I always like that this channel covers all of Canon content without feeling overwhelming for new fans. They could see the spirit Inquisitor and want to start reading the comics, without feeling like they have to
Update: the Ninth sister was killed by Cal Kestis on Coruscant after she nearly wiped out his whole team during a raid to gain vital intel on the Empire for Saul Gerrera
You forgot to mention that Mauls last lightsaber was an inquisitor model so it’s possible he killed one that tracked him. Also it’s possible Reva replaced the Third Brother because he was mentioned in a reference book.
Similar to the role-playing game. I feel like reference books fall into a gray area. Things in them are used to help us answer questions until they are really answered. Being when things from that book actually trickle into the major canon such as games, comics, novels, or film. A third brother is mentioned, but does not really matter or exist until he appears elsewhere.
@@BlindJedi That’s why I said “ Also it’s possible”. You can easily wave a hand at a reference book but it’s easy to say she replaced him because Reva might have hidden herself away for some years before joining. Either works.
well one of Dave filoni ideals for inquisitors during star wars rebels interview is multiple inquisitors holding the same rank. so it could be they are canonize that ideal there are other inquisitors of opposite gender who also holds the same rank as well.
The Inquisitor featured in 'The Ghosts of Dathomir' plagued me the most because she was the only one with a vague history. I had everyone documented but her. Thank you for including this character. I also consider her canon because she is a fixed part of the RPG storyline. ( which itself leans towards the Newer Witches of Darthomir as opposed to the Legends version.)
@@chewy99. Yes, but considering the game came out in 2015 they probably meant the Grand Inquisitor. Jerserra's Master on the other hand can't be one of the known Inquisitors.
Not really the topic discussed here, but since it was brought up with the grand inquisitor; i love how the Sith and other dark side users legitimately have necromancy and actual undead stuff but its not really talked about. It makes sense, because necromancy is traditionally one of if not the most evil magic in any fantasy setting and is usually seen as a corruption of the natural order. Usually an undead person or a ghost in stories is tormented by existing in that state, and the dark side undead seem to be like that (or at least the grand inquisitor was), meanwhile the regular light side force ghosts are more of a spiritual enlightenment "become one with everything" deal. But back on the dark side you have things like a tormented but still physical phantom (Grand Inquisitor's ghost), a more incorporeal nonphysical spirit (Darth Bane's ghost though it may just be an illusion/vision) haunted objects (Momin's Helmet), spirits possessing people (Momin's Helmet, nightsister magick shown in rebels, and Palpatine essentially possessing a clone body but thats more complicated), an army of undead minions (nightsister magick shown in clone wars), and hell you could argue that the Sith's many examples of unnaturally extending their life and surviving would be fatal wounds is a kind of necromancy as well and essentially forcing an already dead body to keep on "living"( Maul, possibly the grand inquisitor, maybe to a degree Darth Vader as well and Palpatine's flawed clone body. Though advanced technology also helped). Looking at all that, it makes Palpatines "Darth Plagueis the Wise" story sound all the more sinister if this is the sort of "life" he could create and some of his ways to "prevent" death. Unnatural indeed. Its Ironic that its the light side that has essentially this path of enlightenment that leads to immortality, when that immortality is what a lot of Sith dream of but can never replicate and any attempt seems to just lead to pain and torment.
Ninth sisters speech to Cal is my favourite depiction of the empire. I have never been more scared of them than when she said “you can’t stop the empire” I want to see her or a character like her with a full arc on screen
There is also 1 more we know of, although it might fall into that realm of grey-canon. A Third Brother is mentioned in one of the sourcebooks, I think one to do with the dark side. It's never said whether he replaced the Third Sister, served before her or at the same time as her. Either way, it's pretty interesting. Great video, Alex!
@@andrewrash1931 Are you referring to the Comic? Because there is no Vader novel from 2017. If so, only the fifth, sixth, eighth and tenth brother appeared there.
Thanks. Just speculations here, but are the two unidentified inquisitors supposed to be numbers 11 and 12? Or are they just replacements for the already killed numbers 6 and 10?
