Star Wars: The Bad Batch Episode 3 Easter Eggs Explained

| May fourteen, 2021 |

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This Star Wars: The Bad Batch review contains spoilers.

The Bad Batch continues to fill in details about the transition from the Democracy to the Empire. Every bit the episode title "Replacements" might advise, the Empire'due south new elite troops are hither. Or, at to the lowest degree, a squad of recruits who might mark the starting time of the death trooper plan. With the new troopers, Tarkin, and a new Imperial Vice Admiral on the phase, there'southward a distinct Rogue One feeling in the air. Meanwhile, the Bad Batch endeavour to go themselves out of trouble on an airless moon.

These storylines pb to a few easter eggs and references that become back to the Original Trilogy and even a few Legends stories. Allow'south take a look at all the subconscious (and non-so-subconscious) connections to the rest of the Star Wars saga:

The Desolate Moon

– The emergency landing on the desolate moon is reminiscent of a famous section in The Empire Strikes Back . The Millennium Falcon hides in an asteroid cavern that turns out to be the mouth of a giant space brute. The Bad Batch's ship coming down into heavy fog on the moon even looks like the scene where the Falcon flies deeper into the belly of the beast (literally). In both cases, at that place's not enough air to exhale, so the characters don breath masks, seen also in the Prequel and Sequel Trilogies.

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– The brute the Batch encounters is a reference to a few unlike things. Like the mynocks in that aforementioned sequence from The Empire Strikes Dorsum , this animal eats electricity. It also pops up at Omega on the other side of the viewport for a bound scare reminiscent of how the mynocks scared Leia in Empire . Known every bit the Ordo Moon Dragon, the creature shares a name with Canderous Ordo, a Mandalorian mercenary from the Knights of the Former Republic video game series.

The Empire, Tarkin, Admiral Rampart, and Iden Versio

– Formerly an admiral in the Republic Navy, Tarkin is at present an Imperial governor. He'll go on to govern the Outer Rim territories, including Lothal, the setting for much of Rebels . As Thousand Moff, he'll eventually command the Death Star and even Darth Vader.

– The elite squad of man troopers Rampart presents as replacements for the clones appear to be precursors to the death troopers from Rogue I or the Purple special forces unit led past Iden Versio in Battlefront Two . decease troopers had surgical enhancements to make them stronger, while special forces troopers were regular humans with specialized training. Note the green visors reminiscent of death troopers' green lights.

– Imperial troopers at present fire ruddy equalizer bolts instead of blue, a distinction long used to tell the armies apart.

– Noshir Dalal, who voices new Imperial villain Vice Admiral Rampart, as well voiced Varko Grey a.k.a. Titan Leader on the Imperial side in Star Wars: Squadrons .

– War Mantle is one of the projects mentioned in Rogue One while Jyn Erso is scanning Royal records for the plans for Project Stardust, a.1000.a. the Death Star. Now nosotros know War-Mantle is the effort to replace clones with human being soldiers. Since the clones have long been replaced by the time of the Original Trilogy, we can assume Project War Pall was a large success.

– Crosshair continues to show the effects of his inhibitor chip, which appear to be lasting much longer than they're intended. The mantra "Practiced soldiers follow orders" accompanying the brainwashing first appeared in a season six episode of The Clone Wars , "The Unknown."