The Ninth Jedi – Over 40 Major Star Wars Easter Eggs, References, And Parallels In Season One Explained

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Warning! This post contains SPOILERS for Star Wars: Visions Presents — The Ninth Jedi Season 1

The Ninth Jedi has now expanded into its own full series, continuing the events featured in the single episodes from the original Star Wars: Visions anthology series’ first and third seasons. Featuring a major galaxy-wide conflict in this alternate take on the galaxy far, far away, The Ninth Jedi features several fun nods and parallels to the canonical Star Wars continuity.

Set in a distant, non-canonical era of the Star Wars timeline, Star Wars: Visions – The Ninth Jedi continues to follow young Lah Kara as she embraces her new role as a Jedi, working alongside other masterless Jedi and Margrave Juro to rebuild a New Jedi Order. Likewise, they’re also seeking new allies to counter Lord Nawaam and his forces seeking to subjugate the entire galaxy. Additionally, Kara is determined to find her abducted father, the legendary sabersmith Lah Zhima.

Greatly expanding the mythology first established by the original Ninth Jedi chapters featured in Star Wars: Visions, the new anime series offers plenty of fun elements and reimagined concepts for longtime Star Wars fans to discover in every episode. Keeping that in mind, here are the biggest and best Easter eggs, references, and key Star Wars parallels from The Ninth Jedi’s first season.

The Biggest Star Wars Easter Eggs, References, And Parallels To The Canon Galaxy In The Ninth Jedi Season 1

Nawaam holding his blue lightsaber in Star Wars Visions Presents - The Ninth Jedi
Nawaam holding his blue lightsaber in Star Wars Visions Presents – The Ninth Jedi
Credit: Disney+

Days of Star Wars Past – Senate Building

Destroyed Senate Building in Ninth Jedi Season 1

In the opening narration that sets up the series, confirming that the Jedi and Sith were both wiped out long ago in this alternate version of the Star Wars galaxy, various shots of wars past are shown, including one that very much resembles the remains of the Galactic Senate Building on Coruscant in the primary canon.

Tracker (From Visions S3)

In the first episode of The Ninth Jedi, the large alien Jedi known as Homen remarks that Lord Nawaam’s forces must have put a tracker on their ship during their last run-in. During The Ninth Jedi episode featured in Star Wars: Visions season 3, a tracker was indeed placed on their ship.

The Last Sith

Serving Lord Nawaam, Commander Gennoh Ikagi is revealed to be “The Last Sith”, one of the sole survivors from the ancient order of classic dark side wielders who were nearly wiped out, the same as the Jedi in this alternate timeline.

Voice of Lah Kara – Kimiko Glenn

Lah Kara wielding her green lightsaber in Star Wars Visions Presents - The Ninth Jedi
Lah Kara wielding her green lightsaber in Star Wars Visions Presents – The Ninth Jedi
Credit: Disney+ via MovieStillsDB

The voice of Lah Kara should sound very familiar to Marvel fans, as actress Kimiko Glenn is famously the voice of Peni Parker, both in Sony’s animated Spider-Verse movies, and in the popular hero-shooter Marvel Rivals.

Gramps

The Jedi’s gifted (and elderly) droid pilot is fittingly named “Gramps”. This is the same tea-drinking droid featured in the debut Star Wars: Visions season 1 episode who helped Kara get to Hy Izlan’s temple, voiced by J.P. Karliak (who also voices Morph for Marvel Studios’ animated X-Men ’97 series).

“I Have You Now”

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Mirroring Darth Vader in A New Hope during the Death Star trench run, Commander Gennoh says the same line when he believes the Jedi are in his clutches.

Black Hole – Solo

Using a black hole to slow down and trap Gennoh’s much larger command ship, Gramps’ unique maneuver brings to mind Han Solo’s similar move with The Millennium Falcon in 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story.

Droid Army With A Central Command Unit

The Battle of Naboo

During the attack on Makoma Ko, it’s revealed that Lord Nawaam’s forces are primarily made up of large droid armies resembling a mix of classic Trade Federation battle droids and Imperial Darktroopers. Like Trade Federation battle droids, they also take their orders from a central command unit, rendering them all useless once taken out (just like in The Phantom Menace).

Unorthodox Lightspeed Jumps

Jumping out of the system and then immediately jumping back in to get closer to the enemy command ship undetected, the strategic lightspeed jumping from the Jedi (combined with the previous black hole maneuver) feels very evocative of similarly unorthodox tactics used in the sequel trilogy: jumping into Starkiller Base’s atmosphere in The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi’s Holdo Manuever, Rise of Skywalker’s lightspeed skipping, etc.

