The potential the Muunilist 10 would represent ” and the fact that Fordo, at least, got to live on in ways big and small through the equally excellent Dark Horse Clone Wars comics ” went on to inspire so many beloved characters, from the heroes of Republic Commando and their compatriots in Karen Traviss’ landmark novel series, to figures like Cody, Rex, and their many Dee Bradley Baker brothers in The Clone Wars, the Bad Batch included. What makes them so different from the droids they take down without breaking a sweat if we never get to see the humanity underneath their helmets? It’s something that this version of Clone Wars would never get to examine ” and really wasn’t intent on examining ” but would become so vital to what made its successor tick. There is a brutal precision to them that is, re-examined in the context of what Star Wars: The Clone Wars would go on to do with the Clone Troopers, that strange mix of gleefully exciting to watch and in some parts, oddly chilling. We don’t get to know who these clones are, the nicknames they’ve taken for themselves, they don’t crack jokes or share banter with each other, or talk about the comradeship that unites them as not simply soldiers but brothers. They’re barely human, because there’s no time for them to be: they are blank, masked killing machines who get in, get it done, and get out.
They’re not like the clones we would go on to meet and love in The Clone Wars. At least they all got to become ARCs by their second appearance.
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