History Characters / StarWarsAsajjVentress

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Her character designs in ''Legends'' often highlighted her creepiest, most inhuman traits, with [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars the non-canon micro-series]] even giving her ProphetEyes and a shrieking voice. In ''The Clone Wars'', and by extension the canon, she looks considerably more attractive. Her final arc in the canon even allows her to grow her hair back and adopt a more attractive, conventionally feminine appearance.

** In ''Legends''' Dark Horse comics, she remained with the Separatists until being betrayed by Dooku, which resulted in her faking her death and dropping out near the end of the war. In ''The Clone Wars'', she is betrayed a lot sooner and gradually turns into an AntiHero BountyHunter after the destruction of the Nightsisters. This ContinuitySnarl was partially patched by Leland Chee, who stated her fate in the comics wasn't canon in ''Legends'' anymore (explicitly applying BroadStrokes to the ''Obsession'' comic, where the only canon events remaining, according to Chee, are that there was a battle in Boz Pity and that Durge was defeated in Maramere). The canon built over this.

* AdaptationalJerkass: Downplayed and later subverted. Her appearances in ''The Clone Wars'' and the canon portray her as a complete AloofAlly within the Separatists, as her onscreen missions are almost always solo, she routinely antagonizes her underlings, and part of her CharacterDevelopment is precisely about becoming more of a team player. In contrast, while her ''Legends'' version was admittedly not a party animal either, she regularly teamed up with Durge and had a VitriolicBestBuds relationship with him, was also surprisingly close to her Rattataki lieuetenant Aidus, and got often sent to missions along with other Dark Acolytes. As none of those characters followed her to the canon, she doesn't have a chance to show her social side until getting betrayed and forced to leave the Separatist Alliance, and it is still mostly limited to tagalongs like Ahsoka and Quinlan Vos.

* AdaptationalJobChange: Prior to ''The Clone Wars'', she was originally a Dark Acolyte in ''Legends'', one of the Force sensitives trained by Dooku to fulfill many functions of intelligence, military command, and Jedi affairs. However, since this faction doesn't exist in ''The Clone Wars'' (and by extension the canon), Ventress is instead referred by everyone as merely "Dooku's assassin". The difference is mostly semantic, as she still does this kind of missions aside from assassinating people, but it also extends to the aesthetics, wearing SpyCatsuit-like attires, using traps and explosives, and acting generally more like a special forces operative than a regular Sith.

* CreateYourOwnVillain: Savage Opress, whom she used to try to avenge Count Dooku's betrayal, turned against her after he had enough of her abuse.

** To a lesser extent, she's a counterpart to Ahsoka as well: both of their Masters were Jedi who turned to Dark Side, they both started by using a single green-bladed lightsaber and picked up DualWielding later, and the way the Jedi Council abandoned Ahsoka under pressure from the Senate eerily resembles how Dooku betrayed Ventress on Sidous' orders. They even came to realize that they had rather similar experiences during the fifth season.

* HeelFaceTurn: Downplayed. She has this during the fourth season, although it's less of a change in morality and more a choice to stop actively opposing the heroes. She later has a full-on, though it sadly ends with RedemptionEqualsDeath.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NikaFutterman, Orlagh Cassidy (''[[AudioPlay/StarWarsDookuJediLost Dooku: Jedi Lost]]''), ''Creator/GreyDeLisle (''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars Star Wars: Clone Wars]]'')

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NikaFutterman, Orlagh Cassidy (''[[AudioPlay/StarWarsDookuJediLost Dooku: Jedi Lost]]'')

** She's an UnknownRival to Grevious in canon, which makes her duel with him on Dathomir in "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E19Massacre Massacre]]" more of a business affair that was more personal to him than her. In ''Legends'', she had already faced him along with Durge in the Trenchant space station, a secret test designed by Dooku to prove whether Grievous was worthy or not to lead his army. The encounter ended up on Grievous wiping the floor with both opponents and leaving Ventress in a brief VillainousBSOD, which was implied to play a role in her posterior revenge and defeat of him in Dathomir.

* UnknownRival: Grevious considers Ventress to be his rival, and gives her some level of respect while they both serve Dooku, which only turns to hate once she seemingly defects. Ventress for her part, doesn't share the sentiment, though she finds the thought of them being equals amusing.

* UnknownRival: Grevious considers Ventress to be his rival, and gives her some level of respect while they both Dooku, which only turns to hate once she seemingly defects. Ventress for her part, doesn't share the sentiment, though she finds the thought of them being equals amusing.

