Fortnite fans gather around for a new spin on Darth Jar Jar for this year’s May the Fourth Be with You. They have even changed things up, adding a new Battle Royale that is coming on May 2nd. You will be able to take out opponents in new skins using a new ability, Force Lightning. This was announced during the Japan Star Wars Celebration just the other day. It’s time to put tongue-in-cheek and say, “Ooh, mooie-mooie! I love da Dark Side!”
For those who might be unfamiliar with the Light and Dark side of things in the Star Wars universe, Jar Jar Binks is the fictional character from George Lucas’ Star Wars Saga. He’s a Gungan and first appeared in the Star Wars prequel trilogy. He was the first fully computer-generated supporting character in a live-action movie. Since then, he has appeared in several other spin-off movies, series, as well as games.
In his original and first appearance, Jar Jar was an ignorant, simpleton, who was manipulated by evil for their own twisted purposes. Then, in 2010, the animated Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III was released on Adult Swim. It showed that Jar Jar was the original Sith Lord who had been the real villain behind every Star Wars movie.
When it came to Video games, Jar Jar first made an appearance as a playable character in the Lego Star Wars game. He then followed up by appearing in Angry Birds in Angry Birds Star Wars II, where he’s called Jar Jar Wings. He was also able to make an appearance in the animated show Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy, where the entire Star Wars galaxy has been rewritten, and Jar Jar appears as the most powerful Sith Lord, Darth Jar Jar.
Now this Dark Force using bill-mouthing, lightning wheeling, messed-up vocabulary sayer is dropping to Fortnite. Along with him comes the Galactic Battle, where there will be X-Wings as well as Tie Fighters to zoom around in. Other skins will be offered in the Item Shop, like the purple wielding lightsaber user Mace Windu. There will also be characters that can be earned in the Battle Pass, like Emperor Palpatine, as well as a new Wookiee named Cuddles.
Anyone who wants to be the worst of the worst bad guy, here is how it’s done. You start out getting the Fortnite Galactic Battle on May 2nd. Once you get it, you complete the challenges given to you during the season, earning you the items in the battle pass. As you level up in the battle pass, you will eventually get the Darth Jar Jar skin and be able to take out hordes of your enemies with a Sithly prejudice.
The Battle Pass and the Galactic Battle events are available for five weeks. During that time, Epic and Lucasfilm have always offered additional surprises in the shop and challenges, making this a free-to-play Star Wars fan’s dream. The game was released in 2017, and two years later, they began their collaboration as Star Wars characters.
Since that time, Star Wars has found a home on the Fortnite island, right down to the Lego and rhythm side games that came with it. Right now, Fortnite players are enjoying their heist theme with other available skins of Shohei Ohtani and Sbrina Carpenter. Let’s see how they play with this year’s Star Wars characters, both good and bad, on an island full of weapons and bad attitudes.
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