I love how those two death troopers were actually the ones that Ezra nonchalantly shot down in the Rebels finale when he’s entering the Chimera’s command room, and now they’re back to get revenge
if im not wrong, in Rebels, Thrawn actually has 3 death trooper on the Chimera . When the Ezra use the force to hold Thrawn on the bright, he surprisingly attacked by some stormtrooper including a death Trooper approach to the hologram room
The thing I like the most about the reanimated night troopers is shortly after their reanimated they're like most classic zombies, single minded brutes and some are slightly more competent still able to operate their blasters but with little real accuracy, after sometime being reanimated they became more coordinated and sentient as the great mothers magic is likely restoring their minds. They're magical zombies done right.
It makes me wish we got to see Mando get into a close quarters fight with a "living" Death Trooper where we could actually see him struggle with one, considering a Death Trooper and Mandalorian in hand to hand combat seem evenly matched if we count the Genetic and Cybernetic enhancements the Death Troopers are given.
Exactly. A lot of people (mostly grifters) are complaining that they aren't exactly like the death troopers from the books. (They want extreme gore on a TV 14 show) Some people even ignore that they were using blasters.
I realize that those were thrawns death troopers during rebels and if you see the finale of rebels Ezra shoot them when he confronted thrawn which means they have been zombies for a long time
It is said that imperial armor is able to absorb shots especially the death troopers one to avoid immediate death. But yeah with their decayed look seems they’ve been dead for a while.
@@viperson9818finally someone say it. JUST 👏🏻 BECAUSE 👏🏻 THEY’RE 👏🏻 SHOT 👏🏻 IT 👏🏻 DOSEN’T 👏🏻 MEAN 👏🏻 THEY’RE 👏🏻 DEAD! 👏🏻 most of the time when we see them get shot or caught in smaller explosions there incapacitated or knocked out from the blaster bolts energy. Since their armor was designed to disperse energy from blaster bolts, stun shots, and explosions, along with providing protection from shrapnel, thus why several of them can take many shots or are seeing moving on the ground after being shot or blow back from an explosion. There were only a few known blasters that could actually pierce the armor worn by stormtroopers & other Imperial military personnel, but they were often Super illegal and hard to get such as the DL-44 or any of the A Series Blaster rifles like the A180, A280, A280c, & A300 models. Also the Bowcaster such as the one Chewie had, we cannot forget that.
@@Competitive_Bid_ bro its star wars, you think disney sticks to the logic of how the armor works? if main character hits random guy then random guy is dead, which is why these guards are... you know... dead?
I find it interesting that the troopers continued to gain speed and strength the longer they went from the point of reanimation. They started sluggish and zombie-like, then started using blasters more and more, then flanking Ezra from behind, and using laser cutters to blow a door, and then RUNNING up the stairs full speed. They even stopped groaning and moaning later on, making more human like grunts, using cover, and reacting with pain when shot. i wonder if being so freshly killed, they reanimated with their minds more or less intact, just needed time to adjust. They didnt strike me as purely puppets. The Death Troopers on the other hand were long dead, and behaved like aggressive golems, but they did speak briefly during the fight with Sabine and Ezra. Really hope we get some sort of explanation for how reanimation magic works.
Seeing actual undead Death Troopers was really satisfying, since many thought all the stormtroopers we've seen before would be zombies. They're really creepy.
seeing these Death Troopers was awesome! Especially the one that was choking Sabine. Seeing the trooper with his face portion of his helmet destroyed reminded me of the Legends Novel, which had its own trailer, with the bloodied stormtrooper having it helmet destroyed, allowing us to see his face. I think a film adaptation of the original Death Troopers novel would be amazing for Halloween.
@@orionriftclan2727 A tv show in the vain of The Walking Dead, but Star Wars. Surviving on a derelict star destroyer with zombies, trying to make their way to the control room to see if they can even power the ship on to get a signal out, or get toward an inhabited system. Also running the risk of the virus spreading as well.
Thrawn was best known for his naval tactics … although unfortunate we didn’t get that in this season I’m sure we will see it in future projects. Also , even though we didn’t see his full tactical genius we saw glimpses it.He didn’t underestimate Jedi and the force and unlike most imperial officers we see he did not fully commit his forces just to destroy his enemies, his primary goal was to escape and he did so in such a way that he loses minimal resources. In conclusion, he went up against 2 jedi ( 3 of we count Sabine ) and stranded 2 of them while losing like 3 squads of stormtroopers and 2 tie fighters. Like thrawn said they were “ acceptable loses “
What we have so far hasn’t necessarily squandered him or ruined the character, but he needs to lay an absolute SMACKDOWN on New Republic forces next time in order to be taken seriously
He working on what he got at the moment. A damaged ISD1 and a few troopers left. He throwing everything at them and making sacrifices to achieve his goal. He feels bad about it you can tell. But he has to do it if his plans are to succeed.
