Highlights
- Discover more about Ezra Bridger, the character introduced in live-action with Ahsoka , who had a tragic origin and grew up in defiance of the Empire.
- Learn about Ezra's unique lightsaber design, which included a blaster in the hilt, making it a versatile weapon unlike any other Jedi.
- Find out that Ezra's name is derived from the biblical figure Ezra, symbolizing his journey from being a weak Jedi to embodying important traits.
With Ahsoka finishing up, many Star Wars fans will likely be looking to uncover more about the characters that have been met throughout the series. Many Star Wars fans will already know about Ezra Bridger, the man that Sabine and Ahsoka were so eager to find and rescue throughout the series, there are many fans meeting him for the first time in Ahsoka.
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As such, there is a lot for fans to learn as they attempt to catch up on much of what happened in Star Wars: Rebels, the animated show that produced many of the characters that have been given their live-action debuts in Ahsoka. Ezra Bridger is a fascinating character, and there are a lot of things that many fans won’t yet be aware of about this Jedi.
6 His Origin
Ezra’s journey was always in defiance of the Empire, from the day he was born. His parents worked alongside young Ezra, broadcasting transmissions to speak out against the tyranny of the Empire, while also rescuing children who had been orphaned in the war against the Empire.
All of this unfortunately led to their demise at the hands of the Empire, which only galvanized their young son to continue his defiant ways. After living on the streets of Lothal for years, he joined the crew of the Ghost and would return to Lothal to liberate it from the Empire via his actions in taking down Thrawn.
5 His Unique Lightsaber
Ezra hasn’t yet been shown using a lightsaber in Ahsoka, preferring to primarily use the force as a weapon when he and Sabine were set upon by Thrawn’s forces. However, back in Star Wars: Rebels, he designed his own lightsaber, and it was a completely unique weapon that no other Jedi had ever thought about.
Instead of spinning blades or using multiple blades, Ezra designed a lightsaber that had a blaster in the hilt. This made the weapon hugely functional in pretty much any offensive or defensive situation he could be involved in. Unfortunately for Ezra, this unusual weapon, one of the strangest lightsaber designs in the franchise, was later destroyed by Darth Vader and won’t be appearing in Ahsoka.
4 His Name Is Biblical
It is surprising to find Star Wars names coming from so traditional a source, but the name Ezra is a significant one in the bible and that’s where Bridger’s name comes from. The interesting part of this is that the name was chosen to represent the personality traits that Ezra was supposed to eventually grow into, starting out as one of the weakest Jedi and evolving throughout Rebels.
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In the bible, Ezra is the name of a priest and scholar who remains important in Judaism. Ezra, finally shown in a much more mature form in Ahsoka, is finally truly embodying the traits that his name implies he was always meant to grow into eventually.
3 He Brushed The Dark Side
Like Ahsoka herself, Ezra has experienced various sides of the force, helping him to become a more rounded force user as a result. In his case, Bridger was nearly accepted as Darth Maul’s apprentice after the Sith attempted to lure Ezra to the dark side in Star Wars: Rebels, nearly becoming a fallen Jedi.
Maul, the underrated prequel villain, was a major figure of the dark side throughout much of Rebels, and he actually did convince Ezra to use the dark side of the force in order to open a Holocron. Fortunately, before his journey into the darker regions of the force continued, Ezra turned away from Maul and decided to follow him no further. Ezra’s wisdom gained from seeing the dark side of the force up close helped him become a more powerful warrior for the light as he grew older.
2 Ezra’s Story Was Told By C-3PO
Though it may sometimes appear as if there is a disconnect between the stories told in the original Star Wars films and those told in the animated series, a retcon to some events through a novel showed that during the Battle of Endor, C-3PO told Bridger’s story in addition to that of Luke Skywalker to a group of Ewoks.
The novel was Return of the Jedi: Beware of the Dark Side and in it, C-3PO told about how a young Jedi sent out a video message that inspired many to join the Rebellion. Looking back on it by then, it was fascinating to see the effect that the crew of the Ghost really had on the Rebellion as a whole.
1 He’s Been To The World Between Worlds
A big part of Ahsoka’s own adventure in her show has been her talk with her own former master, Anakin Skywalker, in the World Between Worlds. But it isn’t her first time there, as Ezra once stumbled into that place through a Jedi Temple in Rebels, and was greatly tempted to change time while there.
Ezra found that it would be possible to bring back those who had been lost using the world between worlds, and he was certainly tempted, after finding he could save Ahsoka from the terrifying Darth Vader, he wanted to attempt to go further by rescuing his former master Kanan Jarrus and maybe even his parents, but Ahsoka convinced him not to mess any further with the timeline as it could have major repercussions.