** She lacks a real history with Grievous in canon, which makes her duel with him on Dathomir in "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E19Massacre Massacre]]" more of a business affair. In ''Legends'', she had already faced him along with Durge in the Trenchant space station, a secret test designed by Dooku to prove whether Grievous was worthy or not to lead his army. The encounter ended up on Grievous wiping the floor with both opponents and leaving Ventress in a brief VillainousBSOD, which was implied to play a role in her posterior revenge and defeat of him in Dathomir.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Her quest for vengance against Dooku resulted in unleashing Savage Opress into the Galaxy, which ultimately led to the fall of Duchess Satine's pacifist New Mandalorian goverment.

* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Implied, especially in her duel against Luminara Unduli. When the Jedi master compares her to Dooku, Ventress looks satisfied for a second, clearly rejoicing at the connection, but when Unduli then adds that she is actually a ''sloppy'' version of Dooku, she loses the smile and goes ballistic.

* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: In ''Legends'', she remains a loyal Separatist agent until near the end of the Clone Wars, when she is crippled by Anakin, turned into a cyborg in an attempt to rebuild her, and ultimately discarded by Dooku, after which she fakes her death and drops out from the war to an unknown fate. In ''The Clone Wars'', and by extension in the Disney canon, she is betrayed in midst of the conflict, joins the Dathomirian Nightsisters, becomes a BountyHunter, and gets killed as an AntiHero after saving her lover Quinlan Vos.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Her character designs in ''Legends'' often highlighted her creepiest, most inhuman traits, with [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars the non-canon micro-series]] even giving her ProphetEyes and a shrieking voice. In ''The Clone Wars'', and by extension the Disney canon, she looks considerably more attractive. Her final arc in the Disney canon even allows her to grow her hair back and adopt a more attractive, conventionally feminine appearance.

** In ''Legends''' Dark Horse comics, she remained with the Separatists until being betrayed by Dooku, which resulted in her faking her death and dropping out near the end of the war. In ''The Clone Wars'', she is betrayed a lot sooner and gradually turns into an AntiHero BountyHunter after the destruction of the Nightsisters. This ContinuitySnarl was partially patched by Leland Chee, who stated her fate in the comics wasn't canon in ''Legends'' anymore (explicitly applying BroadStrokes to the ''Obsession'' comic, where the only canon events remaining, according to Chee, are that there was a battle in Boz Pity and that Durge was defeated in Maramere). The Disney canon built over this.

* AdaptationalJerkass: Downplayed and later subverted. Her appearances in ''The Clone Wars'' and the Disney canon portray her as a complete AloofAlly within the Separatists, as her onscreen missions are almost always solo, she routinely antagonizes her underlings, and part of her CharacterDevelopment is precisely about becoming more of a team player. In contrast, while her ''Legends'' version was admittedly not a party animal either, she regularly teamed up with Durge and had a VitriolicBestBuds relationship with him, was also surprisingly close to her Rattataki lieuetenant Aidus, and got often sent to missions along with other Dark Acolytes. As none of those characters followed her to the Disney canon, she doesn't have a chance to show her social side until getting betrayed and forced to leave the Separatist Alliance, and it is still mostly limited to tagalongs like Ahsoka and Quinlan Vos.

* CharacterExaggeration: Her portrayal in ''The Clone Wars'', and by extension in the Disney canon, focuses mostly on a single aspect of her ''Legends'' character, namely her job as Dooku's special operations woman. Other facets of her personality, like her role as TheCorrupter towards other Jedi, her aspirations to become a Sith lady, her iron hand reign over Rattatak, and even her feelings towards Obi-Wan, are either de-emphasized or downright AdaptedOut. Even her personality gets adjusted to this change, making her taciturn and gloomy, whereas her previous versions could be incredibly talkative and theatrical.

* BreakTheCutie: She started out as a girl sold to a slaver as an infant. Then, her owner, who is implied to have been a decent one, got killed, and she was taken in and happily adopted by a Jedi Master... then ''he'' got murdered. Alone and driven mad with grief, she turned to the Dark Side and then became an apprentice and assassin to Count Dooku. Then, Dooku betrays and tries to kill her at the behest of ''his'' master. Then, her clan is wiped out in retribution for her surviving the assassination attempt and proceeding to try and pay Dooku back in kind.

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* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: In ''Legends'', Ventress had parents and competed as a gladiator in the Rattataki Cauldron after those and Ky Narec were killed, this being how Dooku found her. In canon, she neither knew her parents (which is first excised by ''The Clone Wars'') nor competed as a gladiator.
* AdaptationalJobChange: Pre-''The Clone Wars'' she was a Dark Acolyte, one of the Force sensitives trained by Dooku to fulfill many functions of intelligence, military command and Jedi affairs, but as this faction doesn't exist in the series (and by extension the canon), she's instead referred by everyone as merely "Dooku's assassin". The difference is mostly semantic, as she still does this kind of missions aside from assassinating people, but it also extends to the aesthetics, wearing SpyCatsuit-like attires, using traps and explosives, and acting generally more like a special forces operative than a regular Sith.

