It struck me not way back that B-list comics villains, particularly these with roots within the DC mythos, have loved a renaissance because the introduction of The CW’s Arrowverse. Their presence has been notably notable on The Flash, the place not solely have we been handled to a revival of Mark Hamill’s Trickster and the cerebrally enhanced Gorilla Grodd, however a storyline that made King Shark, of all characters, related once more.
B-list heroes, nevertheless, haven’t gotten fairly the identical bump, and I can assume of some who deserve a bit of love and air time. Because the trailer for S2 of The Mandalorian dropped just lately, allow us to deep dive into the Jedi Archive and get to know…
Title: Jocasta Nu
Born on: Coruscant
Species: Human
Affiliations: Jedi Order, Jedi Council
Place: Head Archivist/Librarian of the Jedi Order
As was the case with most pressure delicate kids previous to the Imperial Period, Jocasta Nu was faraway from her household at a younger age and brought to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant to be raised and skilled. She turned a member of the Council at a comparatively younger age in addition to a member of each the Jedi diplomatic Corps and a librarian. She selected to focus totally on the latter and shortly turned chief librarian, although she nonetheless attained the rank of Grasp and skilled a number of Padawans. Nu had many strengths, although her best weak spot was an absolute confidence within the contents of the archives and the idea that if recorded data didn’t exist therein, it didn’t exist in any respect (this proved detrimental to these trying to forestall Padmé’s assassination through the Separatist Disaster as they have been in search of a bounty hunter on Kamino and, certainly, for Kamino itself, however as Nu had by no means heard of Kamino and will discover no document of it within the Archives, she insisted it didn’t exist. As we’re all nicely conscious, it did, and it performed an enormous half within the Clone Wars mythos).
Random notice: as he spent quite a lot of time within the Archives when he was a Padawan, Nu developed an in depth educational relationship and friendship with Dooku when he was finding out underneath Qui Gong Jinn. She appeared neither notably stunned nor very troubled when he went to the darkish aspect.
Nu had a bent to kind Padawans and Jedi into these worthy and unworthy of schooling in her thoughts. She made it very clear to at least one Umbaran Jedi specifically she thought he had no place in her Archive nor within the order; many felt it was her dismissal that finally turned him to the Darkish Aspect and led him down the trail to turning into the Grand Inquisitor who would homicide numerous pressure delicate kids and Order 66 survivors, and later seize, torture, and practically kill Kanan Jarrus (as soon as Padawan Caleb Dume) and Kanan’s Padawan, Ezra Bridger.
Nu herself survived Order 66 and did what she might to protect the Jedi legacy by smuggling as many holocrons as she was ready out of the temple and recording extra, filling them with what info she was capable of bear in mind. Each the Grand Inquisitor, who had cause to hate Nu, and Darth Vader have been knowledgeable that the librarian would possibly nonetheless be alive, although solely Vader was given directions to convey her in alive; Darth Sidious hoped that she might need info that may assist him maintain the Empire.
Nu didn’t but have that info, however she realized it was nonetheless on the Temple and she or he must return for a holocron containing the names of all of the pressure delicate kids within the galaxy who had been recognized previous to Order 66. When she arrived, nevertheless, she discovered the Grand Inquisitor already within the Archive. She was capable of get hold of the holocron with out detection however confronted him on the way in which out, not recognizing him because the Umbaran Padawan she had as soon as mistrusted. He reminded her and the 2 dueled; the Inquisitor was about to strike the killing blow when Vader stopped him. Nu escaped within the confusion.
After going a number of extra rounds with Vader, Nu was captured and compelled to look at as Vader scanned the holocron with the youngsters’s names. That she revealed him as former Jedi Anakin Skywalker to his troops was of no consequence; as soon as he had what he needed, Vader killed Jocasta Nu.
The librarian did go away a legacy behind, nevertheless: the artifacts she left together with her assistant earlier than returning to the Temple and going through each the Inquisitor and Vader have been sealed in a vault that was later uncovered by Luke Skywalker. He used them to assist discovered his personal Jedi Academy. Which…nicely, everyone knows how that went. However at the least somebody learn the sacred texts.
I’m positively feeling the Jedi factor. Perhaps Package Fisto and Plo Koon deserve some highlight…
