Star Wars: The Bad Batch

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Summary

Cad Bane ’s appearance inStar Wars : The Bad Batchseason 3 ostensibly contradicted something he say inThe Book of Boba Fett , but it was n’t a retcon ; it actually fit his character absolutely . Cad Bane was one ofthe best bounty hunter inStar Wars , partly due to how many caper he took over the form of his vocation . Throughoutthe timeline ofThe Clone Wars , Bane became improbably prolific . He fought Jedi , kill Senators , and , in keeping with one ofBane ’s best citation , took any line of work , as long as the Mary Leontyne Price was correct .

The Bad Batchseason 3 saw Bane hunting down a Force - sensitive shaver for Dr. Hemlock as part ofProject Necromancer . Finding a bounty huntsman willing to take a contract on a child was unmanageable , but deserving it , since Hemlock explained that he preferred children to adults both for their M - counts and because they cause less trouble . Cad Bane proved to be one of the hunter willing to take on that work , but this particular job threw an old quotation of his into interrogative .

Each main character reference from the Star Wars Disney serial publication The Bad Batch has at least one that sums up who they are and what they get to the show .

Star Wars The Bad Batch Season 3 Poster Showing a Painted Battle Damaged Clone Helmet

Cad Bane Had A Problem With Boba Fett Working For The Empire

It seemed like Bane saw working with the Empire as a bad thing

Bane amount toThe Book of Boba Fettlate , in its final two episodes , but he had a very volatile foundation to the show to make up for it . His first conniption in the series figure Bane menace Cobb Vanth , the marshal of Freetown who had allied with Boba Fett , against working with the former amplitude huntsman . To convince him , Bane differentiate Vanth , " Boba Fett is a inhuman - full-blood killer who worked for the Empire . " That effort was an attempt to show Vanth just how forged of a person Boba was , but it also ostensibly divulge something about Bane .

Bane ’s words to Vanth propose that he thought of taking declaration from the Empire as something morally vile , even for him . Bane has been responsible for some of the most flagitious offense in all ofStar warfare , so for him to condemn something like that would show he see it as genuinely flagrant . It also implied that Bane had n’t work for the Empire in the past , as if he had , he would n’t have been rationalize in critiquing Boba for it . His most recent coming into court inThe Bad Batchseems to have made Bane into a pretender , though .

Cad Bane Never Worked For The Empire, Before The Bad Batch Season 3

He now has a definitive history with the Empire, which makes him seem like a hypocrite

For most of Bane ’s life history , he was never confirmed to have taken a bounty hunting caper for the Empire . He was most active during the Clone Wars , andThe Book of Boba Fettconfirmed that he survived well past the Galactic Civil War , but he had never been realise on a job for the Empire . Even inThe Bad Batchseason 1 , when he was hired to track down down Omega , he was working directly for the Kaminoans , not the imperium . It seemed that was a line even he refused to get over , but it was also unknown he would take that position .

The fact that the Empire never engage him was specially leftover considering Bane ’s track record of work for villainous employers like the Hutt Cartel and Darth Sidious himself . It also supported the idea that he image the Empire as especially malign , though . That view was seemingly undo inThe Bad Batchseason 3 , episode 10 , though , as Bane was work direct with the Empire . His cameo seems to have made his words about Boba inThe Book of Boba Fetthypocritical , but his involvement with the Empire did n’t actually belie anything .

Cad Bane Working For The Empire Isn’t A Retcon

Bane wasn’t trying to make himself look good, he wanted to make Boba Fett look bad

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Cad Bane ’s first scene inThe Book of Boba Fettis also an often - misunderstood one . Bane ’s piece of work for the Empire did n’t actually retcon his previous words about Boba Fett ’s employment history , as he never claimed he had n’t worked for the Empire , he just pointed out that Boba had . The only reason he even cite Boba ’s former Book of Job was because he was seek to convince Vanth to keep out of the Pyke Syndicate ’s spice running operation . It did n’t count if Bane had also worked for the Empire , as his ethical motive was n’t on test .

Bane know he was a defective person , partly due to his involvement with the Empire , but he just did n’t wish .

Bane ’s target was n’t to make himself seem like a effective individual than Boba , it was just to undermine Boba ’s reputation . Bane just wanted to show Vanth that Boba was n’t as good a mortal as he claimed to be , and his association with the Empire accomplished that . The fact that Bane also worked with the Empire also does n’t go against his jab at Boba , because it was never ego - righteous to begin with . Bane knew he was a unsound person , partly due to his interest with the Empire , but he just did n’t care . He just wanted to drag Boba down to the same level as him .

Cad Bane animated while chewing on a toothpick in Star Wars: The Bad Batch next to live-action Cad Bane snarling at the camera in The Book of Boba Fett

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Cad Bane’s Job For The Empire Perfectly Fits His Character

It’s always been about the credits for Bane, nothing more

Throughout his vocation , Cad Bane has been motivated by one matter alone : credits . No chore was too dangerous , or too virtuously equivocal , for him . One of the worst chore Bane ever did record that , and it was super exchangeable to the one he took inThe Bad Batchseason 3 : nobble Force - raw children for Darth Sidious . That job proved that Bane had no qualm about working for malign employers , or taking bounties on fry , so there was no reason for him to of a sudden turn away a job on moral grounds once the Empire begin footing the bill .

Refusing to do work with the Empire would also have been a direful business decision by Bane . After the downslope of the Republic , the Empire was by far the largest client in the galaxy for yr . Bane would have escape out on countless credits if he felt he was above their contracts , something his love of money never would have permit him do . Cad Bane ’s job inThe Bad Batchearned him quite a few credit , so it was perfectly keeping in fictitious character for him , and it did n’t retcon his cable inThe Book of Boba Fett .

Bad Batch Season 3 Episode No .

Split image of Hunter & Omega and Cad Bane in The Bad Batch

Episode Title

Air Date

10

Cad Bane grabs Omega’s arm and activates a button with his other hand in Star Wars: The Bad Batch season 1 episode 9

" Identity Crisis "

4/3/2024

11

The Book of Boba Fett Poster

" Point Of No Return "

12

" Juggernaut "

Headshot Of Temuera Morrison In The 66th Berlin Film Festival

4/10/2024

13

" Into The falling out "

Headshot Of Ming-Na Wen In The Los Angeles premiere of Netflix’s ‘Shirley’

4/17/2024

14

" Flash Strike "

Cad Bane tries to trick a mother into surrendering her Force-sensitive child to him by posing as a Jedi in Star Wars: the Clone Wars season 2 episode 3

4/24/2024

15

" The Cavalry Has Arrived "

Headshot Of Dee Bradley Baker In The Stars walk the red carpet

5/1/20

Star warfare : The Bad Batch time of year 3 episodes 1 - 11 are uncommitted to stream on Disney+

Headshot Of Michelle Ang

Star Wars: The Bad Batch

The Book of Boba Fett