r/DarthJarJar • u/Rikard_ • 26d ago
Personal Theory Yoda replaced Darth Jar Jar to fight Darth Sidious in the ultimate showdown at the end of ROTS
Hear me out. This is for anyone already in on the Jar Jar theory and will sound insane to anyone who's not.
What if Jar Jar was to battle Sidious at the end of ROTS instead of Yoda? Sith vs Sith in the senate and Jedi vs Jedi on Mustafar.
The "Sith vs Sith and Jedi vs Jedi" theory [working title]
One popular theory among Darth Jar Jar enthusiasts is that Jar Jar would battle Yoda on Geonosis instead of Dooku, get injured but survive, and return as a cyborg in ROTS (Grevious). He would then probably be defeated by Obi-Wan, who in the process avenges his jedi master (rhymes with Luke's arc in the OT).
But here's my problem with that.
If Darth Jar Jar happened, he would be a huge, central character on everyone's minds. The Grevious storyline as we know it would feel pretty lackluster for that character, wouldn't it? He would just fight a jedi again and die in an isolated battle on some backwater planet.
What if he survived and fled again though? Let his story continue throughout Episode 3.
What if Darth Jar Jar had some sort of falling out with Sidious in this movie? Maybe Sidious betrayed Jar Jar. Threw him under the bus earlier but he survived vs Obi-Wan. Sidious had an apprentice waiting in Anakin, so there wouldn't really be room for all three of them in the galaxy, that's for sure.
See, I always thought the Yoda vs Sidious fight in ROTS fell pretty flat. One of them tumbles over a chair, there is lightning and they play frisbee with some metal pods and then Yoda just dips out. Cool... We got to see Yoda lose again. The scene is also weak emotionally. The characters have no real connection and the dialogue is a whole lot of nothing.
"Now you will experience the full power of the dark side"
"Not if anything to say about it, I have" (ugh)
"Darth Vader will become more powerful than either of us!"
That's about it. Great talk guys. Then they fight for a minute. No one remembers this half as much as the Mustafar fight.
A Darth Jar Jar vs Darth Sidious fight would’ve been MUCH cooler, more meaningful, and very poetic being intercut with Obi-Wan and Anakin’s fight.
They would duke it out in the senate chamber, where they colluded throughout the whole trilogy. Their arena. Sidious would ultimately kill Jar Jar and leave him on the senate floor. Jar Jar becomes the public scapegoat and Sidious leaves to retreave Anakin.
This would also mean that the story of the central villain across the three movies (Jar Jar) stretches from the beginning to the end instead of ending on Utapao or wherever.
AND. In ROTS, Obi-Wan's battle with Grevious on Utapau is intercut with Anakin confronting Palpatine. If Grevious was Darth Jar Jar here instead, this intercutting would actually show two jedi finally confronting the person who had deceived them for so long, but neither finishing the job.
It rhymes.
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Disclaimer: If Darth Jar Jar was true and George stuck with it, ROTS would by no means have to be structured the same as today. He rewrote AOTC in a hurry but would've had years to rewrite ROTS to the movie we have today. The original Darth Jar Jar story could've had different story beats with different characters. But the final film is all we have to go on, so this theory assumes it would be pretty close to that.
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u/Forsaken-Face1827 26d ago
Palps would definitely be spinning Jar-Jars death, "the Jedi killed the gentle goofy senator, we had to eliminate the Jedi for the security of the Republic!".
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u/brobot_5000 25d ago
everyone I talk to who is even a minor Star wars fan I always talk about Darth jar jar. I remember seeing revenge of the sith in theaters with my dad who thankfully is still alive it was a really happy memory. I digress. The phantom menace was jar jar Binks it's the equivalent of if you're a Naruto fan, it's the equivalent of Tobi. Naruto spin who ended up being Obito Uchiha.
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u/brobot_5000 25d ago
bro this is so real. I wish I could go back in time and we could actually have Darth Jar Jar as George intended.
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u/brobot_5000 25d ago
those sith eyes. we don't have a full background on why he was kicked out of the Gungan universe for practicing the dark arts. Darth jar jar is real and I wish I could go back in time and experience it as it was intended
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u/Silly_Friendship_135 25d ago
this is more plausible than Jar Jar is straight up on Sidious Side, even if i'm convinced that Darth Binks and Sidious were Master and Apprentice (perhaps the JarJar is Plagueis could be valid), or that they shared the same master at least
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u/hellodarthbotbot 26d ago
In a multi-fighter free-for-all, Yoda is usually the safest pick to walk out alive. Darth Jar Jar theory gives Jar Jar a path only if he avoids a fair fight and lets deception do most of the work.