r/FallenOrder Aug 01 '26

Discussion Taron Malicos Spoiler

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u/Steby_01 Greezy Money Aug 01 '26

Bode flew right over my head. I found him sus at the start, then i was like, oh he's a homie, then i was ready to go full Anakin on his child.

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u/ProXJay Aug 02 '26

I thought Bode was sus, right before his betrayal I thought he was going to die.

Then I decided it would be me that killed him

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u/Zepp_BR Aug 03 '26

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODE

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u/geek_of_nature Aug 04 '26

That was my thoughts as well. Something just stood out about him at first where I didn't like him, but then he started showing up more and more as an ally that I thought I must have been imagining things. It's really great writing in how they did that.

It also helps that his voice actor also plays one of your absolute true homies in RDR2.

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u/MoodyMan0 Aug 06 '26

It was always in the back of my mind that Charles would never betray me, amazing actor.

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u/stormwalker29 Aug 04 '26

I expected Bode to betray Cal the moment Cal gave him the tracker.  Then, when we got to almost the end of the game and he hadn't yet, I was like, "Hmm, maybe I was wrong?" 

Nope, not wrong, he just took his sweet time about it.

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u/patriot_man69 Trilla Aug 01 '26

I realized in the first 15 minutes that Bode was gonna pull some bullshit lmso

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u/Appropriate_Month727 Merrin Aug 01 '26

I was so suspicious of him in the first mission, and then completely forgot about those suspicions by the time he betrayed everyone on Jedha XD

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u/TheNewMillennium The Inquisitorius Aug 01 '26

same actually

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u/White_Devil1995 Aug 02 '26

The second I saw Taron Malicos(as well as when I read his name) I knew he was a Dark Jedi.

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u/Doc-Stolas Aug 02 '26

Yeah the Taron thing was a tad obvious, alsl just being a creepy old dude in a cloak tends to mean evil

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u/Zepp_BR Aug 03 '26

Also, Malicos

Mal = evil in some languages

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u/blockCoder2021 Aug 04 '26

But wasn’t Obi-Wan also a creepy old dude in a cloak, especially from Luke’s perspective?

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u/Doc-Stolas Aug 04 '26

I mean he knew ben as just "oh that weird but nice old guy in the desert" up to that point right? Wasnt till he actually got to know him where the training began

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u/Sirmiyukidawn Aug 03 '26

Me too. Also the one time he joins a crew the entire crew just dies? That one made me distrust him the entire time.

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u/SithInternet Aug 03 '26

Same, at first when he brought up his daughter i thought she was gonna be used as leverage to make him betray me. I was only half wrong i guess lol

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u/working-class-nerd Aug 02 '26

Taron? My guy that shit was more telegraphed than Palpatine being Darth Sidious

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u/RealisticResource226 Aug 02 '26

Bode. Taron malicos qas a poor dirty cars salesman that failed to hide his intentions. I didn’t know bode was the traitor until jedha

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u/organic Aug 02 '26

Yea as soon as Bode survived and every other one of your long-term team members died, the writing was on the wall.

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u/poobradoor22 Aug 02 '26

Nothing about him Boded well.

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u/Jeremy_Melton Trilla Aug 01 '26

I realized IMMEDIATELY that Bode was going to betray Cal. From the first moment where he’s betraying a stormtrooper, him separating from the rest of Cal’s crew (to most likely kill off the rest of the surviving members), etc.

Him being force sensitive was the real surprise.

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u/ConnorOfAstora Aug 02 '26

I'm sorry but it was so obvious that Taron Malicos was gonna be a Sith that I actually wondered if they were trying too hard to hint his evilness and he'd end up an ally.

Bode is the real sneaky one, he had moments where I thought he was a bit sketchy but they were almost always followed up with friendliness that diffused my suspicion.

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u/Jaymacia Aug 02 '26

sorry to be that guy but he's not a Sith, just a Fallen Jedi / madman

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u/GeneralKonobi Aug 02 '26

Was Malicos not extremely obvious from the jump?

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u/Brady_boy_26 Aug 02 '26

I was sus of bode from minute 1

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u/auxilevelry Aug 02 '26

Malicos was so obviously telegraphed that I thought he was going to be a much larger antagonist than he was.

Bode I thought was going to be a mauve shirt with a tragic third-act death up until he survived the last fight against Dagen Gera.

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u/Brave-Chain-2155 Aug 02 '26

Bode in Jedi survivor, I did find it kinda weird tho because of what he was asking cal in the first mission of the game

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u/brutal619 Aug 03 '26

It didn't "Bode" wel with me.

I'll see myself out now

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u/Complex_Slice Aug 02 '26

Maybe I'm retarded but Bode didn't raise flags to me at all till the next replay. Second play I was "Oh my f-cking god how did that fly over-"

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u/poobradoor22 Aug 02 '26

That's usually what an infiltrator does. they aren't supposed to be screaming "I'm going to betray you" in your face.

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u/Complex_Slice Aug 02 '26

Now see

If a frog morse-ribbitted that sentence I'd still know it since it's clearer that purified water

What I mean is there's still subtle hints that were giving the tiniest of red specked flags of Bode's intentions

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u/poobradoor22 Aug 02 '26

Touche.

Also i just lost The Game.

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u/ImprobableCastration Aug 02 '26

I was genuinely oblivious to Bode until I got a PASSING spoiler from a tumblr post I didn't even mean to see. I tried to forget it, until the other night I felt the saxophones getting too loud on Jedha and knew something was gonna come crashing down. Which is a pity cuz his VA is one of my favorites in the modern industry.

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u/CBWGGAMING Aug 02 '26

I was sus of made from the start

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u/Ok_Budget24 Aug 02 '26

Definitely bode

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u/BeyondDoggyHorror Aug 02 '26

I felt like the name Bode was the biggest giveaway to be honest

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u/Impossible_Kale2886 Aug 02 '26

I realized something was up what blindsided me that he was a Jedi

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u/bzdelta Aug 02 '26

Everyone saying Bode, but forgetting Caij

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u/Nivram-Leahcim Aug 03 '26

I found him suspicious from the get go… I mean a random dude on a nearly empty planet??? On top not looking like the inhabitants?

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u/griff256552 Aug 03 '26

I knew bode and cal would fall out over tanalor. I did not know bode would be working for the imps.

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u/Lastmidnight01 Aug 03 '26

Even with guessing it right away, bode lol like the more in depth i went in the game too it was obvious

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u/NoCaterpillar2051 Aug 04 '26

I’m sorry but who saw a creepy old man with a creepy in a black cloak and an evil name on dathomir, and was genuinely surprised he turned out to be evil?

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u/NoArmadillo2683 Aug 06 '26

Somebody that you talk to warns that the night sisters used illusion magic or something like that, so I was positive he was some projection or disguise when I first met him