As an infant, Asajj Ventress was given over to a slaver from Rattatak to spare the rest of the Nightsister tribe from a similar fate. After the slaver was killed in a pirate attack, Ventress discovered her strength in the Force and was taken under the wing of a Jedi Master named Ky Narec. After Narec was killed, Ventress succumbed to the Dark Side, eventually becoming a Sith apprentice and loyal assassin to Count Dooku and serving him during the Clone Wars. However, late in the Clone Wars, Darth Sidious grew concerned by Ventress's growing strength and ordered Dooku to kill her, to which the Count reluctantly complied. Ventress survived the attack and returned to Dathomir, seeking aid in avenging the Sith Lord's betrayal. After a complex series of events that saw the creation (and rebellion) of the monstrous Savage Opress, Dooku ordered an assault that all but destroyed the Nightsisters, leaving Ventress to fend for herself in the galaxy.

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* AdaptationOriginConnection: Inverted. In ''Legends'', her twin lightsabers used to belong to Komari Vosa, a rebellious former Padawan of Dooku who was hunted down by Jango Fett. In the canon, where Vosa doesn't exist, the lightsabers were presumably built by Ventress herself. Also, in ''Legends'' Ventress was recruited as a ([[SecretTestOfCharacter failed]]) replacement for another acolyte of Dooku, Sev'rance Tann, who is similarly absent from the canon.

* BaldOfEvil: Flashbacks revealed that she's not naturally hairless, and only shaved her hair after the death of Ky Narec. It was confirmed by Filoni that she chose this as a way to express her allegiance to the DarkSide and to the Sith, and after leaving Dooku and becoming a bounty hunter, she decided to let her hair grow out. Between that and the destruction of the Nightsisters, she has been slowly moving towards BaldOfAwesome.

* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: In ''Legends'', she remains a loyal Separatist agent until near the end of the war, when she is crippled by Anakin, turned into a cyborg in an attempt to rebuild her, and ultimately discarded by Dooku, after which she fakes her death and drops out from the war to an unknown fate. In ''The Clone Wars'', and by extension in the Disney canon, she is betrayed in midst of the conflict, joins the Dathomirian Nightsisters, becomes a BountyHunter, and gets killed as an AntiHero after saving her lover Quinlan Vos.

* AdaptationOriginConnection: Inverted. In ''Legends'', her twin lightsabers used to belong to Komari Vosa, a rebellious former Padawan of Dooku who was hunted down by Jango Fett. In canon, where Vosa doesn't exist, the lightsabers were presumably built by Ventress herself. Also, in ''Legends'' Ventress was recruited as a ([[SecretTestOfCharacter failed]]) replacement for another acolyte of Dooku, Sev'rance Tann, who is similarly absent from canon.

* FallenHero: Ventress was once a Jedi padawan who fought to free Rattatak from gangs of ruthless criminals. She turned to the Dark Side after her Jedi Master Ky Narec was killed and she sought revenge.

* AdaptationalJobChange: Pre-''The Clone Wars'' she was a Dark Acolyte, one of the Force sensitives trained by Dooku to fulfill many functions of intelligence, military command and Jedi affairs, but as this faction doesn't exist in the series, she's instead referred by everybody as merely "Dooku's assassin". The difference is mostly semantic, as she still does this kind of missions aside from assassinating people, but it also extends to the aesthetics, wearing SpyCatsuit-like attires, using traps and explosives, and acting generally more like a special forces operative than a regular Sith.

** Her FoeRomanceSubtext with Obi-Wan from ''Legends'' gets mostly excised in ''The Clone Wars'', and by extension the current canon. In ''Legends'', the two had multiple suggestive moments, Obi-Wan became downright obsessed with the possibility of redeeming her (and she with that of corrupting him), and Asajj had even an instance of WhatIsThisFeeling after one of their encounters. Her fake death and desertion also felt as a possible SequelHook, implying they might meet again some day (and even although they did not, Obi-Wan was mentioned in another ''Legends'' work as having been [[TheMourningAfter reminded of her by some flowers]] he found in Tatooine). In canon, Obi-Wan and Ventress do like to invoke romantic subtext during their fights, but this is clearly treated by both as just a twisted joke without any real attraction; Obi-Wan only has eyes for Satine, and Ventress later has her true LoveInterest in Quinlan Vos.

* CompositeCharacter:
** In ''The Clone Wars'', Ventress is effectively conflated with Saato, a fellow female Dark Acolyte who was a Dathomiri Nightsister before being recruited by Dooku. Before that, ''Legends'' had established Ventress was a full-blooded Rattataki without any relation to Dathomir.

