Saw Gerrera is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise.
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20 Facts About Saw Gerrera
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Saw Gerrera appears in The Clone Wars spin-off Star Wars: The Bad Batch, with Kishino reprising his role.
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In Rogue One, Saw Gerrera is the foster parent and mentor in military combat of Jyn Erso, as well as the leader of the Partisans, an extremist rebel cell unaffiliated with the Rebel Alliance due to Saw Gerrera's violent military tactics, whose missions are explored in some episodes of Rebels and other Star Wars media.
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Saw Gerrera's name is a "mnemonic riff" on the Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevara.
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Saw Gerrera is a heterograph of the Spanish word "guerrera", meaning "female warrior", describing Steela.
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Saw Gerrera appears significantly older in Rogue One than he did in The Clone Wars, despite the two works taking place only roughly twenty years apart.
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Saw Gerrera is mentioned in the Star Wars Rebels second-season episode "The Honorable Ones", as being a factor in Agent Kallus's disdain for the rebellion's tactics against the Empire and part of the reason he participated in the genocide of the Lasat race of Ghost crew member Garazeb "Zeb" Orrelios.
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Saw Gerrera makes an appearance in the third season, two-part episode "Ghosts of Geonosis", with Forest Whitaker reprising his role from Rogue One in vocal capacity.
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Saw Gerrera saves Jedi Knight Kanan Jarrus, his Padawan Ezra Bridger, and Captain Rex from a group of battle droids.
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Saw Gerrera convinces them that they need to find the Geonosian, as it could tell them why the Empire virtually exterminated its species.
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However, upon finding more evidence of the genocide of the Geonosians by the Empire, Saw Gerrera has a change of heart and lets Klik-Klak back to his lair, giving him a chance to rebuild the Geonosian population.
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Saw Gerrera reappears in the fourth season's two-part episode "In the Name of the Rebellion", which is set shortly before the events of Rogue One.
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Saw Gerrera reappears in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, portrayed by Forest Whitaker.
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Saw Gerrera has a reunion with Jyn on Jedha, where it is revealed he abandoned her years earlier as it was dangerous for him to keep her around, though he later regrets it.
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Meanwhile, the Death Star fires on Jedha City; while Jyn and her rebel companions escape, Saw Gerrera chooses to stay and is killed when his hideout is annihilated in the wake of the blast.
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Saw Gerrera appears in The Clone Wars spin-off Star Wars: The Bad Batch premiere episode, with Andrew Kishino returning to voice the character.
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Saw Gerrera appears in the novelization of the film Rogue One by Alexander Freed.
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Saw Gerrera appears in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, again voiced by Forest Whitaker.
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