25 Facts About Greef Karga

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Greef Karga is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise who appears in the Disney+ television series The Mandalorian.

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Greef Karga serves as both an ally and adversary to the Mandalorian at different points in the first season, and returns as an ally in the second season.

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Greef Karga was created by Jon Favreau, the creator and showrunner of The Mandalorian.

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Greef Karga is portrayed by Carl Weathers, whom Favreau knew through the Directors Guild of America.

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Greef Karga has received generally positive feedback from fans and reviewers.

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Greef Karga is a leader of the Bounty Hunters' Guild, an organization that regulates the activities of bounty hunters, assigns bounties to specific individuals, and ensures its members follow the guild's rules.

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Little of Greef Karga's backstory has been revealed as of the end of the first season, but in the first-season finale, it is revealed he was previously a government official with the title "magistrate" before losing the position in disgrace.

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Carl Weathers, the actor who portrays Greef Karga, has said additional backstory details will be provided in the show's second season.

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Greef Karga first appears in the series premiere, "Chapter 1: The Mandalorian", where he operates out of a bar on the planet Nevarro.

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Greef Karga then informs the Mandalorian about a lucrative job from a mysterious man known only as "The Client", who insists on meeting with the Mandalorian face to face.

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Greef Karga next appears in "Chapter 3: The Sin", during which he informs the Mandalorian to bring the captured Grogu directly to the Client.

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Greef Karga only survives because he had two ingots of beskar, a rare steel which the Client provided as payment for the Grogu's bounty, inside his vest pocket where he was shot.

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Season's penultimate episode, "Chapter 7: The Reckoning", opens with the Mandalorian receiving a message from Greef Karga, who proposes that if the Mandalorian helps eliminate the Imperial presence on Nevarro, Greef Karga will ensure the Bounty Hunters' Guild no longer seeks out the Mandalorian or Grogu.

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Nevertheless, the Mandalorian accepts Greef Karga's offer, bringing along with him Cara Dune, Kuiil, and IG-11 to assist in the mission.

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Greef Karga is so moved that he has a change of heart and informs the others about the trap.

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Greef Karga is present when IG-11 sacrifices himself to eliminate a large number of stormtroopers to ensure the group's escape, and he survives an attack by Moff Gideon in a TIE fighter, which the Mandalorian repels.

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Greef Karga appears in "Chapter 12: The Siege", the first episode in the show directed by Carl Weathers.

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Greef Karga kills the last scout trooper, but TIE fighters launched from the base chase after them, disabling the transport's cannon.

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Greef Karga has a gruff personality, and a no-nonsense approach to business.

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Anthony Breznican of Vanity Fair felt Greef Karga simultaneously protected and manipulated the Mandalorian at times, and that Mandalorian did not fully trust him as a result.

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Character of Greef Karga was created by Jon Favreau, the creator and showrunner of The Mandalorian.

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Greef Karga was first publicly unveiled during the Star Wars Celebration convention in Chicago on April 14,2019, along with the character Cara Dune.

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In Greef Karga's scenes with the Client, played by German film director Werner Herzog, Weathers deliberately made Greef less confident and commanding than normal in order to convey that the Client was a dangerous character.

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Greef Karga has received generally positive feedback from fans and reviewers.

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Greef Karga became a playable character in the game Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes on April 22,2020.

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