** Her FoeRomanceSubtext with Obi-Wan is fleshed out much more in ''Legends'' in comparison to ''The Clone Wars''. In the former, they have multiple suggestive moments, Obi-Wan becomes downright obsessed with the possibility of redeeming her, and Asajj has even an instance of WhatIsThisFeeling after one of their encounters. Her fake death and desertion also feel as a possible SequelHook, implying they might meet again some day (and even although they did not, Obi-Wan is mentioned in another work as having been [[TheMourningAfter reminded of her by some flowers]] he found in Tatooine). In canon, Ventress does still have several moments of flirting with Obi-Wan, but she virtually forgets about him altogether after the duel against Maul and Savage and instead hooks up with Quinlan Vos.

* AdaptationalJerkass: Downplayed and later subverted. Her appearances in ''The Clone Wars'', and by extension the Disney canon, portray her as a complete AloofAlly within the Separatists, as her onscreen missions are always solo, she routinely antagonizes her underlings, and part of her CharacterDevelopment is precisely about becoming more of a team player. In contrast, while her ''Legends'' version was admittedly not a party animal either, she regularly teamed up with Durge and had a VitriolicBestBuds relationship with him, was also surprisingly close to her Rattataki lieuetenant Aidus, and got often sent to missions along with other Dark Acolytes. As none of those characters followed her to the Disney canon, she doesn't have a chance to show her social side until getting betrayed and forced to leave the Separatist Alliance, and it is still mostly limited to tagalongs like Ahsoka and Quinlan Vos.

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Since Ventress in the canon is more like a CIS kunoichi rather than a full-fledged Dark Acolyte, her personality is toned down in accord, becoming stoic and reserved and only hamming up when really spurred. In comparison, her personality in ''Legends'' was almost the exact opposite: she tended to be loquacious and unhinged, in the classical Sith tradition, and only turned it down when feigning serenity or if genuinely affected by something.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: She is Dooku's apprentice and one of the Separatists' high-ranking commanders, and when she's required to be on the battlefield, she can hold her own against Anakin and Obi-Wan of all people at once.

* FoeRomanceSubtext: While not as much as in ''Legends'', she had some chemistry with Obi-Wan, with a lot of mock-romantic dialogue during their battles.

** She also ruins Barriss's plot to frame Ahsoka for the bombing of the Jedi Temple hangar, while also indirectly encouraging Ahsoka to follow her own path now that she's been thrown aside by the people she thought she could trust [[{{Foil}} as she knows from personal experience]]... which ultimately leads to Ahsoka doing everything important she does later on, like becoming an important figure to the Rebellion.

** Even more so within canon, as she pulls a full-on HeelFaceTurn, whereas her pre-''The Clone Wars'' self merely ran away from the war and her post-''The Clone Wars'' self never was followed on due to the Disney buyout (though it would have presumably ended up as portrayed in ''Literature/DarkDisciple'', which was made after abandoned scripts).

* BifurcatedWeapon: In the [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsMovie pilot movie]], her lightsabers could be joined at the hilt to form a [[DoubleWeapon double-bladed]] one. Obi-Wan sliced through the hilt to separate them and she's never used the technique since.

* CatchAndReturn: When she tested the Nightbrother competitors in battle, she caught a spear one of them had thrown at her and threw it back at him, impaling him on it.

* CharacterExaggeration: Her portrayal in ''The Clone Wars'', and by extension in the Disney canon, focuses mostly on a couple aspects of her ''Legends'' character, namely her job as Dooku's special operations woman and her newly introduced Nightsisterly roots in Dathomir. Other facets of her personality, like her role as TheCorrupter towards other Jedi, her aspirations to become a Sith lady, her iron hand reign over Rattatak, and even her relationship with Obi-Wan are either de-emphasized or downright AdaptedOut. Even her personality gets adjusted to this change, making her taciturn and gloomy, whereas her previous versions could be incredibly talkative and theatrical.

* DarkMagicalGirl: She fits the description to a "T": she fought for the Separatists to gain Count Dooku's approval, her greatest fear is being left with nothing, and gradually turned away from the Dark Side after Dooku abandoned her. She even helped Ahsoka in exchange for Ahsoka getting her a full pardon.

* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Implied, especially in her duel against Luminara Unduli. When the Jedi master compares her to Dooku, Ventress looks immensely satisfied for a second, clearly rejoicing at the connection, but when Unduli then adds that she is actually a ''sloppy'' version of Dooku, she loses the smile and goes ballistic.

* LateArrivalSpoiler: The fact that Asajj Ventress is a creepy BaldWoman seems meant to be a sort of surprise in the pilot movie of ''The Clone Wars'', given that she is introduced with a heavy hood (something that she rarely wears in any medium or continuity) and doesn't lose it until it is time to whip out her lightsabers. However, for those who had read the ''ComicBook/StarWarsRepublic'' comics, where she had first appeared ''years'' before, this could hardly be a revelation.

