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Hi everyone! I’m newish to tumblr and this is my first post. I figured some of you would like to see my drawing of Hunter from The Bad Batch!

Hey guys! Not to be that person, but I think Omega from the Bad Batch trailer is a cisgendered female👀

Their voice is higher than the other clone cadets we saw in TCW and their features are a bit more feminine.

I think that’s kinda the point of their character...the whole mutated clone thing...being an outcast, wanting to join their big brothers...😅

Sadly, I don’t think Disney would include an openly LGBTQ+ character in a show like The Bad Batch, nevertheless a clone and (main?) character.

Despite that, I love them already and I can’t wait for May 4th!

I would just like to talk about this scene in TBB trailer:

Omega recognizes the Bad Batch, but they also know that their official name is Clone Force 99 and their individual names, and they say them with admiration. This goes beyond TBB being a ‘legend’ or ‘disgrace’, as clones and/or Kaminoans would see them. They obviously look up to them as role models and heroes.

But it’s TBB’s reaction to Omega recognizing them that really gets me

Hunter is surprised but he seems proud. He’s shocked that Omega knows about them but he’s proud that his squad has become so notorious, and in a positive light at that.

Wrecker is prideful and generally happy. He loves what he does and he’s probably happy that someone other than his squad members appreciates what he does.

Tech is pretty neutral about it. He’s probably not surprised because TBB has a 100% success rate, but he doesn’t seem the boastful or competitive type. He also doesn’t strike me as a ‘kid person’.

Crosshair is suspicious but, as usual, he’s trying to seem as impressive (and intimidating) as possible in front of a new person. He also doesn’t strike me as a ‘kid person’.

But Echo... Echo’s reaction hits me the hardest. He looks at Omega as if he’s anticipating an insult, but it never comes. He was probably expecting for them to skip over him and only acknowledge the other four members. But not only did Omega mention him, but they mentioned him second. I wish we could have seen TBB’s faces when they heard each of their names because I can just imagine Echo’s face lighting up with gratitude and surprise. Later in the trailer, we see Echo holding Omega’s hand and I think this scene is the start to their great platonic relationship.

Guys I just remembered that Lux Bonteri exists and could quite possibly appear in The Bad Batch.

The last time we saw him was at Steela’s funeral where he told Ahsoka that he was going to represent Onderon in the Republic’s Senate.

With this in mind, he probably wouldn’t be thrilled to learn that the Empire is essentially going to have complete control over Onderon.

That’s basically the entire reason for the Onderon Rebellion during the Clone Wars. The Gerrera siblings and Lux didn’t want the Separatists to control their planet.

When Ahsoka uses Anakin’s Fulcrum frequency, Anakin and Obi-Wan immediately think it’s Saw Gerrera and that “the Siege of Onderon has taken a turn for the worse.”

So there’s a siege going on at the same time as the Empire’s formation. That sounds like a huge political mess, and who better to deal with it than Lux, right?

It seems like the Onderonian Rebellion is going to shift from whatever they were doing before (I think it was a Civil War) to fighting the Empire’s occupation of Onderon. Perhaps it’s a uniting cause to end the previous feud.

In The Bad Batch trailer, Saw Gerrera encouraged TBB to “adapt to survive” and not “die with the past.” We know that Saw disagrees with the Empire, and Lux is usually on the same page with Saw.

I’d love to see Lux doing his political business in The Bad Batch because I think his character is a bit misunderstood and underrated. He’d be a pretty unexpected character to feature, which might be a goal of Dave Filoni’s. I also want to see how Saw got put in that suit of his that he’s had since at least 14BBY. I think we might get to see why he has breathing problems and has to wear the suit in The Bad Batch.

I guess we’ll see in a couple weeks!