@Jesse12489 he didn't underestimate his enemy and didn't blindly throw all his limited resources at them. But all we got to see was him essentially keeping ashoka etc at bay/buying time. I hope in season two we see him use actual strategy to outmanouver/out smart the Republic, rather than simply a calculation of acceptable losses
We need more content with deathtroopers. They’re a super cool imperial and they don’t show up that often and when they do, they usually die pretty quickly or just stand there doing nothing.
I’m not even mad Sabine was able to use the force. Not only has it been hinting at it all season, but she was training with Kanan in rebels and even Bendu, a force being look at her , hinting there’s something more going on with her, so it kinda makes since in a near death experience would unlock her full connection to the force
Lol, she's gaining power faster than anyone except Ray. In 10 minutes she went from barely force pull the lightsaber, to use force push and risk Ezra's life. So stupid.
could be partially because of where they are. Baylan ends on a statue of the father next to the son and a destroyed daughter. I imagine either this is some home for the force or where Aboloth resides so the force could be stronger/different there. @@IamMarian
Sad to see my dream death troopers performance live action was only achieved due to them being zombies. Finally they're able to reach their true potential of not getting one shotted.
@@viperson9818she has been living with Jedi for a few years after all. She would have remembered the lessons where Kanan taught Ezra and how the Force works so it's easy for her to apply those lessons. Besides the lessons on using the Darksaber would also help.
I’m a little disappointed in it honestly, there are many seasons of Ashoka I heard and it would be cool for this ability to be revealed over a longer period of time instead of “I have the force to launch my friends reeee”.
@@viperson9818She used the easiest force ability, which is pushing/pulling objects (or in her case - people). I wouldn't really say she mastered it or anything. As impressive as it looks, in star wars even 10 yo younglings at the temple were able to do what Sabine did in ep 8.
@@viperson9818yeah it's a bit much to say she mastered anything, she barely managed two force moves under extreme pressure. Remember Luke used force abilities with probably much less training than Sabine
They gave us a TASTE of what death troopers would be like. And its clear that if they ever make a movie or show itll be glorious if they make it similar to this episode.
I like the fact that they kinda go through a more rapid version of what happened to Zombies in Romero's movies. From 'Night of the Living Dead' to 'Land of the Dead' where they start out really kinda mindless though still a threat, but then regain elements of their former selves and learn to use things, like firearms, much as in this case a few seem to maintain it more or less from the start. With the Deathtroopers seeming like they were reanimated some time ago between how they look and how they seem to be almost normal.
honestly those kinda zombies would be more terrifying to face, its one thing if they are like the walking dead zombies, but add in normal zombies that not only regain their memories and abilities in their past lives, but also figure out how to run and problem solve, they would be almost scary to face
The Death Trooper virus is canon now too thanks to Star Wars Commander, but it’s the only place it’s ever appeared in canon to date. The Death Troopers from the Empire supposedly are named after the undead Death Troopers and I believe Project Blackwing was introduced into canon through Commander specifically to make that connection
So close... yet so far... I want a genuine Star Wars horror movie around this even if it's not canon. It's such a cool concept with lots of potential!!
To this day after seeing the trailer and listening the audiobook years ago. I’m hoping for Death Troopers to come out in any movies or series. Since Rogue One took the name until now this series did its thing and I was happy, knowing it’s not the black wing but at least they done it.
Really wish they would gove us a project blackwing adaptation but the noght trooper "zombies" definitely gave me chills because i specifically remeber reading "death troopers" and thinking what would those fuckers be like in the star wars CU
I don't know if anyone took notice, but those Death Troopers were wearing a different armor type as well, which explains why they were taking more shots and still standing a lot longer than the normal Death Trooper armor.
Also, the LEGENDS Death Troopers were far more dangerous in that they could infect others. A single bite, and it'd be a matter of time until you were one of them. If you thought taking the easy way out by your own hands would spare you from this, your corpse would still get up on its own. The infection wasn't smooth either. Hallucinations, madness, essentially rabies until you died and got back up. Wookiees got it the worst. One of the darkest moments is when the main characters come across a Wookiee child crying while holding onto his deceased parents' arms, refusing to leave. The cast, unaware of the disease even existing at this point, decide there's nothing they can do to help and walk away. What follows is described as a sudden roar, a fearful scream, a crunch, then silence.
These are zombie troopers which originated in a major Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2005) mod known and talked about by the Star Wars community quite commonly in the early 2000’s to 2012 as far as I am aware. In fact, they were even talked about in a Star Wars book called: Death Troopers (by: Joe Schreiber) and to see them brought to cannon in the new episode was certainly “a surprise to be sure, but a welcomed one”
Clearly they've been dead for a long time, and if it was the Great Mothers who resurrected them then it shows how ungodly powerful they are to keep them permanently resurrected. Even Old Daka, the oldest, wisest and most powerful of the Nightsisters on Dathomir, had to actively focus on keeping the spell going so the corpses stayed animated.
