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Clone Force 99, aka "The Bad Batch"

"The cavalry has arrived!"

During the creation of the clone army, the Kaminoans conducted genetic experiments in an attempt to create super soldiers. While the plan never quite worked, four of those experiments came to form Clone Force 99 ^note  As a reference to 99, a defective clone that nonetheless pulled a Heroic Sacrifice , or, as they called themselves, the Bad Batch. Recognizable for their modified dark grey Clone Commando armor and their much different physiques in comparison to the regular clones or the "regs" as they call them.

Following the inauguration of the Galactic Empire shortly after the Clone Wars ended, they were deemed too dangerous to keep due to their tendency to disobey orders (and the fact that their inhibitor chips didn't work properly on them) and were forced to escape Kamino (alongside a young female clone named Omega) and went on to become mercenaries and smugglers.

They have their own page now.

In General

• Badass Crew: The four soldiers of the Bad Batch vs. around a hundred battle droids and a pair of spider droids. The Separatist droids lasted for maybe two minutes.
• Big Brother Instinct: It's most prominent with Hunter and Wrecker, but all of the members of Clone Force 99 are very protective and affectionate toward Omega. Echo, the most artificial of the group, threatens other clones if they harm her, and even Crosshair saves her life in the season finale.
• Big Little Brother: Despite physically being a child, Omega is actually older than the Batch; her growth wasn't accelerated like other clones, so while the others may look and act like adults, they are technically Omega's younger brothers.
• Brains and Brawn: In Star Wars: The Bad Batch, Tech and Wrecker get more scenes together, such as in "Cornered" where the both of them stay behind to work on the ship while the others go to buy supplies.
• Breakout Character: Despite only appearing in four episodes of The Clone Wars, Clone Force 99 became so popular that they had received a sequel spin-off series in 2021, just a year after The Clone Wars ended.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: These clones are very unconventional in just about everything they do, to the point that not even a Jedi like Obi-Wan could get them to fall in line. Yet, in spite of their tendencies towards disobedience, they can wipe out an army of droids without so much as breaking a sweat, and do some of the most daring missions that not even ARC Troopers or Republic Commandos could handle.
• Cool Ship: The Havoc Marauder, a shuttle of non-standard Republic design that allows them to better get behind enemy lines. It looks like a sleeker, meaner Lambda-class shuttle.
• Covert Pervert: A deleted scene shows that the Bad Batch painted a rather scandalous Nose Art of Padmé on their ship, as a show of gratitude for her support of the clones. Hunter admits that they check her out on the holoscans and Wrecker cheekily states that she could "negotiate" with him any time he liked.
• Crippling Overspecialization: While they can chew through entire platoons of battle droids like tissue paper, organic enemies are far more of a challenge due to the fact that the Batch were trained exclusively in Separatist droid combat. What doesn't help is that the droids were designed strictly to follow orders, so they tend to struggle against more cunning opponents (i.e. Fennec Shand, Cad Bane) who can think on their level.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: When the Separatists shoot down a gunship the crew is traveling in, they take the wreckage and use that to shield themselves from the patrols sent to check for survivors. The patrols don't last very long.
• Custom Uniform: They all wear unique, heavily modified clone commando armor.
• Dark Is Not Evil: The Bad Batch wear black and red armor with skull motifs, which clashes very strongly against the pure white or more softly colored Clone Trooper armor. Yet, with one exception, they're completely heroic, if a bit chaotic.
• Dangerous Deserter: They are deviant clones who deserted the Empire after refusing to carry out orders to murder civilians.
• Defector from Decadence: After the Republic is reorganized into the Empire, it doesn't take long for them to be sent on a mission to kill innocent civilians, and it takes even less time for them to desert (with the exception of Crosshair).
• Dwindling Party: Over the course of the series, the Bad Batch lose more and more of their members. Crosshair remains loyal to the Empire and joins the hunt to find them when they defect at the very start of the series. Echo parts ways with the group to join Rex's resistance movement in Season 2. Tech dies in a Heroic Sacrifice and Omega is captured by the Empire, leaving the active squad down to Hunter and Wrecker by the start of the next season.
• Dynamic Entry: Their Establishing Character Moment involves them not-so-smoothly landing the Havoc Marauder at Fort Anaxes.
• Elite Army: In many ways, this small squad can outclass most Republic Commandos and ARC Troopers without breaking a sweat, mostly because they're a bunch of rule-breaking fighters that aren't afraid to get unconventional. Combine Hunter's tracking skills, Wrecker's enhanced strength, Crosshair's exceptional sharpshooting, Tech's highly intellectual mind, and Echo's cybernetic skills, and they can keep up with even Jedi.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • While they would happily tear through the entire Separatist Army, they Wouldn't Hurt a Child. Well, except Crosshair, but even he has his limits on that.
  • Season 2 shows that while they'll do some jobs for Cid and the money^note The job in point being selling forged chain codes to a group of smugglers, they won't allow a living being to be smuggled. In addition, the team attempts to rescue their brothers from being experimented on by Dr. Hemlock, in spite of the fact that they despise most "regs".
• Expy: Word of God in an interview specifically established them as one for The A-Team, a band of elite soldiers forced to become mercenaries after a Frame-Up.
• Family of Choice:
  • Though all six members are biologically related, only the original four (Hunter, Wrecker, Tech, and Crosshair) were grouped together to begin with. Echo and Omega end up joining the two as part of their small little family. It's just that Crosshair ends up being the one to leave it (at least until Season 3).
  • Omega solidifies this trope as her desire to stay with the Bad Batch is so great, she was willing to give up a chance to stay with Cut and Suu and live a life with a real family. Later, Ventress recognises this, which is why she lies to Omega and claims that her Force potential is low, as otherwise she would have to leave to be trained.
• Fantastic Slur:
  • "Regs", their nickname for the regular, Jango Fett-looking clone troopers. It’s more justified since they end up being programmed drones of the Empire.
  • The Fantastic Racism they have towards regular troopers is reciprocated, as clones on Kamino refer to them as the "Sad Batch" and "Defect Squad". They also call Omega a "Lab Scrabber", which causes a lunchroom brawl in the first episode. The only Regs that like them and vice versa are Cody and Rex. Like many things, this changes over the following seasons, but Cody and Rex are still the ones they get on best with.
  • The squad really isn't fond of Separatists. Or droids. Especially Separatist droids.
• Five-Man Band:
  • Hunter is The Leader; his enhanced senses give him acute awareness of his surroundings and ability to read people, making him an excellent tracker and sly talker, and he is generally the most level-headed member of the team.
  • Crosshair is The Lancer; his exceptional eyesight makes him an excellent sniper. His curt and unpleasant demeanor contrasts Hunter's heavily, and after Order 66 goes live he has the most direct conflict with him about what direction they should take in the new Empire. Unlike his fellows, his neural inhibitor chip is still semi-functional, giving the new regime a way to tweak it to override his loyalty to his squad and transfer said loyalty fully to the Galactic Empire, and he defects and begins hunting his comrades. Following Crosshair's betrayal, Echo begins to lean more into the Lancer role.
  • Tech is The Smart Guy; his analytical skills allow him to come up with theories and draw conclusions faster than most, though he often neglects to tell anyone else of his findings, assuming they're obvious.
  • Wrecker is The Big Guy; he has enhanced strength and endurance. There's not much else to him; he likes to blow stuff up and is great with kids.
  • Omega is The Smurfette Principle; she's a young, female clone who is noted to be one of the five enhanced clones (Echo doesn't count since he started off as an ordinary clone). She has quickly become the mascot of the team. Season 3 also reveals that she's a latent Force-sensitive, a rarity amongst clones.
  • Echo is the Sixth Ranger; while originally a regular clone trooper, he was captured by Separatists and turned into a cyborg, and joins the Bad Batch later on. He can interface with technology, and serves as a voice of reason amongst the rambunctious group. After Crosshair stays loyal to the Empire when the rest of the Bad Batch defects, Echo begins to lean more into being the team's Lancer as well as Hunter's second-in-command.
• Forgotten Fallen Friend: While his status remains unknown, the Bad Batch seems completely unconcerned about Cody's status, despite being the one "reg" they respected before their appearance in Season 7 of The Clone Wars, and have not as much as mentioned him or inquired about him since Order 66 went live. Season 2 of the show subverts this, with Cody working with Crosshair in rescuing Governor Grotton during "The Solitary Clone".
• From Camouflage to Criminal: Heroic examples (with the exception of Crosshair until "The Outpost"). After the Clone Wars end and the Republic is turned into the Empire, the Bad Batch quickly deserts when it becomes apparent the Empire has abandoned any sense of morality. Without any skills usable in civilian life (or any life experience outside of a military setting, for that matter), the Bad Batch turns to mercenary work to get by.
• Heartbroken Badass: Platonically and non-lethally, the entire crew finds themselves utterly crushed when they learned Crosshair, their brother and teammate, removed his chip long ago and has been hunting his teammates willingly, in spite of his desires to work with them again. Even when they give him the chance to come back, he refuses to live the life of a petty mercenary, and they somberly walk off.
• Insistent Terminology: Even though they are commandos, they're CT 99's, not CC's. They had to correct Gregor who thought they were C Cs like he is. Because the Bad Batch don't like regs, they always set themselves apart from them. Even though Clone Commandos are special forces, they're technically still regs since they lack mutations.
• Irony: Despite serving in a dangerous, destructive, widespread war, it's only after the conflict has ended that the Batch starts losing people, with Crosshair defecting, Echo leaving to team up with Rex, and Tech dying.
• Little Big Brother: To Omega as she's one or two years older than the team due to being a first generation "pure" clone of Jango Fett.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Because their Order 66 programming is ineffective, the Bad Batch are initially confused when the order goes out. Hunter tries to help Padawan Caleb Dume escape the other clones, and Tech has to straight up ask a clone captain what's going on.
• Meaningful Name: The official designation of the squad is honoring the malformed clone 99, who died fighting while defending Kamino, even though he had such severe anatomical distortions that he was unfit for battle. Also, all of the members are named after their field of expertise (sans Echo, who already had his nickname given back when he was a regular clone).
• Military Maverick: On a squad level. They're ostensibly "not good with orders", often disregarding them when they see an opportunity to take initiative. This is normally laudable for more typical soldiers, but goes extremely against the grain as far as Clone Troopers are concerned. That said, they've never failed to complete a mission (until Aftermath anyway) and are best employed by giving them a set of objectives and broad discretion about how they achieve them.
• Modified Clone: Moreso than the rest of the Clone Army. The Bad Batch are all "defective" clones with beneficial mutations that make them superior to regular clone troopers. As a result, they have different faces and body builds than the other clones.
  • Hunter has enhanced senses, even being able to detect EM fields.
  • Wrecker has Super-Strength and is far bulkier than normal clones.
  • Crosshair has Improbable Aiming Skills and is fairly thin by clone standards.
  • Tech is a highly intelligent expert in technology and computers.
  • Echo is a "reg" that was heavily modified into a Cyborg by the Techno Union, making him able to hack into virtually any system with his artificial limbs.
  • Omega's mutation caused her to be born female and to age at a normal rate, but otherwise her abilities are still unknown. It later turns out she's not a mutated clone; she's a first generation clone of Jango Fett, and by extension, Boba Fett's sister, who happens to have inherited a lot of his natural talent. She's also, to general shock, revealed in Season 3 to be Force sensitive.
• Noodle Incident:
  • The squad's mission to Yalbec Prime right before they were called to Anaxes by Commander Cody remains unseen. Then there's a multitude of other missions, such as one to Felucia they brought up while in the midst of a training exercise. And then there's the detail on how they met the Lawquane family.
  • How they became good friends with Cody and treating him with more respect they'd ever show other "regs" is not touched upon, but it would fully qualify as an Odd Friendship.
• No One Gets Left Behind: In "Aftermath", the group is perfectly willing to charge back into a heavily fortified enemy facility to rescue Crosshair, who was separated from them. Unfortunately, it's too late; he's already been completely brainwashed by his inhibitor chip.
• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: While they are a legitimate force to be reckoned with, the Bad Batch excels at fighting droids, and struggles severely against enemies that are more creative than those who just follow orders.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When Order 66 is issued, the squad is utterly confused for what appears to be the first time in their lives. The normally jovial Wrecker is completely dumbfounded, the stoic Hunter reacts with a level of concern, and the normally knowledgeable Tech is taken aback by this new information. Crosshair, however, follows Order 66, which proves highly unusual for a clone who's normally not keen on following orders, hinting that his control chip is still functioning.
• Promoted to Parent: Mostly in Hunter's case, but the squad finds themselves as Omega's protectors when they learn she's one of them.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: An inversion. Their armor is a mix of black and red, and while they may not be the most polite, they are fighting for the Republic. After the Republic becomes the Empire, all of them except for Crosshair defect.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: All but one of the Bad Batch refused to obey Order 66 (with one of them, Hunter, directly aiding a Jedi's escape), making them among the very few clones who did so. This leads them to desert the Empire outright when Tarkin has them arrested for it.
• Secret Test of Character: Tarkin puts them through one by assigning them to take out a batch of insurgents on Onderon. Turns out that said "insurgents" were actually refugees being protected by Saw Gerrera, and eliminating them would have proven their loyalty to the Empire. The team refuses (sans a very testy Crosshair, who has to be told to stand down), landing them in Tarkin's crosshairs.
• Skeleton Motif: The Bad Batch all have skull symbols somewhere on their armor.
• Sixth Ranger:
  • Echo, now a cyborg, becomes the fifth member of the squad at the end of the Bad Batch arc.
  • Omega, who was created as part of the same enhanced clone batch as the original four (or so it was thought), joins the crew at the end of the first episode of The Bad Batch. It becomes more noticeable considering that Crosshair betrays the team.
• Super-Soldier: They're all genetically modified to grant them various specialized abilities.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute:
  • They seem to take some cues from Delta Squad's depiction from Legends. Dave Filoni explicitly described the team as George Lucas's take on that concept. In fact, the comparisons are hammered home in the team's own series, where, right as the Empire takes power, they lose their sniper (albeit to brainwashing rather than being forced to leave him behind). It also counts as Expy Coexistence since Delta Squad does exist in canon, albeit without much of their backstory or personalities.
  • Their backstory is similar to the Null ARC troopers from the Republic Commando Series. Like the Nulls, they are prototype, genetically modified clones turned into a unit of atypical commandos. The comparison becomes more apt in The Bad Batch spinoff series, where the squad chooses to desert from the clone army shortly after the events of Revenge of the Sith, rather than stay and serve the Empire, just like the Null ARCs.
• The Worf Effect: In spite of the team being a crack-commando unit capable of reducing an entire battalion of droids to scrap, their adventures in their own solo series show them struggling a lot more against other opponents, notably Wrecker against Fennec Shand and Hunter against Cad Bane. A lot of it is justified due to the unit finding themselves in a completely different landscape than they're used to, and are fighting opponents that are far more clever than an army of unthinking battle droids who can only follow programming.
• You Are a Credit to Your Race: While they generally have a low opinion of "regs", at least at the stat of the show, there are a few exceptions such as Rex and Cody. This gets Lampshaded by Omega when they meet Rex again and Wrecker responds by giving him a Bear Hug.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Despite their years of loyal service to the Republic and a near-perfect combat record, Tarkin considers their rebellious tendencies and immunity to Protocol 66 too much of a liability, and orders them to be arrested and executed with the exception of Crosshair, who is instead Reforged into a Minion.

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Hunter

Sergeant Hunter (CT-9901)

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Species: Human clone

Homeworld: Kamino

Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker

Appearances: The Clone Wars | The Bad Batch

"If you want my opinion, it sounds like a trap. But me and the boys will tag along anyway, if only to say 'I told you so'."

