Who is Cad Bane? Anyone’s who watched The Clone Wars and Star Wars: Rebels is familiar, but now Lucasfilm, Jon Favreau, and Dave Filoni have brought the hat-wearing alien and the Pyke Syndicate into the Mandalorian timeline.
Many of the questions that preceded the anticipated ‘Star Wars’ spinoff set in the ‘Mandalorian’ timeline still linger after Chapter 1, "Stranger in a Strange Land." But by showing us a defeated Fett and a triumphant Fett alike, Disney+ is starting to fill in decades-old gaps in the antihero’s journey.