I made a Bad Batch bingo for you all! Feel free to use! No official spoilers as of yet

SPOILERS FOR THE BAD BATCH

KANANNNNN- I MEAN CALEBBBBBB

Wow! This scene is so cool to see after only hearing about it in Rebels

Kanan’s cameo was completely unexpected🥲

MINOR SPOILERS FOR THE BAD BATCH EP. 02

So I’m getting really strong Kanan/Ezra vibes from Hunter and Omega. I know, its obvious that he’s going to take on a brother/father role for her but it was really apparent to me in EP. 02

Here’s a list of similarities:

A group (Ghost Crew/TBB) finds a parentless kid (Ezra/Omega) on the kid’s home planet (Lothal/Kamino) and decides to take them in

The male leader of the group (Kanan/Hunter) takes on a brother/father role for the kid

It’s kinda obvious that the leader is supposed to train the kid and take care of them

The leader is insecure about their ability to take take care of the kid because they don’t have much experience in that field and they never finished/never knew that training/care

Thinking that the kid will be better off with someone else that does have experience (Luminara/the Lawquanes), they attempt to arrange a hand-off

The hand-off doesn’t pan out but the kid didn’t want that anyways

A female twi’lek (Hera/Suu [I know, I know, very specific]) tells the leader that he needs to get over himself and just take care of the kid

The leader and the kid have a heart-to-heart where the kid admits wanting to be taken care of by the leader

This starts the great bond between the leader and the kid

BONUS:

This is also similar to Din Djarin/Grogu’s dynamic as well, but it is more similar to Kanan/Ezra’s. Din received guidance from the Armorer, who told him to take Grogu to his people, which Din did successfully. In a way, it’s kinda backwards but it’s still reminiscent.

OKAY SO THE BAD BATCH IS SET IN 19 BBY AND JANGO DIED 3 YEARS EARLIER IN 22 BBY. IN ATTACK OF THE CLONES A KAMINOAN CLAIMED THAT A GROUP OF PRETEEN CADETS WAS PRODUCED ABOUT 5 YEARS BEFORE OBIWAN ARRIVED SO BASICALLY...

Am I supposed to believe that Jango didn’t know about The Bad Batch or Omega? As cadets? Babies? Successful mutations of his DNA that could result in better soldiers? The only female clone of him?

He definitely knew and that makes things sadder in my brain🥲

What if Boba knew them...

So, Crosshair’s CT number is CT-9904. I guess it means that the other members of the Bad Batch’s CT numbers start with 99. If they were born with those specific CT numbers, they didn’t name themselves after 99, the defective maintenance clone. The Kaminoans would never have made their CT numbers based on one defective clone so they’re clone force 99 by chance, not to honor 99 and his sacrifice... :(

WAIT I JUST THOUGHT OF SOMETHING—

What if 99 was their fifth batch mate?😭

He could have been CT-9900, which is 99 for short. He probably never interacted with other clones that would have given him a nickname, so it was probably just his condensed CT number.

If the Kaminoans were messing around with Jango’s genes to create mutated clones with enhanced abilities, then not all of them were gonna be successful, right? Maybe 99’s extremely fast aging was a result of the mutation, and then he was deemed useless by the Kaminoans and put on maintenance duty.

Clones were always made in batches of 5. The rest of his batch were capable soldiers so they trained and graduated without him...leaving him alone...

NOW IM SAD

The Bad Batch 1x06 spoilers regarding the tactical droid⚠️

Umm??? TBB writers??? Why???

What a missed opportunity…

Trace and Rafa were on a mission to retrieve a tactical droid’s head so it could be used against the Empire

The head is shot to PIECES and is LEFT BEHIND

But it’s okay because Hunter gives them the intel on a dAtA sPiKe

When later in Rebels, Ahsoka sends the Ghost Crew on a mission to find Rex

AND THE TACTICAL DROID KEEPS REPEATING REX’S CT NUMBER UNTIL IT LEADS THEM TO HIM

If it’s a well-founded theory that the guy Trace and Rafa were taking to was Rex, WHY WOULD THEY DO THIS WHEN THEY COULD HAVE CONNECTED IT TO REBELS SO BEAUTIFULLY. Rex could have obtained the tactical droid’s head from the Martez sisters, programmed it with his tracker or location on Seelos he knew he was going to be, and then given it to Ahsoka so she could find him if she needed to.

Man, that just sucks

So I think tomorrow’s episode of The Bad Batch will finally have a Rex appearance.

Between Wrecker’s chip starting to activate and the Martez sisters having Ahsoka’s droid, I think Rex is going to have to be the one to fix this mess.

Almost all of the other footage in the trailers has been released except Rex and some shots of Crosshair’s new enlisted squad.

