The following contains spoilers for “Part I” and “Part II” of Obi-Wan Kenobi on Disney+.

After 17 years, Ewan McGregor is again on our Star Wars screens in Obi-Wan Kenobi, but he’s not the only important legacy character in the show. The Grand Inquisitor appears, played by Rupert Friend. Though, perhaps not after the second episode of the show, right? Wrong. There is no way that the Grand Inquisitor is dead on Obi-Wan Kenobi, because cool, dark side alien villains need more than one lightsaber strike to kill them.

Director Deborah Chow and the rest of the storytellers have a lot of Star Wars canon to keep straight. Along with Obi-Wan, the show includes Luke and Leia as children. Jimmy Smits is back as Bail Organa, and Simone Kessel plays Breha Organa. And, at the very end of "Part II," we got our first glimpse of Hayden Christensen as Darth Vader. Up against this bench of characters, the Grand Inquisitor doesn’t really rate. But he played an important role in one of the franchise's most beloved series.

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Rupert Friend as the Grand Inquisitor In Obi-Wan Kenobi-2

On Star Wars Rebels, the Grand Inquisitor was the main antagonist for the titular rebels. Voiced by Jason Isaacs, viewers learned a lot about this character. Formerly one of the masked guards seen around the Jedi Temple, he lost faith in the Jedi Order before the fall. He ended up being spared during the Jedi purge, leading the Empire’s squad of Jedi hunters. Presumably the other Inquisitors are also former Jedi turned to the dark side. Their origins were fleshed out in the comic books, but the canonicity of those stories is flimsy at best.

Near the climax of Obi-Wan Kenobi "Part II," Moses Ingram’s Third Sister, also known as Reva, faces off with the Grand Inquisitor. She wants to capture Kenobi, but he plans to steal the glory from her. In a fury, she stabs him through the abdomen with her own lightsaber. He falls the ground, eyes closed, and lies still. It looks very much like she killed him. So, it’s possible that all the writers, producers and Lucasfilm experts like Pablo Hidalgo and Dave Filoni decided to ignore Star Wars Rebels in order to give Reva a dramatic kill. But it’s not probable.

Since Disney purchased Lucasfilm and divided stories into Star Wars Legends and canon stories, it's done a fair job at keeping the two straight. In fact, numerous characters from animation have transitioned into live action. Ahsoka is currently in production, and that series is rumored to bring Rebels characters Sabine Wren and Admiral Thrawn into live action, as well. They wouldn’t sequelize a series that they were also about to disregard. In fact, even though Maul was sliced in half in The Phantom Menace, he came back in the cartoons. And then Disney put him in Solo, with nary an explanation for fans who didn’t keep up with the animated shows. Given that the Grand Inquistor is a Pau’an from Utapau (read: made-up alien) who’s to say Reva even hit anything important where she stabbed him?

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Mystery character holding Solo's blaster in Obi-Wan Kenobi trailer

No, Reva did not kill the Grand Inquisitor in Obi-Wan Kenobi. Yet, he’s about to do in this show what he did in Star Wars Rebels. He’s going to step aside as the main dark side threat in favor of Darth Vader. After the Grand Inquisitor’s actual death in the Season 1 finale of Star Wars Rebels, the Season 2 premiere featured a face-off with Darth Vader. With the Grand Inquisitor out of commission, it will fall to Vader’s armored shoulders to lead them in their hunt for his old master.

In the end, the Grand Inquisitor will likely return, and Reva will meet some sort of destiny. She may survive, she may not. All we know is that the Grand Inquisitor is in Star Wars Rebels, and Reva is not.

Watch for the return of the Grand Inquisitor and other notable Star Wars characters when new episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi debut Wednesdays on Disney+.