“No one is safe from the truth.” That tagline for Disney+’s The Acolyte reveals a whole lot more than its brevity suggests. The show’s final trailer, released during this year’s Star Wars Day, teases a big Jedi secret. An ancient secret could ultimately change how we think about the Order forever. But this last The Acolyte trailer also teases another big secret via a nightmarish introduction. It finally lets us see the mysterious dark side figure who will challenge the Jedi Order in the Star Wars series. And he’ll do it from behind one of the franchise’s most terrifying masks ever.
Did Stefon cut this trailer? Cause it has everything: secrets, Padawans lost to the dark side, a coven of witches, a guy with a zipper mask. Speaking of that red lightsaber wielder in The Acolyte‘s trailer, while we don’t know who that horror movie-like figure is, they’re almost certainly the big bad behind the show. At the very least, it’s who showrunner Leslye Headland told StarWars.com is their “favorite character.”
But who is The Acolyte‘s mystery villain? Their identity is certainly going to be a major revelation, and we can’t wait to learn who they are. But we’re even more intrigued by this secret past no one is safe from. This trailer suggests the Jedi’s eventual fall will ultimately result from something the Order itself did long ago. In The Acolyte‘s trailer, Manny Jacinto’s former smuggler and trader Qimir says that the “peace” the Jedi use to justify their galactic dominance “is a lie.” What does he mean by that? What exactly is the lie? And do any of the current Jedi know about this past?
Soon, we’ll have more than a trailer for The Acolyte. We’ll start to get answers to all these questions and more this summer. The Acolyte premieres with two episodes on Disney+ on June 4. Until then, we should be relatively safe from the truth about the Jedi. After that, we can’t guarantee that all of us won’t fall to the dark side.