Last we saw, the Martez sisters were speaking to a cloaked figure via R7-A7, Ahsoka’s astromech droid. How would the Martez sisters have R7 if the last time he was seen was with Rex and Ahsoka when they were burying the dead clones following the crash in the TCW season 7 finale? They must know that Ahsoka is alive because they have her droid. Either she gave R7 to them herself or she sent Rex, who the sisters wouldn’t have trusted without learning what happened to Ahsoka first.

That is why I believe the cloaked figure is Rex. He might be interested in rogue clones because he is one himself and he wants to save as many brothers as he can (like Wolffe and Gregor). Rafa mentioned that she knows where to find TBB so she could tell him where they are.

Possible spoilers for 1x07; JUST A PREDICTION!

I believe in the next episode, Rex will show up to Cid’s place, find TBB, tell them about the chips and how his was removed, and urge them to remove theirs. He takes them back to the crash site where the medical equipment is, assuming it wasn’t destroyed in the crash. Tech’s chip scanner is used to remove TBB’s chips, but OH NO! Crosshair’s squad managed to track them down. This leads to the fire fight we haven’t yet seen from the trailers (where Omega kills a clone??? Wow, ok Dave). While TBB is trying to fend them off, Crosshair ends up getting blasted by the destroyer’s thrusters (from the trailer) leaving him injured…or dead.

This is just my theory but based on the trailers, patterns of how Disney releases material, and how crazy the members of the Star Wars production team have made the rest of the season seem. I could be wrong, but if I’m right, I’m not the one that ruined it because I’m guessing👍

TBB 1x07 spoilers!!⚠️⚠️

Same damn energy

Remembered this frame from the official The Bad Batch trailer and I have some thoughts

The Bad Batch is set to have 16 episodes for this season. The 8th episode is released this coming Friday. The trailer’s contents seem to be only from the first 8 episodes or so because we’ve already seen most of the footage.

The footage we haven’t seen to my best knowledge:

Crosshair making a big villain entrance with his new squad and plenty of clone backup

Crosshair and his new squad fighting against TBB (trooper with flamethrower; TBB readying their blasters; Omega shooting a clone with her bow; etc.)

Crosshair getting blown away by the thruster of a ship

Hunter with a bandaged torso

Some shots of (Onderon? Pantora?) where Tech drives an AT-TE (?)

If my theory is correct, we’ll see these events on Friday. Another trailer will probably come out for the second half of the season soon.

But, my concern is about Hunter’s bandaged torso. A run-in with Crosshair and Hunter gets hurt in probably the same episode? I bet Crosshair is gonna shoot him😭

Is it just me, or does Hunter look shirtless?😳

THE BAD BATCH 1x08 SPOILERS⚠️⚠️

regarding today’s big cameo!!!

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST OMFG DAVE THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

FUCKING CAD BANE BITCHES

CAD FUCKING BANE

I THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE CAL KESTIS BUT DAMN I THINK I LIKE THIS BETTER

He has Omega😭

I thought Crosshair was gonna shoot Hunter but it was CAD BANE

THEY BROUGHT THE CAD BANE VS BOBA FETT STAND-OFF TO LIFE BUT WITH HUNTER INSTEAD

FYCK

IM STILL DHAKING

The bad batch 1x08 spoilers!!

regarding the end of the episode

THE SAME GODDAMN ENERGY

Protecting their vulnerable older brothers from Cad Bane🥲

The Bad Batch 1x14 major spoilers!!!

AHHHHHHHHH

There was so much this episode between Gregor, the storm troopers, and Hunger getting captured😭

anywayssss, this is me formally begging Dave Filoni to do the classic imperial deserter rescues enemy trope with Crosshair and Hunter

Said trope^

No, because why doesn’t Crosshair have backup?? Exactly—

Can we just,.,.accept that both Crosshair and Hunter had their reasons for doing what they did?? And honestly neither of them really did anything wrong??

