups pitting both sides together to make money anyway
This raises a question about the relationship between humans and tuskins if communication is possible can coexistence be achieved. Can human settlements develop peacefully and the Tuskins no longer have to rely on raiding for survival but though open trade like the Jawas or is it just the tuskins mando was with simply more hospitable than other tribes that are so aggressive at the sight of humans no dialogue is possible. Like the tribe that kidnaped and tortured Anakin’s mother. Or was the threat of the sand dragon so great that their petty squabbles were meaningless.
That intro always brings me back to me and my best friend playing the original star wars battlefront on the PC,... thank the Lord Jesus for such a happy time of my life that I will never forget 😪
I always had a dull curiosity about the Tuskens and I noticed that neither the empire nor the rebellion paid any particular attention to them. The Mandalorian does excellent at building the non-force user element of the sw universe. Season two has still been amazing
Obi Wan said something like: _Harsh lands create a harsh people_ When both the environment and other people are hostile, you tend to become hostile as well...
Haven’t seen the new season of the mandalorian yet but I’ve always had a soft spot for the tuskens, I knew there was more to them than just raiding and kidnapping glad this new episode lets in on some insight to their world and way of life
"They weren't as evil or bloodthirsty as everyone though" "Anyway, so there I was, torturing that woman we kidnapped for no reason..." Can I get some fucking consistency here lmao
I actually never considered he raiders a monsters just their like anyone try to protect their home, people, and resources since all of those things are scarce and when unknown individuals already consider them monsters diplomacy’s unlikely. Also side note the clip about revan’s protocol droid being able to speak their language is from a Star Wars game called knights of the old republic I loved playing it when I was younger.
I actually like the Tuskens. They’re a super interesting race and they look super cool. The Book of Boba Fett is definitely doing even more to make them look badass.
Also I'd love to see Anchorhead in live action, it's been set as the most advanced and civilized of Taatooine settlements Also what does Mos mean as a settlement. We have Mos Eisely, Mos Espa, and Mos Palto. The naming has to mean something.
Your completely right. however there one blood tradition that involves them slowly torture captured prisoners like what they did with shmi skywalker was unacceptable.
After watching that episode from the Mandalorian, that's when I realized that the Tuskens are just another humanoid species trying to survive in the galaxy.
i feel like George Lucas made Tatooine like America (no disrespect here guys) like the Tuskens are like the native indians and then later a few people come along vans then eventually more and more then slave trade comes as well sounds like old America too me. well that’s my thoughts.(again no disrespect too Americans) one like= one tusken gets respected.
Tusken raiders are much more interesting than I formerly thought. They deserve more credit then what they got in the movies. I want to see a Star Wars movie with more of the tusken raiders customs and daily life style.
They’re just aggressive, because to them, water is sacred, and of course if Legends is to go off of, with the damn Rakata, and later colonial settler, it’s no wonder they are so territorial.
the tuskens reminds me of the germanic tribes, they just wanted to live in their forests and respect it, but then the romans came in, the same with the tuskens, they just wanted to live there life, until others just came in being savage to there lands and lifes. it,s not their fault that they sometimes are savage to outsiders.
Easily the funniest moment of the mandalorian is when mando speaks with the raiders and its just basicly screqming and marshal middle of them being like "wtf is going on"
I think it's a good representation of how two societies who neither understand nor respect one another can descend into an endless bloody cycle of feuding. I played KOTOR 1 a long time ago, so I've known for a long time that the tuskens have some nuance to them, but it's great seeing them fleshed out in a major production like the Mandalorian.
Geetsleys: the tuskens werent as bad as we thought
Anakin: nervous laughter
In retrospect, it only makes Anakin’s killing of the Tusken’s and Darth Vader’s attack on them in the canon comics that much more tragic. Had he not been so consumed with rage and hate, he could have likely seen that he wasn’t just killing “animals” or “vicious, mindless monsters”....but families. Sure he mentions how he killed women and children, but this episode allows us to actually see that these are indeed people, flawed but not without merits and a capacity for honor. Something Anakin and we the audience never really got to see, which makes the massacre’s full weight be somewhat lost on both him and the audience, as previous portrayals of Tusken’s show them as being hostile savages that are almost constantly attacking someone.
@nathaniel gray But they where still facebook friends
i saw slaughtered tusken legos
Anakin: uses lightsaber.
What they did to his mom was pretty horrific.
