ASAJJ VENTRESS DEATH RETCONNED - THEY RESPONDED

[@chatwithaninja]

Poor Qui-Gon. Everybody else bouncing back...

[@elmermedina1713]

Well, his Force Ghost has appeared

[@Wizpunk]

If they really wanted to write more Qui Gon they could easily give him a good prequel series (animated of course)

[@JarJarBricks01]

To be fair, we've never actually seen Force lightning kill a character in all of Star Wars. So Mace and Ventress? Yeah, it's not that crazy. But a lightsaber through the chest? You shouldn't come back from that. Yeah, Reva sucks.

[@mertc8050]

​@@JarJarBricks01yeah only palps was killing force users people with lightning and even that took time (luke for ex) single barrage of lightning isnt gonna kill like its a bullet to the head. I mean we never saw that before.

[@siegel947]

Master Windu still have a high position in the Jedi council and still yet haven't made a appearance...let that sink in slowly

[@mightysavage459]

The Ventress was an interesting and complex character that I really liked. In the current times, I can see them twisting this character into this toxic version, but let's hope that we are moving away from doing that and just focusing on the story of the character.

[@8DarthGhost8]

Yeah that's not happening. They won't rest until Star Wars is buried in the ground

[@DisapprovingPigeon]

Much as we hope, how likely would you say that is?

[@Commander_Shepard.]

I'm more worried they would keep her around for so long that she becomes a stale lifeless version of the character. Look at Ahsoka.

[@chasepeterson1696]

I really hope they don't ruin Ventress... at least it's Dave running the show. He created Ventress and he is one of the few people at Disney that actually understand Star Wars. Let's hope he stays true to the Ventress we know and love.

[@Commander_Shepard.]

@@chasepeterson1696 He didn't create Ventress.

[@nolanschaffer6403]

Somehow…Asajj Ventress has returned.

[@kenobanion6493]

Asajj Ventress was an AMAZING baddie… she had a great background and story.

[@tev2332]

​@@kenobanion6493 So was Palpatine...

[@kenobanion6493]

@@tev2332 agreed. Palpatine was good too but there wasn’t much of his backstory in the movies. I think they should have made a stand-alone movie about him.

[@BonusCrook]

at least it wasn't from a lightsaber stab this time

[@Rko11148]

Waiting for count dooku to come back as the headless horseman at this point

[@LaraA55]

🤣👍

[@dreadrath]

Frankenstein Dooku. Like he went into a force trance before Anakin beheaded him, had a team of med droids on stand by who evacuated him to a secret C.I.S facility, and reattatched his head, but things didn't quite go right and he's turned into a very elegant, cultured, impeccably groomed and well dressed zombie.

[@mickeymao7145]

“It's just a flesh wound!” (for anyone who's seen “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”)

[@Raged_Consumer]

​@@mickeymao7145 "Tis but a scratch." "A scratch?! Your hands' off." "No they aren't." "Look!" "I've had worse." "You liar." "C'mon you pantsy!" "Look, your head's chopped clean off." "No it isn't." "Well, what's that then?" "It's just a flesh wound."

[@mickeymao7145]

@@Raged_Consumer Lol, works for getting run through with a lightsaber and being fine five minutes later too 😂

[@ShadowHunter44117]

I don’t read the books which is why I was so confuse about her dying. Truth be told I feel Ventress was too big of a character to kill offscreen.

[@SkunkApeOG]

I wish my faith in them really making this work wasnt so shook

[@SoullessDoom]

So this is not the first time they considered bringing Ventress back, apparently they wanted to do it for “Resistance” but didn’t end up doing it. Also it looks like she has a curved saber in the trailer which is not the saber she has in Dark Disciple (the model is the same for the other half of Maul’s repaired Saberstaff in Season 7). She never got her curved sabers back which is the point of the new saber yet it looks identical to her original ones (could be wrong but it certainly looks curved)

[@SeveralDolphin8]

Tbh, if they explain it like she rebuild her old hilt I’m happy. Her old hilts are SICK. However you are completely right. In the timeline she hasn’t had this saber in years. So I say prolly another Disney mistake LMAO.

