Warning! This post contains SPOILERS for Andor season 2A cameo from a character would have been darkly perfect for Star Wars' newest show. On the one hand, showrunner Tony Gilroy took pride in the fact that the series didn't feature any gratuitous cameos and that every character featured was included for an important narrative reason. The same is just as true for Andor season 2 as it was for the first season, though I believe there's one cameo that would have truly benefited not just Andor, but The Mandalorian as well.

In The Mandalorian, the Empire has been shattered following the end of the Galactic Civil War, leaving only pockets of the Imperial Remnant in its wake. However, Andor is set when the Empire was at the height of its power, with construction nearly complete on the first Death Star.

Played by Bill Burr, Migs Mayfeld first debuted in The Mandalorian season 1, leading the crew Din Djarin briefly joined for a breakout on a prison transport. After the crew tried to betray Din Djarin, the Mandalorian gained the upper hand and left the criminals to be arrested by the New Republic, only for Djarin to later seek out Migs for his help locating the Imperial Remnant's Moff Gideon in The Mandalorian season 2.

It's important to remember that Migs made it clear to Djarin when they first met that he wasn't a stormtrooper. . With that in mind, there was a tragic event where a younger Migs Mayfeld could have easily been featured in Andor season 2: The Ghorman Massacre.

As seen in Andor season 2, the Empire needed the rare mineral known as kalkite for the highly classified Death Star project. . This allowed the Empire to "justifiably" slaughter the peacefully protesting Ghormans by making them appear violent, allowing them to then destabilize the world via planetwide strip mining operations.

. As such, it's easy to imagine a younger Migs Mayfeld among these sharpshooters, a still loyal Imperial following orders. However, this wouldn't have just been a gratuitous cameo, as it could have further shown the complex dynamics at play when an oppressive regime's own enforcers become disillusioned (which The Mandalorian confirms eventually happened to Mayfeld).

. As seen in Battlefront II and connected novels and comics, Operation: Cinder was the galaxy-wide bombardment campaign posthumously ordered by Emperor Palpatine. Migs was on Burnin Konn during Cinder, resulting in the intentional loss of his division along with thousands of civilians, leaving Migs and his commanding officer among the small handful of survivors.

. In this way, a cameo from Mayfeld would have served both The Mandalorian and Andor, putting a familiar face amid all the Imperials that willingly committed such a terrible atrocity during the height of the Empire's reign. At any rate, it's still interesting to think about what Migs' Imperial career was like before Operation: Cinder.