Hunter is the stoic leader of the Bad Batch.

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• Anger Born of Worry: Angrily berates Omega for her recklessness after she was nearly killed by a Nexu in Episode 2. Though he meant well, this experience initially served as a realization moment for Hunter that he and the Bad Batch were inadequate guardians for Omega, as Cut Lawquane demonstrates a more fatherly and gentle approach to the situation.
• Aside Glance: He gets one when Tech explains to Cody and Rex that the Yalbecs that Hunter just a moment prior had claimed tried to eat them were actually trying to mate with them.
• Badasses Wear Bandanas: He wears a red bandanna, and is the leader of a specialized and elite clone commando team.
• Break Her Heart to Save Her: Hunter has Tech make a chain code for Omega so she can get off world with Cut's family and live a life away from being hunted, despite the fact that the decision clearly upsets her. She chooses to stay with him.
• Captain Ersatz: Appearance wise, Hunter is designed to resemble Billy Sole from Predator, having a similar hairstyle and headband. Due to his headband being red, it also makes him resemble Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo, but the writers confirmed Billy was the character he was based on.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character:
  • To Din Djarin, as both were warriors of Mandalorian heritage (Din a Foundling adopted into the culture, Hunter a clone of the Foundling Jango Fett) who found themselves Promoted to Parent over a mysterious child (Grogu for Din and Omega for Hunter) with a huge bounty due to unique gifts they have. Where the difference lies between the two is that Din was already a lone warrior who slowly learns to open himself up to others and finds close friends and allies to help him protect his charge, while Hunter already has such support, but needs to learn how to handle Omega like a child and not like a soldier.
  • To Captain Rex, both of whom are clones in charge of a highly-skilled battalion of soldiers that eventually desert the Grand Army of the Republic when it's twisted into the Empire. Rex spends the course of his series loosening up to the idea that not all orders are necessarily good ones, and that in spite of being a clone, he has to think for himself to do the right thing, while Hunter (courtesy of his abnormalities) has no such issues, being perfectly willing to break the rules if it means doing what's right. On top of it all, Rex was not willing to kill his brothers when they fell under Order 66's sway, tragically being forced to end their lives by sheer circumstance, whereas Hunter has no such hesitations when his squad's life is on the line.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Hunter sports a skull tattoo on half of his face, a darker color scheme with his armor, enhanced senses that let him hunt and track his targets, and wields a knife for close, hand to hand combat. He also comes off a bit aloof and standoffish when we initially meet him. However, Hunter is actually the Team Dad for Clone Force 99 and something of a Papa Wolf when it comes to Echo, and is the one who is the most concerned with the safety and well being of his team.
• Devious Daggers: He's a tracker and roguish figure who wields two combat knives, which he uses to cut down battle droids with ease, though he has no problem using a blaster when the situation requires it.
• Expy: He's confirmed to be based on Billy Sole from Predator. Appearance-wise, he looks like John Rambo and Solid Snake. Since the squad is confirmed to be based off The A-Team, he's one for John "Hannibal" Smith, the squad's leader.
• Facial Markings: Half of his face is covered by a black skull tattoo, matching the white half-skull painted on his helmet.
• Friend to All Children: As gruff as he may be, Hunter has a distinctive soft spot for children, as shown by his horror at Order 66, and his intense desire to protect Caleb from it. He's also very kind and protective of Omega, and the revelation that Tarkin secretly ordered him to kill children is what causes him to defect from the Empire altogether.
• The Gunslinger: He prefers a singular blaster pistol in combat, usually so he has a hand free to use his knife.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Season 2 sees him slowly come to desire a life safe and away from fighting if just to give Omega a stable home life, even when some of his comrades are already taking up arms against the Empire.
• It's All My Fault: He faults himself for Crosshair's betrayal. Granted, neither of them was responsible for what happened. However, the fact that he had to leave him behind on Kamino at all is enough for Hunter to think he himself is to blame.
• Knuckle Cracking: The first thing he does on-screen after getting off the Marauder is crack his knuckles, which is his way of saying "Okay, let's get this over with already!"
• Large and in Charge: Inverted. He is the leader, but at 5'11"/180cm, Hunter is the shortest of the Bad Batch minus Omega.^note  Wrecker stands at 6'6"/198cm, Tech at 6'4"/193cm, Crosshair is also 6'4" but is slightly taller at 194cm, Echo post-cyberization is 6'1"/185cm and Omega being a pure Jango clone will likely grow to 6ft/183cm like the Regs.
• The Leader: Always calm and calculated, Hunter is the leader of the Bad Batch and the only one who seems to always be capable of getting them under control.
• Meaningful Name: He has highly developed senses that make him an excellent tracker and is named Hunter.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Subverted with Caleb Dume/Kanan Jarrus, as sparing the Jedi Padawan despite the latter's hatred of the Clones would allow him to survive and screw up the Empire in the long run, even meeting Hera Syndulla, his future wife and Cham's daughter, and Chopper, 2 Rebels his team worked with on Ryloth. Played more straight with Saw Gerrera, since sparing him would result in Tech's death, as well as Omega being captured by Dr. Hemlock, in addition to the Partisans taking the fight to the Empire more extremely than other Rebel Cells and the Alliance itself.
• Only Sane Man: Of the Bad Batch, Hunter is the only one who seems to have his head on straight, and he routinely has to break up fights between his men and other clone troopers (the only other member closest to Hunter in that regard is Tech, but even then, he's a little eccentric and just tries to avoid the fights altogether). This is lampshaded by Kix when discussing with Jesse what his special ability is.
  Jesse: So, I get what makes the other Batchers unique, but what's so special about Hunter?
  Kix: He can put up with the other three.
• Papa Wolf: He will not hesitate to put his life on the line for his squadron, especially where Omega's safety is concerned.
• The Paragon Always Rebels: Hunter's belief in doing the right thing and not blindly following orders puts him at odds with Admiral Tarkin after the end of the Clone Wars. When he refuses to murder refugees and "insurgents" on Onderon, it marks him and the Bad Batch (sans Crosshair) as enemies of the Empire.
• Promoted to Parent: Of the team, Hunter is the one who fills the role as a father figure to Omega. Part of his character arc is learning to treat Omega more as a child to mentor instead of a soldier to order.
• Sergeant Rock: He's a firm but fair leader of the Bad Batch, and seems to be the only one who can keep them in line and on-mission. He's also quite friendly and seems to have no issue working with regular clones and officers like Rex and Cody.
• Super-Senses: He has heightened senses, most importantly an ability to sense electromagnetic frequencies from anywhere on a planet, making him more reliable than a holomap.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Going with the Delta Squad comparisons, he is one for Boss, being the tough, Jango Fett-esque leader of a crack commando unit of clone troopers who handle the most dangerous assignments. But whereas Boss is much more like Jango, Hunter has Super-Senses and ends up being promoted to parent. By further contrast, he refuses to leave Crosshair behind on Kamino despite him being brainwashed, whereas Boss follows orders and leaves his sniper, Sev, behind on Kashyyyk.
• Team Dad: He's not only responsible for taking care of his squad and keeping their more eccentric tendencies under control, but he also ends up being a father when Omega stays with the squad.
• The Worf Effect: Despite being a highly-trained commando who's managed to eliminate entire squadrons of battle droids without breaking a sweat, he ends up getting taken out in one shot thanks to Cad Bane.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Throughout the show, Hunter is on the receiving end of this, most of the time involving Omega:
  • Episode 2:
    • After being nearly killed by a Nexu on Saleucami, he angrily berates her for her recklessness, only for Cut to step in and remind him Omega is not a soldier, demonstrating a more gentle and fatherly method of approaching her.
    • Hunter concludes that he and the Batch are unsuitable to care for Omega, and plans to leave her with the Lawquanes as they leave Saleucami. However, none of this was disclosed to her, which takes Cut back by surprise when she gives them the forged chaincodes:
      Omega: Tech accidentally made five disks instead of four.
      Cut: *to Hunter; concerned* You didn't tell her?
  • Episode 10: When finding out Omega (with Cid's help) has been playing Dejarik against other patrons at Cid's parlor, he's the only one disapproving of this and chides her for causing too much of a scene when she was instructed to keep a low profile. It's not until Cid stands up for her, as well as receiving a shoulder check from Wrecker, does he realize he's being an asshole and calms down.
  • Episode 15: Crosshair starts bitterly (while also justifyingly) tearing into him for abandoning him on Kamino. While Hunter had no choice, Crosshair refuses to hear him out, believing that he and the other Batchers betrayed everything they stood for, but worst of all, they betrayed him and their brotherhood by seemingly forgetting one of their own, as they made no attempt to come back for him.
    Crosshair: They don't leave their own behind... most of the time.
    Hunter: You tried to kill us. We didn't have a choice.
    Crosshair: Hmm. And I did?
• Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Killing children is a line he will not cross. When tracking down Caleb, he insists on taking him alive and unharmed much to Crosshair's irritation. And when he discovers that the "insurgents" he was ordered to eliminate had children among them, he refuses to continue with the mission and instead willingly surrenders to Saw Gerrera just to get a clearer picture of the situation.

Wrecker

Wrecker (CT-9903)

^{Click to see him in full armor}

Species: Human clone

Homeworld: Kamino

Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker

Appearances: The Clone Wars | The Bad Batch

"I've got a fact for you: I like to blow things up because I like to BLOW THINGS UP!"

Wrecker is the short-tempered bruiser of the Bad Batch.

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• Bad Liar: As Lampshaded by Crosshair, lying was never his strong suit. The other clones have this trait too, but he's really terrible at it.
• Bald Head of Toughness: A hammy, Boisterous Berserker with a shaved head and the team's The Big Guy, able to smash battle droids without breaking a sweat.
• Bear Hug: Gives one to Rex when they meet again after Order 66.
• Berserk Button: To say he has a few of these would be an Understatement, enough to constitute a whole keyboard. To list a few examples:
  • He hates stealth missions, since he can't blow up anything.
  • He hates it when someone calls his personality "programming".
  • He hates it when he misses the action.
  • He especially hates being scanned or medically treated.
• The Berserker: He hates stealth missions and wrecking the enemy seems to be his favorite pastime. He's also rather temperamental and perfectly willing to choke a regular clone trooper, stopping only once Hunter orders him to.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Wrecker is silly and loud, but can be a devastating opponent when focused. When his inhibitor chip activates, he effortlessly manhandles Rex and the rest of the Bad Batch, and could have easily killed them all, showing just how threatening a Brainwashed and Crazy clone with Super-Strength can be.
• BFG: He cobbles together a grenade launcher made from the remnants of an old Separatist Armored Assault Tank in Season 2.
• Big Brother Bully: Downplayed. When Jesse angrily tells Crosshair he can't condescend to Rex, Wrecker asks "says who?" and hoists him by his neck for no reason other than his amusement.
• Big Brother Instinct: Quite literally, being the biggest of the Batch, and was quick to jump to Crosshair's aid when Rex starts beating on him for his insensitive comments, even if he deserved it. He also is quick to rush to Omega's defense after a couple of regs insult her, starting a Food Fight in the process.
• Big Eater: Loves eating, and is the first one to complain when rations are low, though given his sheer size, it's to be expected. Him and Omega also have a tradition of getting candy after every mission, racking up a big tab on Ord Mantell.
• Big Fun: Loves wrecking stuff, also loves going out for candy with Omega.
• The Big Guy: A mix of a class 1 gruff, scarred Berserker and a class 4 emotional Boisterous Bruiser, Wrecker is the largest, and by far physically strongest, member of the squad.
• Big "NO!": Lets one out as Tech falls to his death.
• Blood Knight: He's always looking for an excuse to destroy stuff.
• Boisterous Bruiser: Always chomping at the bit to wreck droids, with a Large Ham attitude to match.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: In "Decommissioned", he suffers a head injury that seems to get his inhibitor chip working again. In "Battle Scars", he ends up submitting to his programming and attacking the rest of the Batch and Rex when they try removing the chip. Thankfully, they're able to knock him out and remove the chip.
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: He's a destructive force who practically lives for the heat of battle, yet he shows a great deal of care for children. When Hunter chastises him for not considering Omega's well-being by trying to ask for her rations, he gets pretty upset with himself, and makes it up to her by putting together her own room on the ship (even giving her Lula).
• The Brute: Once his inhibitor chip takes effect, he becomes a deadly killing machine who can manhandle the rest of the team with ease. Worse, Wrecker came very close to snapping each of them in half. Fortunately, it doesn't last long and he is quickly restored to his old self.
• Brutish Character, Brutish Weapon: Wrecker is the most battle hungry of the Bad Batch, delighting whenever he can break something. His preferred tools are his own Super-Strength or making the biggest explosion he's allowed to make.
• Catchphrase: He likes to say "Boom!" when he's just done or is about to do something impressive. A few times, the explosion does follow, like when he rescues Commander Cody from a crashed gunship.
• Companion Cube: His Tooka doll, Lula. He gets quite upset when he can't find it, and gets overjoyed when Omega gives it back to him. He doesn't seem to mind Omega cuddling with it later, either.
• Crippling Overspecialization: Despite being a top-notch strong man with ridiculously high levels of Super-Strength, it's only as effective as the opponents he's fighting. Going up against an army of unthinking and virtually easy-to-destroy battle droids? No sweat. Opponents like Fennec Shand, who actually thinks on her feet and doesn't just blindly charge into battle? Knocks him out with one hit.
• Dumbass Has a Point: He clearly isn't the smartest of the unit, but no one bats an eye when he calls out Crosshair for claiming he wants to work with his brothers again yet refusing to contact them in spite of having multiple opportunities to do so, and instead devoted himself to hunting them as part of the Empire without his inhibitor chip installed.
• Dumb Muscle: Not exactly "dumb", but quite loud and childish. He's still the physically strongest.
• Dynamic Entry: Tech prepares to hack a door open, stating that it'll be a "delicate operation". Wrecker walks up to it and kicks it open, laughing and telling Tech that he was taking too long.
• Electronic Eyes: His left eye appears to be cybernetic.
• Expy: As the Bad Batch are based off The A-Team, he acts as one to Boscoe Albert "Bad Attitude"/BA Baracus, being The Big Guy of their respective units with fears of being higher up (flight for B.A. and heights for Wrecker).
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • He's an aggressive blood knight who enjoys going on dangerous missions but when Tarkin has the training exercise switched to live rounds and the team is nearly killed, he's the most visibly outraged afterwards.
  • After he goes on a rampage due to his control chip activating, he's visibly shaken up at having almost killed everyone.
  • He tests Omega out so she can learn how to disarm explosives...with a smoke bomb. He may be a Blood Knight, but he isn't willing to use live rounds to train a child.
• Face of a Thug: Wrecker's facial scars and hulking form would give off the impression of a dangerous brute if it weren't for his endearingly childish and fun-loving personality.
• Friend to All Children:
  • As seen with Caleb and Omega, he gets along with kids very well, likely due to his own childlike personality. He even makes a room for the latter.
  • He happily greets Cut and Suu's children, who are thrilled to see him and adorably call him 'Uncle Wrecker.'
• Genius Bruiser: Downplayed; Wrecker doesn't come off as a great thinker like Tech does, and his excitable, goofy personality makes it easy to write him off as the team's Dumb Muscle, but he shows a good amount of technical knowledge, especially where explosives are concerned. Basically, in his element, Wrecker proves to be very intelligent, but outside of that, he's happy to just jump in, guns blazing.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Oh lords, yes. It doesn't take much to set him off.
• Hidden Depths:
  • When their shuttle goes in for a rough landing on Skako Minor, Wrecker immediately jumps into the copilot's chair and helps the team safely land.
  • He has a firm grasp of battlefield tactics and stratagems, being the one to devise the plan to hurl his teammates to a high-up air vent so they can escape, recognizing the scientific and military value of Wat Tambor's laboratory and destroying it with the express intention of denying the Separatists such a valuable military asset, and knowing exactly how to carry out whatever plans Hunter comes up with in seamless fashion.
  • He does seem to have some technical knowledge, as he knows exactly which part of a gravity lock to yank out when it's holding the Havoc Marauder down, as Echo seems to have trouble deactivating it.
  • The name of his stuffed doll is Lula, whose name may derive from Lula Talisola, a Jedi who served during the High Republic era, suggesting that Wrecker has at least some level of knowledge and interest in history.
  • When he puts a room for Omega together, he does so with surprising skill and finesse, showing that he possesses some artistic and creative talent beyond simply smashing things.
  • After his inhibitor chip is activated and he nearly kills all of his teammates, he demonstrates a sensitive side of himself following its removal by apologizing to Omega for nearly killing her in his chip-induced frenzy.
  • He's shown to have a very in-depth knowledge of explosive devices, rivaling Tech with his almost encyclopedic knowledge of the components involved. Given his role as a Demolitions Expert, this isn't surprising.
  • Even he can come up with the occasional good strategy, using a previous tactic to help the group escape from being burned alive in a Venator class star destroyer's ion engine.
  • Even though he hates stealth missions, he can restrain himself to pull them off when he needs to, as the tenth episode demonstrates.
  • In Season 2, he's able to cobble together a functional grenade launcher from scratch using the salvaged parts of an old Separatist tank, showing he has some engineering talent.
• Headache of Doom: He has several in the first half of the first season, which hints at his inhibitor chip attempting to activate after many blows to the head. It eventually kicks in, but it is removed before he kills anyone.
• Heroic BSoD: Played for Laughs when he witnesses Crosshair get his own over-the-top destruction moment and worries he won't be able to top it. Played Straight when he reawakens from surgery following the removal of his inhibitor chip, and is horrified at having done such terrible things under its influence.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: He tries charging at Fennec Shand to beat her senseless. She just knocks him out cold without even blinking.
• Honorary Uncle: He's one to the Lawquane children.
• Incoming Ham: He knows how to make an entrance — a very loud entrance.
  "THE CAVALRY HAS ARRIVED!"
  
