BORN TO BE BAD
CONTRARY TO POPULAR belief, not all clones are created equal. Although the Clone Troopers all emerged from the same Petri dishes on Kamino, their DNA a photocopy of Jango Fett’s, The Clone Wars TV show revealed that they had radically different personalities – and a penchant for distinguishing themselves with extremely questionable hairstyle choices.
Some of Star Wars’ clones break the mould even further than mohawks and dye jobs, however. When the long-awaited final season of The Clone Wars debuted on Disney+ last year, we were introduced to an elite special unit of commandos unlike anything we’d seen before. Hunter, Crosshair, Wrecker and Tech – aka Clone Force 99 – were all born from the same primordial soup as their Clone brothers, but freak mutations had given them unique attributes that turned them into the ultimate fighting force.
HIT AND MISFIT
Known colloquially as the Bad Batch, they’ve now been given their own animated spin-off series, set against the backdrop of the Old Republic turning into the Empire.
“There’s a lot to go down at this particular juncture in the mythology,” says Dee Bradley Baker, who has voiced every Clone Trooper since began – and plays all of the eponymous Bad Batch. “It’s very exciting because it’s a transformational moment on a galactic scale,
