The Mandalorian’s Original Description For “The Child” WAS A Baby Yoda

Din Djarin’s (Pedro Pascal) fifty-year old adopted infant son is officially called “The Child” in The Mandalorian, but is known to pretty much everyone else as Baby Yoda – and that’s even how he was described in the script. The latest episode of the Disney+ docuseries Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian dives into the creative process of bringing the adorable tyke to life, starting with the description of him on the page: “A baby. The same race as Yoda.”

Showrunners Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni, along with everyone else involved in The Mandalorian, have been careful to avoid referring to the Child as “Baby Yoda.” However, with season 1 wrapped up the show still has yet to give him any other name, so Baby Yoda has stuck. Because Yoda’s species is so mysterious (there’s no name for it in canon, and only the only other Yoda-like creature we’ve seen is Yaddle), The Mandalorian has an opportunity to reveal more about Yoda’s people and where he comes from. Until that happens, though, the Child is stuck in a strange limbo name-wise.

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Episode 5 of Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian focuses on the show’s practical effects and the making of Baby Yoda. Among the behind-the-scenes materials shown is a script page for The Mandalorian episode 1, “Chapter 1: The Mandalorian.” The scene in which the Mandalorian and fellow bounty hunter IG-11 discover that their target is actually just a baby name-drops Yoda in the very first description of The Child.

Even though Baby Yoda’s official name is “The Child,” the creatives featured in Disney Gallery mostly refer to him as “the baby” or “Baby.” Werner Herzog, who was absolutely smitten with the puppet, refers to it as Yoda at one point before correcting himself and also calling it “the baby,” but fans shouldn’t read too much into that. It’s likely that the actors involved in the show didn’t know Baby Yoda’s true identity when the docuseries was being filmed (though they might do now that season 2 has wrapped).

The Mandalorian season 1 ended with Din Djarin and Baby Yoda forming a new clan of two, and venturing off into space to try and find Baby Yoda’s people. It’s unlikely that the baby will get an official name any time soon, as Din doesn’t have much interest in names; his own was kept so secret that almost no one knew it, and it wasn’t revealed until the final episode of the season.

Baby Yoda is still mostly an enigma. We know that both Herzog’s mysterious Client and Imperial remnant Moff Gideon (Giancarlo Esposito) want to get their hands on him, and that despite his young(?) age he already has tremendous command of the Force (though it tires him out to use it). But as the Mandalorian searches for answers in season 2, we may finally get a proper name to go with that adorable face.

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