Honestly Cody is the top model of an imperial in the making. As much as I want him to join Rex, his no nonsense, by the books mindset is what the Empire is looking for.
Yeah, he definitely is exactly what you said. The empire wanted all clones to be just like that but unfortunately for the empire it didn’t work that way for all clones.
We've seen Rex grow through the Clone Wars, but we didn't get nearly the same time with Cody. He seems more by the book than Rex, but - like his general - also shows a fair bit of creativity (the Bad Batch comes to mind) when called for. Still, we don't know all that much about him as a person, beyond his actions as Marshall Commander. And as a soldier he comes across as unflinchingly loyal, and with the chips active that's not a good thing.
Good thing a certain ex-Freelancer agent named Tex doesn't exist in this universe or two. Otherwise, his lower parts would be extremely vulnerable. Don't believe me? Just ask a guy named Dexter Grif.
Not really compassionate, I mean, to a degree, but he tells a trooper to shut up for being amazed at Obi Wan stopping some animals. It wasn't like he or his men were busy and the clone was wasting time or anything by saying it. I love Cody btw, he is my favourite clone, but yeah
I actually rather prefer Cody to Rex for a few reasons. One: he had that badass scar. Two: Marshall Commander is a cool title. Three: he got to be live action Tem Morrison and his "Come on, when have I ever let you down?" is one of my favorite lines in the movies. You can see how close he and Obi-Wan are, and how well they work together :D ......but it's mostly the Tem Morrison thing
“Cody was probably the most brilliant and famous Commander there was, hence why they gave him such a nice rank and a lot of forces to control. If anyone could be encircled on Geonosis while undermanned and do the right thing and dig in for a couple hours, it was Cody. The guy was studious, cunning, and attacked in a very cautious manner, even when it was time to blast everything. I heard he still trains imperials, and why would he not? He is the exact kind of person the imperials want.” -CS/CT-8711-12 “Cheng”, former Captain and Scout of the 442nd Siege Battalion
@@josephdominick1157 not actually a book at all, just a fairly popular OC you might see around a geetsley video. It is too bad that The 442nd Siege battalion didn’t get any lore
Cody did show a bit of independent thinking during the 2nd battle of geonosis and the war in general, I honestly kinda disagree that he was mindless clone trooper that followed every order and that his relationship with Rex and kenobi was completely professional because while more obedient than other clones he wasn’t mindless.
Exactly, Cody found the perfect balance between following orders and using independent thought and initiative to achieve his ultimate end goals. His leadership models that of a great general in the real world.
Cody is basically the same stock as Fox is. They both strike the perfect balance between the hyper-individualistic clones of the new show and the completely drone like and mindless troopers of the original. It's why those two are some of my favourites in the entire franchise.
I'm biased towards Cody. Cody was my 1st action figure i had as a kid. I thought he was so cool when I saw Revenge of the Sith. In a way Cody introduced me to Star Wars even though I had seen the movies before, I was interested in the clones. My Dad liked buying the variety of soldiers when we could afford it and eventually the animated show came out 08 and expanded my view of this fantasy world I got lost in as a child. I'm not afraid to say he's always been my favorite.
I always liked Cody more than Rex. Rex is just a window for the audience to look through, Cody is an actual (canon) representation of Clones at their coldest best.
He's the more grounded military mind that works well along with Kenobi's defensive attitude and Anakin's recklessness. Rex is just basically Anakin minus the angst and Force powers.
Rex is Anakin's commander because only an ARC trooper can survive Anakin's reckless assaults and fighting on the front lines long enough to give any orders. The episodes of Clone Wars and Rebels where we see Rex when he's not chained to Anakin's side shows a *VERY* different combat philosophy. Rex is a true practitioner of the ambush and surgical strikes. Heck, he's the one who devised an algorithm to rotate battlefield tactics so that tactical droids could never _quite_ catch on to where the real attack was going to come from.
@@HolyknightVader999 -- The military nerd in me keeps bothering me about the casualties Anakin's army must surely be taking off-screen and the nightmare that his logistics would have to be. That particular brand of over-specialization would lead to the 501st being borderline unable to deploy independently of other Republic forces because Skywalker is so good at taking ground, he's never learned how to hold any of it. Leave Anakin to his own devices, and he'll trap himself in a quagmire in no time.
@@Grizabeebles To be fair, that's how most movie armies and generals act. Even their best units like the Bad Batch are reckless as hell. Also, offscreen the 501st are probably just doing fine while Anakin is somewhere else, like say, in space.
Plan's never survive first contact unless you're Grand Admiral Thrawn, most of his plans work almost without issues because he's that damn smart. Hey, maybe he should get a tactical video? lol.
It’ll be upsetting if they didn’t do it. Cody wasn’t just a clone Obi worked with.. they were close by a long shot. Sure not emotionally connected but they probably agreed on many things, and got along due to their war tactics being identical.
Or maybe Rex help Crys will fight and save Cody from inhibitor chip and then he back to normal without being killed. That because Crys doesn't want lose his brothers.
When training the humans that made up part of the Stormtroopers and disappointed at their poor results, Commander Cody sees them as a disgrace to the legacy of the Grand Army of the Republic.
Granted, it's more so of his boomer vision hampering his view of things. Stormtroopers were straight A elite, and his complaint about one of them banging his head on a wall is just him being hypocritical since clones did that during the show, too (and Jango).
I really hope we get to see Cody again in a Disney+ Star Wars shows. Just image, Cody leading squads of Storm Troopers to hunt down Obi-wan, haunted by the fact that he didn't kill him during order 66. Or Training Storm Troopers in the Bad Batch.