@@apfelkuchen4399 maybe 11 or 12. Even though there is no evidence to support this I just assume there are 15 inquistors and we have yet to meet 3 of them
@@apfelkuchen4399 maybe 11 or 12. Even though there is no evidence to support this I just assume there are 15 inquistors and we have yet to meet 3 of them
Here's an idea for an animated series or Tales of the Jedi arc. Four untattooed Pau'an Jedi Temple guards all with vastly different personalities (two voiced by Jason Isaacs and two by Rupert Friend) deal with the Order 66 calamity from the ground, and the mystery is who goes bad and becomes the Grand Inquisitor.
I really want an Inquisitor show. Focused on a group of Inquisitors going on a mission to investigate a lead on a Jedi and maybe that Jedi could be an injured Mace Windu and the show ends with Windu dying. Would be really cool to see a show from the bad guys perspective where we're rooting for Mace but we follow the Inquisitors.
Well we can now confirm the ninth sister is no longer missing but is full on dead as Cal Kentis decapitaded her on Courisaunt at the beginning of Jedi Survivor
You forgot one there is a 3rd brother in the 2017 Darth Vader Novel. I have heard some believe that he was retconned out and is now Reva. Others say he’s still Cannon as the book he’s in is official Star Wars Cannon.
I’d like to think that Starkiller from Force Unleashed could have a really interesting story as an inquisitor if bought back into canon, it’s possible that he was the original Grand inquisitor but was replaced by the current grand inquisitor we see in rebels after he left the empire. In legends Starkiller was responsible for creating the rebel alliance after he left, so in canon he could have created the Path which we see in Obi-Wan-Kanobi
Dave Filone had actually planned to bring Starkiller back into the canon as an Inquisitor, in Rebels season 3; but he ultimately decided against it, he said he was too powerful. So I guess he didn't want to nerf him.
@@thedapperdolphin1590 Well that was only in the games. He was still a great character in the Force Unleashed novelizations, while having his power levels be toned down a bit within the novel.
Pretty good video. Did notice two things you missed though - Sixth Brother's original name was Bil Valen - "Darth Maul and Other Dark Side Followers" from the Star Wars Encyclopedia series mentions a Third Brother as well as a Third Sister
My biggest question about the Inquisitors is how their number system works. If it’s by their timing of being brought in to the Inquisitoius it doesn’t work because Trilla was brought in after clones were decommissioned and the empire used Stormtroopers while characters like Fifth Brother and Seventh Sister were already enlisted. Is it by power? By success rate? If anyone has an answer that would be great.
The two main theories online are: 1. The numbers mean nothing. An illusion of hierarchy meant to stir up competition within their ranks. 2. When one Inquisitor dies, the next one will take their place, explaining why newer additions have a "higher" numerical ranking.
Ah yes, the Inquisitors (tv shows/games only) The my father will hear about this one The hot one The wannabe father will hear about this one The one that just does her job The one with dat funky hat The comics one The other hot one The jumpy boi The one I didn't even know was a woman The green indian one with dat goofy mustache The birdy boi
Love this video and your channel! Thanks for all the work you put into these videos! I think the Star Wars comics confirmed that the 6th Brother’s name was Bill Valen! So we know the names of the 2nd Sister, 3rd Sister, 6th brother, 9th sister, and 10th brother. 👍🏻
It’s ren the former leader of the knight of ren was a member of the inquisitor group after they disbanded the group. I always feel like ren was a member of inquisitor after the return of the Jedi.
I wonder if we’ll ever see the outcome of Project Harvester. I doubt it was entirely unsuccessful, so there must be at least a few Dark Side users running around who grew up in Project Harvester.
If I were to guess what number the two Inquisitors in the Darth Vader comic are, the red skinned alien is the 11th Sister and the Twi'lek is the 12th Brother. The one in Tales of the Jedi is probably the 13th Brother. I wouldn't be surprised if I'm right. I hope we find out. It would also be interesting to know what species the Fourth Sister, 5th Brother, and 6th Brother are.
