Cad Bane
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Cad Bane is a fictional character
and antagonist
in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV series
created by Dave Filoni
and Henry Gilroy
. In the series he is portrayed as a cold and manipulative bounty hunter
from the planet Duro.
. Cad Bane is voiced by Corey Burton
. The director of "Hostage Crisis" Giancarlo Volpe
compared Cad Bane to another Star Wars
bountyhunter Boba Fett
stating,
Originally, supervising director Dave Filoni
and series writer Henry Gilroy
planned to create a bounty hunter called Durge, a character that was already introduced in the 2003 Clone Wars comics and animated series. Instead Durge would then be redesigned as a human character, but this exploration was short lived after the suggestion of series producer and Star Wars
creator George Lucas
to go Western
. Lucas took inspiration from the film actor such as Lee Van Cleef
's portrayal of Angel Eyes in The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly and of Colonel Mortimer in For a Few Dollars More
while Burton uses the actor's Peter Lorre
's voice as inspiration. These character's Western
influences to bring the character to life while still containing the features of the Duros species in the Star Wars universe with his own original characterization. Burton's voice would then be modified on the computer by the series' sound production team. While Filoni researched the character Bane, he happened to come across an unlabeled concept art from the original Star Wars trilogy of a gun-toting bounty hunter with a wide-brimmed hat and that concept helped bring the character to life.
also happen to be, cutting off all communications, and makes his demands to the Chancellor
. The episode "Evil Plans" tells the backstory of this incident; Bane abducts C-3PO
and R2-D2
and downloads the schematics for the Senate building. In "Hunt for Ziro", after breaking Ziro out of jail, the Hutts once again hire Bane, but this time to assassinate Ziro, who escaped punishment from the Hutt Council. After he fails to assassinate Ziro before someone else does the deed, he confronts Obi-Wan Kenobi
and Quinlan Vos on the planet Teth.
In "Holocron Heist", Bane is contacted by Darth Sidious
for a special assignment: the capture of a Holocron from inside the Jedi Temple. In "Cargo Of Doom", he finds himself in a massive struggle for the stolen Holocron, as Jedi Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano attempt to take it back. He is briefly captured in "Children of the Force" before leading Obi-Wan Kenobi and Mace Windu
into a trap in his headquarters, allowing him to escape.
toys concerning himself, his blaster and his ship respectively, as well as one involving him merged with his ship in a crossover for Transformers
. Both Cad Bane and his speeder were included as part of the Lego Star Wars
toy line.
In 2009 UGO Networks ran a feature on Cad Bane, noting his cool looks and calling him "quintessentially cold, cruel and calculating". IGN
listed him as the 31st top Star Wars character, praising his first impression and saying his creators succeeded in introducing "an inarguably cool and effective villain". IGN also noted he "continued to be an excellent foil" to the main protagonists in his later appearances. IGN's Eric Goldman said that Bane was a successful attempt at creating a new ongoing villain, and later called him a "very cool and effective new villain". Goldman also called Bane's introduction and his torture of Bolla Ropal (a Jedi) two of The Clone Warss most darkest moments, adding that Bane lived up to the hype that surrounded him in his introduction. Christian Bauvelt, writing for Entertainment Weekly
's PopWatch, said that one of the three top reasons the "Evil Plans" episode worked for him was because Cad Bane appeared in it, and noted Bane's similarities to Angel Eyes from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
.
Character (arts)
A character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...
and antagonist
Antagonist
An antagonist is a character, group of characters, or institution, that represents the opposition against which the protagonist must contend...
in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV series
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 TV series)
-Production:At April 2005's Star Wars Celebration III, Lucas stated that "we are working on a 3-D continuation of the pilot series that was on the Cartoon Network; we probably won't start that project for another year." In July 2005, pre-production had begun on the series, according to Steve...
created by Dave Filoni
Dave Filoni
Dave Filoni is an American film director, writer, and animator. He's most known for his work on Avatar: The Last Airbender and Star Wars: The Clone Wars.-Early life:...
and Henry Gilroy
Henry Gilroy
Henry Gilroy is an American television screenwriter and producer. He is best known for co-writing the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. From an early age, Gilroy loved comic books and animation. He studied film at several colleges in the greater Los Angeles area. His first job was...
. In the series he is portrayed as a cold and manipulative bounty hunter
Bounty hunter
A bounty hunter captures fugitives for a monetary reward . Other names, mainly used in the United States, include bail enforcement agent and fugitive recovery agent.-Laws in the U.S.:...
from the planet Duro.
