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  • Acting for Two:
    • Once again, Dee Bradley Baker plays every single Clone Trooper including the titular squad, barring Omega and Emerie Karr.
    • Once again, Matthew Wood plays most of the battle droids.
    • Liam O'Brien plays Bolo, Raney, a tactical droid, a scrapper, a member of the Pykes and one of the Zygerrian slavers.
    • Sam Riegel plays Ketch as well as some background characters.
  • Cast the Runner-Up: Michelle Ang lost an audition for The Last Jedi prior to landing the role of Omega.
  • Creator Backlash: Freddie Prinze Jr. admitted that he wasn't very enthusiastic about cameoing as Caleb Dume in this series and The Rise of Skywalker, feeling that any instance of hearing the character's voice after Rebels diluted the impact of how the show ended. He only did the cameos as a favor as well as appearing in a photo for Ahsoka, and has further clarified that he won't be returning to the role of Kanan/Caleb again in the future.
  • Creator's Favorite: Dee Bradley Baker admits his favorite clone in the Bad Batch is Wrecker.
  • Dawson Casting:
    • Ming-Na Wen reprises her role of Fennec Shand about three decades younger than her appearance in The Mandalorian. A perfectly justified case given when Wen herself was about 20 years younger than when The Mandalorian premiered, she still sounded like Fennec.
    • Rather more jarring is Freddie Prinze Jr. as a teenage Caleb Dume, using his same deep voice from playing Caleb/Kanan Jarrus as an adult.
    • Vanessa Marshall also returns as a teenage Hera, though she does a much more convincing job at sounding younger (and the Twi'lek accent helps).
  • Development Gag: In The Clone Wars episode "A Distant Echo", a cut line from Crosshair was remarking that Echo probably betrayed the Republic because he was left behind, because "if I were left behind, I would not be so loyal.", which was replaced with him being dismissive of Echo because he's a reg. Guess what happens to Crosshair in Season 1.
  • Flip-Flop of God: A clone commando with Delta Squad member Scorch's armor paint appears in the episode "War-Mantle" which led to many people to assume it was him (with the Wookieepedia article downright saying it's him). However, people in the production have refused to confirm if it's him or just a clone using similar markings as a nod to the Star Wars: Republic Commando videogame. Eventually, "Metamorphosis" confirmed it was indeed him.
  • Meaningful Release Date:
    • The reveal trailer, the sizzle reel, was released for Disney's 2020 Investors' Day, which happened a week after the airing of The Mandalorian Chapter 14, which revealed Fennec Shand's survival. Fennec appeared in the sizzle reel to capitalize on her return. It also happened a few weeks before it was confirmed that Fennec would also play a role in another Disney Plus series, The Book of Boba Fett.
    • The show's premiere is on May 4th, 2021, a year after the release of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars finale. May 4th is also popularly known as Star Wars Day ("May the Fourth Be With You").
  • The Original Darrin: For the first time in 9 years, since Season 5 of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Andrew Kishino reprises his role as Saw Gerrera, after the character since then being visually portrayed and voice-acted in his later years by Forest Whitaker. This is justified by the fact that this is a younger Saw.
  • The Other Darrin:
    • Dee Bradley Baker voices Scorch in "Metamorphosis" rather than Raphael Sbarge, who voiced him in Star Wars: Republic Commando. This marks the second of the Delta's that Baker voiced, after having done the same for Boss in The Clone Wars episode "Witches of the Mist".
    • In the French dub, the first season was the last turn of Georges Claisse as Palpatine — he had voiced him since The Phantom Menace and passed away in 2021. Edgar Givry replaced him from season 2 onwards.
  • Production Lead Time: Concept art for the first episode dates back to 2019, a year before The Clone Wars Season 7 was even released. A major upside to this is that they were able to get one last appearance by Tom Kane before his voice was destroyed by a stroke.
  • Production Posse: As usual, the crew comprises of various Star Wars animation alumni, with director Brad Rau of The Clone Wars and Rebels as supervising director and writer Jennifer Corbett of Resistance as co-developer and head screenwriter.
  • Refitted for Sequel:
    • Depa's model and lightsaber were modified from her models originally intended for the Crystal Crisis on Utapau arc meant for the original version of The Clone Wars Season 7. Depa was meant to be the murdered Jedi that led to Anakin and Obi-Wan investigating her death at the arc's beginning, only to be replaced by the newly created Tu-Anh. Additionally, her model sheets also show that her lightsaber was always blue back then. After Depa was written out, she was changed to be Caleb/Kanan's master, and the Star Wars: Kanan comic changed her lightsaber to green before The Bad Batch retconned it back to blue as originally intended.