This whole fight I was like "Just cut their heads off. They're slow as shit, just cut their heads off!" And when it finally happens it only happens the one time. It's like watching a child try to ram a square peg through a round hole, finally shoves it in the square hole and you think he got it. But nope, turns out he was still aiming for the round hole and missed.
I never read the old death troopers books, and what I know of them is very little, but maybe they can bring the originals back hon, solo and Chewbacca maybe get the new solo and the new Chewbacca to bring the old death troopers back maybe have them fight for new death troopers old versus the new solo and Chewbacca versus everything and everyone else caught in the middle
Death troopers being one of my favorite things in Star Wars this was a beautiful sight for me haha not only was it kept a surprise till the last episode but my boys finely got some much needed screen time kicking ass. Against Jedi none the less. Sure they had to get turned into meat puppets to do it but it seemed like they retained some of their training. Awesome awesome
In the novel Death Troopers There was a part that the death troopers use blasters to shoot the doors open in one chapter. And they did that in the show, I thought that was a cool nod the book
Apparently Death Troopers via the Blackwing Virus (most likely) is actually already recanonized because of the mobile game. Apparently that game is canon, and there was a Halloween event all about Death Troopers and fighting then to contain an outbreak or something
These 2 death troopers were killed by Ezra just before Ezra and Thrawn were taken into hyperspace with Chimera by the purgills (rewatch that part at Rebels)
@ecksclips I think this is going deeper. All this ties into old lore, surrounding the Celestials, and a being known as the Mnggal-Mnggal. the Deathtroops virus, "Project Blackwing" was found to actually use components, and actually be the creature itself. The Mnggal-Mnggal was a creature, much like the Flood from Halo universe, that fought the Celestials and what was the main cause for the latter group to create the Galactic rift between the known galaxy and Unknown Regions. I think that there is some kind of connection with this new Deathtrooper, the Celestials making a comeback in a form, as well as a few small bits and pieces here and there.
I think the actual death troopers were death troopers they didn't have the green glow happened to em and their bodies were already extremely decayed when is Ezra stabbed him the death trooper looked and down and was like rude then knocked him away, I think that was a confirmation that project blackwing was successful
It was pretty disappointing. They didn't act like the death troopers in the books. I swear every time Thrawn and his army if Imperials goes against the good guys, Thrawn's troops gets dumbed down into bumbling idiots.
In the Online Star Wars Galaxies game before they cancelled it, they put the death trooper instance on the south side of Dathomir, those were fun times.
In high school a guy did a book report on death troopers, except he basically tried to read the book instead. After half an hour the teacher cut him off
The reanimated troopers I felt were the proper portrayal of how _regular_ stormtroopers would take a blaster bolt. Spin them around, knock them off balance, something like that vs. getting hit by a single shot and dying.
To be fair, he didn’t order that. It was the Mothers doing. It’s like if a great principle was in charge of a school and recently two students got caught smoking weed in the bathroom, does that make the principle look bad or was it on the student’s fault?
When they started to attack relentlessy our heroes, without trying to cover themselves, on the open...well, this was the moment we all understood that they were sentient zombies , maniacally fixated on killing whoever is on their path.
I was wondering when Legends Death Troopers would return. The book was definitely a bit graphic for what Disney would make, but at least the concept of zombie stormtroopers returning
As a matter of clarification: these are risen or undead. They still have control over their body's motor functions and have some cognitive thoughts. In contras, zombies shamble around aimlessly with no thoughts.
To me the aesthetic choice to display their damaged armor in the style of Kintsugi (literally 'Golden repair') is genius both visually and metaphorically.
Haven't read the novel, but in clone wars, clones became like zombies with the weird slugs on geonosis. That would be terrifying if it was in a boba fett or mandalorian episode
Okay, imma put my personally banger Pitch for a Disney Death Troopers. So the story starts with the New Republic receiving a distress call. "THE CITY IS COMPRISED BY AN IMPERIAL (Static) SEND REINFORCEMENTS!" So, a team of some Rebel soldiers is shipped out to investigate the distress call. The team arrive to the city who requested this presence, and find a ghost town. They reach out to the Rebel base located on the world, and they get static, likely as a result of an ion strom, which is complicating communications. They arrive at the Rebel Cell, and are greated by the only survivors of the bio-weapon. Who all survived because they were droids. We get a snarky BX Commando Droid "Scissors." A medical Droid who is undergoing the closest thing to PTSD a droid can experience. We have a B1 Pilot Droid who despite actually being increadibly competent is always downplaying his own capabilites. We have Greeves: A Tatical Droid, who is far more droidlike compared to the rest of his group. Scissors constantly tells Greeves to shut it.
Everybody seems to make THE SAME FUNKING MISTAKE with Zombies...they don't go for the mother funking head! A Jedi should be able to force pull/push the head into a wall over and over again until there's only a schmear of a head left...or just be like Luke Skywalker and force squash/compress ONLY the head. Game over man...GAME OVER!
