Spoilers Bad Batch Season 3 - February 21st
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Nah, I'm all for him to still be showing up in the post ST-era and beyond; all cyborged up so all that's left of him by that point that isn't machine is just a pair of snarling lips and a toothpick.
Cad Bane is a cockroach. Surviving is what he's really good at, and honestly he's easily one of the best mid-level villains Star Wars has ever come up with, precisely because he's both utterly despicable AND actually good at what he does.
He's also not a plotter or a schemer like Sidious, or Maul, or Thrawn. He's only interested in the next payday. If the New Republic are willing to pay his rates; he'd just as happily be hunting down Imperial war criminals and ex-Inquisitors. That means he's adaptable for almost any eventuality.
What a horrifying thought.
This is truth.
My reaction to anything Bane related:
I do find "Cad Bane" kind of a silly character name, but hey, at least it's subtler than "Savage Oppress."
Or "Elan Sleezbaganno", the Death Stick dealer from episode 2.
Yeah, but that wasn't spoken onscreen and would be just a behind-the-scenes in-joke if not for the habit of the Star Wars franchise of developing even its most obscure background players in the supplemental material. A name that's used overtly and frequently in the aired dialogue is another matter.
I did giggle when they had a character in a later episode make fun of the name.
Even worse, it's intentionally (?) misspelled as 'Opress'.
Eh. It's Star Wars. A bounty hunter in the very first movie is named Greedo. And he works to get paid and paid well for his skills.
In 47 years, that never occurred to me before. I guess I just heard it as a variant of Guido or something.
Lord Tyrsnus too.
But is it sillier than "Ki-Adi-Mundi"?
That's just sounds with no particular meaning, perfectly acceptable as an alien name. "Cad Bane" is both a cad (a scoundrel, a creep) and a bane (a cause of death or ruination), so it's really on-the-nose. It's like naming him "Jerk Toxin."
Don't give Lucasfilm any ideas or else we will be getting a six issue "Jerk Toxin" Star Wars miniseries from Marvel.
You lot do remember the part where Star Wars is primarily aimed at kids, right? Specifically the 8-12 year old range? It's meant to sound a little arch and silly. It's built in to how Lucas conceived the whole thing. Making the names easy to say, easy to remember, and deliberately on-the-nose when it comes to the villains is about keeping it accessible to that demographic.
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Are you sure about that?
