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wetsocksinbed · 1 day

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“they found me”

“who?”

“my brothers”

excuse me while I sob

#the bad batch #bad batch spoilers #tbb spoilers #the bad batch spoilers #tbb #swtbb #Star wars #omega #tbb omega #tbb hunter #tbb wrecker #tbb crosshair #tbb echo

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nerdiqueen · 2 days

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hang on I have to rant

if you're not already aware, the five-man band is a literary device used to classify teams of 5 characters. it's what I call an external trope, meaning that you fit the trope to the characters, they don't innately have it.

a:tla has a pretty solid one, and it's well known enough, so I'm gonna use it to show you what I mean

it is comprised of:

the Leader, who directs the group and is usually the main character (aang)

the Lancer, who serves as character foil to the Leader and is often a bad-guy-turned-good or rogue element (zuko)

the Big Guy, who solves physical problems for the team and is frequently a goofball (toph)

the Smart Guy, who solves technical/logistical problems for the team and typically serves as an "idea guy" (sokka)

and the Heart, who solves emotional problems for the team- if there's only one girl, she's probably the Heart (katara)

there are three star wars groups I want to look at: delta squad, domino squad, and clone force 99.

first is domino squad, as they fit this trope the easiest.

fives is the Leader, the most strategizing one in the group

droidbait is the Lancer, far less cautious and more prone to injury than the others (the foil to fives' effectiveness)

hevy is the Big Guy, serving the oh-so-common "big gun demolitions expert" variant

echo is the Smart Guy, in the "guys, come on, stick to the PLAN" variant

cutup is the Heart, lightening the mood with jokes (hence the name)

the first to die is droidbait, leaving echo to serve as fives' foil, which allows us to see that fives is probably the most prototypical clone of the bunch. then hevy sacrifices himself, and cutup gets eaten, leaving only fives and echo until the Citadel arc which I haven't yet seen.

then we have delta squad. the thing about delta squad is that there are four of them, and while the four-man band is a thing, they make this perfect incomplete five-man band that I think is really really tasty.

boss (player character) is the Leader, guiding the team

sev is the Lancer, playing the "snarky rogue" archetype

scorch is the Big Guy, again the "big gun demolitions" variant- but with the added flavor of being very by-the-book (which we see the consequences of when he aligns with not only the empire but doctor hemlock himself in tbb)

fixer is the Smart Guy, tech expert

notice anything?

there's no Heart.

and that works. these are clone commandos- meant to be the most effective troops the republic has. they almost never interact socially outside of their squad, and when they do it's kept pretty professional.

we see that again in clone force 99, or as they call themselves, the bad batch

hunter is the Leader, his enhanced senses leaving him the most generalist of the batch (and also he's technically their sergeant)

crosshair is the Lancer, a "silent, ruthless efficiency" type

wrecker is the Big Guy, "big gun demolitions" variant yet again (I told you it was common) in the goofball flavor

tech is the Smart Guy, btw he's really well done and it never feels like he just "knows because he's smart" you can always tell how he figures things out

again, there's no Heart. but wait.

in the Bad Batch arc in clone wars, they pick up another member- echo. we don't see much of echo's interaction with the batch in that arc, but when we come back, echo is solidly in a sort of almost-but-not-quite Heart role. and then.

omega shows up in the "sixth ranger" role, there to shake up the group dynamic. throughout season one, we see omega slowly take over echo's role as Heart- and as this happens, it becomes clear that that was the role he was playing, as he talks hunter through how to best take care of omega. but omega, tagalong kid as she is, is much, much more suited to the Heart role than echo, and she takes his place- which allows echo to run off and have his own adventures with rex throughout seasons two and three, WHICH WORKS because echo is a regular clone who joined the batch later in life and thus isn't quite the same as the others, but omega is a deviant clone just like them!

