Mace Windu, Decapitation, and Jango Fett

I still can't understand why Mace Windu decapitated Jango in the arena. If they had captured him, they may have gotten alot of stuff out of him. So, my question is, why did Mace decapitate Jango when he could have simply left him harmed and captured him later.

 

Heat of the moment? The arena was in chaos.

 

Perhaps, but aren't Jedi supposed to be aware of their actions and their actions' consequences?

 

Windu doesn't know who he is.
He doesn't see Jango Fett, clone host but rather Dooku's armoured bodyguard.

 

I guess so.
(In voice of Tarkin)

"You may lock when ready."

 

If some guy is swinging at your head with an axe, do you stop to make notes? I think that comparison works

 

Keep in mind, when Mace first snuk up he pulled that Saber right at Jango, so that Jango wouldn't do anything. It still would have been impossible to capture Jango though.

 

Well, the Council did want Jango for questioning, and they DID know (from Obi-Wan's discussion with the Kaminoans) that Jango was the template for the clone army.

What they didn't know was what he was doing with Dooku and Co. on Geonosis, aside from his involvement in the attempt upon Padme's life.

It's hard to say why Mace went ahead and lopped Jango's head off. Maybe he was trying to stick it to Dookie Howser (the first thing Mace does once Jango is dead is shoot a look at Dooku. And it wasn't a very nice look).

Either way, Jango's fertilizer.

 

I agree that it wouldn't be too easy just to capture him; they ordered Obi-Wan to do that and that didn't go particularly well. After that they probably were less concerned with questioning him than ending his threat; besides, they were after Dooku.

Though that didn't work out so well either...

 

Well, the Council did want Jango for questioning, and they DID know (from Obi-Wan's discussion with the Kaminoans) that Jango was the template for the clone army.

You forget that the only Jedi who has seen Jango is Obi-Wan.
Mace knows Jango is the host.
Mace knows they want Jango alive.
Mace knows not the man he beheaded was Jango.

 

I can't see any other reason. Something else. Mace didn't know that "Dooku's Bodyguard" was Jango, why didn't Obi-Wan stop him?

Maybe because he was busy, I guess.

 

Well the dude just torched Mace's cloak in a few split seconds. He also was fairly quick with his blasters and trying to take out Mace. So I don't think that Mace could have apprehend Jango. Besides he must have easily figured out that he was the bounty hunter whom Obi-wan was following. So if Obi-wan couldn't apprehend him easily then one on one Mace would never be able to do the same. Especially with an arena filled with blaster fire.

Lord_Coras
I disagree. Jango was not dressed in some simple garb. He had an arsenal of weapons besides armor on his body. Mace has been a member of the Jedi council for some time and got that way by noticing patterns in citizens though out the galaxy. That is why he held up this saber to Jango neck. Because he was the most dangerous person in that spectators box.

 

Jedi make mistakes, they do things in the heat of the moment...they fail. Look at Obi-wan and Anakin for petes sakes.
Everyone on these boards think the Jedi are incapable of making mistakes.
There still human(or whatever)
People make mistakes.

 

I know that they are human natured, but I also know that after fourty something years of training, a Jedi Master (Mace Windu) does know to think before he makes an action. I guess I'll have to leave it at the heat of the moment or he simply did not know it was Jango.

 

///obligatory Decap post, wants head

 

Why would Mace assume that a bounty hunter/clone template on Kamino would also be a bodyguard of the opposing side's leader? Jedi or not, in the middle of a big battle like that, you'd NEVER leap to such a conclusion.

 

i thik that mace knew that jango was very deadly and thats why he wass one of dookus body guards, but he didn't know it was jango and figured that if he could remove jango dooku would a be a slight bit more vunerable.


also when jangos head gets lopped off, why are his helmet and shoulders not damaged? i know there is some space between his helmet and his shoulders but not enough for a lightsaber to fit through cleanly. also if you watch the ground when his head falls you can see two shadows, you can guess why.

 

One thing that has always been in my mind is that Mace knew about his Jetpack. So maybe he was anticipating him trying to fly upwards. So basically he aimed at the upper portion of the body expecting him to fly up and with that swing he did(which was cool by the way), he would have hit him in the lower half of the body like a leg perhaps which would just disable Jango and prevent him from being able to fight.

 

Sorry, Jim. According to Shatterpoint, Mace was definitely going for the kill. He saw an opening, he took it. And he knew full well who Jango was going into the fight.

Jango didn't have to go down there and try to take on the Jedi Order's leader/greatest swordsman. He should have kept his head (pun intended), stayed by the side of his boss and his son and not let himself get steamed because Mace caught him offguard. But he just couldn't leave it alone, throwing his own "stay cool, don't get involved" philosophy out the window to try to regain face and impress his boy. So Mace did what he had to do. Punk steps to HIM, punk gets faded. Know what I'm sayin'?

 

Simple. Jango was useless to the Jedi as any sort of witness once they found out that Dooku was there and behind the plot. There no Info Jango would have that Dooku wouldn't. And thats why Jango's wound up bouncing on the ground at the arena.