@@isaacrebellion9893 in the Obi-Wan trailer it shows a clone trooper it's more likely Cody not rex so it's possible he could be doing what you say as let's say a double agent, acting like hunting down kenobi however programs some droids and saboteur the Empire
@@shadowaussien7743 I don't think that Cody in obi-wan show trailer, but He wearing Robes like Rex did, It could be in Bad Batch season 2, Thanks to Prowl's death in Transformers Cyberverse who killed by shadow striker, Lucasfilm will keep Cody's alive for Mando season 3 when we don't want see him killed off before kenobi's death in A New Hope.
His strategy always seems to be "Smarter not Harder" an use either the tactics an troops most suited to the given enemy an situations OR make the best use of that he has an always be flexible as he needed till better options an help arrived. Probably why he managed to not die despite being probably in any number of terrible battles an situations where he should've and most anyone else might or would've even had they been very powerful Jedi
Thing is every episode usually had a lesson or underlying purpose to what happens A lesson to teach Not just big battles and character building Also I feel as though the clones had already gotten their moment to shine in the umbara arc for the most part and also just having a random massive battle be the focus of the show would detract from the moral of the story
Rex is my favorite clone but I always respected Cody for his rank and cuz he was a hardcore badass, I know that there where a lot of marshal commanders but I kinda always viewed Cody as the like I guess “ supreme clone commander” also was there a chain of command among clone marshal commanders or were they all the same rank.
I think, based on what was said in this video, Cody had more authority over the Marshal Commanders on the Third Systems Army because he is Obi-Wan's Second in Command and Obi-Wan commands that, so maybe the marshal commanders of the Jedi that command System Armies have more authority ?
@@anacpereira5 If Cody was in charge of one system army, others were probably equal bcs they were in command of one as well. Probably the highest Marshall commander would be the one from the most important system army. However we do not know if there was one, armies had different goals and equipment I guess.
@@iverntheboneless9583 According to the wikia there's only 10 systems armies, which means only 10 Marshal Commanders were in command of a System Army, so it's safe to assume Cody would be equal to those. What I meant in my comment though was that Cody probably was above in the chain of command due to being Obi-Wan's 2nd in command comparing to another Marshal Commander that was commanding a Corps/Sector Army inside of the Third Systems Army. But I'd guess the marshal commander under Yoda or something, would technically rank higher than Cody or any other Marshal Commander
@@anacpereira5 Im not sure but I think every Marshall would have system army. Like you know, no marshal commanders below the system, a commander for core but not marshall commander. Yoda stuff migh be true. Anyway I want to see Cody and hes fate!
A Marshal Commander would only have greater authority over other Marshal Commanders if they were a clone liaison like Cody, or they were appointed to a position higher than Marshal Commander. If there's three Marshal Commanders in a strike force, the one who's taking command of the operation will be the individual with the most authority over the others due to appointment, the others will simply act as vice-commanders, if anything.
I always thought they made Cody, and to a certain extent Obi Wan, a bit too by the book in The Clone Wars. Obviously it makes perfect sense to have Rex be the one who is a bit lax with the rules, as it was possible for him to go against order 66 later down the line and Cody follows it, but in Revenge of the Sith Obi Wan and Cody literally joke about destroying droids for fun and being too slow. Maybe just me but sometimes they seemed a bit robotic in TCW compared to the enthusiastic versions in ROTS
I think you're onto something. Clone Wars tried to separate Obi-Wan and Anakin, and likewise Cody from Rex, by making them more opposite from each other. I think the showrunners really wanted to put Anakin, Ahsoka, and Rex's recklessness and chaotic strategies on a pedestal since they were the main characters of the show, and by default everyone else not following along with that were used as comedic foils. It's ironic to me that Cody is described as "by the book" and Pong Krell later describes himself as "by the book" as well ---- basically equivocating that following the rules of engagement, not having plot armor, and choosing to play a more patient type of warfare is bad. :( At least in the EU, Cody helped teach (deprogram) clone troopers on how to identify their strengths and personality (including using names) from early in the war --- no small feat when having an overt identity and name were considered 'deviant' before the war. It's also ironic that, in my honest opinion, Rex grows out of that kind of arrogant, "fly by the seat of my pants," "shoot first, think later" personality as the war goes on and becomes more like Cody over time. It's like the burden of those that died during missions, regardless of if he'd made the plan or not, caught up to him. The scene where he talks to Ahsoka about his feelings about the war and tells Cody he feels guilty about/misses Fives, Hardcase, Echo, and the others show a vulnerability and introspection I don't younger Rex would have been able to display or know.
I still love that Cody's armour was equipped with more non-standard equipment at once than nearly any other clone commander, and it meshes perfectly with his approach by giving him so much more tactical flexibility. And of course we can't forget he was an avid close quarters fighter. Rex may be more of a shock trooper, but it was Cody who beat Slick hand-to-hand.
This is why I believe Cody was directly involved in making stormtrooper armour, because many features he had that was non standard were present in stormtrooper armour. Stormtrooper provided better head protection, clearly Cody wanted that with that top extra padding and the vizor protection. It also had better comms, another thing cody wanted that with that antenna of his. He had been tricked by commando infiltrators, so he was likely responsible for the (seeming) facial recognition in stormtrooper armour needed to activate HUD and comms, because, as we see, Luke can't see through his helmet well, and his helmet's comms didn't work either, which an officer did notice as we see in ANH
I think 212th could beat the 501st only because Cody is a tactical genius, while Rex is more like Anakin, less by the books and using more surprise tactics.
Most people have a favorite clone, because of his unique personality or something interesting he did. Cody is my favorite clone, because… well, my favorite color as a kid was orange…
this breakdown gave me an idea, that disney should produce a series dedicated to the clone army alone, their battles on the different planets, full on life action coverage of the war following the important characters such as cody, rex etc. with minimal music and cutting, just pure raw war action.