    • Pantora was originally visualized for the Ventress and Quinlan Vos arc in The Clone Wars Seasons 7 and 8, only for the show to be cancelled and the arc being told as a novel.
    • Ord Mantell's assets were meant to be used for the Darth Maul: Son of Dathomir arc before the show's cancellation relegated the arc to comic form.
    • It was contested whether a The Clone Wars sequel show would be about either the Martez sisters or the Bad Batch before going with the latter. This is reflected in the show itself, where the Martez sisters are heroes of another story when they cross paths with the Bad Batch.
    • Had Republic Commando gotten a sequel, it would've begun with Order 66 being carried out with Delta Squad as participants before then following them in their service to the Empire. Meanwhile, Sev, who was left for dead at the end of the first game, would've been revealed to have survived and would've joined the Rebellion as one of its first soldiers. Here, not only is the premise of Season 1 the exact opposite, but Scorch also makes an appearance in "War Mantle" as a clone that followed Order 66.
    • The episode "Tribe" feels like a condensed version of a story arc cut from The Clone Wars, which would have had the Bad Batch, now with Echo as a member, accompanying Yoda to the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk, to explain his "Good relations with the Wookiees" line in Revenge of the Sith, and would have seen the crew fight native Kinraths and Trandoshans under the command of an individual named Venomor. The Wookiees would also have been seen praying to the trees before going to battle, which we actually see in the episode.
    • "Metamorphosis" follows up with the fate of Palpatine's planned cloning project for the Zillo Beast—another story that The Clone Wars would have covered had it not been cancelled.
    • The survival of Asajj Ventress was a plot point originally conceived of for Star Wars Resistance, but was scrapped.
  • Role Reprise:
    • Ming-Na Wen reprises her role as Fennec Shand from the live-action series The Mandalorian.
    • Andrew Kishino reprises his role as Saw Gerrera for the first time since season 5 of Star Wars: The Clone Wars in 2013.
    • Bob Bergen reprises his role as Lama Su for the first time since season 5 of The Clone Wars in 2014.
    • Benjamin Diskin reprises his role as AZI for the first time since season 6 of The Clone Wars in 2014.
    • Nika Futterman reprises her role as Shaeeah Lawquane, while Kath Soucie does the same as Jek Lawquane and Cara Pifko reprises her role as Suu Lawquane all over eleven years after The Clone Wars episode "The Deserter". For Season 3, Futterman will also return as Asajj Ventress.
    • Corey Burton returns as Cad Bane for the first time in nine years, as does Seth Green as Todo-360. He also reprises Gobi Glie.
    • Robin Atkin Downes as Cham for the first time since season 3 of Rebels in 2016 and Phil LaMarr as Orn Free Taa for the first time since season 3 of The Clone Wars in 2010.
    • Jennifer Hale reprises her role as Senator Ryo Chuchi in Season 2 for the first time since season 3 of The Clone Wars in 2010.
    • Ben Mendelsohn reprises his role as Director Orson Krennic from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
  • Similarly Named Works: Not to be confused with the 2017 film The Bad Batch, which has nothing to do with Star Wars whatsoever.
  • Same Voice Their Entire Life:
    • Young Kanan and Hera are voiced by their Rebels voice actors, Freddie Prinze Jr and Vanessa Marshall.
    • The adult Omega from the epilogue is still voiced by Michelle Ang.
  • Spoiled by the Merchandise: Crosshair's Face–Heel Turn from the first episode was spoiled by the character's Black Series action figure bio.
  • Those Two Actors:
  • Voices in One Room: Dee Bradley Baker and Michelle Ang recorded their lines for the series premiere together.
  • What Could Have Been:
    • While making the final season of The Clone Wars, Dave Filoni hadn't yet decided what the next series would be, and so devoted two four-episode arcs to sets of new characters who could be series leads. When the Bad Batch ended up getting picked for a full series, the other arc's main characters, the Martez sisters, made a guest appearance, giving a taste of what their show could have been like (and leaving the door open for more).
    • According to an early version of his Black Series' boxing, Howzer was originally named Ballast.
    • According to Omega's actress Michelle Ang, her character originally had a different ending which would've saw her set on a path that could've led her being a major player in the main canon.
  • Word of God: According to show writer Tamara Becher Wilkinson, Muchi is meant to be the rancor that Luke kills in Return of the Jedi, making it a retcon that the rancor was a male named Pateesa.
  • Working Title: The show's production name is "Cookies".
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