  "MAKE A HOLE!"
• Know When to Fold 'Em: He usually loves to pummel Separatist droids with his bare hands, but when he sees what Wat Tambor's Organic Decimator is capable of, even he realizes he shouldn't deal with it head on. He then subverts it by just placing a bunch of timed thermal detonators all over the lab and blowing it up after escaping by the skin of his teeth.
• Large Ham: He is the most over-the-top clone in not only the Bad Batch, but maybe the entire clone army.
• Leeroy Jenkins: Wrecker tends to bounce between two modes in combat, charging at the enemy to take them on in hand-to-hand or firing an epic amount of rounds downrange. The former tends to be his usual strategy. In dealing with armies of basic mooks, it usually works, but three times in The Bad Batch it gets deconstructed, first during a training exercise against a DT-X series sentry droid, then again against the brainwashed Crosshair, and then again against Fennec Shand, who handily knocks him out cold.
• Madness Mantra: After getting one too many bonks on the head, he starts to utter "Good soldiers...", showing that his chip has been activated.
• Manchild: Sometimes, he likes to play with deactivated Separatist droids while teasing his own teammates. Whenever he's forced to do stealth, he acts like a little kid being denied candy. When Anakin hands him a detonator for blowing up a Separatist fleet, he gets teary-eyed and declares it the happiest moment of his life. Slightly borders on Psychopathic Manchild since he was raised to be a soldier from birth, playing with deactivated droids would be comparable to playing with corpses in any other war, and he takes joy from destroying things in general. He also has a Tooka doll named "Lula", which he uses to annoy Crosshair. Unsurprisingly, he and Omega get along like same-age siblings.
  Wrecker: Hey, look, Crosshair! This little clanker likes you!
  Crosshair: Ah, grow up, Wrecker!
• Manly Tears: He sometimes cries Tears of Joy when he gets to blow things up.
• Meaningful Name: He has Super-Strength and just loves to wreck droids, so naturally he's named accordingly.
• Moral Myopia: Downplayed. In line with his somewhat innocent outlook and the team's underlying racism towards "regs", he seems to have this in regards to his team and their tension with normal Clones. This is shown during The Bad Batch arc the two times Crosshair insults the 501st, first when casually mocking them for being "regs" and later when he claims to understand Rex's decision to abandon Echo on account of him being "just another reg", where Wrecker responds to them physically retaliating by lifting them up threateningly, forcing Hunter to get him to put them down.
• More Dakka: Unlike his squadmates, he wields a fully automatic DC-17m blaster rifle, which he uses to mow down droids with reckless abandon.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Upon awakening from having his chip removed, he's quite shaken at having almost murdered his teammates while under the chip's influence.
• Not Himself: As Wrecker complains of some headaches, Hunter takes notice of him brushing it off with suspicion. By chance, the spot where he's having the headaches is exactly where his inhibitor chip is located. And then another bonk on the head turns it on one episode later...and then it fully activates when his teammates try to remove it, causing him to go berserk and nearly kill his team.
• Real Men Wear Pink: He's a loud and boisterous mass of muscle, who also happens to have a Tooka doll as a keepsake. He also has a surprising knack for home decor.
• Super-Strength: He is strong enough to topple the wreck of a downed gunship, throw his fully armored comrades several meters into the air, and hold the leg of a several-story-high Octuptarra droid and stop it from trampling some of their newly found alien allies on Skako Minor. In another feat of such strength, he pushes a single AAT tank off a cliff, taking two others attached to it with it.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: For Delta Squad comparisons, he's a more boisterous version of Scorch, both being clones that like to destroy things with child-like glee. His relationship with Crosshair also mirrors that of Scorch and Sev, with both trying to outdo the other in kills. The difference between him and Scorch is that the latter was more a Deadpan Snarker who always made cracks at his teammates' expense, whereas Wrecker is a literal Manchild who has a great deal of Hidden Depths.
• Stuff Blowing Up: Anakin takes the remote of the Self-Destruct Mechanism of Trench's flagship, and once they get far away from the ship, he hands it over to Wrecker so that he can blow the ship up. Wrecker gets all teary and sobbing, declaring it to be the happiest day of his life.
• Tears of Joy: When Anakin gives Wrecker a detonator to blow up a Separatist dreadnaught, Wrecker tearfully declares it the best day of his life as he hits the button.
• Testosterone Poisoning: He's so over-the-top manly that it's obviously a parody.
• Unskilled, but Strong: He relies primarily on his brute strength rather than any discipline or technique. On the plus side, he can physically overpower an adolescent rancor; on the minus side, he is handed his ass by more skilled opponents like Fennec Shand.
• What the Hell, Hero?: In Episode 3, he begins to go for Omega's ration bar after instantly devouring his before Hunter chastises him for taking what little food set aside for her when she doesn't even have a place to sleep. This causes Wrecker to backpedal and decline the offer instead.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Although he denies it, Wrecker is afraid of heights. He claims he's afraid of the effect gravity has on him from that far up.
• The Worf Effect: He gets his ass handed to him by Fennec Shand when she's pursuing Omega, though unlike the thousands of droids he's destroyed in his time, she's a far more clever opponent who can recognize his Leeroy Jenkins tendencies. He also noticeably has a bit more trouble against a few other opponents, which is implied to be because of his inhibitor chip turning on. Once he gets it removed, he starts getting his groove back.

Crosshair

Crosshair (CT-9904)

"We don't usually work with regs."

^{Click to see him in full clone armor}

^{Click to see him as an Elite Trooper} "Do you want to know why they put me in charge? It's because I'm willing to do what needs to be done."

Species: Human clone

Homeworld: Kamino

Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker

Appearances: The Clone Wars | The Bad Batch

"Good soldiers follow orders."

Crosshair is the Bad Batch's quiet sniper, who dislikes working with "regs".

