Does Boba Fett wear repainted Jango’s armor? I thought it was blew up in ‘The Clone Wars’ S2E21?

I just stumbled across a post on Reddit that really made me stop and think. A fan pointed out something that I’ve actually wondered about myself. I always thought Boba Fett was wearing Jango’s old armor, but then I was rewatching The Clone Wars, and in Season 2, Episode 21, there’s a scene where a Mandalorian helmet blows up. It was later confirmed by Mace Windu that the helmet belonged to Jango Fett.

So now I’m thinking… did Boba actually go back and recover the helmet and repair it? Or was that one destroyed, and only the rest of the armor he wears is truly Jango’s?

Boba’s Trap Might’ve Involved a Replica Helmet

So here’s the thing—as you probably would also remember the moment in the episode—I’ve rewatched The Clone Wars Season 2, Episode 21 (“R2 Come Home”), and there’s that scene where Mace Windu opens a locker and finds Jango Fett’s helmet. The moment he lifts it, boom—it explodes. For a while, I thought that meant the original helmet was destroyed. But now I’m starting to think that might not have been Jango’s actual helmet at all.

Boba’s plan was to kill Mace Windu as revenge for his father, and it would make total sense if he used a decoy to lure him in. The helmet was left in plain view, almost like bait—and it worked. But realistically, would Boba really blow up the last piece he had of his father just for a chance at revenge? I don’t think so. That helmet means everything to him.

It’s way more likely that Boba Fett used a replica helmet as part of the trap. That would explain how he’s still seen wearing what looks like Jango’s helmet later on. Even in The Book of Boba Fett, the armor he wears has the same shape and base design—it’s just been repainted and touched up over time.

So yeah, I’m leaning toward the idea that the real helmet was never in that locker at all. Just another clever setup by a vengeful kid who still had plans for the future.

As for some fans, they agree that Boba might’ve been using a different Mandalorian helmet entirely—one that he repainted to match the look of Jango Fett’s. It’s a theory that makes sense, especially since Mandalorian gear isn’t impossible to come by if you know the right people. One fan even put it simply: “One or the other would have to just be other Mandalorian armor.” 

Jango Fett Had Spare Armor

Another theory we can consider is that Jango Fett had an extra set of armor that looked identical to the one he wore. In fact, we know from Attack of the Clones that he had more than one jetpack, so it wouldn’t be a stretch to believe he had spare armor parts too.

When Jango fights Obi-Wan on Kamino, he’s wearing a jetpack with a missile on top. During that fight, the jetpack gets damaged—it malfunctions, sparks fly, and it clearly fails to help him escape. But later, during the Battle of Geonosis, Jango shows up with a completely different jetpack—a sleeker model without the missile—and it works just fine when he uses it to take flight before confronting Mace Windu.

That visual difference alone proves that Jango had more than one jetpack—most likely backups, just like any well-prepared bounty hunter would carry.

Also, according to Star Wars Fandom, “He had two jetpacks, one of which was a Merr-Sonn JT-12 jetpack; the jetpack was personally manufactured for Jango Fett by Merr-Sonn Munitions prior to the Clone Wars.”

As mentioned in an article from Screen Rant, Jango Fett had “multiple sets of armor,” a detail confirmed in Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know, Updated and Expanded (2017) and pointed out by Leland Y. Chee. That means Jango didn’t just have one full set—he had backups. So when Boba Fett inherited his father’s belongings, he likely ended up with all of it.

That opens up a solid theory: the helmet Boba used in The Clone Wars to trap Mace Windu may have just been one of Jango’s spares. Once it exploded, Boba didn’t need to retrieve or repair it—he could’ve just grabbed another one from Jango’s stash.