[@SoullessDoom]

@@SeveralDolphin8 It probably won’t be addressed at all and maybe that’s for the best. I just thought it was weird that they didn’t catch it being the wrong one. I do agree though, the curved hilt design is MUCH cooler

[@ciscoak9074]

Ventresses ending is more open ended then ppl make it sound. Vos puts her in a lake n sees green tendrils n nightsister Magick engulf her and ASSUMES it was her spirit joining her dead sisters. When it was written it may have been their intentions as well, but in hindsight what Vos was seeing could hav been the magic working to save ventresses life! I think that Is how they will explain her return.. Vos wrongly assumed he watched her transition to the spirit world, but what he actually saw was nightsister magic beggining the steps to save her life..perhaps it took minutes,days,weeks or months floating in that sea of green witch juju, but the end result was her regaining her life, strength ect..I truly believe if It wasn't always the plan,that somebody on the writing teàm reread dark deciples and realized that ventresses "death" was very open ended and wasn't written as definitivly as it probably should have been and took it as an opportunity to continue her story without changing the canon. That very small detail of " tendrils and green Magick engulfing her" creates just enough doubt to bring her back without being too cheap about it lol. She always had a "out" with her nightsister background, but it would have been a cheap "out".. the way her end was described gives them a " we always meant to bring her back n that's why it was open ended" lol..do I believe that? Not really but do i believe it was a convenient happy lil accident? Yes...yes I do..

[@2apocalypsex]

I see that you have actually read Dark Disciple, unlike many people in the comments section who don't seem to know that she was laid to rest in the waters of her village on Dathomir which are most likely imbued with Nightsister Magick

[@lukasr1166]

@@2apocalypsex The issue is how it no character ever dies in this blasted Franchise. Ahsoka survives, Ventress survives how is there supposed to be tension when nobody dies.

[@route77productions]

​​​@@2apocalypsexI totally forgot about this. Then again, it's been like 6 years since I last read it. I remember Asajj dying, Vos turning the dark side, the whole love story and Anakin and Obi-Wan hilariously trying to go undercover as droids towards the end of the story.

[@route77productions]

Honestly, you might've nailed it on how they explain how they bring her back while maintaining Dark Disciple's canon status.

[@vonckjordy]

​@@2apocalypsex i know for a fact that the majority of the people complaining never even read that book. They just found something new to complain about...

[@bumblebee1300]

The new Disney motto “no one is ever really gone”

[@parkoutdoors7788]

Sandlot type shit “legends never die”

[@EchoVerse_Sonance]

*The Rise Of Skywalker becomes visibly happy*

[@MrJermeyp]

Except Qui Gon apparently

[@Daemonik]

Full motto: "No-one is ever really gone whilst we can make some money from them"

[@juancabardo21]

They’ll have to do a LOT of tiptoeing around the established canon to make it work without retconning the book

[@MrWord283]

I trust.. the way they justified in this series the transition between clones to troopers was amazing. So, if they already said they are respecting the book, why the worries?

[@Tyrosine0910]

Yeah: Asajj will have to have not actually been Asajj to make it work.

[@Tyrosine0910]

@@MrWord283 Because somehow preserving the canon status of Dark Disciple's contents whilst also keeping Asajj alive with decent storytelling is a huge undertaking & they've let us down a number of times since the sequel trilogy was released. At this point, I think a lot of the serious fans have developed the attitude of "don't tell me; show me." I know I have.

[@MrWord283]

@@Tyrosine0910 I agree with the fact that they have disappointed us a lot. Only rogue one, andor and this show are great, so I hope for the best

[@aracelymoran2504]

@juancabardo21 Agreed. For me, just let her be. Force ghost her or flashback her, fine. Do NOT resurrect her.

[@Luchmun3]

I always assumed if Quinlan Voss survived, long enough to be mentioned into The Obi-Wan series, then there's a possibility of her returning

[@zachary-schmidt]

I just hope we get a cool native character in live action, I feel like they retconned this just to avoid representation

[@someguy34hnt]

Hmm, true. She could come back through some Nightsister magic, it could be a ''VERY near-death survivor'' thing like Maul... This could be some flashback arc, like Bleach did with Turn Back The Pendulum and Everything But The Rain, only - retold by someone... This could be the ''Injustice comics vs the movie'' thing, where some things align, some don't cause different circumstances. Like, they had to change some things there, so it's ''movie'' compacted n stuff.... Anyway - dope that she'll be back

[@tholiotisbasilis]

poor Qui Gon. He must so pisst right now hahaha

[@ariesstorm9577]

Ventress is a character that has “died” at least three times in legends. Her coming back now, in canon with the affiliation with the Nightsisters and their magicks, is probably the least “how did they bring this character back from the dead” issue that I have. This could be where they bring the hibernation trance ability back into canon. In legends this ability was used to explain how a Jedi who we seen slain by General Grievous in the 2D clone wars micro series is later seen in one of the comic arcs set a year or two later. If anyone has played Knights of the Old Republic 2, will know that Kreia also uses this ability when the Exile finds her and assumes she is another dead body like the miners. In the Legacy comics, Cade Skywalker I think also used this ability to fake his own death following the Masscre on Ossus (his best friend and own master were unable to sense him in the Force, even though their ship was still in the same system). And another famous user was Jedi Master Tholme. Tholme used this during the Siege of Saleucami at a time when Quinlan Vos was still a double/triple agent and a servant of Count Dooku. Tholme fought Quinlan and faked his own death so that neither Vos nor Aayla Secura could sense him. I see no reason why Asajj Ventress could not do the same here. Faking her own death plus Nightsister magick gets her a get out of jail free card. As to why she didn’t seek out Vos again, who knows. Maybe that story gets moved along the timeline so that by the time she is fully healed events of Revenge of the Sith are underway and she doesn’t find him again until sometime into the Imperial era 🤷🏻‍♂️ I kind of hope they make a bounty hunter series using the same style animation, with Ventress as a main character who works alongside other bounty hunters. Her story could be similar to that of A’Sharad Hett: former Jedi who survived Order 66 and disgraced Tusken leader who makes a living as a bounty hunter. Said show could also give us the western style duel between Cad Bane and Boba Fett that we were supposed to have gotten in the bounty hunters arc of TCW.