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• All for Nothing: Crosshair reveals he had his chip removed some time ago, and his service to the Empire was willing. All that loyal service to the Empire is driven by the belief that he feels like he has a purpose for living, and if he can get his brothers to join the Empire (preferably willingly), Tarkin will pardon all of their crimes and give them the recognition and respect they deserve. When they return to Kamino, Crosshair's attachment to them becomes a cause for concern, and it's quickly proven the Empire he serves considers everyone who isn't named Palpatine expendable, even him, when they blow up Tipoca City with him in it. And yet he still continues to loyally serve them anyway, though he finds out that even his servitude to the Empire was not the best idea.
• All Take and No Give:
  • "Kamino Lost" further points to him having this kind of mindset. Previously, he stated he felt betrayed by Hunter in "Aftermath", which is rather understandable. But Wrecker points out that this loyalty they have for each other should be reciprocal; they've done a lot for him, but if Crosshair cared about wanting his brothers back, he would've tried to find his way back to them, or at least tried to contact them. From what we've seen of Crosshair from the beginning, he's done little to reciprocate their loyalty, and when they do give him a chance to come back with them, he outright refuses.
  • In the second season, Crosshair realizes he's the giver and the Empire's the taker. He removed his inhibitor chip and willingly served the Empire, even forsaking his own squad and family because he felt the Empire gave him purpose, yet even with his special talents, the Empire values his life no more than a common Reg. After growing attached to Mayday, only for him to die because of Lieutenant Nolan's refusal to waste medical resources on a clone, Crosshair finally snaps and frags the officer on the spot.
• Aloof Big Brother: Inverted. If his call number is any indication, he's actually the youngest besides Omega.
• Ambiguous Situation: After the reveal that Crosshair removed his inhibitor chip "a long time ago", it's never revealed when exactly, with him not seeming to find the matter too important. A popular theory is that he removed it not long after his head was burned.
• Bad Boss: His solution to ES-01's insubordination? Shoot him in front of the others to force compliance. Crosshair later executes the other Elite Squad members, save ES-02, to prove that his offer of recruitment to the Bad Batch was sincere.
• Bald of Evil: Getting roasted by the engine of a downed Venator on Bracca results in him getting all his hair burned off.
• Because I'm Good At It: His reason for remaining loyal to the Empire boils down to the fact that being a soldier is all he's ever known.
• Being Evil Sucks: Exhibits shades of it at the end of "Replacements", with the implication being that even in his heavily conditioned state, he misses his old squad and doesn't take any pleasure in doing the Empire's dirty work. When it's revealed he took his chip out, he admits he's only doing it because being in the Empire gives him a purpose. In Season 2, his past mistakes have him relegated to a subordinate role under other clones, while Rampart continues to make clear that he cares nothing for Crosshair personally or the clones as a whole.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: Crosshair is usually the quietest, but is a deadly and accurate Cold Sniper. And that's not even getting into how he ends up turning on his own brothers due to the influence of the inhibitor chip and ends up serving the Empire after being subjected to the chip's intensification under Tarkin's orders. Or rather when he took the chip out and continued to serve them as a willing subject.
• Beyond Redemption: After Cody witnesses Crosshair slay Tawni Ames in cold blood, he’s disgusted that Crosshair has adopted the Empire’s fascist mindset and feels he’s just beyond saving. With their camaraderie shattered, Cody deserts. It's ultimately subverted when his interactions with Mayday and Lieutenant Nolan show there is still a heart in him after all.
• Big Brother Instinct: By the time of episode 7 of season 3, he is this to Omega, even though the latter points out that she is technically older than him. She claims that in terms of protectiveness he is just as bad as Hunter. Crosshairs tells her he's much worse.
• Blood Knight: He stays with the Empire because it gives him purpose in life, even after his inhibitor chip has been removed.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Of the members of the Bad Batch, his inhibitor chip is the only one to retain enough functionality to affect his decisions. When Tarkin realizes this, he orders the programming to be amplified to finish off any semblance of morality and loyalty to his friends. This is Subverted when it is revealed that he had removed his inhibitor chip and yet continues to serve the Empire.
• Broken Pedestal: Omega looked up to all her brothers, even him. Sure, Crosshair did save her life and AZ's, but Omega's forlorn expression at the end of the Season 1 finale expresses how that doesn't detract from his legitimate negative qualities. The person Omega thought she knew just never existed.
• Cold Sniper: He is a quiet and stoic clone who can effortlessly pick off dozens of droids in a few seconds with his rifle. He's also not known for being tactful or friendly either, especially after his Face–Heel Turn.
• Crippling Overspecialization:
  • Crosshair is one of the best snipers around, but he demonstrates difficulty hitting targets with actual self-preservation instincts at close range, most notably after his Face–Heel Turn, when he faces the rest of the Bad Batch in the hangar where there's lots of cover. It could be argued that he would have been a lot more effective in this fight had he ditched the sniper rifle and used a regular old commando DC-17 blaster rifle with the anti-armor attachment to lob grenades over those crates, but then the show would have been a lot shorter.
  • He believes the entire clone army has this, as they were specifically bred as soldiers and nothing more. It's why he removed his inhibitor chip, wanting to serve the Empire without question so he can continue to have a purpose in life.
  • While he excels at spotting targets, in an actual Sniper Duel, he can't keep up with opponents who can react faster than him.
• Crossing the Burnt Bridge: Crosshair betrayed his own teammates very deeply, especially after all they've done for him. By the end of Season 2, Crosshair pulls a Heel–Face Turn. While Omega was willing to Turn the Other Cheek on him, Crosshair will have to work really hard for them to accept him back. His own team does forgive him, but he still has to earn forgiveness from the other regs.
• Demoted to Extra: Downplayed in Season 2 of The Bad Batch. Due to Crosshair well and truly burning his bridges with his old squad, he so far only appears in episodes that don't feature the rest of the Bad Batch (which is not very many to say the least), though these episodes are pivotal to his development, so it isn't like the focus is dropped from him completely.
• The Dog Bites Back: In "The Outpost," after enduring Rampart and Lieutenant Nolan's callous disregard for the lives of Crosshair and his fellow clones, Crosshair finally has enough and frags Nolan.
• The Dragon: After his inhibitor chip activates, he becomes the head of the Imperial Elite Squad and Rampart's enforcer in The Bad Batch. By Season 2, he got demoted, and Rampart isn’t having him lead again.
• Dragon with an Agenda: While loyal to the Empire, he wants to recruit his old team so that they can be brothers-in-arms again, even if that goes against Rampart's orders.
• Easily Forgiven: Zig-Zagged. Some of his brothers are more or less willing to accept him back into their ranks, though not necessarily warmly. Hunter, for his part, does not accept him back without some serious questioning, and Howzer holds a serious grudge because of what he did on Ryloth.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones:
  • He wants to makes peace with his brothers, offering them a chance to join him and protecting them from the training droids on Kamino.
  • In Season 2, he develops a genuine friendship with the clone Mayday and tries his best to save him after he got buried and injured by an avalanche. Lieutenant Nolan callously denying him medical attention and letting him die of his injuries deeply saddens him and he kills Nolan out of anger not long after for this cruel act.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Very subtly, but even a jerk like Crosshair takes issue when Admiral Rampart refuses to address Cody by name after he reports on his desertion.
• Evil All Along: A variation of it; while Crosshair does turn against the squad and join the Empire, the Bad Batch assumes this was due to his inhibitor chip messing with his mind. Crosshair reveals later though he had his chip removed at an unspecified point and is still serving the Empire willingly, stating that this is just who he is.
• Evil Costume Switch: After the rest of the Bad Batch goes rogue in the premiere of The Bad Batch, Crosshair switches to dark grey, stormtrooper-esque Imperial commando armor, though he keeps the backpack, sniper rifle, and viewfinder from his clone commando rig. In fact, the armor even bears a strong resemblance to a Death Trooper. However, his former squadmates confiscate his rifle at the end of Season 1, and he was later given a standard issue 773 Firepuncher.
• Evil Counterpart: To Echo. Both got left behind by their squad and after the rise of the Empire, both still argue that they were bred to be soldiers and so that's what they should be doing. Their helmets even look somewhat similar after Crosshair's Face–Heel Turn. The big difference is that Echo is grateful when Rex and the Batch eventually come back for him and retains the utmost loyalty to his men, but even after getting his chip out Crosshair believes the Bad Batch willingly left him behind and resents them for it. The fact that Crosshair even says he'd turn traitor if left behind like Echo during the mission to rescue the ARC trooper is obvious Foreshadowing in retrospect. Season 2's "The Solitary Clone" episode goes even further with Cody asking Crosshair if the Empire is making the Galaxy a better place for the people who support Palpatine, in a similar fashion to Echo asking Hunter what other path there is than being soldiers. This gets further hammered in "Truth and Consequences", where Echo leaves the squad of his own volition to help the rest of the clones once Palpatine throws them out on their own, with the Batch's blessing, whereas Crosshair not only refused to rejoin his team even when given the chance, he only wants them to join him on his terms.
  Cody: This... new Empire... are we making the Galaxy better?
  Crosshair: We're soldiers... we do what needs to be done.
• Evil Makeover: Switches to a more Stormtrooper-like armor after joining the Empire, then has his head scarred and hair burnt off in an altercation with the rest of the Bad Batch, making him look even more sinister.
• Evil Sounds Deep: He speaks in a deep, chilling voice, and he's the most outwardly unpleasant member of the squad. Then Order 66 happens, and he becomes a servant of the Empire until "The Outpost".
• Evil Virtues: Loyalty.
  • Say what you will of him, but he does actually believe in what the Empire stands for. He sees it as what is needed to maintain peace. It's one of the reasons Rampart allows him back into service, despite demoting him.
  • Though he refuses to join them on the run, Crosshair shows he still has a level of loyalty to his old squad in the latter half of Season 2 of The Bad Batch, after he's made a prisoner of the Empire on Wayland. When Dr. Hemlock offers him freedom from captivity and his service to the Empire in exchange for the location of his brothers and Omega, Crosshair refuses to cooperate, even after being worked over by an interrogator droid. And when he's able to briefly escape, he makes his way to a communications station and sends a coded warning to the Bad Batch that the Empire is hunting them.
• Expy: As the Bad Batch are based off The A-Team, Crosshair is based off of Brock Pike from the A-Team film, both being No Nonsense Nemesises who can see through their enemy's plans and nearly foil them at every turn, while having no loyalty to their men. (Pike shooting 2 corrupt CIA agents, while Crosshair shoots ES-01 for protesting the orders, and later executes all the other Elite Squad members, sans ES-02.) They are even given second chances by the people they once betrayed, though while Pike remained loyal to Lynch until his death, Crosshair finally defects from the Empire and eventually rejoins his old squad by Season 3.
• Face–Heel Turn: In the first episode of The Bad Batch, thanks to the influence of his inhibitor chip, he betrays his brothers and sides with the Empire against them. And then it's later revealed he willingly turned by taking his chip out. Even if it started with his inhibitor chip, choosing to remain complicit in a genocidal regime while leaving his brothers to suffer the wrath of said regime is still a rotten thing for him to do.
• Face of a Thug: Crosshair retains his facial scars post-Heel–Face Turn, and while still not the warmest of individuals, he's firmly back with the heroes despite an unwelcoming exterior.
• Facial Markings: Both his helmet and face have a crosshair painted/tattooed around his right eye.
• Fallen Hero: While Crosshair was never exactly a nice guy and often needlessly cruel, he was firmly on the side of the Republic and loyal to his brothers. After Order 66 goes out, Crosshair sticks with the Empire even after his chip is removed and is fully complicit with its genocidal and imperialistic goals.
• Fantastic Racism: While the squad, in general, refers to the normal clones as "regs", Crosshair uses the slur in a more deriding manner, especially when referring to Echo's "death".
  Crosshair: Oh, I don't blame you. I'd have left him for dead too. After all, he's just another reg.
• Foil:
  • He ends up becoming one to Hunter towards the end of the first season when it's revealed he had his chip removed and has been loyally serving the Empire. As such, the two clones' paths aren't too dissimilar, seeing as they're from the same unit that found their lives drastically changed by the downfall of the Republic, but Hunter continues to wander the galaxy without a true purpose beyond being a simple mercenary, while Crosshair feels the Empire is the only purpose he has, hence why he took out his chip. Both Hunter and Crosshair are deeply loyal to the rest of Clone Force 99, but Hunter wants to keep them away from the Empire, while Crosshair wants them to join him so they can serve together again.
  • He's also one to Wrecker in that both of them are Blood Knights to a tee (and indeed both happily embrace it), but Wrecker is shown to have a sensitive side and a willingness to preserve life thanks to his many Hidden Depths, while Crosshair is willing to serve The Empire without question, and kill anyone—even his own forces—since being a soldier is all he's ever known.
• Foreshadowing: In The Clone Wars' Bad Batch arc, he remarks that if he were Echo, he would've betrayed his teammates and the Republic for leaving him behind. Then in their own show, the Bad Batch is forced to leave Crosshair behind when he betrays them for the Empire.
• Four Is Death: He's the 4th member of Clone Force 99, and has killed many enemies and allies in service to both the Republic and the Empire, whether they be battle droids, commando droids, and Ames's tactical droid or organic beings in the form of ES-01 and the other Elite Squad Troopers ^note Except for ES-02., Governor Ames herself, the raiders who keep stealing the cargo from the Barton 4 outpost, Lieutenant Nolan, and several TK stormtroopers. Fittingly, his trooper designation is CT-9904.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Tech mentions that Crosshair, by his very nature, is just a Jerkass who cannot or will not change who he is. When the sniper asks why Tech is defending him, the gadgeteer points out he's not; just because he understands his reasoning doesn't mean he agrees with it.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: As his interactions with Rex, Kix, and Jesse show, he's not popular with anyone except the rest of Clone Force 99, though this doesn't hinder his ability to work as a team with the rest of the clone army. At least, he was until Order 66 was issued. Then after they get his inhibitor chip functioning, he stops working with his teammates entirely to serve the Empire. Then his new squad intently dislikes him right out of the gate, especially when he kills one of their own for questioning orders, and are forced to execute innocent civilians to save their own neck. Notably, when they get back to Kamino, the rest of the troops just sulk off to their bunks to leave Crosshair alone with his thoughts, while the sniper sits in regret of losing his brothers to the Empire's influence. This gets further hammered in Season 2 when he goes to sit down to eat, and another group of clones up and leave the table.
• Good Is Not Nice: His only redeeming quality is his allegiance to his team. Other than that, he's a complete jerk. Then it gets subverted quickly when his inhibitor chip brainwashes him and destroys the "good" part entirely. And that's not getting into how he willingly removed his chip, which amps the subversion even further since it shows most of his actions in the series were of his own accord.
• Good Colors, Evil Colors: Crosshair's 773 Firepuncher sniper rifle fires a blue bolt before his Face–Heel Turn and begins shooting red bolts afterward. His DC-17 blaster pistol has the same effect.
• Headache of Doom: Inverted; while he's shown having headaches like the ones that Wrecker does, this only happens after his inhibitor chip was removed.
• The Heavy: After his Face–Heel Turn at the beginning of The Bad Batch, he becomes the most prominent, persistent, and personal adversary of Clone Force 99.
• Heel–Face Turn: In "The Outpost", Crosshair finally accepts that any loyalty he shows to the Empire will never be repaid when the callous Lieutenant Nolan allows Mayday to die despite Crosshair's heroic efforts to save him. Crosshair kills Nolan, and even as a prisoner in Mount Tantiss, tries to make amends for his actions by sending a warning to his former teammates to go into hiding. Despite this attempt failing, in Season 3, Crosshair proves willing to return to the Bad Batch, his teammates welcoming him back (albeit with some difficulty, especially from Hunter).
• Heel Realization: Finally has one in "The Outpost" when Lieutenant Nolan allows the reg Mayday to die of what might have been treatable injuries due to viewing the clones as expendable. Crosshairs promptly kills Nolan, fully expecting to be executed for it.
• Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: In "Aftermath" he keeps his helmet on far longer than the rest of the squad, which serves to highlight his increasingly hostile attitude and impending Face–Heel Turn.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: He lures his old teammates into the engine of a wrecked Venator class star destroyer so he can have one of his men fry them inside the active engine. They just blow up a critical component that allows them to escape, while he ends up getting crisped by the resulting exhaust.
• Horrible Judge of Character: To the Empire as a whole, as Crosshair fervently believes, even in the face of the clones being phased out, that those of singular talent like himself and the Bad Batch will be rewarded for their loyalty and service. It's not until "The Outpost", where he and Mayday are treated with spectacular malice by a newbie lieutenant, that Crosshair realizes just how little he means to the Empire.
• Hypocrite: Crosshair felt abandoned when his squad ran off without ever going back for him, which is an understandable perspective, but Crosshair doesn't appear to reciprocate the loyalty he expects from his team. As Wrecker points out, loyalty goes both ways and if Crosshair had wanted to reunite with his brothers, he could have sought them out and they would have taken him back. Wrecker's argument holds more water with the reveal that Crosshair had his chip removed and thus, was never being kept against his will. Tellingly, the one chance he has to rejoin his brothers at the end of the season, he refuses and opts to stay with the Empire, evidently lacking the loyalty to his brothers that he demanded of them.
• If I Wanted You Dead...: Says this verbatim as he has Hunter and the rest of his squad held at gunpoint. If his endgame was to simply kill them, he'd have done so already, and even says he has every reason to. But his plan is not to kill them but recruit them out of a twisted desire to restore the brotherhood he believed they forsook when they defected from the Empire.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: Among other things, he can easily hit targets such as flying hand grenades thrown by Hunter, one of his own mirror projectiles during the rescue of Governor Grotton to take out Ames' Tactical Droid, and even fire a shot into an Armored Assault Tank's gun barrel!
