The Mandalorian: 5 species that would be just as cute as Baby Yoda
By Nik Edlund
Gungan
People can hate all they want on Jar Jar Binks and the Gungan race, but there is no denying that a baby Gungan would be all sorts of adorableness. Full-grown Gungans are tall, lanky creatures and kind of goofy looking with their duck-like bills, telescoping eyes, and long floppy ears.
They are like some sort of horrifying rabbit-duck-frog-hybrid, but if you shrink that down you could have quite the cute little creature on your hands.
A baby Gungan would have those big protruding eyes on a much tinier, and rounder head. Their neck would be much shorter, and they’d have little arms and not be so gangly and awkward. They’d be just as cute as Baby Yoda, if not more.
The best part of a baby Gungan would be that they wouldn’t be able to fully speak yet. No one really knows what Jar Jar says when he talks most of the time, and a baby Gungan wouldn’t annoy us with all those “Meesas, Okeedays, and Yousas”. The baby version would actually be much more pleasant to be around.
A baby Gungan would be of little use to the Mandalorian. The only use they’d have is maybe to jump up high to get something as Gungans have proven to be good jumpers. The chances are high though that if the Mandalorian would’ve opened up that egg and a baby Gungan was in it instead of a Baby Yoda, he’d likely have allowed IG-11 to take that shot.