Star Wars Makes Deleted Clone Wars Scenes Canon

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Warning! Spoilers ahead for The Book of Boba Fett episode 7

Thanks to The Book of Boba Fett's final episode, a deleted arc of The Clone Wars animated series has been made canon, becoming further integrated into the official Star Wars history thanks to a duel between gunslinger Cad Bane and Fett himself. While their battle at Mos Espa was their first on-screen fight, it was actually a rematch with their first duel occurring during Clone Wars where Fett faced the gunslinger as a teenager in an unfinished arc of episodes. Now, the tense words and interactions between the two rivals confirm that their earlier history did indeed happen in the official timeline.

While the aforementioned episodes of The Clone Wars were never completed after the series was canceled on Cartoon Network, clips were released online as part of the Clone Wars Legacy project. As such, these deleted scenes were released in a pre-viz format though the dialogue had all been recorded featuring Corey Burton playing Cad Bane with young Fett being voiced by Daniel Logan (who played Boba in Attack of the Clones). Not only would the arc have seen Bane mentoring Boba as Jango had mentored him, but the pair would have also had had an eventual falling out after Boba could no longer tolerate Bane's dishonor. This led to their duel where they shot each other in the head simultaneously, an act that would have explained the dent in Boba Fett's helmet.

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While the more recent The Bad Batch animated series saw Bane with a metal plate on his head as a reference to his now off-screen duel with Boba, new insights from The Book of Boba Fett confirm more elements from the deleted scenes are canon as