• Jerkass: He's unquestionably loyal to the Republic, but he's a straightforward dick, especially to regular clones. When his inhibitor chip kicks in, he's much worse than usual. Then his chip is made to work at full power, turning him into a complete jerk. Case in point? He has his Elite Troopers execute innocent civilians under the threat of having them all killed if they refuse to carry out orders, as one of his men learns the hard way. It gets worse with the reveal that he had removed his inhibitor chip and yet is still a complete jerk.
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • While his insensitive comments towards Rex were uncalled for, there was no apparent logical reason to be certain that Echo was alive given the circumstances of his "death", and for all the squad knew, Rex could have been unknowingly leading them into a trap, based on a hunch motivated by his own Survivor Guilt. Even Anakin admits to Rex that he might find something he doesn't want to see, which Rex concedes is a possibility. Fortunately, Echo is still alive.
  • He complains about Hunter and the Bad Batch sparing Saw Gerrera and his resistance fighters when they should've killed them since they were conspiring against the peace Palpatine worked so hard to achieve. Given that Saw Gerrera would later found the Partisans and become more brutal against the Empire, starting by trying to assassinate Tarkin, Doctor Royce Hemlok, Hurst Romodi, Orson Krennic, and Barton Coburn on Eriadu during "The Summit", he's not entirely wrong.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold:
  • During the Clone Wars, he usually spouts unkind things, especially to "regs". However, some "regs" can earn his respect regardless of their place in the chain of command. Before the Bad Batch arc, Commander Cody had already gained his respect. In "On the Wings of Keeradaks", he can be seen patting Echo — who he had previously coldly dismissed as another "reg" in the previous episode before finding out he was indeed alive — on the shoulder after he watches him take down a trio of D-Wing Droids with a single blaster pistol from a distance. Dave Filoni notes that while the Bad Batch as a whole generally butts heads with other clones, they'll cover each other's backs when they have a common goal and when their survival is on the line.
  • After killing Nolan and being arrested by the Empire, Crosshair realizes he can't escape Mt. Tantiss. So instead he tries to send out a signal warning the rest of the Batch that the Empire is coming for Omega and to execute "Plan 88" via going into hiding. It ends up being All for Nothing, since they are instead motivated to rescue him and in so doing wind up delivering Omega to Hemlock, only narrowly managing to escape capture themselves.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Whatever redeeming traits he had in The Clone Wars get thrown out in The Bad Batch when his inhibitor chip kicks in and he becomes a total Jerkass, even more so than usual, and defects to the Empire. "Replacements" hints that the Crosshair beneath the programming isn't entirely gone, but then it's subverted yet again when he reveals that he removed his inhibitor chip at some point and now willingly serves the Empire, showing that he, despite whatever redeeming traits he displayed before, ultimately was Evil All Along and is just now in a position where that is on full display. He rediscovers a bit of the "heart of gold" he used to have in "The Outpost" when he attempts to save the life of one of the "reg" clones he previously derided, with the clone's death at the indirect hands of a heartless lieutenant finally causing him to realize just how little the Empire cares for Clones as a whole.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: While Crosshair has a Face–Heel Turn after Order 66 goes out and helps massacre a group of refugees, it appears to be the result of his control chip brainwashing him. However, it's eventually revealed that Crosshair at some point had his chip removed, but continued to serve the Empire and is fully complicit in what they do. It's at that point that Crosshair shifts into a full-on villain...at least until "The Outpost".
• Lawful Stupid: Even after the Empire willingly leaves him to die in an orbital bombardment of Kamino, he still doesn't get he's on the wrong side after his brothers offer him a chance to come back with them. Evidently, he'd rather serve them loyally, even when it's clear they can and will kill him off if he is no longer of use to them, because they let him continue to be a soldier. He finally wises up in Season 2 after being saved by Mayday, a "reg" Clone Commander, with said Clone dying from his injuries just because the lieutenant they were serving under refused to get him medical attention.
• Lean and Mean: He's unusually thin for a clone, and while he isn't evil until his inhibitor chip corrupts him, he's not a very nice guy. With the reveal that he took out his chip and is willingly aiding the Empire, he plays this trope to the hilt.
• Leitmotif: After joining the Empire, he's often accompanied by an ominous, distorted bass beat.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: While Crosshair is cold and ruthless, he still comes off as better than both of his commanding officers. While Rampart doesn't care about the clones and wouldn't waste any time killing the Bad Batch, Crosshair was at least willing to vouch for them should they rejoin. In Season 2, he acts nicer and friendly towards Cody, while Rampart doesn't consider the Clones human beings and ruthlessly bombards Tipoca City, though he doesn't deliberately antagonize them. Then when he's under the command of Lieutenant Nolan, Crosshair bonds with a reg named Commander Mayday, and they are able to work together without problems. Nolan however, is a cruel scumbag who treats clones like shit, and he denies a critically wounded Mayday medical aid for failing the mission, an act so heinous that Crosshair just executes him with extreme prejudice.
• Madness Mantra: When Order 66 goes live, he starts muttering the same phrase Tup did when his chip activated prematurely - "Good soldiers follow orders." This is an early sign that he's fallen under the sway of the nascent Empire.
• More than Mind Control: It's heavily implied that the reason why Crosshair is the only one (aside from Wrecker, briefly) to fall under the inhibitor chip's influence is because, unlike his teammates, his cynical and cold personality fits very well with the Empire's new fascist doctrine. As if to confirm this implication, Crosshair later reveals to his former comrades in "Return to Kamino" that he already removed the inhibitor chip a while ago. His loyalty to the Empire is genuinely who he is.
• Named After the Injury: Has his nickname based on his injury on his right eye which resembles the crosshair of a scope.
• Not Brainwashed: Despite what Hunter and Omega believe, Crosshair claims that his loyalty to the Empire was genuine all along. And just to prove it, he reveals that he had his inhibitor chip removed long ago, though he plays coy of when exactly.
• Not Himself: When Order 66 is issued, he starts acting a lot testier with his teammates, and actually argues that Hunter's refusal to follow orders is making him ill-suited for command—something that's not normally a problem for the unit, seeing as they rarely follow them anyway. This is because his inhibitor chip, though limited, is still working, unlike everyone else's on the squad, and the Kaminoans amp it up on Tarkin's request to get it working properly.
  Crosshair: An order is an order.
  Hunter: Since when?
• Not So Above It All: Despite staying out of everyone's way, he gets involved in a Food Fight in the mess hall—but only after a squad of regs throws Echo into his food.
• No Social Skills: Absolutely none.
• Obviously Evil: In hindsight, if anybody in the Bad Batch was gonna turn to the Empire, it's probably the raspy-voiced, emotionless one with the really pointy face who openly shows disdain for basically everything around him.
• Out-of-Character Alert: All of his squadmates are alarmed when Order 66 goes live and he suddenly becomes obsessed with following orders, considering the squad's maverick nature. It's a sign that his inhibitor chip is functioning and he's been brainwashed into an Imperial slave.
• Oral Fixation: He's often seen chewing a toothpick.
• Papa Wolf: After he and Omega bond during their stay at Mount Tantiss, Crosshair develops a strong sense of protectiveness for his sister, to the point that Omega complains that he's as bad as Hunter. Amused, Crosshair replies that he's worse.
• Pet the Dog:
  • In the final two episodes of Season 1, he tries to have Omega evacuated safely and then later saves her life to repay her for saving him.
  • In the aftermath of Season 1, he does not report his brothers' survival to the Empire.
  • He treats Mayday very well, going far out of his way to get him to safety in extremely hostile weather. It amounts to nothing, but certainly not for lack of trying on Crosshair's part. He ultimately frags the man responsible for his death.
• Pinball Projectile: He has a set of mirror devices that are capable of deflecting blaster fire, allowing him to take out multiple targets with a single ricocheting shot.
• The Quiet One: As Hunter describes him:
  Hunter: Crosshair's not much of a conversationalist. But when you need to hit a precise target from 10 klicks, Crosshair's your man.
• Rage Breaking Point: After months of himself and his fellow clones (ironically the very "regs" Crosshair once disdained) being treated as disposable by the Empire, Crosshair finally reaches his limit in "The Outpost", where Lieutenant Nolan's callous disregard for Mayday leads to the latter's entirely preventable death after Crosshair did everything in his power to save him. An exhausted Crosshair basically forsakes the Empire on the spot, gunning Nolan down with no concern for what will become of him afterwards.
• Rank Up: He's promoted to Clone Commander from "Replacements" until the Season 1 finale.
• Redemption Demotion: While his melee skills are still up to par, Crosshair loses much of his vaunted accuracy with a rifle after finally rejoining the rest of the Batch at the beginning of Season 3. Justified, since all the blood the Advanced Science Division took from him on a regular basis at Mount Tantiss caused some damage to his arm, and he hasn't bothered to have his arm checked as of late. When he finally gets his hand checked, turns out his hand is fine physically, but the issue is likely due to PTSD-related tremors.
• Redemption Rejection: Hunter offers to let him rejoin the Bad Batch at the end of the first season, but he refuses. When another chance to rejoin the Batch comes up in Season 3, a now contrite Crosshair is much more willing to accept.
• Reforged into a Minion: In "Aftermath", Tarkin amplifies his partially-working inhibitor chip to turn him into a slave of the Empire. Later Subverted when it's shown he took out his chip to work with the Empire of his own accord. However, he certainly came close to having this fate during his imprisonment under Dr. Hemlock.
• Reformed, but Not Tamed: He may have rejoined the Bad Batch in Season 3 after defecting from the Empire, but that hasn't completely removed his standoffish and dickish attitude which frequently puts him at odds with Hunter and Omega. So if anything, he's more or less how he was during The Clone Wars.
• Sanity Slippage: After Order 66 goes out, his inhibitor chip starts slowly overwriting his mind and changing his personality. The chip's amplification only really sped up the process. Later Subverted when it's shown he took out his chip, admitting to his squad that his loyalty to the Empire was who he really was all along.
• Snakes Are Sinister: A more subtle example than most, but Dee Bradley Baker gave Crosshair a snake-like quality to his voice, and he's definitely a jerk to boot.
• Spotting the Thread: When he catches up to Hunter in pursuit of Caleb Dume, Crosshair asks if he killed the Padawan. Hunter claims he stunned him as he jumped, falling to his death in the process. However, Crosshair notices that Hunter was looking straight ahead to the other side of the cliff instead of down, leading him to learn that he didn't kill the Jedi as ordered. He then files a report with Tarkin, contradicting Hunter's claim.
• Sociopathic Soldier: As an Imperial commando, Crosshair displays elements of both Type 1 and Type 2; he truly believes that the Empire can and should use whatever means necessary to maintain order and peace in the Galaxy, and is all too happy to follow the orders of his amoral superiors, even when they order him to execute civilians (including children), allies like Orn Free Taa, and even other Imperial soldiers. Part of this stems from his belief that, as a cloned soldier, violence and obedience are the only things he's known, and possibly all he wants to know. And the revelation that he removed his inhibitor chip shows this is not an enforced mindest like most of the clone troopers, but rather Crosshair's own nature.
• The Stoic: He rarely shows any emotion. His showing a lot more emotion than usual sets the stage for his betrayal.
• Sudden Sequel Heel Syndrome: At most, he was an Anti-Hero in Season 7 of The Clone Wars. The first episode of the Bad Batch sees him fall prey to Order 66 and join the Empire.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute:
  • Going along with the Delta Squad comparisons, he is one of Sev, both of them being Cold Snipers and being the first member of their squad to leave the team, the difference being that Sev was MIA, while Crosshair made a Face–Heel Turn. Word of God is that he was partially conceived as Cad Bane if he was a clone.
  • He's also one of Tam, as both characters were on the side of the good guys before both of them undertook a Face–Heel Turn and joined a fascist organization founded by Palpatine^note Indirectly via Supreme Leader Snoke, his puppet. when they believed that such a side was the one in the right, get placed in charge of an elite squad, then have some form of regret for their choices when they see how truly lacking in humanity these groups are. The key difference is that, unlike Tam, Crosshair's defection was done unwillingly thanks to his inhibitor chip, whereas Tam joined the First Order after learning her mentor and his new trainee were secretly part of the Resistance. Another difference later crops up when Crosshair is shown to have willingly removed his chip to serve the Empire at least until Mayday dies from easily treatable injuries and eventually rejoins his old squad after escaping from Tantiss alongside Omega, whereas Tam got cold feet and later left the First Order.
  • He's also similar to Gideon Hask, as they're both Cold Snipers belonging to a Red and Black and Evil All Over squad, of which they're the only ones to remain loyal to the Empire following the rest of the team's desertion. Unlike Hask, who remains loyal to the Empire to the bitter end, even joining up with its successor state, the First Order to enact revenge on the New Republic, Crosshair's loyalty really starts to waver during Season 2 and by Season 3, makes amends with his squad.
• Token Evil Teammate: Downplayed initially, as Crosshair is the biggest jerkass of the group, who thinks of "regs" as inferior and can say some rather cruel things. Nevertheless, he's firmly on the side of the Republic. Played straighter in The Bad Batch, where he's the only member of Clone Force 99 affected by the Kaminoan inhibitor chip, which results in him becoming little more than an Imperial mouthpiece, albeit one still loyal to his team - until Tarkin gets his hands on him and amplifies the chip's effects, resulting in a Face–Heel Turn. He plays the trope completely straight with the reveal that he actually had his chip removed sometime before "Return to Kamino" but still chooses to serve the Empire because he believes it's the only place someone like him can belong.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: The partial activation of Order 66 makes him angry and impatient with Hunter, who refuses to blindly follow the orders of the new Empire and commit morally-questionable acts like killing Jedi and wiping out anti-Imperial guerrillas on Onderon. Tarkin picks up on this, and has Crosshair fully conditioned by the Kaminoans, making him go full Face–Heel Turn and attack the rest of the Bad Batch. He even grows further intolerant of insubordination, killing one of his new squad mates when they refuse to kill innocent civilians. With the reveal in "Return to Kamino" that he had his chip removed a while ago, it's possible that developing an intolerance of insubordination is all on him.
• Took a Level in Kindness:
  • A downplayed one as he's still an aloof dick, but "The Outpost" shows him going out of his way to attempt to save Mayday, a Clone Commander when he previously would have likely left him for dead for being a "reg". Witnessing firsthand how little the Empire thinks of the Clones as a whole thanks to his demotion seems to have made him realize that all Clones are in the same boat rather than him being any kind of exception.
  • By Season 3, particularly after linking back up with the rest of the Batch and burying the hatchet with them, Crosshair is overall a better person than he used to be, ranging from being less standoffish and more cooperative with the Batch and even with the regs in Rex's resistance movement to a degree, to being somewhat cordial with Omega (including using her name for the first time instead of calling her "the kid", and implicitly having developed enough of a bond with her to the point where she emulates his mannerisms in the same way she did with Hunter in the series premiere).
• Tragic Villain: Crosshair was always an asshole, but it's hard not to feel sorry for him when his inhibitor chip activates and starts messing with his head, and Tarkin's subsequent amplification of the chip's effects which completely overrides his mind and loyalty to the Bad Batch. He's implied to still care about them and despise what the Empire is making him do, but his brainwashing has left him unable to act on it. The tragic element still remains even after he reveals in "Return to Kamino" that he removed his chip some time ago. He does legitimately want to be with his brothers again, but he also believes that, as a clone created only for combat, serving the Empire is the only way he can find purpose in living.
• Troll: He seems to get his kicks from insulting regular clones.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Thanks to a combination of bad timing, sheer bad luck, and a hope of rescuing him, Crosshair's warning to the Batch for them to go into hiding sets off a chain of events that ends with Tech dead, Omega captured (the very outcome Crosshair hoped to avoid), and the rest of the Batch all but helpless to save their lost teammates.
• Villainous Cheekbones: His face is much longer and narrower than other Clones, with higher cheekbones.
• We Can Rule Together: In "Return to Kamino", Crosshair offers Hunter and the Bad Batch a chance to rejoin the Empire, saying that they were superior clones that deserve this kind of position and purpose rather than wandering the galaxy as fugitive mercenaries. He even goes as far as killing his human squadmates just to prove his offer is genuine.
• We Used to Be Friends: His relationship with Commander Cody is destroyed when Crosshair executes an unarmed Ames on a vindictive Grotton's orders without question, just after Cody was able to talk her down.
• Would Hurt a Child:
  • In "Aftermath", he has no problem shooting the teenaged Caleb Dume to kill. This is because of his inhibitor chip, which is corrupting him from the inside. Later episodes depict him as unhesitant to kill Omega.
  • He later orders his new squad to aim for Omega when she tries reaching out to him.
• Wouldn't Hurt a Child: By the time of "Return to Kamino", he has doubled back on his previous willingness to kill children. He orders Omega to be captured and transferred off-world when he confronts Hunter, even calling out Hunter on dragging her along by pointing out that he should be keeping her safe. This is because he had his inhibitor chip, which encouraged infanticide when it suited the Empire's needs, removed. However, he can and will pummel a child if necessary. In "A Different Approach", he was considering throttling the street urchin for demanding a ridiculous fee for information on Batcher, until the kid gives a much cheaper fee to placate him.
• Younger Than They Look: His grey hair, raspy voice and gaunt face make him appear a bit older than his brothers, despite being pretty much the same age.