What I don’t understand is that Maul killed an Inquisitor to make a lightsaber, which was seen at the earliest point of 11 BBY. But every Inquisitor is already dead at that point in the timeline, or had to have survived. Tenth Brother died in the comics, The Sixth Brother died to Ahsoka, Trilla died to Vader, and Grand Inquisitor, Eighth Brother, Seventh Sister, Fifth Brother, Reva, and Fourth Sister all live past that point. The only Inquisitor that Maul could have gotten the saber from was Ninth Sister
I imagine Inquisitor Lightsabers are mass-produced rather than personally constructed, so Maul could have stolen one. It's also possible he just killed one of the unnamed Inquisitors, such as the Second Brother (if they even existed). It's also notable that Inquisitors are rarely sent on their own, and I highly doubt the Eighth Brother would have been alone in his hunt for Maul. Perhaps they had previously encountered Maul once before and Maul killed his partner.
his lightsaber looks pretty similar to the grand inquisitor one, and considering inquisitors lightsaber are slightly custom for each one my take is that the grand inquisitor actually fought Maul but obviously fail, just escaping with his live and nothing more
Not related to the topic of Inquisitors. But I have some dark Star Wars food for thought: In the elevator scene at the beginning of SW Episode 2, when Ani and Obi are talking, Obi mentions that he has a feeling that Ani might be the death of him (Ani being the cause of death of Obi). And Ani responds by stating how much of a father Obi is to himself (Ani). So I realized that Obi was right, and twice, from a certain point of view. The first time was in SWE3, when witnessing the Temple security footage on Coruscant and later confirmation in person on Mustafar after the duel with Ani. This death is metaphysical, as practically everyone and everything that Obi has ever loved, cared for, and was somewhat connected to, either betrayed him or in some way died. And again later, on the Death Star 1 in SWE4, this death being physical.
I wish they had stuck with the old Fourth Sister design. The one with the cool helmet and set of armor, as well as a Lightsaber staff as a weapon, instead of the signature cylindrical Inquisitor Lightsaber.
There were actually The Third and Fourth Brother, one is mentioned in a Sourcebook and the other is one of the main characters in "Before the Dark Times". I would like to know who the Inquisitor in Visions was and the two, that Darth Vader killed actually were.
If you’re going to mention the non-canon Inquisitors, then you should’ve mentioned the Third Brother who was mentioned in the source book: Darth Maul and Other Dark Side Followers.
So why was the Fourth Sister chosen to be in Kenobi? Unless it was a deleted scene, it's not like she's used as a cannon fodder Inquisitor to be killed off before the end of the series.
We got new info now, kal killed the 9th sister on coruscant and we have a new unidentified plagye Dr. Looking one that ahsoka killed in tales of the jedi
Your respectfully wrong on one thing friend.. that being grand inquisitors spirit being captured by vader. If that was the case vader wouldn’t of allowed grand inquisitor to stop the fifth brother and 9th sister whichever. My opinion
@@BlindJedi Well yes, the events are not really canon, but there are backstories for Jerserra, that one Toydarian and the Nightsister clan and those are canon.
@@timtetumtetodd after doing my own research, and seeing the opinions of other people in the comments of this video. The consensus seems to be the game isn’t really canon. It’s an RPG. Therefore while some backstory is described, it’s more or less at the level of a reference book. Any source that has ambiguity cannot be considered canon. Fanfiction is written following the same rules and boundaries of the sandbox it’s written in. You need to have backgrounds and backstory built on the official story in order to make the game more legitimate. Events of the game cannot be considered canon until they trickle into other more official media. Also, if only parts of the whole trickle in to other media, the whole is still not canon.
Great presentation. I think there are more Inquisitors to be shown. I do hope that somehow we learn them all. Perhaps there is a brother and a sister for each number. There was the Third brother, mentioned in a reference book and there's also Reva. Also, it's clear Maul killed and Inquisitor, because his lightsaber is similar to one of the Inquisitors. Maybe he killed the First Brother/Sister, as it was never specified that the Grand Inquisitor is the First Brother. Btw, you missed the inquisitor who was sent on the Anoat sector who hunted down 4 Jedi, mentioned in the Uprising game. Unless he's the Fifth Brother or simply not specified.
There are still some legends Inquisitors out there, like Antinnis Tremayne (who shocking served Vader and later the Imperial remnants from just after the clone wars all the way into the age of the New Republic)
Actually the Unknown female Inquisitor who trained the Dathomir sister may actually be canon. She was mentioned in Darth Maul and dark sider followers source book
