Glup Shitto, the best (fake) Star Wars character, explained

Last update (May 31, 2022).Thanks to the appearance in a trailer of Wookiee Jedi Padawan Gungi, jokes about Glup Schitto are back Bad Batchseason 2. Gungi first appeared in Star Wars’ animated seriesThe Clone WarsHis return to Star Wars fame naturally sparked a new wave in Glup Shitto discussion and celebration. The original Glup Shitto explaining video is here.

Wat Tambor. Wullf Yularen. Plo Koon. These Star Wars guys are among my favorites. I’m actually quite familiar with a number of Star Wars men, so it was surprising that I hadn’t heard of GlupShitto. And yet it’s a name I keep seeing online, in social media handlesDiscussions and information about Mandalorian. I know all there is to learn about Glup Schitto.

Like most of Star Wars’ best characters, Glup Shutto cannot be canonical. In the next post, he was born from Tumblr user gomjabbar’s mind on September 3, 2020.

every time a new Star War movie or show is announced all the fans are like “OMG Glup Shitto is back ”

Star Wars has seen many Glup Shitto moments since the original post. Accordingly, the meme took off. Finally, there are people just like me that watched the entire thing. Clone WarsAnd Star Wars RebelsWith characters appearing in Star Wars and Star Wars spinoff properties, cartoons have their moment in the sun. Mandalorian and in Disney’s upcoming slate of Star Wars shows.

In the past, I used to just approach people at parties and tell them all about Grand Admiral Thrawn. They would give me a blank stare and promise their conversation partner that they would look into it. Clone Wars “sometime.” But now when I do that, I might even see a flicker of recognition in their eyes, because Thrawn is a recurring character with a tentative foot in a popular show.

There is no one who has ever been truly wantsCheck out Clone Wars. I mean, I didn’t either, at first. The pace is slow at first, but it continues to slow down for quite some time. You can find many lists of episodes online, however, they all conflict because of some relevant, emotionally-resonant bits. All of the episodes, blanketed in a wash of boring stuff that doesn’t find its footing until well into season 2 (or later, depending on who you ask). Star Wars Rebels has better pacing from the jump, but its best moments don’t land if you haven’t watched Clone Wars. It’s tough to convince your average adult Star Wars fan that the best Star Wars stuff is buried in a show that is based on the prequels, of all things, and whose target demographic skews really young, even by Star Wars standards. It also moves so slowly that I don’t even think Child Me would have had the patience for it. Star Wars fans would be the hardest of all.

But I’ve held onto these weirder corners of Star Wars in this post-RiseSkywalker world. I expect mainstream Star Wars to let me down these days, by simplifying the series’ most complicated and unnerving aspects into something safer, and oftentimes stupider. Meanwhile, the books, cartoons, comics, and video games can get into weirder, sillier stuff — as well as themes and ideas that challenge the Star Wars status quo. The lid seems a bit looser on these fringe properties, and that’s where the good stuff — the Glup Shitto of it all — can shine through.

Glup Schitto is a funny joke about Star Wars names that sound like rambling nonsense. But to me, at least, he’s a representation of the bizarre stubbornness of a certain sector of Star Wars fans, in the face of a franchise that has been painfully hit or miss for the past two decades. It’s all summarized by the crying emoticons in the original post. Glup Shitto has returned. Star Wars is back, but it’s only in a highly discrete and mysterious way that you need to find out and really understand.

I’m not a Star Wars fan. But not anymore. I’m just here for Glup Shitto.