[@hh-dm6cp]

Don’t you realize how much that cheapens a pay off or redemption arc by undoing her death with no consequences? It makes her sacrifice less and makes further stakes feel less impactful since nightsister magic can just bring her back if she gets dipped in a little pool. On top of that, it raises questions on why the nightsisters didn’t resurrect their other fallen sisters with this magic rather than zombie shit

[@Embo_Marrok]

I'm not mad either way. At least she is a great character and I'm down for more of her story. Will be interesting to see how they make it all work.

[@JaYxNuT]

hear! hear!

[@auroraflash]

Interesting, everything you just said could also be applied to Luke Skywalker. Now tell me, how did that turn out in the sequels?

[@Embo_Marrok]

@@auroraflash true, true! But I trust Filoni more, though he lost me a bit with the Sabine having force powers thing

[@auroraflash]

That was so awful. The biggest mistake Star Wars can make is that they conclude that only force sensitives vs. force sensitives is the true battle. They even castrated Boba Fett, one of the few guys who can kill Jedi without being force sensitive. And, of course, more and more Jedi keep popping up, no matter if they survived Order 66 or are granted force powers out of thin air. @@Embo_Marrok

[@PEEPSnationOfficial]

I bet we get a Ventress & Voss love story in the next Tales of the Jedi season

[@fatnakedjimmyneutron]

Yea I've been saying this for awhile too. Tales always seemed to me like an excuse to tell the untold stories of clone wars and some added bonuses like Dooku. Wouldnt be surprised at all if Dark Disciple gets adapted into Tales now that they fully animated this new HD model for her.

[@LucLightWolf121]

Tales....

[@JazzMaster01]

Good

[@talonmassakir9000]

Ew

[@TanPale]

Nah, they gonna make her gay

[@NoalFarstrider]

May the force be with you, always.

[@jeremiahab800]

I never even knew this about Quinlan Vos, that he tapped into the darkside to go undercover. Love these lore vids!

[@lesliejacoby9137]

At this point there's the canon where "if you die you are probably dead" and the "somehow so and so returned".

[@fatnakedjimmyneutron]

I'm so tired of people dying to only come back because they weren't "Really Dead". Lucasfilm is creatively bankrupt

[@Kepora1]

*Disney

[@juancabardo21]

it sort of undermines the importance of death

[@ihaveafettfetish9348]

Can’t wait until they bring my boy Jango back. Just need some gorilla glue, a few days in the bacta tank, and a few days at the Polynesian Spa.👍🤣

[@DarthVexar]

Yeah, it cheapens everything, there are no stakes anymore. But Disney doesn’t care about that. Ventress will make them money so they are bringing her back, it’s that simple to them.

[@elijahalbiston]

That’s why I’m grateful to Maul, his story is pretty much done right now. And Kanan. I’m really hoping Ventress is a flashback…

[@macwelch8599]

I read the Dark Disciple book and I am still excited about seeing Ventress on screen again

[@nggyunglyd2374]

As someone who didn’t read the book but sees how much of an impact it has on numerous people, I hope they honor Ventriss’ sacrifice and that story

[@GGBlaster]

It’d be interesting if they focused on the emotional fallout she’d go through after waking up and finding out that the Jedi are gone, Quinlan is nowhere to be found, and she’s back to being all alone. Her story was especially good because of how tragic of a character arc she experiences. For most of her life, she was either a victim or a weapon, and no one who met her ever really stopped to consider that she is still a person. So to no longer have Quinlan Voss, the one person who consoled her in her life of pain, would be a tragic blow to her.

[@sethottoman2588]

If they retconned asajj ventress that means Kenobi Vader and Luke as well as darth maul existing in the same timeline which just creates more plot holes

[@jorgecarbajal8076]

I'm cool with Ventress coming back, but there better be some kind of explanation for how she survived her apparent death in Dark Disciple. Otherwise, this might be another Palpatine situation.

