The Mandalorian’s Frog Lady Honors George Lucas’ Oldest Tradition

The Mandalorian season 2’s surprise standout character Frog Lady is already a Star Wars classic – but she actually reflects a longstanding tradition from George Lucas’s original movie. During the second season’s second episode, Din Djarin transports a small, frog-like alien woman and her clutch of eggs on his Razor Crest to the estuary moon of Trask. It’s there that he meets Bo-Katan Kryze, as Frog Lady is reunited with her husband.

The Frog Lady was played by Misty Rosas, and she quickly became a fan-favorite because of her genuineness and goofiness. She was simply a little lady with a frog head, and just genuinely wanted to take care of her eggs and return to her husband. The couple’s emotional reunion was fantastiiclaly done, making viewers care so much about characters they can’t even understand. But the most George Lucas thing about Frog Lady is actually her name.

George Lucas Couldn’t Be Bothered Naming Star Wars’ Alien Races

“Frog Lady” Reflects Classic Star Wars

Star Wars has an incredibly deep lore, and it sometmes feels as though everything has been named – from alien races to planets, from spaceships to weapons. This makes for one of the most intense viewing experiences, because modern Star Wars stories tend to build on this foundation. But, back in the 1970s, George Lucas really didn’t care all that much about what alien races were called.

This is the reason several alien characters represented in Kenner’s original action figure line had named like “Walrusman,” “Hammerhead,” and “Snaggletooth.” These now-iconic characters were just named after their appearance, sometimes even after an animal they looked like, and were thus known as such to fans. The Mandalorian tends to hearken back to original trilogy aesthetics, and this tradition continues with Frog Lady.

Frog Lady Honors Lucas’ Tradition Perfectly – Will She Ever Be Named?

A Rarity For A Star Wars Character

Calling the new character “Frog Lady” is so simple and on-the-nose. She’s just a “Frog” and a “Lady”, so it makes perfect sense – in the same way that calling Ponda Baba “Walrus Man” makes sense. He looks like a Walrus, and he’s a man! But unlike Frog Lady, and evidently so, Ponda Baba later received a name. So, will Frog Lady get one?

The Mandalorian is interesting when it comes to names, because famously, Grogu, one of the series’ main characters, didn’t even have one for a season and a half. It wasn’t until over halfway through the second that we learned of his name and could stop calling him “Baby Yoda”. This makes it reasonable to assume Frog Lady will only get a name if she ever shows up again; but until then, she exists as a clever and fun reference to a classic Star Wars oddity.