Cad Bane

* TCW
* TBB

**Cad Bane** is a recurring character and an antagonist in both Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars: The Bad Batch. He also appears in a graffiti in one episode of Star Wars Rebels. He served as the primary and overarching antagonist of the second season of the Clone Wars.

## **Overview**

Bane was a Duros male bounty hunter in the galaxy during the Clone Wars. He was considered the leading bounty hunter in the galaxy during the Clone Wars due to the death of Jango Fett at the First Battle of Geonosis in 22 BBY. Although his infamy grew during the Clone Wars in particular, Bane had a high standing amongst other bounty hunters, working with the likes of Aurra Sing years before the onset of the war. He even had a temporary alliance with the Sith Lord Darth Maul. He specialized in fighting Jedi and did battle with some of the most skilled Jedi during the Clone Wars, including Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker. His reputation led him to be repeatedly hired by the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, working for him on numerous projects, infiltrating the Jedi Temple to steal a kyber memory crystal containing a list of Force-sensitive children throughout the galaxy.

Bane was eventually hired by the Jabba the Hutt to free Jabba's uncle, the gangster Ziro the Hutt, out of Republic prison. After a successful mission, Bane was re-hired to track down Ziro when he fled. Bane found Ziro dead on Teth and eventually dueled Kenobi and Quinlan Vos, using a variety of weapons to hold his own against the two Jedi before fleeing. Later into the war, Bane was brought in by Count Dooku to participate in the Box, surviving the deadly challenge before being appointed the leader of Dooku's plot to kidnap the Supreme Chancellor. However, their plot failed when it was revealed that Kenobi had infiltrated their ranks, disguised as Rako Hardeen, and Bane was arrested along with the rest of the group.

## **Storyline**

* The Clone Wars
* TBB

### Season 1

**Hostage Crisis**

Sometime after Ziro the Hutt had been in a prison cell on Coruscant, Cad Bane was hired to free him. For the operation, Bane assembled a team of Bounty Hunters, each with a particular job and skill. His new team included Jedi hunter Aurra Sing, Patrolian slicer Robonino, Weequay bounty hunter Shahan Alama and the droid HELIOS-3D. Traveling to the Galactic Senate building, Bane approached a group of Senators. Grand Senator Philo spoke out against Bane and began to walk away, only to be shot dead by Bane, who revealed himself as a "no non-sense" bounty hunter.

Soon afterward, Cad Bane contacted Chancellor Sheev Palpatine, demanding that a disc be provided to free Ziro from the prison. With the Senators in danger of being harmed by Bane, Palpatine had no choice but to comply with the demand and sent senator Orn Free Taa with one of the Bounty Hunters to the prison complex. With Ziro freed, Bane and his group left the Senators with several trip laser bombs surrounding them, set to blow if anything crossed it. About to make his getaway, Bane was surrounded by the Coruscant Guard by orders of Palpatine. Revealing that bombs had been set to blow around the senators and could be detonated remotely, Palpatine was forced to let them escape. Upon leaving with Ziro, he detonated the bombs surrounding the Senators without much reason. Anakin Skywalker, who was with the Senators at the time, was able to save everyone before the bombs were detonated.
### Season 2

**Stealing the Holocron**

After the First Battle of Felucia, Cad Bane was contacted by Darth Sidious to infiltrate the Jedi Temple and steal a Jedi Holocron. Bane hired Clawdite shapeshifter Cato Parasitti and used his personal "butler droid," Todo 360. Cato, disguised as deceased Skrilling Jedi Master Ord Enisence, infiltrated the Temple and told Bane and Todo how to get into the building. Bane was soon figured out, leading Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and Skywalker to come after him. Cato was also figured out by Jocasta Nu, the Temple's Chief Librarian. Cato was able to knock Nu unconscious and take her form. Bane could hear the Jedi catching up to him, leading him to send Todo to distract them with his untimely destruction, in the form of an explosion, rigged by Bane himself. Bane then passed through the damaged door to the Holocron vault, took the Holocron he sought, and, in Jedi robes, left the Temple unscathed.
**Battle with the Jedi**