[@sauronthemighty3985]

She faked her death in legends

[@yvngsn0w]

lol it’s not that serious

[@beastfromthenorth]

"Bring her back with the *dragonballs* whatever you want to do." Got me good 😂

[@LC-zk5ri]

remember order 66? lore went form 2 survivors hiding in exile to everyone surviving just running around in the open.

[@hh-dm6cp]

At this point it feels like if you pointed at the average citizen on Correcant after order 66, it’s probably a Jedi or force user in disguise

[@TimDaco]

I think it's Great that they're bringing Ventress back. She's a Great Character. I personally haven't read Dark Disciple, But I know that She has a very meaningful death in that book and I can understand why some people would be upset, But I think She's a Character who they could tell so many more stories with, So I'm happy that She's Coming Back.

[@TheApothecary]

Yeah I picked up on that when i saw it in the trailer. I was happy to see her again. But I feel like the book put a good end to her character. While I may like to see her, at the same time, i dont want her to be there.

[@Ariana321]

I usually think it's dumb to bring a dead character back but I do kinda make an exception when it's done offscreen.

[@hh-dm6cp]

I kind of understand that, I felt the same way about them retconing a book that Kanan survived order 66 that I didn’t read. But as a reader and enjoyer of “Dark Disciple” this one cuts a little deep for me and pisses me off. I feel punished for being invest in the book and liking the completion of Ventress’ arc in it.

[@arkangelgaming35]

​@@hh-dm6cpOh agreed dude. Such a great book and if it wasn't Ventress they're bringing back, I'd be a little annoyed. But she is such a cool character and should have been killed by Ahsoka or Anakin/Vader, not Dooku. If this is a way to both honor the book and the character, give her a new path, a new adventure and story that takes her life beyond the Bad Batch show then I'm absolutely happy for it. But if this is being done so they can just kill a "Jedi" on the show... I'm gonna be pissed.

[@dilwitchspahlin4761]

Especially when only a small minority of Star Wars fans have actually read the book where she dies

[@theFORCEismyallie]

Ventress was a Sith but she was also a descendent of the Nightsiters as well. So her not actually being dead is totally possible.

[@bacondorito]

Dark Disciple wasn’t just another book. It was adapted from 8 of the 40 cancelled episodes of The Clone Wars that disney robbed us of back in 2014. It’s a part of the show. I read it every time I watch it. If it is nightsister magic or whatever, retconning her death is retconning TCW. And that’s not ok. If her appearance is anything but a flashback, it’s not ok

[@hh-dm6cp]

I understand that a lot of Star Wars fans that haven’t read the book just want more of her since she was a neat character but I feel like if a lot of them did read it, they would see how well it completes her arc and finishes her story. Part of a characters journey is the end and a lot of fans really need to learn that.

[@spookystone846]

My biggest problem with this is that ventress’ death was handled so well and very emotionally in dark disciple. To bring her back just makes that death seem unimportant in the first place. It was very clear that she was very dead at the end of the novel. Her body was prepared days in advance before being laid to rest on dathomir. That’s about as dead as you can get, and nightsister magic (to my memory) has never been shown to reanimate someone this well. They always come out looking and acting like zombies. Don’t get me wrong, there have been times where bringing a character back from their supposed death was a great idea and allowed for more storytelling, maul obviously being the best example of this. And while they barely did anything with her, seeing phasma again in the last Jedi was a bright spot for me. They even gave her a decent comic miniseries. But to the degree we’re starting to get these character resurrections, it’s making Star Wars feel like a marvel of dc comic where death means nothing, and that’s not what Star Wars is

[@idemus168]

She was always one of my favorite characters, so I'm happy to see them bring her back in some capacity.

[@Brizzle_tcg]

"bring her back with the dragon balls" 🤣 love the video man

[@feanol22]

I can’t wait for Dooku’s return.

[@hh-dm6cp]

That would be so stupid but damn I would at least be engaged

[@iamhector24]

You said it yourself, Vos learned Nightsister magic. I bet he brings her back.

[@Mr12Relic]

Would you want a Panaka story? He became an Imperial loyalist and was promoted to Moff over Naboo's sector.

[@arkangelgaming35]

Yes. Because he wasn't a bad guy and didn't become corrupt. So id like to see how he fights for his planet under the service and with the power of the Empire.

[@RexKing-lc1tf]

WHAT!? I DIDNT KNOW THAT!!

[@The_Ex1Le]

Theres literally an interview with Filoni recently saying that all eu, disney or legends was technically "legends" because the story that is full canon is the story seen on screen. They honour the written stories but they can be retconned if it benefits the on screen narrative.

[@karldergrosse-333]

I genuinely never understood the hype surrounding her return. She was a cool character, of course - but her story served it's purpose. The only reason that Ventress exists is to push Anakin further towards the dark side (From a thematic POV). However, now Anakin does not need a foil like Ventress. He's literally Darth Vader at this point in the series...

