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mative
bounty hunter as between the two formative
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a child made Ventress women that shapes our
tress,
a more sympathetic understanding of Ventress,

character than she first who had been born a
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ed up to a criminal in
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appeared; a skilled Nightsister and offered up to a criminal in
warrior, Ventress is order to protect the future of the matriarchal
uture of the matriarchal
y the classic elements of
powerful enough to clan. In her backstory the classic elements of
in to appear, which might
take on more than a hero archetype begin to appear, which might
en Katie Lucas’s mentor
one Jedi. not be surprising given Katie Lucas’s mentor
ge Lucas.
was her father, George Lucas.
ntress? She is a
So who is Asajj Ventress? She is a
Nightsister sacrificed to slavery as a child,

d to slavery as a child,
then saved and trained by a Jedi mentor she
ed by a Jedi mentor she
ere Luke had a mentor
eventually loses. Where Luke had a mentor
and friends to keep his path fi rmly entrenched
is path fi rmly entrenched
in the light side, Ventress is left alone and gives
ress is left alone and gives
in to dark side temptations. As Sith do, Count
ations. As Sith do, Count
bilities for his own gain,
Dooku exploits her abilities for his own gain,
lly gets to see glimpses
and the audience really gets to see glimpses
of her true self as she is reborn a Nightsister.
e is reborn a Nightsister.
rcs of the movies, The
Unlike the compact arcs of the movies, The
Ventress the chance to
Clone Wars gave Asajj Ventress the chance to
follow in the footsteps of Luke Skywalker, Anakin
of Luke Skywalker, Anakin
Buffy Summers; Ventress
Skywalker, and even Buffy Summers; Ventress
character journey cycles,
experiences multiple character journey cycles,
layers over the course of
peeling back yet more layers over the course of
the television series. What we do know is that
What we do know is that

Nightsisters would be
finding a family in the Nightsisters would be
short-lived, and Dooku’s retribution would cause
u’s retribution would cause
et again, when her clan
Asajj to be left alone, yet again, when her clan
is slaughtered by General Grievous’s army.
eral Grievous’s army.
From there, we have clues of Asajj’s new
ve clues of Asajj’s new
life as a bounty hunter,
path. Embarking on a life as a bounty hunter,
her empathy for fugitive Jedi Ahsoka Tano leads
ive Jedi Ahsoka Tano leads
“Nightsisters,” “Monster” & “Witches of “Massacre” (Season 4, episode 19) “Bounty” (Season 4, episode 20)
the Mist” (Season 3, episodes 12-14) Dooku dispatches Grievous to wipe out Following a new path as a bounty
Ventress returns to her homeworld of the Nightsister clan. Despite the witches’ hunter, Ventress joins a crew assembled
Dathomir, reuniting with the witch leader best efforts, Talzin and Ventress are the by Boba Fett to undertake a subterranean
Mother Talzin. After a failed attempt to only survivors. transport mission.
assassinate Count Dooku, Talzin’s
Nightsister magicks transform Savage
Opress into a fearsome warrior to mount
a second strike at the Sith Lord.
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