@@Mein-Darth clearly fake news from Palpatine
One of my favorite scenes from this episode was When din dajarin was sitting next the tuskens telling stories next to a campfire
Ikr. I love this side of star wars
I know
It's this sides of the story that should be told.
definitely telling ghost stories about Anakin
@@SamuelSantos-pr8yb about how Anakin killed their children and wives
Tuskens: you are brutal savages that raid our land and destroy our belongings!
Outsiders: no u
*thus a endless conflict began*
the tusken have the right side i think though
Might makes right
@@georgelee5786 yeah, they were the _original_ inhabitants, so they’ve got a right to the Planet, but they could been more polite about it I guess...
@@patchworkfellow the outsiders as the tuskens called them thought that they were evil and just wanted to destroy like the mining companies
Colonizing humans in a nutshell
Outsiders: Kill Tuskans.
Tuskans: *kill them*
Outsiders: How could this happen.
I mean several generations later if i were a outsider i too would feel like the tuskens attack for no reason
Obi-Wan: We're smarter than this!
Anakin: Apparently not.
@Angelo River lol tusken aren't native American grow up.... They are inspired by amazigh(Berbers) or Bedouin (Arabs). Like during 600-1300 they invaded other places but during 1800-1950 other invaded them.
@@Abhishek-sr2pu maybe they were inspired both for very similar thematic themes and elements to help with storytelling and lore. Grow up
@Angelo River well if you go outside of whats taught in history class the colonials didn't start their campaign against the natives until after the natives started attacking settlements and stealing vital winter surviving supplies. Where the settlers right in their retaliation no far from it buts was it as unprovoked and race/land based as modern day whants you to believe? No not nearly even some Native Americans agree its as much their faul as the whites
I honestly like the Tuskens. Before the Mandalorian, I didn't really have an opinion of them. I figured they were a fun addition to Tatooine. But the Mandalorian has done a lot to expand upon them as a society and I would love a documentary style film following Tusken Raiders.
i would highly reccomend the comics about ashrad hett and his son then! tusken jedi basically. not 100% sure if the name spelling it correctly, however.
I like how Lucasfilm thought adding ASL (Sign Language) as a way of looking “inclusive” but lore wise, it actually made hella sense for them to know sign language since they speak very primitively. I liked it
I always love when movies give a more detailed perspective on seemingly primitive or evil factions or characters. From the perspective of the original trilogie and the prequels, the Tuskens were nothing more than brutal seemingly reasonless killing monsters, but by introducing stuff like in the Mandalorian, you show the audience that even those who seeem purly evil are often also just victims of their circumstances and environment and just act like this to protect themselves, their beliefs and environment.
Oh just play KOTOR you'll like them even more
KOTOR and the Dark Horse and Marvel comics are a good insights into the Tuskens
Mando: That armer belongs to the creed.
Boba Fett: Now hold on a sec...
*Armor* lol
I want to say that you are still spelling it wrong, but I can't think of a way to make it funny and not sound rude.
yeah that mando is full of shit
*armor
I thought it was spelled armour
To Geetsley: You know, I always wondered why did the Tusken see Jabba as a sort of authority. Then you mentioned Alkhara, I looked him up... And saw that Jabba was the one who chased him off planet. No wonder that they respected him, he destroyed their greatest enemy and was too busy doing his own thing to mess with them.
Oh he messed with them, all the friggin time actually, the Hutts just had a really good knack for making it look like settlers were to blame though instead of his ‘business.’
Tusken's are just like humans, they seem odd at first and won't kill you on sight but if provoked than they will show no hesitation. I can't wait for more Tusken's in Mando Season 2!
Same
Some will kill on sight since they are territorial but there are different tribes
Shmi didn't provoke them and they still killed her.
*Next time on ‘Star Wars: Civil War’:*
Tusken Raiders: “See? We’re not that bad!”
Anakin: “I don’t care. You killed my mom.”
So you're admitting that Anakin killing the Tuskens was justified. They're still raiders. And why is it that after thousands of years, Tatooine natives still don't know the Tusken language?
@@hermos3602 Never denied that. I would have done exactly the same thing as Anakin given the situation and what he lost. Those monsters tortured his mother to death. They didn’t deserve to live.
@@hermos3602 they tortured his mother and more than likely did stuffs to her that nobody should have to go through. They straight up deserved to die
@@DVRKSTXR I'm going to have to disagree, the Tuskens were natives to tatooine and they disliked the settlement of the off worlders who settled down there.