* MuggedForDisguise: She was attacked by Barriss Offee, who steals Ventress's helmet and lightsabers to pose as her while attacking Ahsoka.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: Ventress was able to beat the ever-loving crap out of several Nightbrothers, all of whom had at least fifty pounds of muscle on her, while fighting hand-to-hand.

* AdaptationalWimp: {{Downplayed}}. Ventress remains one of the most dangerous Force users during the Clone Wars in canon, but the de-canonization of the ExpandedUniverse cut out several of the great feats she had in ''Legends'', like defeating Plo Koon while half-armed, going toe to toe with [[AcePilot Anakin of all people]] in a starfighter battle, being a nightmare to many Jedi in her missions, and eliminating the remnants of Darth Plagueis' dangerous [[PraetorianGuard Echani Sun Guard]]. At a personal level, the canonical Ventress is a substantially worse pilot, gets more often swamped in singles duels, and is forced to flee quickly from situations she would have dominated in the comics; in her very first introduction in ''The Clone Wars'' movie, as a sort of meta-EstablishingCharacterMoment, she even fails at Force tricking Rex, a non-sensitive clone trooper of all people. Ventress in ''Legends'' also had the uncanny ability to reanimate dead through Sith alchemy, which she lacks in canon (although it would have fitted nicely her new Nightsister role given that those have similar Force magicks).

** Her FoeRomanceSubtext with Obi-Wan is fleshed out much more in ''Legends'' in comparison to ''The Clone Wars''. In the former, they have multiple suggestive moments, Obi-Wan becomes downright obsessed with the possibility of redeeming her, and Asajj has even an instance of WhatIsThisFeeling after one of their encounters. Her fake death and desertion also feel as a possible SequelHook, implying they might meet again some day (and even although they did not, Obi-Wan is mentioned in another work as having been [[TheMourningAfter reminded of her by some flowers]] he found in Tatooine). In canon, Ventress does still have a few moments of subtext with Obi-Wan, but she virtually forgets about him after the duel against Maul and Savage and instead hooks up with Quinlan Vos.

* AdaptationalJerkass: Downplayed and later subverted. Her appearances in ''The Clone Wars'', and by extension the Disney canon, portray her as a complete AloofAlly within the Separatists, as her onscreen missions are always solo, she routinely antagonizes her underlings, and part of her CharacterDevelopment is precisely about becoming more of a team player. In contrast, while her ''Legends'' version was admittedly not a party animal either, she regularly teamed up with Durge and had a VitriolicBestBuds relationship with him, was also close to Aidus and the rest of her servants back in Rattatak, and got often sent to missions along with other Dark Acolytes. As none of those characters followed her to the Disney canon, she doesn't have a chance to show her social side until getting betrayed and forced to leave the Separatist Alliance, and it is still mostly limited to tagalongs like Ahsoka and Quinlan Vos.
* AdaptationalWimp: {{Downplayed}}. Ventress remains one of the most dangerous Force users during the Clone Wars in canon, but the de-canonization of the ExpandedUniverse cut out several of the great feats she had in ''Legends'', like defeating Plo Koon while half-armed, going toe to toe with [[AcePilot Anakin of all people]] in a starfighter battle, being a nightmare to many Jedi in her missions, and eliminating the remnants of Darth Plagueis' dangerous [[PraetorianGuard Echani Sun Guard]]. At a personal level, the canonical Ventress is a substantially worse pilot, gets more often defeated in duels, and is forced to flee quickly from situations she would have dominated in the comics. Ventress in ''Legends'' also has the ability to reanimate dead through Sith alchemy, which she lacks in canon (although it would have fitted nicely her new Nightsister role given that those have similar Force magicks).
* AdaptationOriginConnection: Inverted. In ''Legends'', her twin lightsabers used to belong to Komari Vosa, a rebellious former Padawan of Dooku who was hunted down by Jango Fett. In canon, where Vosa doesn't exist, the lightsabers were presumably built by Ventress herself. Also, in ''Legends'' Ventress was adopted as a replacement for another acolyte of Dooku, Sev'rance Tann, who is similarly absent from canon.

* CompositeCharacter: In ''The Clone Wars'', her role of being Quinlan Vos' lover and later redeeming him through love appears to be inspired by the ''Legends'' character Khaleen Hentz.

* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: In ''Legends'', she remains a loyal Separatist agent until near the end of the war, when she is crippled by Anakin, turned into a cyborg in an attempt to rebuild her, and ultimately discarded by Dooku, after which she fakes her death and drops out from the war to an unknown fate. In ''The Clone Wars'', and by extension in the Disney canon, she is betrayed in midst of the conflict, joins the Dathomiri Nightsisters, becomes a BountyHunter, and gets killed as an AntiHero after saving her lover Quinlan Vos.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Her character designs in ''Legends'' often highlighted her creepiest, most inhuman traits, with [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars the non-canon micro-series]] even giving her ProphetEyes and a shrieking voice. In ''The Clone Wars'', and by extension the Disney Canon, she looks considerably more attractive. Her final arc in the Disney Canon even allows her to grow her hair back and adopt a more attractive, conventionally feminine appearance.

* AdaptationalJerkass: Downplayed and later subverted. Her appearances in ''The Clone Wars'', and by extension the Disney Canon, portray her as a complete AloofAlly within the Separatists, as her onscreen missions are always solo, she routinely antagonizes her underlings, and part of her CharacterDevelopment is precisely about becoming more of a team player. In contrast, while her ''Legends'' version was admittedly not a party animal either, she regularly teamed up with Durge and had a VitriolicBestBuds relationship with him, was also close to Aidus and the rest of her servants back in Rattatak, and got often sent to missions along with other Dark Acolytes. As none of those characters followed her to the Disney canon, she doesn't have a chance to show her social side until getting betrayed and forced to leave the Separatist Alliance, and it is still mostly limited to tagalongs like Ahsoka and Quinlan Vos.

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Since the canonical Ventress is more like a CIS kunoichi rather than a full-fledged Dark Acolyte, her personality is toned down in accord, becoming stoic and reserved and only hamming up when really spurred. In comparison, her personality in ''Legends'' was almost the exact opposite: she tended to be loquacious and unhinged, in the classical Sith tradition, and only turned it down when feigning serenity or if genuinely affected by something.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: She is Dooku's apprentice and one of the Separatists' top people, and when she's required to be on the battlefield, she can hold her own against Anakin and Obi-Wan of all people at once.

* CharacterExaggeration: Her portrayal in ''The Clone Wars'', and by extension in current Disney canon, focuses mostly on a couple aspects of her ''Legends'' character, namely her job as Dooku's special operations woman and her newly introduced Nightsisterly roots in Dathomir. Other facets of her personality, like her role as TheCorrupter towards other Jedi, her aspirations to become a Sith lady, her iron hand reign over Rattatak, and even her relationship with Obi-Wan are either de-emphasized or downright AdaptedOut. Even her personality gets adjusted to this change, making her taciturn and gloomy, whereas her previous versions could be incredibly talkative and theatrical.

** In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E1Ambush Ambush]]", Yoda was able to take her lightsabers using the Force, with no effort.
** In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E13Monster Monster]]", she dished one out to the Nightbrother competitors, but Savage Opress was the only one to come close to matching her.
** In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E14WitchesOfTheMist Witches of the Mist]]", after Savage turned against her during their lightsaber duel against Count Dooku, she tried to fight her former Master on her own, but she was defeated. Count Dooku even warned her that without the aid of Savage, she's no match for him.

* KickTheDog: Her treatment of Savage during the Nightsisters trilogy. Having him transformed and brainwashed, forcing him to kill his own brother (who Savage had given himself up to protect), handing him over to Count Dooku for [[TrainingFromHell Sith training]], and constantly berating him when he proves to be no match for Dooku. After all this, it's really no surprise that Savage wants to kill her.

* MindOverMatter: Just like the rest of the Force-users in the Canon, Ventress is telekinetic.

* SnarkToSnarkCombat: During her brief team-up with Obi-Wan.

** She ruined Darth Maul's first attempt at vengeance on Obi-Wan, which obviously allows Obi-Wan to do everything important he does later on.
** She also ruins Barriss's plot to frame Ahsoka for the temple bombing, while also indirectly encouraging Ahsoka to follow her own path now that she's been thrown aside by the people she thought she could trust [[{{Foil}} as she knows from personal experience]]... which ultimately leads to Ahsoka doing everything important she does later on, like becoming an important figure to the Rebellion.

* StatuesqueStunner: According to the Official Database, Ventress is 179 cm/5'10" tall [[note]]however, an earlier version of the Database listed her height as over 6 feet, and her model in ''The Clone Wars'' is roughly the same height as Anakin, who's 185 cm/6'2"[[/note]], she is considered rather attractive by multiple characters, and she's one of the female characters that are [[MsFanservice fanservice]] in ''The Clone Wars''.
* StealthExpert: Aside from her skill in lightsaber combat and Force usage, Ventress is also really good at being sneaky, making her an excellent spy, saboteur and assassin. Dooku compliments her use of stealth in her first appearance in ''Clone Wars''.

* VillainProtagonist: She began to become this during the third season and it was played up in the fourth season.

* WhipSword: She used a SinisterScythe-on-a-chain during the second test of the Nightbrother "competitors" in "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E13Monster Monster]]".