New Destroyer Droids

Star Wars Droidekas

Nawaam also has a type of battle droid that very much resembles a classic Droideka from the main Star Wars canon, including a much bigger version with its own deflector shield by the series’ end.

Voice of Ethan – Masi Oka

Working undercover among Nawaam’s organic forces, Ethan is shown gathering intel for Margrave Juro. Having first appeared in the original Star Wars: Visions episodes, Masi Oka returns in The Ninth Jedi to voice the young Jedi. Oka is best known for playing Hiro Nakamura in the NBC series Heroes.

A Beskar Spear?

Thanks to his open challenge that anyone who defeats him will gain control of his army, Lord Nawaam effortlessly bests a warrior wielding what very much looks and sounds like Din Djarin’s Beskar spear from The Mandalorian series.

Classic Jedi Training (Droid & Blast Shield)

Lah Kara Training in Ninth Jedi Season 1

Shown training under Margrave Juro, Kara is shown wearing a helmet with a lowered blast shield while deflecting shots from a hovering training droid, one of the most classic exercises for young Jedi first seen with Luke Skywalker in A New Hope, multiple times in the prequels and Clone Wars, and most recently in Ahsoka with Sabine Wren.

















A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away · Eight Questions
How Well Do You Know Star Wars?
“The Force will be with you. Always.”

🗡️Jedi OrderLight-side guardians

⚡The SithRule of two

⚙️The RebellionA new hope

🪓Bounty HuntersThis is the way

👑The EmpireOrder 66

01

The original Star Wars film — later retitled Episode IV: A New Hope — opened in just 32 American theatres and proceeded to become the highest-grossing film of its era, redefining what summer blockbusters could be. In which year did it premiere?




✓ Correct! 1977 — specifically May 25. 20th Century Fox had so little faith in the project they only opened it in 32 theatres at first; queues quickly stretched around the block, and the film expanded to over 1,000 screens within months. It earned $307 million in its initial domestic run, won six Academy Awards (with another four nominations) and inverted Hollywood’s economics for the next 50 years.

✗ Wrong. The answer is 1977. 1975 is when the script was being shopped around. 1979 is when Star Trek: The Motion Picture released as a Star Wars-shaped countermove. 1980 is The Empire Strikes Back. The original Star Wars is May 25, 1977.

02

A New Hope’s writer-director was a then-32-year-old American Graffiti veteran who’d struggled to get the project greenlit and famously took back-end profit and merchandising rights in lieu of a higher salary — the deal that would build a billion-dollar company. He returned to direct the prequels but stepped away from the original-trilogy sequels. Name him.




✓ Correct! George Lucas. The merchandising rights he kept (because Fox didn’t value them) became the financial bedrock of Lucasfilm and the basis of the modern toys-and-licensing megabusiness. After A New Hope, Lucas produced but didn’t direct Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner) or Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand), then directed all three prequels (1999–2005). He sold Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012 and stepped away from creative control of the sequels.

✗ Wrong. The answer is George Lucas. Steven Spielberg was Lucas’s close friend (and the godfather of his post-A-New-Hope career) but never directed a Star Wars film. Coppola was Lucas’s mentor at USC and at American Zoetrope. Irvin Kershner directed Empire Strikes Back. The original is Lucas’s.

03

In 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back, Darth Vader delivers cinema’s most-misquoted line at the climax of his Cloud City duel with Luke Skywalker. Vader severs Luke’s hand and reveals their relationship. The exact line is — for the record — “No, I am your father.” What relationship does it confirm?




✓ Correct! Vader is Anakin Skywalker, Luke’s father. The reveal was so jealously guarded that Mark Hamill was only told the real line on set the day they shot it (the script said “Obi-Wan killed your father”), and even James Earl Jones recorded the dub without knowing the full plot context. The line — commonly misquoted as “Luke, I am your father” — rewrote what trilogies could pull off and is broadly considered cinema’s most famous twist.

✗ Wrong. The answer is that Vader is Luke’s father, Anakin Skywalker. The whole foundation of the Skywalker saga collapses to this single twist: Anakin (the Jedi prodigy of the prequels) becomes Vader after his fall. Luke and Leia are revealed in Return of the Jedi to be his twin children, separated at birth.

