Fennec Shand is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise portrayed by Ming-Na Wen in the Disney+ television series The Mandalorian, The Bad Batch, and The Book of Boba Fett.
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23 Facts About Fennec Shand
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In "Chapter 14: The Tragedy", it was established that Fennec Shand was saved by Boba Fett, leaving her in his debt, and had parts of her body replaced with cybernetics.
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Fennec Shand's noted that the Star Wars franchise has often been influenced by Asian culture in its costumes and set design elements, despite an earlier lack of Asian actors.
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Fennec Shand's costume was created by Joseph Porro, the costume designer for The Mandalorian.
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Original plans for Fennec Shand's hair called for it to be loose and unkempt, but Wen suggested her hairstyle include some of "the fennec fox architecture", similar to the costume.
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Fennec Shand is characterized as an elite assassin, one who is mysterious and very dangerous.
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Fennec Shand's is a highly skilled fighter at both firearms and hand-to-hand combat, and displays a sharpshooter's ability with a sniper rifle.
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Fennec Shand's is very graceful and agile, and stealthy, demonstrating an ability to maneuver and survive.
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Ming-Na Wen, the actress who portrays Fennec Shand, felt the character has a moral ambiguity similar to that of popular Star Wars character Han Solo.
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Fennec Shand's is very tricky, playing mind games with her victims, as demonstrated by her attempts to manipulate Toro Calican once captured.
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Fennec Shand is ruthless, independent, unpredictable, and is loyal to herself first and foremost.
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Fennec Shand's appears in the Mandalorian episode "Chapter 5: The Gunslinger", starting the episode in hiding on the desert planet Tatooine, because a large bounty has been placed upon her.
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Fennec Shand's offers to work with Toro to subdue the Mandalorian and turn him over to Guild.
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Fennec Shand's accompanies Fett to Tython, where they attempt to recover the latter's old armor from the Mandalorian, and ensure the safety of Grogu, a Force-sensitive alien infant that the Mandalorian has adopted, in exchange for the armor's return.
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When Moff Gideon's Imperial remnant attacks the group, Fennec Shand helps the Mandalorian and Fett fend off the stormtroopers deployed to capture Grogu, but fail to prevent him from being taken by Gideon's Dark Troopers.
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Younger Fennec Shand appears in the animated series Star Wars: The Bad Batch, with Ming-Na Wen returning to voice the character.
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Fennec Shand then informs her client of the escape but says that she will find Omega.
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Fennec Shand arrives at an abandoned facility on Bora Vio and kills Taun We, whom Bane was supposed to deliver Omega to.
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Fennec Shand's serves as Fett's right-hand woman following his takeover of Jabba's criminal empire, and assists him with running it and eliminating any possible rivals.
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Fennec Shand has been received positively by reviewers and fans alike.
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Fennec Shand was included on Vultures list of the show's 15 best cameo appearances from season one.
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Kerr Lordygan of TV Fanatic wrote that "Fennec Shand's demise was too easily obtained, though the possibility of her return was left open".
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Evan Romano said he would not be surprised to see Fennec Shand turn up again in a future Star Wars film or series, writing: "This character seems just a little too capable, and a little too cool to be disarmed and killed after just a single brief appearance".
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