In The Book of Boba Fett, we saw Emily Swallow’s The Armorer banish Din Djarin from his Mandalorian covert. After that, Din Djarin set out on a journey to cleanse himself so he could be welcomed back to the place he was exiled from. During this, he had to ask the Armorer and Mandalorians' for help due to some trouble that he ran into.
During the ending of The Mandalorian Season 3, the Mandalorians reunited and were able to defeat the empire. But now that this story has come to an end and everyone is back on Mandalore, fans are wondering where The Armorer’s story will go in Season 4.
Emily Swallow, the actress who plays The Armorer, in an interview with The Direct, goes into detail about the potential return of her character. She starts off by saying that although she doesn’t know what will happen in the next season, she “really hopes” that her character will make a return. She also says she loves The Amorer and how in the last season, she and Bo-Katan “defied expectations” by working together.
I honestly don't know. I really hope so, but I have no specifics about what direction this next season is going off into. I love the Armorer so much, and I love especially this last season that she and [Bo-Katan] sort of defied expectations in working together and I love that. I love that both of them were willing to sort of look outside these very strongly held beliefs that they've had to see what was gonna benefit the Mandalorian people as a whole, and to take a chance, to take a big risk, because for either of them, they could have lost the respect of their factions by aligning with the other.
She also said she would love to see what the Armorer is now up to in the new combined Mandalorian society.
And I would love to see more of how this new combined Mandalorian society plays out. Of course, I always want to know, like, 'Well what else is the Armorer up to? What does she do when she's not having to now drag her forge to different planets all the time, now that she sort of has a home base?'
She mentions that although she has “no certain verification,” she feels The Armorer should show up in the future because of the integral part she plays with Din Djarin.
And I feel like its been established now that the Armorer is always integral to whatever Din Djarin is doing. I feel like he has to check in with her from time to time, so I feel like we should see her, but I have no certain verification that we will.
When Emily Swallow was asked whether she thinks the story of The Armorer should be concluded, she responded that she thought the story should continue, and she never thought what would “tie up her story neatly”.
I mean, I've never thought about what would tie up her story neatly, I think of her just continuing. I would love to know more of her history because I'm curious to know what connection she had to Din Djarin before everything that we've seen. Who did she know who maybe trained him? I am curious about that.
She also expressed her interest in learning about what happens between The Armorer and Grogu and how she thinks they have a deep connection.
I'm curious to see what continues to happen with her and Grogu. I think, because, going back to when she first met him, she had reason, practically speaking, to want to kind of get rid of him because traditionally the Jedi have been threats to the Mandalorians and she chose not to do that. She chose the directive to protect the foundlings above that, so I feel like there's such a deep connection between the two of them. And so many people have told me that they really just viscerally responded to that scene when Grogu comes to the forge and sort of has that flashback about his own past, so I'm very curious to see how she plays into that.
In her opinion, the Armorer should also get her own apprentice and explore more into her personal relationships.
I would love to see her get her own apprentice. I feel like she needs some help making all this armor. I would love to see who she takes on. I don't know what any of her more personal relationships look like, but I think it'd be interesting to get into that. There were a lot of people who speculated that maybe Ragnar was like the Armorer's son. I don't really think so, but I do wonder what her history with Paz Vizsla was, and I feel like somebody needs to avenge his death, I don't know.
In the end, however, Emily Swallow said there’s “a gazillion things” that she thinks could be enjoyable. More importantly, she expressed that she doesn’t want the character to be tied up yet and keep going on in future stories.
There's a gazillion things that I think could be so enjoyable. I don't know what her endgame is. I don't know what would tie it all up neatly with a bow and maybe that's just because I don't want it to all be tied up, I want her to go on and on and on.
Will The Armorer re-appear in The Mandalorian Season 4?
Seeing how the last season of The Mandalorian ended, there is a high chance that The Armorer will make her appearance in the show’s next season. Even according to the actress Emily Swallow herself, there are a lot of stories that could be explored with the character. Based on this, fans can most likely expect to see her again in The Mandalorian Season 4.
