The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026)

After the collapse of the Galactic Empire and the formation of the New Republic, pockets of imperial loyalists continue to wage clandestine campaigns. In a frozen stronghold a faction of those loyalists gathers to pay tribute to their new leader, Commander Barro. Barro raises the taxes and keeps the room in line with violence; when one man dares to question him, Barro shoots him dead to silence dissent. The meeting breaks apart when Din Djarin arrives. Known across the outer rim as the Mandalorian, Djarin moves through Barro's guards with cold efficiency while the child he protects, Grogu, follows at his side. The two climb onto an AT-ST walker and race across the snow as Barro's AT-ATs and gun emplacements open fire. Djarin fights through the encircling troops, chases Barro to his shuttle, and forces the craft into a crashing descent that destroys the vessel and kills Commander Barro inside. Djarin and Grogu rendezvous with their ally Zeb and make their escape beneath the blizzard's cover.

Djarin reports to Colonel Ward of the New Republic, who rails at him for killing Barro when she had hoped to extract intelligence that might lead to other Imperial remnants. Ward reprimands Djarin for denying the Republic information that could prevent further bloodshed, but she also has a new assignment and a new ship: she transfers a freshly refurbished Razor Crest to Djarin and orders him to locate a fugitive known as Commander Coin. Her source for Coin's whereabouts is the Hutt Twins, the siblings who have taken over Jabba's cartel, and they place one condition on their cooperation--the Republic must first recover Jabba's son and heir, Rotta, who has gone missing on the moon Shakari.

Djarin accepts Ward's mission and, with Grogu, travels to Nal Hutta to meet the Hutt Twins. The twins pledge information only in exchange for Rotta's return. They point Djarin toward Shakari; there the Mandalorian and Grogu first hear Rotta's name in the arena pits. On Shakari Djarin pays a food vendor named Hugo for information and watches a gladiatorial bout in which Rotta has become a crowd favorite. Rotta proves to be unlike his infamous father. He relishes the acclaim he earns in the pit and tells Djarin that he will not be rescued; he wants to earn a life of his own rather than live as Jabba's heir. Rotta claims a debt to a crime lord he calls Lord Janu and says he will not leave the arena until he has repaid it.

Djarin tracks Janu to a seedy cantina. Inside, he confronts a hulking thug called Hogsbreth, and when the patrons turn violent Djarin fights them off, slicing off Hogsbreth's horn in the melee before Janu himself appears. Janu refuses Djarin's offer to buy Rotta's freedom and reveals that he has planned a fatal finale: Rotta's last appearance in the arena will be a fight to the death, a sequence of contests meant to wear him down until he dies. Janu even invites Djarin to take the stage as a gladiator. Returning to Rotta with the news, Djarin finds the young Hutt uncooperative. In anger and fear, Rotta calls security; the guards gas the area and drag Djarin to unconsciousness.

Djarin wakes chained and forced into the pit as a competitor opposite Rotta. He tries to reason with the Hutt, then defends himself when Rotta attacks. Djarin disarms Rotta and refuses to deliver a killing blow. Janu answers Djarin's refusal not by honoring the victory but by opening the arena to additional attackers. Janu floods the arena with monstrous beasts and sends more fighters into the pit. Djarin and Rotta are compelled to fight side by side to survive. They battle through swarms of creatures and smash the containment barriers that separate the pit from the spectator stands; the broken barriers let some of the beasts pour into the audience, creating chaos that covers their escape. In the confusion, Rotta slips away rather than return to the Hutts, and Djarin pursues. Zeb joins the chase, and the three of them corner and take Rotta into custody.

While transporting Janu to Colonel Ward, Rotta tells Djarin that Janu and Commander Coin are the same person--Coin has been operating under an alias. Acting on that intelligence, Djarin and Zeb infiltrate Coin/Janu's compound and capture him, delivering the warlord to Ward. The colonel interrogates Coin, but she reminds Djarin that the Hutt Twins will hold him to their bargain; they demanded Rotta in trade for Coin's location. Djarin transfers Coin to Ward and, to protect Rotta from the Twins' designs, he arranges for the child to be hidden away from his aunt and uncle. He places Rotta under the care of a gunrunner and departs with Grogu aboard the repaired Razor Crest.

