@@BaconNuke well you know, even if so imagine she had a Family or something like that, he didn't know that. From his point of view he just kidnapped her.
actually no and yes, as Les stated it was more of a choice but there is an affect the dark side has to one's appearance, one most notable would be Darth Mar. His face was so deformed by the dark side it is said that he caused a dark lord to commit suicide when he revealed his face
This flashback still breaks my heart. She had so much potential to be a kind, powerful, and influential Jedi. And it was all taken away with the loss of her true guardian/master, the Jedi knight who cared for her as if she were his own child 😢
What's interesting is how that parallels Anakin and how he lost Qui-Gon Jinn. Dave Filoni (the showrunner for TCW) explains the true importance of Qui-Gon and how if he lived he would have been the father that Anakin needed and may have prevented him from falling to the dark side. But with Qui-Gon's death, not only did Anakin loose guidance from the only *true* Jedi in the Prequels, but Darth Sidious (as Palpatine) was able to come in a fill that role of a father figure for Anakin, leading him to the dark side.
+Sean Last I remember in one of the EU/Legend's comics, Obi-Wan told Anakin that if the Sith found him instead then he would have ended up the same way as Ventress.
Sean Last Nah, there're other things. Asajj has been abandonned all the time. She's like those characters that never feel loved or understood, being manipulated as they confound loneliness with anger. Anakin is more like unable to control himself and his feelings. Already younger, he had a lot of fear and passion whereas Asajj seemed to be a good jedi until her master dies.
@@finnheisenheim8274 - In the Legends comics, it was explained that Ky Narec was presumed dead by the Jedi on Rattatak, Ventress’ homeworld. Rattatak was isolationist, at that time, and he wasn’t able to call for help. He found Ventress as a slave, like we see in her vision, saved her, and started training her as a Jedi. Ky Narec was killed by some warlord, and Ventress fell to the Dark Side, before eventually killing that warlord and conquering the planet. She blamed the Jedi since they essentially abandoned Ky Narec. Sure, they “assumed” he was dead, but they couldn’t be 100% certain. They never bothered to send a rescue party or even tried to retrieve his body. They just saw the planet name “Rattatak,” and then turned around and left. And for what? To maintain the Republic’s peace treaty with a murdering, slave-owning, genocide-happy warlord. To her, any organization that would abandon someone like her Master, in order to protect scum like that, didn’t deserve to exist.
2:10 you know it's about to get serious whenever someone picks up an extra lightsaber in clone wars/rebels. especially if they got it from someone who just died.
Asajj was a cute child. I think Ky Narec trained her to use Ataru, which is designed to be used against lightsaber wielding opponents rather than those who use blasters. The motions leave practitioners open to precise attacks like well aimed blaster bolts or a Makashi master's swordplay. One of the reasons Yoda can use it so well is he's such a small target that those weaknesses don't matter, but humanoids need to be aware of them. During Dooku's transmission to Ventress, he lowered his eyes when he admitted that he's ordered her reinforcements to retreat. He's ashamed of himself, as he should be. He spoke of her fondly when he talked to Sidious, and showed a level of attachment to her, even admitting she was "important" to him. Ironically, it was Jedi training, not Sith training, that enabled him to let go of that attachment.
@@ChellyBean Not really. Jedi training was not the issue that led to being an issue for the Jedi Order. The main issue was the Senate and their meddling (Palpatine) with the Jedi Order that caused its decline. If you referring to Anakin's fall, considering that he betrayed his oaths as a Jedi during his knighting by getting married to a Senator (conflict of interest & political nightmare for both the Senate and Jedi Order) and massacred an entire village of Sand people I would argue that his fall was inevitable. Then also the fact that Sidious seemed to tamper with him over the years which made it 10 times worse. It would have been better for Anakin to admit his faults and face the consequences of his actions or just leave the Jedi Order. It's not like the Jedi were forcing him to remain at the Order. He was a free boy when he first showed up at the Temple and I doubt the Council would send the young Anakin go back into the nightmare that is Hutt Space.
Ventress was SO cute as a kid, I want to hug her child self. Her teen self with hair reminds me of Ahsoka personality wise, it's sad that she changed for the worse because of her master's death........
And this shows partly why Ventress was one of my favorite Star Wars characters. Shame she didn't survive Clone Wars. I would've loved a comic series just about her bounty hunting adventures.
I wish the Clone Wars had more of this backstory flashback stuff. It would've been cool if we got not only Ventress's backstory, but also Grievous's, Dooku's, Maul's, and maybe even Palpatine's. This is something that Avatar: The Last Airbender does really well; literally all of its characters have fleshed-out backstories in the form of flashbacks. Regardless, this is one of my favorite, most emotional scenes in the show.
We did get Grievous’ story. In _Lair of Grievous_ (1x10), we see his progression into a cyborg warrior through the statues, and see that he referred to his cybernetics as “improvements.” Kit Fisto also makes reference to the fact that it was blood-thirst and power-lust that led Grievous to trade out his body. We got Darth Tyranus’ backstory in _Attack of the Clones._ He was once the Jedi Padawan of Yoda, a star member of the Jedi Order, and trained Qui-Gon Jinn. Then he saw the corruption of the Republic and left. Then he became a Sith Lord apprenticed to Darth Sidious a couple months before _The Phantom Menace_ (yes, *before.* Darth Tyranus’ clone order was placed under Sifo-Dyas’ name, who was dead as of _The Phantom Menace)._ As for Darth Sidious, I think we know everything we need to about him. I feel it would ruin the gravity of the character to see him as a ginger brat in his teenage days.
