One year after their first on-screen fight, Asajj Ventress will yet again be facing off against a beloved group of characters in a new Star Wars story. It was in 2024 that the iconic villain known for her role in Star Wars: The Clone Wars returned to the small screen in Star Wars: The Bad Batch season 3, revealing that Ventress had survived her supposed death in the 2015 canon novel Dark Disciple by Christie Golden.

In the months following this triumphant return, Star Wars has been bringing Ventress back to add even more context to her story. On May 4th of this year, Star Wars released the animated miniseries Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld, which helped to explain how Ventress had been resurrected following her Dark Disciple death. Now, this other new Star Wars story is going to add more context to her appearance in The Bad Batch by giving her a notable rematch.

Asajj Ventress Is Going Head-To-Head With Clone Force 99 Once Again

Their First Meeting Was Long Before The Bad Batch Season 3

The comic miniseries Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories — The Bad Batch — Ghost Agents by writer Michael Moreci and illustrators Reese Hannigan, Elisabetta D'Amico, Michael Atiyeh, and Valeria “Lux” Favoccia follows the titular Bad Batch, also known as Clone Force 99, through a dangerous mission in the Clone Wars era - one that sees them come face-to-face with Asajj Ventress yet again. This is, however, technically their first meeting.

Ghost Agents #3 has left off on a cliffhanger of Ventress' true identity being fully revealed to the Bad Batch just before she launches into attack. Ventress, up until this point, has been harboring a stolen list of titular "ghost agents" in the Republic's intelligence that Clone Force 99 has been seeking to steal back before their identities are revealed. After attempting to hand off the list to the bounty hunter Aurra Sing, Ventress confronts the Batch.

Based on The Bad Batch's timeline, this is, as aforementioned, actually their first meeting, but it's still a rematch of the excellent fight that took place in The Bad Batch season 3, episode 9 "The Harbinger." What makes this one even more interesting is the fact that Tech will be present for this one; by The Bad Batch season 3, he's sadly met his fate, and thus isn't present for their rematch. We're still waiting for Ghost Agents to reveal how the Batch fares against Ventress in #4, but it will no doubt be another incredible showdown.

Will This Latest Rematch (Or First One) Retcon The Bad Batch Season 3?

There Are Many Ways To Work Around It

Of course, this initial fight between Ventress and Clone Force 99 during the Clone Wars has some fans wondering if the events of The Bad Batch season 3 will have to be retconned. This is because, initially, neither Hunter, Wrecker, nor Crosshair recognized Ventress right away. Instead, Crosshair was sent to retrieve a datapad with Tech's old Republic files, which had information about Ventress at the ready for them to properly identify her.

Their first meeting, however, doesn't have to retcon that particular moment. It can be easily explained that the three enhanced clone troopers were suspicious that it could be Ventress, but waited until they could be certain, especially if they had heard during the war that she had been killed. As for Ventress, if she recognized these three clones from their first fight, it would be smart for her not to mention it; airing out her true identity isn't exactly a smart move for her.

It will further enrich that moment in the animated TV show, providing more backstory and context for why the Batch attacks her as fiercely as they do.

It's very unlikely, then, that the nature of this first fight between Ventress and Clone Force 99 will attempt or execute any retconning of The Bad Batch season 3. Instead, it will further enrich that moment in the animated TV show, providing more backstory and context for why the Batch attacks her as fiercely as they do on Pabu to keep Omega safe. Any story, and fight, with Asajj Ventress is a welcome one, and adding Clone Force 99 into the mix makes it even better.