While Star Wars: The Clone Wars is largely considered to be one of the best animated series in the entire franchise, there are a collection of storylines that were left unfinished. Having originally aired on Cartoon Network between 2009 and 2013 for its first five seasons, a sixth season aired on Netflix in 2014 while a seventh and final season began streaming on Disney+ in 2020. During that time, a collection of plot lines were left unresolved.
Set during the three years between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, The Clone Wars showcases the bitter galaxy-wide war between the Galactic Republic and the Separatist Alliance. While the Republic had its Jedi generals and their clone armies, the Separatists were led by Count Dooku, General Grievous, and their legions of battle droids. However, multiple narratives ended up being left in various stages of development during the series’ transitions after leaving Cartoon Network. To that end, here are 10 of the biggest stories that were never properly finished within The Clone Wars series.
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10 Star Wars Has Never Shown Cad Bane & Boba Fett’s Feud
An Entire Arc Of Their Clone Wars History
While The Book of Boba Fett referred to Cad Bane and Boba Fett’s history and rivalry during The Clone Wars, their arc of episodes never made it beyond the pre-visualization and animated storyboard phase (though they were released online). Having worked with his father Jango Fett, Bane would be been positioned as a mentor to Boba Fett in an arc that would have seen the young bounty hunter claiming his father’s armor.
However, Boba and Cad Bane’s partnership eventually took a turn, resulting in a gunslinger’s duel where they shot each other simultaneously, explaining the dent in Boba’s helmet. The duel is also referenced in The Bad Batch spin-off series via a metal patch on Cad Bane’s head from where Fett shot him.
9 Barriss Offee Was Kept Alive For A Reason – But What?
Did She Become An Imperial Inquisitor?
In The Clone Wars season 5, Barris Offee was corrupted to the dark side due to her frustrations with the ongoing war and the Jedi’s compromised role within it. Having bombed the Jedi Temple before framing Ahsoka Tano for the attack, Offee was still discovered and subsequently imprisoned by the Republic. However, her ultimate fate was never revealed ahead of Order 66. Considering her corruption to the dark side and hatred of what the Jedi had become, it follows that Barris Offee would have been prime Inquisitor material, though neither The Clone Wars nor any other project has provided answers (yet).
8 Why The Separatists Were Collecting Kyber Crystals
Christophsis And Utapau Conflicts
The Clone Wars also had an unfinished four-episode arc on Utapau which would have seen Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker preventing General Greivous from securing a massive kyber crystal for Count Dooku. Serving as some key foundational set-up for the construction of the Death Star, this arc would have also followed up on the series’ conflicts that took place on Christophsis, a world rich in kyber which the Separatists had a keen interest in claiming.
7 The Dark Side’s Influence On Coruscant
Ahsoka vs Darth Sidious?
Another unfinished story would have fleshed out the darkness present on Coruscant, the Republic’s capital core world and home to both the Republic Senate and the Jedi Temple. Meant to explore the Sith shrine that lay beneath the Jedi Temple, this story would have likely helped explain Palpatine’s manipulations and the shroud of the dark side that inhibited the Jedi’s ability to foresee events during the Clone Wars. It would have also involved another attempt by Darth Sidious to break into the Jedi Temple’s Holocron vault, though his efforts would be stopped by Ahsoka Tano.
6 Why Palpatine Wanted Children Taken To Mustafar
Project Harvester
Later known as Project Harvester, Darth Sidious hired Cad Bane in The Clone Wars season 2 to kidnap young Force-sensitive children across the galaxy, hoping to turn them into dark-side spies and agents under his command. While these children were ultimately saved by Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano, the full extent of Palpatine’s plans was never revealed within The Clone Wars series following this initial arc of episodes, especially after his Imperial Inquisitors were revealed to be fallen Jedi whom Palpatine corrupted before Order 66 (rather than Force-sensitives he’d secretly raised and trained).