Really love that touch of Ventress' use of dual wielding isn't just her preferred style its also her honoring her master and he deep anger over her lose. It always just seemed like a cool style for an assassin on the surface.
still gives me chills ... sad to see how the jedi order lost someone who would have had the potential to be one who was attuned with the dark side but still be in the light side.. like mace windu.
vlad pinera Yeah to keep up with sidious' fighting speed in their duel right? I heard the rots novelization goes into much more detail about that and the obi wan anakin duel
+ventusxzephyr13 I think they were her green and blue sabers in the 2002 clone wars 2d movie thingy but Dooku cut them (and I guess they changed the saber colours)
I feel bad for Ventress that she lost three masters in her life who kind of were like a father figure to her during her life. First it was the Siniteen criminal Hal'Sted who was surprisingly kind to her despite that she was his slave until he was killed by Weequay pirates. Then her second master, Ky Narec, who took her in when he sense that the force was strong in her and trained her in the Jedi ways. He sort of raised her too until she was...I am guessing she was still in her teens albeit more later or she could have been in her early 20's. But he was killed by the same type that killed Ventress's first master; Weequay pirates. Ironic, isn't it? Then we have Dooku who taught her the ways of the Dark Side and he sort of saw her as his own child. But then old Palpy had go paranoid because he sensed that she was getting stronger and feared that Dooku and her would be plotting against him in secret and that they would overthrow him one day so he wanted him to eliminate Ventress which you can tell by the way he reacts during their conversation and the way he talks to Ventress about her being no longer his apprentice that he was very upset about it. He had no choice because he trusted her very well and that he was forced to get rid of her as if she was nothing to him.
Its upsetting what she went through in her Early times she may be a sith but brings a sympathy for her and what she went through maybe that's why she joined the dark side to let things change for the better and let it all go
Wait!!! So Ventress wanted revenge of pirates because her Jedi Master was killed but then joined the Sith to be stronger and now fight against the Jedi when she has nothing against them?!?!?! IT WAS THE PIRATES!!!
+TheTrueBlueSonicFan Ventress' master became stranded on the planet he found her, and they stayed there for 10 years. Till his death, in Ventress' mind, the Jedi Order abandoned her master to die.
Victor M Anakin was tricked into thinking the Jedi were evil and Ventress was offered revenge against the pirates who killed her Jedi master but still fights the jedi
I know she is a villain but you cant help but feel sympathy for her. I am seriously surprised that she didn't have some major PTSD after everything she has been through.
+MrCankoo I don't know if this still holds up with canon (or if I'm even remembering this right) but the reason she hates the Jedi isn't because her master died but because her master was stranded on the planet while a revolution or civil war was in progress. He was the only one there to deal with it, he tried sending distress signals to have back up sent to him, which never came, or came too late. During that time, it was up to Ventress and her master to handle the situation, but then he died, and she began her trip toward the darkside.
Her backstory is so tragic. I love that most things in star wars stay cannon. In the clone wars cartoon froom 03 when she introduces herself to dooku she has the two lightsabers that she kept, one belonging to her old master before dooku destroyed them and gave her the bent hilt lightsabers ( which i always though looked so ugly haha but have grown on me now)
Not sure if still canon or not, but as far as I'm aware, the sabers with the curved hilts belonged to one of Dooku's old apprentices Komari Vosa who's the main villian in Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, set before the events of Episode 2.
@@FriendlyKat oh I thought he was talking about the clone wars but yeah I know and many people survived the force lighting strikes why did it have to kill her bruh?
@@christiansantos546 It's ironic. She set out after to kill him after he betrayed her at the hest of Sidious, but only to fail in the end. It shows how powerful Dooku really was. Ventress was very skilled and strong, but not stronger than Dooku.
Oh boy, Ventress has trauma about losing all her caretakers. This show is much more of a masterpiece than I thought it was. I have to watch it all. These traumas probably make her believe that she'll always be alone and that all attachments are temporary.
she lost every master she had. and the last one betrayed her. that is painful. i love ventress and i love nightsisters. her backstory is very well played out. the massacre episode did tear me up a bit because that was the only moment ventress had with her new actual family.
Lexi Mason good thing i love her character so much and i would love more intel on the nightsisters of dathomir. too bad they weren’t on much:( merrin actually inspired me to love the nightsisters when i played the game
Ventress has such a rich storyline that it’s difficult lot to feel bad for her. She’s lost so many people in her life from father figures to her entire Nightsister clan (to which she feels responsible since she was the one Dooku wanted); all she wants is to find someone, or something, to which she can truly belong, and whenever she succeeds in finding what she’s looking for, it’s ripped from her at some point. I’d be pissed, too.
1:35 Fun fact: Ky Narec is using a slightly altered version of Kit Fistos robes and because cloth is expensive to animated the animators had to retextured the clone armour on his arms to get around that.
Well on Asajj's planet, the females are dominant, and choose which ever male mates best suit them. This means when a female comes to a village to seek a male mate, they are lined up and judged whether they are worthy or not. It is then that the females test who ever is worthy to be their mate. In some cases, the males are lucky and are picked purely by looks, most other forms of tests involve some of the males dying. So to put it straight, even if you don't want to get married, the females have robbed you of that choice and any others you might have had in your life, and if you are chosen, you are taken away from your brothers and friends, and are forced to live amongst the females. What comes after that, I don't know, but what I'm saying is, that if you were born male, the females decide your fate on that planet. It's very one sided, and quite frankly I don't know how their species have survived without going extinct. You even see that there are no males amongst the night sisters, and that there are very few that live in each of these settlements. If you watched the episode where Asajj takes Savage Oppress, you see how wrong the mating style of the species is.
+andrew roncallo I believe the males are killed after child birth, it's sorta like black widow spiders. It's like "You have given me children, you have served your purpose" although there have been males who are kept alive for one reason or another, usually so that he can give her more children, and by that I mean give her more daughters. If a male gives 2 sons in a row he is deemed an unworthy mate, and that counts if they have twin sons since that is 2 sons in a row, and if the twins are 1 girl 1son, it depends on the order they come out. Like if the daughter is born 1st and the son 2nd, and the next child is a son, that counts as 2 in a row. So pretty much survival depends 1st on how the female feels about you emotionally, and 2nd that your genitals have many more females than males
Ok, now that really sucks. Definitely wouldn't want to bare children with any women there. I would take a vow of chastity, or something just to avoid mating on that planet.
