Boba Fett’s Mandalorian Weapon Explained: The Tusken Raider Gaffi Stick

Boba Fett wields a brutal new melee weapon in the latest episode of The Mandalorian: a gaderffii, or gaffi stick, that he got (possibly through violent means) from the Tusken Raiders of Tatooine. Though he only had a handful of lines and minimal screen time in the original Star Wars trilogy, Boba Fett became a fan-favorite character, and The Mandalorian season 2 is giving him a  turn in the spotlight.

The Mandalorian‘s Boba Fett is played by Temuera Morrison, who played Jango Fett in the Star Wars prequel trilogy and has also voiced Boba Fett in several video games and the 2004 redubbed edition of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. Though Boba refers to Jango as his father when explaining the history of his armor to Mando, Boba is technically a clone of Jango who was raised like a son by the legendary bounty hunter. Boba Fett fell into a sarlacc pit on Tatooine in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, but The Mandalorian confirms that he survived (albeit with a few scars) and lived on Tatooine for several years afterwards. In The Mandalorian season 2, episode 6, “The Tragedy,” Boba tracks Mando to the Jedi planet of Tython and asks that his armor be returned to him.

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When stormtroopers attack, Boba Fett gets to show off his prowess with his new weapon, the gaffi stick. The lethal war club made its first appearance alongside the Tusken Raiders that wield it in Star Wars: A New Hope, and actually has a coincidental connection to Kiwi actor Temuera Morrison’s Pacific background. The gaffi stick is based on a Fijian weapon called a totokia (pictured below), and Boba demonstrates just how effective the weapon’s spiked head can be, especially in combination with the sharpened spear end that was added for the Star Wars version of it.

As dangerous as it is in battle, the gaffi stick is also a versatile tool. Earlier in The Mandalorian season 2, a Tusken Raider was seen using their gaffi stick to clean a bantha’s teeth. Tusken Raiders live a hard and minimalist life out in Tatooine’s Dune Sea, so it makes sense that their weapons can also be used for more mundane tasks. The desert-dwelling bandits are not particularly friendly to outsiders, so it’s likely that Boba picked up his gaffi stick off the dead body of a Tusken Raider after a fight – though it’s also possible that he may have temporarily allied himself with them during his time on Tatooine, and kept a gaffi stick as a souvenir of that alliance.

Though there are still plenty of blaster battles, The Mandalorian season 2 has also taken the opportunity to showcase the melee weapons of the Star Wars universe. There’s Moff Gideon’s darksaber, Ahsoka Tano’s twin white lightsabers, Mando’s new beskar steel spear, and now Boba Fett’s gaderffii. It’s a good way of keeping the show’s fighting styles and choreography diverse, and a lot more interesting than simply watching characters exchange laser blasts.

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