Even when the show came to a sudden conclusion in the Spring of 2013 thanks to Disney’s purchasing of Lucasfilm, it seemed doubtful that Bane’s story was over. With a compelling new character like this one, the Star Wars universe started to feel a little more expansive again.Īll in all, Cad Bane was an incredibly engaging character in his ten physical appearances throughout Star Wars: The Clone Wars. His detachment from everyone else makes Bane a formidable opponent but it also makes him an exciting tease of larger stories out there. But here comes Bane as a total wild card from out of nowhere, a figure that confounds the Jedi and even Palpatine can’t fully control. The Star Wars prequel trilogy had shrunk down this galaxy far, far away so that everyone was related to or knew about everyone else.
Bane had an instantly memorable design to his name, but Burton’s vocals are what cemented this character’s equally idiosyncratic personality.īane also got a boost from being a totally new addition to the Star Wars canon. His voice work for the slimy bounty hunter exuded a consistent sense of calmness that provided both a sense of authority and an appropriate unsettling quality with how it juxtaposed against Bane’s behavior. He did commendable work in the role, but you could tell Burton relished the chance to breathe life into his own unique creation in portraying Cad Bane. Burton’s primary role in the cast of The Clone Wars was to deliver an uncanny Christopher Lee impression as Count Dooku. Corey Burton’s vocal work as the character was the ribbon that tied the whole character together. The delivery of that line ties into the other great detail about Cad Bane. “So long as I’m getting paid, it doesn’t matter to me,” he murmurs in only his second appearance.
This behavior was complimented by an unnerving sense of detachment, with Bane at one point telling Darth Sidious that he’s fine with any sort of nastiness. Like so many Clone Wars foes that weren’t Zirro the Hutt, Bane wasn’t above torturing, executing, or doing all sorts of other cruel actions to other people. It also helped that the show wasn’t afraid to get unapologetically dark with Bane.
He wasn’t chasing the trends of what was hip in 2009, he was emulating the kind of visual elements that were around back when George Lucas was first creating Star Wars. By channeling the look and feel of someone from a Sergio Leone Western, there was a timelessness to Bane’s aura. For one thing, he wasn’t channeling a studio executive’s idea of what “kids these days” think is cool. All the while, Bane had a sense of coolness about him that didn’t feel like the kind of “cool” most kids shows try to emulate. But also someone you’d never forget.Īfter that episode, Bane became a regular presence in an assortment of Clone Wars story arcs, including one where a disguised Obi-Wan Kenobi must work alongside the bounty hunter to gather valuable information for the Republic. Who is this distinctive individual? This would be none other than Cad Bane, a bounty hunter who clinched his deadly reputation a few minutes into his screentime by shooting and kill a senator without ever looking at the alien.īy the standards of Cartoon Network fare, Cad Bane’s arrival was like seeing Gus Fring or Lorna Malvo for the first time. Covered in blue skin, piercing red eyes, with a metallic gizmo attached to the sides of his face and a gigantic hat atop his cranium, this fellow is impossible not to spot in a crowd. In "Hostage Crisis," the season one finale of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, a new figure emerges.
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