I've been binge watching The Clone Wars and I watched this episode for the first time a week ago and after seeing her story I felt bad for Ventress. I was indifferent about her before but this episode is when I started rooting for her and I've liked her ever since. Also, she was so cute as a child
2:04-2:18 Ventress felt helpless when Ky Narec was murdered. She vowed vengeance, and she got it. Soon the warlords were dead, and she ruled in their place. She felt helpless again when Count Dooku had ordered her killed.
Like you understand how Rattataki aging patterns operate compared to Humans. Be lucky that you aren't born a Chagrian like Vice Chair Mas Amedda. Because of frequent exposure to Champala's oceans, Chagrians lose their sense of taste by adulthood. As a result, they regarded eating as an unfortunate nuisance rather than something to be looked forward to and enjoyed. As they had little interest in eating, Chagrians consumed nutritional substances to replace meals. They carried sensors designed to scan for maximum nutritional value when forced to eat actual food.
Asajj is my favorite in the clone wars besides Ahsoka. She just had such a good development and she was betrayed and I think the Jedi should've kept her, she knew things about them that they could've exploited.
Loved her in the show to actually they flushed out alot characters in the show like that that may have not had so much time to shine if the writing wasn't so good I definitely side with the jedi but those had me caring about her story arc even though she was a sith bent on jedi destruction but I still liked it and past memories were reaveled that showed what lead her to the dark side and it made me feel compassion for her character and her motivations and also her struggles for finding her place in the galaxy I love the characters development in this show
Sure. The members of the dark side always betray each other. After Palpatine forced Dooku to abandon Ventress, Dooku tried to get a new apprentice with Savage and literally the first thing he told Savage was: "Together we can be stronger than Darth Sidious."
You spelled "rescued an enslaved toddler left abandoned by her enslaver's death" wrong. The implication is that the force witches "sacrificed" her by selling into slavery. That's why she calls the brainhead guy "master" not "father."
What I like about this is it kind of connects with Ventress's intro in the 2003 mini Star Wars series. We see Ventress pop in with not one but two lightsabers. Question at the time was most likely where she got those lightsabers? Because they arent exactly found in retail stores. And why did she hate the Jedi so much? This gives us the answers needed. She kept her masters lightsaber to remember him, and it probably stung her a bit when Dooku destroyed it along with her own. Then again, that was probably what she needed to let him go and embrace the dark side fully. Only thing is one of Ventress's lightsabers in the 2003 version was blue and here both are green.
You know what sucks. As soon as Palpatine doesn't like someone, he tells his apprentice (Dooku) to disown the other person (Asajj Ventress). If he didn't mention Asajj, she would remain Dooku's friend/partner.
Ventress has one of the most tragic stories in all of Star Wars. Ripped away from her mother then losing not just her Jedi master to pirates but her first master as well. Then she finds herself in the clutches of Dooku who eventually betrays her and attempts to kill her. And after that she is framed by Barriss as the one who set up Ahsoka. Oh and for good measure Grievous eventually wiped out the Night Sister Clan. All she ever knew was a shit life and everything good she ever had was taken from her.
Eduardo either way he Ky Narec could have lived during the clone wars, and maybe even met the nightsisters showing how Ventres became a good Jedi padiwan
Her EU 'fate' was much better; she commandeered a Republic shuttle and flew off into the stars, never to be seen again. Her 'canon' fate was lame; killed by Dooku's Force Lightning. At least her back story on Rattatak was kept intact largely, with her master Ky Narec and the struggle against Osika Kirske
+NeidalRuekk I had to look up her canon fate. Yeah, her canon fate sucks. Eliminates all chance of her appearing in Rebels except in flashbacks. That's unless they pull a "faked death" kinda thing and bring her back some how.
TheStarToursTraveler Lets just say I'm expecting them to somehow bring Dooku back. Darth Maul, my theory is it would be interesting to show the Rebel fleet jump to light speed, to or from Lothal or somewhere, and then the camera pans away, the Scimitar (Darth Maul's ship) uncloaks and the final view for the season is Darth Maul plotting how to play the Rebels against the Empire for vengeance against both the Sith and the Jedi
TheStarToursTraveler It wouldn't be the strangest thing I'd predicted :/ Maul, I hope that DOES come true, or something like it. As a great fan of the EU, I was delighted to see the Interdictor had been made canon, but overall cheesed off with the relegation of the EU to 'legends'. As I see it, 'Legends' are often better than real life itself, and Ventress's fate, the New Jedi Order, the Thrawn Trilogy and many other stories are shining examples of where the legend comes out parsecs ahead of 'reality'
I think that Ventress, after being abandoned by Dooku, she should have stayed at her homeworld, learned how to become a nightsister, for so instead of wasting her powers as a bounty hunter, when her sisters were killed she would try to find a way to bring them back to life, and once she did, she would become their new leader.
Born in the dark side Traded to the dark side Turned to the light *master dies* Turns back to the dark Then goes rogue And ends in the light. Asajj Ventress 👍
I wonder why the Master and Ventress never went back to the Jedi Order. I assume not because the bandits look like the same bandits that the Master was hunting down to begin with so they probably were there for several years.
She didn't mean the Jedi who raised her on that remote planet, she meant Count Dooku who abandoned her when she failed one mission too many who was a different person.
![Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Nightsisters vs Count Dooku [1080p]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/yyiDDQYPUIs/mqdefault.jpg)
I love how the Jedi are just like "Oh, a magical kid, don't mind if I do."