[@j-dreamsmyth]

With Ashoka/Mando/badbatch/CWs, it's just a nice bow to keep it together. "Oh no, how do we fight these undead troopers?" *a night sister jedi appears* . A setup for a story on two fronts, known galaxy/tanalor & Mortis/rebels. A layover to make the main story arc shift to mortis and Ashoka, so they're not confined by cannon and a concluded timeline.

[@ihaveafettfetish9348]

Can’t wait until they bring my boy Jango back. Just need some gorilla glue, a few days in the bacta tank, and a few days at the Polynesian Spa.👍🤣

[@Feber2001]

Lmfao. *THE POLYNESIAN SPA!!*

[@QuatschPruststosser]

Tahiti _is_ a magical place

[@randomramblings2325]

What makes ventures such a great character is her evolution over the clone wars series from a sparring cis apprentice who wants nothing more than to kill Anakin, skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi to being a bounty hunter, and bonding with Anakin’s apprentice Ahsoka to even falling in love and embracing some aspects of the light side, I’m all for her not being dead. If you look at her legends counterpart, spoiler warning, she actually puts herself into a healing trance and fans death in front of the Jedi and her story was not fully concluded, in that continuity other than the fact that she was still alive, so it looks like Disney was doing something right and actually expanded upon a character that I’m interested in seeing

[@fazbrogaming7776]

As long as the events that happened in the book aren’t recanted I am Happy. To me the Only issue I have with Star Wars is when the shows recon something that happened in the books like TCW season 7 and Tales of the Jedi contradicting the Ahsoka novel or The Bad Batch Season 1 doing the same with the Kanen comics etc. I want Star Wars to tell “one coherent story” thought out the Films, shows, games, novels and comics.

[@Gimmick1977]

Assajj Ventress is one of the all time favorite SW villians and out of the dozens SW books I've read Dark Disciple is my favorite. It is a great ending for her but I want new good content so I can handle a good retcon if done well.

[@thebendu33]

Dark disciple is a freaking great book. I listen to the audiobook, and at the end when she dies, I had to swallow my emotions (I was at work).

[@percyg.parker739]

You know, at the end of Dark Disciple Voss puts Ventress’s body into the Night Sisters pool of living waters. Voss hears the voices of the Night Sisters welcoming Ventress. I always wondered what that meant. Did the waters revive her?

[@JJGG7S66]

Idk whether to be mad or excited ngl

[@MATTYBE]

Why is nobody talking about her being cloned? So much in the Bad Batch revolves around cloning...

[@emilevauclair937]

Please Disney, redo the postlogy and give us a real sequel to star wars 6 ❤

[@leeninfxstb]

Asajj V is an awesome character. Im excited to see her not dead or flashbacks. People always complain about stuff like this but fail to realize that only parts of the story are told ON SCREEN. There's always so much more to the story that we don't get told right away. Bring her back, tell more of her story!

[@kaneda979]

Well, Ashoka was a cool female character, until Disney goofed her up. Now I'm just afraid that the same fate awaits Ventress.

[@hh-dm6cp]

I’m pissed they are retconing her death… But this might be a hot take, I think she has a better chance and not being ruined since for some reason Disney fucks up their characters the most when translating them between animated to live action. Live action Ashoka, Sabine, Ezra, and Hera acted nothing like their animated counterparts but Ahsoka in rebels did act like Ahsoka in clone wars. Hopefully this means Asajj might be somewhat consistent.

[@Tampafan33]

Nightsisters def brought her back im sure. Like it said vos started training in magic also. Like you said how can we get mad at this when there’s things like earth maul getting chopped in half and coming back

[@SHARKVADERS]

THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS

[@fly7881]

Your video’s are the only ones I can take seriously when I want to know something about STAR WARS I watch your videos.THANK YOU

[@alexpratt8533]

I have a theory as to how Ventress might have survived: Quinlan Vos. He did learn the basics of Nightsister Magic, and we know he’s still alive after Order 66 because his name was on the wall of surviving Jedi in Kenobi. Maybe he fled to Dathomir where he thought no one would follow, and used the Nightsister Magic to resurrect the one person he knew he could trust. In regards to Merrin and Taron Malicos, I am fairly sure that the Tomb of Kujet and Mother Talzin’s coven were separate locations. The terrain is different, and even Merrin is afraid of Kujet’s tomb. Odds are Vos won’t even see them.

[@BRockIITWi]

I have a theory, too! She was wearing heavy plot armor!

[@ermixonscraziesttheories]

I think her death was always meant to be a Gandolf situation where she is reborn and changed. Her death, while impactful and important for the story that was being told, was always written with room to bring her back because they chose to leave her body in what could be described as the SW equivalent of a Lazarus pit. I think that the writer was told to leave the door open for her return and did so in a way that does not require much mental gymnastics to explain how she is back.