Okay, Cody was my most favorite star wars character in the world, Much like Ahsoka, He was doing his job to help obi-wan against General Grievous, He also was By-the-book Like Prowl from Transformers, So he possible will become Star Wars Heroes If He remove his inhibitor chip in The Bad Batch season 2. Boba Fett, Cody and Omega was born just before Rex, bad batch and all clone troopers, Cody and Omega was acting like twins, but Cody will become highest rank commander until he remove his inhibitor chip. What could happened his highest rank commander If he remove his chip?
Cody will likely remain highly decorated, as will his legion. If he does accidentally get drawn in to a plot or has a connection, I am really really hoping they do a Rommel-esque sitch where he and the 212th do great things for people in the Empire and stop maybe crime and corruption (like how rommel was celebrated by some Egyptians for fighting the colonial british and freeing them despite the 3rd Reich doing horrible things to non-aryan people). However, like Rommel, Cody has people he knows who wish to do treasonous things, and he is close enough to them that he would be approached to help them and he could be connected. He would decline because he values the law and wouldn't betray his ideals. The identities of some of these attackers would be discovered and it would be discovered by the ISB and or Naval Intelligence and high command that Cody had been approached by them. At this point, Cody would be in and out of illness (maybe due to the advanced ageing taking its toll)while also rising in military rank and being given a crucial operation. He has an operation to deal with with this illness and is given a few weeks off as recovery. The ISB/Naval Intelligence uses this time where the military is unable to protect him from their accusations, and issues him with the choice Rommel had to make, take poison and die with his reputation and position intact, be buried with full military honours and with the assurance of his families' safety (in Cody's case this could be Boil and perhaps several non-clone subordinates who are also good people who he values) or charged with high treason publicly, have a set trial and be executed a traitor with the safety of the valued people not being assured. I think Cody would do what Rommel did and take the poison option.
One of my favorite clone commanders i hope to see him in the upcoming kenobi series. Cody was going to appear in star wars: rebels but the idea was scrapped.
Not really, he did show a bit of independent thinking during the 2nd battle of geonosis, i honestly kinda disagree that he was mindless clone trooper that followed every order and that his relationship with Rex and kenobi was completely professional because while more obedient than other clones he wasn’t mindless.
Cody's official role in the hierarchy was as Marshal Commander of the 7th Sky Corps. He had no formal authority over the Third Army as a whole, since the relationship between Jedi and clone liaisons was informal and carried no official meaning, but Cody did function as 2nd for the whole Third Army in practice due to his relationship with Kenobi.
@@geetslys Similar to Rex in that regard, isn't he? Rex was only captain of Torrent Company and even if he wasn't, he was still outranked by Ahsoka, but he was always 2nd in command thanks to anakin.
True, but it wasn't his fault, he just made mistake for use hologram and he thought he contect to rex, I sure he already remove his inhibitor chip. I believe Howzer and Cody are best friends since cadets in Kamino training.
if the show is good and they keep the characters themselves then I'm all for it, but it would hurt if that again isn't the case and so far it seems to be the case.
So, can I take shots at the words "conservative" and "conservatively" here? At least we're not talking about political and social conservatism. Might end up a trainwreck discussing that.
@@geetslys Oh, don't worry, I'll use cranberry juice. Has a bittersweet aftertaste without the disadvantages of alcohol. If not that, then water or apple juice should suffice.
Cody, while not being default by any means, was possibly one of the most perfect clone commanders you could ever find. Bacara was good, but was extremely cold and ruthless and cared more about a mission than his own men. Rex was an excellent leader, but his independence and taking a lot of decision making skills form Anakin led to him being more like his general. Cody was a mixture. He took Kenobi’s style of a “Stop and think” procedure while managing an entire corps, was a strategic mastermind, and could turn a battle around in minutes like Geonosis and it would not surprise me if he planned the landings on Umbara.
The Umbara landings weren't well planned out at all, it was very rushed and bloody, so I hope not. Considering that the Republic had such massive air superiority and had an army big enough to take several star systems against a mere 10,000 enemy troops, especially since they had extra fighter support and more troops with the Uta and Pauan soldiers
To the team of this channel, please do videos about the Super Tactical Droids like Kraken and Kalani! I know that this channel has covered about the Super Tactical Droids already. But you guys did it as a whole, not individually. So let's see how much different each of them are, shall we?
I love how Cody went from a small one time appearance in the 2003 clone wars to becoming one of if not the most famous clone (damn 2003 clone wars is underrated tho)
Great video but did you mean to name the video 'Cody was cooler than ..' not that Cody couldn't be cold but that doesn't seem to be the thesis of the video. It focuses more on his preferences for the slow and steady approach in order to preserve lives. So yeah not that Cody couldn't be cold but that doesn't seem to be what the video suggests unlike the similar Kenobi video. Either way, very informative and interesting. Cody is my second favourite clone after Fives. ... competency is attractive, what can I say? 😊
Could you maybe do the small general (non jedi) that went on a mission with those droids, in which they got stuck on that desertish planet. Idk if he is anything interesting tbh but I know very little about him. Otherwise maybe jedi general peel?
Even though it would've been demonstrably out-of-canon, I wish we could've seen a badass Arbiter/Shipmaster style scene between a clone commander/clone captain and a jedi where the clone was just like "You are a Jedi, the Guardians of The Republic. But these are my brothers, their lives matter to me. Yours does not." and the jedi just be like "That makes two of us."
A tactical assessment on Commander Doom is basically impossible man, since he has only appeared once ever. Even in the Son of Dathomir comic series, which was originally a clone wars season 7 arc, where the surviving sister is present, Doom and his unit is nowhere to be seen
We definitely need more of Kenobi, rebels and other shows did so much to give us complete stories of cw characters like rex maul ahsoka, Cody's life is basically empty we definitely need his empire life and a possible death/regret scene with rex
The Republic definitely did a good job assigning clone liaisons and commanders to Jedi that suited their tactic style. Great examples being Bacara, who was no nonsense and ruthless paired with Ki Adi Mundi who was cold and calculating. Vice versa Rex had a very unorthodox and creative mind, which paired perfectly with Anakin and Ahsoka. Then in the middle you had Kenobi and Cody, who were very pragmatic and avoided elaborate strategies but were willing to employ flexibility when needed, but not to the same degree of Anakin and Rex.