@@Wxyver_n That doesn’t give them the right to kidnap an innocent woman and torture her to death.
“Tattooine was stripped of resources, land, water, and technology as punishment by the builders.” -paraphrased fyi
Me: *So their planet ended in Nuclear Annihilation?*
More like when the Covenant glasses a planet to Death, the same stuff Rakatas did
Well the place got glassed after planetwide rebellion during the decline of the builders
@@alejandroelluxray5298 Well Nuclear missiles leave glass behind where it landed.
@@m.c.martin in this case it was because of turbolaser technology rather than nuclear warheads, and while those do exist in Star Wars universe, they are rarely use for obvious reasons
They’ve certainly become more civil since Anakin’s slaughter
And it was probably out of fear for Anakin that they became more humane. They might've thought of him as some sort of vengeful spirit that punishes 'evil' Tusken tribes.
@@VexenDmitri Fun fact, the site of the massacre in Episode II is considered by all Tuskens to be completely cursed land. I'm not sure about a Force Wound, but Anakin's rage _REALLY_ left an imprint on the area.
Also, apparently since Vader came back occasionally to just indiscriminately slaughter Tuskens, he did become known as a type of Shadow Demon to them, a terrifying abomination with a blood-red aura surrounding him.
@@maxxor-overworldhero6730 along as he didn't kill the massiffs im still mad, but less so
He doesn't clarify
He only killed
The men
The women
And the children
Butwhataboutthempuppers
@@admiralsnaccbar624 that is a very good question wat about those puppies
@@admiralsnaccbar624 That would make it even more tragic, lol
The tuskins are like the bedouins of the star wars universe. As a half bedouin myself, I appreciate the fact they're not portraying them as savages. More like desperate survivors.
There is a direct correlation between the two. If these “desperate survivors” resort to savagery in an attempt to survive, then they are eligible considered savages by a civilized society.
The Tusken Raiders mercilessly and ruthlessly tortured Anakin’s mother, tied her up, let her bleed out, only keeping her alive long enough to tell her own son she loved him.
“They were not prone to violence”
Although not every Tusken Raider tribe is the same, I’m sure, these raiders willingly fired on podracers who had done nothing, seemingly for sport. On top of that, there’s no implication that the Tusken raiders consume human flesh, or that they were cannibals (humans were allegedly part of the Tusken raiders, though in small numbers), we can infer that they attacked Luke with the intent of torturing him like Shmi - or worse, killing him for sport.
Just because the Tusken Raiders had a culture or a basic grasp of warfare doesn’t mean that Anakin was wrong when he referred to them as “animals”. These creatures lurking in the taverns, ravens, and sandy dunes of Tatooine are by no means, civilized. They are in fact savages that display clear signs of savage behavior. Who cares if they show signs of being ‘nice’? That is only one side of their multidimensional “society”. As matter of fact it’s barely even a side - it’s a fraction, at best.
@@soundwavesuperior28 Mando never said they were not monsters or brutal, only that they’re not entirely evil, and that the town had no other choice but to enlist their help.
@@truekiropfan8329 I’m aware. I’m just saying that referring to the Tusken raiders as “desperate survivors” is too good for them.
They are savages. Mandalorians burned worlds just for sport, so the perspective of Din is questionable at best
Unlike Tuskens Bedouins are some of the most people that respected and accepted guest
The Tuskens are one of the most misunderstood species in the Star Wars Universe.
The native Americans of the sw universe
@@Uselesshands Anakin:Visible confusion
Close, but not quite. I am part American Indian (what most call Native American), and my Ancestors were Half of the Picture. The Severe and ingrained form of the Bedouins' Ancient and sometimes Draconian "Blood Vengeance" (they are Much better about it nowadays) is the inspiration for the OT's Tusken Behavior; the Iroquois Confederacy (my Ancestors) and other American Tribes/Civilizations are more cautious, and due to the necessity of forgiving for the sake of the Larger Civilization. This is something that the Bedouin Tribes did not need until the last thousand or so years due to their nomadic and Singularist tribal nature. The American Tribes (even the Central and South American ones) have had many Civilizations rise and fall over the last 20,000+ years, which necessitated Diplomacy and (a sometimes Grudging) Forgiveness, but the Bedouin peoples only gained this over the last thousand years due to their being the sole occupiers of their Native Territory. Different Locations result in different Circumstances. Please understand that I am not judging the Ancestry of the Bedouins; I do however judge my own Ancestors for some of their disgusting practices (such as ritual Cannibalism), which the Bedouins seem to have not developed due to a harsher set of Living Circumstances.
