History Recap / StarWarsTheBadBatchS1E4Cornered

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* AntiVillain: Our first time seeing Fennec do actual wrong and her level of care and for Omega's wellbeing conspicuously exceeds that of someone ensuring their bounty is delivered undamaged. Highlights include telling Omega to "Tuck and roll" when most villains would have simply dropped her without warning. Then again, she displays no such scruples when tossing a man to his death in order to steal his speeder.
* BaitAndSwitch: When the dock master is cornered by Fennec, she appears to be going in for the kill. Though angry about losing her target, she instead pays him for his services.

* CallForward: The Bad Batch gets pursued by Fennec Shand, an infamous bounty hunter with a major role in post-Galactic Civil War shows, ''Series/TheMandalorian'', and ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'', taking place over twenty years after ''The Bad Batch''.

** The doll Omega picks up in the antique shop looks like a clone trooper version of the Stormtrooper doll owned by Jyn Erso in the opening scene of Rogue One.

** The Batch have also spent their whole lives being soldiers or training to be soldiers, so they have next to no experience functioning in civilian society, as demonstrated by Hunter's attempt to sell a high end military explosive to a random vendor in a Pantoran market.

* PapaWolf: The entirety of the Bad Batch become this when Omega goes missing, with Hunter chasing her down, Wrecker going out in search of her, Tech hacking into the city's security and Echo dropping what he's doing to come help.

* WantedPoster: Omega has a bounty on her head, ostensibly from the Kaminoans as hinted at in the previous episode.

* CallForward: The Bad Batch gets pursued by Fennec Shand, an infamous bounty hunter with a major role in post-Galactic Civil War shows, ''Series/TheMandalorian'', and ''The Book of Boba Fett'', taking place over twenty years after ''The Bad Batch''.

** Hunter tries to sell some high end explosives to a vendor on Pantora, only to be told in no uncertain terms that what he is selling is worthless to a legitimate trader and he needs to find a black market.

* AdultFear: Hunter turns around after selling his "droid" to see that Omega has wandered off all alone in a strange city, then discovers her being kidnapped by a stranger with hostile intent.

* CurbStompBattle: Fennec takes out Wrecker within a few seconds of him picking a fight with her. She exploits his berserker tendencies and uses them to redirect him into a wall, and as such his momentum knocks him out.

** Similarly, the episode shows Imperial credits being established (and Imperial outposts demand people to exchange their currency for it). As established in the very first episode of ''Series/TheMandalorian'' (which Fennec Shand debuts in), this same currency will be devalued in the immediate aftermath of the Empire's fall.

* [[UnflinchingWalk Unflinching Landing]]: Fennec doesn't think for a second about the shuttle she was just driving exploding to the ground mere feet in front of her, eyes laser focused on her quarry as they fly past.

* TheWorfEffect: Hunter and Wrecker have been established in previous episodes to be very capable one-on-one fighters. Their encounter with Fennec, a bounty hunter they have never encountered before, leaves Hunter struggling significantly to rescue Omega and stay alive, while Wrecker is very easily knocked out.

* YouHaveFailedMe: Subverted. The dock master is very clearly pissing himself when Fennec approaches him after the botched kidnapping and expects to be off, but Fennec simply pays him and tells him to continue keeping an eye out. It helps that he did pretty much everything he was paid to do; the failure to overpower the Bad Batch and capture Omega rests solely with Fennec, and his panicked explanation that he couldn't stop them is entirely reasonable after she spooked them.

** Voorpaks steal Lula from Omega. In canon, they were officially introduced and prominently featured in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsResistance'' as Buggles, Torra's pet.

* TheWorfEffect: Hunter and Wrecker have been established in previous episodes to be very capable one-on-one fighters. Their encounter with Fennec, a bounty hunter they have never encountered before, leaves Hunter struggling significantly to rescue Omega and stay alive (while Wrecker is very easily knocked out).

** The Bad Batch are effectively a five man army when it comes to legions of droids, but they have next to no experience with living, thinking opponents. As such, Fennec is able to get the better of both of them with quick thinking, despite both being physically stronger than she is.
** They have also spent their whole lives being soldiers or training to be soldiers, so they have next to no experience functioning in civilian society, as demonstrated by Hunter's attempt to sell a high end military explosive to a random vendor in a Pantoran market.

* CallForward: The Bad Batch gets pursued by Fennec Shand, an infamous bounty hunter with a major role in post-Galactic Civil War shows ''Series/TheMandalorian'' and the upcoming ''The Book of Boba Fett'', taking place over twenty years after ''The Bad Batch''.