Sidious told Bane that the key to opening the Holocron was held by Jedi Master Bolla Ropal on Devaron. Bane traveled to the planet and kidnapped Ropal, who refused to open the Holocron. After Bane brought Ropal up to his ship, which was one of the last in a fleet given to him by Nute Gunray, he soon gave up on working with the Rodian knowing that a Republic force had infiltrated his ship, Bane killed Ropal and moved on. Ahsoka Tano, Anakin Skywalker, Rex, and a brigade of clones entered the ship, captured the bridge, and destroyed the escape pods, leaving Bane in a tight spot. Despite the odds, Bane turned the tide when he separated Ahsoka from her master, took her down in a fight, and held her hostage as collateral for Anakin so that he would open the Holocron. Anakin opened the Holocron but couldn't manage to capture Bane. Bane left to escape his damaged ship but was cornered by two clones, Denal and Koho. Bane killed both troopers and took Denal's armor, using it to get aboard a Separatist shuttle, taking off with Anakin, Ahsoka, Rex, and the remaining clones back to the *Resolute*.
**Children of the Force**

Bane barely escaped the *Resolute* when the ship landed, as he had been revealed to be impersonating Denal. He traveled to Black Stall Station, where he and his employer, Darth Sidious, talked about the final stage of the plan. Using the information on the Holocron, Bane selected four Force-sensitive infants. The first was Zinn Toa on Glee Anslem, who he stole with no interruption from the Jedi. He took the next child, Wee Dunn, from Rodia by hypnotizing his mother into attacking Obi-Wan Kenobi, who attempted to liberate the child. While attempting to kidnap a third child, Roo Roo Page, from Naboo, he was taken down by Anakin and Ahsoka, who captured him, along with his ship, and all that was stored. Aboard the *Resolute*, Bane was interrogated by Mace Windu, Kenobi, and Skywalker, who, in desperation, were forced to concentrate all of their force power into getting him to talk, a trick which almost destroyed the bounty hunter's mind. Bane took Cody, Windu, and Kenobi to Black Stall Station, where they got the Holocron back. Bane then revealed that the station was booby-trapped and escaped, moments before the destruction of the station. Bane never managed to finish the final part of the job by delivering the last two children, as it was foiled by Ahsoka and Anakin. To rebuild Todo, Anakin accidentally gave back Bane's ship and his droid, much to the bounty hunter's convenience.
### Season 3

**Hunt for Ziro**

After the freedom of Ziro the Hutt from a Republic prison, Bane had stayed in the Hutt Palace on Nal Hutta. He knew Sy Snootles had broken Ziro out of his cell and not the Jedi Obi-Wan and Quinlan Vos. Obi-Wan and Vos had also figured out the Hutt escaped. While the Hutts thought the Jedi came to free Ziro and bring him back to the Republic hostility, Bane and Todo arrived, and the bounty hunter explained that Ziro was broken out long before the Jedi arrived. Bane said if the Hutts didn't want to figure out the case, he could take a hint, but the Hutts wanted to hire him to capture Ziro again. Bane and Todo went to Mama the Hutt before the Jedi arrived and threatened the Hutt to give Ziro's location, who was heading to Teth with Snootles. Once Bane arrived at Teth, he found the corpse of Ziro and the stolen holo diary. Bane said he hated when someone did his job, and then the Jedi landed. Bane hid until Obi-Wan and Vos found Ziro's corpse, and Bane revealed himself. Obi-Wan asked why he killed Ziro, but Bane said he didn't and wouldn't have done a "sloppy kill." Bane said that they should just go about their business, but Kenobi said that even if he couldn't capture Ziro, he took Bane to prison for holding the Senate hostage. Bane and the Jedi had a duel, and Bane, in the end, escaped.
### Season 4

**Meeting Rako Hardeen**

Bane, sometime during the war, was captured and sent to the Republic Judiciary Central Detention Center. There, his roommate was the vile leader of a plot to kidnap the Chancellor named Moralo Eval, who agreed to let Bane in on the plan. Presumed dead Obi-Wan Kenobi, who was transformed into Bounty Hunter Rako Hardeen, met Eval, and he brought him to his cell to discuss the plans. Bane didn't agree and wanted his rate to double, then triple. Eval calmed them both down and sent Obi-Wan back to his cell but warned him if he let anyone know, Eval would kill him. To escape prison, Bane and Eval paid Boba Fett to create a diversion by starting a fight with Hardeen, which could be used to start a riot. Two guards tried to stop Fett and Hardeen, but the Trandoshan Bossk attacked Kenobi while the other inmates began to riot.