Hunter left Crosshair because he tried to kill them. He didn’t understand anything about the chip, he really thought Crosshair had just lost his mind. And as soon as he learned about it and how to fix it, we immediately jumped to episode 8 where Crosshair tried to incinerate them with a jet engine. He tried to communicate that the chip was affecting him, and Crosshair didn’t care. Hunter couldn’t even get himself or Omega out of that situation unharmed. He had no way to snag Crosshair from his squadron of stormtroopers out for murder. After Bracca, Hunter was focused on getting Omega back because she’s just a kid; she isn’t with the empire, she hasn’t been chasing them down and almost killing them. From Hunter’s POV, the possibility of getting Crosshair to come with them willingly or even at all is looking bleak and even though he knows it’s not Crosshair’s fault, he’s been so overwhelmed with trying to keep the people relying on him safe and right now he doesn’t think Crosshair is relying on him. And honestly, how were they even supposed to know where Crosshair was half the time? He wasn’t on Kamino 24/7 and the Batch isn’t exactly swimming in imperial informants. But that aside, of course he was thinking about Crosshair; Hunter is loyal to a fault and you can just see the emotional pain that flashes across his face whenever Crosshair is mentioned because that’s his little brother and he couldn’t save him and he feels like he failed. Hunter never was and I don’t think ever can be indifferent when it comes to the people he loves. Whether you like it or not, Hunter was trying his best to keep everyone safe and stop running suicide missions because the galaxy was changing and he was trying to change too. He did nothing wrong.

Now Crosshair.

To all of you calling him a Nazi and saying that the animators and writers intentionally lightened his skin just to make a racist show of dominance, stop it. He was referring to their genetic enhancements being superior. That’s it. He’s always hated regs because let’s be fair the regs were never exactly good to him either (AFTERMATH). Now let’s just take a look at how the chip works shall we!! We know from Rex and Wrecker that clones know what they’re doing while under control of the chip and they’re powerless to stop themselves. So we know in Aftermath that the chip was strengthened to an insane degree, and Crosshair could still see himself taking head shots on his brothers and trying to murder them and he couldn’t stop no matter how badly he wanted to. He was powerless. And then the Batch left; at this point he probably understands that his brothers had to go. They’d regroup. They’d know this wasn’t his fault and they’d come back.

Months pass. Crosshair doesn’t know about the solemn looks the Batch exchange when he’s mentioned. Crosshair doesn’t know that they can barely get food for themselves. Crosshair doesn’t know that Wrecker has flat out said he misses him. Crosshair doesn’t know how Tech said “it doesn’t appear he’ll be needing it” with a twinge of sadness in his voice while giving Omega his comm. Crosshair doesn’t know how much Hunter hates himself for leaving and that Hunter was always planning on going back to him someday because someday he’d have the perfect plan and he could save everyone this time. How could Crosshair know?

More time passes. Crosshair probably still has his chip on but he’s still in there, watching himself become more and more important to the Empire. No rescue attempts. Not one. How awful does he have to feel?? They went to get Echo out of Skako with no backup and they didn’t even know Echo and they can’t go back for him? And here’s the Empire, giving him power and some semblance of control. Things are changing fast and now he has nobody but himself to adjust with, and besides, he’s always had an egotistical side so maybe being a commander and putting the regs in their place isn’t so bad to him after all. He’s alone. He adapts or he dies, that’s the job and that’s all he has now.

Onto Bracca!! If Crosshair is telling the truth about getting his chip out, I firmly believe it had to have been after the events of Reunion. It wouldn’t make sense otherwise; “if I wanted you dead, you would be” sweetheart giving the order to have them incinerated and starting to walk away really seems like you wanted them dead and then going from ordering Omega to be executed to telling Hunter that if he cares about her he should let her go and be safe away from them??? You can’t tell me that Bracca!Crosshair wouldn’t have dragged Omega back into the training room and killed her right there just to keep them from choosing her over him. So let’s just assume for now that Crosshair wasn’t lied to and his chip is out (I’m still holding onto a scrap of hope to the contrary because A. there’s no scar B. HE’S STILL HOLDING HIS HEAD and C. my boy isn’t making any SENSE he just killed off a bunch of Imperial stormtroopers to convince the Batch to join his Empire that he cares so much about??) it had to have happened after Bracca I said what I said idc. If the chip is out, I’m sure his head is still an absolute foggy mess because lord only knows what cranking those chips up to full strength several times will do to you, but suddenly he’s realizing that he’s still angry with them. He’s still hurt. He’s still very much alone. Maybe they never cared about him at all.