Cody and Rex felt like they were 2 sides of the same coin, Rex being more influenced by Skywalker and thus more "wild and innovative", compared to Cody, who felt like he was more "effectiveness by the book".
Cody was always my favorite, perhaps at first because when I was young I had him as an action figure, but now because he’s the ideal image of a frontline officer. Most in his position would choose to lead from relative safety, either aboard a starship or within some bunker away from the battle. Cody has always been at the front of every fight, leading through example like Kenobi. He’s even completed some smaller scale missions on his own with a small group of troopers and support.
I agree, I love that about him too. I think it's why his strategies only improved over time because he was literally on the frontlines with his men, seeing what worked and what didn't. And not in a micromanagey way either. I feel like he was the type of leader to not ask his men to do anything he himself would be unable/unwilling to do. A very "Then I'll do it myself." type servant leader (quote from Chernobyl show).
I even remember on his action figure that he ALWAYS has a jet pack. Yet we saw none of that in the show🤦🏿♂️ the only jet pack Cody we see really is the OG 2003 show
I hope Filoni makes a show where you get a clone commander narrating their units bloodiest battles and each episode we would get a new clone commmander narrating the battle while it happened on screen they could also do crossovers between the commanders and cameos with other named characters. I think they could also give us a backstory on Gregor and his battle before he lost his squad. They could also do more stuff with delta squad since just about everybody loves them. Or I would like to see a show called the making of an arc trooper where they would show the training and what it takes to become and arc trooper
![Why the Battle of Sarrish Left Cody SHATTERED [Battle Map]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ohUBamj3ejk/mqdefault.jpg)
Honestly Cody is the top model of an imperial in the making. As much as I want him to join Rex, his no nonsense, by the books mindset is what the Empire is looking for.
Cody possible join Bad Batch in the bad batch season 2.
Yeah, he definitely is exactly what you said. The empire wanted all clones to be just like that but unfortunately for the empire it didn’t work that way for all clones.
We've seen Rex grow through the Clone Wars, but we didn't get nearly the same time with Cody. He seems more by the book than Rex, but - like his general - also shows a fair bit of creativity (the Bad Batch comes to mind) when called for. Still, we don't know all that much about him as a person, beyond his actions as Marshall Commander. And as a soldier he comes across as unflinchingly loyal, and with the chips active that's not a good thing.
Until the entire Clone Army got Ramparted into dismissal.
"I hate you. I am deleting your home and getting rid of you."
@@karlthorsten9118 crosshair should put a hole through rampart
Plo Koon, Mace Windu, Rex
So many people to analyze man
His design is one of my favorite Clone armour variants.
Me too. I love his orange hood thing
Yeah, it’s an absolute classic!!!
I think Bly gets the win for me. But Cody is dope
Good thing a certain ex-Freelancer agent named Tex doesn't exist in this universe or two. Otherwise, his lower parts would be extremely vulnerable.
Don't believe me? Just ask a guy named Dexter Grif.
@@michaelandreipalon359 Yeesh😨 Good times😅
Seppie stronghold: *Exists*
Rex: “Fix bayonets!”
Cody: “Shell it.”
Bacara: "Use your bare hands!"
@@zero312 What about Fordo, Bly and Neyo?
Fordo: "Fuck off! They are all MINE!"
@@vetarlittorf1807 neyo: if you die you die
@@vetarlittorf1807 i imagine neyo is gonna grin like the evil wojak meme and rev the speeders 😂
Alternate title: cody is more patient and compassionate than fans realize.
Love the title
@@shang9054 thanks.
Not really compassionate, I mean, to a degree, but he tells a trooper to shut up for being amazed at Obi Wan stopping some animals. It wasn't like he or his men were busy and the clone was wasting time or anything by saying it. I love Cody btw, he is my favourite clone, but yeah
@@tk-6967 I always thought Cody said that because he didn't want Wooley to break Kenobi's concentration on using mind control on the creatures.
@lauranimbus8092 Well, the way he said it was rather harsh if that was the case
I actually rather prefer Cody to Rex for a few reasons. One: he had that badass scar. Two: Marshall Commander is a cool title. Three: he got to be live action Tem Morrison and his "Come on, when have I ever let you down?" is one of my favorite lines in the movies. You can see how close he and Obi-Wan are, and how well they work together :D
......but it's mostly the Tem Morrison thing
Same and I actually also prefer Fives to Rex
I prefer Wolfe to Rex I know that sounds crazy 😜
@@For_The_Empire. Not that crazy, there are people who like even Bly better
I like Spar, mandalore the resurrection hope this Morrison clone gets canon this also becomes the founder of the protectors
same, 7th sky corps supremacy
“Cody was probably the most brilliant and famous Commander there was, hence why they gave him such a nice rank and a lot of forces to control. If anyone could be encircled on Geonosis while undermanned and do the right thing and dig in for a couple hours, it was Cody. The guy was studious, cunning, and attacked in a very cautious manner, even when it was time to blast everything. I heard he still trains imperials, and why would he not? He is the exact kind of person the imperials want.” -CS/CT-8711-12 “Cheng”, former Captain and Scout of the 442nd Siege Battalion
A a fellow clone boy
If only you knew about how he's faring with the new guys...
Which book is that from? I read it forever ago, I don't remember which one
@@josephdominick1157 not actually a book at all, just a fairly popular
OC you might see around a geetsley video. It is too bad that The 442nd Siege battalion didn’t get any lore
@@michaelandreipalon359 we do, in the force unleashed 2 there's an entry about stormtroopers written by Cody. Needless to say, he doesn't like them.
