Quinlan Vos

A new theory has explained Quinlan Vos' future in live-action following his name being referenced in Obi-Wan Kenobi on Disney+.

Whether fans will see a live-action treatment of Quinlan Vos remains to be seen, but the groundwork has been laid for Kenobi to reunite with friends from his past. Not only is Quinlan Vos another example of that, but it's also accomplishing something George Lucas originally planned to do himself. But now, much like Bo-Katan Kryze, Ahsoka, and Cad Bane, it looks like Obi-Wan Kenobi is setting the stage to continue this animated character's story in live-action. In recent years, Star Wars comics, video games, and animated characters have crossed over into live-action; and now the new Ewan McGregor-led series looks to continue the trend with the Jedi Quinlan Vos' return. In addition to Kenobi helping Vos return to the Jedi Order, the two worked together on missions in The Clone Wars; and despite Vos' being a bit of a maverick, the two worked well together. Jedi Master Quinlan Vos hailed from the planet Kiffu and was a bit of a rebel; at one point, he actually fell to the Dark Side. Kenobi had a hand in his redemption and he later rejoined the Jedi Order.

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Either Quinlan Vos is the one Jedi among this batch who survived and, for some reason, appears in Vader’s vision, or he dies, too. Quinlan’s story is an interesting one, providing one of few relatively high-profile examples of a Jedi falling to the Sith and then returning back to the light side. Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 3 features the unexpected mention of Quinlan Vos, a character who not all Star Wars fans might be familiar with.

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While Quinlan Vos’s appearance was reduced to a mention from Obi-Wan to Anakin, saying that “Master Vos moved his troops to Boz Pity”, his popularity demanded his inclusion somewhere in the Star Wars universe. Obi-Wan Kenobi looks at a wall and sees Quinlan Vos’s name carved on the wall, saying “Quinlan was here”. Tala confirms this, saying: Quinlan Vos is a name many Star Wars fans will recognize.

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If you don’t know the name too well, he’s the eldest son of rapper Ice Cube and his debut big screen role was playing his father in the 2015 film Straight Outta Compton. You can also see additional info on the series with the official Disney+ Twitter page at https://twitter.com/disneyplus. In addition to that, he’s also changed his Twitter profile to include him being the 13th member of the Jedi council. He had a slightly fluid interpretation of the Jedi Council’s rules and even went on to flirt with the Dark Side. He helped Obi Wan on missions in Star Wars – The Clone Wars, which meant that he was put forward for the assassination attempt on Count Dooku. If he does, then there’s going to be an actor in the cast that plays the role, so here’s everything we know about the character and who might play him. There’s only one Quinlan that Obi Wan knows well and you can find out more about how the two of them worked together in the Clone War in the details below.

Quinlan Vos has been teased in Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 3, so let's get the reference to the jedi explained and consider what it all means.

He falls for Asajj Ventress, a Sith. However, he ultimately returns to the Light Side of the force after she is killed. For those that are unfamiliar with the characters, it’s important to note that this Jedi and Obi-Wan have quite the history. With Deborah Chow in the director’s chair, the first two episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi hit Disney+ in late May 2022 and brought back waves of nostalgia.

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If Quinlan Vos does appear in Obi-Wan Kenobi, will the Force bless us with the perfect actor? Although Obi-Wan Kenobi takes place about 19 years before the events of Mando, Ben is very familiar with the Mandalorians. He was in love with Satine, Bo-Katan’s sister, who once ruled Mandalore. And, on top of that, if Quinlan Vos is smuggling younglings, we may finally get another Mando mystery solved. If Obi-Wan comes face-to-face with more underground Jedi, including young ones, and he meets Quinlan Vos, who's to say an even younger Grogu might not make a cameo, too? So, like Obi-Wan, Quinlan has a unique perspective on how the Jedi failed the galaxy, and why the Dark Side is so tempting. In the third episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi, a huge hint at the fate of several Jedi — presumed dead — points toward a possible, unexpected reunion for Ben. Although Kenobi is trying desperately to get in touch with the spirit of Qui-Gon Jinn, one Jedi, who is very much alive, might be the key to everything, and maybe even lead us to... First formally introduced in the comics Star Wars: Republic, Quinlan Vos was an unorthodox Jedi, who, like Anakin, tended to do things his own way.

