Moff Gideon has been the ultimate big bad of The Mandalorian since Season 1.
He admits that he researched Star Wars’ widespread history before playing his first scene in The Mandalorian as “the fans knew a whole lot more than I did about Star Wars.”
The first time The Mandalorian presented Moff Gideon was in Season 1, Chapter 7: The Reckoning, after a row of Death Troopers aided by a contingent of Stormtroopers surrounded the cantina Mando, Cara Dune, and Greef Karga were hiding in.
But it has to start somewhere, the kernel, the seed has to start somewhere…inside of Moff Gideon.”