@@Uselesshands You do know some native tribes weren't peaceful. Some of them murdered and went to war with each other.
@@Uselesshands No. Humanity first
They're stuck in an evolutionary and technological dead-end, due to their warped belief that they were punished by the gods.
It's kind of like a species-wide gaslighting heaped on them by the Rakata.
So they are taliban
@@radegast2346 Allah left so lets go boom boom to prove that we’re still loyal enough to go to heaven 😁
All I know is that Tuskens are easily startled...
don't forget, they always come back, and in greater numbers
They fear the Krayt Dragons call
They're definitely not the beasts I thought they were, but if my mother or someone else I loved was killed by them, then whenever I was around them I'd be very nervous and angry like Anakin, I'd always have my hand on my blaster for sure.
I always wondered why Vader didn’t completely wipe them out when the Empire came into power.
You can’t judge all of them different tribe different morals just because of this tribe that has became comfy with din jarin doesn’t mean another will
@@adultgimb well they probably didn't kill him because he always payed for passage and knew what to say to not die
@@Malleus_77 Well, he never did want to go back there and he would have had to in order to wipe them out, but if the Death Star was never destroyed I'm confident he would have had it blow up Tatooine.
The Tuskens who tortured and murdered Anakin's mother certainly committed an atrocity, but we don't know how typical their behavior was- those might have been 'rogue' Sand People with special hatred for the moisture farmers. The Tuskens in 'The Mandalorian' came across as far more reasonable; if you showed them respect and paid the crossing toll, they would leave you alone.
Unfortunately, Anakin was too grief-stricken and furious to make any distinction.
Under the Hett family, they were capable of being peaceful at times but like Magneto says: "Peace was never an option" once someone insults their culture or walks into their territory.
What if i payed for passage through their lands
@@Bruh-hq1hx only if you have HK-47 as your translator
@@AncestorEmpire1 or speak their language or sign language if you don't have that much time but throwing them something of worth you have without a word should suffice
@@Bruh-hq1hx tried that during KOTOR 1 and I was attacked every single time.
@@AncestorEmpire1 im guessing they wanted to say yeah know we don't want something like this for passage or they said no passage
Anakin:*watches video*
Also Anakin: **conflicted noises**
I think that the Tusken raiders are actually nice if you respect them and if you learn their language you can earn their respect too
Well, maybe 'nice' isn't quite the word- these are fierce warriors. But apparently Tuskens have a strong sense of honor; if you treat them with respect you can trust them to do the same.
Once when Vader returned to Tatooine he slaughtered another tribe. There was one survivor. He told another passing tribe about the death god who had come and slaughtered his tribe. This new tribe strung up the survivor and burned him alive in front of an effigy of Vader as he was described as an offering to this new death god they now worshiped. They are in fact quite savage.
I remember that lmao
I felt bad for that Tuskain tho
That’s not really savage in context. They’d rather sacrifice one person to Vader and have their entire tribe spared than have Vader come to their tribe and mop them up. Besides, it’s not like the humans are much better, indiscriminately murdering innocent tuskens.
@@Jrookus innocent implies not guilty of purpetraiting crimes what is simply debunked by the fact that for humans they all look the same. For them it is simply revenge.
Do was that a comic or a book
@@kyvilfongkot3591 Comic.
Second and they just want to survive in that harsh world. They are morally questionable but living for thousands of years on their planet make them this.
Tusken Raider: ARRRGHHGHAGH
Din Djarin: AGREGGAHEH
Me: "visible confusion"
Massiff puppers: **happy noises**
Tusken Legends probably tell of a tribe that vanished after meeting a man with a glowing blue staff
They ran away from Obi-Wan in ANH not because of the Krayt Dragon call, but because the robes made him look like Anakin, change my mind
@@geetslys Well... ...Krayt Dragons are incredibly scary too so... ...EITHER ONE could have scared them off individually, but both? Guaranteed Tusken Raider nightmare fuel!
@@geetslys Their inner thoughts: WE DIDN'T TAKE YOUR MOM WE DIDN'T TAKE YOUR MOM PLEASE DON'T KILL US
@@geetslys there would have to be survivors to tell the tale in order for that to make sense
@@mattwilcox3645 if there were any I’m prity sure there very few if there were survivors
Aren’t the tuskins inspired by how settlers and colonist viewed native Americans
Maybe, they might have also been inspired by Bedouins, I can't remember.
