WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for the series finale of Star Wars Rebels, "A Fool's Hope" and "Family Reunion and Farewell," which debuted Monday night on Disney XD.


If fans expected, or dreaded, for Star Wars Rebels to end with mass casualties, akin to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, then they were undoubtedly relieved by Monday night's series finale. Oh, there were losses, of course, but primarily on the side of the Galactic Empire. However, that's not to say the liberation of Lothal didn't come at a cost.

When the smoke cleared, and the last Imperial troops destroyed, we know of only three major deaths. The other two remain mysteries that may never be solved.

Gregor

Gregor on Star Wars Rebels

Beloved Clone Wars veteran CC-5576-39, aka Gregor, was among the longtime allies recruited by Hera in the episode "A Fool's Hope" for a seemingly hopeless mission to liberate Lothal, not for the Rebellion, but rather for Ezra Bridger. When their elaborate plan to eject Imperial forces from the planet took a bad turn with the arrival of Grand Admiral, Gregor sacrificed himself in the effort to restore power to the shields and protect Capital City from an imminent barrage by Star Destroyers.

Rukh

Rukh on Star Wars Rebels

No one's going to mourn Rukh, the Noghri warrior who served as Thrawn's bodyguard and, time and again, one of the most competent operatives within the Galactic Empire. Seemingly unkillable, Rukh had the tendency to turn up again and again to foil our heroes' plans. He did that one last time in the Star Wars Rebels finale, only to meet his end in a showdown with Zeb, during which he was apparently incinerated (off-camera, naturally) by the shield generators within the Imperial base in Capital City.

Governor Pryce

Star Wars Rebels finale

As an Imperial official, Arihnda Pryce lived on borrowed time, more likely to be executed for her failures than promoted for her successes. Not that she had many of the latter, mind you, particularly with Grand Admiral Thrawn breathing down her neck. The governor of occupied Lothal, Pryce became the unwitting key to the Rebels' plan to liberate the planet. Lured into a trap, she became their way past security and into the Imperial compound in Capital City. Certain the entire time that their unlikely scheme would be foiled, if not be her troops then by Thrawn, Pryce remained loyal to the Emperor until the very end. Given a chance to save herself, she stayed within the Imperial complex as it was rocketed into the planet's atmosphere and destroyed.

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Ezra Bridger, Possibly

Star Wars Rebels finale

A question mark looms over this one, because Star Wars Rebels ends, years after the liberation of Lothal, with Sabine and Ahsoka -- yes, Ahsoka -- setting off to find him. His plan to free his home world from the Empire is elaborate, to say the least, with feints and contingencies that even his longtime friends and allies weren't aware of. However, at some point it hinges upon him surrendering himself to Grand Admiral Thrawn and boarding his Star Destroyer. There, Ezra resists the temptation of Emperor Palpatine, who as a hologram offers a way for him to reunite with his parents (and, of course, abandon his friends), and confronts Thrawn.

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Just when all seems lost, Mart Mattin enacts one of Ezra's contingencies, and arrives with a pod of purrgil, which wipes out Imperial blockade of Lothal. One of the creatures wraps Thrawn's Star Destroyer in its tentacles, and even shatters the glass of the command bridge, taking out Stormtroopers and subduing the grand admiral. But then the purrgil prepare to jump back to hyperspace. "Hera, I have to see this through to the end," the wounded Ezra tells his friends back on the planet's surface. It's up to all of you now. Remember, the Force will be with you, always."

Following the Battle of Endor, and the defeat of the Empire, Sabine is convinced that Ezra still lives, out there somewhere. And we have to think he does, too.

Grand Admiral Thrawn, Possibly

Star Wars Rebels finale

A master strategist and an unflappable fighter, Grand Admiral Thrawn seemingly prepared for every scenario, except for Ezra Bridger and his purrgil friends. One minute, he's about to deliver the young Jedi to Emperor Palpatine and rain down hell on Lothal, and the next he's wrapped in the tentacles of a space whale and drawn into hyperspace. While it's certainly possible that Ezra survived the vacuum of space -- remember, the windows of the Star Destroyer's command bridge were shattered -- Thrawn probably wasn't as lucky.

Of course, we could be wrong, and he and Ezra lived out there lives together on a distant planet, occasionally visited by migrating purrgil.

UPDATE: In the final episode of Rebels Recon, series co-creator Dave Filoni confirms, "Both Ezra and Thrawn, I would say, survive it."


Available to stream on Disney XD platforms, Star Wars Rebels stars Freddie Prinze Jr. as Kanan, Vanessa Marshall as Hera, Steve Blum as Zeb, Tiya Sircar as Sabine, Taylor Gray as Ezra, Dee Bradley Baker as Captain Rex, David Oyelowo as Kallus, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn as Governor Pryce, Lars Mikkelsen as Grand Admiral Thrawn and Warwick Davis as Rukh.