LEGO Confirms Jar Jar Binks Is A Sith Lord... In Upcoming TV Special

After 25 years of fans theorizing, Jar Jar Binks is finally confirmed to be a Sith Lord. At least, the Star Wars franchise's most infamous comic relief lizard will have that role in an upcoming TV special, LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy.

The upcoming special from LEGO, which has generally taken an irreverent approach to the Star Wars lore when it's been given the reins to the IP, opts to do a "villains are now heroes, heroes are now villains" plot. Nerf-herder Sig Greebling finds an ancient artifact that inverts the established dynamics of Star Wars characters, and it's up to him to set things straight.

For many, the most notable part of the special's trailer is the view fans get of Jar Jar Binks as a Sith Lord. In October 2015, a Redditor posited a viral theory that Jar Jar Binks was secretly a Sith Lord in the franchise's prequel trilogy, and he would appear as a villain in The Force Awakens.

We highly recommend reading up on it if you're curious, but most of the reason it went viral is because it plausibly recontextualized one of the most widely loathed characters in Star Wars history into a secret genius.

Also notable, Ahmed Best, who gave Jar Jar his iconic voice in 1999's The Phantom Menace, will reprise the role in the special.

The trailer ends with him saying "Meesa going to hurt yousa," to give you an idea of the type of tone the special is striking.

Rebuild the Galaxy was produced by Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit, who also worked on 2019's Detective Pikachu. Mark Hamill, aka Luke Skywalker himself, will voice evil Luke. The special drops September 13th on Disney+.