On the 2017 Birthday celebration Orlando conference celebrating the fortieth anniversary of “A New Hope,” Lucasfilm Govt Ingenious Director Dave Filoni shared a deleted collection from the general season of “Famous person Wars: The Clone Wars,” which incorporates the fateful second.
Within the clip, Boba Fett is having a showdown with Cad Bane, the bounty hunter whom Boba’s father Jango as soon as mentored, and who later mentored Boba in go back. The showdown got here on the finish of a four-episode arc that noticed Boba and Cad workforce up for a rescue challenge on Tatooine, ahead of Cad sooner or later became the tables on him. After a stressful standoff lasting neatly over a minute, Boba and Cad draw on every different and hearth. Best Boba survives, however the helmet does not break out unscathed. When the digicam confirmed the smoldering and dented helmet in closeup, lovers in attendance cheered.
So there you’ve gotten it: the starting place of Boba Fett’s iconic helmet dent. In fact, since this collection by no means made it to air it cannot be regarded as canon. However except the approaching derivative of “The Mandalorian,” “The Guide of Boba Fett,” supplies an alternative clarification, that is the nearest lovers gets.