Concept and creation
The character was created for the 2008 Star Wars: The Clone Wars television seriesStar Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 TV series)
-Production:At April 2005's Star Wars Celebration III, Lucas stated that "we are working on a 3-D continuation of the pilot series that was on the Cartoon Network; we probably won't start that project for another year." In July 2005, pre-production had begun on the series, according to Steve...
. Cad Bane is voiced by Corey Burton
Corey Burton
Corey Burton is an American voice actor, perhaps best known as Count Dooku, Ziro the Hutt and Cad Bane in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Brainiac in the DC animated universe and Spike Witwicky and Shockwave in the Transformers universe...
. The director of "Hostage Crisis" Giancarlo Volpe
Giancarlo Volpe
Giancarlo Volpe is an Italian American animator, director, and producer.Giancarlo is currently producing the CG television show, "Green Lantern: The Animated Series" working with animation legend Bruce Timm....
compared Cad Bane to another Star Wars
Star Wars
Star Wars is an American epic space opera film series created by George Lucas. The first film in the series was originally released on May 25, 1977, under the title Star Wars, by 20th Century Fox, and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, followed by two sequels, released at three-year...
bountyhunter Boba Fett
Boba Fett
Boba Fett is a character in Star Wars. A bounty hunter hired by Darth Vader to find the Millennium Falcon, he is a minor villain in both Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi....
stating,
Originally, supervising director Dave Filoni
Dave Filoni
Dave Filoni is an American film director, writer, and animator. He's most known for his work on Avatar: The Last Airbender and Star Wars: The Clone Wars.-Early life:...
and series writer Henry Gilroy
Henry Gilroy
Henry Gilroy is an American television screenwriter and producer. He is best known for co-writing the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. From an early age, Gilroy loved comic books and animation. He studied film at several colleges in the greater Los Angeles area. His first job was...
planned to create a bounty hunter called Durge, a character that was already introduced in the 2003 Clone Wars comics and animated series. Instead Durge would then be redesigned as a human character, but this exploration was short lived after the suggestion of series producer and Star Wars
Star Wars
Star Wars is an American epic space opera film series created by George Lucas. The first film in the series was originally released on May 25, 1977, under the title Star Wars, by 20th Century Fox, and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, followed by two sequels, released at three-year...
creator George Lucas
George Lucas
George Walton Lucas, Jr. is an American film producer, screenwriter, and director, and entrepreneur. He is the founder, chairman and chief executive of Lucasfilm. He is best known as the creator of the space opera franchise Star Wars and the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones...
to go Western
Western (genre)
The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...
. Lucas took inspiration from the film actor such as Lee Van Cleef
Lee Van Cleef
Lee Van Cleef was an American film actor who appeared mostly in Western and action pictures. His sharp features and piercing eyes led to his being cast as a villain in scores of films such as High Noon, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The Good The Bad and the Ugly.-Early life:Van Cleef was...
's portrayal of Angel Eyes in The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly and of Colonel Mortimer in For a Few Dollars More
For a Few Dollars More
For a Few Dollars More is a 1965 Italian spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Gian Maria Volonté. German actor Klaus Kinski also plays a supporting role as a secondary villain...
while Burton uses the actor's Peter Lorre
Peter Lorre
Peter Lorre was an Austrian-American actor frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner.He caused an international sensation in 1931 with his portrayal of a serial killer who preys on little girls in the German film M...
's voice as inspiration. These character's Western
American Old West
The American Old West, or the Wild West, comprises the history, geography, people, lore, and cultural expression of life in the Western United States, most often referring to the latter half of the 19th century, between the American Civil War and the end of the century...
influences to bring the character to life while still containing the features of the Duros species in the Star Wars universe with his own original characterization. Burton's voice would then be modified on the computer by the series' sound production team. While Filoni researched the character Bane, he happened to come across an unlabeled concept art from the original Star Wars trilogy of a gun-toting bounty hunter with a wide-brimmed hat and that concept helped bring the character to life.
In The Clone Wars
In his first appearance in "Hostage Crisis", Bane, along with his posse of bounty hunters, are hired by the Hutts to free Ziro the Hutt in a Coruscant prison. The bounty hunters march into the Senate building, rd barracks, eliminating the security of the Senate. Bane then takes a group of Senators hostage in the east wing where Anakin Skywalker and Padmé AmidalaPadmé Amidala
Padmé Amidala is a fictional character in the Star Wars science fiction franchise. She first appeared on film in the 1999 feature film, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, as the young queen of the planet Naboo. In subsequent prequel trilogy films, Padmé represents Naboo in the Galactic Senate...
also happen to be, cutting off all communications, and makes his demands to the Chancellor
Palpatine
Palpatine is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the Star Wars saga, portrayed by Ian McDiarmid in the feature films.Palpatine first appeared as the unnamed Emperor of the Galactic Empire in the 1980 film Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back...
