Baby Yoda, known as "the Child" on the Mandalorian, has been an internet sensation and meme powerhouse. Although he's super cute, some of his behavior has prompted fans to wonder whether he is being tempted by the Dark Side (https://screenrant.com/mandalorian-baby-yoda-force-choke-dark-side). This prompted me to examine Baby Yoda's force choke through an existentialist lens of Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche wrote, "What is done out of love takes place beyond good and evil." How does this inform how we look at Baby Yoda and the light and dark sides of the Force?

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