Are mandolarians good or bad

Answer 1

Both! It depends on what time period and whose side you're on!

Actually, they really are just out for themselves, but from a fan point of view, which side they're on changes a lot

The simple answers:

Pre-Old Republic: Bad guys, fight for Sith

Old Republic: Bad guys, skirmish with Jedi

Clone Wars: Good and Bad, some train clones while others hunt Jedi

Galactic Civil War: Bad, hunt Han solo/Rebels

New Jedi Order: Good, help kill Vong

Second Galactic Civil War: Good, train Jaina, help kill Caedus

Legacy Era: little mention yet, but leaning towards Bad, a few try to capture/kill Leia, Han, and some Jedi

the complicated answers

before the republic, the Mandalorians fought alongside the Sith and against the Jedi. After the sith were destroyed, their armies were fragmented and they embraced a nomadic bounty hunter lifestyle.

before and during the clone wars, one-hundred mandalorians were hired to train the newly bred clone troopers. Most of these ended up fighting alongside the clones and jedi, out of loyalty to their trainees, but other mandos fought for the separatists

After Order 66, they washed their hands of Jedi-Sith business, as both sides had hurt them terribly at some point. They are mercenaries and bounty hunters occasionally hired by the empire, from after episode three up to the yuuzhan vong wars, but they deeply mistrusted Palpatine and Vader.

Near the end of the Yuuzhan Vong Wars, some mandalorians, including the children of clone troopers who had defected in the clone wars and joined their mandalorian trainers, fight alongside the New Republic/Galactic Alliance.

In the legacy era, they deeply mistrust all sides and are still bounty hunters/mercenaries, although they do help fight Darth Caedus, they view both Jedi and Sith as threats, as the Jedi-Sith wars always hurt the rest of the galaxy

In the latest books some are hired as mercenaries to fight the Jedi, but