04

Yoda — the green, ear-twitching Jedi Master — was puppeted and voiced from his Empire Strikes Back debut through the prequels and the sequels by a single Muppet-show-veteran performer who also voices Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear. Name him.




✓ Correct! Frank Oz — longtime Jim Henson collaborator and voice/puppet work on Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, Sam Eagle and Grover. Oz puppeted Yoda directly through The Phantom Menace before CGI took over for Attack of the Clones onward, but he’s continued to voice the character through the sequels and animated series. Yoda’s syntax was developed jointly by Lucas and Oz to feel old, foreign and hard-won.

✗ Wrong. The answer is Frank Oz. Jim Henson was Oz’s mentor and collaborator (he created the Muppets) but didn’t voice Yoda. Steve Whitmire took over Kermit after Henson’s 1990 death. Brian Henson is Jim’s son and runs the Henson company today. Yoda is Frank Oz’s.

05

In a deal that reshaped Hollywood, Disney acquired Lucasfilm Ltd. for $4.05 billion in cash and stock — bringing Star Wars, Indiana Jones, ILM and Skywalker Sound under the Disney umbrella. The deal also kicked off the sequel trilogy production. In what year did Disney close the acquisition?




✓ Correct! 2012 — specifically October 30. The deal was announced with simultaneous reveal that a Star Wars Episode VII was being developed for a 2015 release. Lucas had been quietly preparing his exit from Lucasfilm for years; Kathleen Kennedy had been brought in as co-chair months earlier specifically to take over. The Force Awakens came out three years later, in December 2015, kicking off the modern era.

✗ Wrong. The answer is 2012. 2009 is when Disney acquired Marvel ($4 billion). 2010 is the year before Lucas began signalling exit plans. 2014 is when production proper began on The Force Awakens. Lucasfilm joined Disney on October 30, 2012.

06

The Mandalorian launched as Disney+’s flagship original on November 12, 2019 — the day the streaming service itself launched. Created by Jon Favreau and run by Dave Filoni, the show centres on a helmeted bounty hunter who reluctantly becomes a foster father to “The Child” (Grogu). What is the Mandalorian’s real name?




✓ Correct! Din Djarin — played by Pedro Pascal under the helmet (with body double Brendan Wayne handling much of the physical work). The Mandalorian is widely credited with reviving Star Wars on TV, popularising the StageCraft LED-volume virtual production technology now used across Hollywood, and turning baby Yoda — Grogu — into the meme-economy phenomenon of late 2019. Three seasons have aired with a feature film, The Mandalorian & Grogu, set for May 2026.

✗ Wrong. The answer is Din Djarin. Boba Fett is the famous bounty hunter from the original trilogy, with his own Disney+ spinoff (The Book of Boba Fett, 2021). Cobb Vanth is the Tatooine marshal played by Timothy Olyphant. Bo-Katan Kryze is the Mandalorian princess played by Katee Sackhoff. The Mandalorian himself is Din Djarin.

07

Order 66 — the secret directive that turns the Republic’s clone troopers against their Jedi commanders and effectively ends the Jedi Order — is dramatised in the climactic third act of which prequel film?




✓ Correct! Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005). Palpatine’s “Execute Order 66” comm to the clone armies leads to the methodical, planet-by-planet liquidation of the Jedi Order — one of the saga’s most operatic sequences, scored to John Williams’ “Anakin’s Betrayal” cue. The same film features Anakin’s fall to the Dark Side, the Mustafar duel with Obi-Wan, and his rebirth as Darth Vader in the suit. Widely re-evaluated as the best of the prequels.

✗ Wrong. The answer is Revenge of the Sith. Phantom Menace ends with Qui-Gon’s death and the unveiling of Darth Maul. Attack of the Clones ends with the Clone Wars beginning. Rogue One is set just before A New Hope, after Order 66 has long since happened. The Order 66 sequence is the climax of Episode III.

08

Andor (2022–25) is widely regarded as the most adult, politically literate Star Wars project ever made — a slow-burn prequel to Rogue One charting Cassian Andor’s radicalisation against the Empire. The series was created and showrun by a writer/director best known for the original Bourne trilogy and Michael Clayton. Name him.




✓ Correct! Tony Gilroy. He’d previously been brought in for extensive Rogue One reshoots in 2016, and Lucasfilm gave him near-total creative independence on Andor. Season 1 (12 episodes, 2022) is widely regarded as Star Wars’ finest dramatic writing ever; Season 2 (also 12 episodes, in four three-episode jumps across 2025) closes the gap to Rogue One’s opening scene. Gilroy’s prior credits: Bourne Identity / Supremacy / Ultimatum / Legacy, plus directing Michael Clayton (2007).

