Kit Fisto/Legends

"Master Fisto, in these matters trust your insight we do."

- Yoda, briefing Kit Fisto before the Battle of Dac

Kit Fisto was a renowned male Nautolan Jedi Master and a High Jedi General in the Grand Army of the Republic during the Clone Wars, as well as a member of the Jedi Council during the period.

Biography


Fisto was born on the planet Glee Anselm. He was known for his trademark smile and his unusually close relationship with fellow Jedi Aayla Secura, a relationship that occasionally pushed at the boundaries of the portions of the Jedi Code that forbade attachments.

His distinctive head tentacles contained highly sensitive olfactory receptors that allowed him to detect pheromonal expressions of emotion and other changes in body chemistry. This was indeed a unique attribute not afforded to any other Jedi, naturally, or through the power of the Force. As such, he had hoped to be assigned to the Council of Reconciliation, but was instead elected to the Jedi High Council.

Fisto was a master of Form I lightsaber combat, which he mastered to a degree that made him one of the finest swordsman in the Order.

Kit was an extremely skilled swimmer, and honed his Jedi abilities to take advantage of his amphibious origins, making him a deadly foe underwater as well as on land. For instance, he was capable of manipulating water movement through use of the Force for both offensive and defensive purposes. Kit even created his own Force power, called Force water orb. His lightsaber had two crystals employing a bifurcating cyclical-ignition pulse that allowed the blade to be used underwater.

In 39 BBY, Kit took over the training of then-Padawan Bant Eerin, when Bant's original Master, Tahl, was killed.

Clone Wars
"Here we go again."

- Kit Fisto

Fresh off of dispatching the Pirates of Iridium early in 22 BBY, Kit later was chosen as one of the two hundred Jedi that accompanied Mace Windu to Geonosis to rescue Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, and Senator Padm%C3%A9 Amidala. He fought against hundreds of B1 and B2 battle droids in the arena, and even disabled a droid that was accidentally built with the head of C-3PO, grinning the entire time.



Kit survived the arena battle&mdash;escaping in the same LAAT/i gunship that Masters Yoda, Mace Windu, and Ki-Adi-Mundi escaped on&mdash;and then, along with the other Jedi survivors, led the new Grand Army of the Republic in the battle, the start of the Clone Wars.

In one of Kit's first Clone Wars campaigns, he led the Galactic Republic's forces in defeating the Quarren Separatist league on the watery world of Dac and later forged a new accord on the world that led to joint Quarren-Mon Calamari representation in the Galactic Senate.

Kit Fisto later went back to Mon Calamari when he found out that there were still enemies there. Also, strange individual jell-like creatures joined together to become one being with great intellegence and telepathy. Kit defeated this being by scattering the individual creatures throughout the ocean.



Some months later, he would travel to Devaron with fellow Jedi Tholme, Aayla Secura, Tr'a Saa, and the Dark Woman. Their mission was to locate and destroy a Separatist base launching raids on Republic supply convoys. While Tholme and the Dark Woman were injured and Aayla was battling Aurra Sing, Kit and T'ra attacked and captured the Separatist base.

During the height of the Clone Wars, Fisto was the first Jedi to fight and defeat a new type of droid that was given the name JK-thirteen. With Fisto went Obi-Wan Kenobi, one ARC trooper, four clone troopers, and Barrister Doolb Snoil, a representative from the Galactic Senate, to Ord Cestus to negotiate an agreement to sell the "bio-droids" to the Republic. While en route to Ord Cestus, Obi-Wan constructed a lightwhip, which Kit wielded skillfully during the mission. Fisto during this mission took on the alias of a Dark Jedi named Nemonus to trick the Five Families. Near the end of the Ord Cestus mission, he battled Asajj Ventress in a fierce duel and lost. Luckily, Obi-Wan stepped in before she could finish him.



Some months later, the Jedi learned of a bounty that had been placed on the heads of all Jedi. To stop this threat, Kit traveled with fellow Jedi Masters Mace Windu, Agen Kolar, and Saesee Tiin to the Rig&mdash;the base of operations of the Crimson Nova chapter of the Bounty Hunters' Guild. The four made quick work of the bounty hunters, forcing them to drop the job of hunting Jedi.