It would make sense since the franchise started similar to space western homages
They're also reminiscent of the fremen described in the Dune books.
Comanche were a rape-happy swarm, universally reviled by everyone else.
@@Dunge0n Never heard that about the Comanche; but I do know brutality is not limited to any one group or division by any sort.
Many Tuskens died to bring us this episode.
Pain's cycle of hatred perfectly describes the relationship between the Tuskens and the settlers.
The Sand People are some of my favorite beings in SW so it was awesome to see the season premiere of The Mandalorian revolve around them
'The Mandalorian' has fundamentally changed the image of the Tuskens. For the first time, we saw that they can be dealt with as honorable contemporaries, so long as they and their boundaries are treated with respect.
It's fascinating that so many Tuskens not only recognize Din, but accept him as a guy they can trust. There must be an interesting story behind that.
I'd love to see a spin-off movie of the Tuskens marketed towards the deaf mute community, with dialogues expressed entirely in sign language.
boba learns the tuskens how to ride bikes.
tatooine settlers: why do i hear nomadic throat singing?.
I actually adore the Tuskans. Once Din said "To them we are tresspassers." I grew a new found adoration for them.
The Mandalorian does spins a very different tale of the inhabitants of Tatooine, showing how the Jawas aren’t too nice and how the Tuskens can be civil
who loved it when mando spoke tuskin, and who said rip to the poor tuskins and who said tuskin doggos.
My husband plays your videos for my 4 month old daughter and she will not sleep without hearing you ! You saved me from sleep deprive!
I love that this episode was basically the Alaskan Bull Worm episode of spongebob
"The tuskans arent so bad"
**flashbacks to knights of the old republic and how impressively unpleasant dealing with them was**
They’ve always been my favorite group in Star Wars.
The Tusken's are basically the Star Wars' version of Native Americans and the settling of Tatooine is basically a parable for Manifest Destiny from the 19th to early 20th Century in North America.
Um what about the kidnap and implied r*pe of shimi skywalker
Disney sure loves to sanitise the past
That's right!
@@Ghidorah96 That could have been a particularly brutal tribe. And no, I don't think rape was involved in what happened to Shimi outside of porn stuff.
The 19th century had brutalization from both sides, both the encroaching settlers and the Native Americans being forced from their homes and they met brutality with brutality.
@@Ghidorah96 Thats not possible because tuskens hate exposed skin fool.
Robert Barrows what tribes are there? What are the names? Don’t make stuff up now
Everybody gangsta until you mess with sandpeople territory
Coming here after Book of Boba Fett Episode two, which gives screen time to not just the men, but the women and the children too. Seems like the writers now want us to love the Sand People and I think it's working.
@Rook Kast yeah
Honestly, after playing kotor, I appreciate the Jawa's a lot more, even if always end up killing all of them
They sound a bit like indigenous Americans. Some liked to paint them as violent, but they only were reacting to the atrocities committed against them.
I was waiting for a mentioning of Sharad Hett.
And according to what Hett told Ki-Adi-Mundi, Tuskens liked to test outsiders for their strength and ability to endure in the harsh conditions of the desert. And that's what they probably did to Shmi too.
What is pretty bad in of it self, Spartan ideals are outdated and barbaric even today and couple that the technolegy and ethics and other ideals would be more avanced in starwars it is to say the tusken pratice is backwards and barbaric.
@@marijnr6821 Well, the Sandpeople do refuse the usage of more tech than they need to survive.
And if you can't survive with this minimal technical assistance, you're not worth it in their eyes.
While this has mostly historical reasons, it also has the advantage that they know how to get by when what little tech they use does go away.
This has got to be one of the most wholesome video you've made.
This video just improved my feeling to the Sand People, I already liked them, but now i feel for them. From one Classed Planet and Warriors to another.
After reading about the banthas in a book (can't remember the name to save my life, but it has information on a bunch of creatures in Star Wars), I grew to love them and their sand people mounts. The fact that if either one dies, the other will stop taking care of themselves and die of a broken heart, not just depression, but a broken heart. That is why I like them, even if they are brutal at times
When you see Tusken Raiders screech, it roughly translates to:
"We must secure the existence of Sand People and a future for Sand Children"
It's funny though when I've heard people saying Sharks, or Wolves or Bears aren't as dangerous as people think, I shake my head about such thoughts because I know being out in the forest or in the water is when you figure out someone in a city or at a college spreading their ideas about such things don't know everything,.
