Last year during Star Wars Celebration, we got word that Disney+'s acclaimed Star Wars animated series, The Bad Batch, would return for a third and final season, and we now have a trailer and an official premiere date.
The surviving members of Clone Force 99 will return for one last fight on February 21.
“I can say that the story's not over," the show's writer, Jennifer Corbett, confirmed during the SWC panel. "The Bad Batch will be back for a third and final season."
Spoilers for the season 2 finale follow.
The second season of The Bad Batch concluded with the loss of one of the team, Tech, who sacrificed himself in order to allow the rest of the squad to escape. Though his death did appear to be pretty definitive, some fans are hopeful that he may have survived his fall.
However, based on what was said during Celebration, we'd say Tech's days are well and truly numbered!
"I had no idea -- not even an inkling! -- that we were going to lose one of the Batch. And definitely not Tech!" Omega voice actor Michelle Ang said during the panel. "If anything, it felt like they were building Tech up to be the new primary relationship."
Tech may not be coming back, but the team has hardly any time to mourn their fallen comrade as they mount a mission to rescue Omega from the clutches of The Emperor, who managed to capture the youngster in the season 2 finale.
The teaser shows our heroes engaging The Empire in combat, and also gives us a first glimpse of fan-favorite Dathomirian Dark-Side assassin Asajj Ventress, who looks quite a bit different to the last time we saw her in The Clone Wars.
Check out the trailer and poster below.
"Clone Force 99, also known as the Bad Batch—a group of elite clone troopers with genetic mutations that were first introduced in Star Wars: The Clone Wars.[2] Unlike the majority of the clone army, these mutations allow most of the Bad Batch to resist the influence of Order 66, which turned their brethren into brutal and blindly obedient slaves of Emperor Palpatine. In doing so, they become fugitives of the Galactic Empire, relegated to take on daring mercenary missions in the aftermath of the Clone Wars.[2] Meanwhile, Admiral Wilhuff Tarkin begins phasing out the use of clones within the Imperial military in favor of regular humans."