I think that there was definetly some form of magic involved with the night troopers. What i think is that instead of being reanimated from the start, the great mothers used some sort of spell that would make them have less need for food and sleep (since Paridea doesnt seem to have any valid food sources other than maybe Howlers, this way they were able to survive on thier rations way longer, before, to no ones surpise, they had to start hunting and eating Howlers and possibly even Noti) and overall more resiliant, but not zombies. I also dont think that trawn asked the mothers to reanimate his already fallen soldiers (exept the Death troopers), since that doesnt seem like something trawn even in his "lowered" rationallity would do. I think trawn, especially in this situation, would strongly belive in the mindset of "having uneffective soldiers is like having no soldiers", since the reanimation spell semms to deteriotrate the intellegence of the troopers down to "Step 1: chase enemy. Step 2: kill enemy". The uneffective troops tactic might have worked for the seperatists, and even sometimes the Empire, because of the number of troops. Here this doesnt work since the only troops trawn has are maby half a star destroyers worth. So in summary i think that the night troopers are magically enhanced, but not undead.
I love how those two death troopers were actually the ones that Ezra nonchalantly shot down in the Rebels finale when he’s entering the Chimera’s command room, and now they’re back to get revenge
Technically they didn’t die when he first shot them as his blaster he used against them wasn’t designed to pierce there armor.
@@Competitive_Bid_from a distance it wouldn't, but a point blank shot is still potentially fatal
if im not wrong, in Rebels, Thrawn actually has 3 death trooper on the Chimera . When the Ezra use the force to hold Thrawn on the bright, he surprisingly attacked by some stormtrooper including a death Trooper approach to the hologram room
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@@qc-minh.9307.that Death Trooper was never shot. He just got pushed back and knocked over by a powerful force push from Ezra.
The part where we saw that one trooper's jaw hanging out was creepy, that was pretty graphic for Star Wars and Disney in general.
Not really
Old Disney was way more grusome than this
@@Elitus_knightus yup
Which scene?
@@debkalpapal2682It's in the thumbnail.
The thing I like the most about the reanimated night troopers is shortly after their reanimated they're like most classic zombies, single minded brutes and some are slightly more competent still able to operate their blasters but with little real accuracy, after sometime being reanimated they became more coordinated and sentient as the great mothers magic is likely restoring their minds. They're magical zombies done right.
It makes me wish we got to see Mando get into a close quarters fight with a "living" Death Trooper where we could actually see him struggle with one, considering a Death Trooper and Mandalorian in hand to hand combat seem evenly matched if we count the Genetic and Cybernetic enhancements the Death Troopers are given.
They don't have accuracy because of the force and it's BS
They’re like the Flood from Halo
Exactly.
A lot of people (mostly grifters) are complaining that they aren't exactly like the death troopers from the books. (They want extreme gore on a TV 14 show)
Some people even ignore that they were using blasters.
I assumed the ones that were firing accurately were just not part of the initial assault on the ground floor and just waiting higher up in the tower
I realize that those were thrawns death troopers during rebels and if you see the finale of rebels Ezra shoot them when he confronted thrawn which means they have been zombies for a long time
It is said that imperial armor is able to absorb shots especially the death troopers one to avoid immediate death. But yeah with their decayed look seems they’ve been dead for a while.
@@viperson9818finally someone say it. JUST 👏🏻 BECAUSE 👏🏻 THEY’RE 👏🏻 SHOT 👏🏻 IT 👏🏻 DOSEN’T 👏🏻 MEAN 👏🏻 THEY’RE 👏🏻 DEAD! 👏🏻 most of the time when we see them get shot or caught in smaller explosions there incapacitated or knocked out from the blaster bolts energy. Since their armor was designed to disperse energy from blaster bolts, stun shots, and explosions, along with providing protection from shrapnel, thus why several of them can take many shots or are seeing moving on the ground after being shot or blow back from an explosion.
There were only a few known blasters that could actually pierce the armor worn by stormtroopers & other Imperial military personnel, but they were often Super illegal and hard to get such as the DL-44 or any of the A Series Blaster rifles like the A180, A280, A280c, & A300 models. Also the Bowcaster such as the one Chewie had, we cannot forget that.
@@Competitive_Bid_ bro its star wars, you think disney sticks to the logic of how the armor works? if main character hits random guy then random guy is dead, which is why these guards are... you know... dead?
I find it interesting that the troopers continued to gain speed and strength the longer they went from the point of reanimation. They started sluggish and zombie-like, then started using blasters more and more, then flanking Ezra from behind, and using laser cutters to blow a door, and then RUNNING up the stairs full speed. They even stopped groaning and moaning later on, making more human like grunts, using cover, and reacting with pain when shot. i wonder if being so freshly killed, they reanimated with their minds more or less intact, just needed time to adjust. They didnt strike me as purely puppets.
