Ahsoka Brings Unexpected Star Wars Animation Characters Into Live-Action

This article contains spoilers for the first two episodes of “Ahsoka.”Dave Filoni’s latest “Star Wars” show, “Ahsoka,” is full of surprises.

The series follows Ahsoka Tano, former apprentice of Anakin Skywalker, as she tries to protect the New Republic from the potential threat of Grand Admiral Thrawn.

She’s also interested in using her quest as a way to find Ezra Bridger, a young Jedi who sacrificed himself to take Thrawn out of the Galactic Civil War in the first place.

For fans of “Star Wars Rebels,” it’s expected that more and more characters who were introduced in animation would be making the jump to live-action, especially when you consider that some of the action — at least in early episodes — seems centered on Lothal, one of the central locations of “Rebels.”But there are a couple of characters that make the jump to live-action in the premiere episode of…

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