Rex is the popular jock. Cody is the quiet brilliant kid who secretly lifts and does jiu jitsu on the weekends.
Basically.
Rex is Joe Rogan
Cody is Jocko Willink
@@motorbikegobrrr peak human condition Jocko
@@motorbikegobrrr Rex is more goggins than Rogan.
Cody did show a bit of independent thinking during the 2nd battle of geonosis and the war in general, I honestly kinda disagree that he was mindless clone trooper that followed every order and that his relationship with Rex and kenobi was completely professional because while more obedient than other clones he wasn’t mindless.
Exactly, Cody found the perfect balance between following orders and using independent thought and initiative to achieve his ultimate end goals. His leadership models that of a great general in the real world.
@@jjiang7488 Exactly!
Cody is basically the same stock as Fox is. They both strike the perfect balance between the hyper-individualistic clones of the new show and the completely drone like and mindless troopers of the original. It's why those two are some of my favourites in the entire franchise.
@@physical_insanity except that cody makes that balance work and fox does not 💀
I'm biased towards Cody. Cody was my 1st action figure i had as a kid. I thought he was so cool when I saw Revenge of the Sith. In a way Cody introduced me to Star Wars even though I had seen the movies before, I was interested in the clones. My Dad liked buying the variety of soldiers when we could afford it and eventually the animated show came out 08 and expanded my view of this fantasy world I got lost in as a child. I'm not afraid to say he's always been my favorite.
Sounds awesome
I always liked Cody more than Rex. Rex is just a window for the audience to look through, Cody is an actual (canon) representation of Clones at their coldest best.
I always liked Cody armor better
@@JK-nj3bt That too!
He's the more grounded military mind that works well along with Kenobi's defensive attitude and Anakin's recklessness. Rex is just basically Anakin minus the angst and Force powers.
A true commander.
Rex is Anakin's commander because only an ARC trooper can survive Anakin's reckless assaults and fighting on the front lines long enough to give any orders.
The episodes of Clone Wars and Rebels where we see Rex when he's not chained to Anakin's side shows a *VERY* different combat philosophy.
Rex is a true practitioner of the ambush and surgical strikes. Heck, he's the one who devised an algorithm to rotate battlefield tactics so that tactical droids could never _quite_ catch on to where the real attack was going to come from.
@@Grizabeebles Anakin's reckless assaults usually work well, and leading from the front helps his men inspire confidence in him.
@@HolyknightVader999 -- The military nerd in me keeps bothering me about the casualties Anakin's army must surely be taking off-screen and the nightmare that his logistics would have to be. That particular brand of over-specialization would lead to the 501st being borderline unable to deploy independently of other Republic forces because Skywalker is so good at taking ground, he's never learned how to hold any of it.
Leave Anakin to his own devices, and he'll trap himself in a quagmire in no time.
@@Grizabeebles To be fair, that's how most movie armies and generals act. Even their best units like the Bad Batch are reckless as hell.
Also, offscreen the 501st are probably just doing fine while Anakin is somewhere else, like say, in space.
Plan's never survive first contact unless you're Grand Admiral Thrawn, most of his plans work almost without issues because he's that damn smart.
Hey, maybe he should get a tactical video? lol.
Most “contact” does not survive GAT’s plans 🤣
Ah the classical qoute, “No plan survives contact with the enemy.” Said by a guy whose plans always worked.
I wonder if Cody will be in the Kenobi series like for a flashback or something
I lowkey hope he does make a small appearance in the show in some way shape or form as long as it doesn’t seem forces
If he’s not there or in bad batch, I will riot
@@neofulcrum5013 He has to return in one of these shows, otherwise I will boycott them
It’ll be upsetting if they didn’t do it. Cody wasn’t just a clone Obi worked with.. they were close by a long shot. Sure not emotionally connected but they probably agreed on many things, and got along due to their war tactics being identical.
Wished that we see Commander Cody in Bad Batch Season 2 where we see a conflict between him and Captain Rex.
Same. The battle between brothers, mirroring anakin and obi wan.
Or maybe Rex help Crys will fight and save Cody from inhibitor chip and then he back to normal without being killed. That because Crys doesn't want lose his brothers.
@@isaacrebellion9893 from all clones crys, thats cool!
@@CT--xj5jf Actually, Crys was blonde clone trooper who was techology and appears in The Clone wars ep The deserter.
@@isaacrebellion9893 I know who crys is, but i find it amusing that you mentioned him
When training the humans that made up part of the Stormtroopers and disappointed at their poor results, Commander Cody sees them as a disgrace to the legacy of the Grand Army of the Republic.
A shared sentiment
so basically he was racist
@@jmgonzales7701 Based
Granted, it's more so of his boomer vision hampering his view of things. Stormtroopers were straight A elite, and his complaint about one of them banging his head on a wall is just him being hypocritical since clones did that during the show, too (and Jango).
@@physical_insanity did you just use boomer view in a argument?
I really hope we get to see Cody again in a Disney+ Star Wars shows. Just image, Cody leading squads of Storm Troopers to hunt down Obi-wan, haunted by the fact that he didn't kill him during order 66. Or Training Storm Troopers in the Bad Batch.
Cody just already remove his inhibitor chip in Canon, which is no longer use in legends.
That would be awesome to see!
@@isaacrebellion9893 in the Obi-Wan trailer it shows a clone trooper it's more likely Cody not rex so it's possible he could be doing what you say as let's say a double agent, acting like hunting down kenobi however programs some droids and saboteur the Empire
@@shadowaussien7743 I don't think that Cody in obi-wan show trailer, but He wearing Robes like Rex did, It could be in Bad Batch season 2, Thanks to Prowl's death in Transformers Cyberverse who killed by shadow striker, Lucasfilm will keep Cody's alive for Mando season 3 when we don't want see him killed off before kenobi's death in A New Hope.
