The Bad Batch Secretly Revealed Its Ending 3 Years Ago, In A Scene We All Forgot

Summary The Bad Batch's ending was teased years ago, creating anticipation among fans for the finale and reveals of Clone Force 99's fate.

Season 1, episode 12 foreshadowed Omega joining the Rebel Alliance via the words of Hera Syndulla's mother.

Omega's build-up to fighting against the Empire, and the Batch's peaceful life, was foreshadowed since the beginning of The Bad Batch series.

Star Wars: The Bad Batch's ending was teased three years ago in a scene most will have forgotten about. The announcement that Star Wars: The Bad Batch season 3 would be the show's last caused a great deal of anticipation surrounding its finale. As such, The Bad Batch season 3's ending became one of the bigger events of the Star Wars franchise when it aired, primarily due to the reveals of what fate befell Clone Force 99.

Other reveals from the finale included the ties between The Bad Batch's Wayland and The Mandalorian, setting up the New Republic era being explored in the latter show among others like Ahsoka. With these revelations, and the reveal that all members of Clone Force 99 survived, many were eager to see what the characters' Star Wars future would look like. Concerning Omega, this was revealed in The Bad Batch season 3's epilogue. While this scene came as a surprise, it was secretly teased by the show three years ago.

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Omega Joining The Rebellion Was Foreshadowed In Season 1

Omega's Post-Bad Batch Future Was Teased Thanks To Hera Syndulla's Mother

Star Wars: The Bad Batch season 3's epilogue takes place an unspecified amount of time after the titular crew escaped from Mount Tantiss in the finale. Context clues place it at some point during the original trilogy, with Omega now an adult and Hunter an aged clone. Omega is shown leaving the safe planet of Pabu to join the Rebel Alliance as the freedom fighters are searching for pilots in the battle against the Empire. While this scene came as a big surprise, it was teased in Star Wars: The Bad Batch season 1, episode 12.

This episode saw the Batch encounter a young Hera Syndulla on the planet of Ryloth. Omega and Hera strike up a friendship, while Hunter and the other clones ally with Hera's parents. In one scene, Hera's mother - Eleni Syndulla - tells Hunter that the battle against the Empire will not be fought by them, but by Omega and Hera's generation. This teases Omega joining the Rebellion decades later, with The Bad Batch’s epilogue showing Omega telling Hunter that fighting the Empire is something she has to do.

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Omega's Ending, & Clone Force 99's, Was Set From The Very Beginning

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While the epilogue came as a surprise to many, Star Wars: The Bad Batch has teased this ending for Clone Force 99 since the beginning. Concerning the other members of the crew - Hunter, Wrecker, and Crosshair - a large portion of their stories in The Bad Batch's three seasons surrounded their troubles in being involved in potentially another war. Hunter and Wrecker have longed for a place to raise Omega in peace, away from the endless fighting of the galaxy, while Crosshair struggled with the ways of the Empire and the fight the tyrannical organization laid out for him.

Regarding Omega, her quarrels with the Empire have long been ingrained into The Bad Batch...

Even Echo's journey with Rex that may be explored in upcoming Star Wars TV shows fits his character arc in the show as he took on a much more active role against the Empire. Regarding Omega, her quarrels with the Empire have long been ingrained into The Bad Batch. From the Empire's targeting of her to the destruction of her home on Kamino, Omega's desire to fight the Empire was foreshadowed. This makes her ending in Star Wars: The Bad Batch one that has been set from the start, as evidenced by the events on Ryloth in season 1.