Somehow, Ventress Returned

The last time we really saw Ventress prior to Dark Disciple remained in 2013 throughout the climactic episodes of Clone Wars5th seasonThere, throughout the arc that saw Ahsoka Tano incorrectly implicated of battle the Jedi Temple on Coruscant– she ultimately left the Order when the Jedi stopped working to support her up until she was cleared of misdeed– Ventress had actually ended up being a fugitive hunter, having actually turned her back on Count Dooku, and endured the massacre of her individuals, the Dathomiran Night Sisters, at Sidious and his disciple’s machinations.

After assisting Ahsoka at first avert capture in Coruscant’s underlevels, the last time we saw Ventress in the series was when, questioned by Anakin over Ahsoka’s current location, she puts him on the course to finding the real perpetrator behind the battle: Ahsoka’s buddy and fellow padawan, Barriss Offee– who had actually even taken Ventress’ hallmark double lightsabers as part of her strategies.

The last time we really experienced Ventress chronologically speaking was in the previously mentioned Dark DiscipleComposed as an adjustment of a story from unused Clone Wars scripts— after the program was canceled quickly after Disney’s acquisition of Lucasfilm– the book sees Jedi Master Quinlan Vos go undercover as part of a secret objective ordained by the Jedi Council to assassinate Count Dooku and bring an end to the Clone War.

Charged at Yoda’s idea with partnering with Ventress offered her own dispute and history with Dooku, Vos coordinate with her at first as a fellow hunter, before gradually exposing increasingly more of his history as they get closer and closer to handling Dooku. The 2 ultimately establish a romantic connection— nevertheless, it’s unfortunately interrupted when, after engaging Dooku in the world Christophsis, Ventress relatively sacrifices herself to conserve Quinlan– taking the impact of a blast of Force lightning Dooku planned to eliminate Vos with– and redeem him from his increasing dark prompts, having actually pressed himself even more and even more to the Dark Side in his efforts to bring Dooku and his master down. After the unsuccessful effort to eliminate Dooku, Ventress’ body was reclaimed to her homeworld of Dathomir by Vos and Obi-Wan Kenobi, where they laid her to rest in a swimming pool bathed with the magicks and spirits of the Nightsisters.

Yes! Dark Disciple was launched after Star Wars connection was reshuffled post-Lucasfilm-acquisitionas part of the effort to both tidy up the huge Expanded Universe product at the time, also develop a brand-new “whatever matters” technique to connection where all formally launched product is thought about canonical unless otherwise particularly mentioned.

The group behind Bad Batch have likewise stated that Ventress’ return in the 3rd season will construct off the occasions of the unique, instead of oppose them. “We do not wish to ruin anything, however desire fans to understand that any brand-new storytelling with Ventress will line up with the occasions of Star Wars: Dark Disciple,” monitoring director Brad Rau informed StarWars.com in a remark launched along with the brand-new trailer.

This would not be the very first time that current animated Star Wars has actually had fun with unique connection either– possibly more controversially compared to Bad Batch‘s relatively co-operative relationship with Dark Disciplethe very first season of Tales of the Jedi consisted of an episode that used components of the canon unique Ahsokaalbeit tweaking them enough to develop its own variation of those occasions. That was apparently more of a “from a specific viewpoint” scenario however, compared to what we appear to anticipate from Bad Batch

Well, it’s Star Wars, so there’s lots of alternatives, and of course, we do not understand the complete context of her return simply. From the trailer, Ventress does not appear like a Nightsister spirit or a basic Force Ghost– simply one method of unfaithful death– however a physical, flesh-and-blood being, so there’s 2 coursesBad Batch might decrease. The very first might be that she just didn’t in fact catch her injuries in Dark Discipleand simply fabricated her death for one factor or another (an exceptional dedication to the bit if it implied waiting on Vos and Kenobi to leave her “burial” website) on Dathomir.