. The episode "Evil Plans" tells the backstory of this incident; Bane abducts C-3PO
C-3PO
C-3PO is a robot character from the Star Wars universe who appears in both the original Star Wars films and the prequel trilogy. He is also a major character in the television show Droids, and appears frequently in the series' "Expanded Universe" of novels, comic books, and video games...
and R2-D2
R2-D2
R2-D2 , is a character in the Star Wars universe. An astromech droid, R2-D2 is a major character throughout all six Star Wars films. Along with his droid companion C-3PO, he joins or supports Anakin Skywalker, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, and Obi-Wan Kenobi in various points in the saga...
and downloads the schematics for the Senate building. In "Hunt for Ziro", after breaking Ziro out of jail, the Hutts once again hire Bane, but this time to assassinate Ziro, who escaped punishment from the Hutt Council. After he fails to assassinate Ziro before someone else does the deed, he confronts Obi-Wan Kenobi
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Obi-Wan Kenobi is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe. He is one of several primary characters in the Star Wars series. Along with Darth Vader, R2-D2, and C-3PO, he is one of the few major characters to appear in all six Star Wars films...
and Quinlan Vos on the planet Teth.
In "Holocron Heist", Bane is contacted by Darth Sidious
Palpatine
Palpatine is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the Star Wars saga, portrayed by Ian McDiarmid in the feature films.Palpatine first appeared as the unnamed Emperor of the Galactic Empire in the 1980 film Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back...
for a special assignment: the capture of a Holocron from inside the Jedi Temple. In "Cargo Of Doom", he finds himself in a massive struggle for the stolen Holocron, as Jedi Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano attempt to take it back. He is briefly captured in "Children of the Force" before leading Obi-Wan Kenobi and Mace Windu
Mace Windu
Mace Windu is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe, most famously portrayed by actor Samuel L. Jackson in the prequel films. However, Windu has also been voiced by other actors in assorted video game and animated projects....
into a trap in his headquarters, allowing him to escape.
Promotion and reception
Cad Bane has been featured in two HasbroHasbro
Hasbro is a multinational toy and boardgame company from the United States of America. It is one of the largest toy makers in the world. The corporate headquarters is located in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States...
toys concerning himself, his blaster and his ship respectively, as well as one involving him merged with his ship in a crossover for Transformers
Transformers
A transformer is a device that transfers electrical energy from one circuit to another by magnetic coupling.Transformer may also refer to:* ASUS Eee Pad Transformer, an Android 3.2 Honeycomb tablet computer manufacturer by Asus...
. Both Cad Bane and his speeder were included as part of the Lego Star Wars
Lego Star Wars
Lego Star Wars is a Lego theme that incorporates the Star Wars saga. The first Lego Star Wars, released in 1999, included model 7140, the first Lego X-Wing. Star Wars was the first intellectual property to be licensed in Lego Group history . The first few sets based on the original trilogy were...
toy line.
In 2009 UGO Networks ran a feature on Cad Bane, noting his cool looks and calling him "quintessentially cold, cruel and calculating". IGN
IGN
IGN is an entertainment website that focuses on video games, films, music and other media. IGN's main website comprises several specialty sites or "channels", each occupying a subdomain and covering a specific area of entertainment...
listed him as the 31st top Star Wars character, praising his first impression and saying his creators succeeded in introducing "an inarguably cool and effective villain". IGN also noted he "continued to be an excellent foil" to the main protagonists in his later appearances. IGN's Eric Goldman said that Bane was a successful attempt at creating a new ongoing villain, and later called him a "very cool and effective new villain". Goldman also called Bane's introduction and his torture of Bolla Ropal (a Jedi) two of The Clone Warss most darkest moments, adding that Bane lived up to the hype that surrounded him in his introduction. Christian Bauvelt, writing for Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by the Time division of Time Warner, that covers film, television, music, broadway theatre, books and popular culture...
's PopWatch, said that one of the three top reasons the "Evil Plans" episode worked for him was because Cad Bane appeared in it, and noted Bane's similarities to Angel Eyes from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a 1966 Italian epic spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach in the title roles. The screenplay was written by Age & Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni and Leone, based on a story by Vincenzoni and Leone...
.