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gil-estel · 26 days

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i just think it’s neat that they both end up with puppies

#tbb omega #boba fett #tbb batcher #rancor #bad batch batcher #the bad batch omega #the bad batch #sw tbb #swtbb #tbobf #sw tbobf #the book of boba fett #sw #star wars #esteldraws #lurca hound #look lurca hounds can live for 50 years okay? because I said so.

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el-niphrendil · 1 month

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This was a comission I recently made for kjdouglas.art on instagram. I really loved working on it, since I got to draw a lot of my favourite clone characters. (I mean, who wouldn't be happy if they got comissioned to draw Cody or Crosshair <3)

Thank you again, for trusting me with this piece. And I hope you guys will like it as much as the comissioner did.

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moobrvoobl-moobmoob-oobmpoobroom · 2 months

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the best thing about this episode is Crosshair constantly going “murder?” and Omega saying no until there’s no more harmless option and him just letting loose like he needs to meet a kill quota or something

#Swift talks #swift watches tbb #Tbb #the bad batch #the bad batch spoilers #tbb spoilers #bad batch #SwTbb #Star Wars #star wars the bad batch #Tbb Crosshair #tbb omega #Tbb s3 #tbb s3 spoilers #tbb season 3 spoilers #400 notes #100 notes

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inkstainedhandswithrings · 1 year

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Reasons why I believe this isn't a final Death

denial

There's a couple parallels between Tech's death and Echo's supposed death. First of all, we don't see a body in either case. Not Echo's and also not Tech's. We do see Echo's charred helmet and we see Tech's broken goggles later on. The team also had to leave right away in both cases, otherwise they would've been captured/killed. And they both sacrificed themselves for the team. If Echo didn't die, then why should Tech?

Denial

All that character building this season. Like of that was for nothing, then that was terrible writing. If that was to make us more attached to Tech so that his death hurt more, that is also terrible writing. I mean, he got a whole ass lovestory-in-the-making and that's the character you'll kill off?? c'mon. just as he was learning more about people and showing affection and social interaction, and learning how to properly and respectfully communicate with Omega??? that's when you kill him off? c'mon.

DENIAL

The fact that it was Hemcock that found him. You know the guy who does experiments on clones? Why lose such a valuable test subject? if there were any signs of life from Tech, he must've saved him, if only to use him and maybe modify him (again, Echo parallels)

DENIAL

✨ star wars medicine ✨

I mean, last season Hunter fell down a cliff from a moving ship and he survived just fine. I'm just saying.

DENIAL

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spockvarietyhour · 1 month

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Clone Assassin spaceship, "Infiltration"

#Star Wars #Star Wars The Bad Batch #SWTBB #Infiltration #Infiltration (episode)#spaceship #scifi #swedit #tbbedit #spaceshipedit #scifiedit #GIF #my gifs #Danny watches Star Wars The Bad Batch #Hide and Queue

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stoat-party · 1 month

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Time for a phenomenon I call Schrödinger’s Tech - where I simultaneously think “that’s my boy” whenever The Operative does something cool, and also root for the good guys to defeat him by any means necessary (because if he dies, he was never Tech anyway).

The twist seems very obvious, enough that the writers could literally just be clowning on us for fun, but you do have to remember that the show’s primary audience is kids. Either way, I have to protect my mind from being wrong (worst possible thing that can happen), so I hold two contradictory storylines in my head at once.

Very good episodes, anyway.

I don’t want to make a separate post for this so just pretend it’s a reblog - The Operative said “You had your chance to be one of us. You chose the wrong side,” to Crosshair.

Which, in context, makes way more sense if “us” is the Bad Batch (notice he said “be,” not “become”), since Crosshair clearly doesn’t want to be a brainwashed drone. It does make less sense because that’s NOT Tech’s attitude toward Crosshair at ALL, and also The Operative is currently working against them anyway, but if The Operative had Tech’s full logical capacity then he wouldn’t be working for the Empire, would he?