Me *reads the title *
Also me “YOU SPEAK MADNESS”
Tuskens are a race of old men yelling, "Get off my lawn!"
Glassed the planet... Time turned it to a desert.
Sounds like Australia.
Neil Gaimen told a story in a sandman comic. Aborigines walking into a desert, poking at the shards of green glass found there... Retelling the oral traditions of the lost city...
I wonder if that was what the Christians and the like refer to as the tower of Babel.
I'm Allied with them, They're Like My Native American Ancestors
The tuskan raiders seem a lot like the Kushan from Homeworld. They are both desperate survivors of an old empire, and they have the same “don’t go to space because of hubris” thing as kith Gaalsi. And their nomadic way of life is very Khaaneph.
Now you see. The first time you mentioned the children being killed i was going to comment on the missed opportunity to quote Anakin but now im glad I held out. You got there in the end. 👍
I would of liked to see Revan's influence on them after his confrontation with the Sand people's chief.
I think their just as un/reasonable as everyone else.
Shmi was an example of them taking things beyond reasonableness, as I've seen no evidence that she was in charge of any environmental or otherwise affront against the sand people. Just like other people groups, they are prone to these sorts of indirect manifestations of aggression against those who have done them little to no harm, or against a stereotypic group in lieu of the few in charge.
I think it's a difficult choice for me, tusken raiders have always been on a grey area basically because Tatooine is so wild. Nevertheless I also have a chip on my shoulder with the relationship they had with the Jawas
For none could see the malice of the Guaree. I can see where Remnant from the ashes drew inspiration. The Undying king Glassed his own damn planet amd the those who survived only did so by bunkers the unlucky ones well mutated.
4:00 Was this a halo 2 reference?
Well... They may have their reason, but I'm gonna be honest here: There's no justifications for abducting defenseless individuals and torturing them to death. Like, if Shmii Skywalker was just killed in a raid, either because she participated in combat or as a colateral casualty that would be one thing, but once you torture people just for cruelty's sake, you are crossing a line. That's not to say that the settlers were more in the right than the tuskens, but it's enough to make them kind of difficult to redeem.
To be fair, that was a single clan. I doubt all of them are like that.
There’s an inaccuracy. If you play kotor and talk to the czerka dock operator you find out that czerka only bought the settlement from another company and it was a bad investment Bc the ores were impure. They say that they aren’t the first and won’t be the last company to be there
I always liked the tusken raiders their design is very unique. I didn’t like their design for a while but I grew to love their design and their history.
seeing some parallels with the native americans and the european settlers
Probably because it’s similar to the way Native Americans get shown in popular media.
@@edrichlouw Yeah that may be a reason, but also learnd some aspects of this in history class (I'm not American, I'm Swiss by the way).
Now that we've seen the legendary Krayt Dragon in canon It will be impossible for writers to resist having someone riding one. Here's hoping its a Tusken Jedi.
Anyone else feel bad for the tuskens in Kotor after talking to the chief...and then slaughter the village to get one of the few krayt dragon pearls?
No, they were animals and I slaughtered them like animals.
Tusken Raiders: Kidnap Shmi and torture her
Oh they’re not that bad
Considering foreign settlers have no qualms about killing Tuskens, they’re not really more evil in comparison, it was mostly Crime groups pitting both sides together to make money anyway
If Raven is their friend, they are mine too. ❤️
How the settlers treat the Tuscans is terrible, but despite this, I still can’t fault Anakin’s reaction.
What is that beeping in the intro?
It feels nostalgic but I don't remember where it was from.
It’s been years but I think that’s what Star Wars battlefront 2 did when loading. The OG battlefront
This raises a question about the relationship between humans and tuskins if communication is possible can coexistence be achieved. Can human settlements develop peacefully and the Tuskins no longer have to rely on raiding for survival but though open trade like the Jawas or is it just the tuskins mando was with simply more hospitable than other tribes that are so aggressive at the sight of humans no dialogue is possible. Like the tribe that kidnaped and tortured Anakin’s mother. Or was the threat of the sand dragon so great that their petty squabbles were meaningless.