[@KlaasKerkhof]

Disney Star Wars isn’t canon. Filoni Star Wars isn’t canon. Everything post 2008 isn’t canon.

[@bbtank3000]

“The dark side of the force is a convenient pathway to many abilities…”

[@DarthVexar]

Theory I get what you’re saying, that seeing more of Ventress could be cool, but it’s pathetic that they keep doing this. All these characters coming back to life or surviving mortal wounds just cheapens everything, there are no stakes anymore. It’s a cheap trick by Disney that is supposed to create drama in the story, but there are never any consequences.

[@Tyrosine0910]

I agree. I also just dislike the fact that I can't invest money & time into a new book without the possibility that by the time I finish it, its contents will no longer be canon. It's just lazy, cheap writing, and it's depressing just how many fans overlook this.

[@DarthVexar]

@@Tyrosine0910 You’re right, it kind of makes the book feel pointless. Their writing is extremely lazy. I guess nowadays you just have to enjoy the story on its own and not think about how it connects to things, which sucks.

[@LaraA55]

I completely agree. There is this fear of innovation in Hollywood

[@sebastianwhite4715]

My theory is that during her training under Dooku, she was constantly exposed to his force lightning, then when she was betrayed by him and went back to the night sisters, the little “bath” she took to join them altered her body a bit, making her more resistant against force abilities like Force Lightning. We see that it altered Savage Opress took a similar one and he lacked any natural force abilities, so I believe it would have an even more profound impact on Asajj Ventress since she was born a natural force wielder.

[@tommydoezvidz7366]

Maybe Quinlan Vos used Force Healing, like Ben used on Rey! There are multiple reasons why I believe this to be true. In The Rise Of Skywalker, Ben & Rey are seen side by side to try & finish off the sith once & for all. When Ben was pushed back & was assumed dead by palpatine, Rey had to finish the sith herself, but she died in the process. We see Ben well & alive walking towards Rey. Ben gave his own life-force to Rey, so that she may live, sacrificing himself in the process. In this scenario, where we see Asajj Ventress & Quinlan Vos going up against Count Dooku, like we see in The Rise Of Skywalker. Quinlan Vos gets knocked out & is assumed "dead" or "knocked out" Dooku tries & make sure Quinlan Vos is dead by using Force Lightning. Asajj Ventress leaps into the lightning sacrificing herself in the process. Once Dooku left the scene. Quinlan Vos took Held Ventress's lifeless body. Now this is where the interesting part comes in. Quinlan Vos gave his own Life-Force to Save & Bring Ventress back to life, like what we see in The Rise Of Skywalker. Personally, I believe this lines up for the Dark Disciple. I've never read Dark Disciple as I usually never read, so I may be wrong about my theory. But either way, I believe that Quinlan Vos used his own Life-Force to save Ventress, sacrificing himself in the process to save his one & only love. Tell me what you guys think!

[@spackjarrowdohnneyjepp8276]

I believe this to be a great idea. I read parts of the dark disciple a few months ago. The way you make it clear & understandable makes it easier to accept as to why Ventress is alive and well after the clone wars.

[@ventithestarbuckscup]

Force lighting talk: I believe if the emperor have wanted to, he could have killed Luke instantly with the lightning after he tossed his lightsaber away. Is it possible ? I think he just wanted to torture Luke first.

[@hh-dm6cp]

I mean he killed Vader pretty quick which there is the argument that he is mostly machine but even still… also his lighting in the sequels was ridiculously powerful so there is that. P.S. Sorry about reminding you of the sequels.

[@DaftDrunk24]

Well then maybe Mace survived too

[@GassedFEIN]

Personally this retcon I’ve been hoping they would do i always loved ventress and thought her character was way to cool to go out like that after the clone wars keep the book and events just make it so she doenst die

[@ykwtfgo]

It was one thing to bring back maul. But bring back sidious, boba fett, now Vintress.. it’s gone to far

[@drumsofspace]

My first thought was it was a CLONE of Asajj Ventress (especially since this show seems so much about it w/ that mountain or whatever) - but that wouldn't make sense would it?

[@Darkwintre]

It was called the Clone Wars after all!

[@trentonrestoule9318]

Bringing her back is a great idea. I dont think weve seen enough of her story. Kind of a similarity If you've only seen mauls story up to when he fights sidious and looses savage, the last thing you see is him getting electrocuted...you might think he dies but he comes back.