Well in the circumstances it makes sense XD what was he gonna do? Leave her there when she has potential?
@@BaconNuke well you know, even if so imagine she had a Family or something like that, he didn't know that. From his point of view he just kidnapped her.
YOINK!
That’s kinda their MO lol
Force sensitive kid: *Minding own business*
Jedi master: Wanna become my apprentice?
Wow. She didn't just lose her master; she lost the only father figure she had ever known.
ChrisSmooth24 In your dreams.
Fr especially since their real father are killed before they’re even born :/
@@ray-0249
But how are there enough men to replenish the population of Dathomir?
@@terminallove3531 well....there is cal and merrin now...hopefully that works.
she also lost some of her hair she only had some anyway :p
I...I cannot believe it...
Ventress had hair!!!!
+Hayden Rowse Punk hair.
She grows it back in "Dark Disciple"
hahahahhahahaa
XD
I think that she looks better with punk hair.
I never knew Ventress used to have great hair before. Dark Side is a cancer.
Horace Warfield lol
She grew hair again after dooku betrayed her, just took a while and we didn't see it in the show.
Lol she just always shaved her head
actually no and yes, as Les stated it was more of a choice but there is an affect the dark side has to one's appearance, one most notable would be Darth Mar. His face was so deformed by the dark side it is said that he caused a dark lord to commit suicide when he revealed his face
Lol
This flashback still breaks my heart. She had so much potential to be a kind, powerful, and influential Jedi. And it was all taken away with the loss of her true guardian/master, the Jedi knight who cared for her as if she were his own child 😢
Weak
Yeah okay I had to save you from falling during the siege of Mandalore
What's interesting is how that parallels Anakin and how he lost Qui-Gon Jinn. Dave Filoni (the showrunner for TCW) explains the true importance of Qui-Gon and how if he lived he would have been the father that Anakin needed and may have prevented him from falling to the dark side. But with Qui-Gon's death, not only did Anakin loose guidance from the only *true* Jedi in the Prequels, but Darth Sidious (as Palpatine) was able to come in a fill that role of a father figure for Anakin, leading him to the dark side.
Ælec Eoforheard to be honest I always liked the dark side better. Very few can match their power and style lol
@@maul8384 😑
ventress's story is much like Anakins on many ways if you think about it.
+Sean Last I remember in one of the EU/Legend's comics, Obi-Wan told Anakin that if the Sith found him instead then he would have ended up the same way as Ventress.
+Sean Last Not really imo, besides their thirst for revenge.
We haven't seen Ventress act like a whiny brat, not obey orders and follow her sexual urges throughout 2 movies.
Sean Last
Nah, there're other things. Asajj has been abandonned all the time. She's like those characters that never feel loved or understood, being manipulated as they confound loneliness with anger.
Anakin is more like unable to control himself and his feelings. Already younger, he had a lot of fear and passion whereas Asajj seemed to be a good jedi until her master dies.
well to me it's similar and that's me I see similarities in things that aren't cause I'm weird
and proud of it.
Such a painful life, it's no wonder she turned to the dark side and then went freelance.
Yeah, gotta say, I feel kinda bad for her.
Doesn't explain why she wants to murder jedi...when her own master was also a jedi too.
Mister Hamlicrazy123 the jedi abandoned her master on Rattatak thats why she has a hate for them
still no excuse for becoming a sith
@@finnheisenheim8274 - In the Legends comics, it was explained that Ky Narec was presumed dead by the Jedi on Rattatak, Ventress’ homeworld. Rattatak was isolationist, at that time, and he wasn’t able to call for help. He found Ventress as a slave, like we see in her vision, saved her, and started training her as a Jedi. Ky Narec was killed by some warlord, and Ventress fell to the Dark Side, before eventually killing that warlord and conquering the planet.
She blamed the Jedi since they essentially abandoned Ky Narec. Sure, they “assumed” he was dead, but they couldn’t be 100% certain. They never bothered to send a rescue party or even tried to retrieve his body. They just saw the planet name “Rattatak,” and then turned around and left. And for what? To maintain the Republic’s peace treaty with a murdering, slave-owning, genocide-happy warlord. To her, any organization that would abandon someone like her Master, in order to protect scum like that, didn’t deserve to exist.
Her back story is tough man...
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That's rough buddy.
You know teenage Ventress looks like Miley Cyrus
+Gamers Dogma except she's not gross...ventress I mean
+Gamers Dogma except she's not gross...ventress I mean
+Gamers Dogma Maybe Miley Cyrus looks like Assajj
+Gamers Dogma Well one of them is an evil alien thing...and the other is Ventress
+Meetthekiller7 You're giving Mother Talzin a headache!
Am I the only one who thinks baby Ventress is adorable?
No, I find baby/child Ventress to be SO adorable! I want to give her baby/child self a big hug and pat her on her cute little bald head.....
Me too
Chubby
Adorable till she throws you off the balcony. Ahh sooo cu...
Actually no, :3
is it just me or does almost every master with a padawan die
victor productions does rey count as Luke's Palawan? If so, no.
we don't know that yet Luke may die in episode 8 or 9
victor productions maybe. But not yet.
victor productions Yoda's padawan was count dooku and he just died from old age...
marcos luke you mean he got his head chopped off
2:10 you know it's about to get serious whenever someone picks up an extra lightsaber in clone wars/rebels. especially if they got it from someone who just died.
Grievous: more fine additions to my collection
NychusX ok I just realized that
That happens a lot in Star Wars for some reason
Basteehr
@@Oreca2005 It’s implied that it’s tradition for lightsaber combatants to use the weapons of their fallen allies in battle.
"You have failed me for the last time." Sith like to say that line, don't they?
The whole nightsister story arc kind of creeped me out...
Will M it did with me so I chose to skip it on my fifth time watching the clone wars
Will M That's the point sergeant!
