Baddies in Star Wars can’t help but clone themselves. Way back in 1991, the way that Palpatine somehow returned was revealed in Dark Empire, in which he transferred his wicked soul into a young clone body. Ditto Palps in 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker, in which he basically did the exact same thing. But cloning yourself in order to live forever isn’t just a Palpatine trick. It’s also the major villain’s move at the end of The Mandalorian Season 3. First introduced in 2019 in Mando Season 1, Moff Gideon, as played by Giancarlo Esposito, was revealed to be obsessed with creating clones of himself in 2023’s Season 3 finale.
Presumably, all of those Gideon clones, and the original Moff himself, perished in a big explosion. But new comments from Giancarlo Esposito suggest that maybe... he didn’t.
