Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order - 10 Details The Teaser Secretly Revealed

So... who is the villain ACTUALLY?

by Ewan Paterson
Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order
EA

Fans were treated to their first look at Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order on Saturday, and given how a single-player Star Wars title has been a longtime coming, to say that the game's hotly anticipated would be putting it lightly.

The trailer didn't show much - just a few snippets of gameplay - and was mostly comprised of cutscenes. However, to the nerdily inclined (i.e., those who consume the Star Wars Expanded Universe), it may actually be the case that Respawn have let on more than what was initially thought to be the case.

Set in between Episodes III and IV, Jedi: Fallen Order revolves around a surviving Padawan who attempts to avoid the Empire’s wrath after the Republic’s collapse. He’s on his own, trying to survive, and the situation is somewhat dire.

Fortunately for fans, the gap between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope has been well traversed in the new canon. Comics, novels and TV shows have all explored those years, and the game takes a surprising amount of cues from pre-existing material, including entire characters.

It means we can actually discern a lot of Fallen Order’s story before Respawn have even given a full synopsis. Here are the juiciest details so far…

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WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.