THE BAD BATCH Creative Team Address Asajj Ventress' Return; Will The Character Feature In AHSOKA Season 2?

THE BAD BATCH Creative Team Address Asajj Ventress' Return; Will The Character Feature In AHSOKA Season 2?

The Bad Batch's creative team has weighed in on the decision to add Asajj Ventress to the mix in the show's final season and seemed to strongly hint that the character will make the leap to live-action.

By JoshWilding - Feb 16, 2024 04:02 AM EST
Filed Under: Bad Batch
Source: SFFGazette.com

Asajj Ventress is a former Jedi Padawan turned assassin who was trained in the ways of the dark side by the evil Count Dooku. For a long time, she yearned to be considered a true Sith, secretly acting as Dooku’s unofficial apprentice.

We first met her in The Clone Wars fighting for the Separatists and clashing with Jedi like Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker with her twin red-bladed lightsabers in hand. However, when Dooku was ordered to dispose of Asajj and left her for dead, Ventress returned to her Nightsister clan with revenge in mind.

After the Count laid waste to her people, she reinvented herself as a bounty hunter and reclaimed her identity, neither a Sith nor a Jedi, becoming an unlikely ally to Ahsoka Tano for a time. 

The Clone Wars never got a chance to end Ventress' story and her death was instead covered in the Star Wars: Dark Disciple novel by Christie Golden. In that, the bounty hunter rediscovered love, compassion and selflessness, sacrificing herself to save Jedi Quinlan Vos by taking the brunt of a force lightning attack by Dooku. 

We've since learned that she somehow survived that clash and, as a result, she'll be part of the upcoming third and final season of The Bad Batch

Talking to The Direct (via SFFGazette.com), Supervising Director Brad Rau addressed the decision to throw the villain-turned-anti-hero into the mix. "We're huge Ventress fans. And when we talked with our creative team to figure out that we could bring her into the storyline, we were very excited."

"We pulled designs from unaired arcs of the Clone Wars which inspired the novel 'Dark Disciple', and we're not contradicting anything that happened in 'Dark Disciple.'"

"I will say that not all of the answers to the mystery of interest will be told in 'The Bad Batch' show," he continued. "There may be future answers down the road in something else. But it was really great to have that character in our show to interact with our characters. [It] was really cool."

What could he mean by "something else"?

With The Bad Batch ending soon and no other animated projects on the horizon (as far as we're aware), this seems to suggest we'll see Ventress in a live-action series. Skeleton Crew and Ahsoka season 2 are the most likely possibilities, though we can't discount The Mandalorian & Grogu movie either.

Nightsister magic became a major part of Ahsoka's first batch of episodes, so we'd bet on Ventress somehow factoring into that series now Grand Admiral Thrawn and The Great Mothers are enacting some sort of sinister plan on Dathomir. 

We're sure there's a lot Dave Filoni is keen to do with this character in live-action, anyway, but the question now is simple: who should play her? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below. 

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bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 2/16/2024, 5:40 AM
If she does survive past the OT, I can definitely see her show up in Ahsoka S2. Bet she has some thoughts on Thrawn using Dathomirian witchcraft
MotherGooseUPus
MotherGooseUPus - 2/16/2024, 8:10 AM
She was underrated in CLone Wars
supermanrex
supermanrex - 2/16/2024, 1:29 PM
if she makes the live action jump i want to see carrie ann moss from jessica jones play her. she has that bad ass chick vibe too her.
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 2/17/2024, 12:14 AM
I really hope they bring her in to the current live-action SW shows, Ventress teaming up with former enemies to take down Thrawn is IMO the kind of hype you wanna generate to sell how serious is the Grand Admiral's threat in these arcs.

Plus it would be their way of getting their Nightister ally in their party ranks too. (And solves not having to also introduce a live-action version of Merrin from the SW Jedi games)

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