The 2nd is that, well, Somehow, She Returned. Dark Disciple clearly acknowledged that the swimming pool Ventress’ body is put to rest in is instilled with Dathomiran Force power, and we’ve consistently seen in their looks throughout Star Wars media that the Nightsisters and their usage of the Force has a lot of applications on life, death, and restoration, whether it’s more for more recovery functions, or perhaps grimmer applications like the undead Night Troopers we saw in AhsokaThere’s likewise the truth that these practices are a few of the most ancient Force capabilities we understand of– and the Nightsisters themselves even existed beyond the main galaxy that we understand of in Star Warsso their having magical capabilities that might cheat death would not be too unexpected.

There might likewise be an even crazier twist that isn’t as easy as her either fabricating her death or being born-again, too. Bad Batch is handling the darker side of cloning that specified the story of the prequel trilogy and Clone Wars— and specifically considered that a great deal of the action in this 3rd and last season is going to focus on the secret Imperial cloning centers at Mount Tantiss, a location with a long history of comparable practices and Force user rubbish in the old Expanded Universe, possibly it’s not too out there to possibly drift the concept that Asajj’s return is through some more dubious cloning procedures, either. Of all these alternatives however, Nightsister magic appears the most likely if she didn’t phony it.

Devising is, in reality, what Ventress carried out in the EU, too. In Dark Horse’s old Republic comicsVentress apparently dies throughout the fight of Boz Pity, where she is very first minimized Dooku’s orders after he deserts her to conserve an injured Grievous, and after that mortally injured by Anakin when she assaulted Obi-Wan in her rage at being left.

Ventress supposedly passed away in Obi-Wan’s arms, after her body was positioned on a Republic medical ship after the fight it’s exposed that she utilized Sith strategies to slow her heart rate down and get in a recovery hypnotic trance that merely looked like death, taking over control of the ship to get away, as she states in some of her last words in the series, “far from the Jedi, from this war, from Count Dooku.” It’s like poetry, it rhymes and all that.

Well, aside from being another tradition character for whom death is a revolving door or something to often lie about for the drama of everything, Ventress’ return in the last season of The Bad Batch raises a great deal of fascinating concerns about how she’ll suit occasions, and more broadly into this period of Star WarsWe believed she didn’t endure to see Sidious’ increase and his supreme strategy to form the Empire really come to fulfillment– however now she has, so what will her location in all that be? Is she assisting the Batch to rescue Omega from the clutches of Mount Tantiss, or do they experience on some other objective?

Where they may discover her is fascinating, too. The trailer likewise includes what seems a go back to the world Teth— which was very first presented in the initial 2008 Clone Wars motion picture, and the location Obi-Wan and Ventress initially crossed blades. Bringing Ventress back and having it connected with the very first fight we saw her in would be a fascinating parallel, and likewise maybe Bad Batch coming cycle on an animated design and story that started 16 years back.

There’s likewise another essential concern: if Ventress endures this 2nd possibility at life and comes out of Bad Batch in as soon as piece, where does she go from here? Unexpectedly, there might be a lot more stories to inform with Ventress, rather of having her, as we ‘d relatively believed for almost a years, die before the next chapter of her post-Sith life might actually start, to have actually conserved and redeemed Quinlan Vos. Might Ventress make it through the increase and fall of the Empire? What would she be performing in that time?

And, possibly, provided simply how crucial Dathomir and the Nightsisters have actually ended up being to the occasions surrounding the return of Grand Admiral Thrawn in cases of Ashokathe timing of Ventress’ survival is really Fascinating. Maybe we may be setting the phase in Bad Batch for her ultimate arrival in live-action Star WarsAn Ahsoka team-up after whatever they’ve both gone through would be really interesting (and truthfully uproarious, provided their histories).

We likely will not get a response to all of these concerns right away, however we need to begin getting the answer to a minimum of a few of them when The Bad Batch‘s 3rd and last season starts streaming on Disney+ February 21.