✗ Wrong. The answer is Tony Gilroy. Rian Johnson directed The Last Jedi (2017). Jon Favreau created The Mandalorian and is Lucasfilm’s Disney+-era animation/live-action lieutenant. Dave Filoni runs the Filoniverse (Clone Wars, Rebels, Ahsoka, the upcoming Heir to the Empire film). Andor is Tony Gilroy’s.

The Force Has Spoken · Final Tally
Your Galactic Standing

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Jedi Master — or moisture farmer on Tatooine?

“I Have A Bad Feeling About This”

Even if it’s in an alternate continuity, it wouldn’t be a Star Wars project without someone saying they have a bad feeling about something, in this case Lah Kara at the beginning of The Ninth Jedi’s second episode.

Bibin

A world once friendly to an early attempt to rebuild the Jedi Order, Bibin very much resembles Yavin 4 from space, especially with the giant red gas giant behind it.

Kyber Crystal Canon

Kyber Cannon in Ninth Jedi Season 1

While it may not be called the Death Star or anything so dramatic, Lord Nawaam’s “Kyber Cannon” promises similar yet far more devastating effects, using kyber crystals to decimate planets and carve paths of destruction across the entire galaxy with just a single blast.

“Who Would Have Thought?”

Hammering the Death Star comparisons even further, you can’t help but smile when Gennoh says, “Who would have thought kyber crystals could be used this way?”

Voice Of Lah Zhima- Simu Liu

Having been Nawaam’s prisoner following his abduction in the very first Visions episode, Kara’s father Lah Zhima returns in the Last Jedi series, with Simu Liu reprising the role. Liu is best known for his roles in the MCU as Shang-Chi, Kim’s Convenience, and as one of the many Kens in The Barbie Movie.

Asteroid Miners (Dwarves)

Kwana in Ninth Jedi Season 1

The closest we may ever get to an official Lord of the Rings/Star Wars crossover, Kwana and his fellow miners are clearly patterned after dwarves, living in asteroids converted into large starships.

Jedi & Politics

The Ninth Jedi reveals that Juro and Zhima’s master became compromised the more he became involved in galactic politics despite his initial good intentions, mirroring the similar decline of the Jedi Order in the primary Star Wars canon once they became generals and commanders for the Republic, serving a governing body more than the galaxy itself and its people.

Rey Skywalker/Han Solo Blaster Combo

Multiple soldiers of Bibin are shown drawing blasters that look to be a combo of Han Solo’s classic DL-44 blaster pistol and Rey Skywalker’s NN-14.

A Failed New Jedi Order

Just like the first attempt to rebuild the Jedi Order in the canonical timeline with Luke Skywalker, the first attempt to rebuild the Jedi Order in this alternate continuity with Master Reno similarly fell apart.

A Silver Saber – Gray Jedi

Zhima Wielding Silver Lightsaber in Ninth Jedi Season 1

Achieving a state beyond the light and dark, Lah Zhima (and others’) lightsabers turning silver seems to be indicative of the classic “Gray Jedi” concept of those who sought to exist in balance with both aspects of the Force (something much easier said than done).

“Dank Farrik!”

Reacting to the sinister truth about Master Reno, who had secretly manipulated galactic commerce by abducting key leaders, Kwana gives the classic Star Wars expletive from the primary canon, most famous for its use in The Mandalorian.

“I Sense A Presence…”

Sensing the Jedi on board, Lord Nawaam’s line mirrors Darth Vader’s when he senses Obi-Wan Kenobi aboard the Death Star in A New Hope.

“Juro Wanted Me To Protect The Bridge, So That’s What I’m Going To Do”

Similarly young and reckless, Kara’s line is a nod back to young Anakin Skywalker in The Phantom Menace, “Qui-Gon told me to stay in this cockpit, so that’s what I’m gonna do.”

Gennoh Ikagi’s Grievous Evolution

Gennoh Ikagi as a full cyborg wielding a red lightsaber in Star Wars: Visions Presents - The Ninth Jedi episode 7
Gennoh Ikagi as a full cyborg wielding a red lightsaber in Star Wars: Visions Presents – The Ninth Jedi episode 7
Image via Disney+

Receiving a brand-new cyborg body after his failure dueling Lah Zhima, Commander Gennoh is very much The Ninth Jedi counterpart to General Grievous, complete with extra limbs and surprise upgrades.