Cody in the kenobi series when?
His strategy always seems to be "Smarter not Harder" an use either the tactics an troops most suited to the given enemy an situations OR make the best use of that he has an always be flexible as he needed till better options an help arrived. Probably why he managed to not die despite being probably in any number of terrible battles an situations where he should've and most anyone else might or would've even had they been very powerful Jedi
Cody and the 7th sky corps should have had an arc of their own. Multiple episodes about the battle of Sarrish, like the 501st got with the Umbara-arc.
Honestly it would’ve help build the clones
Thing is every episode usually had a lesson or underlying purpose to what happens
A lesson to teach
Not just big battles and character building
Also I feel as though the clones had already gotten their moment to shine in the umbara arc for the most part and also just having a random massive battle be the focus of the show would detract from the moral of the story
Rex is my favorite clone but I always respected Cody for his rank and cuz he was a hardcore badass, I know that there where a lot of marshal commanders but I kinda always viewed Cody as the like I guess “ supreme clone commander” also was there a chain of command among clone marshal commanders or were they all the same rank.
I think, based on what was said in this video, Cody had more authority over the Marshal Commanders on the Third Systems Army because he is Obi-Wan's Second in Command and Obi-Wan commands that, so maybe the marshal commanders of the Jedi that command System Armies have more authority ?
@@anacpereira5 If Cody was in charge of one system army, others were probably equal bcs they were in command of one as well. Probably the highest Marshall commander would be the one from the most important system army. However we do not know if there was one, armies had different goals and equipment I guess.
@@iverntheboneless9583 According to the wikia there's only 10 systems armies, which means only 10 Marshal Commanders were in command of a System Army, so it's safe to assume Cody would be equal to those. What I meant in my comment though was that Cody probably was above in the chain of command due to being Obi-Wan's 2nd in command comparing to another Marshal Commander that was commanding a Corps/Sector Army inside of the Third Systems Army. But I'd guess the marshal commander under Yoda or something, would technically rank higher than Cody or any other Marshal Commander
@@anacpereira5 Im not sure but I think every Marshall would have system army. Like you know, no marshal commanders below the system, a commander for core but not marshall commander. Yoda stuff migh be true. Anyway I want to see Cody and hes fate!
A Marshal Commander would only have greater authority over other Marshal Commanders if they were a clone liaison like Cody, or they were appointed to a position higher than Marshal Commander. If there's three Marshal Commanders in a strike force, the one who's taking command of the operation will be the individual with the most authority over the others due to appointment, the others will simply act as vice-commanders, if anything.
Really? I would’ve thought his causal destruction of innocent battle droids would’ve illustrated this point perfectly
Lotta meatbags out there are droid racists, tragically enough, so we've gotta make the point another way
@@geetslys I think the clankas are cute
I always thought they made Cody, and to a certain extent Obi Wan, a bit too by the book in The Clone Wars. Obviously it makes perfect sense to have Rex be the one who is a bit lax with the rules, as it was possible for him to go against order 66 later down the line and Cody follows it, but in Revenge of the Sith Obi Wan and Cody literally joke about destroying droids for fun and being too slow. Maybe just me but sometimes they seemed a bit robotic in TCW compared to the enthusiastic versions in ROTS
I think you're onto something. Clone Wars tried to separate Obi-Wan and Anakin, and likewise Cody from Rex, by making them more opposite from each other. I think the showrunners really wanted to put Anakin, Ahsoka, and Rex's recklessness and chaotic strategies on a pedestal since they were the main characters of the show, and by default everyone else not following along with that were used as comedic foils. It's ironic to me that Cody is described as "by the book" and Pong Krell later describes himself as "by the book" as well ---- basically equivocating that following the rules of engagement, not having plot armor, and choosing to play a more patient type of warfare is bad. :( At least in the EU, Cody helped teach (deprogram) clone troopers on how to identify their strengths and personality (including using names) from early in the war --- no small feat when having an overt identity and name were considered 'deviant' before the war.
It's also ironic that, in my honest opinion, Rex grows out of that kind of arrogant, "fly by the seat of my pants," "shoot first, think later" personality as the war goes on and becomes more like Cody over time. It's like the burden of those that died during missions, regardless of if he'd made the plan or not, caught up to him. The scene where he talks to Ahsoka about his feelings about the war and tells Cody he feels guilty about/misses Fives, Hardcase, Echo, and the others show a vulnerability and introspection I don't younger Rex would have been able to display or know.
I still love that Cody's armour was equipped with more non-standard equipment at once than nearly any other clone commander, and it meshes perfectly with his approach by giving him so much more tactical flexibility.
And of course we can't forget he was an avid close quarters fighter. Rex may be more of a shock trooper, but it was Cody who beat Slick hand-to-hand.
This is why I believe Cody was directly involved in making stormtrooper armour, because many features he had that was non standard were present in stormtrooper armour. Stormtrooper provided better head protection, clearly Cody wanted that with that top extra padding and the vizor protection. It also had better comms, another thing cody wanted that with that antenna of his. He had been tricked by commando infiltrators, so he was likely responsible for the (seeming) facial recognition in stormtrooper armour needed to activate HUD and comms, because, as we see, Luke can't see through his helmet well, and his helmet's comms didn't work either, which an officer did notice as we see in ANH
I think 212th could beat the 501st only because Cody is a tactical genius, while Rex is more like Anakin, less by the books and using more surprise tactics.
By 'surprise tactics' you mean war crimes 😁
Most people have a favorite clone, because of his unique personality or something interesting he did. Cody is my favorite clone, because… well, my favorite color as a kid was orange…
One of his first thoughts after receiving order 66 was along the lines of wishing he had gotten the order before giving Kenobi his light saber back
this breakdown gave me an idea, that disney should produce a series dedicated to the clone army alone, their battles on the different planets, full on life action coverage of the war following the important characters such as cody, rex etc. with minimal music and cutting, just pure raw war action.
