STAR WARS: TALES OF THE JEDI Spoilers Seemingly Reveal The Heartbreaking Final Fate Of A Jedi Master

When Disney acquired Lucasfilm for a whopping $4 billion, they decided to throw out the Expanded Universe canon and start from scratch.

It was an understandable decision, but one that's frustrated many fans these past few years. Now, Inside the Magic (via SFFGazette.com) has shared some new details about Disney+'s upcoming Tales of the Jedi animated series, and it looks like another big change is on the horizon. However, is Disney inadvertently contradicting its own continuity? 

The site claims to have seen some footage from the show in which Count Dooku, heading to Genosha after being recruited by Emperor Palpatine, brutally murders Yaddle. We first met the character in The Phantom Menace, though the female Yoda lookalike had left the Jedi Council by the time The Clone Wars began. 

While her fate has never been directly addressed, it's been suggested that Darth Vader may have killed Yaddle and that she actually lived through The Clone Wars (as seen in the Darth Vader comic books and hinted at in Jedi: Fallen Order).

Luckily, both of those references to Yaddle could be interpreted in a way that means this big moment doesn't contradict what we've seen elsewhere. However, there are rumblings online that E.K. Johnston's Ahsoka novel is no longer canon, a sign Disney will change course if the content we see in books and comics doesn't line up with their live-action or animated plans. 

Dooku murdering Yaddle in cold blood is monumental, but could tie into what we've seen happen with Grogu in The Mandalorian. While she clearly didn't rescue him the night Order 66 was enacted, perhaps Darth Sidious has had an interest in Yoda's species for a lot longer than we realised? There's certainly a lot the villain could have done with her remains, anyway. 

Either way, we're sure this moment will generate a lot of discussion when Tales of the Jedi is released, and hope to have more to share on that series very soon.