A Four-Legged Assault Walker

Shown fighting local resistance fighters on a nearby world, Lord Nawaam takes on a four-legged assault walker that very much resembles a classic AT-AT. However, it’s much smaller for a single pilot, essentially the size of a Republic AT-RT.

“Fully Operational”

Believing his Kyber Cannon will be “fully operational” by the time of his return, it’s fun to see all the same terms and vernacular for the Death Star being used here in The Ninth Jedi.

Zhima’s Varactyl

Zhima Riding Varactyl in Ninth Jedi Season 1

Zhima is briefly shown riding a large reptilian mount which looks very much like the varactyl Obi-Wan Kenobi rode on Utapau during Revenge of the Sith (named Boga).

“Rebel Scum”

Wanted notices are out across the galaxy for the remaining Jedi, referred to as “rebel scum” (another classic term heard in the main Star Wars galaxy).

Eht & Bee-Toh

Bee Toh in Ninth Jedi Season 1

The Jedi hunters Eht and Bee-Toh return in The Ninth Jedi to hunt down Lah Kara, having been first featured in Star Wars: Visions season 2 as the ones who abducted Zhima for Nawaam. After Kara defeats Eht, she spares Bee-Toh’s life and enlists him into her service (she even gives him a lightsaber). Armed with his new saber and blaster, Bee-Toh is voiced by Aleks Le (who currently voices Daredevil in Marvel Rivals).

Saber Box – Galaxy’s Edge

Placing Lah Kara’s lightsabers in a cargo box, the box itself bears a strong resemblance to the same standard boxes guests at Disneyland get when they purchase Legacy Lightsabers at Galaxy’s Edge.

“Trust In The Force”

Not only is “Trust in the Force” a classic Jedi phrase, but it comes from the Force Ghost of Juro himself, confirming the existence of Jedi spirits after death in this alternate continuity.

“The Jedi Strike Back”

The Ninth Jedi episode 7 is titled “The Jedi Strike Back”, a clear nod and riff on the original trilogy’s The Empire Strikes Back.

Hy Izlan

The final battle takes place at Hy Izlan, the world once ruled by Margrave Juro and the temple housing the massive kyber crystal first seen in The Ninth Jedi’s debut episode in Star Wars: Visions season 1.

Lah Zhima’s Lightsaber

Kara Returning Zhima's Lightsaber in Ninth Jedi Season 1

Lah Zhima’s personal lightsaber is returned to him by Kara, revealed to be the very same saber with golden accents first shown in Star Wars: Visions season 1.

The Nine Jedi Assembled

Finally, a true force of nine Jedi are assembled in the final episode of The Ninth Jedi: Lah Zhima, Lah Kara, Ethan, Homen, Kwana, Bee-Toh, Dunabi, Lady Tafflah. Juro serves as the ninth, his spirit still watching over the surviving Jedi (though he’s also shown among their number by the season’s end).

A Giant TIE Fighter Wing

Kyber Cannon Firing in Ninth Jedi Season 1

The Kyber Cannon array and its new modifications make it look exactly like the wing of a giant TIE Fighter from the main Star Wars canon.

“We Have To Turn Around”

Sensing that her father is in danger while dueling Commander Gennoh in a deadly rematch, Kara demands that they turn the ship around, just like when Luke Skywalker reaches out to Leia at the end of The Empire Strikes Back, motivating his sister to turn The Millennium Falcon around to rescue him from beneath Cloud City.

When Lord Nawaam’s Kyber Canon is forced to land on the surface of Hy Izlan, the line of Lah Zhima’s impressive kyber crystal extractors, which could pull asteroids rich with kyber down from orbit, is briefly shown (having been first featured in the debut Star Wars: Visions episode).

A New Jedi Council (Knights of the Round Table)

New Jedi Order in Ninth Jedi Season 1

The finale episode of The Ninth Jedi season 1 ends with Lah Kara, Juro’s spirit, and the rest of the new Jedi igniting their lightsabers while wearing new white robes, confirming the dawn of a true New Jedi Order and evoking Arthurian legend with the Knights of the Round Table.

All episodes of Star Wars: Visions – The Ninth Jedi season 1 are now streaming on Disney+ from Lucasfilm and Production I.G.


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Release Date

2026 – 2026-00-00

Network

Hulu, Disney+

Directors

Shunsuke Tada

Cast

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    Chinatsu Akasaki

    Lah Kara (voice)

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    Tetsuo Kanao

    Juro (voice)


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