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.
dracula
dracula - 6/24/2022, 4:10 AM
it caused continuity issues since the first episode.
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
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.
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
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