Why does Boba Fett look so old?

In The Return Of The Jedi, Boba Fett would have been about 36 years old. We're maybe five or six years past that film in the timeline, but Boba Fett is now in his 60s—actor Temuera Morrison was born in 1960, making him 61 years old. Somehow, upon emerging from the Sarlacc pit, Fett is now an old man with a paunch.
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Why is Boba Fett so scarred?

Then, after he escaped and his armor was stolen by Jawas, he was left for dead in the harsh Tatooine desert for an unspecified amount of time, during which sandstorms and the sun did even more damage to his skin. In other words: Boba Fett's entire body is basically scar tissue.
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Is Boba Fett older than The Mandalorian?

Boba Fett is definitely in this camp. He's only about 41 years old in the era of The Mandalorian. Boba was born in 32 BBY, the same year as the events of The Phantom Menace.
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How did Boba Fett age?

During the events of The Book of Boba Fett, the titular bounty hunter is estimated to be about 41-years-old. Looking back on our protagonist's history, he was 36 in Return Of The Jedi and we saw his jetpack malfunction after taking a hit, hurtling him straight into the perils of the Sarlacc pit.
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Why is Boba Fett bald?

Well, the answer is simple: he fell into the Sarlacc pit. The Sarlacc is a creature that is known to take a long time to digest its prey, and Boba was no exception. In fact, it took so long to digest him that he was given an opportunity to escape before being killed.
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Did Vader know Boba was a clone?

Vader definetely knew who Boba was as a bounty hunter. He was called Boba Fett. Anakin KNEW Jango Fett, as he had history with him.
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Why is Boba Fett's armor green?

The Mandalore are mostly an extinct race and their weapons are incredibly uncommon. Boba Fett possesses the only pure “classic” armor, akin to what his father wore, and wears the only green variation of the outfit. It's possible that this is the entire reason why Fett made the decision to repaint the armor that color.
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Does Boba Fett have advanced aging?

But unlike all of Jango's other clones (who aged rapidly and became the clone Troopers), Boba was specifically engineered to age at a normal human rate, basically making him Jango's son.
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How does Boba Fett live so long?

Fans learned in the classic Dark Horse comic series Dark Empire by Tom Veitch and Cam Kennedy that Fett's armor allowed him to survive inside the sarlacc and fight his way out, blowing up the creature in the process (a move very similar to how Mando escaped the belly of the krayt dragon in “The Marshal”).
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Are Tusken Raiders human?

Biology and appearance. A'Sharad Hett stated, while on a mission to Aargonar with Anakin Skywalker, that Tusken Raiders were biologically incompatible with Humans. This implies that Tusken Raiders were a non-Human species.
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How old is Grogu in Boba Fett?

Slow Aging. Grogu appears to be the youngest known member of Yoda's species. He is only 50 years old, and he is still developmentally an infant.
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Is Ahsoka older than Luke?

Let's first establish some context, Ahsoka is around 17 years older than Luke Skywalker, so of course, she has had more time to learn the ways of the Force, but her experience during the Clone Wars and beyond showed that she was more than just her years.
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Why does Boba Fett have no eyebrows?

Needless to say, Boba Fett's extensive scarring and injuries stemmed from years of bounty hunting and traversing the galaxy on his own, as well as surviving a sarlacc pit and subsequently living in the Tatooine desert for several years.
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Why does Boba Fett remove his helmet?

And now in The Book of Boba Fett Chapter 5, The Mandalorian Armorer just informed Din that he is no longer a Mando at all because he took his helmet off to find sweet Li'l Baby Grogu in The Mandalorian Season 2 and later to say goodbye to the little fella as famed Padawan-protector Luke Skywalker took him away to his ...
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Why does Boba Fett sleep under water?

It's essentially a sealed water bath that the former Imperial bounty hunter sleeps in and while the details about what it does or how it works haven't been explained in the show so far, it's easy to guess that it's designed to heal him somehow.
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Why did Boba Fett think his armor was in the Sarlacc pit?

Why did Boba think his armor was in the sarlacc pit? He was obviously conscious when the Jawas took his armor in the first episode and he definitely knows he was wearing the armor when he escaped. Kind of seems like lazy writing just to get a scene of Boba seismic charging the sarlacc.
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Do clones age twice as fast?

Although the exact rate at which clones aged is unknown, it appears to be nearly twice as fast a natural-born Human and it is theorized that this rate increased as clones grew older—especially under stress, thus leading to a dramatic shortening of the clones' life expectancy.
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Was Boba Fett eaten by a Sarlacc?

Even in the original (now non-canon) Legends continuity, Boba Fett's demise was hardly definitive. Just a few months after being swallowed up by the sarlacc, Marvel's Star Wars #81 (1983) brought the bounty hunter back for an issue that saw him escape the monster's digestive system…
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How old is Boba Fett in the book?

During Return of the Jedi, Boba Fett would be 36 years old, and that would make him 41 years old during The Book of Boba Fett. Thanks to Boba Fett's natural aging he is still 41 years old, even though Temuera Morrison, who plays him, is 61 years old.
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How much older is Anakin than Ahsoka?

And as fans know, that's exactly what happened and Ahsoka became one of the most essential people in Anakin's life, like a little sister. He is only five years older than her, after all.
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Is Boba Fett's armor full Beskar?

The 2018 canon reference book Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary, New Edition establishes that Boba Fett's armor was made of durasteel. However, the fourth episode in The Book of Boba Fett establishes that the armor is made of beskar.
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Is Boba Fett's suit Beskar?

In Season 2, Episode 1, Boba's armor is referred to as “the beskar” when it's worn by Cobb Vanth, but there's evidence it's not pure. While Din Djarin's armor deflects blaster fire like it's nothing, Boba's helmet is dented and scuffed from combat.
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Is Boba Fetts armor pure Beskar?

But even now, his story continues to change as The Mandalorian reveals even more history regarding Boba's green armor. In Legends and canon, Boba's armor has never had an ounce of beskar steel -- at least until recently. Beskar is a precious metal that makes up the Mandalorian's armor.
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