Ketsu Onyo

This page lists the characters that appear in Star Wars Rebels.

Ezra Bridger (voiced by Taylor Gray) is a 15-year-old human street urchin and con-artist with Force abilities, whose parents were imprisoned by Imperial forces. The episode "Empire Day" reveals he was born the same day Palpatine officiated the Galactic Empire. At the start of the series, his main motivation is find his parents. In the pilot episode the Jedi padawan Kanan Jarrus decides to take him as his apprentice. In Path of the Jedi, Ezra is formally inducted into the Jedi Order, when Yoda's voice helps him to find a kyber crystal to create his first lightsaber, which after being constructed, is blue and features a built-in stun blaster patterned after his street urchin trademark weapon, an energy slingshot. In the second-season episode Legacy, he discovers that his parents were killed in a prison revolt. In Shroud of Darkness it is revealed Kanan fears Ezra might turn to the dark-side, which partially happens when the former Sith Lord Maul draws him closer towards the dark-side in Twilight of the Apprentice and in further episodes also, keeps calling him apprentice, showing interest in taking him as an apprentice, his first lightsaber is also destroyed by Darth Vader. In the season 3 premiere episode Steps into Shadow, Ezra replaces it with a green-bladed lightsaber. In the same episode, Ezra is promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Commander of the Phoenix Squadron, and also assumes field leadership of the Ghost crew, due to Kanan's blindness preventing him from assuming the role. However, due to his reckless leadership at the time, he was suspended from command as Lieutenant Commander until further notice. The episodes Shroud of Darkness, Holocrons of Fate and Twin Suns reveal Ezra's main motivation of the third season, to "find the key to destroying the Sith", who he interprets as the exiled Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi. After eventually finding and talking to Kenobi however, Ezra realized his true mission is to be with the other rebels and help them fight against the empire. During the season 3 finale, by taking command of a squad during the battle against Thrawn's fleet, it shows that at this point, Ezra's status as Lieutenant Commander has been fully restored.

On his character, Gray stated: "He's a pickpocket, he's a little thief. But he's doing it all because he needs to survive". Executive producer Greg Weisman said: "We see this whole series very much through Ezra's eyes. As his eyes get opened to what the Empire's capable of, his eyes are opened to the fact that there are people who care, who are trying to fight the good fight, and he becomes one of them."

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