Somehow, Ventress Returned
Shand isn’t the only familiar face back for season three though: a trailer revealed to the shock of Star Wars fans (and not-shock to anyone used to Star Wars reviving dead characters all the time) that none other than Asajj Ventress—the Dathomiran former Sith assassin for Count Dooku during the Clone Wars and then an independent bounty hunter—would be appearing in The Bad Batch.
Ventress had died during the events of the canon novel Dark Disciple, set during the waning days of the Clone War and adapted from unproduced scripts and story ideas for Clone Wars prior to its cancellation, sacrificing herself to save the undercover Jedi (and her paramour) Quinlan Vos from Dooku. But given that she was buried among the magic-infused lands of the Nightsisters of her homeworld, and the aforementioned “people rarely stay dead on Star Wars” dealio, it’s perhaps not too surprising that she’s now alive and kicking and ready to cross paths with our heroes.