Its pretty eerie but it rules
I liked it
but thanks to our bro grievous they wont be a threath anymore thank you general
Rock hair. You got to love that hair.
Joe Garingan she looks like a crazy lesbian alien
Asajj was a cute child. I think Ky Narec trained her to use Ataru, which is designed to be used against lightsaber wielding opponents rather than those who use blasters. The motions leave practitioners open to precise attacks like well aimed blaster bolts or a Makashi master's swordplay. One of the reasons Yoda can use it so well is he's such a small target that those weaknesses don't matter, but humanoids need to be aware of them.
During Dooku's transmission to Ventress, he lowered his eyes when he admitted that he's ordered her reinforcements to retreat. He's ashamed of himself, as he should be. He spoke of her fondly when he talked to Sidious, and showed a level of attachment to her, even admitting she was "important" to him. Ironically, it was Jedi training, not Sith training, that enabled him to let go of that attachment.
Good thing it was the Jedi training, Sith training would just be straight up killing your apprentice
@@windyjay4627
I mean that's true, but Jedi training ended up being the biggest enemy to Jedi overall
@@ChellyBean even more so for the sith
@@ChellyBean Not really. Jedi training was not the issue that led to being an issue for the Jedi Order.
The main issue was the Senate and their meddling (Palpatine) with the Jedi Order that caused its decline.
If you referring to Anakin's fall, considering that he betrayed his oaths as a Jedi during his knighting by getting married to a Senator (conflict of interest & political nightmare for both the Senate and Jedi Order) and massacred an entire village of Sand people I would argue that his fall was inevitable. Then also the fact that Sidious seemed to tamper with him over the years which made it 10 times worse.
It would have been better for Anakin to admit his faults and face the consequences of his actions or just leave the Jedi Order.
It's not like the Jedi were forcing him to remain at the Order. He was a free boy when he first showed up at the Temple and I doubt the Council would send the young Anakin go back into the nightmare that is Hutt Space.
Ventress was SO cute as a kid, I want to hug her child self. Her teen self with hair reminds me of Ahsoka personality wise, it's sad that she changed for the worse because of her master's death........
And this shows partly why Ventress was one of my favorite Star Wars characters. Shame she didn't survive Clone Wars. I would've loved a comic series just about her bounty hunting adventures.
She did survive Clone Wars, she left the conflict and became a bounty hunter
@@1Hol1Tiger But died afterwards, after fighting alongside and falling in love with Quin Lan Vos
@@anonymus5637 is that all canon ? I never read those books and always hoped to see her make a return in the one of the shows
@@unbiasedcritic3075 I think it was mentioned in the (Now Legends) story “Dark Disciple”
@@anonymus5637 Dark Disciple is canon, as it shows up in the canon timeline between CW S6 and S7
I wish the Clone Wars had more of this backstory flashback stuff. It would've been cool if we got not only Ventress's backstory, but also Grievous's, Dooku's, Maul's, and maybe even Palpatine's. This is something that Avatar: The Last Airbender does really well; literally all of its characters have fleshed-out backstories in the form of flashbacks. Regardless, this is one of my favorite, most emotional scenes in the show.
We did get Grievous’ story. In _Lair of Grievous_ (1x10), we see his progression into a cyborg warrior through the statues, and see that he referred to his cybernetics as “improvements.”
Kit Fisto also makes reference to the fact that it was blood-thirst and power-lust that led Grievous to trade out his body.
We got Darth Tyranus’ backstory in _Attack of the Clones._ He was once the Jedi Padawan of Yoda, a star member of the Jedi Order, and trained Qui-Gon Jinn. Then he saw the corruption of the Republic and left. Then he became a Sith Lord apprenticed to Darth Sidious a couple months before _The Phantom Menace_ (yes, *before.* Darth Tyranus’ clone order was placed under Sifo-Dyas’ name, who was dead as of _The Phantom Menace)._
As for Darth Sidious, I think we know everything we need to about him. I feel it would ruin the gravity of the character to see him as a ginger brat in his teenage days.
@@theopportuneson699 Yes, but I would've liked to see flashbacks instead of just references.
@@generalgrievous3731 I couldn’t agree more
@@theopportuneson699
Although seeing Palpatine getting recruited by Darth Plagueis (Muun) would've been really good to see.
Avatar also just executed it better with better pacing. These flashbacks for Ventress just seem so rushed.
The way she says "Master!' when he dies is really weird.
Well the show is stuck with that line delivery, skyguy
Nope
I thought it kind of fit. She said it jumbled because of all the grief and anger she’s feeling all at once.
I thought it was really good.
She was a teenager like 14 or 15 so she was young give her a brake
Really love that touch of Ventress' use of dual wielding isn't just her preferred style its also her honoring her master and he deep anger over her lose. It always just seemed like a cool style for an assassin on the surface.
still gives me chills ... sad to see how the jedi order lost someone who would have had the potential to be one who was attuned with the dark side but still be in the light side.. like mace windu.
vlad pinera is mace windu using the dark side canon or just a legends thing?
canon i think..
vlad pinera but there's no instance of him using it outside of legends
in the novelization of the movies he did, tho it wasn't portrayed in the movies.
vlad pinera Yeah to keep up with sidious' fighting speed in their duel right? I heard the rots novelization goes into much more detail about that and the obi wan anakin duel
So the that sniper guy that shot her master was her first kill out of anger
Yes
I wonder what Ventress did with those green light sabers
+ventusxzephyr13 I think they were her green and blue sabers in the 2002 clone wars 2d movie thingy but Dooku cut them (and I guess they changed the saber colours)
+Hayden Rowse Dooku gives her the red sabers that she uses in clone wars.
They were cut in half from count dooku
Zephyrus_anim8 Another version she kept those lightsabers, placing them in a box that she kept with her for a while.