Eval and Bane left, and Kenobi followed. Bane showed them the way to their exit, which was in the morgue. Eval and Bane looked out as Obi-Wan forced the panel to get in. The three sneaked in the caskets only until the officers on duty needed to cremate them. When the caskets were sent down to the crematorium, the officers found vital signs and opened the caskets. The three attacked. One officer tried to shoot Bane, but he took another and put him in front of the blast. Hardeen pointed a gun at an officer, but being a Jedi, he couldn't find the will to shoot, but Bane killed him and asked what was the matter with him; Kenobi gave the excuse of his blaster jamming. The three ran out and took a police craft to a shuttle landing. There, they stole a ship. Bane punched Kenobi for hesitating, ignoring the fact that he was the main reason for their escape.
**Trouble on Nal Hutta**

Following their escape from Coruscant, Bane, Hardeen and Eval crashed their ship in the swamps of Nal Hutta. Bane and the others then went to the Bilbousa Bazaar, where they visited Pablo's pawnshop to purchase equipment and a new hat for Bane. Bane then threatened Pablo with a toothpick to silence him. Bane sent Hardeen to get a new ship while he and Eval got weapons and supplies. Bane then decided to turn Hardeen over to Gardulla and her guards due to his mistrust of him. However, as Eval and Bane left, they were shot down by the guards' HH-87 Starhoppers. They then left the ship only to find Hardeen having a drink at the saloon. There, Bane and Eval were surprised to learn that he acquired another ship for them.

**The Box**

Eval, Hardeen and Bane made it to Serenno, where they met Count Dooku. Both Bane and Hardeen demanded their payment, but instead Dooku asked them to take part in a special bounty hunter tournament that could gain them a much larger payment. The two reluctantly accepted with Bane suspecting that it would be a deadly contest and that not all participants would survive. Bane then spotted the hat of fellow contestant Bulduga and asked the bounty hunter how he got it. Bulduga responded by drawing his blaster pistol, but Bane was faster and shot Bulduga in the chest, killing him in front of his brother Onca. He then mockingly took Bulduga's hat and dropped his old hat on Bulduga's body. Shortly thereafter Dooku gathered the contestants for a briefing on the tournament. Dooku introduced the other candidates: Kiera Swan, Derrown, Sixtat, Jakoli, Embo, Twazzi, Onca, Sinrich, and Mantu. He then showed them "The Box," a floating cubelike station that served as the tournament arena. He explained that five most skilled among the survivors would participate in a job that would pay very well, while any remaining survivors would be eliminated to protect this job. Eval proceeded to explain that The Box was designed by him to simulate some situations that might happen on the job and the bounty hunters had to hand in their weapons. They were then escorted to an elevator that led into The Box, and the tournament started.
The contestants found themselves in a room, and Eval appeared on a screen to mention that the only rule during the contest was that there were no rules. Thereafter a hole in the floor opened, releasing lethal dioxis gas. Platforms started to rise from the ground to escape the gas. Bane kicked Mantu off a platform to get on it. When the platforms started to rise too much towards the ceiling the group found themselves between getting crushed by the ceiling and a layer of dioxis below them. Hardeen deduced that the way out of the room wasn't in the ceiling but was somewhere in the floor. Hardeen found out that there was a hole in the floor that led to a tunnel below the gas line and to another room. Bane and the others followed Hardeen's example and survived the first test without casualties. The tunnel led to a second room where Eval appeared on screen again and commented that the second test unlike the first would result in some casualties. Suddenly columns with electrified blades started to shove in and out the walls. Onca and Swan ended up impaled on the blades, and Sinrich was killed by Embo. Hardeen discovered a pattern in the way the columns shoved in and out and noticed it led to a hole in the ceiling of the room. He showed his discovery to Bane, who told him to go to the hole. Bane and the others followed Hardeen in his climb and made it to the shaft in the ceiling that led to a third room.

In the next room, the group once again received instructions from Eval, who told them to pass through his ray shield to switch it off with a button that was positioned behind the shield. Eval revealed a tube in the middle of the room. The tube contained a serum that allowed the user to pass through the shield unharmed. It was, however, toxic to all but one of them. The ray shield appeared and started to close in on the group. After a while the floor became ray shielded as well, killing Jakoli and forcing the rest on a platform in the center of the room. When Derrown wanted to take the serum, Bane protested, but Hardeen told him to let Derrown take the serum as he was a Parwan and his blood could take the serum. When the ray shield closed in more and more, the platform became smaller and smaller, and Mantu was killed by the shield. Derrown was, however, able to inject the serum into his blood, pass through the shield and successfully deactivate the shield in time, allowing the remaining contestants to proceed to the fourth and final challenge.