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Obi-Wan responds with "the Way," presumably meaning the Jedi way. He trained Aayla Secura, the blue Twi'lek Jedi seen in the live-action prequel movies. At one point in the episode, while on the run with Little Leia, Obi-Wan ends up in a safe house.

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It's a stretch at this point, we know, but perhaps this surplus of young rescued Jedi could even lead to a young Grogu cameo. And if we're talking about Younglings getting smuggled out, there's also a small chance that Quinlan might have been the one who rescued Baby Yoda from the Jedi Temple during Order 66. Quinlan may have also been referring to Kenobi's relationship with Anakin, which lies at the heart of this show. However, it's also possible that this could relate to Obi-Wan directly. It turns out that Quinlan has been rescuing younglings who are Force Sensitive from the Empire's reach. But crucially, Obi-Wan spots some writing at this point which belongs to a Jedi he already knows, someone who could turn out to be a big help later down the line.

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It’s time Quinlan Vos’s role in Star Wars lived up to his presence in the franchise. But some survived and managed to go into hiding because of Quinlan Vos, who ten years after the fall of the Republic still served as an agent of the light side. But Obi-Wan spoke up for the Jedi and blamed the Council for asking him to do something as evil as perform an assassination. And shepherding Force-sensitive children during the time of the Empire was maybe the most dangerous thing any Jedi could do. He then became the Separatists’ Admiral Enigma, who used his knowledge of the Jedi against the Order. When the Jedi “rescued” Vos from Count Dooku they were unaware of his true goals. Meanwhile, Yoda went into total seclusion in the swamps of Dagobah. So how did a flamboyant, infamous Jedi like Quinlan Vos continue to serve the galaxy with the entire Empire looking for him? That was how Ventress convinced Vos to learn the ways of the dark side. Now thanks to Obi-Wan Kenobi we know why he remained underground on the galaxy far, far away’s own Underground Railroad, The Path. When Vos then fell into the hands of Dooku, his sinister studies led him down a dark road to becoming Dooku’s apprentice. Those traits remained when Quinlan Vos stayed part of official canon by appearing on two episodes of The Clone Wars. He helped Obi-Wan track down Ziro the Hutt, and during the mission the two Jedi fought with Cad Bane. But the real answer is that originally that character with a horizontal line of paint under his eyes was a cool extra. Vos, from the planet Kiffar, went from the background to to the foreground in the Star Wars Republic comics.

He was mentioned in Obi-Wan Kenobi Episode 3, but who exactly is the Jedi Quinlan Vos?

Vos questioned the tenets of the Jedi Order as he realized his mission was basically terrible. The Clone Wars explored this concept in the Season 3 episode "Hunt for Ziro." The plot put Vos and Obi-Wan Kenobi together looking for, you guessed it, Ziro. Seeing Obi-Wan in a constant state of exasperation wasn't entirely new because we'd seen him and Anakin together, but Vos was a different sort of personality. There's a bit of a game to him always having to convince others of his lies or truths, and the mention he receives in the Obi-Wan series would seem to connect to this notion in some ways, as we are told that Quinlan is now spiriting younglings away from the Empire. Surely his particular style comes in handy under those circumstances. Imagine his out of the box approach paired with a Jedi operating within the rules -- it's a prime opportunity for comedy. And for more on the show, check out our explainer on Obi-Wan's brother. He occasionally had dealings with the Sith and the Separatists and would get in so deep he almost got lost. He would be utilized as an actual character (and given a name) in the Expanded Universe/Legends material that would follow. But it was all because Vos was looking for the second Sith (Rule of Two and all). While chasing the bigger fish, Vos crossed some serious lines. In the third episode of the Obi-Wan Kenobi series, the once-great Jedi comes upon a secret room where former Jedi Knights, Force-sensitives, and other refugees from the Empire have scrawled their names on a wall. To be fair, Vos did kill on Dooku's command; he worked through the Sith's hit list. It's because of these talents that the Jedi found him especially suited for undercover missions. That combination means he isn't everyone's cup of tea; he wasn't voted Most Likely to Be Stoic and Silent in his Padawan graduating class.