For years, Fisto's name had been suggested as a candidate for the Jedi High Council. Humble, and not feeling that he had the skills for such an appointment, Kit would always dismiss such offers, feeling he was better suited to the Council of Reconciliation. Eventually, however, Kit's exploits in the Clone Wars answered any lingering doubts to his suitability, and he ascended to a seat on the august body.

During the Second Battle of Coruscant, he, along with Mace Windu, initially provided help with the Red Guards defending Supreme Chancellor Palpatine. He even battled some of Grievous's IG-100 MagnaGuards atop a speeding Coruscant train while Windu battled Grievous, but they were still unable to save the Chancellor. After Palpatine was kidnapped, he and Windu piloted a cruiser in an attempt to recover the shuttle that contained the captive Chancellor.



After Chancellor Palpatine revealed himself to be the Dark Lord of the Sith that had been operating under the Jedi's nose, Kit Fisto once again accompanied Mace Windu, Agen Kolar, and Saesee Tiin to confront him. Despite his prowess, Kit Fisto's Shii-Cho fighting style could not handle Sidious's superior knowledge of Ataru and only seconds after he had crossed sabers with the Sith Lord, only momentarily blocking his barrage of attacks, he died when Darth Sidious cleaved into his waist. The man he had "protected" a few standard days before had now taken his life. Kit Fisto met an ignominious end without his signature smile on his face.

Behind the scenes

 * Kit Fisto first appeared in Attack of the Clones, where he was played by Zac Jensen. Originally, the initial design for the character had him as a Sith, but since the movie did not call for a Sith of a species other than Human, this was changed.




 * Like Boba Fett, Kit is disproportionately popular among Star Wars fans as a minor character, mainly because of his distinct smile, seen during the Battle of Geonosis (after he Force pushes C-3PO and traps him underneath a super battle droid) and the Battle of Dac.


 * Kit is played by two actors in Episode II, and two different actors in Episode III.


 * There have been rumors that Kit Fisto actually survived the Duel in the Chancellor's Office. In the rumor, after Kit was cut down by Palpatine, Mace Windu worded something to Kit Fisto's "dead" body. Later, when Anakin walks in, Kit's body is gone. This was most likely produced to keep this popular character alive.


 * In the novelization of Revenge of the Sith, Kit Fisto had a short chat with Agen Kolar and Saesee Tiin before their shuttle departed to the Chancellor%27s office. He said he would have been much calmer if Yoda or at least Obi-Wan Kenobi had been with them. Master Tiin scolded him for this: he deemed they were sufficient to defeat the Sith Lord without the aid of any other Jedi. The discussion ended when Mace Windu embarked the gunship and immediately ordered the clone pilot to set course for the Chancellor's office.


 * Also in the novelization, Kit was beheaded by Sidious, not stabbed in the chest. His death was not described first hand&mdash;instead Anakin found Fisto's head on the Chancellor's table with the Nautolan's typical smile on it.




 * It is believed George Lucas found decapitation to be too violent to be displayed in the movie, so he chose a much less graphic method of death.


 * It is interesting to note that the decapitations of Tiin and Fisto were changed to less violent graphic stabs through the chest or waist, yet Jango Fett had his head cut off, in very obvious fashion, when he squared off against Mace Windu in the Battle of Geonosis, as well as when Count Dooku was decapitated at the hands of Anakin Skywalker aboard Invisible Hand. This is most likely explained as both Dooku and Fett were villains, whereas Fisto and Tiin were heroes; and that the audience would find the decapitation of villains much less disagreeable.

Appearances

 * Jedi Apprentice Special Editions 2: The Followers
 * Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
 * Tides of Terror
 * Jedi: Aayla Secura
 * The Cestus Deception
 * Star Wars: Clone Wars
 * Chapter 5
 * Chapter 21
 * Clone Wars Adventures: Volume 1
 * General Grievous
 * Star Wars Republic: Show of Force
 * Star Wars: Obsession
 * Labyrinth of Evil
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
 * Star Wars Empire: "General" Skywalker (memory)
 * LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game
 * Star Wars: Battlefront II (Xbox Live content)