In the fourth room, the group was positioned on a platform above a fiery pit. Eval appeared and informed them that this test was about sharpshooter skills. One of them had to hit a target that moved very fast across the back wall with a sniper rifle. Sixtat volunteered and hit the target twice. His third shot missed, however, and as a result he fell into the flames. Hardeen then took the sniper rifle and made an attempt as well, successfully hitting the target three times. Although Hardeen completed the task, Eval moved the platform to separate Hardeen from the others. Dooku had noticed that Hardeen had been the cause of success on every test and planned on putting Hardeen in charge of the mission rather than Eval. Eval wanted Hardeen to hit some more targets. Hardeen hit another four, but then the rifle was empty and Eval saw his chance to get rid of him. When he tried drop Hardeen in the flames, Bane used one of his wrist cables to prevent Hardeen from falling. Eval was angry with this, but Bane told him that if he wanted to kill Hardeen he should do it like a man in a fair fight. Dooku agreed and dropped Eval in the room to fight Hardeen face to face. Eval didn't play fair and used his remote control to activate a few traps in the room and sent in some probe droids to kill Hardeen. Nevertheless, Hardeen defeated Eval eventually, and Dooku ordered Hardeen to finish Eval off. Hardeen, being Kenobi in disguise and a Jedi, refused to kill Eval to Dooku's disappointment. Dooku, however, congratulated the remaining bounty hunters for surviving the Box and announced that the job was in fact to kidnap Chancellor Palpatine during the Festival of Light on Naboo. He also announced that Bane would lead the mission.
**Crisis on Naboo**

Bane, along with Dooku, Eval, and the other bounty hunters, met up in a hangar in Theed. Bane then assigned the bounty hunters their individual parts in the Chancellor's kidnapping. Before he and the other bounty hunters, Bane was warned by Dooku to keep an eye on Hardeen. Bane then infiltrated the crowd near the Chancellor by posing as a Neimoidian. After Derrown destroyed the shield generator, Bane and Eval took the Chancellor to the rendezvous point to meet up with Count Dooku. However, Dooku was not there, and Hardeen tried to take the Chancellor. Hardeen overpowered Bane and Eval in a fight. Bane and Eval were then arrested by Skywalker, Windu and Hardeen, who was revealed to be Kenobi. Bane swore vengeance against Kenobi.

### Season 1

**Hired by the Kaminoans**

After the formation of the Galactic Empire, Bane continued to operate as a bounty hunter with Todo 360 at his side. Eventually, he was employed by the Kaminoan Prime Minister Lama Su to retrieve the genetically modified clone known as Omega. Intercepting the rogue Clone Force 99 on Bracca alongside Todo as the Empire closed in on the group, Bane killed the clones guarding Clone Force 99's ship, the *Havoc Marauder*, and waited for their arrival. When Omega and Hunter reached the ship, Bane confronted Hunter, engaging him in a standoff. Both Bane and Hunter drew their blasters, though Bane's tenure as a seasoned mercenary had bestowed the Duros with a superior quick-draw. Hunter was subsequently blasted in the chest, allowing Bane to kidnap Omega after stunning her.
Onboard his ship, Bane contacted his Kaminoan employers, who he told to bring his payment to their arranged rendezvous, which was at a facility on Bora Vio. Bane landed with no problems, but realized that Omega had escaped his ship. He eventually tracked her down and destroyed her comm device that she had reclaimed from his hold. Then, he found the Kaminoan representative, Taun We, dead, and discovered the young bounty hunter Fennec Shand had killed her and taken his case of credits. Omega fled while Bane directed his attention to his opponent and engaged in a shootout. When Shand slipped away, Bane cautiously searched for her, but was surprised by a planted explosive and knocked out temporarily. When he regained his senses, he pursued Shand and continued fighting. Although Shand got the better of him, breaking bones in his arm and knocking him over the side of a railing, he used his rocket boots to save himself. Omega, meanwhile, escaped, and when Bane returned to his ship to pursue her, he found that his ship had been sabotaged and he snarled with rage as he was unable to take off.
## Appearances

* The Clone Wars
* TBB
* Rebels

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