And don’t get me started on any “if he did any of this willingly he is irredeemable” garbage. How many times did Kallus almost kill the Ghost crew?? I’m sorry, was it not Kallus who ordered the Lasat genocide?? Don’t take this the wrong way, I adore Kallus and his redemption arc was one of the most beautiful things about Rebels but the point is if he can do all of those horrible things for the Empire for years and is still allowed a redemption stemming from realizing everything he thought he was fighting for was a fiction, THEN SO IS CROSSHAIR. With that side note out of the way let’s think about how alone and betrayed Crosshair feels by the Batch and let’s realize that after they left Ryloth, after they left him again, what does he want?? He wants them. He doesn’t want to kill them, he doesn’t want them imprisoned and he doesn’t want to make them pay. He wants to fight side by side with them again, he wants his brothers back. And even though he’s so beyond hope that they still care about him, heck he literally said “don’t make the same mistake twice; don’t make me your enemy” he thinks they were enemies and he still cares about them so freaking much that he went through an entire elaborate scheme to get the whole Batch on Kamino and set up the stormtroopers’ deaths to prove his loyalty that they could have if they just gave him some of their loyalty too. “Loyalty means everything to the clones” is starting to get a really bitter taste innit??

The point of this longwinded rant my friends is to beg y’all to stop being so black and white about these two. They’re both human, they both have made mistakes and have regrets, they’re both trying their best to survive in a galaxy flipped upside down. Things played out how they had to and they’re both victims of the real villain of Star Wars, who has always been Palpatine. The fact that there is so much to unpack with these two characters shows how flipping amazing the writers are!! They’re so layered and complex it’s literally like they’re real!! So please. Stop hating on them so freaking loudly. They’re my boys and they both deserve a warm hug and a nap after the season they’ve had

Hunter and Crosshair sharing a capsule is literally the ‘our get along shirt’ meme

I actually liked the last episode of season 1 of the bad batch while the angst between the brothers broke my heart i still was able to see both sides everyone had a right to be hurt but it doesn’t mean that they don’t love each other any less, no one was right and no one wasn’t wrong, it is all a complex situation all round nobody is perfect we all make mistakes but it doesn’t mean that your a bad person.

 i want crosshair to be back with his brothers as much as any one but i don’t think that is in the cards right now. omega saying to crosshair that he is still her/their brother no matter what that he can come back if he ever decides to i was glad to he had a chance to hear that, and he still has a place with them if he ever choses to. palpatine already took the clones individualities and their home away from them as much as i would love for him to stay with his brothers it has to be BY HIS. CHOICE  NOT BECUASE HE WAS FORCED TO.

 it would not surprise me if the empire used military propaganda to lie to people and  make them believe in their cause we have to people in the past believe in what the empire was doing and then seeing what they are actually like and eventually deciding to defect to the rebellion once they realised what the empire was really about and how they treated their own people.

An example of this is kallus from star wars rebels when he was on that moon with zeb orellios he took his chances with the empire instead of joining zeb and waited for the empire to pick him up.

 but then we  found out in a commentary i believe that he wasn’t even picked up by the empire themselves but an ordinary transport and when he eventually got back to the empire no one even noticed that he was gone which showed us that the empire didn’t want to waste their resources finding just one man which just goes to show that the empire doesn’t care about their own people.

the shot that we saw of kallus back in his quarters reminded me of the last shot we got of crosshair in the finale.

i firmly believe that there was a reason for this parallel because we all know that dave feloni loves his parallels of things we have seen in the past and that crosshair will eventually get a redemption arc in the future i just hate that we have to wait a year to find out what happens next and i for one am looking forward to what that entails.

Imperial deserters✨

The Bad Batch: Sergeant Hunter, Corporal Echo, Clone Trooper Tech, and Clone Trooper Wrecker

Captain Rex, Captain Gregor, and Commander Wolffe

Corporal Han Solo

Sharpshooter Migs Mayfeld

Cadets: Sabine Wren, Wedge Antilles, and ‘Hobbie’ Kilvian

ISB Agent Alexsandr Kallus

Imperial Super Commando Tristan Wren

Ensign Bodhi Rook

Storm troopers: ‘Finn’ FN-2187 and ‘Jannah’ TZ-1719

My beloveds✨