Warning: Contains SPOILERS for The Mandalorian season 2, episode 6, "Chapter 14: The Tragedy."
Boba Fett returned in The Mandalorian season 2, episode 6, "Chapter 14: The Tragedy," and the episode sneakily made his original name - and Jango Fett's old master - part of Star Wars canon. Having been briefly teased at the end of The Mandalorian season 2, episode 1, "Chapter 9: The Marshal," Boba would his long awaited comeback proper in "The Tragedy," tracking Din Djarin to the planet Tython in order to finally reclaim his iconic armor. While there, aside from delivering the Boba Fett fans have aways wanted to see on screen, it also made some big reveals about his heritage.
While Star Wars had previously retconned Jango and Boba Fett from being Mandalorians, "The Tragedy" changes things. While Boba Fett himself is still not a true Mandalorian because he doesn't follow the creed, it reveals that Jango Fett was a foundling, and grew up to fight in the Mandalorian Civil Wars, bringing part of his old Expanded Universe (now Legends) into canon. Aside from Jango and the Civil Wars, there are a couple of other teases of the histories and culture of the Mandalorians, and of Jango and Boba Fett's pasts.
In The Mandalorian season 2, episode 6, Boba Fett reveals a chain coded message that's been part of his armor for 25 years. While it's not clear what it says on screen, deciphering it reveals certain key pieces of the puzzle: "Foundling, Took into th..., The year, the..., Concord Dawn, Mentor Jaste..., Father Fett, Boba, Fett." Some of that, like "foundling" is explained in the episode, while other parts, like Concord Dawn - a Mandalorian planet - already exist in canon. The most curious part, then, is "Mentor Jaste," which is certainly Mentor Jaster, or Jaster Mereel. In Star Wars Legends, Jaster Mereel was originally the real name of Boba Fett, as revealed in the short story The Last One Standing: The Tale of Boba Fett.
Boba Fett was a fan-favorite thanks to his cool design and intriguing hints of things like disintegrations, but his death in Return of the Jedi was laughable. It's no surprise, then, that the EU wanted to flesh him out, and The Last One Standing used flashbacks to reveal that the bounty hunter had once been a lawman called Jaster Mereel, who was exiled from his home planet after killing a superior. That took him on a crusade through the galaxy, where he adopted the identity of Boba Fett. While this was an accepted and celebrated part of Boba's story, it was retconned from what was then canon by George Lucas in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones, which revealed Boba to be the clone son of Jango.
That meant Boba's EU backstory couldn't possibly work, but it didn't go to waste. The comic series Jango Fett: Open Seasons retconned Jaster Mereel into being his own person. Mereel was born on Concord Dawn and, after being exiled, went on to become the Mandalore, the leader of the Mandalorians. When he later returned home after a civil war, he saved Jango's life from the Death Watch. Jaster Mereel took Jango in and raised him like his own son, training him and preparing him to become the next Mandalore after him (which happened after Mereel's death), and both Jango and Boba would later use the name as a pseudonym in his honor, though this again was wiped from continuity when Disney bought Lucasfilm, and so for the second (and seemingly final time) Jaster Mereel was no longer canon.
That is, until The Mandalorian season 2, episode 6. While "The Tragedy" doesn't explicitly mention Jaster Mereel, the tease of him in the code at least brings the name into canon. Coupled with the fact that he is referenced as mentor, and Jango himself is revealed to be a foundling, then it strongly suggests that much of the character's story from Star Wars Legends is, or at least will be, made canon once again. Having him be the one who raised Jango Fett makes sense if Disney is going to be using that again, and even if he's not fleshed out further, it's a nice way of honoring both the character and Boba Fett's own rich history.
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