Tech

Tech (CT-9902)

"When have we ever followed orders?"

^{Click to see him in full armor}

Species: Human clone

Homeworld: Kamino

Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker

Appearances: The Clone Wars | The Bad Batch

"I may process moments and thoughts differently, but it does not mean I feel any less than you."

Tech is the Bad Batch's technical expert and pilot.

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• Absent-Minded Professor: Has traits of this trope given his Skewed Priorities and habit of missing the point.
  Omega: Tech, what was the war like?
  Tech: It was a primary mission objective, comprised of battles on various fronts.
  Omega: But what was it like?
  Tech: Hmm? I just told you.
• Ace Pilot: Thanks to his mutations, his keen mind allows him to pilot ships and speeders with superb skill. His first time participating in a Riot Race has him calmly lay out a strategy to win that relies completely on his piloting skills to use speed and precise timing in comparison to the brute force and dirty tricks of the other racers.
• Admiring the Abomination:
  • He's honestly impressed by the Empire's new chain code system, since it'd give them a record of almost everyone in the galaxy.
  • Despite acknowledging it as a dangerous threat, Tech shows some awe at an adolescent Zillo Beast.
• Aloof Big Brother:
  • While he's as protective of Omega as the other members of Clone Force 99 that chose to desert the Empire, he's much more neutral towards her than Hunter, Wrecker, or even Echo. As of the fifth episode, the only major thing he does with Omega is giving her a comm unit of her own, whereas Hunter got Promoted to Parent, Wrecker becomes a Cool Big Bro due to being a Friend to All Children, and Echo seems to take the role of Big Brother Mentor. Later downplayed as Omega becomes his primary assistant for when Echo isn't around, and he's apparently training Omega to (eventually) pilot the Havoc Marauder.
  • Explored in "The Crossing", where he initially dismisses Omega's distress over Echo leaving the squad. Later, however, he doesn't hesitate to jump down a crevasse after her and saves her from drowning. Then, in a heart to heart with Omega, he admits to her that "I may process moments and thoughts differently, but it does not mean that I feel any less than you."
• Badass Bookworm: He may be more interested in technology and obscure facts, but Tech can still easily keep up with the rest of his team on the battlefield. He singlehandedly takes out three clone troopers (one manning an E-Web heavy repeating blaster), then (with some help from Romar) a Low Altitude Assault Transport/infantry gunship and two BARC Speeders simultaneously attacking him from two opposing directions - all on a broken leg.
• Beware the Silly Ones: One might think he's just an awkward nerd, but he's still a clone of Jango Fett and has a very powerful brain behind his combat abilities. He gives a scathing Death Glare to Crosshair when he has a weapon on him in the first season finale, showing he takes his duties as a soldier to his squad and family very seriously.
• Boring, but Practical: Compared to the other three Batchers, Tech's ability is the least flashy of them all and his combat capabilities don't stand out much from other highly-skilled clones. However, his large deposit of technology and knowledge, even the most mundane bits, can be incredibly useful in the right situations, whether it be decrypting, hacking, making measurements on the fly for the other Batchers, translating alien languages, or recording animal cries.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He is factually the smartest member of Clone Force 99. However, that doesn't stop some of his ideas from sounding outright insane, especially when he comes up with them on the fly.
• Cool Helmet: While all the members of the Bad Batch have non-standardized helmets, Tech's helmet is the only one that leaves his eyes exposed to make room for his goggles.
• Crazy-Prepared: While his obsession with collecting and dispensing knowledge seems to be little more than a frivolous hobby, sometimes that otherwise trivial knowledge can be incredibly useful when the situation calls for it. During the mission to rescue Echo, he recorded the help cries of the keeradaks, which he later uses to call some keeradaks to help them escape from Purkoll. He also takes the time to scan Omega's DNA, confirming she's a defective clone like themselves, which is enough to convince Hunter to go back to Kamino and get her.
• Crippling Overspecialization: His vast amount of knowledge and strategically-gifted mind are useless when he lacks any sort of information from past encounters to formulate a plan, which allows the Zygerians to get the drop on them while trying to rescue prisoners from them.
• Dead Hat Shot: After his death, Hemlock taunts the Bad Batch with his goggles he claims were the only things he could recover from Eriadu.
• Deadpan Snarker: Often this, mostly in regards to Wrecker.
• A Death in the Limelight: He receives the most focus out of any member of the Batch in Season 2 and dies in the season finale.
• Disney Villain Death: Heroic example. He allows himself to fall to his death on Eriadu to keep the train car containing his comrades from falling with him.
• The Driver: He's the main pilot of the Havoc Marauder, with Echo as his primary co-pilot, and Omega as his trainee.
• Dying Moment of Awesome: Hanging from a cable, attached to a dangling skytrain car, Tech manages to shoot the link between cars through his half of the train and bullseye the linkage with one pistol shot, allowing the car with the rest of the Batch to reattach to the rail and escape. His brother Crosshair would be proud of him.
• Encyclopaedic Knowledge: This is his main gimmick, having knowledge on just about anything relevant to their mission or environmental happenings. If there is something that Tech doesn't know it off the top of his head, he won't stop until he does.
• Face Death with Dignity: He grimly realizes that the Bad Batch is out of time on Eriadu while he is hanging from the back end of a rail car, and when Wrecker refuses to sever the connection hinge holding Tech's half of the car in place, Tech steels himself and does it against Wrecker's pleading.
  Wrecker: Don't you do it, Tech!
  Tech: When have we ever followed orders?
• Failed a Spot Check: Both he and Echo failed to notice that Omega was on their ship when they reported it for their plan to forge chain codes.
• Goggles Do Nothing: The goggles underneath his helmet don't serve any clear purpose, unless one of his birth defects is near-sightedness, which may explain why we rarely see him take them off (one of those times was after going underwater to get the water out). The visor attached to his helmet, on the other hand, has various display screens, such as for interfacing or translating languages.
• Guns Akimbo: His weapons of choice are dual blaster pistols.
• Heroic Sacrifice: He ultimately lays down his own life so that his comrades can escape from Tarkin's facility on Eriadu, becoming the first death in the Bad Batch.
• Hypocritical Humor:
  • He complains about Echo not mentioning key information in regards to actually knowing about the informant "Cid" beforehand, despite the fact he's done similar things in the past. Echo just rolls his eyes at it.
  • He also comments on Cid leaving out key information when he himself has done that.
• Indy Ploy: In need of a chain code to help the Lawquanes get off Salucami, he comes up with an idea on the spot to have the Havoc Marauder get impounded so Echo could sneak in and get a few copies for him to duplicate. Unfortunately, Omega was on the ship, so he had to readjust the plan a little to make sure no party got caught. Then Omega sneaks out to get the codes to Hunter, much to his leader's chagrin.
• Insufferable Genius: Downplayed. He's a Nice Guy for the most part, but his poor social skills can cause him to veer into this on occasion. Notably, he has a tendency to not mention important details, such as the fact that all clones had inhibitor chips in them that force them to enact Order 66, since he thought they were obvious.
• Instant Expert: A perk of his enhanced intellect. Despite only just learning of the Empire's new chain codes, he's able to forge new ones for Cut and his family.
• Like a Duck Takes to Water: Having just learned of the chain codes required by the Empire for travel and identification, he's able to figure it out in just the span of a few minutes.
• Nerd Glasses: Given his role as a Badass Bookworm and he's always wearing them even with his helmet on (to the point his helmet is designed to accommodate them and has a flip-down visor to go over them), his goggles fulfill this trope.
• Never Found the Body: After his apparent death, the Imperials are only able to return his goggles to Hunter. All the pieces are in place for a Disney Death, should he reappear some time later.
• Nice Guy: He's the most polite out of the entirety of Clone Force 99, given that Hunter is fairly gruff and Wrecker and Crosshair get into fistfights with their fellow clones within their first appearance. Notably, when Wrecker and Crosshair start a fight with Rex, Jesse, and Kix, Tech tries to break it up.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
  • During the Bad Batch's mission on Daro, Tech attempts to redirect the TK Stormtroopers and Clone Commandos, but because he's using a now-defunct clone code, all he does is set off the alarms and alert everyone to their position.
  • Tech's Heroic Sacrifice, while the only way to save his teammates, leaves them injured and forced to flee to Ord Mantell to get their wounds treated, leaving them open to being sold out by Cid.
• No Social Skills: Definitely. Though unlike Crosshair, he's not off-putting, just very socially oblivious, often forgetting that other people aren't as smart as he is.
• Oblivious to Love: Due to the directly above trope, Tech suffers an epic case of any and all (non-technical) signals flying over his head. Pretty much everyone but him instantly recognizes that Phee has a serious case of the hots for him, and is nothing less than shameless about it. Tech is nothing less than completely thick about it, at most finding her presence slightly uncomfortable.
• Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Throughout the series Tech displays that he's good with engineering, the piloting of various vehicles, biology, chemistry, physics, political happenings, system operations, data collection, computers, hacking, geographic mapping, historical architecture, and sociological anomalies.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When Wrecker lashes out at Crosshair as they try to escape a submerged Tipoca City, Tech tells Wrecker that the Empire's Regime meshes well with Crosshair's personality and there's nothing Wrecker can do to change it. When asked why he's defending Crosshair, Tech makes it clear that he's not and the tone of his voice makes it clear his brother's betrayal is truly weighing on him. Towards the end of the episode, he has a scathing Death Glare for Crosshair when it looks like he may turn a weapon on the crew and is obviously prepared to kill him if need be.
• Power Stereotype Flip: Most people with Super-Intelligence are portrayed as being introverted and having No Social Skills, but Tech actually knows a thing or two about social behavior, saying that you can't force people to change their behavior if they don't want to.
• Sacrificial Lion: He is the first member of the Batch to perish and with him goes a key member of the family and a critical asset to their operations.
• Ship Tease: In Season 2, Phee starts putting the moves on him to try to win him over. Tech, having No Social Skills or anything close to experience with romance, is uncomfortable and unsure about what to do about her flirting. Towards the end of the season, he grows more comfortable around her, but ultimately sunk when he dies in the season finale.
• Skewed Priorities: Tech's biggest vice is that he seems to be more interested in documenting or dispensing knowledge, regardless of how trivial it is to the situation at hand. He can also get so focused on his technical work that he becomes oblivious to everything else going on around him if it isn't a life or death situation. He also tends to leave out information when he thinks it's too obvious, much to Echo's frustration.
• The Smart Guy: Hacking, decrypting, piloting, translating — there is nothing Tech cannot do.
• Smart People Speak the Queen's English: Tech's accent vacillates somewhere between the typical "clone accent" (the Kiwi-sounding accent of Jango they all share) and a more British sounding one. It's likely there to be a vocal shorthand he's the smart one of the Bad Batch.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: Goggles to be specific, but they still indicate he is the smart member of the team.
• The Strategist: His quick mind allows him to come up with and alter strategies on the fly as he processes new information while still being able to focus on what he is doing.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: For the Delta Squad comparisons, he is one to Fixer, both of them being their respective teams' tech experts. They are also different in that Fixer was The Comically Serious member of Delta Squad, while Tech is a little eccentric and occasionally suffers from Skewed Priorities.
• Techno Babble: Tends to do this a lot when explaining things. Nobody else besides Omega really enjoys it.
  Tech: These chambers are quite the engineering marvel, this blast primer coating is capable of withstanding-
  Wrecker: No one cares! Keep moving!
• Thought They Knew Already: A Running Gag is that Tech frequently fails to mention important information, simply because he thought the information was so obvious it didn't warrant saying anything about it. His teammates get a little annoyed by this. The first three episodes alone demonstrate this habit:
  • In "Aftermath", he fails to mention that Omega is a defective clone like the rest of them.
  • In "Cut and Run", he neglects to bring up that the inhibitor chips forced the clones to carry out Order 66.
  • In "Replacements", he doesn't bother to bring up the Havoc Marauder has a malfunctioning hyperdrive, since it's a "non-essential" system (as in just the life support).
• Token Good Teammate: Not that Clone Force 99 is evil; being part of the Republic and, Crosshair excepted, later defectors from the Empire who didn't carry out Order 66 because their chips failed, they're definitely heroic. But when compared against the Good Is Not Soft Hunter, the Boisterous Bruiser Blood Knight Wrecker and the Jerk with a Heart of Gold Crosshair (though the Heart of Gold part is subverted later on during his service to the Empire), Tech being polite, nerdy and conversational definitely makes him this.
• Tranquil Fury: Never once does he raise his voice, but when the group is stuck on Kamino with Crosshair, he rather politely calls out his former teammate's behavior, in spite of earlier defending his personality traits to a pissed-off Wrecker. As the man himself put it, "Understanding you does not mean that I agree with you."
• Younger Than They Look: He's the same age as his brothers, but that receding hairline of his adds a couple years to his look.

Later Recruits

Echo

Corporal/ARC Trooper Echo (CT/ARC-1409)

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Species: Human clone cyborg

Homeworld: Kamino

Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker

Appearances: The Clone Wars | The Bad Batch

"Personally, I like that it's so quiet out here. I can catch up on the reg manuals."

Echo was once a member of the dysfunctional cadet squad Domino Squad. He and Fives become part of the 501^st Legion after showing their ingenuity during the Battle of the Rishi moon and become ARC troopers after the Battle of Kamino. Though he apparently dies during a raid on the Citadel, he is actually held prisoner for a year by the Techno Union. Upon learning of his survival, he is rescued by Anakin Skywalker, Captain Rex and Clone Force 99—The Bad Batch—and joins their ranks shortly thereafter.

