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Stylised original portrait plate for Migs Mayfeld

DossierHumanThe New Republic

Migs Mayfeld

An ex-Imperial sharpshooter with a mouth on him, and the only person in the show who says what the Empire actually did.

Species
Human
Homeworld
Not established
Affiliation
Independent — mercenary; formerly Imperial Army
First appearance
The Mandalorian, "Chapter 6: The Prisoner" (2019)
Continuity
Canon

Migs Mayfeld is a mercenary and former Imperial sharpshooter played by Bill Burr in The Mandalorian. StarWars.com introduces him as "a hot-headed ex-Imperial sharpshooter" who "was once the smart-mouthed leader of a gang of criminals", and whose skills remain useful to Din Djarin despite everything.

A heel who does not reform

His first appearance has him assemble a crew — including the Twi'lek Xi'an and the Devaronian Burg — to break a prisoner out of a New Republic transport, and then attempt to sell Din out. He is left in a cell. Nothing about the character suggests he has learned anything, which is what makes the second appearance work.

Morak

Pulled out of a labour camp to help infiltrate an Imperial refinery, Mayfeld ends up seated across a table from his former commanding officer, and delivers the show's most direct indictment of Imperial service: a description of Operation Cinder and the casualties it caused, told by a man who was there and cannot pretend otherwise. It is the rare Star Wars scene in which an ordinary soldier is asked to account for what he participated in.

Why the character earns a dossier

Because the canon has very few former Imperials who are neither redeemed heroes nor cackling remnants. Mayfeld is a bad man who was made worse by an institution, is honest about it, and does not become good afterwards — he simply gets to walk away. That ambiguity is unusual and valuable.

On the record

Appearances

Where this figure actually appears, with the medium and the year. Nothing inferred.

Appearances of Migs Mayfeld
WorkYearMediumNote
The Mandalorian, "Chapter 6: The Prisoner"2019TelevisionFirst appearance. Played by Bill Burr.
The Mandalorian, "Chapter 15: The Believer"2020TelevisionThe refinery infiltration on Morak.