The Death Troopers on the other hand were long dead, and behaved like aggressive golems, but they did speak briefly during the fight with Sabine and Ezra. Really hope we get some sort of explanation for how reanimation magic works.
I didn't even think that they were deathtroopers until I heard them speak and then I was like: Damn, so sick.
If the rest of the Night Troopers were as formidable/scary as the Shadow/Death troopers, the stakes would have been WAY higher
Then if the stakes were that high people call it unrealistic
The troopers really weren't bad at all though
Seeing actual undead Death Troopers was really satisfying, since many thought all the stormtroopers we've seen before would be zombies. They're really creepy.
seeing these Death Troopers was awesome! Especially the one that was choking Sabine. Seeing the trooper with his face portion of his helmet destroyed reminded me of the Legends Novel, which had its own trailer, with the bloodied stormtrooper having it helmet destroyed, allowing us to see his face. I think a film adaptation of the original Death Troopers novel would be amazing for Halloween.
Oh boy, they would need to get the right director who treats it as not star wars just something with star wars flavoring, like Andor
@@orionriftclan2727 A tv show in the vain of The Walking Dead, but Star Wars. Surviving on a derelict star destroyer with zombies, trying to make their way to the control room to see if they can even power the ship on to get a signal out, or get toward an inhabited system. Also running the risk of the virus spreading as well.
I liked Thrawn's first introduction scene but is sad we never really got to see his tactical genius on display fully
He realized how driven Ahsoka was and put every roadblock he needed in her way.
Thrawn was best known for his naval tactics … although unfortunate we didn’t get that in this season I’m sure we will see it in future projects. Also , even though we didn’t see his full tactical genius we saw glimpses it.He didn’t underestimate Jedi and the force and unlike most imperial officers we see he did not fully commit his forces just to destroy his enemies, his primary goal was to escape and he did so in such a way that he loses minimal resources. In conclusion, he went up against 2 jedi ( 3 of we count Sabine ) and stranded 2 of them while losing like 3 squads of stormtroopers and 2 tie fighters. Like thrawn said they were “ acceptable loses “
What we have so far hasn’t necessarily squandered him or ruined the character, but he needs to lay an absolute SMACKDOWN on New Republic forces next time in order to be taken seriously
He working on what he got at the moment. A damaged ISD1 and a few troopers left. He throwing everything at them and making sacrifices to achieve his goal. He feels bad about it you can tell. But he has to do it if his plans are to succeed.
@Jesse12489 he didn't underestimate his enemy and didn't blindly throw all his limited resources at them. But all we got to see was him essentially keeping ashoka etc at bay/buying time. I hope in season two we see him use actual strategy to outmanouver/out smart the Republic, rather than simply a calculation of acceptable losses
I was definitely getting Blackwing virus vibes every time they had undead troopers on screen. Especially when the mask broke on the death trooper.
We need more content with deathtroopers. They’re a super cool imperial and they don’t show up that often and when they do, they usually die pretty quickly or just stand there doing nothing.
I really wish they had some more badass moments like in Rogue One to show how scary they truly are at least against those who aren't with plot armor.
@@shadowspringtrap3122love the scene in mando episode 8 where moff gideons death troopers run up and start giving mando the hands 🔥
@@llsymbiotell Yes! Show their hand to hand prowess. These guys could fight well with almost any weapon.
@@jpmountaingaming5681 we need more scenes of them wrecking house!
Kinda like the final order troopers in the sequels. They looked so cool but they only actually fight in a couple scenes.
Loved it, I was screaming my head off with my friend the entire time they were on screen 💀
Fr, I still have the book in my closet. By far one of my favorites
That moment when the sisters began chanting and making them rise was like "Oh fuuuuuuuuuck, shit got real!"
I’m not even mad Sabine was able to use the force. Not only has it been hinting at it all season, but she was training with Kanan in rebels and even Bendu, a force being look at her , hinting there’s something more going on with her, so it kinda makes since in a near death experience would unlock her full connection to the force
No just no
Lol, she's gaining power faster than anyone except Ray. In 10 minutes she went from barely force pull the lightsaber, to use force push and risk Ezra's life. So stupid.
could be partially because of where they are. Baylan ends on a statue of the father next to the son and a destroyed daughter. I imagine either this is some home for the force or where Aboloth resides so the force could be stronger/different there. @@IamMarian
@@IamMarianventress force pushed someone similarly when she was 5
It’s not exactly impossible
But they’ll have to retcon her force sensitivity
@@IamMarianwe don't actually know the time between ep 1 and ep 8
Could be a week or a year
Sad to see my dream death troopers performance live action was only achieved due to them being zombies. Finally they're able to reach their true potential of not getting one shotted.
I wish Disney wasn't afraid to show dismemberment.
It happened several times in this episode...
@@moonshapedabsolutionIndirectly that is.
Marvel does it all the time. It wasn't so much Disney as it was the filmmakers trying to make it believable.
