Admiral Thrawn will appear in Season 3 of Rebels and will have his own novel

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Written by David Gelmini2,856 Reads1 Comments2016-07-18 13:18:23

Ever since Disney announced that they would be retconning the Star Wars Expanded Universe in favour of a new Canon continuity (most fans have yet to forgive them for that), one of the biggest questions on everyone's mind was whether or not Admiral Thrawn would be showing up in the new continuity.

The blue-skinned Chiss admiral first appeared in Timothy Zahn's 1991 novel Heir to the Empire and instantly became a fan favourite. He even became the leader of the Empire for a while, despite their strict xenophobic anti-alien policies.

The Chiss species first appeared in the Canon continuity in the game Star Wars: Commander, prompting speculation that Thrawn would make his way into the new continuity too at some point. And now it's been confirmed at Star Wars Celebration that he will indeed be showing up, in both Season 3 of Rebels and a new novel (appropriately titled Thrawn) from the creator himself, Timothy Zahn. It seems that Disney actually do care about giving the fans what they want.

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Durp004

MemberInitiateJul-18-2016 1:38 PM

Well there are a few Old EU characters you can't get rid of completely without getting some kind of backlash from the old Legends fanbase. Bane, and Thrawn are two big ones and both are now cannon again.

Now all we have to do is wait for them to reintroduce Revan and most of the big ones will be out of the way. 

 

Hope he doesn't get killed off in Rebels though. It was his trilogy of novels that first brought a lot of recognition to the old EU don't want him to be a 3 episode arc villain like a lot of them are regulated to. There's a reason he reached Grand Admiral even though he was an alien, he's just that good.

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