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Her character designs in ''Legends'' often highlighted her creepiest, most inhuman traits, with ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'' even giving her ProphetEyes and a shrieking voice. In ''The Clone Wars'', and by extension the Disney Canon, she looks considerably more attractive. Her final arc in the Disney Canon even allows her to grow her hair back and adopt a more attractive, conventionally feminine appearance.
* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: In ''Legends'', Ventress had parents and competed as a gladiator in the Rattataki Cauldron after those and Ky Narec were killed, this being how Dooku found her. In canon, she neither knew her parents (which were first excised by ''The Clone Wars'') nor competed as a gladiator.

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: As the canonical Ventress is more like a CIS kunoichi rather than a full-fledged Dark Acolyte, her personality is toned down in accord, becoming stoic and reserved and only hamming up when really spurred. In comparison, her personality in the ''Legends'' comics and series was almost the exact opposite: she tended to be loquacious and unhinged, in the classical Sith tradition, and only turned it down when feigning serenity or if genuinely affected by something.

* AntiHero: She's evolved into one of these since the destruction of the Nightsisters.

* CorporateSamurai: Very literally, as she works for a conglomerate of corporations and her character is officially inspired by samurai/ninja culture. She wears a hakama and ninja-like inner clothes, uses complex bladework and kicks, sports a shaven haircut, is fanatically loyal to a master, her lightsabers can be used as a light-nunchaku, and her name comes from Asaji of ''Film/ThroneOfBlood'' (and if this is not enough, her appearance in the Xbox ''VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefrontII'' Live came equipped with light-shurikens of all things).

* FemmeFatale: She is a sultry, gloomy Separatist agent who wears in dark, flirts with her enemies and is ultimately morally complex.

* InTheHood: Her early appearances in ''The Clone Wears'', including her introduction in the movie, had Ventress wearing an ample robe with a hood over her face. She dropped this over time.

* AdaptationalJerkass: Downplayed and subverted. Her appearances in ''The Clone Wars'', and by extension the Disney Canon, portray her as a complete AloofAlly within the Separatists, as her onscreen missions are always solo, she routinely antagonizes her own partners, and part of her CharacterDevelopment is precisely about becoming more of a team player. In contrast, while her ''Legends'' version was admittedly not a party animal either, she regularly teamed up with Durge and had a VitriolicBestBuds relationship with him, and was also close to Aidus and the rest of her servants back in Rattatak. As none of those characters followed her to the Disney canon, she doesn't have a chance to show her social side until getting betrayed and forced to leave the Separatist Alliance, and it is still mostly limited to tagalongs like Ahsoka and Quinlan Vos.
* AdaptationalWimp: {{Downplayed}}. Ventress remains one of the most dangerous Force users during the Clone Wars in canon, but the de-canonization of the ExpandedUniverse cut out several of the great feats she had in ''Legends'', like defeating Plo Koon while half-armed, going toe to toe with [[AcePilot Anakin of all people]] in a starfighter battle, being a nightmare to many Jedi in her early missions, and eliminating the remnants of Darth Plagueis' dangerous [[PraetorianGuard Echani Sun Guard]]. At a personal level, the canonical Ventress is a substantially worse pilot, gets more often defeated in duels, and is forced to flee quickly from situations she would have dominated in the comics. Ventress in ''Legends'' also has the ability to reanimate dead through Sith alchemy, which she lacks in canon (although it would have fitted nicely her new Nightsister role given that those have similar Force magicks).
* AdaptationOriginConnection: Inverted. In ''Legends'', her twin lightsabers used to belong to Komari Vosa, a rebellious former Padawan of Dooku who was hunted down by Jango Fett. In canon, where Vosa doesn't exist, the lightsabers were presumably built by Ventress herself. Also, in ''Legends'' Ventress was adopted as a replacement for another acolyte of Dooku, Sev'rance Tann, who is also absent from canon.

* CharacterExaggeration: Her portrayal in ''The Clone Wars'', and by extension in current Disney canon, focuses mostly on a couple aspects of her ''Legends'' character, namely her missions as Dooku's loyal hitwoman and her Nightsisterly roots in Dathomir. Other sides of her personality, like her role as TheCorrupter towards other Jedi, her regal Sith lady aspirations, her iron hand ruling of Rattatak, and even her relationship with Obi-Wan and are either de-emphasized or downright AdaptedOut.

* TheCoatsAreOff: She often removes the skirt of her first outfit.

* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Implied, especially in her duel against Luminara Unduli. When the Jedi master compares her to Dooku, Ventress looks immensely satisfied for a second, clearly rejoicing at the connection, but when Unduli then adds that she is actually an ''sloppy'' version of Dooku, she loses the smile and goes ballistic.
* InTheHood: Not often, as she rarely wears a robe, but sometimes, including her introduction in the movie.

