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Do you like Baby Yoda's real name?


Grogu. I admit it's cute the way he looks up at Mando each time he calls his name. But, I like Baby Yoda as a nickname. I also think Lucas could've came up with a better name.

Thoughts?

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Man you people are so visual, it's like you're a bunch of pigeons marveling over a shiny piece of metal. Chattering monkeys with no intellect whatsoever. He's 50 years old. No matter what he looks like he is 50 years old.

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But, he's not 50 years old in human years! Remember Yoda was 900 years old. It's similar to comparing dog years to human years. A 9-year-old human is a child, but a 9-year old dog is old.

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Mental and emotional maturity are not a product of the raw passage of time, but of brain development. If his brain develops at the same slowed down rate (compared to humans) as the rest of his body he'd still be a child mentally as well as physically, even after half a century of life.

He seems to understand what's being said - and could probably start speaking if someone was pushing him to do so. But when he was helping Mando conduct repairs in that narrow conduit, we saw that he had trouble with complicated tasks. Grab the red wire he understood. Taking one wire out of a hole, then another, and plugging each one back in where the other had been, he was getting mixed up with Mando's instructions. Pretty consistent with a small human child. You have to break things down into simple steps and go through them one at a time.

How 50 years' worth of memory would make a child of his species different is hard to say. We don't actually see that happen in the real world. But children approaching adolescence, for example, don't acquire the ability to process abstract concepts due to accumulation of experience. It's changes in their brains around the age of 10 or 11. If somehow their development were frozen before that, and they didn't age, they would never reach this milestone no matter how many years went by.

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Mando can nickname him Groggie.

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I must admit after watching The Mandalorian even though I learned The Child's real name was Grogu I still like to call him Baby Yoda but as I mentioned in my previous posts my mother likes to name him Roku because she still can't pronounce Grogu but I do think a better name for The Child would've been Lucius because Lucius sounds like Luke and really could've fit him well than Grogu

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Dont really likd the name, but it sounds enough like "Yoda" to sound like it came from the same language and culture.

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No, should've come up with a name that rolls off the tongue better; doesn't fit.

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Not a fan of the name Baby Yoda. Before the real name was revealed, referring to him as the child, was way more appropriate and correct. Grogu on the other hand... not a fan.

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I like it

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