Made sure to never drop them lest she attract the wild Grievous who'd take those fine additions back to his cave with the rest of his collection
I feel bad for Ventress that she lost three masters in her life who kind of were like a father figure to her during her life. First it was the Siniteen criminal Hal'Sted who was surprisingly kind to her despite that she was his slave until he was killed by Weequay pirates. Then her second master, Ky Narec, who took her in when he sense that the force was strong in her and trained her in the Jedi ways. He sort of raised her too until she was...I am guessing she was still in her teens albeit more later or she could have been in her early 20's. But he was killed by the same type that killed Ventress's first master; Weequay pirates. Ironic, isn't it? Then we have Dooku who taught her the ways of the Dark Side and he sort of saw her as his own child. But then old Palpy had go paranoid because he sensed that she was getting stronger and feared that Dooku and her would be plotting against him in secret and that they would overthrow him one day so he wanted him to eliminate Ventress which you can tell by the way he reacts during their conversation and the way he talks to Ventress about her being no longer his apprentice that he was very upset about it. He had no choice because he trusted her very well and that he was forced to get rid of her as if she was nothing to him.
Its upsetting what she went through in her Early times she may be a sith but brings a sympathy for her and what she went through maybe that's why she joined the dark side to let things change for the better and let it all go
2:19 how i wake up on monday
An exorcism every Monday for me bruh.😅
Bruh, so annoying
Shsuauajwial LOALA I CANT BREATHE IR
Wait!!! So Ventress wanted revenge of pirates because her Jedi Master was killed but then joined the Sith to be stronger and now fight against the Jedi when she has nothing against them?!?!?! IT WAS THE PIRATES!!!
+TheTrueBlueSonicFan Ventress' master became stranded on the planet he found her, and they stayed there for 10 years. Till his death, in Ventress' mind, the Jedi Order abandoned her master to die.
Annakin massacred a whole village of Sand People for killing his mother and yet he still killed many Jedi during order 66
Victor M That's not related
Victor M
What does that have to do with it?
Victor M Anakin was tricked into thinking the Jedi were evil and Ventress was offered revenge against the pirates who killed her Jedi master but still fights the jedi
Her Voice When she was younger.. -_-
it annoys me
Holy crap it's aful
Hey hey listen!
sounds like Susie from the Rugrats
MASTUH
I know she is a villain but you cant help but feel sympathy for her. I am seriously surprised that she didn't have some major PTSD after everything she has been through.
You are a softie. Ptsd this ptsd that grow a pair i used to sell crack when i was 12 saw niggaz die everyday
Can I just say ventress showed more strength in the force when she was young than anakin did until his teens
Anakin showed force strength in his far above human average swoop piloting skills. (Anakin claimed to be the only human who could do it)
She was in a small relationship with another Jedi but sacraficed herself to save him in a duel against Dooku
That Jedi was Quinlan Vos. In the EU, he's Aayla Secura's Jedi Master, and temporarily turned to the Dark Side because of Dooku.
+The Dragon Dalek but in the comics it was told dat its was ventruss who killed vos
who was secura's master
The Dragon Dalek He's still Aayla's master. its canon.
Quinlan Vos is the name of the Jedi
@@yamakawhite3809 vos never died
She's like a female version of Kratos
but she's dead so theires dat
Holy crap
@@yamakawhite3809 bruh moment
And so Asaaj cast herself off the highest peak in all the galaxy
Except yk Kratos actually succeeded before freelancing
Asasjj Ventress has to be one of my favorite characters. Great back story, fallen Jedi, and just a badass.
after seeing this i understand better why Ventress went the way she did.
+MrCankoo I don't know if this still holds up with canon (or if I'm even remembering this right) but the reason she hates the Jedi isn't because her master died but because her master was stranded on the planet while a revolution or civil war was in progress. He was the only one there to deal with it, he tried sending distress signals to have back up sent to him, which never came, or came too late. During that time, it was up to Ventress and her master to handle the situation, but then he died, and she began her trip toward the darkside.
@@MstEli yeah that's canon
@@MstEli It’s Canon my friend
@@N7spongy Ah you beat me to it XD
@@VelvetMagician speed lord
I wanna have Ventress' Half-Hair as my style.
Her backstory is so tragic. I love that most things in star wars stay cannon. In the clone wars cartoon froom 03 when she introduces herself to dooku she has the two lightsabers that she kept, one belonging to her old master before dooku destroyed them and gave her the bent hilt lightsabers ( which i always though looked so ugly haha but have grown on me now)
Not sure if still canon or not, but as far as I'm aware, the sabers with the curved hilts belonged to one of Dooku's old apprentices Komari Vosa who's the main villian in Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, set before the events of Episode 2.
3:13 "I will have revenge." Sad thing is...Dooku killed her. Poor Ventress.
No he didn’t
Her and mother talzan were the only survivors
@@christiansantos546 In the books, Ventress is killed by Dooku.
@@FriendlyKat oh I thought he was talking about the clone wars but yeah I know and many people survived the force lighting strikes why did it have to kill her bruh?
@@christiansantos546 It's ironic. She set out after to kill him after he betrayed her at the hest of Sidious, but only to fail in the end. It shows how powerful Dooku really was. Ventress was very skilled and strong, but not stronger than Dooku.
Poor Ventress....
(looks at the nightsisters/witches)
Obligatory "No one of woman born shall harm Macbeth"
Oh boy, Ventress has trauma about losing all her caretakers. This show is much more of a masterpiece than I thought it was. I have to watch it all. These traumas probably make her believe that she'll always be alone and that all attachments are temporary.
she lost every master she had. and the last one betrayed her. that is painful. i love ventress and i love nightsisters. her backstory is very well played out. the massacre episode did tear me up a bit because that was the only moment ventress had with her new actual family.
Her life is so sad and she is an underrated character!!! Tbh she's a bit like Anakin.