Him and Rex legit carried
Brothers for sure
Tbh, the entire 501st and the 212th seemed like they were carrying the GAR for most of the war
Okay, Cody was my most favorite star wars character in the world, Much like Ahsoka, He was doing his job to help obi-wan against General Grievous, He also was By-the-book Like Prowl from Transformers, So he possible will become Star Wars Heroes If He remove his inhibitor chip in The Bad Batch season 2.
Boba Fett, Cody and Omega was born just before Rex, bad batch and all clone troopers, Cody and Omega was acting like twins, but Cody will become highest rank commander until he remove his inhibitor chip. What could happened his highest rank commander If he remove his chip?
Cody will likely remain highly decorated, as will his legion. If he does accidentally get drawn in to a plot or has a connection, I am really really hoping they do a Rommel-esque sitch where he and the 212th do great things for people in the Empire and stop maybe crime and corruption (like how rommel was celebrated by some Egyptians for fighting the colonial british and freeing them despite the 3rd Reich doing horrible things to non-aryan people). However, like Rommel, Cody has people he knows who wish to do treasonous things, and he is close enough to them that he would be approached to help them and he could be connected. He would decline because he values the law and wouldn't betray his ideals. The identities of some of these attackers would be discovered and it would be discovered by the ISB and or Naval Intelligence and high command that Cody had been approached by them. At this point, Cody would be in and out of illness (maybe due to the advanced ageing taking its toll)while also rising in military rank and being given a crucial operation. He has an operation to deal with with this illness and is given a few weeks off as recovery. The ISB/Naval Intelligence uses this time where the military is unable to protect him from their accusations, and issues him with the choice Rommel had to make, take poison and die with his reputation and position intact, be buried with full military honours and with the assurance of his families' safety (in Cody's case this could be Boil and perhaps several non-clone subordinates who are also good people who he values) or charged with high treason publicly, have a set trial and be executed a traitor with the safety of the valued people not being assured. I think Cody would do what Rommel did and take the poison option.
1:40 Cody had to keep up with The Negotiator after all.
The perfect clone to lead the 212th
One of my favorite clone commanders i hope to see him in the upcoming kenobi series.
Cody was going to appear in star wars: rebels but the idea was scrapped.
Cody is more by the book guy then anything else.
Just like Prowl from Transformers?
Not really, he did show a bit of independent thinking during the 2nd battle of geonosis, i honestly kinda disagree that he was mindless clone trooper that followed every order and that his relationship with Rex and kenobi was completely professional because while more obedient than other clones he wasn’t mindless.
"Cody favored convectional tactics" The droids that Cody has punched and kicked would like a word....
1:34 I don't think you know what "de facto" means, since Cody was literally second in command
Cody's official role in the hierarchy was as Marshal Commander of the 7th Sky Corps. He had no formal authority over the Third Army as a whole, since the relationship between Jedi and clone liaisons was informal and carried no official meaning, but Cody did function as 2nd for the whole Third Army in practice due to his relationship with Kenobi.
@@geetslys Can you do a video on Fordo?
@@geetslys Similar to Rex in that regard, isn't he? Rex was only captain of Torrent Company and even if he wasn't, he was still outranked by Ahsoka, but he was always 2nd in command thanks to anakin.
Cody and Fives are my favorite clones
Best clone ever and my favorite clone of all time 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡
Cody is one of the best clones ever!
Excuse me, sir, Cody is COOLER than Rex, and an OG
Holy Sith, I friggin love you, you beautiful Aussie loremasters😍
Would love to hear an assessment of Gree, Ponds or Appo.
Cody, originally known as CC-2224....
WHERE IS 224?!
Well, he did get Obi-Wan shot down.
True, but it wasn't his fault, he just made mistake for use hologram and he thought he contect to rex, I sure he already remove his inhibitor chip. I believe Howzer and Cody are best friends since cadets in Kamino training.
All the more reason Cody is my favourite Commander. You won't find a more reliable 2nd in command than our Cody
can you please do a clone dnd alignment chart video?
we need more Commander Cody content, I hope he shows up in the Kenobi Series!
if the show is good and they keep the characters themselves then I'm all for it, but it would hurt if that again isn't the case and so far it seems to be the case.
@@tarektechmarine8209 yeah....
Dang, how many times can you say "conservative" or "conservatively" in one video.
So, can I take shots at the words "conservative" and "conservatively" here?
At least we're not talking about political and social conservatism. Might end up a trainwreck discussing that.
You could, just make sure you're at home or have a designated driver :p
@@geetslys Oh, don't worry, I'll use cranberry juice. Has a bittersweet aftertaste without the disadvantages of alcohol. If not that, then water or apple juice should suffice.
Cody has been my favorite clone ever since I first saw him
Cody, while not being default by any means, was possibly one of the most perfect clone commanders you could ever find. Bacara was good, but was extremely cold and ruthless and cared more about a mission than his own men. Rex was an excellent leader, but his independence and taking a lot of decision making skills form Anakin led to him being more like his general. Cody was a mixture. He took Kenobi’s style of a “Stop and think” procedure while managing an entire corps, was a strategic mastermind, and could turn a battle around in minutes like Geonosis and it would not surprise me if he planned the landings on Umbara.
The Umbara landings weren't well planned out at all, it was very rushed and bloody, so I hope not. Considering that the Republic had such massive air superiority and had an army big enough to take several star systems against a mere 10,000 enemy troops, especially since they had extra fighter support and more troops with the Uta and Pauan soldiers
@@tk-6967 And now I request thee to make a lore channel. Now
I feel like if every Clone captain and commander had to work together, Cody would be the de-facto leader.
I would love one of these on Commander Wolffe and Bacara
He was also leader of squad 7 a elite ARC trooper squad.
Gree or baccara pls!