You have the ultimate zombie fighting weapon in a lightsaber. Stop STABBING and start slicing.
I honestly loved the fact that Sabine managed to unlock her powers
It was fun but very interesting how they admit she have low force usability and isn’t gifted. But was able to somewhat master it very quickly.
@@viperson9818she has been living with Jedi for a few years after all. She would have remembered the lessons where Kanan taught Ezra and how the Force works so it's easy for her to apply those lessons. Besides the lessons on using the Darksaber would also help.
I’m a little disappointed in it honestly, there are many seasons of Ashoka I heard and it would be cool for this ability to be revealed over a longer period of time instead of “I have the force to launch my friends reeee”.
@@viperson9818She used the easiest force ability, which is pushing/pulling objects (or in her case - people). I wouldn't really say she mastered it or anything. As impressive as it looks, in star wars even 10 yo younglings at the temple were able to do what Sabine did in ep 8.
@@viperson9818yeah it's a bit much to say she mastered anything, she barely managed two force moves under extreme pressure. Remember Luke used force abilities with probably much less training than Sabine
Said virus very likely originated with Sith Alchemy;
Have you read Joe Schreiber's 'Star Wars: Red Harvest' before?
They gave us a TASTE of what death troopers would be like. And its clear that if they ever make a movie or show itll be glorious if they make it similar to this episode.
I like the fact that they kinda go through a more rapid version of what happened to Zombies in Romero's movies. From 'Night of the Living Dead' to 'Land of the Dead' where they start out really kinda mindless though still a threat, but then regain elements of their former selves and learn to use things, like firearms, much as in this case a few seem to maintain it more or less from the start. With the Deathtroopers seeming like they were reanimated some time ago between how they look and how they seem to be almost normal.
honestly those kinda zombies would be more terrifying to face, its one thing if they are like the walking dead zombies, but add in normal zombies that not only regain their memories and abilities in their past lives, but also figure out how to run and problem solve, they would be almost scary to face
0:57 In Star Wars, science and magic are basically the same thing.
Death Troopers are Spartans Star Wars style
That’s more like Commandos or ARC Troopers
Also could be equalavent to Delta Force or Navy Seals.
@@masturch33f66 they're genetically engineered super soldiers, not clones to do so. That's a spartan from halo
The Death Trooper virus is canon now too thanks to Star Wars Commander, but it’s the only place it’s ever appeared in canon to date. The Death Troopers from the Empire supposedly are named after the undead Death Troopers and I believe Project Blackwing was introduced into canon through Commander specifically to make that connection
I was excited to see that a classic Legends book got incorporated into Canon. It was perfect.
no. those black wing zombies in legends make the Thrawn zombies look like teddy bears. TERRIFYING
So close... yet so far...
I want a genuine Star Wars horror movie around this even if it's not canon. It's such a cool concept with lots of potential!!
Took "Death Troopers" to a whole different level with that scene
This was the first time ive feared stormtroopers in a while
Honestly in Andor they feel scary and aren't clowns
Yeah same here, I was very excited though. Would be nice to see them more in action against non plot armor characters.
To this day after seeing the trailer and listening the audiobook years ago. I’m hoping for Death Troopers to come out in any movies or series. Since Rogue One took the name until now this series did its thing and I was happy, knowing it’s not the black wing but at least they done it.
Really wish they would gove us a project blackwing adaptation but the noght trooper "zombies" definitely gave me chills because i specifically remeber reading "death troopers" and thinking what would those fuckers be like in the star wars CU
Damn so they’re like Star Wars Spartans
I don't know if anyone took notice, but those Death Troopers were wearing a different armor type as well, which explains why they were taking more shots and still standing a lot longer than the normal Death Trooper armor.
I could have sworn I imagined this before. A Sith necromancer reviving and upgrading his stormtroopers similar to Auditor from Madness Combat.
The Death Troopers novel is freaky, and I can definitely see the homage here.
I like these death troopers, but I wouldn’t mind if they bought the old death troopers back
I’ve wanted a cannon version of the Zombie death troopers for so long, this is probably the closest we’ll get but I still think it was so epic
Death Troopers in Rogue One were terrifying.
Yeah, Ezra with a blue lightsaber it go with his personality of wanting to protect the people he love (aka the Ghost Crew).
Also, the LEGENDS Death Troopers were far more dangerous in that they could infect others. A single bite, and it'd be a matter of time until you were one of them. If you thought taking the easy way out by your own hands would spare you from this, your corpse would still get up on its own.
The infection wasn't smooth either. Hallucinations, madness, essentially rabies until you died and got back up. Wookiees got it the worst.
One of the darkest moments is when the main characters come across a Wookiee child crying while holding onto his deceased parents' arms, refusing to leave. The cast, unaware of the disease even existing at this point, decide there's nothing they can do to help and walk away. What follows is described as a sudden roar, a fearful scream, a crunch, then silence.