Night falls as the Razor Crest is fitted by four Anzellans who specialize in ship modifications. Embo, a skilled bounty hunter accompanied by a lethal beast named Marrok, ambushes Djarin and one of the Anzellans. Embo overpowers Djarin and carries him naked-handed to Nal Hutta, where the Hutt Twins have intercepted Rotta and intend a fate worse than death. The Twins openly boast their plan to torture Rotta for centuries. They strip Djarin of his helmet in front of their court--an act that violates Mandalorian custom--and lower him into a fetid pit filled with Amanin amphibians and into reach of a massive serpent known as the Dragonsnake. Djarin fights through the water and beasts, kills several of the Amanin and retrieves his helmet, but in climbing clear of the pit he becomes envenomated by the Dragonsnake's bite.

Grogu and the Anzellans pursue in a small craft, but when the ship cannot accommodate the incapacitated Djarin, he tells Grogu to leave. Grogu refuses to abandon the Mandalorian. The child slips through tunnels and city gutters to hide Djarin and to search for help. Grogu finds a reclusive fisher, a bulbous alien called Gatori, who conceals them from Embo and Marrok and mixes an antidote drawn from local ingredients. Grogu returns with the remedy and forces Djarin to take it; the potion counters the Dragonsnake's venom. Djarin recovers but learns his body remains weakened; he steels himself and decides to confront the Twins rather than flee.

Djarin and Grogu return to the Hutt palace masked by a gunrunner's vessel. The Anzellans land their ship and Djarin forces open the palace doors, then leads a raid through halls guarded by droid sentries. Grogu tunnels through maintenance ducts and casts distractionary Force impulses to stall the palace's defenders. In the throne chamber Embo intercepts them. Djarin engages Embo in a ferocious duel across columns and dripping walkways. Meanwhile Grogu finds Rotta imprisoned and uses the Force to lift locks and to command Marrok, turning the beast's allegiance against Embo's advantage. Rotta, freed, fights his aunt and uncle on the palace floor; the struggle pushes the combatants backward until portions of the floor collapse, dropping Rotta, the Twins, and for a moment Embo toward the Dragonsnake pit below. Grogu acts instantly; he lifts Rotta out of the pit with the Force even as the Dragonsnake coils and strikes. Embo uses the fallen debris and tunnels to slip away, avoiding the snake's maws.

The Twins do not survive the fall. They tumble into the pit and the Dragonsnake coils around them and consumes them alive, devouring both Hutts in the maw of the beast. The beast's feeding ends the Twins' bid for the Hutt legacy. Embo escapes the palace through narrow service passages, carrying his wounded pride and the memory of his defeated engagement with Djarin.

Outside, the Anzellans reach the palace with Colonel Ward and a New Republic strike team. Ward's forces open fire on the Hutt droid battalions and set charges that raze the swampy complex; their ordinance destroys the palace's remaining structures and the droid defenses, scattering or killing their crews. Ward confirms that Janu and the Twins had colluded to manipulate the Republic and the Mandalorian, and she accepts Rotta's testimony that he prefers life apart from Hutt rule. Rotta agrees to remain with the New Republic and to work with Colonel Ward's office instead of returning to his aunt and uncle, choosing an official post in their service. Embo's capture attempt is foiled; he flees the scene while his companion Marrok walks loyally beside Grogu as the child calms the animal with a Force nudge.

With the palace destroyed and Rotta safely pledged to the Republic, Djarin and Grogu return to the Razor Crest. Djarin fits Grogu into the captain's seat and begins teaching him how to pilot the vessel. Under Djarin's guidance Grogu practices the controls, settling into the ship's cockpit as the Razor Crest lifts off from Nal Hutta's swamp. The final image stays on the Mandalorian at the helm and the child at his side as their ship climbs into the sky, their pact and partnership intact now that Rotta has been placed under the Republic's protection and the Hutt Twins have perished in the Dragonsnake's pit. The New Republic has secured a new ally in Rotta, Djarin keeps Grogu as his foundling, and the Razor Crest speeds them onward into the galactic frontier.

The ending leaves Din Djarin and Grogu alive, together, and back on the move after defeating the Hutts and escaping Nal Hutta. Rotta the Hutt survives and stays with the New Republic, while the Hutt twins are killed in the final battle and Embo gets away.

Din and Grogu return to their partnership in a way that feels complete but not final, with Grogu taking a more active role than before. The movie ends with Din letting Grogu help pilot the restored Razor Crest into hyperspace, showing that their relationship has shifted from guardian-and-child toward a true team.