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• Almighty Janitor: Despite serving in an elite capacity for most of the war, as well as being protégé and right-hand-man to Captain Rex, and being an ARC trooper, his formal rank is only Corporal.
• And I Must Scream: After his "death" in "Counterattack", the Techno Union use him as a living computer to steal a Republic strategy algorithm while not only keeping him in stasis, but reliving the last moments of his life until the shuttle explosion at the Citadel. And this was happening to him for a year.
• Artificial Limbs: Sometime after his "death" at the Citadel, he had his right arm and legs replaced with cybernetics (presumably having lost them from the shuttle explosion), with the prosthetic arm having a computer interface tool instead of a hand.
• Big Brother Instinct: Like Hunter and Wrecker, Echo shows this towards Omega, to the point of threatening the Coruscant Guard Shock Trooper that notices she's gotten out of their cell. This is especially jarring coming from Echo as, unlike the rest of them, he was born a Reg and biologically is still identical to the Shock Troopers. It's hard not to hear a little Jango with this line. In Return to Kamino, he makes sure she stays behind so she won't be hurt while they rescue Hunter, despite her protests.
  Echo: Harm her and you're a dead man.
• Birds of a Feather: Why Echo accepts Hunter's offer to join the Bad Batch. A sickly pale cyborg like him feels right at home with other abnormal Clones.
• Bloody Handprint: Rex left one in Rishi eel blood on his original armor, which he repainted onto his ARC trooper armor. He didn't repaint it when he joins the Bad Batch.
• Body Horror: When Anakin, Rex, and the Bad Batch find him at the Techno Union base on Skako Minor, he's not only had his right arm and legs replaced with cybernetics, he's bone-thin and his spinal cord is attached to a crude life-support system. His brain functions are also so deeply integrated into the Techno Union's computer systems that Tech doesn't recommend disconnecting him until he's finished decrypting it (according to the original reels, he couldn't even breathe without the system's commands until it was decrypted).
• Breakout Character: In the original run of The Clone Wars, he's a recurring character who is seemingly killed off in his fifth episode, late into Season 3. Season 7 reveals that he's Not Quite Dead and sets him up to transition into the main cast of The Bad Batch.
• But Now I Must Go: He leaves the Batch in "Truth and Consequences" to rejoin Rex and help as many displaced clones as he can, now that Palpatine has decommissioned the entire clone army to replace them with Stormtroopers.
• Conflicting Loyalty: Downplayed in that he stays loyal to the Batch, but he's clearly still got loyalty to Rex. When Hunter makes the decision to stay as bounty hunters rather than join whatever group Rex has joined up with, Echo is unhappy about it and tells Hunter they should have gone. In "War-Mantle", Echo is the first to demand that they follow Rex's lead on a clone in trouble. In "Truth and Consequences", the imminent replacement of the Clone Army with the now-authorized Stormtroopers leads him to formally join Rex in saving as many of their brothers as they can, parting amicably with the Batch.
• Cool Helmet: Par for the course for a clone trooper. He gets an upgrade when he becomes an ARC trooper. Then he gets a new helmet when he joins the Bad Batch, this one with a cut built into it to accommodate his technological headband.
• Costume Evolution: He goes from training gear to standard clone armor, then to a custom 501^st legion clone armor, then to ARC trooper gear, then a forced Wetware CPU, then to a new suit, and finally that same suit in Bad Batch colors, signifying his growth (and trauma).
• Custom Uniform: Like the rest of the Bad Batch, Echo wears unique armor. An interesting detail, though, is that his armor clearly resembles his old ARC Trooper outfit, with kama, much more than the modified Katarn-pattern armor of his new squadmates.
• Cursed with Awesome: The explosion he tanks in the Citadel and the horrific modifications he suffers at the hands of the Separatists destroy his inhibitor chip beyond recovery, allowing him to retain his free will when Order 66 goes live. It also gives him the handy ability to hack into any system and extract all necessary data.
• Cyborg: Either the Separatists in general or the Techno Union specifically turned him into one so they could extract a strategy algorithm from his brain without killing him.
• Deadpan Snarker: Having used to be a "reg" before joining the team, he's not used to the Bad Batch's zaniness and quirks and typically responds with snark.
  Echo: (to Tech after Omega leaves to deliver the forged Chain Codes to Cut's family) This great plan of yours is looking real lousy about now.
• Disability Immunity: In "Aftermath", Tech theorizes that either the brain damage he suffered at the Citadel, the cybernetic implants the Techno Union fitted him with on Skako Minor, or both are responsible for nullifying his inhibitor chip, rendering him immune to the Order 66 conditioning imposed on all the other Reg clone troopers.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: He's seemingly killed in an explosion while trying to save the team's escape shuttle during the Citadel arc. It is made even worse by the fact that it proves to be a Senseless Sacrifice on his part. This gets subverted when Season 7^note which was initially cancelled reveals he survived and the Separatists salvaged him. He then gets a main role afterwards for The Bad Batch.
• Elite Army: As an ARC trooper, and even more so as part of the Bad Batch.
• Embarrassing Nickname: He is sarcastically dubbed "Echo" by his squadmates due to his tendency to repeat every order given to his team. He isn't very fond of it at first, but he gets over it. It later occasionally gets Played for Laughs.
  Trace: We need a diversion!
  Rafa: (ignores Trace) What we need is a diversion.
  Trace: Is there an echo in here?
  Echo: Yes!
  Trace: What?
  Echo: I'm Echo.
  Trace: Really?
• Family of Choice: He chooses to stay with Clone Force 99 out of a sense of belonging, relating to them as fellow non-standard Clones and quickly became integrated into their little family, in contrast to Crosshair, who was born into the unit, and grew up with the other members, yet chose the Empire over his brethren at every opportunity.
• Fate Worse than Death: His time in Separatist captivity. He's starved, has several body parts removed and replaced with cybernetics and has his brain drained for strategic information used to kill his brothers, all the while mentally experiencing the disastrous moments leading up to his capture on a constant loop. Had Rex not been so persistent in locating him, it's quite likely he'd go on like that for the rest of his life, and given his modifications, possibly indefinitely.
• Fan Disservice: Normally, clone troopers aren't too hard on the eyes, but when Echo gets a Shirtless Scene during the Bad Batch arc (after being found Not Quite Dead), he's not only clearly malnourished, he's only got one organic limb left and is covered in cybernetic power sockets.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: Well, less than half according to Tech. Echo lost everything below his stomach, and his right arm above the elbow in the explosion at the Citadel. The Techno Union, and later the Republic, replaced his lost body parts and pieces of his brain with cybernetics and mechanical limbs to compensate.
• Handicapped Badass: During the Bad Batch arc, after being safely disconnected from the Techno Union's stasis pod, he's still physically weaker than he was before his "death" and he has only one hand that can actually hold anything (the prosthetic arm is merely an interface plug), but as he shows during the escape from Purkoll and the defense of the Poletec village, his time being stuck in the pod did very little to impede his combat effectiveness. Once they get him a bit more stable, he ends up being the key to helping the Republic win the Battle of Anaxes.
• Hidden in Plain Sight: Began taking advantage of this post-war, when all his cybernetics proved difficult to hide; in certain cases, he hid his skin and passed himself off as a droid.
• Human Popsicle: When Rex and the Bad Batch discover him on Skako Minor, they find him in a cryogenic stasis pod. Unlike most examples, he wasn't completely unconscious, as the Techno Union was mining his brain for his algorithm while he was reliving his last moments of consciousness at the Citadel on a loop.
• Hypocritical Humour: He's quick to question the other's willingness to trust Cut due to him being a deserter, only for Tech to point out they're all deserters now.
• I Choose to Stay: After the Battle of Anaxes, Echo decides that he doesn't really fit in with the 501^st or any other regular units anymore, and accepts an offer from the Bad Batch to join their team after Rex encourages him. Later, after Palpatine phases out the clones, he rejoins with Rex to help his brothers.
• I Was Quite a Looker: Normally, clone troopers aren't that hard on the eyes, but after a year in Separatist captivity, he's lost most of his looks, being deathly pale, cybernetically modified and emaciated.
• Joins to Fit In: After his rescue from Skako Minor, Echo feels out of place amongst his former comrades, considering he's "more machine than man" as Tech later puts it. With his skillset and no longer being a "reg", he accepts the Bad Batch's offer to join them.
• The Lancer: Gradually takes the role of being Hunter's second-in-command and Devil's advocate… which makes sense given his history as a former Badass Normal compared to the others - he may not have their enhancements, but he lacks their sometimes impractical eccentricities. This also shows up a bit in the way he treats Omega, he's sterner than Hunter but also actively trains Omega making him more the teacher to Hunter's parent.
  • In Season 2, Echo and Hunter are shown to be in constant disagreement on what they should be doing. Hunter wants to just live quietly keeping each other as safe as possible while Echo wants to use their money and expertise to help start a rebellion against the Empire.
• Last of His Kind: Not in the sense of the entire Clone Army (that honor belongs to poor Kix over 40 years later), but rather for the original Domino Squad, as Droidbait, Cutup, and Heavy died at Rishi, and Fives was executed by his own kin—and poor Echo didn't even get the chance to say goodbye.
• Liminal Being: After becoming part cyborg, he's caught between the regs and the Bad Batch. On one hand, he doesn’t really consider himself a Reg anymore due to his modifications, so he ends up joining the Bad Batch. However, because he was a Reg, he doesn’t necessarily think the same way the rest of the Bad Batch do. After the clones are about to be phased out and replaced by stormtroopers, Echo stills feels for the Regs, and then rejoins Rex because he wants save them as much as possible.
• Mauve Shirt: He supposedly gets killed during the Citadel arc. The Bad Batch arc confirms that he is still alive.
• The Mole: Averted. The Bad Batch assumes he's one after they rescue him from Skako Minor, but he proves his loyalties still lie with the Republic.
• Never Got to Say Goodbye: With Fives having been executed to cover up Order 66, Echo never got the chance to say goodbye, and is thus far apparently unaware of his friend's fate.
• New Meat: He starts out as one in his first appearance. He then becomes one to the Bad Batch, although he's far from inexperienced by then.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
  • In his spare time, he helped Rex develop a computer algorithm that analyses Republic military strategies and the best ways to counter them and the Separatists' countermeasures to said strategies. Then he got captured at the Citadel, giving the Separatists access to that same algorithm, which they used to gain the upper hand during the Battle of Anaxes. Fortunately for him, after his rescue and the Techno Union keeping quiet about the escape, the heroes found his abilities could be used against his tormentors.
  • He reroutes power from Barton IV's now abandoned Outpost's sensor beacons to the depot to bypass an Imperial encryption on Nala Se's datapad, causing a snow wyrm to attack the base.
• Nothing but Skin and Bones: He's becomes incredibly emaciated under the Separatist's control and retains this physique from then on.
• Not Quite Dead: He was believed to have been killed at the Citadel, but the Techno Union has been making horrific use of him. It's this discovery of his survival that leads Rex and the Bad Batch to rescue him.
• Number Two: After Crosshair joins the Empire, Echo begins to become this to Hunter, with the two working closely together on missions. This makes sense, given Echo is slowly developing into the team's Lancer with the loss of Crosshair. In Return to Kamino, Echo fully steps into a leadership role and helps organize the batch to rescue Hunter, leading them into Tipoca City, even going as far as to command Omega to stay behind so she won't be hurt.
• Out of Focus: Once he joins up with Rex, Echo's appearances alongside the Batch, while not stopping entirely, become much less frequent.
• Proud Warrior Race Guy: Of the "honorable soldier" type. All clones are this to some extent, but he embodies this the most of the Bad Batch. He dislikes becoming hired muscle, tells Hunter that as soldiers it's their duty to find another war to fight, and advocates for rescuing Gregor as a matter of honor. His disdain for chain codes might also play into this, as clone culture places high regard on individuality. He also argues with Hunter that the Batch should be sticking it to the Empire, knowing they'll never get off their backs until Palpatine is toppled.
• Prematurely Bald: By the time he's rescued from Skako Minor, he's completely bald, and never grows his hair back. Given the hell he went through, and the multitude of devices implanted all over his head, it's quite likely that he physically can't grow hair anymore.
• Put on a Bus: He leaves the squad during "Truth and Consequences" so he can help Rex find more affected clones fight the Empire, though he comes back to them by the time of "Tipping Point".
• Rank Up: He was promoted to ARC Trooper alongside his buddy Fives after the Battle of Kamino. The seventh season confirms he holds the rank of Corporal.
• Retcon: Echo's CT-number appears to change at random. The Clone Wars Visual Guide (released before "Clone Cadets") gives him the designation CT-1409. In "Clone Cadets", his number (as seen on his practice armor) is CT-21-0408, and this is used as his designation in most of the other supplementary material. During the Bad Batch arc, however, his number is changed back to CT-1409, which is also what the official databank uses for him.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: Having gone through the traumatic experience of being blown up, rebuilt, and tortured for a year while being forced to act on behalf of the enemy against his own kind, it's shown on Echo's face that he's gone quite far from being that chipper clone he used to be when he was training with the rest of Domino Squad. His time in the Bad Batch indicates he still fears being examined or plugged in.
• Situational Hand Switch: Post-cyberization; with his right hand being turned into essentially a universal USB plug, Echo now exclusively uses his left hand to hold things, fire blasters, punch and so on.
• Sixth Ranger: He becomes the fifth member of the Bad Batch commando squad after the Battle of Anaxes.
• Sole Survivor: Ultimately he, not Fives as initially seemed the case, is the last surviving member of Domino Squad.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute:
  • A once relatively good-hearted hero of the Republic who gets caught in a deadly fire and ends up being rebuilt with cybernetic limbs and left heavily traumatized from the experience to the point he's become a lot more sullen and looks deathly pale underneath his armor. Take away the heroic characterization and the technological abilities, and you almost have Darth Vader. It's hammered home by Tech in the premiere of Star Wars: The Bad Batch when he describes Echo as "more machine than man", though he's speaking purely in a factual sense rather than the emotional.
  • His cybernetic implant and bald-headedness also make him appear very similar to Lobot, Lando Calrissian's assistant in The Empire Strikes Back.
  • His story is eerily similar to that of Corr, a former clone bomb squad trooper that, after being blown up gets cross-trained into clone commando tactics and eventually replaces Omega Squad's sniper, Fi after the latter suffers a traumatic brain injury.
  • In almost the opposite way from Tech, he can also be seen as one to Fixer from Delta Squad, as he serves as Clone Force 99's hacker, is the Comically Serious of the bunch, and has been seen using his scomp link arm as a melee weapon on more than one occasion, mirroring Delta-40's introduction on Geonosis, where he's shown using his Vibroblade Below The Shoulder to behead a Geonosian.
• This Is a Drill: Downplayed. His prosthetic arm serves as a Computer Interface Tool that allows him to access computer mainframes, not unlike those belonging to astromechs like R2-D2. However, his time in the Bad Batch shows him using it in this manner to deal with droids.
• Those Two Guys: With Fives until the Citadel arc.
• Took a Level in Badass: With the rest of the Domino Squad at the end of "Clone Cadets" and again in "Rookies". Finally, the end of "ARC Troopers" has him promoted to an ARC trooper. Then, in Season 7, he joins The Bad Batch, an entire team of tough-as-nails clones, with a nifty new set of abilities to hack into technological systems (although it did come at great cost and a year's worth of trauma).
• Wetware CPU: The Techno Union temporarily used him as one during the Battle of Anaxes to use a secret tactical algorithm he worked on against the Republic.
• Worth It: A positive variation. During Season 2, Omega recklessly tries to take the remains of Dooku's war chest out of a teetering crate because she feels that she put the Batch in a bad situation when they rescued her. Echo tells her that he would not hesitate to help her again.

Omega

Omega

Species: Human clone

Homeworld: Kamino

Voiced by: Michelle Ang
Appearances: The Bad Batch

"You're Clone Force 99!"

An enhanced female clone who joins the Bad Batch on their adventures after they desert from the Empire.

