WookieePedia Updates To Reflect A Change 'The Acolyte' Made To 'Star Wars' Canon, Pandemonium Breaks Loose
Another episode of The Acolyte, another controversy.
After episode three of Disney's prequel Star Wars series drew the ire of some fans for introducing so-called "Force Babies," episode four has purportedly led to the sending of death threats to editors of WookieePedia after they updated the fan-run Star Wars wiki to reflect a change The Acolyte made to the canon.
The controversy surrounds a Jedi named Ki-Adi-Mundi, a phallic-headed fellow perhaps best known for saying "What about the droid attack on the Wookiees?" in Star Wars: Episode III and pointing out the Sith had been extinct for a millennium right as the Sith were coming back. He appears in episode four during a brief interrogation scene.
Canonically, Ki-Adi-Mundi was born in 93 BBY (Before the Battle of Yavin), while The Acolyte takes place in 132 BBY. Mundi appearing in The Acolyte should be impossible, but the show appears to have fudged the canon a bit to have Star Wars' famous fuddy-duddy once again be the bureaucratic voice casting doubt on the events taking place in the show.
Some Star Wars fans have not taken kindly to Disney once again taking a liberty with the canon.
They were even less kind with Wookieepedia altering their information to reflect the new canon for Ki-Adi-Mundi.
According to some WookieePedia editors, they have received death threats for altering the site to reflect the canon presented by The Acolyte.
This has in turn led "#WeStandWithWookieePedia" to emerge as a hashtag to show support for the editors, while others are dunking on Star Wars fans making a mountain out of a background character's birthday.
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Onyxsbayne
They literally have someone who works at Lucasfilm whose job it is to make sure continuity breaking stuff like this doesn’t happen. Clearly he wasn’t involved or consulted.
Nurdboy42
The continuity wasn't broken because Ki-Adi Mundi's birthdate wasn't established in the new canon.
Onyxsbayne
I feel like the more interesting thing here is that he says in E1 that the sith haven’t been seen in a millennia. Which him being here and seeing this stuff would contradict the whole statement. But I haven’t been watching the show and don’t know the details on the plot, the whole thing is pretty silly regardless.
Nurdboy42
The word "Sith" hasn't been said in any of the episodes yet. In the scene with Ki-Adi Mundi, the Jedi are discussing who might have trained the titular Acolyte and they assume it's probably a rogue Jedi or someone from another faction.
Toa of Gallifrey
These people wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me
jumpropeman
Retcons feel kind of like the reason many wikis exist. We need to keep track of the canon in light of changes whether or not they're good or even make sense, and if the wiki starts ignoring retcons just because they feel like it, it undermines its purpose.
𝙮𝙪𝙯𝙪𝙠𝙞
this people shouldn't be touching grass, they should eat it
Nurdboy42
This is the dumbest "controversy" I've ever seen in Star Wars…
Terry Jones
Second only to the whole butthurt outcry for the force lesbian baby bit.
SSmotzer
You mean like how they changed Kenobi's hermit robes in the original films to be the official uniform of the Jedi?
That doesn't make sense either, why would a Jedi in hiding spend all day and night in his Jedi robes?
Radiant-Rex
Don’t let this distract you from the droid attack on the Wookiees.
Radiant-Rex
In all seriousness, whether the change is stupid or not is irrelevant. The point of a Wiki is to compile canon information for characters and shows and whatnot. It’s not the editors’ fault that stuff got changed, so don’t send them death threats.
Revic
Oh Jesus. Is this what I sound like when I complain about D&D? I gotta… I gotta go think for a while.
Slothinator
I mean, there are genuinely stupid changes made to D&D lore, like the tiefling diversity getting squashed.
Pokejoseph64
They could’ve had anyone else fill Ki-Adi-Mundi’s role in the show (or hell, make it a new character that just so happens to be the same species as him)
Nurdboy42
I have to imagine using him was a deliberate choice given that he doubts the return of the Sith in The Phantom Menace.
Pokejoseph64
Except this supposedly takes place before he was born! THAT’S THE FUCKING PROBLEM
Nurdboy42
His birth date was only canon to the old continuity. The current continuity never established when he was born until now.
Ass Railroad
I do think there is some real criticism to be levied at The Acolyte in terms of storytelling and pacing, (I don't find it as terrible as the haters seem to, but I think it's just been "eh its sort of okay" which isn't what I had hoped it would be).
But, if the idea that a minor character whose birthday was established in… checks notes trading cards and $15 reference books you bought at a Scholastic Book Fair as a kid now has a different birthday due to a three second cameo ruins your day and is "THE VERY DEATH OF STAR WARS," then please turn off the computer right now and go touch some grass. Or watch this Animaniacs clip at least: https://youtu.be/lNJ6dFwh8a4?si=-cp68TOL2xffTB9D
The worst thing about Star Wars is it is hard to find any solid real adult criticism about it at all. It is either "DiSnEy Has RuiNEd My cHILdHOoD tHeY MadE iT wOKe" guys who get all their news from weird YouTubers, or it is all fans who eat up everything with such an attitude of "consoom" they don't bother to think about it all and just digest it in a vegetative state. I almost think we need to perform a necromancy ritual on Roger Ebert to get some real old school critique on Star Wars that isn't tied to all the ways the internet has made navigating fandoms in 2024 so painful.
Ass Railroad
I did look it up, Ki-Adi-Mundi's original age is from "Star Wars Episode I Insider's Guide" a LucasArts interactive CD from the late 1990's.
So if you've got an LGR style retro game set up and your favorite piece of Star Wars media is all on a June 1999 CD release then maybe you have a reason to be worked up. I doubt the audience of fans who would rank this though as their favorite Star Wars thing ever is pretty small though: https://youtu.be/GQsZ4B932vY?si=PZmlyBOf_nWcedDj
Nurdboy42
Those cards and reference books were decanonized years ago anyway.
Ass Railroad
When you consider even Legends itself though, Ki-Adi-Mundi's age is hardly the most shocking retcon they've made so far. I think in the comics sometime between 1999 and 2002 they introduced some things about Ki-Adi, primarily his kids and his wives (Ki-Adi had polygamy down like a pioneer living in the Utah Territory in 1860… or like a polycule living in a major city in 2024, you take your pick).
So anyways Attack of the Clones comes out and suddenly the comic writers who just proudly introduced Ki-Adi's family, plural wives and his many kids and all had to scramble to explain why if Anakin couldn't marry Padme as a Jedi why a member of the Jedi Council was so obviously breaking the rules. Cue the retcon that Ki-Adi's species had a weird 20-1 female to male ratio and that to preserve the survival of the species ALL men in it had to get married and have families and the Jedi were no exception; hence why Ki-Adi was married.
It's such a convoluted retcon, and people forget convoluted retcons happened all the time in the EU; despite every Prequel film and later seasons of The Clone Wars causing a deluge of retcons to the EU leading eventually to the clean slate wipe Disney made in 2014. I just think in retrospect it seems like Legends is more "complete" because it is finished, the retcons were made years ago. But retcons were a regular occurrence in the old EU.
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