Why Cad Bane’s Ending Was So Disappointing
Watch out! This article contains spoilers for The Book Of Boba Fett.
Cad Bane, the stranger who comes from the desert in the penultimate episode of The Book Of Boba Fett, ended his story in a surprisingly anticlimactic way. To casual viewers, he appeared to be a fairly typical TV show villain-of-the-week, but the character has a long and dangerous history in other Star Wars stories, having managed to fight off Jedi like Obi-Wan Kenobi in the past. As a result, while it was exciting to finally see Cad Bane portrayed in live-action, it also seems like a waste for him to meet his demise just one episode after his introduction.
The animated series, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, was Cad Bane's first introduction, and he was a persistent antagonist throughout all seven seasons. Out of 133 episodes of Clone Wars, Bane appears in 15 — only two fewer episodes than fan-favorite Sith acolyte Asajj Ventress. Considering the show’s extensive cast of characters, from famous villains like General Grievous to little-known Jedi like Aayla Secura, this is a lot of focus for Cad Bane. As well as his appearances in Clone Wars, the bounty hunter has also shown up in several of the Darth Maul comics, a few times in Star Wars: The Bad Batch, and was referenced in Star Wars: Rebels in some graffiti seen during season 1 episode 4.
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With all of this background, it feels like an odd creative decision to introduce Cad Bane at the very ending of Book Of Boba Fett, only to kill him shortly afterward. The brief appearance feels disappointing because, canonically, Cad Bane shares a history with Boba Fett. Unfortunately, the Clone Wars storyline which would have shown this backstory never
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