Wizard

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Ram Jomaram: "Wizard wizard wizard wizard! Gonna learn to baaaaake!"

Gabino: "Uh, why does Ram keep saying "wizard"?"

Kaimo: "I think it's a Valo thing? That's where he's from. Must mean super excellent and amazing, from what I can tell!"

―Jedi youth of the High Republic Era^[1]

Wizard was a slang word meaning outstanding, especially favored by young individuals. It was also used as a noun to refer to someone believed to have supernatural powers.

History

Republic Era

"This is so wizard, Ani!"

―Kister Banai to young Anakin Skywalker^[2]

The noun "wizard" had been utilized to describe an individual thought to possess supernatural abilities^[3] since as early as 382 BBY.^[4] For example, the Jedi might be called "space wizards."^[5] However, as an adjective denoting "outstanding," this word appeared to originate as a slang term coined by Padawan Ram Jomaram^[6] by 230 BBY.^[7] All the same, the word was also known in this context to the people of the planet At Attin, ^[8] whose planet was implied to be cut off from the wider galaxy since the Old Republic-era.^[9]

In the year 382 BBY,^[4] a Trandoshan leader of a mercenary group, who had infiltrated the wedding of Phan-tu Zenn and Xiri A'lbaran to claim the bounty on the Republic envoy Axel Greylark, snidely called Jedi Master Sol a "wizard." Upon hearing this, Padawan Enya Keen questioned why people used the term "wizard" negatively.^[3]

Later that year,^[10] while visiting the Boneworld, Jedi Master Porter Engle observed two groups locked in a gun standoff. When he inquired about the cause of the conflict, a deligerent Twi'lek named Dregg told him to stay out of it, referring to Engle as a "wizard." Engle replied that he wasn't a wizard and mentioned he left "all that" to his sister.^[11]

In c. 233 BBY,^[12] Jedi Initiate Kai Brightstar and pilot Nash Durango were pursuing a Jawa sandcrawler on Tatooine. Brightstar used the Force to leap onto the roof of the vehicle with a summersault. Durango praised his "wizard move" but noted that she couldn't replicate it. In response, Brightstar threw her a grappling cable, which she attached to her speeder bike and used to climb up.^[13] Brightstar later confronted the pirate Taborr Val Dorn in a duel on a train. During the encounter, Brightstar successfully disarmed Val Dorn by knocking the electrostaff from his hand, echoing^[14] Durango's words^[13] by calling it a "wizard move."^[14]

Wizard became Jomaram's preferred term to describe something that was "completely amazing and the best possible thing ever." His fellow Force-sensitive Zeen Mrala occasionally employed this word as well, but only in efforts to uplift Jomaran's spirits. Upon hearing the term "wizard," the older Jedi Master Kunpar Vasivola inquired about its meaning. Mrala explained that she believed it was a term commonly used by the inhabitants of Jomaran's homeworld, Valo. However, Jomaran stated that he had entirely invented the word himself. Jedi Knight Reath Silas also made use of the term in a conversation with Jomaran at one point.^[6]

Two centuries later, in 32 BBY,^[15] Kitster Banai expressed his admiration for young Anakin Skywalker's Podracer by saying, "This is so wizard, Ani!"^[2]

When Mon Mothma became a Galactic senator during her teenage years, Bormea Today featured an interview with her under the headline "Wizard! Teen senator takes on Coruscant."^[16]

Imperial Era

"A space station? Wizard."

―Jai Kell^[17]

Jai Kell used the word "wizard" to refer to Hosk Station and a Sentinel-class landing craft.^[17]

Owen Lars once used the word as a derogatory term towards Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi when speaking with his nephew, Luke Skywalker, referring to Kenobi as a "crazy old wizard."^[18] Similarly, Jabba the Hutt referred to Kenobi as an "old wizard" when speaking to Darth Vader.^[19] The Tusken Raider A'Yark also referred to Kenobi as a wizard.^[20]

Doctor Aphra once referred to Force-users as "damn wizards."^[21]

New Republic Era

"We could try out the new Drone-Blaster game I just got. It's so wizard!"

―Torra Doza to her friends^[22]

The Mandalorian Din Djarin used the word "wizard" to refer to his test run with his new N-1 starfighter through Beggar's Canyon.^[23]

The term was also employed by the youngling Wim to describe both Fern's hoverbike,^[8] the captain's quarters on the Onyx Cinder,^[24] the Skeleton Crew's hotel suite at the Skull Ridge Mountain Hotel & Spa, and Captain Rennod's Lair.^[25]

While hanging out with her friends at the refueling station Colossus on Castilon, pilot Torra Doza invited them over to the Doza Tower to check out the new Drone-Blaster game she had just acquired, excitedly calling it "so wizard!"^[22]

Behind the scenes

Illustration on the Twilight — Aurebesh reads "WIZARD!!!" — Illustration on the *Twilight* — Aurebesh reads "WIZARD!!!"

"Wizard" is a real-world word for a man who practices sorcery, and an informal adjective (mainly British English) meaning "superb, outstanding."^[26]

According to the Trivia Gallery for the Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode "The Lawless" on StarWars.com, the Twilight sports a cartoonish illustration of Anakin Skywalker as a boy podracer, with Aurebesh text that says "WIZARD!!!";^[27] although this cannot be seen in the final episode.^[28]

Star Wars: The High Republic depicts the term "wizard" as having been coined by Ram Jomaram during the High Republic Era.^[6] However, the phrase would also see use by the character Wim in Star Wars: Skeleton Crew,^[8]^[24] within which it is implied Wim's people have been cut off from the galaxy at large since the Old Republic-era.^[9] Editor Tom Hoeler rationalized that Wim learned the word from the stories he read.^[29]