‘The Mandalorian’: Taika Waititi Thinks Fans Should Petition to Bring Back IG-11

Director also tells TheWrap “Thor: Love and Thunder” goes into production in August

The Mandalorian Taika Waititi IG-11

Spoiler alert: This story contains spoilers from the Season 1 finale of “The Mandalorian”

Taika Waititi, who voiced scene-stealing robot IG-11 in “The Mandalorian,” thinks fans should petition to bring back the hunter/nurse droid for the second season of the Disney+ “Star Wars” series.

“I feel we just need to start a petition because I think that character, really, he held up the entire season, didn’t he?” Waititi told TheWrap on Monday. “From episode one all the way through, he was the hero.”

IG-11 appeared in three episodes this season. Waititi directed the season finale “Chapter 8: The Reckoning,” in which IG-11 heroically sacrificed and self-detonated himself to enabled the Mandalorian, Baby Yoda, and Cara Dune to escape from Moff Gideon and his forces.

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