Yoda
Fictional Character
Date Of Birth:
1980
Best Known As:
Shrimpy Jedi master of the Star Wars film series
The wizened Jedi master Yoda is a character in the long-running Star Wars film series created by George Lucas. According to the saga, the venerable Yoda has taught the secrets of The Force to generations of Jedi knights -- including the good Obi-Wan Kenobi and his not-so-good pupil Anakin Skywalker, later known as Darth Vader. Yoda first appeared in the 1980 film The Empire Strikes Back, where Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) tracked him down on the planet Dagobah. Yoda's gnome-like wrinkles and backward speech patterns -- "Evil you are!" -- helped make him a hit with audiences.
Extra Credit:
In the first four films in the series, Yoda was performed and voiced by Muppets veteran Frank Oz. For the fifth and sixth films, Attack of the Clones (2002) and Revenge of the Sith (2005), Yoda was voiced by Oz but created by computer animation… The 2019 Disney cable series The Mandalorian featured a character widely known as Baby Yoda: a small Yoda-like creature officially known only as The Child. The series has not stated directly whether there is any relationship between Yoda and Baby Yoda.
4 Good Links
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Lovely fan encyclopedia has exhaustive details on Yoda's place in the saga
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A fan's fascinating page for Yoda and related icons
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The official site of the long-running film series
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2019 article touches on whether Yoda and Baby Yoda are related
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