The brainwashed clone dudes are interchangeable, so there’s no reason to show this one surviving if he’s not someone important — unless the writers really want to make us look like idiots, which I REFUSE TO RULE OUT

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ericmcgregor · 2 months

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Sad fact, but there’s like a total of five minutes in the entirety of the show where all members of the batch are together, on the same side, AND alive.

#star wars #the bad batch #tbb #swtbb #tbb hunter #tbb crosshair #tbb tech #tbb omega #tbb wrecker #tbb echo #star wars the bad batch #sw tbb

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meme-force-99 · 11 months

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We finally made some memes-

Please use any that you like. If you do, a reblog would be appreciated!

#meme force 99 #tbb #swtbb #the bad batch #star wars the bad batch #star wars tbb #sw tbb #tbb season 2 #tbb tech #tech #bad batch tech #clone trooper tech #tech tbb #tech the bad batch #the bad batch tech #tech bad batch #tech badbatch

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wetsocksinbed · 1 day

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i genuinely forgot echo had ears

#The bad batch #tbb spoilers #Bad batch spoilers #star wars #swtbb #tbb #disney #lucasfilm #star wars the bad batch #Tbb echo #Tbb season 3 #arc trooper echo

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unwhitewashthebadbatch · 2 months

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As much praise as The Bad Batch is getting for improved writing and increased stakes, it's important to remember #UnwhitewashTBB and the valid critiques that fans of color and Jewish, disabled, and ND fans had about the series and the ways it's harmed them.

Frankly, fans' concerns over bigoted writing and portrayals should have been taken seriously and taken into account when writing + designing the second and third seasons.

In a perfect world, there never would have been whitewashing. There never would have been ableism and antisemitism, either. The creators would have seriously examined the Bad Batch from ALL angles, not just the ones that make the show fun or look good.

Unfortunately, the series has its glaring issues, and they were not corrected by the time the final season was set to air.

However, other creators in #StarWars can learn from this. They can examine their own unconscious biases and avoid, for instance, making a genius a white man with a British accent, while his brawns over brain counterpart can only be read as a man of color.

They can look into harmful tropes for the marginalized people they do want to represent and head in a different direction. They can change. They can improve. They can guarantee that when they say #StarWarsIsForEveryone, they mean it.

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gil-estel · 20 days

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some of the stuff emerie said to nala se got me thinking……. (spiritual successor to this post)

#esteldraws #nala se #emerie karr #tbb omega #the bad batch omega #the bad batch #sw tbb #swtbb #star wars #sw #tbb spoilers #the bad batch spoilers #sw tbb spoilers

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el-niphrendil · 1 year

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Nothing can bring down Omega’s mood. She is just happy they got Crosshair back...

What do you mean that’s not how it happened? You are clearly delusional. This is exactly what happened.

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oftincturedwords · 1 year

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can you imagine how devastated crosshair would be to hear of tech's death ??

how crosshair gave everything to escape just enough to warn them to stay hidden , to protect omega , to remain silent about anything else he knew of clone force 99 , but then hearing tech died in an attempt to locate & rescue him because tech still considered crosshair his brother , no matter everything that had happened & the risk it called for , to learn that tech was the biggest advocate to rescue him yet died in the attempt to find him ...

just envisioning the all consuming grief driven rage crosshair would have before likely breaking down entirely

#star wars #star wars the bad batch #the bad batch #swtbb #crosshair #crosshair tbb #tech tbb #tech #tbb spoilers #swtbb spoilers #the bad batch spoilers #star wars the bad batch spoilers #i am sad thus all sad thoughts are on the dash tonight #bayze rambles #my post

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kajira-kreations · 1 year

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Spent way too much time on this so-called "rough sketch" OMG

Anyway a little WIP of the cover art of a possible TechPhee doujinshi adaptation based on the fanfic of the same name written by fennecsrifle over on AO3 !

#star wars #the bad batch #swtbb #phee genoa #star wars tech #tbb tech #techphee #tech x phee #phech #tephee #what even is the ship name anyway???#doujinshi #star wars fanart #art wip #star wars the bad batch

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