[@venrossx]

asajj is a night sister... so well.. they CAN come back someway or another, that's cool for me

[@chancho915]

I'm going to say it i think it is going to be unpopular. Bringing back Maul was a poor writing decision. It is now an excuse for the writers. Why did Reva survive? "Well Maul survived being cut in half." How is palpatine alive? "Well Maul used the force to survive." How did Asohka come back 3 times?"Well the force can do miraculous things. Look it kept Maul alive being cut in half." At this rate i wouldnt be surprised if Dooku came back as a talking floating head.

[@esteban20969564]

maul gave 40% of clone wars best moments... do you think George would had kill maul in episode 1 if he though he will do something else after episode III? fck no.. he killed him because at the time he didn't need him anymore... if you wanna give a good end and background to a character, are you gonna shoot yourself in the foot just because "I killed him 10 years ago when i didn't even care about it"? or you just bring him back and develop that character and give him or her a proper progression and end??

[@Minicheche250]

i wouldnt even be mad

[@bigdoubleu117]

Asajj Ventress in all media: Pass Asajj Ventress from that thumbnail: Smash

[@rsmith627]

Bet it’s just a flashback.

[@someguy34hnt]

Yup, told by Vos or something. I'd like it to be a flashback

[@cappella264]

I see people complain about her being resurrected and that it would be bad but they resurrected Darth Maul and everyone loved that, I personally think Asajj Ventress wasn’t used enough, She is one of my favourite siths with such a cool lightsaber design and I’m so excited to see more

[@victorsardinia7120]

I was just about to read dark disciple and now I'm worried it's non Canon

[@thelastquincy1457]

Well u just got spoiled for it.

[@mertc8050]

Its cannon but they might have added a few things to the ending. her surviving part specifacly.

[@67thCloneSquadron]

Don't be such a baby read something because you think it's cool not because it's canon. 😂

[@thecraigs6788]

I always loved Asajj and was sad when her story ended off screen in the book, so I'm excited for any additional stories even if its just flashbacks.

[@TERMICOBRA]

In the canon novel Dark Disciple Ventress was lowered into the Water of Life on Dathomir. One of the canon attributes of the Water of Life is it resurrects the dead AND heals the wound that killed the person. Wookieepedia has an article on the Water of Life with the sources on its attributes. They didn't retcon her death nor does it go against canon.

[@hh-dm6cp]

I’m that case it just makes the Night Sisters retarded for not resurrecting their fallen sisters in the water every time one dies. No matter how you cut it, this is bad no matter how you cut it.

[@bramvanworkum]

I like your content. Mainly because your optimism, like starwars characters, wont stay dead

[@amarcellus1714]

So Reva survives a lightsaber to the abdomen twice, Sabine survives, Ventress survives Force Lightning, but poor Qui-Gon stays dead and Luke and Leia overdose on the Force.

[@russianinvader3207]

Light Side sucks.

[@ShiningWolf88]

After maul somehow being alive I can believe anyone coming back except Dooku who had his head cut off

[@hh-dm6cp]

Just you wait! Robocop Dooku is on his way with a new and improved head!

[@thomasperci1954]

Don’t forget Vos and Kenobi rested her corpse in a pool of green water in Dathomir and Vos said he heard the spirits of the Nightsisters chanting “sister”. So this could be some type of SW Lazarus pit

[@violetthornton5574]

Death being pointless in Star Wars as of recent is kinda annoying but assajj being resurrected is actually somewhat probable and she’s an amazing character. Can’t wait to see more of her.

[@Endymion.]

Good to see one of your videos it’s been a while since I stoped by :) good luck have a good year!

[@CujoHyer]

They're just using her to make her another Disney Girl Boss character. She has some fan support, so she's just another tool to turn in to their Lady Boss agenda. They don't care about the previous stories.

[@jasonareman]

They should do Dark Desciple in Tales of the Jedi. Her story was pretty interesting in Clone Wars.

[@cameronhermann9400]

Maybe she pulled a Palpatine, transferred her essence into a clone body that “somehow” existed, or someone else transferred her essence. I don’t know just trying to make some sense of it 😊

[@betterlatethannever4529]

I can only hope not

[@riddick729]

They have, as of late, been changing the lore from the books. As much as I loved the Tales of the jedi shorts about Dooku, they changed the lore from what was established in the book Dooku, jedi lost. I do not mind them bringing her back. The book was supposed to be clone wars episodes that got cut. It was Katie Lucas, yes we that Lucas, who wrote and was going to direct the episodes. I hope this deviation turns into a live action appearance. I agree, there is a lack of focus on strong female star wars characters and see Ventress back is a step in the right direction.

[@ameenah78]

It says Vos took part in Nightsister rituals. Perhaps he's the one who healed Ventresss (off book) and maybe kept this fact/her hidden while she fully recovered 🤷‍♂️

[@callibor3119]

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[@chasepeterson1696]

I love Asajj. She's such a cool character. There is so much they can do with her. She's a nightsister. She was trained by one of the best lightsaber duelist to ever live. She kind of has that Revan light side/dark side thing goign on where she sort of appreciates aspects from both. And just her personality is really cool. Even her voice is great. I really loved her character arc in clone wars and am really excited to see her again in bad batch!