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• The Ace: As expected of an unaltered clone of Jango Fett, she picks up skills with ease. She doesn't have the unique mutations of the other members of the Bad Batch, but she does have her own talents.
• All-Loving Hero: Omega can easily grow attached to the people around her, even those that would do her harm; this often leads to her sticking her neck out for people she just met for no other reason than she just doesn't want to see people get hurt.
• Ambiguous Gender Identity: Despite being a clone of male Jango Fett, she's assumed to be an Opposite-Sex Clone as she presents and identifies as female and is identified on sight as an enhanced clone, same as the Bad Batch. However, Prime Minister Lama Su later refers to her as an "unaltered clone" bringing up the very real possibility that she was genetically male at her creation like the only other known unaltered clone, Boba Fett, but is transgender or intersex. The ambiguity comes from the context of the conversation, as the alterations being referred to were specifically those related to the viability of Omega as a template for future clones (lacking Rapid Aging as well as the biological and mental conditioning to make the Clone Troopers obedient and docile). The lack of clarity of the Prime Minister's meaning behind "unaltered" leaves the door open for either interpretation. Further possibilities are opened by the existence of Emerie Karr, another female clone.
• Badass Adorable: Stands up against a gang of bully clone troopers, gets the drop on three shock troopers from a vent, and disarms Crosshair with the first shot of her blaster all in her debut episode. Being adorable on top of all this just goes without saying.
• Bait-and-Switch: In the first episode, Tech deduces that Omega must be the fifth enhanced clone that was created with the Bad Batch, the only other four surviving enhanced clones. Then comes "Bounty Lost", which reveals that Omega isn't an enhanced clone, but rather a pure unenhanced clone like Boba, so the missing fifth member is someone else.
• Big Brother Worship: She's clearly in awe of her Bad Batch brothers and absolutely stoked to be joining them. She's closest with Hunter, and humorously starts to mimic his movements and gestures. It's a whole new level of heartwarming. Though as it turns out, she's actually their big sister (biologically at least), due to her being a first-generation clone of Jango.
• Cheerful Child: Omega remains upbeat and optimistic after escaping from the only home she knew, is open to new people and experiences, and expresses nothing but support to her fellow brothers. Even when she gets caught up in the middle of a dangerous Indy Ploy by Tech and Echo, she only smiles and nods.
  Omega: I think it's a good plan, Tech!
• Chekhov's Skill: Her time as Nala Se's primary assistant is useful whenever the Batch needs to navigate around Kamino below radar. Her knowledge of all the special land docks, passageways, and off-record labs that are typically off-limits for non-scientific personnel gives the group a real advantage.
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Naturally fills in the role whenever she's paired up with Wrecker or Tech. For the former, she is more reasonable and mature in civilian decision-making, whereas for the latter she acts as a Techno Babble translator.
  Tech: Since Rex's chip was removed, I am able to establish a baseline by comparing his brain scan to ours, allowing for the detection of any cellular anomaly.
  Omega: He means it's almost finished!
• Commonality Connection: She looks up to the Bad Batch because she's from the same batch as they are. It's later clarified that she's actually an unenhanced clone and in fact older than they are, but was created in Nala Se's lab like they were and watched Nala Se modify them. She feels a connection to them because she grew up with them, in a manner of speaking.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character:
  • To Ahsoka Tano. Both of them are younger generations of Republic defenders (Ahsoka a Jedi and Omega a clone) that are taken under the wing of a more experienced soldier who tends to bend the rules in combat (Anakin for Ahsoka and Hunter for Omega), and both start out as being a Naïve Newcomer that find the world they expected to be entirely different. However, Ahsoka grows through Character Development into a more mature and wise Jedi (although she gets put through a pretty hefty Trauma Conga Line multiple times), and loses the only family she's known to the war (Anakin becoming Vader, Obi-Wan going into exile and eventually dying at Vader's hands, etc.), whereas Omega is still just a kid with a long way to go, and she still has her family around (sans Crosshair and Tech).
  • To Grogu. Both of them are mysterious children that a stoic warrior (Din Djarin for Grogu and Hunter for Omega) ends up taking under their wing, with both having some sort of ability unique to only them (the Force for Grogu and some as-yet-revealed powers for Omega tied to her being a pure unenhanced clone which also turns out to be the Force, or at least the potential for it), tragic ties to Order 66 (Grogu being a victim and Omega losing Crosshair to its influence), a massive bounty on their heads, and having encounters with Fennec Shand. Grogu, however, is still just an infant that, though powerful, is deeply traumatized by what happened to him, and needs further training to hone his abilities, whereas Omega, though older, is still unsure of what she can really do (as are her guardians), and has no experience of the galaxy beyond the confines of Kamino. Moreover, Fennec Shand doesn't harm Grogu and actually aids in his rescue, while Omega nearly ends up as Fennec's prisoner (though that's later revealed to be her being hired to protect Omega from the Kaminoans by Nala Se). Finally, both are needed alive for the Empire's cloning projects, with Grogu's blood getting extracted for Project Necromancer, or in Moff Gideon's case, make Force-Sensitive clones of himself outfitted in beskar armor, where Omega is used as leverage by Dr. Hemlock to make Nala Se work on Project Necromancer for Palpatine's sake, lest she suffers for it.
• Damsel in Distress: Being the youngest (maturity-wise) member of The Squad, as well as the only one with no combat training and very little real-world experience, she's the one most likely to get into a life-threatening situation and need her big brothers to rescue her. She ends up being successfully kidnapped by Cad Bane in the eighth episode. In the second season finale, Dr. Hemlock manages to kidnap her and take her to his lab, and unfortunately the surviving squad members have no idea where that is.
• Damsel out of Distress: During "Shadows of Tantiss", she manages to free Crosshair and take along Batcher, a lurca hound she helped during "Confined", to escape Tantiss's Mount Wayland facility.
• Energy Bow: In "Rampage", she takes a Zygerrian plasma bow during the mission to rescue Muchi. After some practice, it becomes her favored weapon. In Season 3, Omega gets a modified energy crossbow, which is smaller and less bulkier, making it more practical to use as a weapon.
• Even the Loving Hero Has Hated Ones: Normally, Omega is an All-Loving Hero with few equals, even willing to give dangerous strangers a fair shot. She does not extend this sentiment to Dr. Royce Hemlock, treating the Mad Scientist with contempt for his despicable treatment of Omega's fellow clones.
• Everyone's Baby Sister: Literally, as both the only known Opposite-Sex Clone of Jango and a Tagalong Kid. Though as Metamorphosis reveals, she's not the only female clone - Emerie Karr is one too, and true to Omega's endearing nature, Emerie soon starts showing a downplayed sense of protectiveness over Omega.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: In Season 3, Omega's hair grows longer over the course of her imprisonment at Mount Tantiss, and she starts tying it back in a short ponytail.
• Family of Choice: Despite the fact she had the chance to live with Cut Lawquane and have a real family with basic stability, she chooses to stay with Hunter and the Bad Batch, because that's where she felt she belonged and doesn't care about the danger that comes with them. This is a large part of why Ventress lies to her and says that she doesn't have a high M-Count/Force potential, as it would mean taking her away from her family.
• A Girl and Her X: In her case, a girl and her Lurca hound. Batcher was initially a lab experiment on Tantiss whom Omega bonded with when she had no one to talk to during captivity. Now, Omega has a much needed lifelong companion.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: She's very fond of Wrecker's Tooka doll, Lula, and makes a straw version to keep herself company while imprisoned at Mount Tantiss.
• Guile Hero: Escaped from Cad Bane using her engineering experience to disable Todo and also eluded Fennec Shand not once but twice with quick thinking and good use of environmental switches and levers.
• The Heart: Omega's empathy, cheerfulness, idealism, and lack of experience from the wear and tear of intergalactic war make her this for the squad, hence their extreme desire to protect her.
• Heroes Love Dogs: She bonds with a Lurca hound during her captivity on Tantiss and names her Batcher. Batcher then saves her and Crosshair when they escape Tantiss and comes with them during said escape.
• Hidden Depths: She shows a surprising amount of competent strategy skills in the tenth episode, even impressing Cid enough to the point she lets her compete for money. She uses said money to pay off the squad's debt to Cid in a matter of hours.
• Important Hair Accessory: In "Cut and Run", she tearfully removes her Kaminoan headpiece, letting her short bangs fall over her forehead and symbolically marking her commitment to the Bad Batch as her new family and the shedding of her past on Kamino with Nala Se.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: She's able to pick up a normal blaster and snipe Crosshair's rifle in one shot, then drive him off with two more, even though she's never used a blaster before. She chalks it up to beginner's luck.
• In the Blood: She shows she's got Jango's DNA when she picks up a blaster and fires it with excellent skill at Crosshair. Keep in mind that this was the first time she even held a blaster, let alone used one in battle. When the Bad Batch asks how she did that, she honestly insists she had no idea. Turns out she's a pure genetic clone of Jango, just as Boba is.
• Little Miss Snarker: While she's mostly sincere and innocent, Omega isn't above a bit of snark every now and then. In particular, Crosshair tends to bring out Omega's wit, mostly from plenty of verbal sparring.
• Living MacGuffin: Why is she wanted by bounty hunters? The Kaminoans want her back because she's a pure genetic clone of Jango. Due to the Kaminoans having no tabs on Boba's whereabouts, she's their best source of fresh genetic material for more clones in order to stay in the Empire's interest. In "Shadows of Tantiss", she has the highest M (midichlorian) counts out of all the clones on Tantiss, making her even more valuable to the Imperial Advanced Science Division. Thing is, Dr. Hemlock already had several children with high M-counts, except they cannot be replicated directly. What makes her unique is that her genetic material acts as a compatible binder to enable M-count replication.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Defied. Omega is revealed to have known about the inhibitor chips even before she left Kamino, judging by how she tried to console Crosshair by telling him how his increasingly aggressive behavior "isn't his fault" and that "he can't help it". She reveals the existence of the chips to the Batch in "Cut and Run", and later gives information on how they're designed to make clones unquestioningly obedient. It's implied that her time as Nala Se's assistant is why she knows of the secret.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: Being an unaltered clone makes her essentially Jango Fett's daughter and Boba's younger sister. She later gets hit with the receiving end of this trope when Emerie Karr reveals she's her sister at the end of "Plan 99".
• Meaningful Name:
  • Omega, because she's the last of the first batch of Jango Fett clones.
  • It is also later revealed that Boba was codenamed Alpha by the Kaminoans. Given how Omega is essentially Boba's sister, it makes sense how Alpha is the first character of the Greek alphabet and Omega is the last.
• Morality Pet:
  • Is revealed to be this for Nala Se. While viewing all clones as mere "property" and tools to be used for Kamino's advantage, she appears to have a soft spot for Omega. Even Lama Su comments that Nala Se has gotten quite attached to Omega. She's particularly so fond of her that she goes against Lama Su's orders to have Omega returned for experimentation purposes (and killed altogether) by secretly paying Fennec Shand to protect her from being captured. When learning the Bad Batch has taken her in, Nala Se comments that as long as Omega is kept away from Lama Su, she will be safe.
  • Downplayed with Crosshair, but later played straight. It isn't enough to truly redeem him at first, but she does bring out his very rarely seen softer side. When she almost drowns trying to save AZ-3, he grapples her up to safety in spite of having no reason to do so. When Omega devises an escape plan from the Mount Weyland facility, Crosshair helps despite giving up after trying to escape previously.
• Mysterious Past: It's not clear why Nala Se went to the trouble of creating her, given her existence is separate from Jango's contract with the Kaminoans (and given her age, must have been grown at least a few years after Boba). Nala Se treats her with a motherly affection she doesn't display with other clones, and is willing to sabotage Lama Su's plans if it means keeping her safe.
• Mysterious Waif: Half of "Aftermath" involves the Bad Batch rescuing her from Kamino, seeing her as one of their own, and she's never been off-planet. She's established as an enhanced Jango clone (but what that means isn't clear), she's a great shot despite having never picked up a gun before, and a private meeting with the Kaminoans reveals that she's very special to them. Even the Empire isn't aware of her. It turns out that her skill and the Kaminoans' interest in re-capturing her is because she has pure, first-generation DNA. Therefore, she's a rare, pure genetic clone of Jango Fett, akin to Boba, And we all know how he turned out.
• Mythology Gag: Her blonde hair is most likely natural, seeing as she's an unenhanced clone and that the Kaminoans probably wouldn't have let Omega dye her hair. In the Jango Fett: Open Seasons comic from Legends, Jango's mother and sister had blonde hair, so this may be a result of Opposite-Sex Clone making Jango's blonde genes dominant in Omega - as they might be in Rex, come to that.
• Naïve Newcomer: Due to her sheltered upbringing, Omega's frequently endangered herself by not knowing about basic dangers that exist outside of Kamino's sterile facilities. She almost gets shot by Crosshair by wanting to help an injured Wrecker (that the sniper was deliberately using as bait), almost gets pounced on by a Nexu by climbing beyond a fence to retrieve a ball, and also nearly gets caught by Imperial Clone Troopers because she decided to play hero and deliver chain codes unsupported. All three times, only her brother's quick reactions saved her from a particularly messy outcome.
• Nice Girl: Pleasant to strangers, curious and happy to make new friends, also quick to forgive people and is loyal to her brothers to the end.
• Odd Friendship: With Cid, in Episode 10. The latter is initially dismissive and rude towards Omega, though when she shows off her skills in Dejarik, Cid slowly begins to gain newfound respect and appreciation for her. She even stands up for the young clone when Hunter voices his disapproval.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Her usually bright and chipper demeanor is nowhere to be seen during "Return to Kamino", as she is instead very solemn and mournful when she arrives at Nala Se's secret lab, where she witnessed Clone Force 99's creation. Comes to a head when she sees the remains of Tipoca City at the end of "Kamino Lost", as she is understandably distressed at seeing the remains of her former home.
• Opposite-Sex Clone: As far as we know, she's the only female clone of Jango Fett in existence. At least until Emerie Karr revealed herself to also be a Fett clone, albeit one with accelerated aging.
• Raised in a Lab: She spent her life growing up in Nala Se's private labs as the scientist's assistant. As such, Omega has no experience with any setting outside of a lab and after landing on Saleucami she is quickly awed by everything. Even literal dirt has her giggling in childish excitement as she plays with it for the first time.
• Rapid Aging: Averted. While clones are designed to reach maturity quickly, Omega is an unaltered, first-generation clone of Jango, just like Boba, and thus ages at a normal rate.
• Related in the Adaptation: Boba never had a sister in the canon up to this point, and he remained an only child (well, from his perspective anyway) both in canon and Legends. Her revelation as being a pure clone of Jango makes her Boba's sister.
• The Reveal: The third season reveals she's being sought for the Emperor's Project Necromancer for her high Midi-chlorian count. And if she has a high m-count, she's probably Force sensitive and a potential Jedi. Ventress tacitly confirms that she is, but lies to her, on the grounds that training her would require taking her away from her Family of Choice.
• Sheathe Your Sword: In "Replacements", she manages to retrieve the Bad Batch's ship capacitor by trading in her flashlight to the Ordo Moon Dragon rather than shooting it with Hunter's blaster, allowing them to resolve the standoff unscathed.
• Sherlock Scan: Thanks to her training with Nala Se, she's able to tell that Rex is a first-generation clone just from the lines on his face. She's also the first one to realize who Cid is and seems to be very perceptive in general. This is one of a number of hints that she's Force sensitive, which Ventress eventually tacitly confirms.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: Omega has ditched her Kamino outfit for a more practical civilian outfit in season 2, showing that she's becoming more comfortable as part of the team.
• Sixth Ranger: Tech deduces that she's from the same batch as the Bad Batch, as the Kaminoans told them that there were five successful enhanced clones and four of them became the Bad Batch, Echo not counting since his enhancements are cybernetic and unrelated to them. She ends up joining her brothers on their adventures, though Tech seems to be incorrect about her being the missing fifth member of their batch.
• Tagalong Kid: Fills this role, though she and the force are all technically children. As it turns out, she's the oldest of the group, by a few years at least.
• Tomboyish Ponytail: In season 3, she ties her hair back in a neat ponytail while imprisoned at Mount Tantiss. After escaping, she keeps the ponytail but has scruffier hair to emphasize the "tomboy" part as part of the squad.
• Took a Level in Badass: Starts off the journey with zero fighting experience and has to resort to hiding and wit to deal with the threats that the other Batchers handle with force. After acquiring her plasma bow and getting a bit of practice, she begins to contribute to the fights that she finds her and her brothers in a lot more. Toward the end, she even helps pilot the ship in emergency situations.
• Took a Level in Cynic: Downplayed; Omega's imprisonment on Tantiss in Season 3 sees her develop a slightly more cynical attitude, which is understandable, given the chain of events that led to her capture (Tech's death and Cid's treachery). She notably has no illusions about why Hemlock wanted her, and doesn't hesitate to tell him so, showing the twisted scientist nothing but contempt. On a less dire note, she's also developed a sarcastic streak, replying to every one of Crosshair's quips with one of her own. That said, Omega's empathy is unchanged, which she shows with her compassion towards Batcher and other imprisoned animals, as well as her willingness to trust Ventress, even after learning her past as a Separatist assassin.
• Truth in Television: Jango and the male clones are portrayed in live-action by Māori actors. Despite this, Omega has blonde hair, implied to be caused by her genetics. However, it's possible for Pacific Islanders to have naturally blonde hair without mixing with Caucasian-Americans, though the hair of most blond Pacific Islander children darkens with age. Additionally, Temuera Morrison's sister Taini Morrison also had blonde hair.
• The World Is Just Awesome: The debut episode of the Bad Batch has her going into space for the first time and looking at the universe in wonderment, and her first impression of Saleucami is how amazing the planet is for having dirt. She proceeds to have a blast just observing the plants and fauna afterward, which is a trend that continues everywhere she goes.
• Wrench Wench: Her time as Nala Se's assistant, lab experience, and time spent with AZI-3 actually make her the third most tech-savvy member on the Bad Batch team, right behind Tech and Echo. Throughout the series she's shown to recognize technology on sight, operate field panels, repair and activate droids ranging from Gonky to Imperial Training Droids, and act as Tech's assistant when Echo isn't around to help make repairs and modifications.

Gonky

"Gonky"

Model: GNK-series power droid

Appearances: The Clone Wars | The Bad Batch

A GNK droid that sticks with the Bad Batch following their desertion. Like the other members, Gonky is also defective, in that his primary power source cannot fully charge.

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• Ascended Extra: Goes from being a background workout weight for Wrecker to a semi-recurring character.
• Butt-Monkey: Is used by Wrecker for bench-pressing, albeit reluctantly.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: Being a power droid, Gonky isn't designed for combat or any task that involves quick movement or limbs. However he can provide power for ships in a pinch, which singlehandedly saved the Batch during their escape on Daro when their ship's power got blown out from an enemy attack.
• Playing Possum: Does this in "Rampage" when Omega tells him that Zygerrian slavers are searching the Havoc Marauder for any more stowaways that may have accompanied Clone Force 99 in disrupting their trade.
• Pokémon Speak: As a GNK droid, all he's able to say is "gonk".
• Mundane Utility: Gonky, when not being a weight for Wrecker to exercise with, helps the Batch by acting as a walking table for supplies, games, and sometimes even as a seat for Omega.
• Spanner in the Works: Despite being stolen alongside the Marauder by Benni during Clone Force 99's mining of the ipsium mine that Cid bought, his signal being traced allows them to find their shuttle and help Benni overthrow Mokko.
• Team Pet: He's a robot who mainly serves as a weightlift for Wrecker and a temporary place to sleep for Omega.
• Token Non-Human: He's the only non-human member of the Bad Batch prior to Batcher's introduction, a few of whom are notably anti-droid. It implied that due to Gonky being defective, the Bad Batch felt a connection and took him in.

Batcher

"Batcher" (LH-201)

Species: Lurca hound

Homeworld: Weyland

Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker

Appearances: The Bad Batch

A lurca hound formerly owned by the Imperial Advanced Science Division and was healed by Omega, before becoming the squad's pet upon Omega and Crosshair's reunion with their squad.

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• Androcles' Lion: Omega gets attached to her, and she's scheduled for destruction as a result, since the Empire don't want their attack dogs going soft. Omega frees her, but Hemlock figures the now blunted Batcher will soon be killed by the wildlife outside Tantiss. He's wrong, and Batcher returns to help Omega and Crosshairs escape.
• Big Damn Heroes: Helps Omega and Crosshair hijack the Rho-class shuttle meant to recapture them by attacking the TK Stormtroopers during "Shadows of Tantiss".
• Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit": Lurca hounds are considered a type of dog in the Star Wars universe, but they look closer to a dinosaur than a dog.
• Evil-Detecting Dog: Almost but not quite smells CX-2... before she gets distracted by food (Omega thought she was hungry).
• Mook–Face Turn: Initially one of the Lurca hounds meant to keep the creatures of Tantiss at bay from Imperial forces, she eventually bonds with Omega after she helps tend her injuries she sustained while out on patrol.
• Morality Pet: Though he would never admit it to anyone, Crosshair develops a soft spot for her and can even be seen giving her affectionate rubs.
• Team Pet: Seems to be shaping up to be this for the Batch; in addition to Omega, both Wrecker and even Crosshair have clearly grown fond of her.
• You Are Number 6: She was initially named LH-201 by the Empire before being given her current name by Omega.

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