* LeanAndMean: She's very thin, to the point her character design in ''The Clone Wars'' looks slightly non-HumanAlien, but no less dangerous for it.

* MeaningfulName: Asajj might come from the sanskrit "assajan", which means wicked, crooked and sinful, all of which fits her role and personality prior to her CharacterDevelopment. Officoally, it's also a ShoutOut to Kurosawa's Film/ThroneOfBlood, where Asaji is the name of the film's version of Lady Macbeth. It can also be derived from the Japanese "asahi", meaning "morning sun", reflecting her turning away from the Dark Side.

* AdaptationalJerkass: Downplayed and subverted. Her appearances in ''The Clone Wars'', and by extension the Disney Canon, profile her as a complete AloofAlly within the Separatists, as her onscreen missions are always solo, she routinely antagonizes her own partners, and part of her CharacterDevelopment is precisely about becoming more of a team player. In contrast, while her ''Legends'' version was admittedly not a party animal either, she regularly teamed up with Durge and had a VitriolicBestBuds relationship with him, and was also close to Aidus and the rest of her servants back in Rattatak. As none of those characters followed her to the Disney canon, she doesn't have a chance to show her social side until getting betrayed and forced to leave the CSI, and it is still mostly limited to tagalongs like Ahsoka and Quinlan Vos.
* AdaptationalWimp: {{Downplayed}}. Ventress remains one of the most dangerous Force users during the Clone Wars in canon, but the de-canonization of the ExpandedUniverse cut out several of the great feats she had in ''Legends'', like defeating Plo Koon while half-armed, going toe to toe with [[AcePilot Anakin of all people]] in a starfighter battle, being a nightmare to many Jedi in her early missions, and eliminating the remnants of Darth Plagueis' dangerous [[PraetorianGuard Echani Sun Guard]]. At a personal level, the canonical Ventress is a substantially worse pilot, gets more often swamped in duels, and is forced to flee quickly from situations she would have dominated in the comics. Ventress in ''Legends'' also has the ability to reanimate dead through Sith alchemy, which she lacks in canon (although it would have fitted nicely her new Nightsister role given that those have similar Force magicks).
* AdaptationOriginConnection: Inverted. In ''Legends'', her twin lightsabers used to belong to Komari Vosa, a rebellious former padawan of Dooku who was hunted down by Jango Fett. In canon, where Vosa doesn't exist, the lightsabers were presumably built by Ventress herself. Also, in ''Legends'' Ventress was adopted as a replacement for another acolyte of Dooku, Sev'rance Tann, who is also absent from canon.

* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: In ''Legends'', Ventress had parents and competed as a gladiator in the Rattataki Cauldron after those and Ky Narec were killed, this being how Dooku found her. In canon, she neiher knew her parents (which were first excised by ''The Clone Wars'') nor competed as a gladiator.

* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: In ''Legends'', she remains a loyal Separatist agent until near the end of the war, when she is crippled by Anakin, turned into a cyborg in an attempt to rebuild her, and ultimately discarded by Dooku, after which she fakes her death and drops out from the war to an unknown fate. In ''The Clone Wars'', and by extension in the Disney canon, she is betrayed in midst of the conflict, returns back to being a Dathomirian Nightsister, becomes a BountyHunter, and gets killed as an AntiHero after saving her lover Quinlan Vos.

* AdaptationalWimp: {{Downplayed}}. Ventress remains one of the most dangerous Force users during the Clone Wars in canon, but the de-canonization of the ExpandedUniverse cut out several of the great feats she had in ''Legends'', like defeating Plo Koon while half-armed, going toe to toe with [[AcePilot Anakin of all people]] in a starfighter battle, being a nightmare to many Jedi in her early missions, and eliminating the remnants of Darth Plagueis' dangerous [[PraetorianGuard Echani Sun Guard]]. At a personal level, Ventress in canon is a substantially worse pilot, gets more often swamped in duels, and is forced to flee from opponents she would have probably murdered in the comics. Ventress in ''Legends'' also has the ability to reanimate dead through Sith alchemy, which she lacks in canon (although it would have fitted nicely her new Nightsister role given that those have similar spells).
* AdaptationOriginConnection: Inverted. In ''Legends'', her twin lightsabers used to belong to Komari Vosa, a rebellious former padawan of Dooku who was hunted down by Jango Fett. In canon, where Vosa doesn't exist, the lightsabers were presumably built by Ventress herself. Also, in ''Legends'' Ventress was adopted as a replacement of another acolyte of Dooku, Sev'rance Tann, who is also absent from canon.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: She is Dooku's apprentice and one of the Separatists' top people, and when she's required to be on the battlefield, she can duel Anakin and Obi-Wan of all people at once and make it look easy.