[@jester_to_lords]

Dark disciple was one of my favorite SW books so I would really like it to be flashbacks so that the story is preserved as much as possible

[@hh-dm6cp]

Well it’s not because they don’t give a shit about the book or consistency or even the concept of how resurrecting a character without any long term consequences can highly damage emotional investment or the stake’s established by the universe.

[@darthshard8967]

If they butchered my favourite things that were Canon then its basically your turn to suffer, im sorry your hope is misplaced, if they have butchered many Canon comics than yours favourite one is about to get the same treatment

[@firenze6478]

Just woke up and almost thought I heard you say that Reba sucks before I looked at the screen and saw Reva and breathed a sigh of relief

[@blackfang377]

Of course it is not a flash back The Dark Disciple takes place during the Clone wars right?!? Since Bad Batch takes place after the Clone wars....

[@assassinscreedislife7636]

Like you said, if people who get CUT IN HALF and stabbed survive (sorry Qui gonn) then why couldn’t Ventress live? I had mixed feelings about her actually dying in the book. She’s always been one of my favorite characters from the show. Both versions of it, and I could listen to her voice all day 🥵. I hope she’s back for good, and I’d love to see something else with her and Quinlan later on, or even something with her meeting Merrin between Fallen Order and Survivor. Ventress was the reason Grievous massacred the Nightsisters leaving Merrin by herself when she was just a little girl, so that would be interesting to see them interact. My love for this well rounded character knows no bounds, so im definitely excited

[@bindair_dundat]

Somehow Ventress returned. As much as I loved her in Clone Wars, I have no faith in Disney handling her well.

[@kasperwozowicz]

"Somehow Ventre returned..." *surprised Dokoo that somehow returned*

[@JaYxNuT]

I love the Idea that Night Sister Magicks brought her back, thinking they have a representative of darkness and she turns out to be a representative of independence, a Yin to Ashoka's Yang. Then it can later tie into what the Witches and Thrawn are doing on Dathomir.

[@Tyrosine0910]

No

[@JaYxNuT]

No, what? What a fatuous reply. Very succinct.

[@imdoobie80]

I found something interesting about Maul getting cut in half. I might be wrong but he may not be the first person to cut in half and survive. There is a character in Star Wars Dark Forces game that survived and you have to fight him in the game.

[@Gor85]

I like this. It's nice to see Ventress again.She's really cool character. I agree with everything you said.It's really nice to see her. Have some day too. May the Force be with you too😀

[@RonHammers]

Her death was great, but she had me again when she said, "But, I've got a few lives left." Probably Force Magic, but I love that they left it mysterious.

[@jedsithor]

Lucas viewed all the novels, comics, games etc as being completely separate to his story. They were basically licensed fan fiction (not a knock on fan fiction or the EU by the way, there are EU stories and fan fics I love). When Disney took over and said that everything they make, in whatever medium, would be canon and would line up properly, I was skeptical because I knew that the moment some big shot director wanted to tell a story that didn't vibe with established canon from a book they've never read, there would need to be some kind of retcon with a new novel or comic being written to explain discrepancies because the movie or TV show is always going to take precedence. This happened all the time during the prequel era, authors were having to jump through hoops because George would do something in the movies that didn't match a particular novel (Zahn's concept of the Clone Wars in Heir To The Empire being the perfect example). It's even happened in the Disney era to an extent. The entire post-ROTJ era of novels and shows have been trying to cover for JJ's bad ideas in Force Awakens to explain why the New Republic was a colossal failure and why the heroics of the OT heroes proved meaningless, all because Abrams doesn't have an original thought in his head and wanted stormtroopers in his movie. So I guess Filoni wanted to use Ventress in Bad Batch and now the story group has been tasked with a way of making that work. There will probably be some tie-in comic or novel to explain why she survived. This kind of thing is also very common in DC and Marvel comics. In any case, I don't think Ventress should have been killed in a book and since I view the entire Disney era as fan fiction anyway, I've no problem with bringing her back.

[@Prawjjek]

I hope with the nightsisters being more prominent in Jedi II and in Ahsoka, that it’ll be some form of night sister magic that revives her or heals her

[@kevinx7015]

I am wondering if the Ventress shown in the Bad Batch trailer is not the original Ventress, but is instead a clone. After all, season two ended on Mount Tantis on Wayland like in the original Thrawn trilogy. After all, a brief scene of Ventress showing off her force abilities for a brief moment doesn’t mean that she would not be a clone that eventually turns unstable like Jorus C baouth or an unstable Palpatine clone.