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5 Wookiees And The Full Battle of Kashyyyk
A Long-Term Campaign
Although the Battle of Kashyyyk was featured in Revenge of the Sith, that was only the campaign’s final days on the Wookiee homeworld before Order 66 and the Clone Wars’ end. The full conflict was meant to be featured in The Clone Wars in a series of unfinished episodes starring Yoda and the Bad Batch with Chieftain Tarfull and Chewbacca. Meant to establish Yoda’s “good relations with the Wookiees”, the unseen episodes were referenced in the Bad Batch when Clone Force 99 visited Kashyyk during the Dark Times.
4 The Fate Of The Clone Troopers During The Empire
Bad Batch Has Been Filling The Gaps
Thanks to The Bad Batch spin-off series, the fate of the Republic’s clone troopers has been revealed with many defecting from the new Empire while others were turned into test subjects for its Advanced Science Division. However, the fate of the clones was certainly a big mystery at the end of The Clone Wars when looking at the series on its own, especially as it was already known that the Empire eventually transitioned to recruiting humans across the galaxy rather than continuing to rely on the clones of the Republic era.
3 The Fate of Asajj Ventress, Dooku’s Ex-Sith Assassin
Dark Disciple and Bad Batch Season 3
Rejected by her master Count Dooku in The Clone Wars season 3, the former Sith assassin Asajj Ventress reunited with the Nightsisters before turning to a life of bounty hunting once her coven was slaughtered by General Grievous. While this is where Ventress was left in Clone Wars season 5, she was meant to receive a multi-episode storyline where she would have joined forces with Jedi Master Quinlan Vos to assassinate Dooku, a mission that led to the duo’s romance and Ventress’ apparent sacrifice. This story was instead told in the novel Dark Disciple based on the original episode scripts.
While The Clone Wars left Ventress’ fate as a big question mark, Dark Disciple revealed what was seemingly her final adventure. However, The Bad Batch season 3’s trailer has confirmed that Ventress still lives, allowing the spin-off to finally reveal her ultimate fate on-screen in the Star Wars timeline.
2 The Story Of Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas
Some Elements Were Still Unclear
Dubbed, “The Lost Missions”, The Clone Wars season 6 attempted to cover the full extent of Darth Sidious’ and Count Dooku’s manipulations of Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas and his secret order of a clone army for the Republic. While some answers were provided in The Clone Wars, there were still some key mysteries that were only revealed later in novels such as Dooku: Jedi Lost (such as why Sifo-Dyas ordered the clone army in the first place).
1 What Ahsoka’s Being Saved By The Daughter Really Means
How Was Ahsoka Affected?
The Clone Wars season 3 featured a multi-episode arc starring Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Ahsoka on the supernatural world known as Mortis, home to the celestial Force beings known as the Father, Son, and Daughter. With the Son representing the dark side and the Daughter being the light, the Father kept his children in balance as the trio claimed to be connected to the actual state of the Force itself.
In this arc, the Daughter gave her life to save Ahsoka Tano after she’d been corrupted and poisoned by the Son. From that point onward in the Star Wars canon, the Daughter’s convor bird Morai has constantly watched over Ahsoka from a distance, a supernatural sign that she was fundamentally changed by the Daughter’s power. While the live-action Ahsoka series has teased more details in the near future, The Clone Wars show itself did little in the way of actual explanation.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
The animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars takes place between Episodes 2 and 3 of the Star Wars film saga. The fan-favorite series expands the story of the prequel trilogy through characters including Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ahsoka Tano, and more fan-favorite jedi.
- Cast
- Matt Lanter , james arnold taylor , Ashley Eckstein , Dee Bradley Baker , Matthew Wood , Tom Kane , Catherine Taber , Terrence Carson , Corey Burton , Nika Futterman , Katee Sackhoff , Sam Witwer
- Release Date
- October 3, 2008
- Seasons
- 7
- Network
- Disney Channel
- Streaming Service(s)
- Disney+
- Franchise(s)
- Star Wars
- Writers
- Dave Filoni , George Lucas
- Directors
- Dave Filoni
- Showrunner
- Dave Filoni