Lexi Mason good thing i love her character so much and i would love more intel on the nightsisters of dathomir. too bad they weren’t on much:( merrin actually inspired me to love the nightsisters when i played the game
Ventress has such a rich storyline that it’s difficult lot to feel bad for her. She’s lost so many people in her life from father figures to her entire Nightsister clan (to which she feels responsible since she was the one Dooku wanted); all she wants is to find someone, or something, to which she can truly belong, and whenever she succeeds in finding what she’s looking for, it’s ripped from her at some point. I’d be pissed, too.
1:35 Fun fact: Ky Narec is using a slightly altered version of Kit Fistos robes and because cloth is expensive to animated the animators had to retextured the clone armour on his arms to get around that.
Asajj had a pretty hawt mum :)
+Davy Deshiel Agreed, still the whole process of finding a mate....I'm not sure whether I'd love her more then I'd want to kill her.
+andrew roncallo wait how does one find a mate with species again
Well on Asajj's planet, the females are dominant, and choose which ever male mates best suit them. This means when a female comes to a village to seek a male mate, they are lined up and judged whether they are worthy or not. It is then that the females test who ever is worthy to be their mate. In some cases, the males are lucky and are picked purely by looks, most other forms of tests involve some of the males dying. So to put it straight, even if you don't want to get married, the females have robbed you of that choice and any others you might have had in your life, and if you are chosen, you are taken away from your brothers and friends, and are forced to live amongst the females. What comes after that, I don't know, but what I'm saying is, that if you were born male, the females decide your fate on that planet. It's very one sided, and quite frankly I don't know how their species have survived without going extinct. You even see that there are no males amongst the night sisters, and that there are very few that live in each of these settlements. If you watched the episode where Asajj takes Savage Oppress, you see how wrong the mating style of the species is.
+andrew roncallo I believe the males are killed after child birth, it's sorta like black widow spiders.
It's like "You have given me children, you have served your purpose" although there have been males who are kept alive for one reason or another, usually so that he can give her more children, and by that I mean give her more daughters. If a male gives 2 sons in a row he is deemed an unworthy mate, and that counts if they have twin sons since that is 2 sons in a row, and if the twins are 1 girl 1son, it depends on the order they come out. Like if the daughter is born 1st and the son 2nd, and the next child is a son, that counts as 2 in a row. So pretty much survival depends 1st on how the female feels about you emotionally, and 2nd that your genitals have many more females than males
Ok, now that really sucks. Definitely wouldn't want to bare children with any women there. I would take a vow of chastity, or something just to avoid mating on that planet.
I've been binge watching The Clone Wars and I watched this episode for the first time a week ago and after seeing her story I felt bad for Ventress. I was indifferent about her before but this episode is when I started rooting for her and I've liked her ever since. Also, she was so cute as a child
Her story is sad
I wish we could’ve seen more of Ventress as a Jedi.
Bring in mountain dew.
You have to admit she makes a cute kid
Everyone: the clone wars is a masterpiece it’s amazing
Mother Talzin: “bring the water... ✨of life✨”
Definitely a _Dune_ reference
@@phillewis2630 1th of all you are a person of culture! 2th I can forseen, that crowds gonna revisit this scene after Dune Part 2 come out.
2:04-2:18 Ventress felt helpless when Ky Narec was murdered. She vowed vengeance, and she got it. Soon the warlords were dead, and she ruled in their place. She felt helpless again when Count Dooku had ordered her killed.
Even with those few seconds of clip you could tell how loved she was
Her master, really was like a father to her
The voice actress for Ventress trying to sound like a kid is slightly cringy.
When she screams master when he dies it's so cringy
The Knight of Jests
Sounds kinda like early Ahsoka, maybe they were going for that
Sounds like she said bastard 😂
Like you understand how Rattataki aging patterns operate compared to Humans. Be lucky that you aren't born a Chagrian like Vice Chair Mas Amedda.
Because of frequent exposure to Champala's oceans, Chagrians lose their sense of taste by adulthood. As a result, they regarded eating as an unfortunate nuisance rather than something to be looked forward to and enjoyed. As they had little interest in eating, Chagrians consumed nutritional substances to replace meals. They carried sensors designed to scan for maximum nutritional value when forced to eat actual food.
I laughed at it
*Kid use the force*
Jedi: ah another child to add to my collection
Mawtheer! 2:04
No matter how hard I try I cant hear an s in that word
Balázs Fazakas There is no s
Maybe her voice actress had a voice crack.
Cringe
@@balazsfazakas3368 maybe it was mentor, sounds alike
Who’s here after the Bad Batch episode, seriously such a cool character
When ventress screams "master!!" I always crack up lol
Asajj is my favorite in the clone wars besides Ahsoka. She just had such a good development and she was betrayed and I think the Jedi should've kept her, she knew things about them that they could've exploited.
Loved her in the show to actually they flushed out alot characters in the show like that that may have not had so much time to shine if the writing wasn't so good I definitely side with the jedi but those had me caring about her story arc even though she was a sith bent on jedi destruction but I still liked it and past memories were reaveled that showed what lead her to the dark side and it made me feel compassion for her character and her motivations and also her struggles for finding her place in the galaxy I love the characters development in this show
I think I heard the her and her master didn't visit the temple very often. Because of that she wasn't well known to the Jedi.
Bring the toxic waste of life
And that's how she became a super hero
ventress really has no master luck
I think Dooku was training Asajj too take over Palpatine & control the galaxy but Palpatine saw threw Dooku’s ruse & had Anikan cut his head off.
Sure. The members of the dark side always betray each other. After Palpatine forced Dooku to abandon Ventress, Dooku tried to get a new apprentice with Savage and literally the first thing he told Savage was: "Together we can be stronger than Darth Sidious."
@@Mis7erSeven I definitely agree with you big time.