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Either Quinlan Vos is the one Jedi among this batch who survived and, for some reason, appears in Vader’s vision, or he dies, too. Quinlan’s story is an interesting one, providing one of few relatively high-profile examples of a Jedi falling to the Sith and then returning back to the light side. Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 3 features the unexpected mention of Quinlan Vos, a character who not all Star Wars fans might be familiar with.

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(Also some fans think they had a secret love child, Satine’s “nephew,” Korkie.) Satine was then killed by Maul as revenge on Obi-Wan for cutting his legs off in The Phantom Menace. Obi-Wan has since worked with Satine’s sister, Bo-Katan, who appeared on The Mandalorian, so it’s not out of the realm of possibility that the two shows could intersect. Obi-Wan does have a long history with the Mandalorians. In The Clone Wars, we learn that, as a young Jedi, Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon Jinn were charged with protecting Satine Kryze, a Mandalorian duchess, and Obi-Wan and Satine reconnected later in life and admitted they were in love, though they never acted on it. Quinlan could just be reciting common Jedi wisdom that your eyes can deceive you and that trusting the Force is the path to enlightenment. While it’s not a very common Force ability, Quinlan isn’t the only one who has it. It’s a complicated one! We do not!

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The Force is still a kind of nebulous concept in the Star Wars cinematic properties. “The way” is also how Tao (also, spelled “Dao”) is commonly translated. In Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 3, Obi-Wan meets Tala, a member of the resistance. Quin at one time also tried to assassinate Count Dooku. After Order 66, Quin went into hiding, working with the resistance to resettle and protect young Jedis and Force-sensitive kids. Obi-Wan Kenobi, once sheltered from the fight, now finds himself at the heart of the resistance’s strategy: protect the remaining Jedi—and gather force. The rebel resistance is in its infancy, for now simply an emblem carved into the side of a wall.

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With Leia in the hands of Inquisitor Reva Sevander, Vos’ tracking ability could be of good use to our hero. The Jedi council gave Vos a mission to locate and kill Count Dooku by befriending the Sith Lord’s former disciple, the assassin Asajj Ventress. He gets his due in the credits of Obi-Wan Kenobi, but again his voice may have been manufactured rather than recorded anew. Jones himself said at the time he was unaware of whether the voice was his and had not been directly involved with the production. Jones recorded his own voice as Darth Vader most recently in Star Wars Rebels and Rogue One (and also a very small part in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker). But it hasn’t always been so smooth. The Scrubs actor and Garden State director makes his debut in a cameo as this star-nosed mole man, Freck, who offers Obi-Wan and Leia a ride to the nearest spaceport.

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With Obi-Wan gone (he’d actually been captured by Ventress and imprisoned on another planet), it was Anakin who led the Republic’s last stand on Jabiim with the remaining clone troopers and a group of padawans, holding out long enough for the surviving forces to evacuate. After all, in the Legends timeline, it was the site of one of the bloodiest battles of the galactic conflict. But Quinlan is still referenced in a line from Obi-Wan to Anakin in the movie: “Master Vos moved his troops to Boz Pity.” In fact, it’s in the pages of Star Wars: Republic by John Ostrander and Jan Duursema where he became popular as one of the comic’s central stars opposite mainstays like Obi-Wan and Anakin. But McGregor and Christensen aren’t the only two major Prequel blasts from the pasts featured in the series. Obi-Wan Kenobi not only brings back two of the most important characters from the Original Trilogy, it’s also an embarrassment of riches for Prequel Trilogy fans who have longed to see the franchise pay tribute to the Star Wars galaxy of the early 2000s.