He is also slated to appear in the Bad Batch series which is currently ongoing. Throughout that series, on through Star Wars: Rebels, and in various spin-off material, fans have experienced the near entirety of Rex's journey. Rex became a fan favorite, a novel addition to the overall franchise which fans seemed to respond to well, so his appearance in the follow-up series of the same name was inevitable.
Released in 2008, The Clone Wars animated film introduced Captain Rex, a clone trooper who leads a legion of his fellows into battle valiantly. Perhaps more bizarrely, some clone troopers began to graduate from faceless infantry to full characters. These clone troopers are often presented as more competent than their later iterations, no longer relegated to the role of henchmen, they mow down droids, then defeat the Jedi with sheer numbers. The prequel trilogy establishes their origin as clones of Jango Fett who originally served the Republic honorably, turned against the Jedi by the machinations of Chancellor Palpatine. This stands out as the high point of their effectiveness in the original trilogy, as they spend most of the films being quickly dispatched by the main cast, both comical in their inadequacy and literally faceless. Each one that falls in this opening battle is quickly replaced fourfold, the door explodes and the army seems to encroach like a flood. In their first appearance, they overwhelm a group of rebel soldiers, taking many prisoners along with Princess Leia. The stormtroopers began as the infantry force under the empire in the original trilogy, presented as a uniform army of one-dimensional minions invading planets, attacking rebel bases, and being soundly defeated by the primitive Ewoks.
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It is a common gag in the Star Wars fandom to point out the inability of stormtroopers to hit a target with their blasters, often opening fire on targets who then easily outmaneuver them and cut them down. Over the course of the long-running franchise, often within moments of each other, the presentation of the blaster-toting henchmen varies wildly between threatening and comical as well as between faceless fodder and sympathetic main character. Introduced in the original 1977 Star Wars, depicted in hundreds of hours of content, and ubiquitous in merchandise, stormtroopers are inarguably iconic.
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