We are right on schedule *yeeets off like a boss*
HOLY SHIT! THATS A COOL THUMBNAIL! Do you have a copy without the text?
You should do a video on Kalani the tactical droid.
6:30 One of the best moments of my childhood... thank you for reminding me. 🥰
0:00: And Alpha-17, Commander Faie, and Commander Bly back in the CW Multimedia Project in the days gone by.
To the team of this channel, please do videos about the Super Tactical Droids like Kraken and Kalani! I know that this channel has covered about the Super Tactical Droids already. But you guys did it as a whole, not individually. So let's see how much different each of them are, shall we?
I love commander Cody. I thought his armor was bad ass and let's not forget he was the only clone I know of to punch general grievous in da face!
Recently bought the collector edition clone gunship big Lego fan about 4,000 pieces
I love how Cody went from a small one time appearance in the 2003 clone wars to becoming one of if not the most famous clone (damn 2003 clone wars is underrated tho)
Great video but did you mean to name the video 'Cody was cooler than
..' not that Cody couldn't be cold but that doesn't seem to be the thesis of the video. It focuses more on his preferences for the slow and steady approach in order to preserve lives.
So yeah not that Cody couldn't be cold but that doesn't seem to be what the video suggests unlike the similar Kenobi video.
Either way, very informative and interesting. Cody is my second favourite clone after Fives. ... competency is attractive, what can I say? 😊
General Kenobi and Commander Cody were besties
Could you maybe do the small general (non jedi) that went on a mission with those droids, in which they got stuck on that desertish planet. Idk if he is anything interesting tbh but I know very little about him. Otherwise maybe jedi general peel?
Grand Marshall of the Grand Marshalls
Even though it would've been demonstrably out-of-canon, I wish we could've seen a badass Arbiter/Shipmaster style scene between a clone commander/clone captain and a jedi where the clone was just like "You are a Jedi, the Guardians of The Republic. But these are my brothers, their lives matter to me. Yours does not." and the jedi just be like "That makes two of us."
This is a joke. You need help.
So Commander Cody's specialty was Blitzkrieg?
these titles and thumbnails keep getting more funny
Do a commander assessment of Tex and Commander Gree or Bly
I always did like Commander Cody, could never quite put my finger on why though...
I love the video but could do a tactical assement on Captain Doom thank you and may the force be with you .
A tactical assessment on Commander Doom is basically impossible man, since he has only appeared once ever. Even in the Son of Dathomir comic series, which was originally a clone wars season 7 arc, where the surviving sister is present, Doom and his unit is nowhere to be seen
Good man that Cody
Blast em!
Cody did his job well... A little too well.
The Senate is a lot cooler than MF's realize.
commander fordo pleaaase
Dunno why but I've always cared about Cody.
We definitely need more of Kenobi, rebels and other shows did so much to give us complete stories of cw characters like rex maul ahsoka, Cody's life is basically empty we definitely need his empire life and a possible death/regret scene with rex
cody wasnt a field marshal
The Republic definitely did a good job assigning clone liaisons and commanders to Jedi that suited their tactic style. Great examples being Bacara, who was no nonsense and ruthless paired with Ki Adi Mundi who was cold and calculating. Vice versa Rex had a very unorthodox and creative mind, which paired perfectly with Anakin and Ahsoka. Then in the middle you had Kenobi and Cody, who were very pragmatic and avoided elaborate strategies but were willing to employ flexibility when needed, but not to the same degree of Anakin and Rex.
I just love the title
Cody, Rex, wolffe, gree and bly will always be my top clones!
For me it'll always be Fordo, Cody, Boss, Sev, Fixer, Scorch, Darman and Nate.
Hm, interesting.
Cody and Rex felt like they were 2 sides of the same coin, Rex being more influenced by Skywalker and thus more "wild and innovative", compared to Cody, who felt like he was more "effectiveness by the book".
He could be written in such a way yes it be a retcon but in such a way where he changes. Because people do change
Just gained more respect
That's weird. Field Marshals outrank Generals. Maybe not in SW I guess.
Field Marshall is such a awesome sounding title
cody and obi-wan suited each other Extremely well, im so glad hes getting more recognition!!! cody is simply That Good tbhhh
Cody was always my favorite, perhaps at first because when I was young I had him as an action figure, but now because he’s the ideal image of a frontline officer. Most in his position would choose to lead from relative safety, either aboard a starship or within some bunker away from the battle. Cody has always been at the front of every fight, leading through example like Kenobi. He’s even completed some smaller scale missions on his own with a small group of troopers and support.
Most in his position couldn't lead from safety, and neither could he, that simply was never an option.
I agree, I love that about him too. I think it's why his strategies only improved over time because he was literally on the frontlines with his men, seeing what worked and what didn't. And not in a micromanagey way either. I feel like he was the type of leader to not ask his men to do anything he himself would be unable/unwilling to do. A very "Then I'll do it myself." type servant leader (quote from Chernobyl show).
I want to see this type of video with other clones like rex, bly and Commander bacara
Cody is my favorite always has been. Now I know so much about him! Thanks for the lore!🙏
I even remember on his action figure that he ALWAYS has a jet pack. Yet we saw none of that in the show🤦🏿♂️ the only jet pack Cody we see really is the OG 2003 show
Cody's strategy can basically be summed up in two points:
1. Keep the brothers alive.
2. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.
CODY IS THE BEST! Hope we see him in Kenobi series.
Ner cyare Cody...
I love the title lmao
I hope Filoni makes a show where you get a clone commander narrating their units bloodiest battles and each episode we would get a new clone commmander narrating the battle while it happened on screen they could also do crossovers between the commanders and cameos with other named characters. I think they could also give us a backstory on Gregor and his battle before he lost his squad. They could also do more stuff with delta squad since just about everybody loves them. Or I would like to see a show called the making of an arc trooper where they would show the training and what it takes to become and arc trooper