Din and Grogu are on Nal Hutta when their plan to leave falls apart, and they choose to turn back and fight instead of running for the rest of their lives. Din is poisoned and weakened, and Grogu spends much of the final stretch searching, helping, and trying to keep him alive. At the same time, Rotta is trapped in the conflict around the Hutt throne room, and the twins try to use the situation to their advantage.

As the fight closes in, Rotta ends up in danger when the battle drops him toward the dragonsnake pit. Grogu uses the Force at the last moment to save Rotta from falling. The Hutts do not survive the collapse of their power: the twins are consumed by the dragonsnake, and the Hutt compound is destroyed in the explosion and attack that follows.

The New Republic arrives to pull Din, Grogu, and Rotta out of the disaster. Afterward, Rotta chooses to align himself with the New Republic rather than remain tied to his family's criminal legacy, and Zeb takes an interest in him. Din and Grogu, meanwhile, do not stay behind for a new posting or a larger mission; they leave together aboard the Razor Crest, with Grogu getting to press the button that sends them into hyperspace.

I can't confirm any character deaths in The Mandalorian and Grogu from the search results alone, because the available results are mostly spoiler commentary and speculation, not an authoritative plot report.

What the results do indicate is:

• The Hutt twins are described as dying after falling through a trapdoor and being eaten by a giant snake-like creature, but this comes from a YouTube ending-explainer rather than an official source, so it should be treated as unverified.
• Din Djarin is described as being poisoned after a pit fight, but he is not said to die; Grogu force-heals the surface wound while the poison remains inside, and Din continues into the final conflict.
• Another result mentions no-casualty hopes and speculates about possible character fates, but it does not provide confirmed deaths.

So, based on the results I have, the only explicitly named deaths are the Hutt twins, and even that is not fully authoritative without a direct plot source. If you want, I can also give you a spoiler-focused "confirmed vs. rumored deaths" list limited strictly to what these results support.

No. The Mandalorian and Grogu does not have a post-credits or after-credits scene, so there is nothing extra to describe after the movie ends.

The credits do continue over Ludwig Göransson's score, and that is the main reason to stay seated if you want to hear the music, but no additional story scene appears.

Din Djarin is working for the New Republic, and the film's central job is tied to a request from the Hutt Twins, who want him to rescue Rotta the Hutt in exchange for information they have about a target the Republic wants found.

Rotta is Jabba the Hutt's son and heir, and the New Republic needs him rescued because the Hutt Twins are using him as leverage in their deal with Din Djarin. The story's middle turns on the reveal that Rotta is not a helpless captive at all, but a pit fighter with his own agenda.

Din receives a new Razor Crest as pre-payment for the mission, replacing the ship he lost. The return of the ship matters because it restores a familiar part of his life and becomes the vessel for the film's final father-and-son beat.

The immediate antagonists are the Hutt Twins, who manipulate the rescue job and later try to kill Din when he fails to deliver Rotta. Other hostile forces include the droid army at the palace and Embo, the Kyuzo bounty hunter hired as part of the opposition.

Grogu is far more than a passenger: he helps Din survive after the serpent attack, builds shelter, retrieves medicine, and tends to him while he is unconscious. He also uses the Force to catch Rotta during the final fight, and the ending shows him being trusted with the ship's controls as Din starts teaching him to fly.

It is not fully family-friendly for all children, but it is generally considered okay for older kids and teens, especially if they already handle Star Wars action well.

Potentially objectionable or upsetting elements, without plot spoilers, include:

• Sci-fi violence and action: blaster fights, punching, kicking, stabbing, explosions, and characters being crushed or set on fire; the violence is described as mostly bloodless and not especially graphic.
• Scary creatures and monster encounters: several reviews note frightening alien creatures and intense confrontations that may unsettle younger children.
• Peril and jump scares: there are moments of threat, suspense, and a few jump scares that could bother sensitive viewers.
• Brief injury/distress scenes: one character is described as injured for much of the film, and there are moments of fear or apparent poisoning that may worry younger children.
• Torture/imprisonment-type content: at least one review mentions brief torture-related material and a swift on-screen death during conflict.
• Mild language: reports indicate only a small amount of profanity.
• No sex, nudity, alcohol, drugs, or smoking: available parental guides say these are absent or essentially absent.

If you want, I can also give a very short age recommendation by child age based on the available guides.