I thought it was cool how Mando was communicating with the Tuscan raiders. Gave insight on how they think
That intro always brings me back to me and my best friend playing the original star wars battlefront on the PC,... thank the Lord Jesus for such a happy time of my life that I will never forget 😪
Tusken Raiders: the hairless humanoid cat species that like to adopt.
This video makes me like them more. And I'd started to grow a fondness for them after I'd watched the first episode of the Mandalorian second season.
You're now officially my favorite SW channel.
I always had a dull curiosity about the Tuskens and I noticed that neither the empire nor the rebellion paid any particular attention to them. The Mandalorian does excellent at building the non-force user element of the sw universe. Season two has still been amazing
Obi Wan said something like: _Harsh lands create a harsh people_
When both the environment and other people are hostile, you tend to become hostile as well...
Haven’t seen the new season of the mandalorian yet but I’ve always had a soft spot for the tuskens, I knew there was more to them than just raiding and kidnapping glad this new episode lets in on some insight to their world and way of life
My Theory: the Person that killed alot of them along Their wifes and children was Anakin since he in star wars 2 Said He did exactly that.
"They weren't as evil or bloodthirsty as everyone though" "Anyway, so there I was, torturing that woman we kidnapped for no reason..." Can I get some fucking consistency here lmao
I actually never considered he raiders a monsters just their like anyone try to protect their home, people, and resources since all of those things are scarce and when unknown individuals already consider them monsters diplomacy’s unlikely. Also side note the clip about revan’s protocol droid being able to speak their language is from a Star Wars game called knights of the old republic I loved playing it when I was younger.
Every Tusken raiders tribe is different and has different cultures around it some of them are more aggressive and some are less aggressive
I actually like the Tuskens. They’re a super interesting race and they look super cool. The Book of Boba Fett is definitely doing even more to make them look badass.
You should make a part 2 to this video after this season of book of boba is over
The only reason Anikin hated the tuskens was because they LIKE sand
Also I'd love to see Anchorhead in live action, it's been set as the most advanced and civilized of Taatooine settlements
Also what does Mos mean as a settlement. We have Mos Eisely, Mos Espa, and Mos Palto. The naming has to mean something.
Mos probably means "settlement" or something. Similar to "Tel" over in the middle east. (I may be a bit off in my real-world parallel).
Your completely right. however there one blood tradition that involves them slowly torture captured prisoners like what they did with shmi skywalker was unacceptable.
After watching that episode from the Mandalorian, that's when I realized that the Tuskens are just another humanoid species trying to survive in the galaxy.
Can u do a video on what life was like in the Sith Empire
I once said “you can’t stop what isn’t moving”. Hence, you never changed my mind because you’ve explained what I already knew & understood…
i feel like George Lucas made Tatooine like America (no disrespect here guys) like the Tuskens are like the native indians and then later a few people come along vans then eventually more and more then slave trade comes as well sounds like old America too me. well that’s my thoughts.(again no disrespect too Americans) one like= one tusken gets respected.
I’m American and I can agree with this
Tusken raiders are much more interesting than I formerly thought.
They deserve more credit then what they got in the movies.
I want to see a Star Wars movie with more of the tusken raiders customs and daily life style.
Czerka Corp: **is mentioned**
Me: _Czerkaaaa._
To answer the question at the end of the video, what I think is the same as always: _Damn Czerka to Hell._
They’re just aggressive, because to them, water is sacred, and of course if Legends is to go off of, with the damn Rakata, and later colonial settler, it’s no wonder they are so territorial.
the tuskens reminds me of the germanic tribes, they just wanted to live in their forests and respect it, but then the romans came in, the same with the tuskens, they just wanted to live there life, until others just came in being savage to there lands and lifes.
it,s not their fault that they sometimes are savage to outsiders.
Well I’ve seen Tuskan and Tuskon and Tuskin so far in these comments alongside the more widely used Tusken raiders. I have a bad feeling about this...
Easily the funniest moment of the mandalorian is when mando speaks with the raiders and its just basicly screqming and marshal middle of them being like "wtf is going on"
I think it's a good representation of how two societies who neither understand nor respect one another can descend into an endless bloody cycle of feuding. I played KOTOR 1 a long time ago, so I've known for a long time that the tuskens have some nuance to them, but it's great seeing them fleshed out in a major production like the Mandalorian.
Can you do the Sith Empire in Darth malgus time and the cold war that followed
Please do more videos on warfare talking about anything with battle maps!