This week, the promotional campaign for The Mandalorian and Grogu kicked into high gear as we began to stare down just weeks until the movie’s release. It mostly did so by releasing a new promo that proverbially pointed a blaster at the head of Pedro Pascal’s Din Djarin and said, “Come see this movie or beskar boy gets it”—but maybe The Mandalorian and Grogu might be interesting if it actually pulled the trigger?

This kind of marketing tactic isn’t unique. The Mandalorian and Grogu is far from the first movie to try and entice audiences to theaters (especially after those box office predictions ) by threatening that their faves might not make it through the movie in one piece.…