OBI-WAN KENOBI May Have Created A Minor Marvel Comics Continuity Issue With This Week's Finale

OBI-WAN KENOBI May Have Created A Minor Marvel Comics Continuity Issue With This Week's Finale OBI-WAN KENOBI May Have Created A Minor Marvel Comics Continuity Issue With This Week's Finale

Obi-Wan Kenobi's season finale didn't disappoint, but some fans believe Ben's new costume may create something of a continuity dilemma due to a comic book released by Marvel back in 2016. Check it out!

By JoshWilding - Jun 24, 2022 04:06 AM EST
Filed Under: Obi-Wan Kenobi
Source: SFFGazette.com

At the end of this Wednesday's Obi-Wan Kenobi finale, the Jedi Master returned to Tatooine and embarked on a new mission to learn how to live on after death courtesy of his fallen Master, Qui-Gon Jinn.

While he'll continue to watch over Luke Skywalker, Ben has realised that the boy is safe with his Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru and is clearly more in touch with the Force now than ever before. With his new outlook came a new costume that we're sure will have rung a bell for many of you. 

The outfit actually originates from a statue released by Sideshow way back in 2012. That was the same year Disney acquired Lucasfilm, but it wasn't until a 2016 comic book that it was added to the current Star Wars canon. The issue, by Jason Aaron and Mike Mayhew, told the story of how Obi-Wan rescued a young Luke from Jabba the Hutt's thugs during the Great Drought.

However, there may be a slight continuity problem here. 

The story is set prior to the events of Obi-Wan Kenobi, but with Ben using the Force and Owen warning him to keep away from Luke, it arguably contradicts too much for us to later learn that the adventure actually took place after the TV show. It could be retconned, but doing so might further confuse matters.

Whether this shows that Marvel Comics' Star Wars stories aren't overly important in the grand scheme of things is hard to say, but even though Lucasfilm signs off on all these plot decisions, no one can blame them for not being beholden to events that play out in comics only a small percentage of fans read. For purists, however, there's a chance this will prove problematic. 

Still, we're loving Ben's new look and hope this is a sign Disney+ plans to continue his adventures on Tatooine in Obi-Wan Kenobi season 2 down the line...
 


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TocharianMonk
TocharianMonk - 6/24/2022, 4:09 AM
Oh really??? This show??? Caused continuity problems???? You don't say. That's the tip of the iceberg with this crap show.
UncleHarm1
UncleHarm1 - 6/24/2022, 6:48 AM
@TocharianMonk - That's a weird amount of question marks. You're weird.
dracula
dracula - 6/24/2022, 4:10 AM
it caused continuity issues since the first episode.
BigPhilbowski
BigPhilbowski - 6/24/2022, 4:37 AM
@dracula - literally every star wars property since the 2nd movie came out has caused continuity issues. Stop acting like this is an outlier
dagenspear
dagenspear - 6/24/2022, 7:53 AM
@BigPhilbowski - Some may suggest there's a difference in how these continuity issues occur and the reason for them.
bobevanz
bobevanz - 6/24/2022, 4:19 AM
Nice source, I'm still not clicking it haha
Dredd97
Dredd97 - 6/24/2022, 4:22 AM
not that it matters, but I'm sure on screen supersedes a comic book
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 6/24/2022, 4:31 AM
@Dredd97 - think so too. The Mandalorian and Bad Batch redid some stuff (how Cobb got the armor, Kanan during Order 66) from the comics too. It's nothing new
dagenspear
dagenspear - 6/24/2022, 7:52 AM
@bkmeijer1 - What's even the point of the comics then?
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 6/24/2022, 8:33 AM
@dagenspear - Goes for a lot of retcons or new perspectives thrown on stories though. In hindsight we can always ask the question why something was done in a certain way before when we were gonna do it later differently.

Guess those are stories they feel like worth telling at the time, without knowing certain plotpoints might be used in the future as well.
eagc1995
eagc1995 - 6/24/2022, 11:19 AM
@dagenspear - Money
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 6/24/2022, 4:32 AM
Isn't it a journal Luke finds that tells this story in said comic? We never saw Kenobi keep a journal, so might as well be that he just wrote it down later and thus differently.
UGLYsonic
UGLYsonic - 6/24/2022, 5:36 AM
This show was so [frick]ing stupid. Owen a Beru fought their God damn hearts out, bless their farmer hearts, but were absolutely no [frick]ing match whatsoever for a Force user, even one who was nearly mortally wounded after having been impaled recently. They got owned hard and were left shouting in the desert for Luke like helpless Jabroni's. They got so [frick]ing lucky Luke was chased down by a blatant "token diversity hire woke-message Disney product" and not an actual, you know, believable character... because if it was anyone else but Reva, Luke would be dead.

So it's perfectly reasonable for Obi-Wan to go on holiday with his ghosty bff and say Luke doesn't need training and all he needs is Owen.... perfectly reasonable.

And I love how the writers had the balls to have Obi-Wan say Reva gave her younglings peace and she honored them, after she spent years killing people, chopping off hands and stringing up Jedi corpses in the middle of towns. But wait, she didn't kill one kid.... she's a good guy now. I wish that's how it worked in our world, you could kill people and maim innocents and try to torture a little girl... but so long as you don't kill one little boy you get to be a good guy and all your sins are forgiven. Is there no prison for crimes in a galaxy far far away? No repercussions?

[frick] you Kathleen!

🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩🚽🚽🚽🚽🚽🚽🚽🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕


It's my belief Qui Gon only showed up at the end to ask Obi-Wan if he could introduce him to Reva, because he's curious to know how she survived 2 impalings. Anger and revenge doesn't stop your organs from spilling out of your tummy hole. Miserable peice of shit show, they think they can take diarrhea shits on us for 6 episodes then vomit all the nostalgia gimmicks we've been waiting on all show in the last 10 mins and expect us to lap it up like starving mongrels.

We know we gave you filler episodes and lazy writing, but remember "Hello There" and "Qui Gon" and "The Emperor" and "Imperial March".... you can have all that now cuz were done....

[frick] YOU KATHLEEN!!!
dagenspear
dagenspear - 6/24/2022, 7:51 AM
@UGLYsonic - "token diversity hire woke-message Disney product"

There was no woke message in this. She gets beaten by Vader and then Obi-Wan beats Vader, showing himself to be superior in power than both of them.
BritishMonkey
BritishMonkey - 6/24/2022, 6:40 AM
The comics don't exist in Kathleen's mind or anything outside of the films so they'll bend it.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 6/24/2022, 6:43 AM
@BritishMonkey - I remember she said that unlike Marvel, they don't have a massive library of source material to draw from when writing the sequels.

Man, that really angered me. It's like she doesn't even know Legends exists
MorbidlyObryce
MorbidlyObryce - 6/24/2022, 7:23 AM
@BritishMonkey - she hardly even adheres to the movies lol
BritishMonkey
BritishMonkey - 6/24/2022, 7:29 AM
@bkmeijer1 - Precisely what I mean lol it's moronic.
@MorbidlyObryce Sooner Filoni takes over the better.
eagc1995
eagc1995 - 6/24/2022, 11:21 AM
@bkmeijer1 - The way i took her comment is that Star Wars is not based on an IP that existed before the movies, unlike the Marvel movies/shows which were based an existing IP full of comics before they were movies
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 6/24/2022, 11:36 AM
@eagc1995 - that could be, but her comments were in relation to the sequels. And by that time, there was a ton of legends that stuff to draw from.

In her defense though, it is indeed hard to get right if you're the first one doing a movie instead of print media. But story-wise, it shouldn't have been a problem. They even had Lucas' scripts.
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