The trailer for The Bad Batch‘s third and final season just dropped and it contained a lot of new reveals, with one of them being rather shocking, Asajj Ventress‘ return. As fans know, the former Sith pupil of Count Dooku met her demise in the canon novel Star Wars: Dark Disciple, which took place before the events of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, which in turn took place before The Bad Batch’s events. Due to this, fans are wondering how she has returned. Here is what is known.
How has Asajj Ventress returned in The Bad Batch Season 3?
The official explanation for Asajj Ventress’ return in The Bad Batch Season 3 is currently unknown. However, it can be assumed that there is an overarching plot twist by the creators that will be explored when the new season drops.
The supervising director and executive producer for The Bad Batch, Brad Rau, claimed in an interview with StarWars.com that Ventress’ return to the Star Wars universe in The Bad Batch Season 3 would align with the events of her story in the Dark Disciple novel while expressing that he did not want to spoil anything. This somewhat hints that her return would not be a full-on retcon of her tragic fate and demise in Dark Disciple and that her return could be a form of plot twist in an overarching narrative that would be explained in the upcoming season of The Bad Batch.
For those who don’t know, Dark Disciple is a novel by Christie Golden that tells a story that was originally planned to be told via an eight-episode arc in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series. In this story, Asajj Ventress and Quinlan Vos partnered up to stop Count Dooku which eventually resulted in Ventress’ death, after she sacrifices herself to save Vos, whom she fell in love with, from succumbing to the Dark Side.
Then again, as Star Wars fans should know by now, certain characters do not stay dead and they can still return, for instance, Palpatine’s unexpected return in Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker despite his apparent death at the end of Return of the Jedi.
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