2:10 Ventress' face and scream disturb me in so many levels
Ky narec was her only master that didn't use her as a weapon.
I’m glad she had a chance to be redeemed in the later seasons when she helped Obi Wan and Ahsoka
I can see why Dooku get attacked to her. He lost an apprentice, she lost a master.. and both blamed the Jedi for that.
she didn't just lose her master
she lost her hair
"You are strong with the force, little one."
*fucking kidnaps a child*
You spelled "rescued an enslaved toddler left abandoned by her enslaver's death" wrong. The implication is that the force witches "sacrificed" her by selling into slavery. That's why she calls the brainhead guy "master" not "father."
What I like about this is it kind of connects with Ventress's intro in the 2003 mini Star Wars series. We see Ventress pop in with not one but two lightsabers. Question at the time was most likely where she got those lightsabers? Because they arent exactly found in retail stores. And why did she hate the Jedi so much? This gives us the answers needed. She kept her masters lightsaber to remember him, and it probably stung her a bit when Dooku destroyed it along with her own. Then again, that was probably what she needed to let him go and embrace the dark side fully.
Only thing is one of Ventress's lightsabers in the 2003 version was blue and here both are green.
You know what sucks. As soon as Palpatine doesn't like someone, he tells his apprentice (Dooku) to disown the other person (Asajj Ventress). If he didn't mention Asajj, she would remain Dooku's friend/partner.
the Nightsisters they are sooooo dark, love em!! Both Mother Talzen & Ventress has such an amazing look
I love her.
Dooku: you must prove yourself first
Ventress: kills younglings
They music is spectacular in this. Very haunting.
I love the music during this scene.
Ventress has one of the most tragic stories in all of Star Wars. Ripped away from her mother then losing not just her Jedi master to pirates but her first master as well. Then she finds herself in the clutches of Dooku who eventually betrays her and attempts to kill her. And after that she is framed by Barriss as the one who set up Ahsoka. Oh and for good measure Grievous eventually wiped out the Night Sister Clan. All she ever knew was a shit life and everything good she ever had was taken from her.
If ventresses jedi master never died she would have never joined the dark side.
joseph gover you know, never dying is kinda of hard, not getting murdered would sound better.
Eduardo either way he Ky Narec could have lived during the clone wars, and maybe even met the nightsisters showing how Ventres became a good Jedi padiwan
You are strong in the force little one
Gave me shivers
I would never forget it even till this day
Her EU 'fate' was much better; she commandeered a Republic shuttle and flew off into the stars, never to be seen again. Her 'canon' fate was lame; killed by Dooku's Force Lightning. At least her back story on Rattatak was kept intact largely, with her master Ky Narec and the struggle against Osika Kirske
+NeidalRuekk I had to look up her canon fate. Yeah, her canon fate sucks. Eliminates all chance of her appearing in Rebels except in flashbacks. That's unless they pull a "faked death" kinda thing and bring her back some how.
TheStarToursTraveler Lets just say I'm expecting them to somehow bring Dooku back. Darth Maul, my theory is it would be interesting to show the Rebel fleet jump to light speed, to or from Lothal or somewhere, and then the camera pans away, the Scimitar (Darth Maul's ship) uncloaks and the final view for the season is Darth Maul plotting how to play the Rebels against the Empire for vengeance against both the Sith and the Jedi
NeidalRuekk Dooku...nah, we clearly see him lose his head in the first 30 minutes of ROTS. Maul though...that's a possibility.
TheStarToursTraveler It wouldn't be the strangest thing I'd predicted :/
Maul, I hope that DOES come true, or something like it. As a great fan of the EU, I was delighted to see the Interdictor had been made canon, but overall cheesed off with the relegation of the EU to 'legends'. As I see it, 'Legends' are often better than real life itself, and Ventress's fate, the New Jedi Order, the Thrawn Trilogy and many other stories are shining examples of where the legend comes out parsecs ahead of 'reality'
Where/when does she die by force lightning?
Yeesh, no wonder she's evil. Sometimes people were just born evil like Palpatine and others were made evil through tragedy.
This is even better after reading Dark Disciple and Dooku: Jedi Lost.
Dooku: "You have failed me for the last time."
Anakin: "Write that down! WRITE THAT DOWN!"
I kinda wish before her death, they dived into the common ground Anakin and Ventress had. TCW always dives into stuff like that
None of the Sith were evil, Sidious poisoned their minds.
Its kinda cool when you realise she went back to a similar hair style in Dark Disciples.
Great combo, powerful and has abandonment issues.
So basically her story is mix of Maul's & Anakin's
I think that Ventress, after being abandoned by Dooku, she should have stayed at her homeworld, learned how to become a nightsister, for so instead of wasting her powers as a bounty hunter, when her sisters were killed she would try to find a way to bring them back to life, and once she did, she would become their new leader.
God, her canon backstory and eventual fate makes me 😭. She deserved better. RIP in the ether of the cosmic force Ventress.
Born in the dark side
Traded to the dark side
Turned to the light *master dies*
Turns back to the dark
Then goes rogue
And ends in the light.
Asajj Ventress 👍
THIS is what I want to see in live action.
I wonder why the Master and Ventress never went back to the Jedi Order. I assume not because the bandits look like the same bandits that the Master was hunting down to begin with so they probably were there for several years.
OH BOY HERE I GO CRYING AGAIN
I love the callback to the comics here
This whole flashback is a bit more interesting after listening to Dooku: Jedi Lost.
she deserved better :(
she has come such a long way and been thru so much that led her to the dark side. It's so sad that everything has been taken from her all her life
Asajj with hair is just too much for me 💘
"My master left me" not really he ded
She didn't mean the Jedi who raised her on that remote planet, she meant Count Dooku who abandoned her when she failed one mission too many who was a different person.
If Ky Narec had lived she would have never turned to the dark side
She meant Count Dooku