These are zombie troopers which originated in a major Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2005) mod known and talked about by the Star Wars community quite commonly in the early 2000’s to 2012 as far as I am aware. In fact, they were even talked about in a Star Wars book called: Death Troopers (by: Joe Schreiber)
and to see them brought to cannon in the new episode was certainly “a surprise to be sure, but a welcomed one”
If this is the Start of Disney pleasing everyone immediately here for it
I would really love to see imperial project blackwing being brought into cannon though
It technically is
@@josesanchezrodriguez1783 not really
Clearly they've been dead for a long time, and if it was the Great Mothers who resurrected them then it shows how ungodly powerful they are to keep them permanently resurrected. Even Old Daka, the oldest, wisest and most powerful of the Nightsisters on Dathomir, had to actively focus on keeping the spell going so the corpses stayed animated.
These must be the guys who Ezra killed in Star Wars rebels.
Literal Death Troopers. Hell the fuck yes.
This whole fight I was like "Just cut their heads off. They're slow as shit, just cut their heads off!" And when it finally happens it only happens the one time. It's like watching a child try to ram a square peg through a round hole, finally shoves it in the square hole and you think he got it. But nope, turns out he was still aiming for the round hole and missed.
I never read the old death troopers books, and what I know of them is very little, but maybe they can bring the originals back hon, solo and Chewbacca maybe get the new solo and the new Chewbacca to bring the old death troopers back maybe have them fight for new death troopers old versus the new solo and Chewbacca versus everything and everyone else caught in the middle
I was like ain’t they the same Death troopers Ezra shot in the face in the liberation of Lothal.
I didn’t know that death troopers was non-cannon
Who else wants to be a nighttrooper or captain enoch for halloween now?
Death troopers being one of my favorite things in Star Wars this was a beautiful sight for me haha not only was it kept a surprise till the last episode but my boys finely got some much needed screen time kicking ass. Against Jedi none the less. Sure they had to get turned into meat puppets to do it but it seemed like they retained some of their training. Awesome awesome
So basically, Death death-troopers.
In the novel Death Troopers
There was a part that the death troopers use blasters to shoot the doors open in one chapter. And they did that in the show, I thought that was a cool nod the book
Wait till he hears about the blackwing project.
Apparently Death Troopers via the Blackwing Virus (most likely) is actually already recanonized because of the mobile game. Apparently that game is canon, and there was a Halloween event all about Death Troopers and fighting then to contain an outbreak or something
These 2 death troopers were killed by Ezra just before Ezra and Thrawn were taken into hyperspace with Chimera by the purgills (rewatch that part at Rebels)
@ecksclips I think this is going deeper.
All this ties into old lore, surrounding the Celestials, and a being known as the Mnggal-Mnggal. the Deathtroops virus, "Project Blackwing" was found to actually use components, and actually be the creature itself. The Mnggal-Mnggal was a creature, much like the Flood from Halo universe, that fought the Celestials and what was the main cause for the latter group to create the Galactic rift between the known galaxy and Unknown Regions.
I think that there is some kind of connection with this new Deathtrooper, the Celestials making a comeback in a form, as well as a few small bits and pieces here and there.
This is false.
Project Blackwing was tied to Sith Alchemy, attempts to achieve Immortality.
The prequel book “Red Harvest” confirms it.
old deathtroopers were technically still magic or specifically ancient sith alchemy rediscovered by imperial scientists
the broken underpart for the death trooper really eludes to the death troopers novel
I wonder if those death troopers were actually Pik and Waffle, the two death troopers from the Thrawn Treason book
Death trooper being able to just knock a jedi the fuck oit after getting stabbed with never not be cool
I think the actual death troopers were death troopers they didn't have the green glow happened to em and their bodies were already extremely decayed when is Ezra stabbed him the death trooper looked and down and was like rude then knocked him away, I think that was a confirmation that project blackwing was successful
It was pretty disappointing. They didn't act like the death troopers in the books. I swear every time Thrawn and his army if Imperials goes against the good guys, Thrawn's troops gets dumbed down into bumbling idiots.
This reminds me of the Undead Troopers from the game Star Wars Commander. I would have to defend my base from tons of these zombies
POV star wars fight if the armor actually works=
Just imagine them without their helmets on😳
I was overjoyed when I saw death troopers
In the Online Star Wars Galaxies game before they cancelled it,
they put the death trooper instance on the south side of Dathomir,
those were fun times.
In the new Empire, even death does not excuse you from service.
When I realised what was under the helmet I just started shouting "head shot! Head shot!"
In high school a guy did a book report on death troopers, except he basically tried to read the book instead. After half an hour the teacher cut him off
I already kind of knew that there were zombies in the first place judging by the way they fought
I only follow the nhl channel and i was like dam i know this voice lol , didnt know bro had a channel for everything
The reanimated troopers I felt were the proper portrayal of how _regular_ stormtroopers would take a blaster bolt. Spin them around, knock them off balance, something like that vs. getting hit by a single shot and dying.
