DURING A supreme-making an strive dwell credit ranking scene following The Mandalorian Season 3 finale, we watch a hand, gloved, sad, exciting the fringe of a destroyed touchdown pad, and then hoisting into camera frame a face—bloodied, missing an stare, the cheek tendons uncovered alongside bare teeth: Moff Gideon, attend from the useless, his camera stare signaling a desire for vengeance.

Kidding.

Moff Gideon is seemingly to be useless.

We watch him engulfed in a fireball after a full ass ship (excuse us: a full ass Imperial Megastar Destroyer) crashes into his scandalous on Mandalore. That’s an virtually mile-long starship in a position to housing 10,000 personnel and doubtlessly weighing stop to 40 million tons. That’s 109 Empire Instruct buildings. That’s 400 plane carriers. (Forbes as soon as estimated that to set aside correct one would rate, admire, $663 billion.)

Imagine all that gasoline. Whatever a Megastar Destroyer burns would want to be most incessantly otherworldly, which technique it could perhaps burn at temperatures that a long way exceed the heat of jet gasoline—which burns spherical 1,500 levels Fahrenheit. (Or so. These numbers are hard to substantiate and Googling will lead you into the land of 9/11 conspiracies. Be warned.)

However! Beskar armor—what Moff Gideon became carrying in the explosion—has a melting point someplace beyond a lightsaber, since it’s purported to withstand such blows (and has sooner than in The Mandalorian). Lightsabers receive one thing stop to 20,000 levels Fahrenheit. So although the gasoline from a Megastar Destroyer burns ten occasions elevated than Earthly jet gasoline, it unexcited wouldn’t reach a temperature elevated than the melting point of Beskar armor.

Obviously, there are other things that could in finding killed Gideon, along side smoke inhalation and whatever fall he could in finding sustained after being blown off the touchdown platform. (Als0, every person is aware of there’s an opening between the helmet and neckline of the armor. So perhaps high temperatures would burn by Moff’s neck and bone and most incessantly decapitate him. Who is aware of.)

So could he if truth be told be alive?

Essentially most seemingly the greatest optimistic respond would be to appear manufacturing clues—specifically, whether or no longer actor Giancarlo Esposito will seemingly be returning for The Mandalorian Season 4.

No clues as of yet exist.

Narratively, the sequence could tear in both course. The Mandalorian could characteristic both with out a predominant antagonist—which, for the following season, appears to be the case, with Mando and Grogu seemingly combating other remnants of the empire—or with one predominant antagonist, which would be Admiral Thrawn or Commandant Brendol Hux. The sequence has alternatives.

Moff Gideon arriving from the useless isn’t exactly slow both—for reasons point out above, but additionally since the genre of The Mandalorian, (one thing between an motion blockbuster and a Saturday morning slump saga), which enables for some galactic suspension of disbelief. Furthermore, we already noticed him with several clones of himself—what’s to dispute there could be no longer one other one in storage someplace. We can hear it now: “By some capacity Moff Gideon Returned…”

Till then, we wish to judge that hand unexcited exciting a burning platform.