Yes. And it also shows how cruel Thwarn and the Emperor and Empire really are. They would not even let the dead rest.
To be fair, he didn’t order that. It was the Mothers doing. It’s like if a great principle was in charge of a school and recently two students got caught smoking weed in the bathroom, does that make the principle look bad or was it on the student’s fault?
@@fulcrum6760 But he did not say no to them doing it now did he.
@@cambuxton6835 I know but it looks like it was on the Mother’s fault plus the troopers were volunteers as well.
In the shots where you can see under their helmets is the most TERRIFYING thing I have seen in ster wars
When they started to attack relentlessy our heroes, without trying to cover themselves, on the open...well, this was the moment we all understood that they were sentient zombies , maniacally fixated on killing whoever is on their path.
I was wondering when Legends Death Troopers would return. The book was definitely a bit graphic for what Disney would make, but at least the concept of zombie stormtroopers returning
If they were going to do something like this, they shouldnt have used thrawn.
Can't believe Dave Filoni was one of the five people who read the Death Troopers novel.
As a matter of clarification: these are risen or undead. They still have control over their body's motor functions and have some cognitive thoughts. In contras, zombies shamble around aimlessly with no thoughts.
"'Cause this is thriller... Thriller night..." immediately played in my head at that scene in the show 😉Perfect October/Halloween timing
someone put in the picture of spongebob and patrick going over the tiny rollercoaster hill
Even the strength of Death Troopers has nothing against the power of contrived plot armour.
GASP! Plot armor? In Star Wars!? Say it ain't so!
alot of franchises I think have too many zombies but star wars... I want more. give me a star wars zombie game NOW
To me the aesthetic choice to display their damaged armor in the style of Kintsugi (literally 'Golden repair') is genius both visually and metaphorically.
Ah yes, Project Blackwing was quite an interesting one to read. I also had that in mind while watching the series.
This episode made me realize Sabine is now the 2nd mandalorian Jedi
I’m telling you, Dave Jabroni Filoni has never come up with a concept that didn’t come from an already existing Star Wars idea.
I really hope Joe Schreiber watches Episode 8.
Haven't read the novel, but in clone wars, clones became like zombies with the weird slugs on geonosis. That would be terrifying if it was in a boba fett or mandalorian episode
So creepy and I love it, we need a horde mode for Battlefront
If i may- Undeath troopers
I remember reading the entire novel the night I got it when it was released. very enjoyable read for 16 y/o me.
It's Canon, also could be an Easter egg for another project
Okay, imma put my personally banger Pitch for a Disney Death Troopers.
So the story starts with the New Republic receiving a distress call.
"THE CITY IS COMPRISED BY AN IMPERIAL (Static) SEND REINFORCEMENTS!"
So, a team of some Rebel soldiers is shipped out to investigate the distress call.
The team arrive to the city who requested this presence, and find a ghost town.
They reach out to the Rebel base located on the world, and they get static, likely as a result of an ion strom, which is complicating communications.
They arrive at the Rebel Cell, and are greated by the only survivors of the bio-weapon. Who all survived because they were droids.
We get a snarky BX Commando Droid "Scissors."
A medical Droid who is undergoing the closest thing to PTSD a droid can experience.
We have a B1 Pilot Droid who despite actually being increadibly competent is always downplaying his own capabilites.
We have Greeves: A Tatical Droid, who is far more droidlike compared to the rest of his group.
Scissors constantly tells Greeves to shut it.
Everybody seems to make THE SAME FUNKING MISTAKE with Zombies...they don't go for the mother funking head! A Jedi should be able to force pull/push the head into a wall over and over again until there's only a schmear of a head left...or just be like Luke Skywalker and force squash/compress ONLY the head.
Game over man...GAME OVER!
I think that there was definetly some form of magic involved with the night troopers. What i think is that instead of being reanimated from the start, the great mothers used some sort of spell that would make them have less need for food and sleep (since Paridea doesnt seem to have any valid food sources other than maybe Howlers, this way they were able to survive on thier rations way longer, before, to no ones surpise, they had to start hunting and eating Howlers and possibly even Noti) and overall more resiliant, but not zombies. I also dont think that trawn asked the mothers to reanimate his already fallen soldiers (exept the Death troopers), since that doesnt seem like something trawn even in his "lowered" rationallity would do. I think trawn, especially in this situation, would strongly belive in the mindset of "having uneffective soldiers is like having no soldiers", since the reanimation spell semms to deteriotrate the intellegence of the troopers down to "Step 1: chase enemy. Step 2: kill enemy". The uneffective troops tactic might have worked for the seperatists, and even sometimes the Empire, because of the number of troops. Here this doesnt work since the only troops trawn has are maby half a star destroyers worth. So in summary i think that the night troopers are magically enhanced, but not undead.
I also noticed one of the troopers voice scramblers went off I think one of them was alive